I'm still quite confused. Are you criticizing African American leaders, or SAS? Or both?

That's a thankless job who is signing up for that?

How do the owners lose a nickel by firing him and replacing him with someone competent?

Huh?

Doesn't Goodell's absolute bungling of this incident demonstrate pretty clearly that the NFL has a problem dealing with domestic abuse?

"Double jeopardy" prohibits being prosecuted for the same crime twice, not being having the punishment from your employer reconsidered and increased.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I definitely don't agree that the role of PR flack should be conflated with the role of legal advocate and thus free from criticism.

Since you're an attorney, you probably realize that giving a radio interview after your client has already plead guilty and entered a diversionary program isn't the role of a lawyer, but a PR representative. He can wear that hat if he likes, but he doesn't get to hide behind his role as a lawyer to avoid being a…

His client plead guilty and was accepted into a diversionary program four days before he gave this interview. This was a PR effort, not legal representation.

This attorney was representing his client in the court of public opinion because public opinion was going to play a large part of how he was punished by the NFL. He certainly has the right to represent his client in this way, but to pretend that it is anything other than PR flackery is just disingenuous. He is a…

Thanks, bro, you've added a ton of valuable insight and I'm glad you weighed in.

He has to answer questions. He has to create a narrative.

Did you want him to go on sports radio and call his client a woman abuser?

You didn't know that this interview happened after Ray had plead guilty, did you?

being handrailed by our criminal justice system

His job is to be certain rice gets a fair trial.

Do you really not understand that the criticism is not of his defense of Rice in the courtroom, which was by all accounts appropriate and successful, but of his going on a radio show and acting like a shitty PR flack and knowingly misleading the public?

Fella, if you think there isn't a gold rope chain underneath that Joseph A. Banks shirt and tie, then you and I are very different people.

That against any sort of laws?

He wasn't acting as an attorney, he was acting as a PR rep when he went on the radio. And he's a piece of shit for doing what he did.