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Post by blny on Nov 30, 2018 21:22:27 GMT -5
Following an incident in February 2018, a subsequent team-led investigation in which they claim Kareem lied during questioning, and today's release of security footage, the Chiefs have released Kareem Hunt. The league has placed him on the Commissioner's Exemption List, which I presume means he can't sign with another team. For the uninitiated, Hunt's one of the best multi-purpose players in the league. Upon first reading of the incident involving a woman, I interpreted it as him doing something akin to what Ray Rice did to his S/O a couple of years ago. TMZ released the video, and called it "brutalizing". I've watched it a couple of times now. I see an argument in a hall between a number of drunk men and women. One woman gets in his face. While an unidentified male tries to keep them separated, he shoves her. She and her friends get quite aggressive; invading personal space, etc. Later on in the clip, Hunt shoves another male who falls into the woman he shoved. As she's collecting herself, he kicks her in the foot. As far as I'm concerned, none of what is in the video resembles in the slightest the events involving Rice. To portray it as something similar is shabby. It's hard to tell whether this took place outside his room or not. He should have gone in and left the situation. I'd be shocked if the events captured in the video lead to charges. I see a number of people being stupid. Of note, there's a larger male that appears to grab a cellphone from a female. I assume she was recording video, and he wanted to delete it. That would be the only charge imo. That's theft of someone's property. The Chiefs' announcement implies the release is as much about Kareem lying to the team as it is the incident itself. www.tmz.com/category/tmzsports/ |
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Post by franko on Nov 30, 2018 22:24:34 GMT -5
he was charged, she was charged, the charges wiped each other out (like pass interference charges on the O and on the D).
there was reputed to be some offensive language used (slurs) somewhere in there.
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Post by blny on Dec 1, 2018 10:47:02 GMT -5
he was charged, she was charged, the charges wiped each other out (like pass interference charges on the O and on the D). there was reputed to be some offensive language used (slurs) somewhere in there. LOL at the charges wiping each other out. I'm glad authorities didn't turn a blind eye to her actions. She was beyond aggressive and belligerent. I still hold that the worst thing in the video was the guy that took the phone. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Dec 3, 2018 10:08:54 GMT -5
Mike McCarthy is gone from Green Bay ... I was surprised they didn't wait until the end of the season, but at the same time I'd have thrown his butt out of GB right after they blew their last chance at another Super Bowl in Seattle a few years back ... it was right after that game when I first started hearing about a possible rift between Aaron Rodgers and McCarthy ... GB is due for a change in thinking and this will, hopefully, facilitate that ...
Cheers.
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Post by blny on Dec 3, 2018 11:51:10 GMT -5
Mike McCarthy is gone from Green Bay ... I was surprised they didn't wait until the end of the season, but at the same time I'd have thrown his butt out of GB right after they blew their last chance at another Super Bowl in Seattle a few years back ... it was right after that game when I first started hearing about a possible rift between Aaron Rodgers and McCarthy ... GB is due for a change in thinking and this will, hopefully, facilitate that ... Cheers. I think Rodgers has been carrying a team short on talent for a while now. Nelson hasn't been replaced - he was a favorite target. They're not a great running team. New blood, new ideas. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Dec 3, 2018 12:22:27 GMT -5
Mike McCarthy is gone from Green Bay ... I was surprised they didn't wait until the end of the season, but at the same time I'd have thrown his butt out of GB right after they blew their last chance at another Super Bowl in Seattle a few years back ... it was right after that game when I first started hearing about a possible rift between Aaron Rodgers and McCarthy ... GB is due for a change in thinking and this will, hopefully, facilitate that ... Cheers. I think Rodgers has been carrying a team short on talent for a while now. Nelson hasn't been replaced - he was a favorite target. They're not a great running team. New blood, new ideas. The team has been marking time ever since they won SB XLV ... I was really surprised the Packers held onto Dom Capers as long as they did ... the year after they won the SB the team gave up 300 yrds (+) in offence every single week ... that carried over into the following season and Capers still had a job ... I won't mention the secondary until they get a decent pass rush and I'm hesitant talking about the running game until they get a decent front line ... they may, however, want to scout out a suitable replacement QB if, in the event, Aaron Rodgers goes down (again) ... that has killed GB for years ... one thing they did change, though, was having their full-contact practices the day before their games ... that was supposed to reduce the number of injuries in the lineup but those injuries still piled up ... who knows, maybe a different approach to business might sort that out ... dunno ... Cheers. |
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Post by Skilly on Dec 12, 2018 10:03:42 GMT -5
he was charged, she was charged, the charges wiped each other out (like pass interference charges on the O and on the D). there was reputed to be some offensive language used (slurs) somewhere in there. LOL at the charges wiping each other out. I'm glad authorities didn't turn a blind eye to her actions. She was beyond aggressive and belligerent. I still hold that the worst thing in the video was the guy that took the phone. Call it want you want ... he literally kicked a woman when she was down. That's abuse of some form or fashion. What I find hypocritical, is not the comparison to Ray Rice (The NFL made stricter "detriment to the league" policies because of Ray Rice) it's the lack of comparison to Ezekiel Eliott. Eliott was suspended for 6 games based completely on circumstantial evidence. There was no smoking gun (like here), the woman involved recanted her testimony, and the NFL's investigator recommended no disciplinary action against Eliott. But the commissioner suspended him because there was enough evidence to suggest something happened, and even though they couldn't quite put it together to fit a "beyond a reasonable doubt", they didn't have to. So in Hunt's case, they knew something happened in February. Brushed it off saying that "the police and the hotel wouldn't release the video". Really? A mutli-billion dollar organization can't get the video, when they knew there was some video footage, but TMZ can? The NFL that employees investigators and lawyers up the wazoo can't get the video, but TMZ can with a little cash payment? So the NFL, who admit they tried to get the video, knew something happened, but fell back into the "well we don't know what, and it isn't right to suspend without proof" stance ... but they went out guns ablazing after Eliott. The NFL never seems to get these right. Too lax, too tough, too lax .... merry-go-round |
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