Greg Hardy Suspension

[Cowboys1fan]

What do you guys think the suspension will be after the appeal? I'm hoping 2 games at the most with his 15 on the excempt list last season being time served! We have a tough first 6 games. Need him big time

 

[big dog cowboy]

At least 4 but no more than 6.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

What do you guys think the suspension will be after the appeal? I'm hoping 2 games at the most with his 15 on the excempt list last season being time served! We have a tough first 6 games. Need him big time

It's goodell handling the appeal. I see him not changing his initial decision and this going to court where it will be reduced to 2 games.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

At least 4 but no more than 6.

^this^

 

[Tabascocat]

how long will all of this take to be settled and done?

 

[DanTanna]

^this^

This x 2

 

[AZ_Cowboys_Fan]

It's goodell handling the appeal. I see him not changing his initial decision and this going to court where it will be reduced to 2 games.

It's my understanding that Goodell has nothing to do with the appeal.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It's my understanding that Goodell has nothing to do at all with the appeal.

Did he recuse himself? I didn't see that. He actually put in someone objective or another crony like in the AP hearing?

 

[RoboQB]

If Goodell were handling the appeal, he would be ruling on his own decision....lol.... smh.

 

[Tabascocat]

It's my understanding that Goodell has nothing to do with the appeal.

He will hear the initial appeal and expect for it to be denied.

 

[Va_BoysFan4 Life]

No He can actually preside over the appeal or allow a independent representative to do so. Hopefully it will be someone else. I feel if Goodell handle it I see 6 games.

 

[Westcoasthabsfan]

two games...ten is ridiculous

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Under the former policy and procedure, a first-time offender typically received a two-game suspension without pay. In this specific case, the NFL has separated the incident into four separate violations; in connection with the appeal, the NFLPA undoubtedly will explore whether the NFL took one general incident and broke it into subsets that were then disciplined individually.

According to the source, the appeal also asks the NFL to designate a neutral arbitrator. The league agreed to use a neutral arbitrator in the appeal of Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension in 2014, but the league declined to appoint a neutral arbitrator in the appeal of Adrian Peterson’s suspension. While the neutral arbitrator overturned the Rice suspension as a second punishment for the same conduct that had previously resulted in a two-game suspension, the neutral arbitrator also noted that the NFL could have imposed an indefinite suspension in the first place.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/27/greg-hardy-appeal-was-filed-friday/

He has asked they have 23 more days to hold the appeal. This was a week ago.

 

[LatinMind]

None, i cant see how a judge can uphold any suspension for him when the charges were dropped. But wipe out APs when he was convicted.

 

[sureletsrace]

I think he gets 4 fames, which is unfair since he was cleared of charges, but it is what it is.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

At least 4 but no more than 6.

I think this ends up happening

 

[Manwiththeplan]

None, i cant see how a judge can uphold any suspension for him when the charges were dropped. But wipe out APs when he was convicted.

Peterson was actually suspended at some point last year, thus had already been punished. I don't think Hardy has technically been punished by the league, since he got paid every game, just couldn't play.

 

[Gameover]

8

 

[Hoofbite]

Both sides settle on 4 to 6.

 

[speedkilz88]

The ultimate appeal will be to Judge Doty and he already ruled in the Peterson case that Goddell can't punish retroactively and that the max punishment was two games.