I'm going to have to process this. The sexual assault allegations are a big deal to me but there's enough he said/she said about it that I'm reserving judgement until we see what we see about the case.
The picture of the kids in the group chat is a lot more clear to me. It was an attempt to intimidate the woman. I highly doubt he was saying he was going to hurt her kids or anything of that nature but at the same time if I was in a civil suit with someone and they sent me a picture of my kids I would feel fear shoot through my heart. Crazy, I know, but I guess I think someone who would try to frighten a parent by showing them a picture of their kids is a genuine piece of garbage or at least having a low point in their life and behaving in a way you'd like to think they would feel bad about for forever. I don't know that Antonio actually feels that badly.
At the same time, despite being a Patriot Way denier, I do think that our football team has a plethora of high quality guys and some of them seem to genuinely like AB and they'd have a better bead on him as a person than me.
Ultimately I don't like rooting for people who are violent criminals or abusive assholes. Call me old-fashioned, I guess, but it does matter to me still to some degree. So this is an important question for me to answer because I think it's almost a given that if the NFL clears the way and if Antonio deletes his social media that he'll be back here within 2-3 weeks.