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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Wednesday the suspended cornerback has been reinstated by league commissioner Roger Goodell, but he must miss two more games — this Sunday and the following game on Thanksgiving. He’ll be back Dec. 7 at Pittsburgh.
“He much appreciates the Cowboys and Jerry Jones for standing behind him and encouraging him, and he’s grateful to the commissioner,” said Worrick Robinson, Adam Jones’ Nashville-based attorney.
Jerry Jones would not reveal any conditions the commissioner may have imposed, and the league office said it would not have any immediate comment. However, Adam Jones’ attorney said: “He knows what he has to do. It’s very clear.”
“He’s a long way, a long way from having clear sailing,” Jerry Jones said.
Adam Jones was suspended from the entire 2007 season because of multiple incidents while with the Tennessee Titans. Over the offseason, he was traded to Dallas and then given another chance by Goodell. The Cowboys gave him a security team to help keep him in line, but on Oct. 7, Jones got into an alcohol-related scuffle with one of the bodyguards during a private party at a Dallas hotel.
Jones spent part of his time away undergoing alcohol rehabilitation.
It also will be up to Pacman to police himself. The Cowboys will no longer be providing bodyguards.
“It all starts with him and his decision-making,” Robinson said. “He’s comfortable making decisions for himself.”
Jerry Jones said Adam Jones can have “limited participation” this week, but would not be part of full-squad practices or conditioning.
•OUT FOR YEAR: Tampa’s Earnest Graham, the team’s leading rusher, is out for the season. He was put on injured reserve because of a right ankle injury.
•LEAGUE KNEW: An attorney for three Saints players facing suspension for use of a banned diuretic said that the NFL’s independent drug administrator acknowledged he knew the supplement StarCaps contained a banned substance but did not inform NFL players of it. David Cornwell, who represents the three players in their appeal, said in an e-mail that Dr. John Lombardo testified he learned in late 2006 that the supplement contained Bumetanide, the banned substance. The league said the hearing was confidential, and it was “totally inappropriate” for anyone to make public comments.
•RUMBLE: Former Vikings first-round pick Troy Williamson, now with Jacksonville, says he would like to “duke it out” with his former coach Brad Childress at the 50-yard line before their game Sunday. Childress laughingly replied: “I’m not a woman” and said his weight was 190 pounds of “twisted steel and rompin’, stompin’ dynamite.”
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