Opening for Elliott? NFL investigator Kia Roberts recommended no suspension **merged**

superonyx

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WOW!!!!!!
So the ESPN article says the ONLY person who interviewed Tiffany Thompson was the person they barred from the meeting and didn't consider her opinion......
YET...they took the word of the "victim" over Zeke's when the only person who interviewed her said her word isn't worth a crap and he shouldn't be suspended....

WOW....
 
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Bizwah said:
I'd seriously like to hear from our lawyers on the board. What do they think of this recent development?

Does Zeke have a case?
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Depends on what the CBA says. Does Goodell have the authority to disregard his investigator's recommendations and form his own opinion on the evidence? Probably. But, does that meet some minimum standard of procedural fairness in the context of labor discipline? Couldn't say.
 
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I guess it's a ray of light for maybe influencing Henderson but frankly I am not going to get my hopes up. The evil of Goodell truly knows no bounds.
 
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EGG said:
lol,,, exactly what I was thinking. Goodell is supposedly an intelligent person, how else did he think this was going to turn out? Hell, I could have told you the excrement was going to hit the fan the day he appointed those agenda driven sharks to oversee this issue. I don't know if Goodell realizes there are forces out there that would love to greatly diminish the NFL,,, and playing footsy with them is the last freaking thing you want to do. They need to reconsider Goodell's extension, he's going to lead them into ruin.
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If for no other reason, you need to part ways with the idiot as a show of good faith with the Players Union. At some point the NFL is going to have to go back to the negotiating table with them, and if Roger is still the head honcho, the union is going to play hardball at a level unprecedented in sport's history.
 
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Plankton said:
Just when you think they can't sink any lower, you hear this. I smell a defamation of character lawsuit, and Elliott potentially being able to pull in a Goodell like payday.
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I just posted on Facebook my predictions are these:

Zeke will play all 16 games this season

Zeke will ultimately earn more $ via award or settlement from the NFL than he ever will as RB for the Dallas Cowboys.
 
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Mr Cowboy said:
If I'm not mistaken, the report from the league showed that Friel said that Thompson was not credible witness. Yet she went with a 6 game suspension!
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Not exactly. That was in Zeke's response and it was apparently in reference to Mrs. Roberts. The NFL contended that the witness was absolutely truthful. Even though the only person who spoke to her found that her story didn't add up.
 
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Bizwah said:
I'd seriously like to hear from our lawyers on the board. What do they think of this recent development?

Does Zeke have a case?
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I'm not a lawyer but I talked with a buddy last night who is. Even before this latest info, his comment to me was that there are certain rights you cannot sign away, no matter what the cba says or what a release form you sign says.

The burden of proof may be more difficult, but given the wording the suspension he felt some of the rights Zeke was denied are definitely cause for a winnable lawsuit. And winnable may not even affect the suspension, but could result in damages. He spouted a bunch of other stuff I can't remember which sounded bad for the NFL.

Any lawyers have comments?
 
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links18 said:
Depends on what the CBA says. Does Goodell have the authority to disregard his investigator's recommendations and form his own opinion on the evidence? Probably. But, does that meet some minimum standard of procedural fairness in the context of labor discipline? Couldn't say.
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In other words does the CBA give Goodell the power to make up lies and slander any player he wants to?
 
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superonyx said:
WOW!!!!!!
So the ESPN article says the ONLY person who interviewed Tiffany Thompson was the person they barred from the meeting and didn't consider her opinion......
YET...they took the word of the "victim" over Zeke's when the only person who interviewed her said her word isn't worth a crap and he shouldn't be suspended....

WOW....
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I am not a lawyer and i know Goodell can do anything he wants but i feel the courts will not look fairly on this.This looks like unfair ruling based on absolutely no evidence(infact there is more clear cut contradictory evidence)
 
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Super_Kazuya said:
I guess it's a ray of light for maybe influencing Henderson but frankly I am not going to get my hopes up. The evil of Goodell truly knows no bounds.
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Sadly, I can't see Henderson erasing the suspension. The NFL could have said the sky is green and the furthest Henderson will go in contradiction is to say the sky might have a teal tint to it.

I'm betting on a 4 game suspension, a lot of backlash and nothing will change.
 
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cowboy_ron said:
Goodell has as much character as Martin Shkreli
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Kind of off topic but don't believe what you read about Shkreli...he did what the crooked laws allowed and congress tried making an example out of him because he wasn't as quiet and sneaky about price gouging as Merck and the rest of the pharmaceutical crooks. Instead of fixing the broken system that allows pharma to price fix, they decide to dig into his past and charge him with a crime not related to what they are upset about...

Back to Zeke.. :)
 
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