I mean, they took a chance on Goodson last year. How many teams will take a chance on Aldon if he is cut?
You can't compare him to DeSean, if you're a GM. DeSean hasn't been arrested. There were rumors about him, nothing that led to incarceration or rehab. So I can't see any team going after him, offering him loads of money.
Aldon is a talented, yet troubled, player. Not many GM's will take a chance on him because not many coaches will be able to contain him. Harbaugh doesn't seem like an easy guy to play for. More of a military dictator. Some players, with high character, certain will flourish playing for a guy like that. Others will only fall into a troubled pattern further.
He'll get a prove-me contract, if cut, that makes it easy for any team to send him packing if he slips up again. But most importantly, he'll need a coach and environment that he can really mature in. NY isn't the best place for that, you are correct, so maybe it is not the best fit. But Rex is a players coach, he'll stand by Aldon and support him, and I would even gander that he'll establish some sort of mature support system to help him mature. Rex was there when Ray Lewis was accused of being involved in a murder. It's astounding that Lewis was able to not only stay out of trouble after that, but that he became such a respected and prolific figure after. Look at how Lewis talks of Ryan, like a father. If Lewis was to leave Baltimore several years ago, he had publicly said he would have taken less money to play for Rex and the Jets. That was his only other option that he was considering.
Admiration, respect, and I believe even a sense of maturity, is something that Rex bestows onto his players. I think he's effective in reforming players because he so passionately supports and fights for his players that if they slip up, they only feel worse that they let him down.
I don't think Aldon would be in bad hands, here. But he'd have to take control of his life in a positive way.
