For example, when soon-to-be ex-Steeler Chris Rainey got into a scrap last month, the Steelers tried to cut him the next day, only to be informed by the league that they couldn’t do it.

So, even though Ratliff deserves to get the ax, Invincible Dallas can’t do it until next Monday. If they’re smart, they’ll do just that. However, at least when it comes to football, no one accuses Jerry of being smart.

But with plenty of DUI’s in the NFL this year, where was the outcry such as in this thread?

Anyone calling for Marshawn Lynch, David Diehl,Nick Fairley etc etc.. to be cut? Of course not, they aren’t Cowboys.

And if your team picked up Ratliff, you would all be like, oh he just made a mistake.

Winning Organizations deal with these situations- The Patriots traded their best defensive player Richard Seymore for not being a team player.

How is it possible to be proud to be a Cowboy fan?

Pathetic.

I’m a Cowboys fan and I always liked Ratliff but, I have to say I think he was a borderline cut guy even before the DUI. He’s 32 and hurt constantly. His production has declined more and more the past few years and simply isn’t worth his contract anymore. This incident was just the nail in the coffin and makes the decision move on from Ratliff that much easier for Jerry.

The majority of you various posters are hypocrites.

MAYBE, that is why we are such a MEDIOCRE TEAM?…We are all TOO DRUNK to PLAY…..

Relax ‘boys fans — this 31 year old 300 pound millionaire only consumed the equivalent of 15 US beers or 12 glasses of brandy within 2 hours to generate his .16 BAC — he certainly can be trusted to attain “the critical goal to effect the decision making process in the hours before the wrong decision is made”.

So which “player assistance program” the Cowboys have in place — “at the highest level in professional sports” — is Calvin Hill referring to?

A dedicated one button phone to call a cab or limo service? Clearly training alcoholic athletes that “deciding” to imbibe the equivalent of 15 US beers or 12 glasses of brandy within a 2 hour period is NOT part of the ‘boys’ player assistance program.

How about not drafting drunks? Or mandating alcoholic treatment program for an entire playing year once such propensities have been revealed? Obviously, not even observing the passing and tribulations of teammates, however peripherally, is enough to mollify such dangerous behavior.

Only cutting these privileged fools from teams for such transgressions to make room for the legions of hungrier candidates eager to take their spot MAY get the message across. As this incident shows, however, even drastic circumstances fail to curtail the ego-fueling cult of the NFL changing such abhorrent behavior.

This would be an easy fix.

“In other words he is too good a player, and too important to their new defensive scheme to punish. If he were some bottom of the roster special teams nobody they would have already released him and expressed mock outrage.”

It never ceases to amaze me how many of the people on this site have no idea about how NFL contracts and the salary cap work.

Simply cutting a player with his contract would result in a huge amount of pro-rated signing bonus being pushed into this year and it would cripple their chances of improving, let alone re-signing some of their own players.

And the fact that you think he is too good tells me how little you know about the Cowboys, which is normal for someone criticizing them. Ratliff had a terrible year and they WOULD more than likely cut him if it wouldn’t hurt them cap-wise…and that was before the DUI

They should have just left that part out. If one is too many why does this jerk still have a job?

I’ve always said, I want to be rich enough to drive my Lambo to the club and be picked up and my car already be in my garage. These guys are that rich. It’s so silly.

That being said. I’d cut his sorry you know what, instantly. An above commenter posted that perhaps they are waiting for the process to play out so they can cut him without $ and that makes sense.

After the incident, it’s easy to justify dropping him.

Some just won’t let their pride to use it.

It stinks.

Cut every damn one of them when it happens, just like companies do.

My company has zero tolerance for drugs or alcohol. You get caught, you are gone!