WhitewalkerInPhilly

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.

There is not enough plusses I can put on this. That's exactly how I see this playing out. I don't care what they arraign him on, I highly doubt that there are zero irregularities in the official statement. A good lawyer should be able to cream the aggravated assault and assaulting a police officer charges. I've read up on the aggravated assault statute for PA, and the cop provision only applies if the officer is operating in a professional capacity. Unless someone puts a bottle in Shady's hand, there is no "deadly weapon". Shady might beat the whole thing, but that means smearing cops and missing all of 2016. And then he has to deal with a suspension from the league. His contract is worth more in 2017 so missing time this year cost less than next. Simple Assault in PA is a 2nd degree misdemeanor. For a first time offender I can see a fine, probation and/or suspended sentence for a fraction of the legal fees of a full trial. He'd get a suspension and come in with fresh legs.

That's why I said it would be drastic. I personally would prefer to just take the hit and carry as much cap space as possible, but if we need a few extra mill to get Incognito and Glenn back I have no issue with a partial conversion.

Basically, cutting Urbik and redoing Gilmore's contract to Bryan Maxwell money (who was absolutely overpaid), gets us under the cap. And that's even before we get into anything drastic like cutting Mario or converting some of Clay's roster bonus to a signing bonus.

Well, the off duty officers claim that they were working off four bottles of champagne. At 2:45, when last call is around 2. So yeah, solid bet.