2017 NFL Preseason Thread: Ki-Jana Carter edition

So. Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I'll gladly accept it, but the league suspends Josh Brown for one game, despite the 20 recorded incidents he beat his wife, including an incident at the Pro Bowl, but Zeke gets 6 for an alleged incident he wasn't charged in and that the police found the victim had lied about the incident?

Seems fair.

 

Six games is supposed to be the absolute, no-questions-asked league policy on domestic abuse. It's supposedly automatic. They announced that after Ray Rice.

Of course, this would be the first time they actually followed their own policy, Josh Brown included.

 

Even when the police disclose that the "victim" lied about such abuse? And that it was backed up by witnesses? Even Ben didn't have that going for him, if I recall.

 

I assume their own investigation contradicted that. An investigation into a star OSU football player conducted by the Columbus PD doesn't exactly instill confidence.

But hey, it's the NFL. None of this stuff ever makes sense. I certainly wasn't expecting this to the the case that would actually prompt them to follow their own policy.

 

So it seems the Eagles are convinced that Nelson Agholor's off-season emergence is for real.

 

No, if I remember correctly, in Roethlisberger's case he was alone in a locked room with the woman and both were supposedly very drunk, which apparently made it tough to be sure what happened. Of course, you still had an older man getting a 19-year-old drunk and having his boys bring her to him in a bathroom, then making sure nobody could get in or out.

 

Did you read the leagues letter to Elliott?

 

My guess is the NFL sat on it to give Jerry his moment at the HOF and dumped it on a Friday.

 

Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott to appeal six-game suspension

Elliott is appealing. The release from his representatives claims the NFL's version of events is "replete with factual inaccuracies and erroneous conclusions."

 

That is the theory I heard, too, but it still shouldn't have taken so long. They certainly didn't want the focus on this during the HOF festivities. Is it about giving Jones his moment or making sure he wouldn't use that moment to lash out at the league?

 

That is how the NFL makes cases against players [/Every Patriots Fan]

 

Basically the NFL believed her when prosecutors prior to the NFL's involvement didn't believe her.

Look, if he did it, I would never condone that shit. I hated when Dallas signed Greg Hardy after I read about everything that happened. I think he got a 10-game ban and was arrested on the charges. Zeke has never been arrested for DV and at the moment it's a "he said, she said" type of thing.

Do I feel that he should have been suspended for even getting mixed up in that crap? Or for the stuff he got in trouble for this past offseason? Yeah, 2 games max.