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The only issue with this new report so far is that the voicemail is dated in April, but the report says that the NFL received the tape three months ago. There's a problem there.

They won't be winning much of anything. Not this week. 37-17 Steelers.

The letter itself doesn't really feel very honest, either. It's a long list of "should have", which should kind of highlight to him how egregious this is, and how a letter wasn't going to fix it.

I guess that makes lying okay, right?

Always remember thst there are numbers you can call to report them. In laws or not, that's not okay.

Fair enough...that definitely makes sense.

Crav, he was cut before the indefinite suspension.

For a DT. Now I'm really confused.

Today has been a bad day. Let's summarize. ---------- Our star RB, who was suspended for what most considered too short of a sentence, becomes a world headline again when video emerges of the actual punch of his wife months earlier (which none of us have ever seen). The Ravens initially report no reactions (as evidenced by Hensley when he sought information this morning). Then they decide to cut him, announced around 2 P.M. The NFL announces minutes later that Rice is indefinitely suspended from the league. This appears to be some sort of "obstruction of justice" reaction, obviously because playing double jeopardy would be especially disastrous when the result (for the second time) doesn't fit the crime or the outlined suspension guidelines (e.g. a suspension "correction" would have been six games given the new domestic violence rule). Ray Lewis, our Ray Rice of 2000 and fairly inarguably still the team's face, speaks publicly about how different he is and how disappointed he is. The team schedules a late-evening press conference for Harbaugh, who vaguely and retrospectively answered questions. No other persons form management or ownership were present or provided comment. The team is found to have deleted tweets previously involving the case (specifically, the tweet insinuating that Palmer was a victim by stating that she was sorry for her actions). News swirls that the team, the NFL, and of course obviously Rice and his attorney, knew about the video and may or may not have seen it. Calls for Goodell's resignation and boycotting of all future Ravens games (made by Olbermann on ESPN; I'm not going to provide him any more attention with a video link) sprout. ---------- Now, can you point to even one event that happened today surrounding this situation that could in any way be considered a "good" thing or even the right thing to do, or a thing that was done in honesty and integrity? I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed by something I've invested so much in. I can't think of many other situations where a team and/or the league more deserved the ill will coming to it, to be perfectly honest. Can you?

I'm of the opinion that the league, the Ravens, and Rice all knew about that video and had seen it, and leaked it to TMZ this week to make up for their suspension guffaws and the general distaste of all the aforementioned by women and anti-DV folks that was going to come to a head in Week 3 when Rice came back. I refuse to believe that any of them hadn't yet seen it.

You mean the contents of the article? You need to copy and paste it as a quote. Not everyone pays attention to it around here, but common courtesy is to quote just the first few paragraphs and provide the link.

Yeah. That's a really bad day for them, and an average day for Flacco (as evidenced by all the folks defending him).

Definitely a fine.

Risky position to have as commissioner. He's absolutely right, but it's kind of scary to imagine a league being a part of it. I don't know if I trust any sports league in this country enough to manage that.

Good game. Feels cliche to say that we beat ourselves, especially since you probably could/should have scored 35.

I agree that Rice will be a lot more dynamic in this offense, if he's prepared to be. He's much more similar to Forsett than to Pierce, and you could tell that Forsett would have had a monster game if he had just a bit more muscle.

I get so tired seeing him sipping Gatorade and laughing on the sidelines instead of putting his face in a binder or something. Does the whole "Joe Cool" persona also mean he's too cool to study?

I recognize that he threw it away plenty. I'm not comparing numbers, I'm comparing situations. Rewatch that play before halftime and tell me that Joe didn't go back to his rookie-year habit of trying to hold onto the ball too long. He is neither quick enough nor strong enough to be running around like that, and he went back to it today. Was it designed? I assume that it was probably more from his lack of awareness as to what was going on...while I don't argue that the receivers were an atrocity today and given their ineptitude vs press coverage made his life difficult, the first two drives were solid examples of receivers being open and him not recognizing it due to the new scheme or whatever. We can scream until we're blue in the face about the receivers and I'll scream right along with you about them, but Flacco is the reason we lost today.

50% Flacco, 50% receivers. The drops were unacceptable, but so were about eight of Joe's decisions just off the top of my head. I said it in the gameday thread, but he played very Boller-esque all game long. He is obviously not comfortable enough in the offense and/or spent too much time filming commercials to study it well enough.

Webb plays the nickel in the first place, and playing there is the absolute LAST place someone like Bailey (who doesn't have a fraction of the hip speed or foot movement he used to) should be playing.

Bailey, if still an NFL player, is a safety.

Not the way I expected it to happen, but pretty much the outcome I expected. They'll be better with Webb back and Rice as Flacco's outlet (since he doesn't like throwing the ball away).

That was Flacco's misread. Pitta was right to sit where he was.

Gotta think about holding onto the ball, ya know. I have a feeling Dalton is about to throw all over us.

89 = Travis Taylor?