Rashee Rice accepts six game suspension to start the season

[BillsFan619]

 

 

https://www.espn.co.uk/nfl/story/_/id/46087680/sources-nfl-wants-rashee-rice-suspension-least-6-games

Edited August 27 by BillsFan619

[Mister Defense]

 

Rice is gone for the hardest part of their schedule.

 

Not there  for the Chargers, the Eagles, the Ravens, the Lions.

 

Those are some of the best offenses in the NFL, so the Chiefs will  likely need  to score a lot of points.

 

Glad it was not just four weeks.

 

 

 

Edited August 27 by Mister Defense

[Max Fischer]

Reckless disregard for the safety and welfare of others that led to multiple hospitalizations; fleeing the scene of your destruction and being sentenced to jail time and fines   = six games

 

Taking an illegal substance = six games

[chongli]

Helas, it was already posted here this morning:

 

 

[Big Turk]

Smack a woman get banned for life. Almost kill someone while driving recklessly, get a 6 game suspension.

 

I'm not trying to say DV is cool in any way, shape or form, but it seems like the NFL suspends based on how bad something looks publicly and the backlash they will get rather than what actually happens. 

 

If DV is a lifetime ban essentially, how is running people over with a car 6 games?? Make it make sense.

[RoscoeParrish]

1 minute ago, Big Turk said:

Smack a woman get banned for life. Almost kill someone while driving recklessly, get a 6 game suspension.

 

I'm not trying to say DV is cool in any way, shape or form, but it seems like the NFL suspends based on how bad something looks publicly and the backlash they will get rather than what actually happens. 

 

If DV is a lifetime ban essentially, how is running people over with a car 6 games?? Make it make sense.

DV isn’t a lifetime ban.

 

you have to pay attention to make sense of it.

[Big Turk]

7 minutes ago, RoscoeParrish said:

DV isn’t a lifetime ban.

 

you have to pay attention to make sense of it.

 

Ask Ray Rice how that worked out for him.

[RoscoeParrish]

19 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

Ask Ray Rice how that worked out for him.

That was 12 years ago. Things are a lot different now. 
 

The price of Bitcoin was $13 when that happened.

[YoloinOhio]

Chefs have a sad group of WR behind him and worthy. Ew

[uticaclub]

15 hours ago, Big Turk said:

 

Ask Ray Rice how that worked out for him.

Von Miller?

[90sBills]

17 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Chefs have a sad group of WR behind him and worthy. Ew

Kinda like last year. Also the year before that. 

[Bruffalo]

It should be a full season in my opinion. Reckless driving  resulting in multiple injuries and he fled the scene. The legal system and the NFL treated him preferentially based on his status as a premiere receiver on the Chiefs. If he was a practice squad guy on the Colts I bet the punitive measures would have been a lot harsher.

[Big Turk]

1 hour ago, uticaclub said:

Von Miller?

 

There were no charges pressed against him so essentially the NFL just decided to enact its own version of the law where you are guilty until proven innocent.

[Thrivefourfive]

On 8/28/2025 at 9:52 AM, Big Turk said:

 

There were no charges pressed against him so essentially the NFL just decided to enact its own version of the law where you are guilty until proven innocent.

Rice isn’t without options if he, or any player, feels the league is being unfair. And the conversation ends.. 

[NoSaint]

On 8/27/2025 at 5:30 PM, Max Fischer said:

Reckless disregard for the safety and welfare of others that led to multiple hospitalizations; fleeing the scene of your destruction and being sentenced to jail time and fines   = six games

 

Taking an illegal substance = six games

as often echoed in this…. 
 

personal liability with legal consequence vs integrity of the product in the field 

[ROCBillsBeliever]

On 8/27/2025 at 6:30 PM, Max Fischer said:

Reckless disregard for the safety and welfare of others that led to multiple hospitalizations; fleeing the scene of your destruction and being sentenced to jail time and fines   = six games

 

Taking an illegal substance (as a player for the Buffalo Bills) = six games

 

There... I fixed it for you...

[unbillievable]

Rice should start a GoFundMe. 

 

He'll get an easy million in donations. 

[4merper4mer]

On 8/28/2025 at 11:27 AM, YoloinOhio said:

Chefs have a sad group of WR behind him and worthy. Ew

And Worthy is a pipsqueak.  

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

On 8/27/2025 at 6:30 PM, Max Fischer said:

Reckless disregard for the safety and welfare of others that led to multiple hospitalizations; fleeing the scene of your destruction and being sentenced to jail time and fines   = six games

 

Taking an illegal substance = six games

The leagues substance policy has always been a joke. Completely backwards & archaic. Josh Gordon’s career ruined over Marijuana comes to mind first. I’ve always loved the way he played and I truly feel like fans were robbed of a special player. God forbid he doesn’t want to take the prescribed Oxycodone. Meanwhile, wife beaters & even murderers faced minimal repercussions because they happen to be legends. It never will make sense to me. 

[Yobogoya!]

On 8/27/2025 at 8:21 PM, Big Turk said:

 

Ask Ray Rice how that worked out for him.

 

Rice was coming off an abysmal year where he barely cracked 3 years per rush. He might have been cooked from a professional standpoint anyway, the DV video just made it so that it no longer made sense for anyone to associate with him anyway. 

 

Now, as ever, if you're a player who does something stupid you're graded on a scale about how useful you are vs how bad a thing it was that you did (or were accused of doing). 

 

On 8/28/2025 at 12:12 PM, Bruffalo said:

It should be a full season in my opinion. Reckless driving  resulting in multiple injuries and he fled the scene. The legal system and the NFL treated him preferentially based on his status as a premiere receiver on the Chiefs. If he was a practice squad guy on the Colts I bet the punitive measures would have been a lot harsher.

 

Yep, exactly. If he was a fringe player tho, the NFL likely wouldn't have to impose a suspension at all because again: teams will just waive you and forget you're there and then your career is done. A PS player won't get the benefit of preferential league treatment, cause he'll be out of the league.