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No one’s questioning his mission, just his methods.

gotta admire the persistence

the concept of at-will employment is also a thing and seems pretty prevalent in this country. It certainly isn’t a moral failing by the team to simply not want to deal with the headache of this.

forgot his lawyer made that claim thanks. Question still remains if the league passed the notification on to individual teams though. That’s less clear. Other statements suggest the Bills found out about this around 6 weeks ago, well after the draft.

Who is claiming this?

NY law does not matter in the slightest. Age of consent in CA is 18.

Insulting the cops publicly seems unwise.

certainly what he wants you to infer. His client is no longer at school and on the Bills. One other guy is still at school and apparently on the football team. The other is no longer on the team or enrolled at the college.

not a defense of Araiza, just saying the allegations, by number, severity, and/or timing, aren’t really comparable.

apples and oranges. 1 allegation vs. 20+ (that we know of.)

well, not everybody. But yes! We are better than twitter (for now.)

Too drunk = no consent

hey don’t get me wrong I want to agree with you too about Terry and Kim especially. And they could turn around tomorrow and cut the guy. I just don’t know for certain what they learned on their own before today, what surprised them, or to what extent they know something that contradicts the allegations in the plaintiff’s complaint. McD must be blowing his stack over this though.

After a quick scan, it’s Gilleon, the plaintiff’s lawyer

All I am saying is I think you’re giving them a bit too much credit, insofar as we do not know the quality or thoroughness of their own investigation. That’s why I brought up the Browns. I think (or want to think) the Pegulas have a better moral compass than someone like Jimmy Haslem. But again, I don’t know, and I suspect you don’t either.

yeah it seems like the plaintiff’s attorney contacted them around July 30 but Araiza’s had already alerted them earlier.

depends. Are they clients?

thank you. Of course it’s completely common. There were a bunch of Halloween parties the night in question. Campus police aren’t spread in and around the college IDing people on the streets.

they’ve only sided with him up to this point. Yes, the team claims they did an investigation. Who knows how thorough it was? Was it Browns-level thorough, where they didn’t interview a single victim? NFL teams have tons of financial resources to conduct these things, but little to no power to convince or compel people to talk to them. Who knows how they landed after this private investigation. Now that this is public, the optics are entirely different. The fact that they stuck with him up to today means little.

lotta “shoulds” in there. Fortunately the law doesn’t agree with you.

that’s been asked all over the place today - it does and it doesn’t. Araiza was a phenom and a star in college, sure. But he was the beneficiary of a lot of hype by college reporters at The Ringer and other places for his huge leg. NFL scouts may have had differing grades on the him and the other guys taken. The Bills only learned about this July 30, well after the draft. Did other teams know sooner, pre-draft and affect their grades? Possibly.

EWWWWW man. what the hell

there are no criminal charges yet

exactly that’s why I passed no judgment or offered any opinion on Matt. I simply don’t know yet

From what I understand, his attorney now speaking on his case is a criminal defense attorney. He hasn’t even retained a civil litigator yet (which is an astonishing lack of foresight.) So I agree, the fact that he and his representation c**ked this up is bad, but not surprising.