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I`m sure someone has posted this by now, but a great article from Washington Post...talks about how right off the bat the Judge seemed pro NFL lawyers and anti NFLPA lawyers. So corrupt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...0d4f04b89eb_story.html?utm_term=.9cdaf4314187
Big difference...Brady was clearly guilty (or you're telling me that a QB can't tell the difference with a deflated ball?)Well, if we're being fair, we would have to recognize that none other than Jerry Jones himself said Goodell was doing a good job when Goodell was doing to Brady what he is now doing to Elliott.
"(Goodell) is doing an outstanding job" - Jerruh, last year
"I'm all for the power of the Commissioner" - Jerruh, last year
Show me 1 team getting screwed and I'll show you 31 who don't give a damn (or, if anything, enjoy it)
I`m sure someone has posted this by now, but a great article from Washington Post...talks about how right off the bat the Judge seemed pro NFL lawyers and anti NFLPA lawyers. So corrupt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...0d4f04b89eb_story.html?utm_term=.9cdaf4314187
A part of the article,
Did Failla smile more sweetly and defer to the NFL’s superbly concise litigator Paul Clement right from the outset? She certainly seemed to. Did she appear to suppress more than one eye roll at Kessler’s passionate, verbose and desperately searching arguments? Indeed, she did. “I can read,” she said at one point.
One thing was obvious: Lawyers for NFL players have been arguing against Goodell’s capriciousness for so long that they have become frustrated and hyper-emotional. It doesn’t matter that they are right.
Clearly, Goodell abused his power: He discarded the conclusions of his own investigator Kia Roberts, who recommended no suspension because she found Elliott’s accuser not believable. Key evidence was buried or hidden from Elliott, and Goodell’s rubber-stamp arbitrator Harold Henderson denied him a chance to examine key notes, or to cross-examine key witnesses. Goodell and the league simply made an example out of Elliott because they needed a public splash on domestic violence, and they trusted in the grim fortress of arbitration law to protect them.
And because Goodell is the one who screwed up on the first place (by giving Ray Rice 2 games DESPITE having seen the video), any sort of damning photo of bruises is all that`s needed to prove guilt in his eyes, despite that not proving how they occured. Had he not seen the elevator video, and it came out, the NFL could just have said `This is new information to us, and after review, Ray Rice is suspended indefinitely`, or whatever. And there would be no backlash from the fans, media and SJW because the NFL didn`t know about it. But he had seen it, and still only gave it 2 games....that`s where the outrage started. This is all his fault to begin with, everything he`s done since then is make it worse.So now...any skank in the US can demand $250,000 from an NFL player or file a complaint which will result in that player losing several times that amount. Environment for blackmail doesn't get better than this.
Brady was guilty and caught red-handed...... the only issue was the punishment was much more than any other "equipment violator" ever got...... the others only got fines........plus he argued he was never given notice he could be suspended for such a violation
so is zeke playing or not? um, lawyers? anything? beuhler? beuhler?
I`m sure someone has posted this by now, but a great article from Washington Post...talks about how right off the bat the Judge seemed pro NFL lawyers and anti NFLPA lawyers. So corrupt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...0d4f04b89eb_story.html?utm_term=.9cdaf4314187
A part of the article,
Did Failla smile more sweetly and defer to the NFL’s superbly concise litigator Paul Clement right from the outset? She certainly seemed to. Did she appear to suppress more than one eye roll at Kessler’s passionate, verbose and desperately searching arguments? Indeed, she did. “I can read,” she said at one point.
One thing was obvious: Lawyers for NFL players have been arguing against Goodell’s capriciousness for so long that they have become frustrated and hyper-emotional. It doesn’t matter that they are right.
Clearly, Goodell abused his power: He discarded the conclusions of his own investigator Kia Roberts, who recommended no suspension because she found Elliott’s accuser not believable. Key evidence was buried or hidden from Elliott, and Goodell’s rubber-stamp arbitrator Harold Henderson denied him a chance to examine key notes, or to cross-examine key witnesses. Goodell and the league simply made an example out of Elliott because they needed a public splash on domestic violence, and they trusted in the grim fortress of arbitration law to protect them.
The judge is a victim of assault herself and her husband helped draft the NFL CBA.
Now I sympathize, and obviously that doesn't make her unfit to preside over cases involving assault, but the combination in this case absolutely would effect her judgement. And the fact is she went against what literally every judge before her said.
You do have a good point there.I don’t know man. An incident like Ray Rice, where the video came out in such a manner are rare.
I think people would be fine with the overall approach. They can just say as a general rule, “we leave these matters to those who are fully qualified in investigating these types of incidents and repose our trust in the law. It is out of our hands until this happens. If they deem actions to be inappropriate we will take actions per our well define policy.”
Or some other statement like that.
Only SJW will be offended. Even many of them will still continue to watch the games.
The judge is a victim of assault herself and her husband helped draft the NFL CBA.
Now I sympathize, and obviously that doesn't make her unfit to preside over cases involving assault, but the combination in this case absolutely would effect her judgement. And the fact is she went against what literally every judge before her said.
Spoken like someone who believed everything the NFL said on the matter without looking into the actual facts - much like fans of the other 31 are doing with Elliott, did with the Saints, and did with the Dolphins.But let's ignore that he cheated on field and disrupted the integrity of the GAME itself.
Right. One's a Cowboy and one isn't.I see 2 entirely different situations here.
Spoken like someone who believed everything the NFL said on the matter without looking into the actual facts - much like fans of the other 31 are doing with Elliott, did with the Saints, and did with the Dolphins.
Right. One's a Cowboy and one isn't.
That's not true. He did not take probation. He took a pre-trial intervention which completely wiped his record clean. He has never been found guilty of a crime and has never even stood trial for a crime.Ray Rice took a probation deal from the State and he admitted guilt to the League.... not even close to similar
"Brady was clearly guilty" - fans of 31 NFL teams outside New EnglandBig difference...Brady was clearly guilty (or you're telling me that a QB can't tell the difference with a deflated ball?)
It definitely makes her biased.
How many people have your ever met that experienced something very negative and are now minimally biased about that subject.
I met people that experienced the following and almost all had a biased viewpoint afterwards.
Assualt
Bad experience with a bank.
Bad experience with a Doctor.
Bad experience with a celebrity.
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