Hardy Suspension Likely

[Devil Doc]

I am not saying Hardy was Completely Innocent, but I am not saying he was Guilty Either. I think it is Wrong for the NFL (Goodell) to ruin a young mans Career over "Allegations" if he does get a Suspension, what teams will want to waist money if they cannot use him half of the year? I think it is Profiling the man. I know for a fact if he was on another " Superior Team" he would have got hardly anything. If it was the Steelers,Greenbay, Patriots,Giants etc or any other higher caliber team ( Not my opinion on higher Caliber) this would have been all settled by now. How can 1 man, 1 man ruin a players career? 

[TheRed]

The world is on its ass I just pied a theRed post.

 

You know you liked it boy.

[Dex]

You know you liked it boy.

I'm not gonna lie it stirred my manhood.

[top dawg]

Hardy is going to get railroaded regardless of the facts. He may have been better off just going to a jury trial. He is in the center of the perfect storm, and Roger and his new female cohorts will probably succumb to public pressure.

[Gin and Juice]

Hardy is going to get railroaded regardless of the facts. He may have been better off just going to a jury trial. He is in the center of the perfect storm, and Roger and his new female cohorts will probably succumb to public pressure.

He did go to a jury trial

[Matthias]

Suspend him for the year.  If the Panthers had to go pretty much a full season without his services, then no other team should have him for a year heehee!

[Dex]

Hardy is going to get railroaded regardless of the facts. He may have been better off just going to a jury trial. He is in the center of the perfect storm, and Roger and his new female cohorts will probably succumb to public pressure.

I could seduce Roger's wife and after about a month of hittin them sugar walls I could blackmail him into letting Hardy off scott free and forcing him to stay in CLT. Looks good on paper.

[blackcat]

In my eyes the only damage done to the NFL brand was through Roger Goodell's emotional reactions to the Rice, McDonald, Peterson and Hardy cases. 

 

Where there was evidence and judgement/admission of guilt there is a case for dismissal or punishment from the employer. 

 

Where the law doesn't find someone guilty, what right does an employer have to punish or fine someone?

 

The Rice situation was handled poorly, but that doesn't make what Rice did any less damaging to the image of the NFL?  Would you want the company you run be know for fostering a culture of domestic violence?  Do you not think that would affect the bottom line if everyone in the country/world knew were 'OK' with your employees beating the sh*t out of women and children?  Didn't think so.

 

An employee doesn't have to break a law in order to be punished by an employer.  People get fired everyday for say, being late, but they don't go to jail for it. 

 

It's a privilege to play in the NFL, not a right.  The NFL has the right to protect it's image and brand so it can remain a successful and profitable business. 

[Nick_81]

did you read my OP? He's looking at a 5-6 million dollar fine. Plus he sat out 17 games last season. Please explain to me how that isn't punishment.

I don't see the NFL doing it that way, but who knows.  They don't consider the exempt list as punishment, and though he sat out all but 1 game, he got paid.  They don't view that as games missed.  Not only that, his dumb ass made public what he was doing with that money.  He wasn't playing football, but he was playing other things.  A fine won't hurt him all that much, because he's most likely getting a massive deal from another team.  Wouldn't bother me that much.  "Yeah, you guys should fine me.  These guys are going to pay me $10 million+/- per year for the next 5 years, so no biggie.  Plus, I just made $13.1 million last year to make records and music videos, pay off a gold digger, post dumb poo on social media, all while you(the NFL) squirmed under the thumb of the all-mighty media.  Lesson learned guys!"

 

Suspend him though, and I think a lot of things change.

[Gin and Juice]

I still think it would be awesome for Dave to restructure CJ to free up about an extra 8 mil and turn around and slap a non-exclusive franchise tag on Hardy AGAIN! Make Drew work for some of the free money he got last year!

Or even better, NFL stepped up and said that the Tag is still valid for 15 games, being he was exempt from NFL process.

[fjblair]

Dismissing the charges does not mean he was found "not guilty". Just saying.

[Snake]

Jesus, this has become a witch hunt. The man is innocent, the DA must really not care where Holder was, the NFL already has there info and has had it for a long time, the civil suit was a settlement so there was no transcripts, and the NFL will more than likely suspended Hardy for a few games to justify the exempt list not because he was guilty. Hardy will apeal and it will be dropped.

[Gin and Juice]

Dismissing the charges does not mean he was found "not guilty". Just saying.

It's even better, it's like it never happened

[GRWatcher]

I don't think Goodell will do anything until the NFLPA's case for Peterson gets through the courts. AP was on the exempt list & then suspended when he came off of it. It went to arbitration and Peterson lost that. Now it's in court. So we might have another 2 weeks or so before we know what Goodell will do.