Four NFL players suspended for gambling violations
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AP confirms.
View: https://twitter.com/AP_NFL/status/1674459688593764360
BREAKING: The NFL has suspended three players indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy and a fourth was sidelined for six games.
View: https://twitter.com/AP_NFL/status/1674459688593764360
BREAKING: The NFL has suspended three players indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy and a fourth was sidelined for six games.
Demetrius Taylor is the 3rd player suspended for the season (FA)
Petit-Frere (Titans) is the player suspended for 6 games.
Petit-Frere (Titans) is the player suspended for 6 games.
Colts’ CB Isaiah Rodgers and two other players have been suspended indefinitely for violating the NFL’s gambling policy. Those players allegedly gambled on NFL games. A fourth player received a 6-game suspension for gambling on other sports while at a team facility.
https://theathletic.com/4648347/2023/06/29/nfl-gambling-suspensions-isaiah-rodgers/?source=user_shared_article
https://theathletic.com/4648347/2023/06/29/nfl-gambling-suspensions-isaiah-rodgers/?source=user_shared_article
Rodgers made a prop bet on his team's rushing yards, apparently. While in some of the gambling suspension cases you could make a case that the players were just unaware of the scope of the rule (making bets on college football or other sports while at the team hotel, thereby breaking the rule against betting while at a team facility), that seems something players should know is wrong from the jump.
Yup.
While these suspensions are coming from online gaming, I don't think it's a coincidence that the league is using these players - and their careers - to make a point about illegal betting since the Raiders went to Vegas.
I dont think we'll ever see an A list player get busted for this - unless it's a huge scandal - but I'm glad the league is taking it (somewhat) seriously.
"A list" are the top players in the game. Jefferson. Mahomes. Etc
A young WR that topped 900 yards once in four years and was traded to the Jaguars isn't "A list".
He was a first round pick and second team all pro in his third year. Suspended 5 games into his 4th year.
Yeah, his stock has dropped a bit because he's been out of football for two years, but you're describing him like he's Kenbrell Thompkins. You could describe Deebo Samuel the same way and I think we agree that it'd be a pretty big deal if the NFL suspended him for gambling.
I dont know about that. The more money you have, the more you can lose, the more you have to earn beyond your paycheck. Somehow.
Calvin Ridley isn't an A list player and he was taking time away from the game before he was suspended. He wasn't even in the league.
Josh Allen is A list. Patrick Mahomes. Justin Jefferson. Jalen Hurts. Davante Adams.
Calvin Ridley was B list, at best, for a very brief period. If Josh Allen was suspended for a year for gambling, it would be a massive story. Ridley got suspended, it was a story for 20 minutes and then it was over because he was a middling WR taking time away from the game on a middling team who hasn't been in the playoffs in many years.
Goodell has done a good job on matters vital to the owners’ business interests — growing revenues, securing favorable labor deals, settling most of their concussion-related liabilities. Franchise values are skyrocketing as a result.
Goodell has been less good in his role as the face of the game — the stuff fans see. The league hasn’t been deft at PR over the years, to say the least. And I doubt anyone here will defend their handling of player discipline. Goodell owns a lot of that.
Making sure the game’s integrity isn’t compromised by gambling is more like the issues in the first bucket than the second. Goodell has done a good job on things that are foundational to the game from an owner’s perspective. He’ll do what needs to be done with respect to gambling, which I assume is going to mean enforcing the rules without fear or favor.
Goodell has been less good in his role as the face of the game — the stuff fans see. The league hasn’t been deft at PR over the years, to say the least. And I doubt anyone here will defend their handling of player discipline. Goodell owns a lot of that.
Making sure the game’s integrity isn’t compromised by gambling is more like the issues in the first bucket than the second. Goodell has done a good job on things that are foundational to the game from an owner’s perspective. He’ll do what needs to be done with respect to gambling, which I assume is going to mean enforcing the rules without fear or favor.
Yep, a hypothetical gambling scandal that involves the league's best players and in which the league were to look the other way would literally be an existential threat to the league and its owners. Any player caught betting on their own team is not going to go unpunished.
He suspended the best player in the history of the league for 4 games, over nothing. I don’t think he’d hesitate for a minute to suspend a superstar for gambling on football.
That was the league trying to hurt the Patriots, and suspending Brady was the best they could come up with.
