Giants New LB Michael Boley Suspended for Redskins Game

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Really .....hmmm ok,well then..........Fred Smoot and the "Love Boat" incident in Minn,Skins new about that and brought him back anyway ................correct?Why?

Yes, the 'Skins did sign Smoot knowing about the Love Boat fiasco, and Smoot's is a parallel story.

But the subject of conversation was the tolerance of Giants fans of misbehavior, in the case that of Boley...back to the subject, please.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Yes, the 'Skins did sign Smoot knowing about the Love Boat fiasco, and Smoot's is a parallel story.

But the subject of conversation was the tolerance of Giants fans of misbehavior, in the case that of Boley...back to the subject, please.

OK, lets hit a little closer to home. Sean Taylor..........no saint yet the Skins saw that while he was young he might come around...if they could put up with some of his stupidity.They did and he did.....my point is Giant fans put up with being NEW York Giant fans....we trust the FO to do the right thing and our GM Jerry Reese has done a good job so far,so I for one while not sure about this guy trust Reese so if he says ok,well ....then ok.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by Giantone

OK, lets hit a little closer to home. Sean Taylor..........no saint yet the Skins saw that while he was young he might come around...if they could put up with some of his stupidity.They did and he did.....my point is Giant fans put up with being NEW York Giant fans....we trust the FO to do the right thing and our GM Jerry Reese has done a good job so far,so I for one while not sure about this guy trust Reese so if he says ok,well ....then ok.

Sean Taylor never got physical with a pregnant women.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Sean Taylor never got physical with a pregnant women.

..............and you don't know either,pretty sure you weren't there.No I'm not defending it but before you get on your high horse ....very few NFL teams don't have someone whom has not gotten in trouble,the age alone of theses rookies and the money they make just screams for trouble.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Sean Taylor never got physical with a pregnant women.

....according to his side .....he didn't .



Police: Boley 'became physical' with wife | ajc.com

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by Giantone

..............and you don't know either,pretty sure you weren't there.No I'm not defending it but before you get on your high horse ....very few NFL teams don't have someone whom has not gotten in trouble,the age alone of theses rookies and the money they make just screams for trouble.

Better my horse then your donkey Sorry couldn't resist

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Giantone

..............and you don't know either,pretty sure you weren't there.No I'm not defending it but before you get on your high horse ....very few NFL teams don't have someone whom has not gotten in trouble,the age alone of theses rookies and the money they make just screams for trouble.

Still, the Giants took a chance on a player with pending legal problems and that's what we are discussing. We are not discussing Fred Smoot or the late Sean Taylor. Your player is being suspended for one game and not Smoot.

I'm sure if I were on a Giants board, the same thing would be discussed if Albert Haynesworth was being suspended (but he's not).

[The Goat]

What I don't like is how Boley's legal issues didn't receive much mention while he was a free agent. He was listed as a pretty high prospect on many sites but I don't remember seeing anything about this stuff. Obviously GM's and franchise decision-makers would be aware cuz it's there job to know, but I don't like the "missing" info just from my own perspective. I wouldn't have considered Boley as a guy to look at knowing this...despite what giantone and whoever else may think/say i think we keep a pretty damn clean organization and personally i'm proud of the skins for not making this kind of news the vast majority of the time.

[skins89moss]

Originally Posted by KingRaloIV

One less player we have to worry about! and they dont have last years starting WR(Burress) and one of their Back up RB threats. Redskins should be 1-0!

Good point, but the Giants played us the 2nd game at FedEx without Burress and we got drilled. I sure hope we play much better opening game this season then last year.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Still, the Giants took a chance on a player with pending legal problems and that's what we are discussing. We are not discussing Fred Smoot or the late Sean Taylor. Your player is being suspended for one game and not Smoot.

I'm sure if I were on a Giants board, the same thing would be discussed if Albert Haynesworth was being suspended (but he's not).

..........so....the statement was how Giant fans find this type of thing acceptable,I pointed out it does happen on every team and we really don't know the facts but how the team knows better then the fans do.Your point is?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Better my horse then your donkey Sorry couldn't resist

LOL.......I'll take a donkey up a mountain over a horse anyday.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Giantone

..........so....the statement was how Giant fans find this type of thing acceptable,I pointed out it does happen on every team and we really don't know the facts but how the team knows better then the fans do.Your point is?

Ok lets re-visit this...Someone here said:

Originally Posted by Lotus

Yes, but then knowing about the problem, the Giants signed him, anyway. The Giants "adopted" his misbehavior.

to which you responded...

Originally Posted by Giantone

Really .....hmmm ok,well then..........Fred Smoot and the "Love Boat" incident in Minn,Skins new about that and brought him back anyway ................correct?Why?

Which prompted this response from me...

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Still, the Giants took a chance on a player with pending legal problems and that's what we are discussing. We are not discussing Fred Smoot or the late Sean Taylor. Your player is being suspended for one game and not Smoot.

I'm sure if I were on a Giants board, the same thing would be discussed if Albert Haynesworth was being suspended (but he's not).

My point by this statement was that you defended your player and your team by bringing up what you thought was a similar situation that happened here with the Redskins. I don't remember the exact details of the Smoot situation, but I do remember that the Boat Scandal happened wayy before he re-signed with the Redskins; so it is not the exact situation. So I don't know what was your point in bringing this up other than to deflect the discussion.

You mentioned later on something along the lines that "this happens with every team in the NFL" and that we "shouldn't get on our high horses". Well, I don't know what else you would expect from a Redskins board. Like I said, I'm sure if Haynesworth were to be suspended, people in a Giants forum would be saying that the Redskins were stupid to bring in someone with a questionable past or that the Redskins fans are accepting this type of behavior.

I think you have some good posts on this site, but I'm always wondering why you tend to act surprised when someone says something negative about your team, since once again this is a Redskins forum.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Giantone

..........so....the statement was how Giant fans find this type of thing acceptable,I pointed out it does happen on every team and we really don't know the facts but how the team knows better then the fans do.Your point is?

Dude...I just caught the trailer of your new movie with Michael Boley. Powerful stuff

[Giantone]

My response was to Buster post #26.The Boat scandel was the previous season as is Boley situation.Ruhskins I understand but the Smoot situation and this are similar alittle but anyway my point was to buster when he said the Giant fans accept this bevaior,if as a fan I disagree with this move what do I do,what does a Redskin fan do when they bring Smoot back and you don't agree with it.........what are the options,you guys sending your tickets back?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Dude...I just caught the trailer of your new movie with Michael Boley. Powerful stuff

Cool,trailer.This looks good...I know you meant it as a joke but now I want to see the whole thing.