Tag: Adam Jones

Bengals: Charlie Jones’ punt return touchdown first since 2012

A Bengals rookie reset multiple parts of the history books with his big play.

The most recent Cincinnati Bengals punt return that was brought back for a touchdown was Adam “Pacman” Jones in 2012, up until this past Sunday when fourth-round rookie Charlie Jones took one 81 yards to the house.

Pacman’s return was Sept. 16 of that year against the Cleveland Browns, so it was one day after the 11-year mark had passed since the team’s last. It was also the longest from a Bengals returner since 2000 when Peter Warrick took one back 82 yards.

It has been a while since the Bengals have had a punt returner that is a legitimate threat to break off a run for a touchdown, but it seems like Jones is breaking that streak with his 4.43 40-yard dash time he impressed the team with at the combine.

It was the 17th time a player in a Bengals uniform was able to find the endzone on a punt return, but it still wasn’t enough to beat the Baltimore Ravens in Week 2.

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Former Titans DB Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones arrested at airport

Former Titans DB Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested at a Cincinnati airport on Monday.

Former Tennessee Titans defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested at a Cincinnati airport early Monday.

According to authorities, police were called to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport because of an “unruly passenger”, which turned out to be Jones.

Here are more details of the alleged incident, according to the Boone County Jail and an airport spokesperson, per the Associated Press:

Jones was booked on misdemeanor counts of alcohol intoxication, disorderly conduct and terroristic threatening, Captain Kevin Klute of the Boone County Jail said. He was later released.

Airport spokesperson Mindy Kerschner said that police were called at 6 a.m. Monday to help crewmembers with an unruly passenger on a flight scheduled for departure. Kerschner confirmed that Jones was the passenger “arrested prior to takeoff and taken to Boone County Detention Center.”

Jones has since denied the allegations of intoxication and terroristic threats.

Details about Jones’ arrest weren’t immediately available. Jones told WKRC-TV after he was released that he asked to be moved to another seat because the phone charger for the two seats he had purchased wasn’t working and was told that they would have to turn the plane around. He vehemently denied being intoxicated and also rejected the terroristic threat allegation.

“I’m hurt, this is embarrassing,” Jones told WLWT-TV upon leaving the jail.

Jones was drafted by the Titans with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft and spent two seasons in Tennessee. He also spent time with the Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos during his 12-year career.

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Chris Henry Jr. commits to Ohio State

Chris Henry Jr. makes his decision.

Chris Henry Jr., who is the adopted son of former Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones, officially committed to Ohio State last week.

Jones had been helping Henry, who is a class of 2026 wide receiver, through the process of selecting a school to attend, going with him on college visits and to camps.

According to Blake Baumgartner of ESPN, Henry received the offer from Ohio State last June before he started his freshman year of high school.

On the “Pat McAfee Show”, Jones talked about Henry after he committed and how he was able to be Ohio State’s first 2026 commit.

“Words cannot express how happy I am for him,” Jones said. “Through all this experience and all this stuff that’s going on, he’s been the most humblest kid.”

Jones is impressed with how the 6’5” sophomore has carried himself, but also called him a “freak of nature” on the football field.

Henry had offers from other schools, but wanted to remain in Ohio where many great receivers have been drafted out of lately.

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Ex-Cowboys CB Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones raising children of fallen teammate

From @ToddBrock24f7: Once best known for his off-the-field troubles, Jones is now teaching the children of a late college teammate not to follow his lead.

Adam “Pacman” Jones was for many years the league’s go-to example of what not to do.

But the short-lived Cowboy, once the “NFL poster boy for bad behavior,” hasn’t turned just his own life around. Along the way, he’s also made the difference for a fallen teammate’s family, as detailed in a thoughtful piece for The Athletic by Zak Keefer.

Jones, now 39, has been raising the two sons of Chris Henry as his own for a couple years. Jones and Henry had been close friends while playing together at West Virginia; Henry died in 2009, during his fifth season in the league.

Chris Jr. is a straight-A student and though he won’t even graduate high school until 2026, he’s already received offers to play college ball at some of the nation’s top programs- Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, and USC, as well as West Virginia. He is thought to be a lock as a top-10 draft pick whenever he declares.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a kid track the deep ball like him,” Jones told Keefer. “He’s more skilled than me and his dad were at his age.”

