the news. If you haven't heard, I'll tell you Adams, has been
charged with a crime now. Initially, it was reported by
the Associated. Press as a misdemeanor assault charge
in, Missouri for shoving
the ESPN freelancer for Monday Night Football, to the ground.
We've talked about that already this week.
It ended up being a city ordinance violation, which has
half of the maximum jail time, not a year but 180 days, none
of that matters, folks. He's not going to jail for this.
This Charge was filed because charges were pressed. We've
seen that all the time. We've heard that throughout our
lives,
are you going to press charges?
Yes. Well, their hands are tied at that point. When the victim
of an assault wants to press charges and the definition of
assault is very broad. What we saw
was an assault and there are allegedly were injuries, not
serious injuries apparently but injuries that were inflicted
when that man was shoved to the ground and for good reason,
I mean,
he's how do you even brace? Your fall in that situation?
Got a backpack on? Yeah, it's possible.
If not likely, you're going to get injured when you get shoved
to the Round by professional football player. So
the charge has been filed, it will proceed there, surely will
be civil, litigation absent, a settlement, and there should
be, you know, all these people out here, who are criticizing
this guy for filing, a police report and for potentially
seeking compensation, from Davante Adams, they would be
the first ones to put on the neck collar and show up
the next day saying, I want mine, if it happened to them, it
always drives me crazy. The same people who
rant and Rave about lawyers. I hate lawyers. I hate lawyers. I
Laura's until I need one.
Then I love my lawyer. Yeah, so
hey, these are the consequences that are naturally going to
flow from allowing yourself to do a Davante Adams. Didn't
the other thing that pisses me off Chris to
there's another angle
of this moment. Yeah, about there. Yeah, it doesn't show
the extension. I don't you see
more inadvertent right. All these projects. He didn't do
anything free Devonte, hit that guy ran into him. That's a very
misleading angle. The best angle is the And it shows that
kind of get the hell out of my face shove that we've all
either received or given or both at
some point in our lives. That's right, but
that's deliberate. That's not inadvertent, that's not
accidental, that's not guy bumps into him. That is a, get
the hell away from me and he apologized for it, right? So,
I don't know why, and I do know why, because we can't agree on
anything
in this day and age other than last Thursday night, game
sucked. That's the only thing we can agree on and, and So,
there has to be a c***. There always has to be a contrary
view, but isn't that isn't that sad? Yeah,
that even the most obvious frickin thing. There's got to
be a voice out there. Who plants a flag to attract anyone
who may be like-minded to that person's cause and I'm going to
be the one
who takes the stand and says
I disagree with this obvious thing that everybody else
agrees with, right? It's kind of old and it's kind of
predictable and people in the media who do
They're manipulating that segment of the audience that
wants a rush to that flag and say, yeah, he didn't do
anything. He did he did. And he knew it, he apologized for it
right now. We see what happens. Yeah, I mean, you know, one, he
obviously did
something wrong. He knows that, and this is not in his
character, that's why. I'm like, I'd said on our Tuesday,
you know, it gets a little bit of a free pass because we've
never seen anything like this, and I don't mean a free pass,
but you
know what I mean? I don't sit here and go, man. This is
a bad. Guy does crap like this all the time. The league needs
to come down hard on them. No,
no. I think this is a guy that loves the sport. The game ended
horribly for him and he expects more of themselves. And
again, I do think his head was down. He was in his own world
and the guy walked right in front of him,
as he was kind of walking in and, you know, you're in your
own world and sometimes people come up and get in your face
and those situations and your defensive anyways, because
you're in a
way Stadium, too. We're yeah, he lost his cool per second,
but I don't like, I don't want to like Grill. The guy he made
a mistake, there's no doubt about it. Don't like make
excuses more. I'm know those people out there.
I mean, he definitely pushed the guy. There's no doubt about
it and he's a strong explosive person who can push somebody
easily. It's different than the a****** who ran on the field
with the pink smoke in the 49ers game, right? Right.
He's a trespasser, right? And now he's
doing, he's doing Bobby Wagner right where I want to go? Well
yeah, not yet though. He didn't he Okay, please report to okay,
Nation sue him
in my opinion. Yeah, he filed a police report to advance
the publicity stunt for publicity hatches cause okay, but he was
a trespasser. Right.
