Paintrain's all encompassing 'discuss all things offseason' thread (Version 2.0)

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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

@Ravens

Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.

This wasn't a very smart tweet by the Ravens organization. I'm really really surprised the PR team hasn't pulled it down. It's pretty much saying......"it's ok guys if Ray beat his fiancee......see, she apologized for her part!"

In fact, that whole press conference was a disaster.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...195341164.html

Yeah this is a cluster. When Big Ben had his transgressions there was at least enough doubt in both situations to look past it, but with Rice you got it on tape.

If he's found guilty or his fiance drops the charges solely to protect his financial interest then I think its time for Goodell to come in and lay the hammer, since the Ravens aren't going to do it.

Edit: Great charges were dropped by his victim. Seriously the NFL needs to start looking into these instances where the charges of domestic assaults are conveniently dropped.

That reminds me. (Trust me this video is very relevant to the Ray Rice situation and no I'm not being sarcastic.)


Bottom line if the NFL is going to start poolicing players for little transgressions then it has to a better job of recognizing the difference between mistakes and f**k ups. For example

Mistake: Sammy Watkins got arrested for Marijuana Possession in 2012. Even though pot in terms of the law is overkill the fact remains that the risk is not worth it for a college player hoping to reach the NFL.

F*** up: What Ray Rice did.

Forgive mistakes, punish f*** ups. Heck whats the point of having a zero tolerance guy like Goodell in office if players are constantly getting away with f*** ups?