The detailed and deeply researched Rolling Stone article makes the case that as far as the Patriots as a team, Belicheat as a knowing HC and even Kraft as an owner, there's plenty of blame to go around as follows. Yet where's the outrage over enabling Hernandez and possibly preventing not just the Lloyd murder, but maybe 2 drive-bys the previous year?
How much more complicit are the Fins and their coaching staff when Martin laughingly "suffered" in silence than the long time span that all Pats interested parties knew Hernandez was doping up and thugging?
I recall when the article came out, it's short media interest span and initially how it was spun - and that's more that Hernandez was a ticking time bomb, the kinds of thugs with whom he associated and less exploring the culpability of Kraft, Belichick and failures of the Patriots organization to be proactive in preventing this.
Now, I've excerpted Michael David Smith's blurb summarizing the article which leaves out BB telling Hernandez to get an apartment to extricate himself from his surroundings - as if a change of scenery is gonna reverse homicidal pathology. Smith did also ponder just how much in reality could the Pats have done to prevent their players' off the field behavior. Well, hellsbells, if Martin's account was true (and if you think it was, I'd caution you to not select cruiseships that could sail off the edges of the world), then what could the Fins have done if they knew little?
Basically, two wrongs don't make a right of course. However, given the feeding frenzy on a visceral reaction by BSPN and others even before all the information other than what was self-serving to the Martin lawsuit was in, Richie, the coaching staff and even players like mentioning Tannnehill by name were being skewed and excoriated in an epic Pavlovian droolfest.
For years I've been contending that the fix was in - based on the questionable and egregious calls favoring particular teams from league directives to the refs to modify games to benefit whomever they wanted in the playoffs which would generate ratings and ad dollars, going back to that SB tuck rule and the petticoat they put on Brady... and that Goodell is one of Kraft's toadies. I dunno, but I'd think that in terms of league investigation, resulting penalties, media spotlights shining bright, etc., where I come from, assuming a "look the other way" policy when it comes to thuggery and potential homicide should trump the alleged "bullying" of a 325lb mentally damaged soft boy :idk:
PFT Recap August '13
Then of course there's the Chief's Belcher tragedy in KC. While I'm not suggesting anyone knew of his mounting inner demons and could have seen this coming, I don't recall the league even undertaking a routine investigation to determine if that was the case.. especially with an eye towards Romeo Crennell and his staff. But then again, as some of their players stated they never saw the events leading up to the murder of a young mother coming, why would that be more believable than the same protestations by Fins players? Gimme a ****in break!
How much more complicit are the Fins and their coaching staff when Martin laughingly "suffered" in silence than the long time span that all Pats interested parties knew Hernandez was doping up and thugging?
I recall when the article came out, it's short media interest span and initially how it was spun - and that's more that Hernandez was a ticking time bomb, the kinds of thugs with whom he associated and less exploring the culpability of Kraft, Belichick and failures of the Patriots organization to be proactive in preventing this.
Now, I've excerpted Michael David Smith's blurb summarizing the article which leaves out BB telling Hernandez to get an apartment to extricate himself from his surroundings - as if a change of scenery is gonna reverse homicidal pathology. Smith did also ponder just how much in reality could the Pats have done to prevent their players' off the field behavior. Well, hellsbells, if Martin's account was true (and if you think it was, I'd caution you to not select cruiseships that could sail off the edges of the world), then what could the Fins have done if they knew little?
Basically, two wrongs don't make a right of course. However, given the feeding frenzy on a visceral reaction by BSPN and others even before all the information other than what was self-serving to the Martin lawsuit was in, Richie, the coaching staff and even players like mentioning Tannnehill by name were being skewed and excoriated in an epic Pavlovian droolfest.
For years I've been contending that the fix was in - based on the questionable and egregious calls favoring particular teams from league directives to the refs to modify games to benefit whomever they wanted in the playoffs which would generate ratings and ad dollars, going back to that SB tuck rule and the petticoat they put on Brady... and that Goodell is one of Kraft's toadies. I dunno, but I'd think that in terms of league investigation, resulting penalties, media spotlights shining bright, etc., where I come from, assuming a "look the other way" policy when it comes to thuggery and potential homicide should trump the alleged "bullying" of a 325lb mentally damaged soft boy :idk:
PFT Recap August '13
Then of course there's the Chief's Belcher tragedy in KC. While I'm not suggesting anyone knew of his mounting inner demons and could have seen this coming, I don't recall the league even undertaking a routine investigation to determine if that was the case.. especially with an eye towards Romeo Crennell and his staff. But then again, as some of their players stated they never saw the events leading up to the murder of a young mother coming, why would that be more believable than the same protestations by Fins players? Gimme a ****in break!
