WhitewalkerInPhilly

Yeah. I've heard so many "the sky is falling" responses that it's confusing to me. Yes, some hard choices will have to be made, but I'm not stressing too much.

They did replace them already. Fred with Karlos and a tackling dummy for Cassel.

Doesn't shock me. If they put the bottle in someone's hand, that would be aggravated assault, and I can see that being the sticking point.

But how will the Bills move on without their veteran presences to stabilize them? #Going Rogue But seriously, this is a good sign. With carry over, we're pretty much at the cap with a number of easy calls to make. According to Spotrac, we're $909K over with our top 51 with the rollover cap before we draft. I'm going to suggest two cuts that I don't think will blow anyone away, or would seem incredibly difficult to fill on a third day draft pick or waiver wire pickup: Urbik (backup guard) Carpenter (can't hit the new extra points) That puts the Bills $1.25M over the cap after the draft. That's before even needing to debate if you want McKelvin, Graham or Lawson back, but at a lower number and you might want to restructure. That's before rolling in up to I think $7.5M if we choose to turn Clays roster bonus to a signing bonus. That's before seeing how much a pay cut Mario is willing to take. That's before we possibly sign Gilmore up long term for Talib or Byron Maxwell money, which could knock off a few million. I think Whaley has room to work.

I will say that the mayor's office has gone silence since the early days where it looked like an arrest was imminent. To me, just looking at everything, the reason why the DA hasn't filed any charges is because even if he won, he'd look bad doing so. I can't imagine any case which he could win without putting the two off duty officers on the stand, under oath. And then, at that point, things such as "how much were you drinking that night?", "did you drive under the influence before or after this event occured?", "Did you put one of the defendants into a choke hold? What's is your entire history of police brutality or excessive force complaints." And "why weren't you charged for any of the things you've been forced to admit to under oath" become fair game. No one in the city gov, not the DA, not the PPD, not the FOP want those questions asked or answered.

If he's willing to take a paycut, I don't see how we don't keep him, and I think that if the Bills were sure they didn't want him he would be gone already. Thats one fewer hole to fill in the draft.

Philly radio (at least Innes on 94.1) is raking Shady over the coals. They are really pissed that they cancel the meeting. In fairness, I would much prefer that he had just gone in, waded past some cameras and made a deal.

Especially because I looked up Disorderly Conduct, and that's probably a slam dunk. Even if Shady started off in self defense, that's not a terribly hard charge to prove.

Probably to talk about a plea. If they make an offer to some thing minor, maybe plead it down to Disorderly Conduct, a class three misdemeanor with minimal sentence, it let's Shady move on and save a bundle on legal fees and the DA gets a pound of flesh.

From what I've heard from bouncers, it doesn't matter. Once fights start to break out they can shut down an evening, and they usually don't spend much time differentiating.

Here's the part I found most interesting:

To be fair, Shady is not a shiny beacon of model behavior. There's been a pattern of being a little, well, Shady: lousy tipping, an incident with a woman on a party bus, and forays at being a raconteur (the females only party). But there is a bit of a difference between "kind of a douche" and "repeat criminal offender".

Definitely not for the kind of money he got.

He's referring to the Shady "Ladies only" party which people slammed him over last offseason. I've seen people use that to try to justify Shady's apparent guilt.

I think this is the real reason for the holdup. Shady almost assuredly threw a punch, but it sounds like the further we go, the further we get into "he said she said". With a high profile case I'm not at all shocked that the DA is taking his time.

"Tank" is a nickname for Hollis Thomas, who's been a contributor for Philly sports station 94.1, WIP for at least as long as I can remember since I moved out here about four years ago. Since then, he's been moved up to a full time part on the Josh Innes show, which is their powerhouse 2-6 home commute block. He has a rep, albeit a joking one, of being a fine conniseur of Philly nightlife, bars and strip clubs, so when the bar fight went dowm, it seemed that he started reaching out to friends and aquaintances to see if they knew what happened. Again, this is far from solid witnesses in court, but hopefully this is the context you were looking for.

To be fair, I waa listening to the program yesterday on my drive home they took a moment to talk about it. Thomas got multiple clubgoers, from different groups who said the same story. I'm pro-Shady, but it's a bad look. Still different from the DA thinking he has multiple reliable witnesses. And even so, it's still the misdemeanor assault we thought more likely.

Unless they're a QB.

Plead guilty without allocution and without admission of guilt, so Goodell has little to hang on him. Probation and a fine.

The cops pressed charges because two of their boys in blue got the worse end of it. From a political standpoint, there's no way they just let it go. The union would be calling for the chief's head and the mayor got to score some of the easiest political points of his career. Then then get to hand it off the the DA, say "good luck" and know that whatever outcome they get the glory if it suceeds and someone to blame if it doesn't. The DA, on the other hand, is not quite so lucky. And if after two weeks, no reliable witnesses are willing to come forward they'll either drop it or offer a shockingly reasonable plea.

Personally I doubt it, because if that happened, the off duty cops would not even get close to trying to press charges. At four bottles of champagne, with the way I hear the club prices it, that pushes it into Grand Larceny territory.Maybe they could file a charge, but it would screw them over harder.

Really apples and oranges. No one outside the team and fans give two sh*ts about a player being irresponsible in travel arrangements on coming back from his days off. Anything McCoy says to the public right now is evidence that could be used against him in a court of law.

And Shady's decision to change lawyers makes a ton of sense now.

Not a shock. It was brutal to watch Manning in the playoffs, and with the HGH and sexual harassment accusations looming this is the jumping off point.

I'll put it this way: 3-4 million is less than what Sammy cost his first year. Also, the way that veteran contracts are done typically have steadily increasing value. For example, Lawson's contract was $4M/year, but his cap hit season 1 waa $2.4. Also, Carpenter (master of missed PAT) and Urbik, our backup RG, each are coming in with cap savings of $1.75M. Considering all of the other holes (LB, RT, WR, S maybe) if we can plug in a decent vet to solidify the Dline, I'm for it. We can fill in backup G and K with third day picks or waver wire pickups.