Los216
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As I posted earlier today, when the Texan DL ripped of Richie Incognito's helmet and swung it at his head, he received two preseason games and one regular season game ban. And that was not nearly as provoked as this. Let's not act like this is unprecedented. Also reminds me of when Roger Clemens threw a bat at Mike Pizza in the World Series. There were the clown takes of "assault with a deadly weapon" at that time as well, and I bet most on this board had forgotten that happened until now.
The best case may be to get it to six games TOTAL, with no playoff or 2020 ban. Let's define the ban. Indefinite seems ridicuouls considering the Incognito case which was arguably worse.
Myles was likely in "fight or flight" instinct mode when Rudolph came charging at him. Almost was a mob mentality of Steelers at that point, and that is where you actually do have a self defense argument.
I didn't forget about this but I did forget that it was a World Series game. Like the biggest game of their sport on the biggest stage with their biggest franchise in the first World Series of the 2000s. Name a bigger stage in Baseball.