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Obviously it is a tragedy for the woman and her family. It's also sad because Ruggs had a bright future and just threw it away being stupid - although NFL teams are forgiving as long as you can help them win and the justice system is pretty lenient, so I wouldn't be shocked to see Ruggs back in the NFL someday.
 
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Those details somehow make it worse. Horrible horrible decision that took a life and ruined his own chance on this earth (at least for a long long time). Awful.

156mph? I see that at the Indy 500. It’s insanely fast. You cut that in half and it’s still over the speed limit. You cut his BAC in half and it’s over the limit. Massive lapse in judgment has consequences.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Those details somehow make it worse. Horrible horrible decision that took a life and ruined his own chance on this earth (at least for a long long time). Awful.

156mph? I see that at the Indy 500. It’s insanely fast. You cut that in half and it’s still over the speed limit. You cut his BAC in half and it’s over the limit. Massive lapse in judgment has consequences.
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He was also driving in a residential area and had a passenger of his own. Ruggs pretty much did everything wrong, its hard to come up with a worse fact pattern. That being said, I think he will get the first time offender treatment and I would expect him to not only not serve 20 years, but be released in less than 10.
 
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This Ruggs tragedy has me thinking. Nick Saban has coached a handful of guys in college who have gone on to do some really awful things. When are the media vultures going to start to blame Saban for doing a bad job of teaching his players to have respect for others? Some in the media couldn't shut up about Urban, every former player's mistake years later was another indictment of Meyer's coaching. Funny how other coaches aren't getting the same scrutiny.
 
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Jon Gruden suing NFL, Roger Goodell, saying they forced him out of Las Vegas Raiders job

Former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden is suing the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell in the wake of his private emails being leaked amid an investigation into the Washington Football Team.

Gruden's attorney, Adam Hosmer-Henner of McDonald Carano, said in a statement that the lawsuit was filed in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada.

"The complaint alleges that the defendants selectively leaked Gruden's private correspondence to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in order to harm Gruden's reputation and force him out of his job," Hosmer-Henner said. "There is no explanation or justification for why Gruden's emails were the only ones made public out of the 650,000 emails collected in the NFL's investigation of the Washington Football Team or for why the emails were held for months before being released in the middle of the Raiders' season."

The lawsuit says the NFL pressured the Raiders to terminate Gruden and "intimated that further documents would become public if Gruden was not fired." According to the suit, Gruden lost a sponsorship deal with Skechers and was pulled from appearing in the Madden NFL 2022 video game, as well as having future employment and endorsement prospects damaged.

Gruden is seeking unspecified damages on seven claims as well as punitive awards and attorneys' fees.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...r-goodell-saying-forced-las-vegas-raiders-job

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Raider trying to gain an advantage due to quirk in the rules:

Raiders start drive at 2-yard line after returner steps out of bounds
Raiders-Bengals wild-card game, 1:18 remaining in first quarter

What happened: Raiders kickoff returner Peyton Barber grabbed the bouncing ball near the sideline and stepped out of bounds at the 2-yard line.

How it was resolved: Barber was ruled down at the 2, putting the Raiders in terrible field position for their third possession of the game.

Analysis: Barber was trying to capitalize on a little-known NFL rule in an effort to get the ball marked at the 40-yard line. What he wanted to do was step out of bounds and then touch the ball. When a ball touches a player after he has established himself out of bounds, the ball is ruled out of bounds at that point. Had Barber stepped out first, the Bengals would have been penalized for a kickoff out of bounds, and by rule, referee Jerome Boger would have spotted the ball the 40. But because Barber grabbed the ball before that, he was ruled to have run out of bounds with possession of the ball.

Multiple teams have tried to leverage that rule in recent years by deliberately stepping out of bounds and then reaching for the ball, most notably the Green Bay Packers' Randall Cobb in 2012.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...decisions-happened-which-were-right-came-next
 
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