NFL Off-Season Thread

[Los216]

So in the absolute BEST-CASE scenario the Bills knowingly kept a player who admitted to police he had sex with and most likely gave an STD to an underage girl?

Yes. Best case scenario for the beloved Buffalo Bills.

 

[Los216]

 

[Vee-Rex]

Just curious, which player is this from the Bengals' side?

As mentioned Jackson Carman who they drafted in 2021. They knew that he was accused of raping a 15 year old who actually went to the police and filed a report right after the alleged incident. The Bengals pretended like it was irrelevant too, with Zac Taylor hand-waving it off when asked.

The Browns have a stigma of ineptitude unlike any other NFL franchise. Not even the Lions get as much ridicule. So when we acquire problematic players, it seems the general NFL community (fans and media) view it as an act of desperation which tends to paint the entire acquisition in a worse light. Like we're selling our souls. Whether consciously or subconsciously, I just don't think the fans and media go as hard at other teams for similar moves as they do ours. But that's just my opinion.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Araiza should be put on the commissioner's exempt list immediately.

 

[Cement]

Didn't the Browns once draft a guy who was in prison? Or on his way to prison? Good times, good times.

Jeremiah Pharms. Good times.

 

[Los216]

Araiza should be put on the commissioner's exempt list immediately.

But all we keep hearing is that it's the teams call. Most people are just expecting BUF to handle it and not even pushing for the league to step in like they were for us on multiple occasions.

 

[CBBI]

Araiza should be put on the commissioner's exempt list immediately.

Yep.

Watson should have been put on the commissioners exempt list in 2021 as well to be clear. The fact that he wasn't was an egregious mistake by the NFL in retrospect.

 

[Bob_The_Cat]

Yep.

Watson should have been put on the commissioners exempt list in 2021 as well to be clear. The fact that he wasn't was an egregious mistake by the NFL in retrospect.

Honestly a mistake by Watson, too. Had he not made the public demands saying he wasn’t going to play for Houston or just showed up to practice, the team/league would’ve been forced to do something.

 

[bob2the2nd]

Honestly a mistake by Watson, too. Had he not made the public demands saying he wasn’t going to play for Houston or just showed up to practice, the team/league would’ve been forced to do something.

Watson got paid last year for not showing up. Why was it a mistake on his part

 

[Bob_The_Cat]

Watson got paid last year for not showing up. Why was it a mistake on his part

Sat out, took no suspension, didn’t settle cases, which let new people come forward. He potentially could’ve avoided suspension all together this year.

 

[Ohio]

I haven’t looked it up, but I wonder if the rules have changed since the new PC policy?
Bills will likely cut him and it'll be a non issue until (if) he’s completely cleared

This must be the case because literally everyone is saying the NFL can't suspend him because it happened while he was in College.

Interesting rule change there. NFLPA must have pushed for that.

 

[Los216]

 

[Kbiz]

The Bills and Bengals were two of the most popular choices for Browns fans that ditched their fandom. I wonder if they’ll still root for those teams knowing that both knowingly drafted players accused of raping minors.

Makes sense. The Bengals have never had a sketchy player on their roster.

The Bengals' record includes:

• Eight arrests involving reported attacks on women since 2000, according to media databases that track NFL player arrests.
• A league-leading number of arrests and citations between 2000 and 2009.
• A claim by a former player's abused wife that the Bengals advised her to call club officials -- not the police -- when her husband attacked her so the club could avoid bad publicity.

It also shows when top players were accused of attacking women, the Bengals kept them on the team. Lesser players were dismissed, but sometimes later rather than sooner.

In 2006, the Bengals drafted a player who had been accused of sexual assault five months earlier and allowed him to remain on the team for a year while he had two more arrests.

After the Bengals drafted Mixon last week, Lewis said the Oklahoma running back, who was 18 when he punched a 20-year-old woman and broke four bones in her face three years ago, deserved a second chance.

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Fans are hypocrites.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Fans are hypocrites.

I think several NFL fans only take hard stands that benefit their own franchise, and more passive NFL watchers just don't remember what happened before, only what's in their Twitter or Tik-Tok feed today.

 

[Chris]

Baker looks good