I will take whatever opinion I like. You don't like the answer. Nobody is worried about your "blowback". Like the league, I don't much care either. What I said is true. You can believe it or not. Either way, in a few month, I will not hear from you on this and that will be fine.
Jerry will pay, now or later and the longer he waits, the bigger story it becomes. All of that is true and doesn't matter how much you want to argue that point. That's what will happen.
I will tell you this thou, your entire post is an example of what happens when you don't bother to read. I never said that Jerry was stupid for helping Zeke. I said that Jerry was stupid for taking the position he did in this thing. I will ask you again, exactly how much did Jerry help Zeke in all of this? The original suspension was 6 games. What did Zeke end up doing?
You say that "Zeke almost won" but how can you know this? Nothing that I ever saw, from day one, convinced me that Jerry had a snowballs chance in hell of winning that and a lot of people who were paying attention called that from the outset. Change of venue didn't help but it doesn't really matter, it was eventually going to get overturned anyway because the law was very clear on this issue. The CBA is what matters and there was no proof that the terms outline in that were violated.
You say that exposing the "witchhunt" was worth the entire thing. Well, here is what I will tell you about that. Those who believe it was a witchhunt, didn't need it to be exposed. They already knew what it was, long before any of this happened. Those who don't believe that, are no more convinced today that it was, then they were before. So where, exactly, is the worth?
Jerry could have counseled Zeke to work with the NFL and get a reduction in games. He could have helped to negotiate that but that didn't happen. Now, the usual response that you get when you suggest this is, "What kind of man admits to something he didn't do?" I would say that if that's the position you want to take, that's fine but smoothing that over is where Jerry could have helped. Instead, he took a position that he could not win and it helped nothing. It only hurt the team. Jerry's job, as GM and owner is not to fight a crusade on behalf of one player IMO. His job is to help the team win championships IMO. What he did last year did not help that goal, at all.
Have a holy war if you wish but it's not going to matter, any more then it did before. The same folks who didn't want to hear that argument will not care. The League will not care and Jerry will eventually pay. That is my opinion.
