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Originally Posted by Pillow Pants
No it wouldn't. Going overboard with suspensions, which takes away a troubled person's livelihood, will more than likely result in more incidents like these.
The NFL makes billions off of these players and if they really cared about them, other than the image the league has, they would spend more money on counseling and rehab instead of suspending and taking away their income.
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Couldn't disagree more.
The NFL is fiercely competitive and not at all considered a league where players are to be treated like breakable objects or children. Get injured? You're out. Lose a step? You're out. F-up playing your role on special teams? You're out.
Guys like this have no regard for the competitive nature of the sport where he should be working hard 12 months a year and obviously has other bad priorities. Guys like him are absolutely expendable. That's just the way it is.
And no group knows this better than the players.
I have a good friend who was a College All-American and a KR/WR in the NFL for 5 years. He blew out his knee in a game. How many teammates went to see him during his 4 days in the hospital? One. The hospital is about one mile from their practice facility.
A good read on this is Feinstein's
Next Man Up which is a behind the scenes look at player personnel decisions during an entire Baltimore Ravens season.