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NFL suspends Adrian Peterson for remainder of season

Mr. Scot

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Hardy is smart. From a financial standpoint, playing under the tag for $13.4MM this year, it would be ludicrous for him to have accepted a six game no-pay suspension.

Now when he leaves as a free agent, he can sign a contract that is structured in such a way that he is only making say $7.5MM in the first year, so when Goodell suspends him for six games the financial burden will only be half of what it would have been this year.

Brilliant.

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Matthias Proficient

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I can bet you that a grievance will be file and AP will be playing next week. Watch

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You could be right on that.  If Goodell doesn't feel like Peterson sitting out for 9 games is a real suspension period because he got paid, he should fine him those game checks.  A reasonable arbitrator would probably take that into account, and fine him the game checks.

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Hardy is smart. From a financial standpoint, playing under the tag for $13.4MM this year, it would be ludicrous for him to have accepted a six game no-pay suspension.

Now when he leaves as a free agent, he can sign a contract that is structured in such a way that he is only making say $7.5MM in the first year, so when Goodell suspends him for six games the inability burden will only be half of what it would have been this year.

Brilliant.

If Hardy is found innocent none of this will matter and the Panthers will lose a star DE. At the end of the day this hasn't even been settled in court so anything can happen.

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with this approach. What is stopping someone from just making up allegations to the Super BOwl QB before the game? Say a woman says X QB hits her and has physical evidence of abuse.. How will they not take action? 

 

 

That is my issue with this type of process. What would stop a woman for being vindictive and falsely accuse a player for something they didn't do? They would automatically be cut/banned/not allowed to play? That is really unfair especially if it comes out in the end that they are innocent. That one phrase comes to mind now though, a few and ruin it for a lot of people.  I guess that is true in this case. I thought the law was innocent into proven guilty. I think the NFLPA will step up soon.

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Goodell is screwing up bc he is setting all sorts of precedents as he makes stuff as he has thrown out the old policies. There are no longer any rules to go by which is comical. Every case now is just a made up punishment on the fly.

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Infinitely different. No player is that important to the league.

 

The NFL has done an outstanding job in creating a team first image but we know that this league, much like any league, are star driven leagues.

 

The reason that the NFL has instituted fines for not wearing socks, face masks, gloves, etc that are not in line with the rest of the team is that when a player goes down, another player who wears the same exact uniform can go in and replace them. The average neutral fan wouldn't know the difference if Josh Norman was replaced by James Dockery. This gives the illusion that the team is not handicapped by their star players going down.  However, we are not stupid and know know that player a is not player b and know who the superstars in this league are. 

 

In short, the superstars are very much important to the league for the mere fact that fines are instituted against them for basically getting hurt. 

 

On the other hand, Goodell is turning the NFL front office into a spectacle. I'm sure there are owners that are pissed that he is making the Commissioner's position turn into a joke. I know TLDR, but players, especially superstars are bigger than the commissioner, especially when the commissioner is out of control.

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Curious if he has any recourse under the CBA. I know there are some double jeopardy clauses but I guess Goodell will argue that the exempt list is not a punishment.

 

Players gave all the punishment power to Goodell in the CBA. They don't have any legs to stand on.

 

Also, the NFLPA is pretty inept. They advised Peterson to not attend a meeting with Goodell (Why? I don't know) which probably had more than a little to do with him getting shafted.

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Good. I assumed he would be back for the Carolina game with how things were playing out this year against us.

 

Game still falls after a bye week, though :(

 

 

Curious if he has any recourse under the CBA. I know there are some double jeopardy clauses but I guess Goodell will argue that the exempt list is not a punishment.

 

At this point, I think Goodell would argue that the sky is green if he thought it could help the NFL fix their image problems.

 

 

Hardy is smart. From a financial standpoint, playing under the tag for $13.4MM this year, it would be ludicrous for him to have accepted a six game no-pay suspension.

Now when he leaves as a free agent, he can sign a contract that is structured in such a way that he is only making say $7.5MM in the first year, so when Goodell suspends him for six games the financial burden will only be half of what it would have been this year.

Brilliant.

 

I get what you're saying, but technically if he were smart he'd never have been in this position to begin with.

 

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Good. I assumed he would be back for the Carolina game with how things were playing out this year against us.

 

As a fan of the Panthers, I hope to come see the team win against whoever the opponent is.

 

As a fan of the NFL, I come to see Adrian Peterson play, not McKinnon or Asiata. 

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Was AP not on the exempt list with pay?  Also, he plead guilty to a crime.  By that simple fact, the NFL probably can do whatever it wants.

 

 

1. The Commissioner's Exempt List does nothing but punish the team as long as the player is getting paid, but not allowed on the field.

 

2. His guilty plea was arranged with the State of Texas and, although the charges stemmed from a child abuse accusation, there is no mention of child abuse in the guilty verdict, although the league specifically cited child abuse as a reason for his suspension. 

 

3. The suspension today means that Peterson, who was fined $4k as part of his guilty plea, is essentially being fined $4M by the league as this is his salary loss for the remainder of the season. Just a little disparity?

 

In summary, the league is:

* Punishing the team, not the player by allowing him to get paid not to play.

* Punishing the player again after the player has been punished by the court system.

* Making poo up as it plays out. 

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Yeah even I no longer think Hardy will ever be seen in a Panthers uniform again. New Hardy threads are pointless until he's found not guilty or there's a hung jury.

He should sign a one year deal with us for free! We all know that won't happen, but he should.

Meh, doesn't even matter at this point

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