Hardy being advised to sit out season

[bandu]

Hardys conviction warrants a non paid six game suspension and now its costing the entire carolina panthers organization to right his wrong.

[greghardy'sAK-47]

well, if the panthers decide they want hardy to play does he really have a choice?  that is if he still wants to collect checks.

[CatMan72]

If he goes on trial in November and is found innocent, how would it help his career to sit out the rest of the season? 

[CarolinaSamurai]

Wish ealy would step up but hes looking like a project for us , not worth a secound round pick

It takes 3 years to develope good DE players....that's true with hardy and johnson as well. They broke out 3rd year

[KendrickPanther]

This is stupid. The Panthers are paying him a lot of money to play football. If he is reinstated its his obligation to do his job. Imagine if every franchise player had the option to sit out and avoid injury while being paid.

[CatMan72]

Not just his choice.

IF he's not back for the Seahawks game (6 games, which is the NEW policy for a GUILTY man made AFTER his incident, which he is still likely to be INNOCENT (IMO)) I'm gonna fugging RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's still over half the season he gets to play. IF guilty (unlikely IMHO) he pays the money back for the 6 games. Appeases the wussies and we can still make a run.

 

This is a good point, if you want to argue that he was already found guilty why isn't he serving the mandatory 6 game suspension instead of being indefinitely parked on the commissioners exempt list? 

 

He's already half way to serving the 6 game suspension (with time served) and that would put him back on the field before the end of November while he waits for the results of his "appeal" (which wouldn't really matter because he's already served the suspension for a 1st offense). Panthers could dock his pay for the equivalent of 6 games pending the results of his jury trial and if he's found innocent they release the funds to him. 

 

This lets you know it's PR move/damage control and not a question of "doing the right thing". 

[Vagrant]

Forget this man exists. He'll never play another down of football for Carolina. He's going to go to a new location the first chance he gets because he'll need a "fresh start" and Gettleman seems like the type to hold a grudge. He won't even make him an offer. I would bet on it.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

It takes 3 years to develope good DE players....that's true with hardy and johnson as well. They broke out 3rd year

 

people see rookies come into the league and bust out at other positions but the conventional wisdom of DEs taking time to develop generally still rings true.  a typical starting tackle in the NFL is going to be able to handle them unless they're just freak athletes.  even hardy got his poo kicked in as a rookie and only looked slightly better in 2011.

[hdevonxz]

I would think if he's cleared to play and he refuses, that would be a breach of contract.

 

idk if he had to agree to be put on the exempt list, then I don't see why he wouldn't have to agree to be re activated or something of the sort.

 

[ed bell]

NFLPA wouldn't fight it if they had punished Hardy when the July court date ended. If they waited until September to suspend just because a video of a different player made the media upset, you can bet your ass the NFLPA would not stand for it. They would appeal and he would be able to play until the appeal was done.

The NFLPA was more than happy to be able to steer clear of this. You keep saying that all JR had to do was keep him on the field. I'm saying the combined pressure of NFL sponsors and the NFL front office forced the Panthers to be the ones to remove him from the field. If they didn't, Hardy gets suspended by the NFL, the labor Union gets involved and the situation doesn't fade away. Our management decided to take the course that was the best for Hardy and the League. Unfortunately, that did not help our team one bit.

[Jeremy Igo]

This is pretty silly. Hardy is in damage control mode. Sitting out when asked to play is the opposite of what he should do.

[AceBoogie]

There is no way I play unless I had a verbal agreement from the panthers on a long term deal. Especially if we aren't in the hunt when it's time to come back.

[ctrcat]

Of course we'll be in the hunt. We could lose our next four and still be in the hunt, with 5 of our last 8 against our weak division opponents.

[igor]

It takes 3 years to develope good DE players....that's true with hardy and johnson as well. They broke out 3rd year

yea I remember people were knocking on hardy years ago thats kind of why we drafted alexander