PATRIOTS NEWS Peppers arrested for bad stuff [update: placed on exempt list]

[Mack Herron]

 

[TheRainMaker]

Remember the Duke lacrosse team? The media thought they we guilty.... until it turned out they weren't.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Saw that one coming from a mile away...

Never mind the drug allegations, as soon as dv was involved it was inevitable.

Pep man, this goes without saying, what the **** were you thinking... Rhetorical because he couldn't have been

Cocaine can cause impulsivity and reduced inhibition. It also disrupts activity in the pre-frontal cortex leading to impaired decision making. His pre-frontal cortex could not have been impressive to begin with, given that many of the choices that led him to this point were made while sober. Hopefully money and influence can get him out of it (it usually works well for the more minor stuff), and he will learn.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Remember the Duke lacrosse team? The media thought they we guilty.... until it turned out they weren't.

The Duke affair was a racially charged hit job by the media. This case does not have that favorite element of theirs, so all will go according to plan. Money will make the woman reluctant to testify or retract altogether. He'll plea to minor, reduced charges and be back with the Patriots next year (if not this year, if the case dissolves). Of course if BB were here, he'd be gone. We'll see what the Kraft's standards are nowadays.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

From what I recall, the player (assuming he is under contract to a team) must agree to be placed on it. The tl;dr is that the player gives up the ability to practice and attend games, but in return they guarantee they get their salary.

It is not clear to me why he "won't be around" for a while, as the exempt list does not prohibit a player from attending meetings, seeing team doctors, or participating in workouts.

How the Exempt/Commissioner's Permission List works

Until the past week or so, few new what the NFL's Exempt/Commissioner's Permission List was. But with the Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy cases bringing the roster exemption to the fore, here's a more detailed explanation.

www.cbssports.com

Jabrill Peppers placed on NFL Commissioner's Exempt List

Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers has been placed on the Commissioner's Exempt List on Wednesday, following his arrest over the weekend for assault and battery and drug possession.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Of course if BB were here, he'd be gone. We'll see what the Kraft's standards are nowadays.

Julian Edelman was arrested in 2011 for sexual assault. At that point, he was just a ST guy, and could've been cut. And yet he wasn't.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Julian Edelman was arrested in 2011 for sexual assault. At that point, he was just a ST guy, and could've been cut. And yet he wasn't.

If memory serves, the evidence was thin, Edelman strongly denied the allegations consistently right from the start, and the case evaporated shortly thereafter. I’m not saying that BB always cut people on arrest, but the Peppers case doesn’t appear to be similar to Edelman’s. It’s also true that BB might think Peppers so central to the team that’d he be slower to jettison him.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

RK says he'll dump him if allegations are true. I think the little bit of coke powder added another layer to this case.

 

[Brotherblues]

Julian Edelman was arrested in 2011 for sexual assault. At that point, he was just a ST guy, and could've been cut. And yet he wasn't.

Peppers had a battered woman with her face smashed sitting on his front door and witnesses that heard a confrontation.

This was Edelman's case: