ALL ABOUT THE TRUTH AND WHO IS TELLING IT – OR NOT

By STEVE KING

We can discuss the Browns’ controversial signing of troubled running back Kareem Hunt until we’re blue in the face, and still nothing will get solved.

The resolution to all this won’t come until sometime down the road – call it the truth, if you will, because that’s exactly what it is – and then and only then will we know the answer to all the questions everyone has.

If Hunt gets his act together and this signing works out like he and the Browns hope it will, then it will prove that he was sincere about his remorse and changing his ways.

And if he doesn’t and it doesn’t, then it will prove he wasn’t.

The NFL is a bottom-line business, and as such all of what happens in it is the same. There is no middle-of-the road resolution to this. The Hunt thing either works or it doesn’t.

I still don’t know for sure whether I like this signing or not. If I were forced to make a decision, I would say yes – but only because some team was going to sign Hunt and it might as well be the Browns. However, I hate – really, truly hate – what he did to the woman. Everybody deserves a second chance, so he is getting one. He can’t afford to screw it up, because they’re probably won’t be a third chance.

And as for the Browns – and in particular, General Manager John Dorsey, who really stuck his neck out to make this happen – they had better been telling the truth, too. They had better keep their word about keeping Hunt’s feet to the fire and demanding that he do all the right things at all the right times. If he doesn’t, then they’ve got to cut their ties with him. They can’t let it get to the point where he becomes a public relations disaster – at least more of one than he already is in some people’s views.

There’s obviously a lot on the line here – for the Browns, Hunt, Dorsey and everybody else involved. Careers could be catapulted forward or hurled backward depending on what happens.

The truth – the sincerity of these people – will determine that, but likely not anytime soon.

I get all the emotion – on both sides of the discussion. I really do.

But it’s time to get on to something else concerning the Browns for a while – or, if you’re mad enough about what the team did (and I can understand that), then something else that has nothing at all to do with them.

Your choice.