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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) @KHOU Adrian Peterson investigated for another abuse accusation involving another one of his sons. Just a piece of human garbage Peterson is. How do you abuse a kid like he did when you've already had a son die from abuse?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 05:55 PM) I don't disagree with you. What the NFL is scrambling to do is to hire and contract with experts who will put them in a better position to create policies and protocols for dealing with these things consistently. But the speed at which this stuff is unfolding is making things a bit difficult in the meantime. They do already have people in place. It's also not unfolding quickly in the least bit. They've had years...and years...and years of similar situations that they've failed to do anything about.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 05:46 PM) Is your employed equipped to truly evaluate the lawfulness of its employees once they have been hired? I highly doubt it. They fall back almost entirely on the criminal justice system to do that, other than vague personal conduct policies which they already struggle to enforce with any sort of consistency. It's a very valid point despite you being unable to recognize that. Again, no it's not. The nfl literally employs people to evaluate these things. That's their sole job. And yes, if my company gets hold of pictures of my child being abused with an admission from me of what I have done, I'm getting fired.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 05:33 PM) It isn't quite that simple...an admission of guilt to what? Being a bad father? Balta just posted an article showing a Texas jury probably wouldn't convict him. So now we are suspending star players without due process, with some then being acquitted? You think that is a good road to go down if you're in charge of the league right now? That's just a mess. Especially since the Commissioner alone is in charge of handing out the suspensions currently? They need to get league wide policies out there which lay out the penalties, then administer them consistently. They need to educate and promote awareness (which they are in the process of doing now). It's not as simple as just suspending guys left and right arbitrarily, especially when the media is going to be digging up arrest records like nobody's business. Once again, the criminal justice system is completely irrelevant here and can be to the nfl player conduct policy. Stop bringing it up. Adrian Peterson admitted to abusing his 4 year old child. There is photographs of said abuse. Yes, it is setting the precedent where if you abuse children you risk suspension from the nfl. It's not a bad precedent to set in the least bit.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 05:17 PM) I just think you're asking them to do something they are just not quite equipped to do yet. They aren't in an ideal position to be evaluating these things...that is what the criminal justice system is generally for. NFL player conduct policy in no way has to abide by the criminal justice system. In this case, it's not a question of what happened. There are pictures as well as an admission of guilt. The nfl recently released a new domestic abuse policy. This isn't that, but close enough where you should apply that as the bare minimum here. How the nfl let that press conference go is just amazing. They never do learn.

How does the nfl f*** up this badly? How could they be so dumb after the Ray Rice situation.

That's a bad overturn.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 11:18 AM) Just south of the Congress Expr? I don't think there would nearly enough land there. I was thinking like from Van Buren and south to Polk. Would require some major infrastructure redoing (as would any move). But right off expressway, rock island, and all loop ctas. Probably not feasible just throwing stuff out there to get as close to downtown as possible. Sears Tower overlooking center field would be badass.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 11:08 AM) Is there any land left in the South Loop area that could be used for a new stadium? Off of Wells and Harrison?

I'm fairly confident the name will be changed this coming off season

3 (2 wrs and flex, reg scoring) of: Alshon, Cruz, Vincent Jackson, Ivory, Gerhart, West, Shonn Greene, Riley Cooper

It didn't need to be seen by us. More importantly it didn't need to be lied about.

RG3 or Cammy Cam? I'm leaning towards rg3, no one else seems to be though

People championing Condi Rice as Goodell's replacement. I'm for that.

trey wingo ‏@wingoz 8m Roger Goodell's words to Saints regarding bounty gate.."ignorance is not an excuse"

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 04:14 PM) Lying for Ray Rice. Yup, seems worth it to risk your job for that. And to think they were so naive to think the full video would never come out. Yeah you'd think it'd be the cover up of the integrity of the product with spygate. Or the cover up of evidence on just how inherently dangerous football is. But nope, it's going to be Ray Rice that does him in. He assumed he was untouchable.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 03:57 PM) The Associated Press ‏@AP 5m BREAKING: AP Source: Law enforcement official sent copy of Ray Rice tape to NFL executive in April Goodell is cooked

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 09:01 PM) That was against me right? I got pretty lucky with Cam not playing. I dont know if you were watching the late MNF game last night but I had Novak and Allen going and when I was down 2 with a few minutes left and the Chargers were in FG range up 5 on third down and Rivers got sacked and it pushed them out of FG range. Fortunately Allen had a 13 yard catch to tie it at least. Also, f*** Calvin Johnson. Yeah Calvin went ham or I wouldn't have been close. QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 10:02 AM) I need some lineup advice. I have deep teams, but it makes for tough choices when it comes to locking my rosters for the week. I'd love to hear some opinions on who I should start in my three leagues. Team #1 (PPR) QB - Foles/Newton WR (2 or 3) - Cobb/Harvin/Patterson/Hilton/Hurms RB (2 or 3) - Lynch/Lacy/Bell/Moreno/Ridley TE - Allen/Cook Team #2 (PPR + KR Yds) QB - Romo/Cutler WR (3 or 4) - Bryant/Harvin/Patterson/Bowe/Watkins RB (2 or 3) - Spiller/Ellington/Stacy/Richardson/Dwyer DEF - Buffalo/Kansas City Team #3 QB - Newton/Cutler WR (2 or 3) - A. Brown/Harvin/Patterson/Mi. Floyd/Watkins RB (2 or 3) - Lynch/Bell/Moreno/R. Jennings/C. Johnson #1: Foles, Cobb, Harvin, Lynch, Lacy, Bell, Allen 2: Romo, Bryant, Harvin, Patterson, Spiller, Ellington, anddddd Watkins i guess. Not sure who returns kicks other than Spiller. Buffalo definitely. 3: Cam, Brown, Patterson, Lynch, Bell, Moreno assuming not ppr.

I love the completely false narrative that people only started caring yesterday. As if they weren't shocked in February watching Rice drag a lifeless body. As if people weren't outraged over Rice getting such a small suspension. As if the outrage wasn't so loud that Goodell had to publicly apologize, something we never thought we'd see. As if the nfl didn't completely rewrite their rules due to the public being so upset with how they've handled things. But yeah aside from all that it's just spur of the moment rage.

Yeah

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 11:28 AM) This is the NFL, contracts aren't fully guaranteed. If they wanted to release him for the contract, they would have done it. Yep. They didn't want to release him because they took a giant cap hit by doing so

But didn't it only hurt them to get out of that contract? That makes no sense.

I traded: Leveon Bell MJD Blount Dwayne Bowe For Victor Cruz Alston Jeffries Toby Gerhart Thoughts? RBs are now lynch, morris with gerhart, west, ivory and greene. Wrs are cruz, Vincent jackson, jeffery, welker.

I tied. How lame

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 10:53 PM) Just have to hope they make other huge upgrades. Agreed