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  1. Dude, they did it in the bathroom of a packed night clud and aparently the door was open with bodyguards all around.

     

    The LAST thing that comes to my mind is "this is not ok" - to have sex with me

     

    How about:

    "this is not ok" - to have sex in this gross bathroom, do me in your limo

    "this is not ok" - to have your bodyguards around, can you make them leave

    "this is not ok" - to have the door wide open, I want to bone in private

    "this is not ok" - all my friends are around, and they will think Im a slut if we do it here, then I will claim you raped me afterwards to avoid the shame of doing it in thie gross bathroom, with all your bodyguards watching, and the door wide open!

     

    And yet he still didn't stop. And that's apparently ok with a lot of people. The reason doesn't matter. If she said stop for any reason he should have stopped. This whole idea that she didn't SPECIFICALLY say what she didn't want him to do so it's ok for him to finish is pretty messed up.

  2. I don't know what kid of guy BR is, but did anyone read the transcript? The chick couldn't remember what position she was in when she was getting it? And as far as no means no goes:

     

    'This isn't OK. We don't need to be doing this.'

     

    Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10161/10645...m#ixzz0qd4tIdYr

     

    What does that mean? Not here, not now?

     

    More than enough reasonable doubt in that transcript to give BR a pass in my book.

     

     

    Riiight... because if she says, "This isn't OK" she must just really want it.

  3. I'm not worried about Byrd "just being lucky" or anything else because he wasn't a fluke. He wasn't a guy who came out of nowhere on a good team and did something he'd never done before. He was a ballhawk coming out of college. He wasn't benefiting from a stacked team. He was successful because he is smart and knows where to be. He studies and puts himself in a position to be successful. Maybe he won't have as many INTs next year (who knows?) but he's not going to disappear either.

  4. Most of the time Kelly is talking about the team he's talking out of his ass. I'm not saying he doesn't mean well, but I'm getting a little sick of hearing from ex-players about the state of the franchise. Darryl Talley's drunken tweets are one thing, but until Kelly's "ownership group" or whatever steps up and does something I don't really care what he says publicly.

  5. I completely disagree. Trent Edwards has the swagger, and he definitely showed he can be a very good QB in this league very early in his career. The lack of an O-line and the concussions started his spiral downward, and then combine that with Dick and his theatrics (firing his O-coordinator days before the start of the season). People around here turn on a player and then everyone and their mother throws him under the bus, that's just the way this messageboard is. Trent wouldn't surprise me at all if he comes out this year as a very good QB.

     

    Don't forget either that the Bills played last season without an Offensive Coordinator. Not saying that Edwards is suddenly going to be Peyton Manning, but it should help to have someone who has had success calling plays this year.

  6. I wanted him so bad. I'm kind of glad San Francisco took him before the Bills picked though. If he'd still been there and the Bills passed on him it would have been a terrible feeling. At least this way I can chalk it up to fate instead of incompetence.

  7. So you were there and have evidence/proof of this? I'm not saying that he is guilty, or innocent, what I am saying is that he has not been convicted in a court of law, only in the public/media "court of justice".

     

    If you worked for a regular corporation, and they tried to disipline you because you were accused of something, you may have a lawsuit on your hands, or atleast a grievance with a union or labor board

     

    He hasn't been convicted in the public either. There are plenty of people defending him, but you're right in that public image is really the issue. If part of your job meant presenting a good public image for your company and you have twice been caught in a situation that presented a bad public image, then regardless of whether or not there was "enough evidence" the company has a right to discipline you.

     

    Plenty of professional athletes get laid without being accused of rape. Whether Ben did it or not he's putting himself in a very uncomfortable place for the NFL. That's the tradeoff for making millions of dollars for playing a kid's game. You have to play by their rules.

  8. Duncan said that footage showed the 20-year-old Ben Roethlisberger accuser hanging out before the alleged incident and police speaking with Ben afterward.

     

    Duncan was quick to point out, however, that the video did not show Ben and his accuser going towards the bathroom where the alleged incident took place.

    The lawyer for the club later said cops watched the video with Rocky "shortly" after the alleged incident, but they did not take the video with them at that time.

     

    Supposedly the bathroom where the alleged assault took place is fairly small. That comes from the link I posted above.

     

    Yeah, but who really knows since it's conveniently gone.

  9. It helps that the police "lost" the security tape from the night that would have shown what really happened. I'm sure that was just an accident though...

     

    Did Big Ben just evade a key legal tackle?

     

    Security camera footage from the night Pittsburgh Steelers star Ben Roethlisberger is accused of sexually assaulting a Georgia college girl is mysteriously gone.

     

    The disappearance of security footage at Capital City nightclub was reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, which claims parts of the tape have been erased.

     

    A lawyer for the club produced this explanation: "The DVD system overwrote itself ... Had it just been deleted, they might have been able to save some of it."

     

    Link

  10. Mort is wrong. The Bills are a failure on the field because Ralph makes bad hires for management positions. I'm sure Mort wouldn't say that because that would lump Donahoe in to the mess.

     

    When you hire coaches who have failed elsewhere chances are very good that they will fail again. Ralph has only hired two head coaches who could implement a program and win anywhere. Chuck Knox and Lou Saban. Otherwise mostly outright losers and a couple caretakers(Levy/Phillips).

     

    Of the six coaches since 2000, only three have been retreads (Phillips, Jauron, Gailey). The other three were first time hires (Williams, Mularkey, Fewell).

  11. But it's ok when the Jets fire Mangini after having a winning record with 2 out of 3 winning seasons, plus a playoff birth...and the Dolphins fire a head coach after one year. Having well founded criticisms is one thing, calling Ralph impatient is like calling Mort unbiased. What a jerk this guy is, unbelievable that he's still employed with this kind of hack job stuff.

     

    The difference is those decisions worked out as those teams improved dramatically when they made those moves. The Bills are on their 5th head coach in 10 years (6 if you count Fewell) and still haven't been to the playoffs. That's not the sign of a well run team and the only constant in that time has been Ralph Wilson. It's not exactly a stretch to point fingers in his direction.

     

    That said, Mortensen has been bitter about the Bills firing his friend Tom Donahoe for years. I mean the Bills have also been terrible for years, so it's not that he's entirely unjustified in slamming them, but the I think a lot of the hostility stems from Donahoe's reign as GM.

  12. I didn't see anything that specified they were talking about their rookie year only, otherwise, Jairus Byrd would be it since he led the league in INTs. I was refering to over the course of their career.

     

    Well the OP's focus is on 1st round and/or 1st picks in the draft and their ability to..well... I'll just quote it:

     

    Number one picks should be able to make an impact or contribute right away

     

    *snip list of 1st Round picks/1st picks for Bills*

     

    So Byrd being a 2nd rounder and 3rd selection by the Bills in the draft wouldn't fit either.

  13. Eric Moulds was probably the last impact player drafted #1 and that is pushing it, otherwise Bruce Smith-wow and that was 25 years ago, so sad! Erik Flower, Mike Williams and McGahee impacted the franchise, but not in a good way.

     

     

    Going back to the OP it seems like we're defining impact player as a player "able to make an impact or contribute right away." Moulds was considered by some to be a bust until he finally broke out in his third year. Over his first 2 seasons he only started 13 games and caught 49 passes and 2 TDs.

     

    Based on the definition alone Lynch is probably the closest since he was a 1000 yard rusher as a rookie.

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