Around The NFL - 2023

[ice grillin you]

jets tailgates are the new proud boy rallies.

lol mos def

staten island strong

[Eagaholic]

Horrible news:   Shaq Barrett's two year old daughter drowned in his back yard pool.  I don't pray but I can't think of secular words that convey the same thing as "give his family your prayers."

Awful

If he does want prayers Randall is the guy he can go to.

[Diomedes]

Ruggs will plead guilty to charges that put him in jail for three to ten years, if the court accepts the deal.

Killed a woman, will in all likelihood walk free before he's what, 30 years old?

I wasn't in court, don't know all the extenuating circumstances, like his atrocious upgringing, or the free drinks they were pouring for him...

Five years incacerated on one scale, dead woman on the other.....Justice?

[Eagaholic]

In a way it's kind of a weird paradox.If Ruggs is some totally heartless or psychophatic type then 5 years seems light. But if he is a normal everyday kind of person, and he had to sit by the side of the road and watch the the car he hit incinerate with someone inside, that likely haunts him the rest of his life, one that was filled with promise and now ruined, and that counts for decades of time in its own way. Unfortunately one can't just see inside a defendant and mete out justice accordingly.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Big yikes - that accusation cost him his job.

https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1655731130719453184 46&t=Uib2YOn6CJgx-z2RaE9o7Q

[MDS]

ummm im gonna pull a j and say

SIGN HIM

[SD]

Nice world we live in people getting canned with zero evidence. Would have signed him last year

[MDS]

sign trevor bauer while youre at..and brett favre should be the QB coach

[PhillyPhreak54]

Ol Brett came out today and voiced his support of Tucker and to boycott FoxNews

[Diomedes]

Hard pass on the rapist idiot punter.

[QB Eagles]

So we're gonna just keep calling this guy a rapist?

[PhillyPhreak54]

I def don't think that is warranted.

[Diomedes]

Did he not have sex with a drunk minor? 

My understanding is he did, prior to the alleged gang rape. 

He was 21. 

Am I mistaken?

[QB Eagles]

Witness interviews from the party, including two of the girl's own friends whom she arrived with, said that she didn't appear to be drunk at the time. Other witnesses said the girl was telling people she was 18.

"A witness who was in the house gave a statement saying that at — at least one point in the party, that you made a statement telling people at the party you were 18," Amador explained to the accuser. "Another witness at the party, a different one, says that they specifically heard you say you were 18 ..."

If we are defining the behavior described in that 200 page document as rape (not checking the id of a girl at a party who claims to be above the age of consent, consents to sex acts, and is not visibly drunk), I suspect a majority of the players in the NFL are rapists. Clearly the district attorney did not feel that it could successfully charge him (or anyone else she was with that night) with rape, statutory or otherwise.

She wouldn't even be a minor in 40 states. Using the same word to describe a 17 year old girl and a college kid having sex at a party as actual violent sexual assault is an abuse of the English language, and minimizes the vast chasm between that behavior and real sexual violence. Do I think the people at the party were selfish and irresponsible in some moral sense? Quite possibly. Do I condone it? No. But labeling someone a rapist is intended to ruin someone's life by purposely evoking the mental image of a far more brutal offense. I don't go for that here. If I was 21 and drunk in that situation, might I have done some of the things described in there? I don't know, and I was an abnormally good kid.

If the other side presents equally powerful evidence as what the district attorney's office has provided, I'm open to changing my opinion of whether this man is a rapist.

[Diomedes]

Fair and well argued.  I retract "rapist."

Behaving no worse than most other jocks is hardly an endorsement of character, however, and I wouldn't put my billion dollar brand on this guy if it were my decision.  He's demonstrated poor enough judgement already to make me look elsewhere.