Chris’s younger brother DeMarcus is a budding basketball talent who will start high school in the fall.

And the boys’ legal guardian is the man who was once called “nothing but a disaster off the field” by the man who drafted him into the NFL and had at one point been suspended for 22 out of a possible 28 games.

Jones is well aware of the irony.

“I’ll be damned if these kids make the same mistakes I did,” he says.

The sixth overall pick in the 2005 draft, Jones held out for most of his rookie training camp in a contract dispute, with the Titans worried right from the jump about non-football incidents while he was in college. He had a breakout second season, but behind the scenes, Tennessee was already ready to sever all ties, thanks to a continued downward spiral of legal troubles.

Jones had been arrested multiple times since turning pro; his sheet included everything from felony vandalism and obstruction of justice to probation violations and assault. The league finally suspended Jones for the 2007 season; it was the first time in nearly a half-century that a player was suspended for an offense other than substance abuse.

In spring 2008, news broke that Jerry Jones and the Cowboys were trading for the cornerback and return specialist even before he had even been reinstated. The deal went through, and Dallas got Jones for just a fourth-round draft pick.

Having previously brought aboard Terrell Owens and Tank Johnson, the Cowboys were no stranger to reclamation projects. The Jones trade terms even included contingencies that would change the Titans’ compensation if he were to be suspended or arrested again while a Cowboy.

The club threw considerable resources at trying to help him make the most of his second chance in Dallas. Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders pledged their personal guidance; even Hall of Famer Jim Brown wanted to offer his support to the troubled Jones. The bad boy’s path to football redemption with America’s Team was a major plotline on that summer’s edition of HBO’s Hard Knocks series.

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Over the first six games of the 2008 season, Jones delivered promising results: 25 tackles, six passes defended, a forced fumble, two fumble recoveries.

But then an altercation at a Dallas hotel resulted in another suspension, this time for six games. Jones would appear in just three more contests as a Cowboy.

Jones suffered a neck injury in his first game back from injury. There were stories of Jones getting into physical altercations with the security personnel the Cowboys had assigned to him. But even more troubling was the discovery by the Dallas front office that Jones had been involved in a 2007 Las Vegas shooting that left a man paralyzed. The Cowboys officially cut Jones early in the 2009 offseason.

Jones made a return to the NFL in 2010 with the Bengals. This time, it clicked. He was named a first-team All-Pro in 2014, made the Pro Bowl in 2015, and lasted eight total seasons in Cincinnati.

He retired from the league in 2019 after a final season with the Broncos.

Jones had kept in touch with Henry’s wife and children over the years. Shortly after hanging up his own cleats, Jones and his wife invited the family to move into their Cincinnati home with them. There was no fanfare. His former coaches and teammates only found out from other people. Jones didn’t even want The Athletic story written.

He admits now he was diagnosed as bipolar in 2015 but refused medication until he retired from football because he didn’t want it affecting his play. One can only imagine how the undiagnosed condition had contributed to his infamous transgressions over his early career.

Today, Jones remains involved with league happenings as one of the hosts of the I Am Athlete podcast and as an analyst for The Pat McAfee Show; it was Jones who broke the story last week of Deion Sanders needing emergency surgery due to blood clots in this groin. He is part of a group of ex-players- including Terrell Owens- starting the Beach Football League.

But he also has other business interests, including the gym he started in the suburbs of Cincinnati. Former teammates often bring their sons for week-long bootcamps. And he runs a demanding year-round workout regimen for Chris Jr. and DeMarcus, intent on helping them make the most of their first opportunity so that they’ll never need a second or third.

It’s a lesson Pacman Jones can uniquely teach.

“Visit the past,” he tells the kids- his own as well as Henry’s- “but don’t stay in the past.”

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Adam Jones thinks Patriots and DeAndre Hopkins can get a deal done

Adam “Pacman” Jones gave his personal opinion on the Patriots and DeAndre Hopkins visit.

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Adam “Pacman” Jones doesn’t believe DeAndre Hopkins leaves Foxboro without a deal with the New England Patriots.

During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the former NFL defensive back, who is also Hopkins’ friend, gave his personal thoughts on the visit between the Patriots and All-Pro receiver.

Of course, he made sure to preface his comments by stating his opinion came from him alone with no insider information on the matter.

“I like this Patriots thing,” said Jones. “This is just me, personally. I don’t think he leaves there without a deal. …I think it can get done.”

