Every time i think that your arguments about this issue can’t get smaller, more petty, more offensive, or more asinine, you prove me wrong. Kudos!
Why is that? You don’t really believe the quickie marriage was anything more than a convenient way for him to avoid jail time? If he had gone to jail , his NFL career would be over. Rice had previously bought her an engagement ring as well as a new car. Janay was a gold digger from the beginning.
This allowed him to continue playing, get a easy deal from the prosecution, and serve the minor suspension from the NFL. If the TMZ tape wouldn’t have come out, that’s exactly what would have happened.
This shows precisely how disgusting and contemptible your arguments are.
He bought her a car and an engagement ring? So fucking what? How many people do you think do that, in a typical year, in a country as large as the United States? What evidence does this provide that she’s a gold digger? None at all, except in your pathetic delusions.
dalej42 and Ray Rice have got to be the only two people on earth who think that this is all her fault.
If you go looking at the comments in plenty of places around the internet, you will unfortunately find that this is not the case.
The NFL has taken enough of a beating over Ray Rice. They are not going to step back into the ring by letting him back in so soon, if at all. Goodell would never make it out of the building alive.
Between his falling numbers and the absolute shit storm any team would suffer in the press, no team is going to sign him if it does happen.
Yes. He almost got away with it. If only the video had been safely covered up. But it wasn’t and neither he nor the NFL are going to fully recover from that and he has no one but himself to blame.
Actually, even Janay blamed herself after the incident. I wish there was audio available. Since it was in a casino, I wonder if Ray had given her a stack of chips and she subsequently lost all of them at a game. She may have been asking for more $$$ to gamble which lead to her spitting on him and Ray punching her.
While he shouldn’t have punched her, an annoying intoxicated nagging woman is no picnic to deal with. He should have told her to zip it or she’d be sleeping on a couch in the hotel lobby.
It’s 2014 – you’d think we’d be through with this bullshit.
Sounds like experience talking. Got a dog in this fight?
That would be Michael Vick
Ray Rice has won his appeal and has been reinstated by the NFL.
Now the question is: which team wants to sign him?
The Ravens will re-sign him if they are smart. He was a tremendous asset to their team. He could jump right back into playing in time for the play offs.
at 7-4 the Ravens need the help.
This could work out really well. Rice is well rested and should be healthy. He’s only been suspended a couple months. He could play this Sunday against the Chargers if he’s re-signed.
Why would the Ravens re-sign him?
They cut him BEFORE the NFL handed down its indefinite suspension. That is, they decided as a team that they didn’t want him, independently of the NFL’s decision to suspend him. They offered refunds to fans who wanted to trade in their Ray Rice jerseys. What has changed for the Ravens since then?
Even if they were willing to reverse course on all of that, i don’t think there’s any way they’d sign him to play this season anyway. He’s missed 11 games so far, and he was coming off a season where he was fucking miserable, rushing for a total of only 660 yards and averaging just 3.1 yards per attempt.
By contrast, the Ravens already have almost 1,000 yards at 5.8 per carry out of Justin Forsett this year, and another 500 yards at 3.9 per attempt from Bernard Pierce and Lorenzo Taliaferro. Personal issues aside, i don’t think that signing Ray Rice would actually help them as a football team, although i admit that i’m going on stats here rather than actual analysis based on watching them play.
I’ve already been boycotting the NFL this season over a bunch of issues. It’s week 13 now and i haven’t watched a single down all year. As someone who’s been a Ravens fan since arriving in the United States, i’d drop the team forever if they took Rice on again.
A lot of that is a function of improvements and stability on the offensive line. Osemele’s back from his injury, Rick Wagner’s better than Oher at RT, and Jeremy Zuttah’s a huge upgrade from the overmatched Gino Gradkowski at center. Last year’s o-line didn’t affect just Rice - Pierce averaged 2.9 ypc (down from 4.9 as a rookie), and Flacco was sacked 48 times (a career high, and up from 35 in 2012). Rice had a down year, but there was no way he was going to do anything else behind that line.
That being said, Baltimore’s running game is doing just fine right now without Rice. The one thing he could add is a security blanket checkdown receiver. The backs they have now are catching the ball at around half the pace Rice did, and with Pitta out Flacco doesn’t have a short-yardage option that he’s really comfortable with. Rice could offer that, I guess, but I doubt it would be worth the shitshow that would come along with signing him again.
Interesting on the Judge’s comments. The main issue was the “double Jeopardy” second punishment it seems, if I interpreted correctly. The lesson seems to be, make sure you hit hard enough the first time, you don’t get a second chance.
Thanks for the analysis. I understood, as i was typing, that there could well be broader offensive line issues that had contributed to Baltimore’s improved run game. The O line was horrifically bad last year, and even though i haven’t watched them this year, i should have realized that they might have improved.
As for the checkdown passes to the running backs, it doesn’t seem that they’re really that far behind last year’s stats. Last year, the two main running backs were targeted 97 times for 78 catches (about 6 targets and 5 catches per game). This season, over 11 games, the top three running backs have 53 targets and 42 catches (about 5 targets and 4 catches per game).
It could be that there are fewer checkdown passes precisely because the offensive line and the running game are so much better. If you’ve got a good running game, you might not need so many short passes to running backs and tight ends. Again, this is general analysis based on not watching the games at all. 
I think the judge’s reasoning is sound.
The NFL gave Rice a weak-as-piss suspension, then got caught in a wave of public indignation. They decided to increase the league penalties for domestic violence, and then, when the elevator video came out, they went beyond even their new penalties and suspended Rice indefinitely, despite the fact that the video really told us nothing that we didn’t already know. Then they engaged in a campaign of what might charitably be called misinformation to defend their original two-game suspension, and justify the johnny-come-lately indefinite suspension.
The NFL were about as cynical and as incompetent as it was possible to be in this case, and i’m sort of glad that they got their asses handed to them by the judge. I just hope that Rice’s victory is a meaningless one, and that no-one picks him up.
I’d already forgotten that the Ravens had offered refunds on Rice’s jerseys. So that bridge is burned. He won’t being going back there.
It’ll be interesting to see who does sign him.