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MTZehvor on 05 January 2020
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Shaunodon said:
MTZehvor said:

This is almost wholly unrelated to what I said, but all right.

The league can and would most definitely place someone on the exempt list if he was in New England. If you legitimately think the NFL, the organization that suspended a player for four games, took a first round draft pick and fined the Patriots hundreds of thousands of dollars for underinflated footballs that can be adequately explained by a drop in temperature, would somehow be too afraid to put a Patriots player on the exempt list just because he's with New England currently or because they don't have sufficient evidence, then you have a very interesting view of the NFL to be sure.

It's not, because most of what's keeping teams away now is the threat that he'll be put on that list.

And if that was gonna be the case, then so be it. I'd have rather the Pats gone down trying to keep him, rather than kowtowing to keep away the media attention. It'd be one thing if he was actual locker room poison, but all I've seen are teammates and coaches glowing about him and his work ethic. Getting rid of him prematurely did nothing for the team, only the organisation. The only distractions related to him were from the media constantly questioning about him, and nothing he actually did directly with the team. But that was always innevitable with who he is.

That's great, you're welcome to feel that way. But whether New England lets him go or they keep him and he gets put on the list, he's not allowed to play and he ultimately doesn't contribute to how the Patriots performed in the latter half of this year. This is a moot point regardless.