Rumor: Dez Bryant "Ray Rice-style" video coming out

[Mr. Miyagi]

Dez Bryant’s entire NFL career could be in jeopardy if the video he allegedly appears in is as bad as it sounds. The clip of Bryant doing something ‘Ray Rice-worthy’ that has reportedly stalled his contract negations with the Dallas Cowboys, is set for an imminent release.

If this thing exists, he's done for in this day and age.

http://seattle.suntimes.com/nfl/7/72...video-released

[Night Train]

I heard there's goats, midgets, nuns and a large rye bread.

[swiper]

Nothing surprising anymore.

[DraftBoy]

I heard there's goats, midgets, nuns and a large rye bread.

If it involves midgets then Lecter is going to be in there somewhere.

[Skooby]

Who knows if it's simply a fleecing of Dez or reality.

[Historian]

Sorry, I will not believe it until Skooby verifies it with his sources!

[Night Train]

Sorry, I will not believe it until Skooby verifies it with his sources!

He's having a cafe latte with Pat Moran and Joe Logan.

[Forward_Lateral]

Hopefully it's bogus. I hate the Cowboys as much as anyone, but Dez is one of the best players in the NFL, and the NFL has had enough black eyes this past season. Doesn't need anymore.

My guess is it's someone trying to extort money from Dez

[stuckincincy]

Send in the clowns...

Members of Congress to Goodell: Dock draft picks for domestic violence
By Jared Dubin | CBSSports.com staff February 24, 2015 2:49 pm ET

"According to the Associated Press, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Representative Jackie Speier of California recently wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in which they asked him to clarify whether teams can lose draft picks if they do not properly address domestic violence."...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...estic-violence

[OpIv37]

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Send in the clowns...

Members of Congress to Goodell: Dock draft picks for domestic violence
By Jared Dubin | CBSSports.com staff February 24, 2015 2:49 pm ET

"According to the Associated Press, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Representative Jackie Speier of California recently wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in which they asked him to clarify whether teams can lose draft picks if they do not properly address domestic violence."...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...estic-violence

That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. First, it punishes the entire team and their fans for the actions of one individual. Second, when guys commit domestic violence, they are angry and irrational. They are not going to pull their hand back to hit a chick and suddenly think "wait a minute, if I do this we will lose a draft pick" because they are not in that frame of mind.
It punishes the wrong people and is not an effective deterrent.

And they are trying to put it back on the team when discipline for these offenses has always been handled at the league level.

[Skooby]

Sorry, I will not believe it until Skooby verifies it with his sources!

I think it's a fleecing but haven't heard anything about this really.

[Mr. Miyagi]

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That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. First, it punishes the entire team and their fans for the actions of one individual. Second, when guys commit domestic violence, they are angry and irrational. They are not going to pull their hand back to hit a chick and suddenly think "wait a minute, if I do this we will lose a draft pick" because they are not in that frame of mind.
It punishes the wrong people and is not an effective deterrent.

And they are trying to put it back on the team when discipline for these offenses has always been handled at the league level.

They're trying to make the teams accountable for drafting players without character concerns. The trouble is, it's not easy to tell who is going to go off. Ray Rice seemed like a good dude for a few years until he decked the girl.

[OpIv37]

They're trying to make the teams accountable for drafting players without character concerns. The trouble is, it's not easy to tell who is going to go off. Ray Rice seemed like a good dude for a few years until he decked the girl.

And there are also guys who have "character concerns" in college that never get in trouble in the NFL. It's holding teams accountable for something they have little to no control over, and possibly costing someone a million dollar career for doing something dumb when they were 21 or younger (not to mention some of those guys could make the league millions....).

This is nothing but a PR move, so these congressmen and the league can show the public that they are tough on domestic violence. It will have no effect whatsoever on the amount of domestic violence.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

I don't know. The league's goal is clearly trying to weed out all of these shady characters that tarnish the image to sponsors. Since they can not out right target individuals, the are trying to force employers not hiring them, i.e. the bahvior of these individuals are tied to the punishmenet of their direct employers.

[Mr. Miyagi]

And there are also guys who have "character concerns" in college that never get in trouble in the NFL. It's holding teams accountable for something they have little to no control over, and possibly costing someone a million dollar career for doing something dumb when they were 21 or younger (not to mention some of those guys could make the league millions....).

This is nothing but a PR move, so these congressmen and the league can show the public that they are tough on domestic violence. It will have no effect whatsoever on the amount of domestic violence.

The government should first of all stay out of the way of this. How is this a Congress issue? They have real issues that they need to spend time on.

Secondly, I agree punishing the team is way off the mark. Imagine the company you work for gets fined a million dollars when Bob from Accounting went stupid and got a DUI over the weekend. How could the company know Bob was going to be so stupid? The best they can do is discipline Bob after the fact. It's not the company's fault.

[DraftBoy]

The government should first of all stay out of the way of this. How is this a Congress issue? They have real issues that they need to spend time on.

Secondly, I agree punishing the team is way off the mark. Imagine the company you work for gets fined a million dollars when Bob from Accounting went stupid and got a DUI over the weekend. How could the company know Bob was going to be so stupid? The best they can do is discipline Bob after the fact. It's not the company's fault.

Congress has control due to the tax exempt status.

I dont agree with their stance at all, but they do have a very influential piece to control the NFL with, if they could ever all agree on anything.

[chernobylwraiths]

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That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. First, it punishes the entire team and their fans for the actions of one individual. Second, when guys commit domestic violence, they are angry and irrational. They are not going to pull their hand back to hit a chick and suddenly think "wait a minute, if I do this we will lose a draft pick" because they are not in that frame of mind.
It punishes the wrong people and is not an effective deterrent.

And they are trying to put it back on the team when discipline for these offenses has always been handled at the league level.

I don't see it as a bad idea at all. But how I read it was, teams would lose draft picks, the the teams don't "properly address domestic violence and sexual assault". To me that means, if a team knows its superstar athlete or coach abuses someone and the team knows about it and does nothing, they would lose draft picks. What is wrong with that?

[Historian]

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They are not going to pull their hand back to hit a chick and suddenly think "wait a minute, if I do this we will lose a draft pick"

Pretty funny if you think of it in those terms, lol.

[Historian]

And there are also guys who have "character concerns" in college that never get in trouble in the NFL. .

Eric Moulds.

[EricStratton]

I don't see it as a bad idea at all. But how I read it was, teams would lose draft picks, the the teams don't "properly address domestic violence and sexual assault". To me that means, if a team knows its superstar athlete or coach abuses someone and the team knows about it and does nothing, they would lose draft picks. What is wrong with that?

That was my thought as well.

If teams are willfully turning a blind eye to violence then they should be held accountable.

Fines and draft picks are the only way to do that.