Gotta admire the out of the box thinking.
Thereâs a joke about how those extra five yards made him run out of the back of the end zone but Iâm not nearly funny enough to make it.
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Yeah, how often does the league overlook that out of convenience? Whatâs your point? Because as far as I can tell your point is to defend Rodgersâ behavior and Goodellâs laughable punishment.
He didnât lie to the league, and thatâs all they care about.
Team gets fined for not enforcing protocol.
What else is there to punish him for? Lying to the press? LOL
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You think he was properly maintaining league-mandated protocol for unvaccinated players the entire time he was laughing about his vaccination status? LOL
Which is why the team got 300K. Itâs their job to make sure rules are followed.
And itâs still a pittance compared to the teamâs net worth or the actual material loss of draft picks other teams were penalized for smaller violations.
Itâs in line with other team fines
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If this is the rationale, then why was the flag not thrown until after he and the ref bumped?
Those were one off-violations. This was an ongoing violation that occurred every week with Rodgers failing to follow protocol (plus the extra violation for the Halloween party).
A better analogy would be the Saints - who had three different incidents (1) Payton failing to wear a mask on the sidelines; (2) a maskless celebration after a win; and (3) allowing a person to improperly access their facility and infect Kamara. The Saints were hit with total fines of over $1 million and lost a 6th round pick.
Iâd say allowing Rodgers to violate protocols for 9 weeks (plus the preseason), should get a similar punishment.
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Yeah, this is pretty much what I was trying to say, although I didnât want to bother to look up the particulars.
Yeah seems like nonsense to me. Ref threw the flag because he got bumped. That he decided to call it for something else doesnât matter. Pretty clear what happened. Ref knee jerk flagged something he did not see.
I loved Will Forfeit on SNL.
Looked to me like ref was reaching for the flag before the bump, but who knows.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1458898556451008520
It will be interesting to see what they are paying him. Unless a team was going to pay a ton, it made no sense for anyone to go over the league minimum, since Cleveland is on the hook for $4m+ minus whatever another team pays him. So either a team would offer the minimum or more than $4m.
EDIT: Rams made the official announcement.
Seems like if he didnât feel he was getting the ball enough in Cleveland, that would only be worse with the Rams.
Fucking Rams, man.
OBJ probably sucks but is still worth >vet min so going to the Rams is the nut low.
Over/Under on how many weeks he lasts?