Wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham said when he left Titans minicamp, he knew he had to make good decisions.
One of them was walking ears-open into the NFL’s rookie symposium.
Via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com, the talented wideout with the history of trouble in college (including domestic violence allegations which never became charges) said he’s taking all of this week’s messages in.
“I know now what I can and can’t do,” Green-Beckham said. “The [NFL] talked about it last night how important it is to make sure [to know] most of the problems come from alcohol and women.
“They talk a lot about it, and they want us to put ourselves in better situations ... All of that stuff, they take very seriously. It’s serious stuff.”
Of course, most of the problems also have something to do with men behaving poorly, which Green-Beckham has done.
Of his incident at Missouri which led to his transfer, Green-Beckham wouldn’t talk specifics, saying he was just in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Something was said that supposedly I did, and it can all go wrong,” he said. “But I had the chance to go to Oklahoma and surround myself with better people and learn from those experiences.”
Asked what he’d do in a future situation, and he sounded like he was reading from a playbook.
“Get as far away as you can from that person, and relax,” Green-Beckham said. “If it was me and I had a girlfriend and we got into it, I probably wouldn’t go back to the house that night. I would go to a friend’s house, let it calm down, then be good the next day.”
So the message is getting through to those the league needs to hear it. Now they just have to put it in play.