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport believes it would make more sense for Hopkins to wait until closer to training camp before making a decision. Things can change quickly in the NFL, and an injury or bad camp showing by a player could drive up interest for Hopkins.

But there’s also the possibility that the Patriots are looking to move quickly on a deal and present the 31-year-old receiver with an offer he feels he can’t turn down.

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Former Bengals CB Adam Jones wants to see team draft Round 1 TE

Adam Jones wants to see the Bengals grab a Michael Mayer or Darnell Washington.

Former Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam Jones still has plenty of love for the team and makes it known publicly at all times.

Whether it’s hanging out on the “Pat McAfee Show” or something else, Jones always has nothing but good things to say.

He’s also full of thoughts like any outside observer. Asked about the upcoming draft at PXG Cincinnati recently, Jones told The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Shelby Dermer he’d like to see the team add specific names at tight end in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.

“We’re drafting a tight end. I like Darnell Washington, from Georgia. I like Michael Mayer from Notre Dame. If I had the pick, I think they should take Darnell Washington, he’s a more all-around player,” Jones said. “If both of them are gone, I think we’ll go with the best player available, but we need a tight end.”

Washington is one of the most head-turning prospects in the draft considering he checks in at 6’7″ and 269 pounds. He boasts unexplored upside as a weapon in the passing game and is a good blocker. Mayer is widely considered the No. 1 tight end in the draft class.

Jones could very well be right in that the Bengals opt to add another dynamic weapon to the offense. Grabbing a versatile prospect who makes it harder for defenses to prep for the Cincinnati offense each week makes a ton of sense.

Given the depth of this year’s class, the Bengals could wait until Round 2 or later to draft a tight end. But Jones sits in one of the bigger camps of fans this year, as a big group wants to see a tight end picked by the team before anything else.

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Saints veterans Bradley Roby, Tyrann Mathieu respond to Adam Jones’ criticism

Saints defensive backs Bradley Roby and Tyrann Mathieu responded to Adam Jones’ criticism, pointing out their pass defense ranked second-best, not dead-last like he claimed:

It’s been a tough week for Adam “Pacman” Jones, who caught the ire of New Orleans Saints players when he mistakenly claimed they had the worst defense in the league last year during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show. Among other things, he called out the Saints cornerbacks as some of the worst in the NFL.

And some of those players responded. Cornerback Bradley Roby acknowledged Jones as a friend on Twitter (laughing to their peer Casey Heyward that “Pac the homie he ain’t about to say anything,” after being corrected) but point out that the Saints pass defense ranked second-best in the league last year. Only the Philadelphia Eagles allowed fewer passing yards per game (171.6) than New Orleans (184.4).

Veteran safety Tyrann Mathieu chimed in, too, offering his own explanation for Jones’ bizarre misinformation. He suggested that Jones, like many outside observers, saw the Saints start out slow in 2022 and assumed that they “never really got the wins geauxing that we just threw in the towel.” That wasn’t the case, and they ended the year by winning three of their last four games.

For his part, Mathieu is expecting more wins to follow in 2023. We’ll see if Jones circles back to admit he got this wrong later or if he’ll just continue to ignore reality and substitute it with his own.

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Adam Jones doubles down, gets more facts wrong while ripping Saints

Former NFL cornerback Adam Jones doubled down on his Saints criticism, misreading multiple box scores to claim the Saints lost games that they actually won:

Adam Jones doesn’t know when to quit. The former NFL cornerback made a fool of himself on “The Pat McAfee Show” this week, accusing the New Orleans Saints of being, among other things, the worst pass defense in the NFL (they ranked second-best in yards per game, to be clear). And Saints fans have been letting him have it on social media.

And the noise is getting to him. Jones redoubled his efforts to ignore the facts and the stats from last season to rip on the Saints, sharing a video from his official Twitter account in which he failed to accurately read the final score and identify the winner from several games in 2022.

“Let’s just look at this, y’all allowed 27 points against the Falcons, who was a subpar team,” Jones began, misreading the score from the Saints’ season-opening 27-26 win in Atlanta. He continued down the list, continuing to get scores wrong: “The Seahawks, you allowed 39 points. The Bengals, you allowed 30 points. To Arizona, you allowed 42 points. Let’s keep going, since you want to talk (expletive) about what I’m talking about.”

