Because it’s about black people suggesting things that could affect white people a little bit, so she feels compelled to virtue signal to her white supremacist fanbase. Also, I believe a lot of redhats are still triggered by the mere mention of Jemele Hill after the last time she tried to ruin their SPORTZ! with (the…

(can’t you just see the glint in Bill Belichick’s eye?)

Eh, just through a fistful of fries in your glass of wooder and you’re Pittsburgh-adjacent.

I almost feel certain that the Raiders, even if they did their due diligence, assumed they were capable of dealing with him.

You’re both right. If the goal is to have Antonio Brown on the field, then the Raiders handled the situation wrong. If their goal is to have a well behaved team, then they handled it right and this is the inevitable outcome.

Is it too early for this?

“The team doesn’t look out for you. When the team is ready to move on, or they think you make too much money, or you’re not giving them what they need, they cut you or trade you like that.”

I think, more fairly, their entire position was “they handled everything well up until the point they fined him for something that they had indicated was fine, and was in the rear view mirror.”  

These are really good points. People want to think everyone should be treated equally, but there’s a mountain of evidence that “one-size-fits-all management” just doesn’t work over the long haul. At best, it sort of works in low-level fields where the labor is interchangeable and no one sticks around long enough to…

Exactly, which is why I get so frustrated with clueless fans wanting to apply blue-color work ethics to pro sports. This isn’t just apples and oranges, it’s apples and durian. You can’t expect an NFL team to treat a guy who barely missed the cut in training camp the same as a receiver who’s pulling down double-digit…

I mean you aren’t wrong, but at the same time, the Raiders knew what they were getting into when they traded for AB. Like, it’s not like he just suddenly became a semi-crazed malcontent when no one was looking. This is the guy, this is who he is.

“No, it’s bullshit. Treat everybody the same. If you’re not gonna show up for work ...”

All of these are the reasons why people who think they are smart gamblers will take the Dolphins against the spread, and the actual smart gamblers will stay the fuck away.

Tyreek had about 1600 all purpose yards and 13 TD last year. Ray Rice had 980 yards and 4 TD his last year in the league.

Random look-in at any Chiefs’ internet forum commenters in regard to any off-field issues with their players:

I feel you; it’s a real Catch-22. The arguments can really go both ways, and with the information we have, there’s no clear answer. Diana even alluded to such. Once they were unable to conclude who hurt the boy, he was basically in the clear as far as punishment from his employer.

I don’t want to carry water for the NFL’s broken and ridiculous kangaroo court, nor do I want to be carrying water for potential domestic abusers, but I am also reticent to convict and ban people from employment without hard evidence.

Pam went to Pratt art school. Highly unlikely that she’d be a conservative.

I’m all for the Raiders looking like a drunken clown show, but allowing Steelers fans to seem “right”? There’s got to be a line.

In the SEC? Somewhere around the 1948 Delta Bowl.