Benton has been an NFL OL coach for 20 years and those guys make low six figures. It's fairly likely he's a millionaire if he has any clue about investing. The S&P 500 has quadrupled since he began coaching in the NFL.
Low 6 figures is a far cry from millionaire certainty, especially if you have a wife, kids, mortgage, etc.
I don't judge the guy, and I don't know enough about him to judge him even if I were so inclined. But when you are trying to lead a group of men who are young, rich, and facing a lot of distractions/temptations, it's essential to keep them focused, professional, and not doing stupid stuff that creates distractions, especially when your team has only six combined wins in two years. You have to lead by example. You can't have members of your coaching staff sending the message that you can get away with stupid stuff in your personal life. It's a tough situation, but I'd cut him loose. If you do the hard thing here, every single player on the team is going to be painfully aware that (a) Maye had a DUI and is gone, and (b) a coach had a DUI and is gone. We can't be sure that will prevent off-field stupidity completely, but it will certainly help.
Someone who drives drunk isn’t the type of person to save money, they have fun living one day at a time and don’t think about consequence ie tomorrow. - someone who doesn’t save money
His punishment by the league or Jets should be more severe than that of the players. He's in a position of leadership and he committed the same sin he likely preaches against. If a player gets a 1 game suspension for this? Bentons punishment should be 3 games.
They should just cut him. If they don't that goes against everything JD is trying to accomplish with the team having good moral character.
Lol. Ok. There are a lot of people making low 6 figures, drive drunk and invest soundly enough and live disciplined enough to become millionaires off their modest salary. What was I thinking?
Not sure where you are from but that's totally false in a lot of places. It isn't clear from the article if he was pulled over because he was swerving or doing something drunk, or he had a tail light out or something. >Benton, 58, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police shortly before midnight Thursday on I-287 in Morristown for a motor vehicle violation. I think we should wait until the case is adjudicated before making any judgements. The facts aren't even out yet.
I know people who were born into money and like to party. They stayed rich. I know people who were born poor, like to party and stayed there. I know people who were born poor, studied and saved and are now less poor/rich. I’ve never met someone born poor, likes to party who saved up enough to change their income status significantly. There are a couple hundred million people on the country so I’m not saying they don’t exist.
Ok, so it wasn't a DUI trap because it wasn't Friday or Saturday night. It was on a major thoroughfare so it wasn't likely to be a speed trap. Sometimes you'll get a speed trap on an interstate but more often not - those are usually reserved for local roads where the income from the ticket goes to the township not the state. It likely wasn't a tail light out because unless it is a signaling light the smokies don't really care and they'll only pull you over if you make an erratic move into another lane and they see no signal. That basically leaves the following: the enforcement was behind him for some reason and their plate reader came up with overdue violations or warrants, he was driving erratically, he was significantly over the speed limit (21 mph+ is a trigger, 11 mph+ in urban zones, 6 mph+ in actively marked construction zones), he did something really stupid like throw a burger wrapper or a paper bag or something like that out of the driver's side window as he was driving, littering will definitely get you pulled over because it creates a potential sight hazard on the roadway and the cops do not want you to do that on a regular basis. Oh, and of course he wasn't driving while black which unfortunately is still a thing even on the East Coast.
Would reminding you that Thursday was St. Patrick's Day change your first sentence? Seems to me that certain days of the year kick up the level of DWI enforcement - days like New Year's, Super Bowl Sunday, St. Patrick's Day, most national holidays especially long holiday weekends, Halloween, Thanksgiving weekend, Christmas and days of local celebrations. Why not just allow the case to be adjudicated before conjuring up a myriad of things that might have happened?
We don't know what happened. If he had a couple of beers, drove completely fine and cops set up a trap where they ask everyone to blow it's one thing. If he is driving wasted on the other side of the road, putting people at risk it's another. Yes, both are unlawful, but there are various degrees here, and I for one want the legal process to play out before passing judgment, and wouldn't start looking for the new O-Line coach just yet.