Does he end up Bruce
shoved to the ground on Monday night had every right to be
there? No doubt working, he was there. And, and look, if this
hits the fan legally, if he does follow a lawsuit, it's not
just going to be Davante Adams. There
will be others who are brought to the table, because
in combination, with Davante Adams, being the one who
deliberately shoved him to the ground. There are Systems in
place that should have been present, and should have been
operational
to prevent that interaction from even happening. So
there'll be others who are respond. That's, that's listen,
that's where I just want to say one thing. If we could play
the clip one more time to, you know, you know there there
there is got to be a little awareness of like, hey I'm
walking in front of the players
path to get to the locker room.
And he's oblivious to the fact that he's walking in front of
Davante, Adams. I'm not giving it a free pass, but damn,
I mean, he literally did walk right in front of them as he's
trying to walk in the locker room.
And again, that's that's I'm not giving Davante Adams, but
it certainly is like a guy that was very unaware of what
the hell he was doing or what he was doing there. And he caught
a guy that was, you know, and a bad moon. There's no doubt
about that.
Now, as it relates to the NFL,
there's a question that they have yet to answer which tells
me, they either don't want to answer that. You don't know
the answer to the question which policy applies here.
Is this the Mike
Evans, you get suspended right now for coming off the bench to
show. Shove Marshawn, Lattimore to the ground or any of
the other policies that we see get applied on a regular basis.
After a game guy gets fine, guy gets suspended, usually it's
fine,
but it's the formula that's in place and the procedure that's
in place where the league imposes a suspension. If it
comes to it and then either Derrick Brooks or James thrash
resolve whether or not the suspension is Justified, is it
that
or is the personal conduct policy,
which is slower,
which doesn't happen right away,
which maybe next year, by the time, it's all said and done.
And we learned a lot about the role of Judge Sewall Robinson
in the process. It's a different protocol. It's
a different system altogether, but Chris, you can make
the argument. And we quoted the language yesterday in a story
of PFT from the personal conduct policy itself, you
can make the argument that it is
a personal conduct policy situation,
not your normal in-game on-field suspension, you know,
Mi Garrett hitting Mason Rudolph over the head with his
own helmet
in the playing surface. Not, somebody who isn't even
A player completely away from the field as you're walking
into the tunnel
that maybe personal conduct policy, that's the threshold
question. The league has to answer. I've asked them, they
haven't answered. So it tells me I think it's more along. The
lines of we're still trying to figure it out. Now we don't
want to answer the question. I
that's I understand that I get that. I mean
to me this is one that I doesn't warrant a suspension in
my opinion, it doesn't and especially because it's a guy
that we've never seen do this before. Gavin's we've seen have
this issue before so I think that
you know, didn't help but out either
and was even a way more aggressive blow than this even
though again I'm not trying to take anything away from it but
you know this wasn't running at somebody full speed and you
know not putting the shoulder down and knocking them down
like that this was. Yeah. Like you said breaks the hands. Give
a quick push. Boom. In the guy fell down and he's holding,
you know, something in his hands.
I would hope this becomes more of a
fine type of thing.
But but not a suspension, at least, at least from my,
you know, Viewpoint there again. I know it's not
the best. Look
you can make your point by finding them something, some
Nick significant for sure but I don't know. It doesn't in my
mind at least cross over to suspension territory. I think
he's got to be suspended for this. I don't care who it is.
You got to be suspended for this because you got to send
a message to all the
other players that you're not going to just get
a parking ticket for this, okay, you are going to get
taken off the field because Chris the next time somebody's
coming off the field.
Pissed off in their emotional and they shove somebody and
they fall down. What if their head hits that concrete wall?
That's covered by point? You know,
a half inch of foam,
they may have gotten lucky this time that the guy wasn't
seriously injured. If it happens the next time and you
didn't take steps
to ensure that your personnel, don't do these things.
That that's when you have a much bigger Pro, that's what
the NFL needs to come in, then the NFL needs to come in and
make sure that this can happen. You gotta block the pathway
just like you see the MBA, they block the pathway.
When guys walk off the court and go into the locker room. So
there's not you know, idiots that walked by and when people
are emotion and again, this is where it's kind of like a
can't lose situation.
You know, we want our players to care and then when they care
a little too much we go, whoa this guy's crazy and it's no,
he's not crazy, he cares. He loves it and
you you had something happen to him in like the Heat of
the Moment. When it's the worst thing that's happened to him on
a field. Probably in the last two or three years in his
career, this are just personal
So block that area off until tires are off the football
field, so we don't have to do that, but your points are
good. Mike and maybe you're right. Maybe I need to rethink
that. You know, after what you said there,
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