Doc Brown

I wonder in general how many calls teams get each year from lawyers warning them of potential accusations against players. How common is it? How seriously do they take it knowing they have employees making millions of dollars? Should the Bills beef up their legal staff so something like this doesn't happen in the future? One other question I have is how thorough was Beane/McDermott in asking Araiza about the lawyer's phone call? Did they ask him why he didn't bring it up in the pre draft interview as I assume it's part of the vetting process before they draft a guy? They have to alter their procedures to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.

That's the benefit of being "Jane Doe." Ashley Solsis reported death threats against her after her Watson accusations. Can you please explain Antonio Brown for me?

Money

Belichick pry made the whole team vote for Mac Jones.

He'd be a huge upgrade from Bojo and Haack. I'd offer a late round pick for him or Howard if they're desperate at TE.

Think they'll notice if we sign Araiza to the practice squad?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/05/inside-the-top-100-voting-process/ “All players are given the opportunity to vote through ballots we send to all 32 teams around Thanksgiving,” NFL Network spokesman Alex Riethmiller told PFT via email. “For convenience sake, we try to time it with Pro Bowl balloting, so they can do them together. In addition to ballots collected that way, we also give ballots to many of the players that we interview for our shows. This year, in total, we received 481 votes.”

He had a better 2020 regular season and the votes are conducted before the playoffs.

Their coaching staff witnessed him against our defense last year.

If he didn't understand what was coming he would've played Araiza Friday night. This could've been a lot worse.

Not to make light of the situation but reflecting on things..... If you told me to guess a month ago what Matt on the roster would be exclusively punting in our final preseason game. Barkley wouldn't have been my guess.

A reality nonetheless though.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/08/26/did-the-bills-know-about-the-allegations-against-matt-araiza-when-drafting-him/ The league should want them to cut him, if the Bills (or the league) think that the allegations are credible and more likely than not accurate. If this had happened after Araiza had been drafted, he’d likely be headed for paid leave while the criminal process continues — instead of 13 days from making his official debut on NBC in the first regular-season game of the year. Given that it transpired six months before he entered the NFL, the only way to keep him off the field is to remove him from the team.

This has been discussed at length already but the NFL couldn't do that because the incident happened before he was drafted.

I didn't see this press conference but yesterday's reporters at the McDermott press conference did a great job.

He looked so uncomfortable he may have been hoping for "13 seconds" questions.

Which is why I was advocating for them to cut him yesterday so they wouldn't be put in this position. The Bills BOTCHED this big time.

Glad you brought up a piece of legislation passed through Congress and not through an executive order. Again, PPP loans were only offered because the government shut down the country and in the legislation there were conditions laid out that if met would lead to loan forgiveness. A lot different than choosing to take out a student loan. I didn't vote for Trump and never will. There's a lot of swing voters (not MAGA cult people) who look at this student debt forgiveness and realize what it is. A regressive transfer of wealth and a slap in the face to those who sacrificed to pay off their student loans who now feel like suckers. It's even worse in that it's a one time payment that does nothing to address the underlying problem.

It's a weird argument as the whole reason for PPP loans was to try and keep businesses afloat when they shut the country down due to Covid. They didn't have a choice while student loan borrowers did. They're basically grasping at straws making that argument.

There's going to be a large contingency of Bills fans who will sour on them for this fact alone. Cutting him tomorrow won't change that but it's better than keeping him.

You said rape.

He didn't say that. Let's be adults about this.

Bills knew about this and cut Haack anyways. Their reputation already took a hit whether they keep him or cave to the mob.

No and that feeling of unfairness is why this will blow up in the Dems faces. Throwing a bone to the progressives in hopes of increased youth turnout for the midterms. All this policy is is a one-time cancellation program that leaves in tact the underlying structures that led to the problem in the first place. Congress needs to get together to fix this to prevent more cancellation programs down the line.