The Saints were the team that scored 39 points in their 39-32 win over Seattle. 12 of the Cardinals’ points in that game were scored on defensive interception returns, not their offense. Cincinnati averaged 26 points per game and was a Super Bowl contender who made it to the AFC title game. What does he think that proves?

“Y’all beat the Raiders, good, the whole organization got (expletive) fired,” Jones scoffed, apparently confusing the organizational turnover in Las Vegas from 2022 as something that happened after that game.

Former players can offer insight that no one else is positioned to match when it comes to talking about the NFL. But that isn’t what Jones is doing here. He’s just wrong and loud and misinforming fans. It’s a shame because someone with his platform could do a lot better than this. Maybe he’ll get something right next time.

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Adam Jones drops the ball in mistake-filled Saints rant on Pat McAfee Show

Former NFL corner Adam Jones embarrassed himself on the Pat McAfee Show in an expletive- and error-filled Saints rant, getting all sorts of stats wrong along the way:

Yikes, Adam Jones. The former NFL cornerback has been trying to make a second career in the media, but appearances like his mistake-filled rant against the New Orleans Saints on the Pat McAfee Show isn’t going to look great on his resume.

At first, Jones took aim at Derek Carr’s fit in the offense, which is fair. The Saints are high on Carr but until he actually does it, it’s all a projection. They guaranteed a ton of money to Carr in hopes he can get their offense on track, but Jones says he needs to see it to believe it’s worthwhile.

“Who the hell knows what this guy’s going to do? We don’t even know what the Saints are going to do. We know what happened (in Las Vegas),” Jones began.

The conversation shifted to the Saints defense, with McAfee and his co-hosts listing the many veteran starters New Orleans will lean on, like Cameron Jordan, Tyrann Mathieu, Demario Davis, and Marshon Lattimore. Their defense has been the strength of the team for years, with the Saints continually stacking talented young cornerbacks like Alontae Taylor and Paulson Adebo behind veterans Lattimore and Bradley Roby.

“Yeah, right,” Jones scoffed. “The Saints (expletive) corners (expletive) suck. They gave up more yards than any other NFL team this year. I don’t know what y’all are talking about. Have y’all seen the Saints? Have y’all forgot?”

Jones is right about one thing — he doesn’t know what they’re talking about. McAfee and his team were on one planet, and Jones was somewhere else in a galaxy far, far away. But he doubled down, laughing and lying: “They was allowing like 330 (yards) a game. It was 7-on-7 with the Saints last year.”

It’s embarrassing to see someone get on a national platform and drop the ball like this. The Saints defense yielded 184.4 passing yards per game in 2022, second-best around the league. They didn’t allow 300 or more yards in a single game at all throughout the season (the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came closest with 274 yards in Week 13). You have to go all the way back to 2012 to find a Saints defense that comes close to what Jones is accusing, and even then they were giving up just 292 yards a game.

We’ll be generous and assume that, maybe, Jones meant total defensive yards allowed per game — in which the Saints allowed 314 yards each week. But that’s the sixth-best mark around the league in 2022. Instead of offering smart and informed analysis, he chose to be loud and wrong, and everyone tuning in is worse off for it.

Jones just made this bad take up out of thin air and floated it to an audience of millions of listeners. Either Jones needs to do his homework before he gets in front of another microphone, or else McAfee needs to do a better job preparing his guests before giving them a platform.

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Adam Jones and Chris Henry Jr. attend Bengals training camp

Adam Jones and Chris Henry Jr. were some of the notables at Bengals training camp.

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The Cincinnati Bengals had a pair of special visitors at training camp on Sunday.

Former Bengals cornerback Adam Jones showed up to Paul Brown Stadium with Chris Henry Jr., who already has an offer from Ohio State as a freshman in high school.

Jones was there to shoot some footage for his “I Am Athlete” podcast and took the time to stress what the team and president Mike Brown still mean to him.

“Mike Brown saved my life. I owe him forever and forever,” Jones said, according to Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com. “I love Mike Brown. Mr. Brown and I have a relationship that is a little different than anybody else’s. The first thing he asked me is, ‘How is Trin?’ He still calls her the Miracle Baby.”

But the real star of the show was Henry, who Jones adopted and continues to help with his college visits:

On an otherwise uneventful day at training camp, the special guests — which also included Chad Johnson and Mike Zimmer — added some intrigue to the situation.

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