Jets’ Anderson gets 6 months probation
Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson cleared up his last pending legal issue this week.
Anderson pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge in Florida, according to Ed O’Donnell, Anderson’s lawyer. O’Donnell said that Anderson was sentenced to six months of probation. Adjudication was withheld, meaning Anderson was not convicted of a crime.
The charge stemmed from a January arrest in which Anderson was caught doing 105 mph in a 45-mph zone. He initially faced a number of charges, including felonies. The arresting officer reported Anderson had threatened his wife. All of those charges were later dropped.
The reckless driving charge was the only one remaining from that case for Anderson.
This was Anderson’s second arrest in under a year. But the resisting arrest charges he faced from a May 2017 incident at a concert were also recently dropped.
Anderson is now cleared legally, but still could face discipline from the NFL under the league’s personal conduct policy. Anderson said last week that he is not expecting to be suspended.
Won’t someone throw a flag?
ESPN is hiring vilified former referee Jeff Triplette, Football Zebras first reported and The Post’s Andrew Marchand confirmed, to be a rules analyst on “Monday Night Football.” Triplette replaces Gerry Austin, who left the network last week to pursue a consulting role with the Raiders after being with ESPN since 2012.
The report also stated the NFL had a say in ESPN’s hiring of Triplette, who was an official for 22 seasons.
He’s not the only controversial official landing on his feet. NBC is hiring Terry McAulay as a rules analyst, according to ESPN. McAulay was the referee who failed to intervene in the Odell Beckham Jr.-Josh Norman dust-up in 2015. Beckham later ripped McAulay af-