Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

[Northern_Blitz]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

Ben was suspended by the league because the Rooney's wanted to give him more than the 4 game max the team is allowed. Other players won't be held to the same standard because they don't work for the Rooneys. The commish has little to do with this except that he did what one of his owners asked him to do.

[Captain Lemming]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

Ben was suspended by the league because the Rooney's wanted to give him more than the 4 game max the team is allowed. Other players won't be held to the same standard because they don't work for the Rooneys. The commish has little to do with this except that he did what one of his owners asked him to do.

Money!!!

Just started a thread basically about what you just said.

[stlrz d]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

Ben was suspended by the league because the Rooney's wanted to give him more than the 4 game max the team is allowed. Other players won't be held to the same standard because they don't work for the Rooneys. The commish has little to do with this except that he did what one of his owners asked him to do.

Link? Source?

So what if it's reduced to 4? Does that mean this statement of fact is BS?

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Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

It was the opposite. The Rooney's wanted to punish him themselves and Goodell wouldn't let them.

[Captain Lemming]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

It was the opposite. The Rooney's wanted to punish him themselves and Goodell wouldn't let them.

I agree the Rooneys "wanted" to punish Ben. But Goodell could make the penalty stick. We all know they met. As I have been saying they probablyl agreed on what Ben should get.

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Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

It was the opposite. The Rooney's wanted to punish him themselves and Goodell wouldn't let them.

I agree the Rooneys "wanted" to punish Ben. But Goodell could make the penalty stick. We all know they met. As I have been saying they probablyl agreed on what Ben should get.

They didn't know until Goodell announced it. They were worried it was going to be 8-10 games.

Goodell set the number of games on his own. The Rooney's as far as I know had no clue until Goodell released his statement.

[Captain Lemming]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

It was the opposite. The Rooney's wanted to punish him themselves and Goodell wouldn't let them.

I agree the Rooneys "wanted" to punish Ben. But Goodell could make the penalty stick. We all know they met. As I have been saying they probablyl agreed on what Ben should get.

They didn't know until Goodell announced it. They were worried it was going to be 8-10 games.

Goodell set the number of games on his own. The Rooney's as far as I know had no clue until Goodell released his statement.

This is where I smell "conspiracy". They met and the Rooneys were ready to "accept whatever" punishment Ben got BEFORE the details were announced. I do not believe for a second that they truly had no idea what was coming.

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Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

They knew he was being suspended. They had no clue on the amount of games. Where they "worked together" was setting the ground rules on the steps to help Ben off the field.

[Captain Lemming]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

They knew he was being suspended. They had no clue on the amount of games. Where they "worked together" was setting the ground rules on the steps to help Ben off the field.

Sure, I can see that as a good possibilityg.

[MeetJoeGreene]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

What's to stop someone of accusing other NFL players of random stuff?

Exactly! Would someone put it beyond Jerry Jones or Dan Snyder to arrange a setup, and making accusations ... getting players suspended. Or some Vegas people to try to influence outcomes/spreads.

[Northern_Blitz]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

[quote=stlrz d]

Ben was suspended by the league because the Rooney's wanted to give him more than the 4 game max the team is allowed. Other players won't be held to the same standard because they don't work for the Rooneys. The commish has little to do with this except that he did what one of his owners asked him to do.

Link? Source?

So what if it's reduced to 4? Does that mean this statement of fact is BS?[/quote:3b77p5sp]

I'm looking for the link. But, when talk of a suspension first came out, the news was that the team was going to let the league suspend him because they could only give him 4 games, and the league could do more.

Why do you think they didn't suspend him immeadiately (like they did for Holmes with the weed charges - also before he was convicted)?

Maybe they actually wanted 4 games, but saw the benifit of the league giving him more and having the suspension reduced to 4 games. That way Ben gets scared "straight", but the reduction in the suspension starts to build him image back up.

EDIT: In the report on this thread [url]http://www.planetsteelers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11681&p=140316&hilit=+we+were+ prepared+to+impose+#p140316[/url] they say that they would have suspended him if the league didn't. They were also in consultation with the league and fully suported the suspension. They also let the league do the suspension (i.e. not an internal suspension). The team can only give 4 games, the league can give however many it wants. Don't see how you can argue that they didn't ask for this.

[stlrz d]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

[quote=Northern_Blitz][quote="stlrz d":337sh8ek]

Ben was suspended by the league because the Rooney's wanted to give him more than the 4 game max the team is allowed. Other players won't be held to the same standard because they don't work for the Rooneys. The commish has little to do with this except that he did what one of his owners asked him to do.

Link? Source?

So what if it's reduced to 4? Does that mean this statement of fact is BS?[/quote:337sh8ek]

I'm looking for the link. But, when talk of a suspension first came out, the news was that the team was going to let the league suspend him because they could only give him 4 games, and the league could do more.

Why do you think they didn't suspend him immeadiately (like they did for Holmes with the weed charges - also before he was convicted)?

Maybe they actually wanted 4 games, but saw the benifit of the league giving him more and having the suspension reduced to 4 games. That way Ben gets scared "straight", but the reduction in the suspension starts to build him image back up.

EDIT: In the report on this thread [url]http://www.planetsteelers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11681&p=140316&hilit=+we+were+ prepared+to+impose+#p140316[/url] they say that they would have suspended him if the league didn't. They were also in consultation with the league and fully suported the suspension. They also let the league do the suspension (i.e. not an internal suspension). The team can only give 4 games, the league can give however many it wants. Don't see how you can argue that they didn't ask for this.[/quote:337sh8ek]

I know they were in consultation with the league. I know they said they would have suspended them if the league didn't. But please show me where they said they wanted the league to suspend him because they wanted him to get more than the 4 games they could give.

The Rooneys come out smelling like roses in all of this because they said they would punish their player but they never had to. How perfect for them.

[Steelers>NFL]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

Geez.........
It is time to let go of Ben bull crap and move on.
All the gripe and complaining is not going to get you or the Steelers anywhere.
You don't have to agree with it, but you need to accept it and move on.
Ben has, obviously.
We have Leftwich in the house. Steelers will be just fine wthout Ben for 4-6 games.

[Oviedo]

Re: Report: Braylon Edwards will escape a suspension

Bottomline is that if the first four games go badly, the Rooney's have as much blame for that as Tomlin, the front office or the players.

Their desire to show themselves as more virtuous than other owners/teams places the season at risk by potentially absorbing a couple of losses early. Obviously, the "example" that they were trying to set since Braylon Edwards and Vince Young look to be escaping any league scrutiny or punishment.