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Adam "Pacman" Jones offered a three-hour mea culpa Tuesday with someone who knows what it's like to be an NFL outcast. The troubled cornerback, suspended from the NFL and unlikely
to rejoin the Tennessee Titans if he gets to play again, was a guest on
Michael Irvin's radio show amid speculation he could become the Dallas
Cowboys' next reclamation project. Jones was equal parts contrite and defiant in discussing his
six arrests since being drafted three years ago, taking responsibility
for "bad decisions" while disputing details of the police reports. He spoke about the Titans in the past tense, said he wanted
to be a Cowboy and expressed confidence that NFL commissioner Roger
Goodell would reinstate him. "I'm not sitting here telling you I don't own up to mistakes
I've made," Jones said. "I accept everything, the punishment,
everything that comes along with the bad decisions and bad choices I've
made. "In the end, I just pray to God I get a second chance." Jones' host wasn't easy on him, even though Irvin certainly
knew where he was coming from. The former Cowboys star jeopardized his
eventual Pro Football Hall of Fame induction with sordid off-the-field
problems involving strippers and substance abuse. Irvin once admitted that he thought his actions cost Dallas
at least one Super Bowl, if not more. He was suspended for the first
five games in 1996 after pleading no contest to felony cocaine
possession stemming from an incident just weeks after the Cowboys' last
Super Bowl win. "I think he's more comfortable knowing I've gone through some
stuff," Irvin said during his show on KESN-FM in Dallas-Fort Worth. Jones was the first defensive player drafted in 2005 with the
sixth pick out of West Virginia, and he was Tennessee's best defender
in 2005 and 2006. But Goodell suspended him for the 2007 season for his
off-field conduct. Jones settled the last of his criminal charges Feb.
14 by entering a plea to obstruction of a police officer in Georgia,
which left him with a felony conviction.
