Comments on: Bengals’ NFLPA rep not happy with personal conduct policy bargain

By: ogre2010

ogre2010 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:58:03 +0000

Roger Goddell sure is on a power trip!! He must have been pick on by athletes when we has in high school and college.

By: cincyalldaway

cincyalldaway — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:23:12 +0000

klutch14u says:
Sep 28, 2011 8:30 AM
Just so I’m clear… They want the union to protect them for the time they got in trouble during the lockout but they don’t want them negotiating for them because they weren’t a union.

I mean seriously. There was no union when this occurred. As far as I’m concerned the NFL shouldn’t even have to deal with the NFLPA one bit on this. There was no union at that time. Just hand them the suspensions you want and move along.
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Now I’m gonna go slow on this so you can keep up. When these incidents happened, they weren’t employeed by the NFL, period. They should not be punished under NFL rules, when it was the NFL that locked them out. It should be for all players who were in trouble, not just the eight repeat offenders. This is stupid to say the least. You either punish them all or not! Not just a few!

By: rcali

rcali — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:36:44 +0000

In the grand scheme of things, this only seems to be a problem for the 8 morons who don’t believe the law applies to them.

By: klutch14u

klutch14u — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:30:39 +0000

Just so I’m clear… They want the union to protect them for the time they got in trouble during the lockout but they don’t want them negotiating for them because they weren’t a union.

By: Topher

Topher — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:54:09 +0000

The .eqgue has screwed the pooch here. There were 33 player incidents during the lockout. That demonstrates the problem the NFL has with it’s players behavior.

By focusing on punishment for the repeat offenders the NFL has given the players a rallying point fro. Which to divert the attention away from the real issue.

Every parent knows there co es a time when grounding or spanking no longer works and you have to shift tactics to get your point across. The goal isn’t to punish for past behaviors but to keep future behaviors from happening.

By: CKL

CKL — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:39:18 +0000

I find it interesting that the player reps (or at least this one) appear to have had had no knowledge of this. And if the NFLPA didn’t agree to it how can it be done? Where did the 8 player list come from then?

By: asublimeday

asublimeday — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:26:46 +0000

Cedric should be allowed to fight any ex boyfriend of his he wants during a lockout.

By: 303bengalguy

303bengalguy — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:55:36 +0000

DeSmith will likely go down as one of the worst heads of the NFLPA of all time.

By: r66x

r66x — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:33:09 +0000

Benson is right on this. However the NFL will go ahead and suspend him just to flex their muscles…..I hope Benson gets a good lawyer and takes them to the cleaners.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:16:06 +0000

@edgarpoe2 …

The issue isn’t whether these men should stay out of trouble–of course, they should. The issue is that the union doesn’t have the right to sell out eight individual members.

As far as their behavior is concerned … Goodell has demonstrated repeatedly that he’s not interested in fairly applying the personal conduct policy. Eight men are on that list, but Goodell let several of them–including repeat offenders–walk while targeting Benson. Again, he’s playing favorites and this time the NFLPA is helping him.

By: brownsfn

brownsfn — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:04:13 +0000

Here’s a novel idea…STAY THE HELL OUT OF JAIL DUMMIES….

By: jpb12

jpb12 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:05:34 +0000

Hilarious.
This lockout clearly affected teh Bengals more than any other team.

These guys all thought they had a “Get out of Jail Free Card”.

Thought they had a free roll going there. Turd Watch.

By: tommyf15

tommyf15 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:51:36 +0000

edgarpoe2 says:
These players are privileged to be able to earn a lot more in one year than many of their fans earn in a lifetime.

That has absolutely nothing to do with anything, Cliche’ Boi.

By: edgarpoe2

edgarpoe2 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:40:36 +0000

These players are privileged to be able to earn a lot more in one year than many of their fans earn in a lifetime. How about these grown men start acting like grown men and stay out of trouble. That way they wouldn’t need to appeal anything.

By: favreforever

favreforever — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:30:11 +0000

They calling it Roger Goodell’s bargain for the devils.

By: tommyf15

tommyf15 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:18:25 +0000

Bengals running back Cedric Benson, one of the eight repeat offenders, has been suspended three games. And he has filed a claim against the NFLPA, alleging that the union engaged in unfair labor practices by binding him to an agreement for conduct occurring at a time when there was no union.

And he was absolutely correct in doing so.

The league conduct policy is subject to collective bargaining. No bargain = the NFL has no power to punish.