Carolina Panthers coach John Fox said Tuesday that the team simply ran out of patience with WR Dwayne Jarrett after his second arrest for alleged drunken driving.
The team cut Jarrett hours after he was arrested early Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge in 2008, and now could face potential discipline from the NFL.
"I think we've got a situation here where we do a lot of things for our guys to make sure that doesn't happen and he couldn't follow the protocol so we're going to move on," Fox said on Sirius NFL Radio.
Jarrett's arrest came two weeks after New York Jets WR Braylon Edwards was arrested for alleged drunken driving. It was Edwards' first arrest for such a charge, and he was benched for the first quarter of the Jets' next game.
But Jarrett, on his second arrest and having caught just 35 passes since being selected in the second round of the 2007 draft, didn't have the same margin for error.
"You know, I think, there's a lot of guys that are doing it right that sometimes we don't hear quite as much about," Fox told Sirius. "But unfortunately this is one that he wasn't doing right."
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