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In response to
"You are more pissed at the incompetence of Goodell and the NFL at handling infractions over the last few years."
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Shaun
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I'm not saying it's not a big deal. It's a pitcher putting an emery board on a ball. Suspend him a game.
Posted by
Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz)
May 13 '15, 12:26
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its what baseball does (roughly 8-12 games for that action). Which is 1/16th of a season...or 1 NFL game. That's completely reasonable. It's what should have happened.
Instead, Roger and his organization again randomly picked terms of justice without any concept of the bigger picture. That's a scary thought for anyone under that organization; or at least it should be.
Let's say Odell gets caught with stick'um on his gloves. Four game suspension, right? That's absurd even though the basic concept is the same.
Punishment needs to meet the crime; it needs to be consistent; and it needs to be transparent in it's implementation.
Nothing about this is the case in a year where Ray Rice gets 2 games for knocking out his woman, 14 more games for the video showing him doing it; Greg Hardy gets 10 games for throwing his woman on a pile of guns; AP gets 14 games off for using a switch on a kid that 2 different grand juries came to different conclusions on. You get 1 game for Suh stepping on Rodgers leg in a deliberate attempt to injure.
Now, most people would argue that a player using stick'um or a slightly lower ball pressure is probably not as impactful to the league's image as any of those cases. But somehow, the punishment has exceeded many of those offenses.
That's my quibble. It's such a clown show in charge with no concpet of the bigger picture; and I'm less pissed at the guy trying to get an edge the NFL is inviting than by the league trying to exercise itself as the bastion of integrity and discipline.
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