Alleged Assaults Dismissed; Jolly Might Face Drug Charges

By Troy Sparks

Second-year player and Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Matthews and fellow linebacker Brad Jones were with five other players who were questioned on alleged sexual assault charges Friday night.

When Matthews, Jones and four other players were released, they breathed a sigh of relief.

One of the seven players was detained by the Lake Delton, WI police.

This situation still doesn't let the accused guys off the hook.

You would think that the players who were accused would've learned from Big Ben of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But no, it was an opportunity to meet two women, who met the players at a cabin.

I guess 7-on-2 would make the womens' story believable to the cops.

But police said the women had no case because the guys said the women agreed to have sex with them.

This is something Green Bay doesn't want as the team wraps up their organized team activities.

The players held their own unofficial OTA's with the women, who were happy to be around professional athletes.

It's funny how women sometimes seek successful, highly-paid athletes and entertainers, thinking they're going to score big.

In this case, these two women had a penalty of unnecessary roughness overturned by a higher authority.

And then there's the ongoing saga of defensive end Johnny Jolly.

He's been arrested for possessing more than 200 grams of codeine in 2008.

Recently, Jolly was ordered to follow a strict curfew and stay away from drugs and alcohol.

The alcoholic drinks Jolly held in his hand while taking a picture didn't prove that he was drinking.

Now prosecutors want to throw drug charges at Jolly, and they have a witness.

Let's see, the man who's willing to rat out Jolly has a 10-year sentence.

A little deal here and there will reduce his time.

Plus, he's eligible for parole in 30 days.

If the drug trafficking charges that Jolly was involved in sticks, his career in Green Bay is definitely over.

Should Jolly be declared innocent, he still faces a stiff penalty from the NFL.

The Packers don't need any more off-the-field problems, and the NFL doesn't need the game to be littered with knuckleheads who can't behave in public.