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Wayne Arnold

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  1. Cue the deer

     

     

    Awesome! I loved that movie as a kid but feel like I'm the only one who knows it.

     

     

    what the heck is this "release the deers" and is it related to "ground up, freezer" that is popping up in this thread?

     

    It's from the early 90's Chevy Chase movie Funny Farm. A married couple move from the city into the country and have a rough time with the transition.

     

    The "cue the deer" scene is near the end of the movie when they're desperately trying to sell their house in order to move back into the city and are using various tricks to make their home look better than it is to prospective buyers.

  2. Nahhhh, based on your standards, if you do your job in a mediocre fashion (but with a "chip on your shoulder" type persona), you get a call from Canton or at least media hounds asking for an interview because you are so "distant and misunderstood". He's a walking sideshow and the quicker people see through the rough exterior, the quicker we'll see his legend collapse.

     

    If you think Lynch was mediocre then you're beyond help and we have nothing left to discuss here.

     

    :cry: really hoping this post was an attempt at sarcasm.

     

    Nice retort.

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    Nice stats but he's no HOFer.

    Of course he's a Hall of Famer.

     

    Marshawn played for about as long as any running back in the NFL should be playing and likely will be playing going forward considering the injuries players of that position suffer (especially to the head). He will absolutely be in Canton.

  4. It seems strange that no where in the article do they quote or even ask Ragland what he thinks of the offer of this "mentor". Nor does anyone on the Bills comment on it.

     

    Seems like Scott is interjecting himself here and promoting himself as a "consultant for Morgan Stanley's Global Sports and Entertainment division".

     

    I'm guessing the Bills coaching staff isn't interested.

     

    He's a Jets homer. Always trashing the Bills on CBS. I don't trust him.

  5. we truly don't know what he will do in this scheme or how healthy he is, so it is a possibility he could contribute. He's got further to climb than others though because he wasn't at otas and he makes a solid paycheck that I'm sure they would love to allocate elsewhere.

     

    I thought Chris Williams played better at tackle than at guard in St. Louis. Maybe he will be our starting RT if Kouandjio and Henderson can't step up.

  6. You have 90 professional athletes on one team. Not every one of them is going to be the type of person you'd want your son to grow up being or your daughter to marry.

     

    Gravitate toward the Fred Jackson's if you'd like and appreciate players like him more but Freddy and Kyle Williams are not the norm.

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    Yea, it's the dissecting of every throw or play. It got so bad last year wasn't Joe B saying something about Manuel hanging his head or something. I appreciate the media reporting on TC being an out of towner but not when they inject their opinions into the reporting. You can tell it's going to be bad this year with the over analysis of off-season workouts.

     

    I asked Sal C about if he would be Pericoping any of the practices and apparently it's against NFL policy. I wonder if they'll keep fans from doing it.

     

    I don't think it's the reporting that is as much an issue as the fan/public reaction to those reports.

     

    You have to know how to take the reports depending on the personality and reporting history of each media member. Each need to be taken with a grain of salt and analyzed collectively - not individually. Many fans will take one single tweet/report from one single reporter and blow it completely out of proportion.

  8. In the opinion of the prosecutor, the drunkard committed no crime.

     

    "In the wide discretion of prosecutor Wille Meggs, those arguments have fallen flat.

     

    Via the Tallahassee Democrat, Meggs believes that Johnson initiated the contact with the woman, and that the woman was acting in self-defense. She will face no charges.

     

    “A person’s entitled to use self-defense if they’re being battered by someone else, and she certainly was entitled to do what she did,” Meggs said. “She didn’t commit a crime is the reason she’s not charged with a crime.”"

     

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  9. I'm not asking for your opinion on what the state of the law is. I'm asking if you see a moral distinction between the leniency you allow a woman and that which you allow a similarly situated male, and if so why.

     

    I've intentionally kept away from the moral perspective in this thread because it's so relative and that's where the emotions come into play. If I was forced to answer your question I would say yes because men are generally bigger and stronger than women. But that isn't always the case so as always it should come down to contextual circumstances.

  10. Why you give a female more leniency than you would a similarly situated male.

     

    Well, first of all why would you assume that? Has there been another situation similar to this one where the victim was male and I did not defend him similarly?

     

    Secondly, thanks to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, men and women are not always looked at as equals in the eyes of the law. I don't even think that applies in this case but that would be a reason for leniency in other similar cases.

  11. He's offended by causality. DeAndre decked her because she called him an N and hit him in the face. That is the story as we know it.

     

    Whether he was justified in decking her is a different matter which many people participating in this thread cannot seem to separate from DeAndre's motive.

     

    But we don't know that she called him anything.

     

    All we know is what we see on the video. Outside of that we're just speculating and/or making stuff up.

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    In general, I see most people here as saying "Johnson did something wrong" and "girl, independent of anything Johnson did, did something wrong" which I view as correct.

    I will say that the words "you have a pretty good case of self defense IMO" seems pretty close to saying "the girl deserved to get punched"?

     

    But perhaps the confusion results from the person posting not understanding the legal concept of "self defense"? I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding, the concept hinges on imminent threat of bodily harm for which less forceful responses are not reasonably available. That's the whole "if someone threatens you on your front lawn and you can reasonably run inside, lock your door, and call police, you don't get to haul out a gun and shoot them and claim self defense, but if they grab a tire iron, smash in your door, and enter the house whilst police are enroute, you can" bit?

     

    "If the threat involves deadly force, the person defending themselves can use deadly force to counteract the threat. If, however, the threat involves only minor force and the person claiming self-defense uses force that could cause grievous bodily harm or death, the claim of self-defense will fail."

     

    Yeah, the girl did something wrong, but to assert "you have a pretty good case of self defense" as the post to which you're responding did, seems to me to come pretty close to saying the girl "had it coming to her" because she used "deadly force", no? I for one have trouble thinking "deadly force" about a girl tid-bit sitting on a bar stool throwing a wild punch at a football player who already has ahold of one of her arms.

     

    Yeah, I tend to be leary of anyone who starts a post with "He decked her because she..."

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