Ab needs some help

[Happy Panther]

31 minutes ago, rodeo said:

he absolutely has a point, though. robert kraft was literally busted on camera "engaging" with sex trafficking victims and faced no consequences from the league, meanwhile AB was cut (by Kraft) over thusfar unproven accusations.

ben is literally nicknamed rapelisburger and received very minor punishment by his team.

there's a disparity.

Not really.

BR was suspended by the league not his team. He ended up getting four games which would have been pretty standard at the time. I think Hardy got the same penalty but then got put on the exempt list. Also in the case of BR there was very little evidence.

As for Kraft, whatever you thing about the morality of soliciting sex, what he did is a pretty minor offense. It's a misdemeanor and he would have paid a few hundred buck. Eugene Robinson got busted for getting a hooker and played the next day. 

Nobody has punished AB but three teams decided they were not in need of his services anymore. Boo hoo.

[Happy Panther]

15 minutes ago, CatTower said:

The guy had about 40 million given to him and taken back over the course of a couple weeks for accusations that may or not be true.  I think a lot of people would be a little unsettled in that situation.  

He had $29M taken away over threatening the GM with bodily harm and being a general asshat. These accusations came later.

[Khyber53]

A few weeks ago I said AB would be sitting on that bench outside of the HoF right beside Terrell Owens trying to explain to each other what went wrong. People thought I was a moron.

At this point, it's going to take a higher power to get through to and save AB. I'm not sure AB thinks there's a higher power than AB. 

Lot of folks struggling with mental illness in this world who don't have his gifts, his resources and his followers, who are more deserving of our pity and assistance.

[KSpan]

8 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

He had $29M taken away over threatening the GM with bodily harm and being a general asshat. These accusations came later.

Exactly, and even after that incident the Raiders gave him the opportunity to settle in and quit with the nonsense with his guarantees intact. He was only released when he, again, took to social media to run his mouth and demanded to be released.

The accusations play a role in the Patriots decision but the Raiders outcome was AB's self-inflicted outcome.

[Happy Panther]

31 minutes ago, rodeo said:

the owner of the establishment was a sex trafficker. 

The prosecutors explicitly said they had no evidence of this.

[pantherj]

It turns out they made up the sex trafficking part. Woops.

[Mr. Scot]

There was speculation whether or not the Patriots would fight to keep from paying him the guaranteed money on his contract, with opinions leaning toward that they'd likely just go ahead and pay him.

Now that he's publicly attacked Robert Kraft...eeehhh, probably not.

It's now considered far more likely that they'll fight to the death to avoid paying him anything.

 

 

Chess...

[Moo Daeng]

The difference is hes too much of a pain in the ass to want around.  He wasnt disciplined differently because hes not employed. No team is required to deal with an employee they dint want around.

[raz]

if he didn't contact a witness and put pics of her kids in a group text that asked people to investigate her he'd be playing.   the screwed up thing is there are people rich enough, or powerful enough to get away with that sort of thing. 

[pantherj]

The point is that AB being employed by the NFL was harming the NFL. How? Millions of dollars worth of negative publicity turning viewers against the NFL which translates to lower ratings = profit loss.

[Happy Panther]

1 minute ago, pantherj said:

The point is that AB being employed by the NFL was harming the NFL. How? Millions of dollars worth of negative publicity turning viewers against the NFL which translates to lower ratings = profit loss.

He wasn't punished by the NFL. And I doubt he hurt ratings. 

[pantherj]

Being a pain in the ass WR who dominates on the field is fine. Hurting the NFL financially is not fine.

[pantherj]

2 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

He wasn't punished by the NFL. And I doubt he hurt ratings. 

Explain.

[Happy Panther]

Just now, pantherj said:

Explain.

He was let go by three teams and ratings were not a reason behind any of them.

Subjectively drama like this tends to increase viewership and ratings are up this year. Objectively NFL ratings are up over last year even after Brown's accuser came out.