NO BOOT YET FOR JOSH
Brown still a Giant as team mulls next move
DESPITE overwhelming evidence detailing his alleged history of domestic violence, Josh Brown’s future with the Giants continues to hang in the balance.
The Big Blue front office, fresh off the team’s 17-10 victory over the Rams in London, spent Monday discussing its plan for Brown, according to coach Ben McAdoo. Brown was placed on the NFL commissioner’s exempt list on Friday after police documents revealed Brown allegedly admitting to abusing his ex-wife , Molly, in a journal she turned over to authorities.
Brown did not travel with the team to England for Sunday’s victory, but he did still earn $87,000, part of the two-year, $4 million deal the Giants gave him this past spring.
Robbie Gould, who the Giants signed on Friday, kicked in his place.
“The front office is in discussions today. I haven’t been a part of them,” McAdoo said on a conference call Monday. “Either later tonight or tomorrow morning, I’ll be a part of those discussions.”
The rules of the exempt list state players are barred indefinitely from playing in games or participating in practices. However, those on the list are allowed to “be present at the club’s facility for meetings, individual workouts, therapy and rehabilitation, and other permitted non-football activities.”
The Giants began their bye week on Monday. They don’t play again until Nov. 6 at home against the Eagles.
The NFL re-opened its investigation into Brown on Thursday after Washington police released a series of new documents pertaining to the kicker’s May 2015 domestic violence arrest. They included details of a night at the Pro Bowl in Honolulu where, allegedly, a drunk Josh Brown attempted to gain entry into his wife’s room, prompting her to call hotel security, and the NFL to move her to a different hotel for her protection.
The league initially suspended Brown for one game, which he served in the Giants’ season-opening victory over the Cowboys. It claimed there was insufficient evidence to levy a harsher penalty because of a lack of cooperation from both Molly Brown and law enforcement.
The new information released last week led to the NFL’s decision to re-open the investigation and place Brown on the exempt list.
“The released materials appear to contain information regarding other incidents of abuse separate from the May 22, 2015 incident for which you were disciplined under the Personal Conduct Policy,” the NFL wrote to Brown in a letter obtained by the Daily News. “As a result, further investigation by the league into those separate incidents is needed.”