Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch expects to be suspended by the NFL for his latest run-in with the law and said he has received the message that the league "won't tolerate any more screw-ups" from him.
Delivering a message of humility and repentance and minus the flashy gold grill he usually wears across his teeth Lynch vowed Wednesday that he's ready to change his ways and prepared to accept the consequences for his actions.
"It has kind of sunk in, and I felt that this was the next step to letting you guys know that there will be a change," Lynch said. "I never had the intention of getting into trouble or anything like that. But along the way, my road got rocky, and now you know it's time to set my pavement straight."
The former first-round draft pick out of the University of California held a nine-minute news conference in the Bills' practice facility one day after meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York. The meeting was part of Goodell's review into whether to discipline Lynch for violating the league's personal-conduct policy after the running back pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge in Culver City, Calif., earlier this month.
Lynch characterized the meeting with Goodell as a wake-up call and said the commissioner's message has reached him. "Something that he stressed throughout the meeting was that he will not tolerate any more screw-ups by me," Lynch said, noting that he expects to be suspended for the start of the regular season because this is the second time he has been in trouble with authorities. "I honestly see a suspension coming, but that comes with the consequences," Lynch said. Lynch said he expects a ruling to be made within 10 days.
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