The Akron Beacon Journal's Patrick McManamon is reporting from league meetings and this week could prove very interesting for one reason.

Click on the link above and you'll find that the NFL is expected to adopt a player conduct policy this week with the full support of the NFL Players Association.  No, it's not a unilateral decision by still-wet-behind-the-ears commish Roger Goodell.  This is coming from some of the players themselves.

Today we get notice that Adam "Pacman" Jones of the Tennessee Titans will likely face felony charges on at least one front in coming weeks - for his alleged involvement in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club during the NBA All-Star break last month.  What could be interesting is whether the new policy, which is expected to be applied to repeat offenders, will be enforced retroactively to Jones.

Should it be?  The temptation is to say "yes."  The guy has been questioned by police in 10 separate incidents in recent years.   But the league punishing him ex post facto is way out of line.  No, this one falls strictly on one entity - the Titans.

We'll see where the team's priorities and integrity lie in this one.  I fear, however, that Pacman may end up getting another opportunity to gobble up wide receivers from his defensive back position when the NFL opens its next season in September.

Adam Pacman Jones had best look at the writing on the wall now that his current pro football home - the Tennessee Titans has signed Indianapolis Colts cornerback Nick Harper.  It looks as if Jeff Fisher and the Titans are prepared to cut the corner with questionable character.

For the uninitiated, Jones has been involved in a number of legal…ummm….errrr…problems prior to being drafted in the first round and after, the most recent being a scuffle at a Las Vegas strip club that resulted in a triple shooting.  In all there are 10 Pacman-related incidents on assorted police blotters.  The irony of the shooting was it happened in Vegas during the NBA's All-Star festivities.  You know, the NBA?  The so-called "thug" league?  The NBA goes to Vegas and an NFL player delivers the most notorious criminal activity.

I realize that Fisher probably had to wait to have a replacement for Jones' lined up before he cuts him from the team.  After all, priorities, priorties.  The Titans were close to the playoffs last year.  But he should be gone, nonetheless.

And I'm going to go one better.  If at all possible within the guidelines of the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL Players Association, Jones should be suspended as long as possible.  No ifs ands buts or maybes.

For some inexplicable reason NFL players have remained immune to the sleaze that sticks to NBA players.  I guess that's a benefit of playing in the country's most popular league. However, if the NFL doesn't want to drive away fans such as myself, they'd better make an example of this thug-like individual. 

 Why should the NFL care about the likes of me?  Simple.  I love football.  I also have two sons who I'm trying to pass that love of the game on to.  That is the league's future, maintaining its popularity and dominance.  With the likes of Pacman in the news, I'm more apt to point my sons to our local high school team and the Ohio State Buckeyes.  No, they're not angels either, but I don't have to read or watch news reports about them being involved in shootings at Vegas strip clubs.

To those who say he hasn't been convicted of anything, I say:  smoke meet fire.  The Titans signed Harper yesterday, here's hoping that Jones is shown the door by the end of business today.