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Originally Posted by Dunerdr
He's painted himself into a virtue corner here.
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That's where I keep shaking my head.
NFL Player is in a high speed crash that kills his girlfriend - gets 3 months of house arrest. Ignored - "Rice should spend time in prison!"
Massive list of NFL Player suspensions under the personal conduct policy that amount to almost exclusively penalties of 1-4 games for various traffic incidents all the way up to friggen gun violence. Ignored -- "It would establish a soft precedent!"
I just don't know what more can be demonstrated to this point. The legal system doesn't drop hammers on cases like this. I've said it literally from day 1. They just never have - doing so here would be a WILD swerve from existing precedent. The NFL barely even notices these things; 1-2 games tops unless it's a DUI situation. Doing anything else would be, again, a MASSIVE break from existing policy/precedent.
So is it their position that the NFL
should completely scrap literally a decade+ of precedent and a trend established by dozens of previous incidents that are no better (and often worse) than what Rice did? All so they can hand down a disproportionately stiff punishment to Rashee Rice?
The degree of willful ignorance and obstinance here is just a head scratcher to me.