He can apologize to a lot of people at once using social media but it doesn’t mean much IMO unless he apologizes in person. And maybe a hug.

McDonald was the star of the game on defense for sure. Loved the catches by Pettis and Quick in the final minutes.

They are both backups, so I assume that Fisher goes with whoever has the hot hand. Davis should be the one.

I don’t know when Hill got hurt but he did almost nothing from the start of the game. To be fair to him, he never had a chance because the OL was terrible. It was Bulger-era terrible. If Bradford had started this game, he would have been carted off before the fourth quarter.

This is going to sound mean, but I will not miss Saffold. Tired of him playing hurt and missing games. Put in somebody who at least stays on the field.

I would like the Rams to sign an under 30 veteran backup who used to be a starter. Someone like Sanchez or Ponder, etc… to take over long term if/when Bradford goes down again.

I’m not entirely sure that Vikings DT Linval Joseph will play, or if he does, will play very much more than half of his available snaps because he is recovering from a gunshot wound in his leg that he suffered in a nightclub incident after the first preseason game.

Thank you Ag for posting the game.

I have no idea how people grade players. Is that done by the coaching staff and then made public to the sportswriters, or can anyone throw out a rating on a player like calculating a pitchers WHIP?

Lately, I have asked too many questions in my posts and I haven’t included any pictures. I tend to over-punctuate, as well. I give my posting a -3.6.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by snowman.

Whatever the NFL does is their business, their decision. They are the governing body for this group of businesses called NFL Football Teams so they can do whatever they want and I don’t have any basis in law or practice to form an opinion as to whether a two game suspension is appropriate.

If any of us did this, what would our employer’s governing body do? Do any of us work in an environment where our employer and others like it are regulated by a larger management group? I think the Ravens should have taken action before the NFL did. As a business owner, I would not want this kind of action affecting the rest of my players, affecting the fan’s/customer’s perception of my business, affecting my bottom line. As a decent human being, I would not want to employ a person like Rice, I would get sick just seeing him in my team’s locker room, walking around and acting like nothing happened. If I owned the Ravens, I would sit down with Rice and talk about what happened. Did she have a weapon and was he physically threatened by her? Or did he hit her in a rage brought on by alcohol or an argument? If I was satisfied that he made a once-in-a-lifetime mistake in the heat of the moment and he has been a good person up until now, I would give him a second chance. But, if he didn’t show any remorse and came off as if it was no big deal, this is my personal business not the team’s concern, or if he just acted like being a valuable football player makes disciplining him for something like this too costly to the team and I better let it ride, I would fire him on the spot and have him escorted out by security.

Whatever the NFL does and whatever the Ravens do is above and beyond what the law should do. This is what bothers me from the article:

The 27-year-old Rice has been accepted into a diversion program, which upon completion could lead to the charges being expunged.

So what does this mean? The US Justice system sends him to counseling and he gets through it with a passing grade and it’s like it never happened? What the hell, the NFL punishment a lot harsher than the laws that are written to protect us. Maybe we should be discussing minimum sentencing rather than NFL personal conduct penalties.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by snowman.

Finally made it here. I had to track down SunTzu v Camus on the Herd board and get directions. It’s like coming home after work and finding the house completely cleaned out!