MTZehvor said:
Sure, I agree, it probably was the plan all along. But don't come in here and claim that the case being refiled somehow constitutes that the "charges" (and incidentally there still aren't any charges filed in this case) are being dropped. None of the civil suits or allegations that were filed against him while he was in New England (or before) have been dropped. Claiming otherwise is just factually incorrect. As for the furniture, he threw it into a pool area, and you'll note that quite a few pieces of debris wound up not in the water. The toddler wouldn't have to be in the pool for it to hit them. Not that that's an especially convincing defense: If the best thing you can think up is "Well it couldn't have hit a toddler, but any adults in the pool are fair game," then there might be something wrong with the guy...as if tossing furniture out of a sixth story floor isn't evidence enough of that already. I won't sit here and pretend that there haven't been any times where I've been frustrated with how the media has handled reporting on New England, but you have to really, REALLY reach to argue that they've somehow been unfair to AB here. As you noted, the hotel charges were brought up and reported on heavily before his time with the Patriots. The only case that started during his time with New England was the Taylor allegations, which were filed long in advance before he joined the Patriots. AB already brought plenty of negative media attention with him long before he was in New England, predominantly at the end of his stay in Pittsburgh, and then in Oakland by, among other things, shouting racist insults and threatening to attack the Raiders' GM. There is quite literally proof that he texted an alleged sexual assault victim threatening to physically abuse them. This guy isn't some victim of a biased media here: He has done all of this to himself, and there (should) be no place in the league for the kind of conduct he's been involved with. And, before anyone says it, yes, there are plenty of people who should not be in the league as well for the shit they've pulled. But the fact that there are other terrible human beings employed by the NFL doesn't give AB a pass. |
"There is quite literally proof that he texted an alleged sexual assault victim threatening to physically abuse them."
Before I have to continue going back and forth with you on this, how many of the pieces of evidence that you're discussing have you actually looked into? Because I can tell you right now there was nothing even close to him threatening to 'physically abuse' anyone, and that is quite a strong calim.
And for clarity, I'm not even here trying defend AB on any level as being some innocent figure, and when the Patriots first signed him I wasn't sure why they'd even want to bring that kind of problematic attention on themselves. But after doing it, then going on to cut him after 11 days when your team was clearly focused on trying to integrate him into the offense, and the reasons had nothing to do with what he'd done on the team or anything he'd even done in his duration with the team, just made them look totally clueless. And it's left the Patriots offense and several of the players looking frustrated every game, even though they're winning comfortably.
And what did it get them? Are the media going to forgive them now? https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/9/23/20876383/new-england-patriots-antonio-brown-signed-released-bill-belichick
I figured if they were gonna sign AB they should at least stick with it and try to go the distance until there was a real sold reason giving them no choice but to cut him. Instead they totally caved within a matter of days and nothing but hearsay and media bombardment, which they should be used to anyway.
