The recent actions of Seahawks CB Quinton Dunbar have made Paul Gallant think he is truly innocent. (Getty)
It’s easy to become a skeptic when dealing with sports. We do not get a lot of honesty. Athletes, coaches and performers always try to present themselves in the best light. And when things go awry, as we saw one season with one Seahawks player, they often use silence, wrong direction, or outright lies to hide the truth.
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Yeah, I’m a little jj-jaded about the latter. Can you blame me? We certainly see a lot of statements that look like they were written by someone else, guilt placed somewhere else, like the old excuse “I was hacked” attached to the worst stories in sports.
And yet, there I was on Saturday night, 100% believing that Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“PAWL! You naive, Seahawks businessman, I think you think nanobubbles work too. ”
This past weekend was a good one for Dunbar. Friday, Broward County prosecutors did not charge the former Washington Football Team – hehe – for his alleged involvement in the now infamous armed robberies of a Dice and Madden House Party. And on Saturday, Dunbar was removed from the NFL Commission’s release list. He may yet face a suspension, with the NFL seeming to spin a Wheel of Punishment to exact ‘justice’ on his players. But he traveled to Seattle on Sunday, and will be sporting a Seahawks uniform by 2020.
Great news right? Well, for some, there’s an elephant in the room.
Given the details of this case, Dunbar seems to have been lucky. Yes, we live in a country where in court everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, the court of public opinion does not work that way. SAVE if your defense attorney pays the victims after all to change their account of the ‘robbery’. Good luck convincing the audience that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, no matter how true that may be.
And yet Quinton Dunbar created a rather aggressive scene to erase his name.
You would think that an athlete who was just facing a legal scare would lie EXTREMELY low. Put it in the past, keep his head down, and do his best to keep people from forgetting the incident.
But that’s not what Dunbar does. Check out this Instagram title from a post he made Saturday night:
“They tried to take my life and try to take another. I will not sleep well until these suspected victims get what they deserve that they are not on time at all. My god will expose them all.”
Call me naive, but I do not think Dunbar would go that hard against the suspected victims if he had done something wrong. Glass houses and what not. He does not go on and hopes that people will forget. He hopes that the people he believes he has wronged are doing themselves wrong. And if they did, who can blame him?
I believe him. And if he feels this strongly about his innocence, I hope he appeals over every suspension NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell throws his way.
But most importantly? Please never play dice again, Quinton. Because based on my expertise on the matter – watching one episode of the Chappelle Show, and this incident, only bad things happened.
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