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It\u2019s not even been a week since the tragic apparent suicide of\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0end\u00a0Marshawn Kneeland, and still, the news is raw for most around the organization. It\u2019s even more painful, of course, for those who were closest to Kneeland, especially his longtime girlfriend, Catalina Marcena, who has been his partner since Kneeland was a collegiate player at Western Michigan.<\/p>\n
It was Marcena who alerted police back on November 5 that Kneeland was armed and could be a danger to himself, warning of his history of mental illness. In the days since, Marcena has remained out of the spotlight, but she did finally speak this week, at first\u00a0telling the Daily Mail, \u201cIt\u2019s too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went on: \u201cI\u2019m grieving hard right now. It will be a long time before I\u2019ll feel ready to talk at any length.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re still in the early stages of everything. We are working on the funeral arrangements. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going to be yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcena, who founded a clothing line called, SZN Stitches,\u00a0posted to Facebook\u00a0this week, writing, \u201cmy sweet baby, words could never express how broken I feel, you\u2019re my everything. I\u2019ll love you forever my beautiful angel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kneeland was just 24 when he died. Marcena is 22.<\/p>\n
FacebookCowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland and girlfriend Catalina Marcena, from her Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Kneeland\u2019s death came 20 months after the death of his mother, Wendy.<\/p>\n
Back on February 18, 2024, just days before the start of the\u00a0NFL\u00a0Combine in Indianapolis, where Kneeland would solidify his professional future after his\u00a0 career at Western Michigan, Wendy, died suddenly of an undisclosed illness. Kneeland headed into the Combine with a heavy heart, of course, but did not go public about his mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
He said at the time, \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know because I really don\u2019t talk about it too much \u2026 It was tough, it still is, but I know at the end of the day the thing that gets me through it is she spent all her life trying to get me to go here and supported me as much as she could to get me to the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around the NFL this week, there were moments of silence held for Kneeland as the Cowboys were idle in their bye week. The Cowboys are returning to practice, and trying to return to business as usual, as much as possible, in preparation for Monday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Raiders.<\/p>\n
Team owner Jerry Jones first addressed Kneeland\u2019s death publicly in a radio interview in Dallas this week,\u00a0saying he was, \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we all have unfettered feelings about the people we love, people we work with, and this is just a time when you acknowledge that there\u2019s no answers,\u201d Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. \u201cIt makes you want to live life to the fullest. It makes you want to look for the very best in what we have for each other. And in some way make sense out of these times in terms of what they can mean from helping those that are here on Earth right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those things are very natural, come to mind, but his death is such a national awareness thing that it takes on some of that light when we think about how we go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0and Rashee Rice \u2014 and just about everyone around the KC community \u2014 are waiting on waiting on pins and needles for an update as the\u00a0NFL\u00a0deliberates the length of the star wide receiver\u2019s expected suspension.<\/p>\n
In a recent update\u00a0from NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero, the well-informed reporter stated that the\u00a0league proposed a \u201cdouble-digit\u201d suspension, in terms of games. But in a new update from ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter on August 19, the proposed number of games was actually lessened a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy understanding is, initially, the NFL would have liked to suspend\u00a0Rashee Rice\u00a0for eight games,\u201d Schefter said\u00a0on \u201cThe Adam Schefter Podcast\u201d\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, that doesn\u2019t mean a whole lot to me because it\u2019s sort of like in a negotiation \u2014 somebody could ask for a million dollars a year, and the price is going to come in at $500,000 \u2014 so, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a lot where you start out,\u201d the insider explained. \u201cBut I think the league was of the mind right away that it would be eight games.\u201d<\/p>\n
After revealing that the NFL initially wanted an eight-game suspension, Schefter detailed what he believes will end up occurring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if we look at the collective bargaining agreement, the baseline suspension for a personal conduct policy violation is six games,\u201d Schefter noted. \u201cAnd I\u2019m sure Rashee Rice would probably like it to be three or four games. So, if we have the league at eight, and the player \u2014 let\u2019s just say \u2014 [is] willing to take four and the baseline [is] six, where do you think it\u2019s going to come out? Especially when the [player\u2019s association] is sifting through its issues and the league wants to exercise its power?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be the maximum,\u201d he continued. \u201cMy guess is the CBA says six for a personal conduct policy violation. And I know there have been other incidents that haven\u2019t been punished as stringently as six games. But the problem that Rashee Rice has is there was video of it [that] played all over all the evening news \u2014 like, everybody\u2019s seen it. And so when you see it, you could see what happened \u2014 and it gets the attention it did \u2014 I think the league\u2019s gotta take a stand sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo again, I\u2019m operating on the assumption it\u2019ll be [a] minimum [of] four [games], possibly six,\u201d Schefter finally concluded.<\/p>\n
All in all, after hearing the possibility of a double-digit suspension last week and an eight-game suspension to start Schefter\u2019s update, most Chiefs fans would probably be pretty pleased with an outcome of four to six games.<\/p>\n
The official Rashee Rice\u00a0hearing date is set for September 30, but it\u2019s been made clear that an agreement can be struck before that date if the two sides negotiate some sort of compromise, as Schefter outlined.<\/p>\n
On August 18, head coach\u00a0Andy Reid briefly addressed\u00a0the latest on the Rice front.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah\u2026 we\u2019ve heard about the hearing part of it,\u201d Reid first replied. \u201cThey\u2019ve got to work all that out. I don\u2019t know the details of it, I don\u2019t think anybody does right at this minute. So, we\u2019ll see where it all goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chiefs HC also added that \u201cwhen we hear [what they decide], we\u2019ll do what we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Between re-signing\u00a0Hollywood Brown\u00a0and\u00a0JuJu Smith-Schuster, and drafting\u00a0Xavier Worthy\u00a0and\u00a0Jalen Royals in recent years, the Chiefs are well-prepared to weather a Rice absence at wide receiver. The only questions are when it will begin and how long it will last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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