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1 minute ago, CooL said:

WTF?  One bad game and now RW is ready to say he's a bum?

I thought all the talk about this legal mumble jumble was that the motion was going to be denied, or whatever needs to happen to allow him to play the whole season.  What are the odds that he has to serve the suspension this year?  I thought all the legal experts were saying it was very very low.

Never forget: Read RotoWorld for the news, not the analysis. Their analysis is usually written without any forward thinking and the logic doesn't follow from week to week. A guy will have a bad game and RW says he's droppable. The next week he gets a TD and they say he's an every week starter. 

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If they suspend Zeke this season, it will irrevocably impact people who have him on their fantasy rosters. Many people have money at stake in these leagues. I doubt it would work but the league should be held to account via class action lawsuit. Add in those that have placed bets in Vegas.

 

F Goodell. I hope he literally ____. Painfully

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3 minutes ago, SadFaceHappy said:

If they suspend Zeke this season, it will irrevocably impact people who have him on their fantasy rosters. Many people have money at stake in these leagues. I doubt it would work but the league should be held to account via class action lawsuit. Add in those that have placed bets in Vegas.

 

F Goodell. I hope he literally dies. Painfully

 

The correct defendant would probably be Zeke in that lawsuit. Although you might as well add Goodell and the NFL to it as well so it can be dismissed all at once.

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Just now, Luck My Balls said:

Why is everyone panicking? Didnt we know this for a couple weeks? I read somewhere that there is a ~7.9% Zeke gets suspended for 6 games. That's worse case scenario..

 

Right. What has changed? Is this an unexpected curveball?

 

All the talking heads were indicating that Zeke would most likely play all season a couple weeks ago.

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9 minutes ago, SadFaceHappy said:

If they suspend Zeke this season, it will irrevocably impact people who have him on their fantasy rosters. Many people have money at stake in these leagues. I doubt it would work but the league should be held to account via class action lawsuit. Add in those that have placed bets in Vegas.

 

F Goodell. I hope he literally ____. Painfully

This post is so sad. 

 

You think people should sue because they drafted a guy in their FANTASY league that they knew was at risk of getting suspended?

 

May the lord bless your soul.

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10 minutes ago, kyoun1e said:

 

Right. What has changed? Is this an unexpected curveball?

 

All the talking heads were indicating that Zeke would most likely play all season a couple weeks ago.

 

The fact that the 5th Circuit has decided to hold a hearing rather than just denying the appeal of the motion for an emergency stay outright is a pretty big development.

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We can bitch all we want, but I drafted him figuring he'd be out six games anyhow. I'd still rather he can get through this suspension prior to week 13 so he's available for fantasy playoffs. It's up to me to get my team to the playoffs without him.

 

@WALLACHLEGAL is a good follow on Twitter about Zeke. "This is not good news for Elliott since the lack of irreparable harm should have been enough to prevail. Court obv focusing on jurisdiction." 

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Just now, Gohawks said:

This post is so sad. 

 

You think people should sue because they drafted a guy in their FANTASY league that they knew was at risk of getting suspended?

 

May the lord bless your soul.

Thank you for your blessings. Back at you.

 

This is bigger than ff or Zeke. This is about a massive political machine that is strangling the life out of America's pastime and gets all sorts of kickbacks. Look up Goodell's (grand?)father.

The NFL is a monopoly and enjoys tax-exempt status as a non-profit. They get multi-billion dollar stadiums (palaces) built with public funds (tax money) then leave whenever they feel like it, usually when tax payers stand up to their extortion. Oakland, St. Louis, San Diego, etc. They charge obscene amounts for tickets even when the stadiums are half full. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Sure: players choose to play and fans choose to follow. But the NFL takes an active role in gambling to the point of having their own ff platform. They make billions from people with money at stake but ignore fair dealing when it suits them.

What sets me off about the Zeke thing is the arbitrary nature of their process, which boils down to "we want to suspend Zeke, have a specious reason to do so, will go through the motions of 'investigating' but will suspend him regardless. If the courts say we've done so improperly, we'll just find another court. Product be damned, we must let all the little people (including players) know that we are omnipotent."

And this is exactly on keeping with larger trends in our society, especially press and politics (which the NFL is part and parcel of). I'm not going to continue with a political rant since sports used to be an avenue of escape from such things.

But how much arbitrary application of law are we prepared to submit to? How much emotional distress has the constant uncertainty surrounding Zeke's situation caused?

What F-ing motivation does Goodell have? Is he untouchable? Who else is? Certainly not you and I

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Jordy was a 1st rounder who practiced fully all week and Martin will be back week 5 with no BYE left. Plus Zeke has been sucking anyway? I mean obviously this is the Zeke thread so you guys think his value is really high even with a 6 game ban looming over his head. But then there's the rest of the world.

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14 minutes ago, Excellent117 said:

 

The fact that the 5th Circuit has decided to hold a hearing rather than just denying the appeal of the motion for an emergency stay outright is a pretty big development.


I suspect it's a case where 5th Circuit would like to set precedent for a TRO/Injunction case to be submitted prior to a ruling, but then ripening due to ruling being made before the presiding judge issues his ruling on the case - thus preventing future similar emergency stays of this nature being submitted to them due to setting precedent here that the lower court does have jurisdiction. 

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