Oswlek
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It appears as if the only lesson learned by the league from the Ray Rice debacle is "take more time during investigations."
Of course, that's a reasonable takeaway if given proper context. When it's the offseason and allegations serious, it is important to get all the facts and react accordingly. When it's the week before the most important game, the allegations involve one of the participants and the entire issue of trivial consequence, it makes much more sense to act swiftly and move on. What could they possibly still be investigating at this point? Stretching things out only exacerbates the issue and lends credence to all the nonsense being bandied about. And every single person on the planet could have told you this beforehand, aside from Rog, apparently
Hopefully it is just incompetence because the alternative is that there are forces within the league itself that want to knock NE down a peg.
I'm proud of Bill for taking a stand and the reversals on the part of a few media members since then hopefully are a harbinger of this thing finally dying out.
Of course, that's a reasonable takeaway if given proper context. When it's the offseason and allegations serious, it is important to get all the facts and react accordingly. When it's the week before the most important game, the allegations involve one of the participants and the entire issue of trivial consequence, it makes much more sense to act swiftly and move on. What could they possibly still be investigating at this point? Stretching things out only exacerbates the issue and lends credence to all the nonsense being bandied about. And every single person on the planet could have told you this beforehand, aside from Rog, apparently
Hopefully it is just incompetence because the alternative is that there are forces within the league itself that want to knock NE down a peg.
I'm proud of Bill for taking a stand and the reversals on the part of a few media members since then hopefully are a harbinger of this thing finally dying out.
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