Aaron Hernandez Dead

[QuantumMechanic]

No...it screws the Pats....the conviction was on appeal.Suicide send s it back to square one because of some obscure legal rule

I'm pretty sure the thing he was convicted of was irrelevant for salary cap purposes because it was for a crime that happened after his extension.

It was the crime that he just got acquitted for that mattered because that crime was before the extension. If he had been convicted it would have given NE grounds to keep the money they withheld from him (because the extension would have been invalidated).

So NE was already screwed cap-wise by the acquittal. The suicide doesn't affect NE's cap either way as I understand it.

 

[VJCPatriot]

This is really bizarre. He had been acquitted of the murder charges.

All he had to do was let his high powered attorney appeal the gun charges or reduce them. Oh well, the world will never know. The drama ends here.

 

[RichardHead]

Someone up thread made a good point that the more I think of it might make some sense. If it's true he killed Lloyd to silence him about the previous double murders, and then got off on those murder charges, it means he didn't have to kill Lloyd (who was also a friend). Maybe that reality set in. If he didn't kill Lloyd he'd be a free man (well other than the weapons charges).

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

There's no words to describe this tragedy. It's a Lose-Lose for all involved, deceased and ones living directly involved with this. Some might say he took an easy way out but he had an easy way out, too bad he didn't realize his talent that could have helped people as opposed to destroying them.

Felger: "Patriots fans cannot distance themselves from this."

Who is he talking about? Us? While we're on the subject, how do we compare with Ravens fans? You know what I'm talking about.

 

[PatsFan2]

Not trying to be funny but I hope this is the last official thread including news feeds on this guy I was really getting sick of seeing all his related news so long forever AH.

 

[VJCPatriot]

Felger is a douche bag, always has been, always will.

Nobody supported Hernandez after we found out who he really was. We fired his ass on the spot.

The Ravens on the other hand fully supported and employed the murderer all the way through his retirement.

If there was such a thing as true journalistic accountability, Felger would have lost his job years ago.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Someone up thread made a good point that the more I think of it might make some sense. If it's true he killed Lloyd to silence him about the previous double murders, and then got off on those murder charges, it means he didn't have to kill Lloyd (who was also a friend). Maybe that reality set in. If he didn't kill Lloyd he'd be a free man (well other than the weapons charges).

I'm not buying it. AH was a psychopath. By definition he is incapable of remorse.

I wouldnt be surprised to learn he was murdered.

 

[crownontherocks]

A source tells FOX25's Bob Ward that Hernandez had cut his finger and written "John 3:16" on his forehead and left a bible in his cell open to that verse

 

[Brit patriot]

One interesting piece I read stated he was being overly nice with his legal team. He had no-one there to support him, no mother, no brother, and they were like his final people who at least pretended they wanted to be there.

When the case finished, it was just D.O.C from now until death.

Now that is his own fault as he is a murderer, but one suspects that reality hit him.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Maybe not a popular opinion but to me this is the sad ending to a sad and twisted affair.
The why for the suicide?
-Sobering up/no more drugs messed with an already unfortunate state of mind?
-His GF/wife moved on with someone else and he couldn't take the news?
-Hearing of the team at the WH, knowing he could have been there instead of prison, maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back? Simply couldn't keep up the mental denial of what he did/what he wasted.
-Sobering up generated a conscience that had been dormant since around the time of the death of his father?
-Maybe just a general mental health deterioration (they say prison's battle is first and foremost a day to day mental struggle).

Again probably not a popular opinion but I'd prefer last remembrance of AH as the guy on the field making plays -- then the book closes for all time. What good comes of thinking of it another way?

 

[Fixit]

Someone up thread made a good point that the more I think of it might make some sense. If it's true he killed Lloyd to silence him about the previous double murders, and then got off on those murder charges, it means he didn't have to kill Lloyd (who was also a friend). Maybe that reality set in. If he didn't kill Lloyd he'd be a free man (well other than the weapons charges).

Except then Lloyd might've testified and Hernandez would've gotten hemmed up on a double murder. #catch22

 

[VrabelMayeWin]

Someone up thread made a good point that the more I think of it might make some sense. If it's true he killed Lloyd to silence him about the previous double murders, and then got off on those murder charges, it means he didn't have to kill Lloyd (who was also a friend). Maybe that reality set in. If he didn't kill Lloyd he'd be a free man (well other than the weapons charges).

They never would have connected Hernandez to the double murder if not for the Lloyd murder. Everything else being equal, had he not killed Lloyd he never would have been on trial for the double murder and would still be playing for the Patriots. That said, he was so messed up in the head, something probably would have happened.

 

[AzorianPats]

Maybe not a popular opinion but to me this is the sad ending to a sad and twisted affair.
The why for the suicide?
-Sobering up/no more drugs messed with an already unfortunate state of mind?
-His GF/wife moved on with someone else and he couldn't take the news?
-Hearing of the team at the WH, knowing he could have been there instead of prison, maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back? Simply couldn't keep up the mental denial of what he did/what he wasted.
-Sobering up generated a conscience that had been dormant since around the time of the death of his father?
-Maybe just a general mental health deterioration (they say prison's battle is first and foremost a day to day mental struggle).

Again probably not a popular opinion but I'd prefer last remembrance of AH as the guy on the field making plays -- then the book closes for all time. What good comes of thinking of it another way?

Just heard a report right now from WBZ that Hernandez might have smoked synthetic marijuana last night.

 

[Pats1989]

I feel sympathy for his loved ones. The ones who were innocent ( Child) among others. May God look down on them.

As for AH himself? Unfortunately I can't bring myself to shed any tears for him. He took at least one life, who knows how many others. Quite frankly if I had the choice between asking for forgiveness then taking my life OR spending a wasted life in prison, I'd pick the death part.

Hopefully this is the end of it all. No more talk about AH or what " Could've" been. Because everytime I think about his potential, I think about the Lloyd family.

 

[gatsby47]

Well I for one will not add further to the crumbling theories beginning to come to the surface. I shall wait until the Enquiror and the Globe do their own thorough though distasteful duties and release the true Conspiracy facts (alternate though they may be).Then and only then, while waiting in the Express lane, will I know enough to make a sound judgement on this. Awaiting...

 

[Dingleberry]

Next week: Aaron Hernandez, listed as Questionable with a neck injury.

Too soon?

 

[E1Downey]

Next week: Aaron Hernandez, listed as Questionable with a neck injury.

Too soon?

Nah, too late actually. Ppl were saying it this morning haha

 

[DaBronxPats14]

Felger: "Patriots fans cannot distance themselves from this."

Who is he talking about? Us? While we're on the subject, how do we compare with Ravens fans? You know what I'm talking about.

Yup I hear where your comin from without any knowledge of Felger's piece so should I take it that Felger is equivalent of same douchery WFAN Mike Francesa?

 

[DaBronxPats14]

Felger is a douche bag, always has been, always will.

Nobody supported Hernandez after we found out who he really was. We fired his ass on the spot.

The Ravens on the other hand fully supported and employed the murderer all the way through his retirement.

If there was such a thing as true journalistic accountability, Felger would have lost his job years ago.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

Someone up thread made a good point that the more I think of it might make some sense. If it's true he killed Lloyd to silence him about the previous double murders, and then got off on those murder charges, it means he didn't have to kill Lloyd (who was also a friend). Maybe that reality set in. If he didn't kill Lloyd he'd be a free man (well other than the weapons charges).

I heard there was more than that, something about Lloyd "knowing" AH was homosexual and was going to expose him...? Heard it on the radio fwiw