I don’t see how the league can get involved in civil court settlements. If there is no trial, there is no evidence. Even if there is a trial, it’s not like a criminal case with guilt or innocence. It will simply be a judgement made based on testimony (not necessarily proof - it’s more of a he said / she said thing).
Anyone can come out and accuse anyone else of all sorts of things. You don’t want the league getting involved in non criminal activity.
Kraft is the last person who should be evaluating someone else’s actions.
Also.
All Brady needs is another capable wide receiver. How many shut outs will he get this year. Another record for him
^ shut outs are about defense
^^ Their defense was awesome yesterday. Not sure how much of that was Miami just being a lousy team. We’ll find out soon enough.
The NFL is all powerful and sticks its nose in all the time. There are a lot of legal activities that the league bans its players from - gambling, some drugs (marijuana), endorsing products the league doesn’t want endorsed, not paying debts.
The league has disciplined players who were found innocent of charges for actions they may or may not have done. Many players have been disciplined for domestic abuse when there were no criminal charges made or when they were successful in fighting the charges.
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@twoinanddone That’s true, the league does weigh in on civil allegations. Goodell does a poor job, in my opinion, of maintaining any type of consistency. When someone settles outside of court, typically with no admission of guilt, I don’t see how they can weigh in. They will but I would think they’d be subjecting themselves to issues.
BTW I’m a Pats fan and am not a fan of AB joining the team or AB in any form. I can’t stand him and his attitude but that’s for another thread.
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Ok, I’m confused. Isn’t THIS THREAD about exactly that???
Antonio Brown’s stint with the Patriots was very short lived.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/sport/antonio-brown-released-by-the-patriots/index.html
Presumably, you are aware that the Patriots have cut Brown?
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27662788/brown-pats-cut-wr-amid-field-allegations
Good! And shame on Bill Belicheck for being such an evasive jerk about this when asked.
Yep. And the Pats are on solid ground, according to ESPN, because Brown did not disclose the other woman’s complaint before he signed his Pats contract. Any signing bonus money could be down the drain.
This guy is deplorable and allegedly dangerous. Stupid is as stupid does. I say allegedly but the fact that he texted his accuser when expressly told not to by the NFL reeks of guilt. He is a danger to women.
To be clear, down the drain as in AB likely ain’t gonna get. The first part of the $9M signing bonus is due to be paid 9/23.
It’s a personnel matter, or was at the time the questions were asked. I actually think it is respectful of Belichick and the Patriots not to announce that Brown was released to the press before they told Brown/his agent. My understanding is that Brown was at practice today, and the press conference was during or immediately after practice.
I was watching A Lifetime of Sundays (very good documentary, BTW) on the NFL network when they broke into it with ‘breaking news’, the texts were flying, the sports reporters for the Patriots didn’t know much.
Good. Hope no AB here.
@ucbalumnus, I’m guessing he was responding to post #28. 
2 threads were merged.
^^^^That explains it!
I must have missed something. In today’s news, it said this is the third team that has parted ways with Antonio Brown in 7 months. What were the others…and why? This didn’t raise a red flag?