« Reply #56 on: September 08, 2014, 04:10:42 PM »
Do you believe the Patriots would have tried to protect the value of Aaron Hernandez as a player if he had merely been accused of domestic violence? If they thought there was a decent chance that they could let him ride out a suspension and be back on the field making a positive contribution, would they have pursued that option? Would they have engaged in a PR campaign full of lies to justify that action?
Absolutely.
Of course they would, and I'm not sure where this PR campaign full of lies statement even comes from. You have the law enforcement letting him enter diversion without serving a single day of jail time (following the arrest of both him and his fiance/wife), you have his fiance/wife telling anyone that would listen that it was a one time thing, a mistake, and minimizing the whole thing, you have the NFL suspending him just 2 games (when it was rumored that they had in fact viewed the video), etc. I'm also sure that Rice himself minimized everything with the team (he certainly did in his press conference). I mean what exactly was Baltimore supposed to do.
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