Comments on: League not commenting on whether Arians violated tampering policy

By: gamer667

gamer667 — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:19:54 +0000

My comment was removed…go figure…that’s why I don’t get my sports fix from “NBC”…Great article…you deserve a gold star for having nothing to say except garbage

By: spgaskins

spgaskins — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:43:07 +0000

Tampering? It sounds to me like he was putting out feelers for a coaching job at Detroit. Suh is not available for two years. Arians can be available for a head coaching job much sooner.

By: steelerdynasty2010

steelerdynasty2010 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:28:07 +0000

doesnt the league overreact to enough already? he wasnt making a play for Suh. he was CLEARLY referencing his style of play and spoke directly to it. He never even said the guy’s name. the REPORTER used Suh as an example, not Arians. The reporter could have asked the same question and left Suh’s name out of it, described a “hypothetical” player who plays the way Suh plays, and his answer probably would have been the same. relax people. everything isnt a precursor to the ruination of the league.

By: cmgww

cmgww — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:00:49 +0000

What did you expect him to say? “He’s dirty”?? Why give the Lions bulletin board material, as if Suh needs any to begin with. This is clearly a non-story. Tampering?? Is this a joke?

By: detlions80

detlions80 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:09:34 +0000

From a slightly pissed off lions fans (and not about Ariens comment)…. GIVE THEM A BREAK?!?!?!? Give us a flippin break. We get hammered with dumb rules that shouldn’t exist (challenge flag and yes it was Schwartzs fault for throwing it), rules that don’t even exist (Calvin’s process), you name it. Screw giving the Colts a break. Standard penalty for standard breaking of the rule. PLEASE.

By: sosuhme

sosuhme — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:51:41 +0000

Tampering aside, saying anything positive about Suh is obviously against the rules.

By: Punk

Punk — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:24:11 +0000

Doubly ironic if Arians was fined for “tampering” with a guy he really doesn’t want and was just being polite about.

By: hikohadon

hikohadon — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:12:44 +0000

How late was it when you decided that this was an article that needed to be written?

By: lucky5936

lucky5936 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:49:08 +0000

I wish Arians would stop and think about the feelings of his own defensive tackles before wishing for crotch kicker to be on his team. So insensitive.

By: ccjcsr

ccjcsr — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:40:18 +0000

Must be another unwritten rule

By: bjtmeyer

bjtmeyer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:34:02 +0000

Give the guy a break. That seems like a dumb rule anyways. Freedom of speech baby!

By: tbd3

tbd3 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:29:07 +0000

Completely harmless comment.

By: cliffordc05

cliffordc05 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:27:40 +0000

Does anyone think that this is tampering in any way? This is a ridiculous item.

By: klunge

klunge — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:26:33 +0000

Oh, so the LIONS had to give KC draft picks for nothing more egregious than this, but it happens to one of their players and suddenly it would be unfair to uphold the rule. Well, hey, at least the league is consistent: Lions get screwed by misuse of rules both on and off the field. At least its not a double double standard.

By: electionconfidential

electionconfidential — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:25:19 +0000

Whether or not people would want to have Suh on their team has become a part of a national conversation. I think that what Arians said is more conversational than it is tampering.

By: ninerfan94954

ninerfan94954 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:23:48 +0000

To steal shamelessly from posters on other sites, “nothing to see here move along.”

By: gotothejoe

gotothejoe — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:41:49 +0000

A few years back Gunther Cunningham was commenting on the KC Chiefs when they were shaking up the team after a coaching change. Without even saying any names he said something to the effect of “I’d love to have a few of them on the Lions”. That statement cost the Lions a draft pick. For Arians to specifically say he’d love Suh to be on his team, it is 100% tampering by the way the rule reads.

By: blackandbluedivision

blackandbluedivision — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:33:45 +0000

bucrightoff says: Nov 29, 2012 1:31 PM

I’m guessing every team in the league would love to have the following guys on their team:

Adrian Peterson
Calvin Johnson
Larry Fitzgerald
Tom Brady
Aaron Rodgers

Is it tampering to say so? Ticky tacky or what.
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If they publicly say so then yes.

By: blackandbluedivision

blackandbluedivision — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:32:42 +0000

So if Arians gets fined or the team gets reprimanded. What of the reporter who asked the question and set him up?

By: juanhughjazz

juanhughjazz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:11:40 +0000

maybe the lions will get back the draft pick they lost for their “tampering”. we’ll see how consistent the league office is.

By: rolltide510

rolltide510 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:57:04 +0000

Oh come on, it’s not tampering to say you’d love to have a great player on your team. Coaches say things like that all the time.

By: xsfmed

xsfmed — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:42:48 +0000

They’re not commenting because he didn’t violate the rule. Simple as that.

By: dexterismyhero

dexterismyhero — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:41:01 +0000

@thestrategyexpert says:Nov 29, 2012 1:13 PM
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I hope that was your try at sarcasm?

By: hatesycophants

hatesycophants — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:40:57 +0000

It’s not tampering in any sense.

By: wittersworld

wittersworld — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:37:48 +0000

The rule as quoted above does not prohibit complimenting opposing players. It prohibits a “statement of interest”, as in “I’d love to have him on my team”.

While I don’t think the coach or the team deserves a severe punishment, there has to be some sort of penalty forthcoming, or any other coach could make similar statements and point at this as precedent.

By: bucrightoff

bucrightoff — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:31:38 +0000

I’m guessing every team in the league would love to have the following guys on their team:

Adrian Peterson
Calvin Johnson
Larry Fitzgerald
Tom Brady
Aaron Rodgers

Is it tampering to say so? Ticky tacky or what.

By: pastabelly

pastabelly — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:26:00 +0000

That is not tampering in any sense. A player on another team said that Suh isn’t worthy to be a Texan and Arians just defended the player. As you say, he is two years from free agency. That’s a lifetime in the NFL. What he did is no different than Rex Ryan saying great things about Tom Brady.

By: jeffchadwick

jeffchadwick — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:25:46 +0000

This rule only applies to the Lions. Arians will be fine.

By: hisgirlgotburrelled

hisgirlgotburrelled — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:18:32 +0000

No change is necessary. He clearly is not telling Suh to join his team. They don’t need to change the rule. You need to look more into the spirit of the rule and stop trying to enforce and interpret the absolute exact wording. My goodness what this world has come to when you have to be that careful when giving a player on another team a compliment.

By: gosuhgo

gosuhgo — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:18:12 +0000

Why would they decline comment? I mean he literally said what the example of what not to say says. If this isn’t tampering I will be completely lost.