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Matt Araiza accused of rape, served with a lawsuit.

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As a lawyer who prosecutes civil/administrative sex abuse cases against minors (and thus is privy to the frequent companion criminal cases), my thoughts are as follows:   1. Of the alleged p

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We could probably get a 1st round pick from Cleveland for him...     

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I’ll hold off on judging any of this but it’s definitely not a good look. Hope it’s not true, not cause of football but it’s just a disgusting thing to happen to anyone. 

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Come on, Pegula… Step up… Your franchise is in crisis… and your Pegula Sports crisis management team is abysmal… You need to assure the team, the community, and your fellow owners you have some plan… So far, you are failing the test of leadership…

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Originally, practice was going to be at 3 and McDermott was going to speak before Practice.

 

Then they said Practice was going to be moved to 4 bc they got in late and McDermott would still speak before Practice.

 

Then they said Practice would be at 4, but McDermott would now speak post Practice.

 

I think this speaks volumes that they're trying to get all their ducks in a row before McDermott speaks again. Which is sad because he should just be focusing on Practice and Beane should be speaking.

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Come on, Pegula… Step up… Your franchise is in crisis… and your Pegula Sports crisis management team is abysmal… You need to assure the team, the community, and your fellow owners you have some plan… So far, you are failing the test of leadership…

There’s not much any of them can say. They can’t give any info of what they know right now. The only statement to make really is if they decide to cut him 

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52 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:

Am I really comparing gang rape to murder? Yes, yes I am. I think it's worse, and I'll die on that hill.

Is this trolling, I’m old and not even sure I know what trolling is, but are their other people here who share the opinion that ending a woman’s life isn’t as bad as sexually assaulting them ?

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4 hours ago, mannc said:

What is your basis for this statement? Just curious…did he say that?

 

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/08/27/bills-investigation-of-matt-araiza-didnt-include-information-from-alleged-victims-perspective/

 

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Attorney Dan Gilleon said that he informed team counsel Kathryn D’Angelo regarding the situation in late July.

“She seemed like she was concerned,” Gilleon told the AP. “She says she’ll get back to me, and then she never did. I even followed up and said, ‘Hey, you guys haven’t talked to me and called me back like you said you would.’ And they just ignored that, too.”

 

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They do have more access. The NFL and teams hire LEO professionals to vet all their players pre draft. Pat MacAfee said as much the other day and flat out said “they knew”. 
 

Rob Maadi asked 5 FO’s. 3 said they didn’t know. 2 said they did. The two that didn’t said it didn’t effect their draft status because they weren’t going to draft a punter anyways. 
 

Are we supposed to believe that people that people who weren’t drafting a punter had access. But the team that drafted him didn’t? 
 

I don’t buy it. For years we’ve heard stories of prospects talk about how surprised they were at what teams knew about them in their pre draft interviews. 
 

The Bills knew. If they didn’t know, they didn’t do their due diligence. 

 

 

 

 

I've been rolling this around in my brain. 

 

It's not just the LEOs, but the team's area scouts and scouting assistants talk to coaches, athletic trainers, teammates, roommates - all trying to get a sense of what the player is like, because success in the NFL these days is at least as much about willingness to focus and work hard and avoid distractions as it is about physical talent.  They also as I understand it, try to have younger assistants who are closer to college age hang out in college bars and just "shoot the *****" to see what comes up.

 

So the Bills could have known about it (since other teams did) and arguably should have known about it.  But did they know?

 

I think part of what is eating at McDermott right now is that they honestly didn't - or at least, knew part of it but not all.  Perhaps Araiza told them there was an incident involving sex with a young woman who said she was a college student, but turned out to be under 18.  Perhaps Araisa did not tell them that the same young woman alleges she was gang raped later that night at the same party.  Perhaps he did not disclose this, even when he read the 3 June LA Times article that spurred him to hire a defense attorney.

 

I think, in hindsight, part of what Beane was reflecting over "we have to review our procedures" for drafting players, when he traded Cody Ford, may have been some procedural gap or judgement call on the part of the area scout about what to write up on a 6th round prospect, which either failed to include this information or failed to uncover it.

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Is this trolling, I’m old and not even sure I know what trolling is, but are their other people here who share the opinion that ending a woman’s life isn’t as bad as sexually assaulting them ?

I'm not trolling, but don't recontextualize my statement. There's no need for less accurate descriptions.

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3 minutes ago, Rc2catch said:

There’s not much any of them can say. They can’t give any info of what they know right now. The only statement to make really is if they decide to cut him 


Yup.  Can’t imagine “We’ve done an investigation and currently believe Matt Araiza when he says he is innocent of these accusations” will go over well.  
 

Because that’s all they could say if they aren’t cutting him.  Due to this being an ongoing lawsuit, they can’t exactly trot out a lawyer to start giving an opening statement outlining why they feel that way.  
 

 

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If he's still on the roster as practice starts that tells me they aren't cutting him. I'm really interested to see what the Bills say. If they're still sticking with him they must have pretty strong evidence that he had nothing to do with the alleged rape.

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If he's still on the roster as practice starts that tells me they aren't cutting him. I'm really interested to see what the Bills say. If they're still sticking with him they must have pretty strong evidence that he had nothing to do with the alleged rape.

 

With the current timing of things I honestly don't expect them to cut him separately from the rest of the final cutdowns.

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With the current timing of things I honestly don't expect them to cut him separately from the rest of the final cutdowns.

Plus he is a punter, though he is a rookie there's not much he has to be ready for. I could see them giving him personal time off and not having him at practice for the distraction alone.

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3 minutes ago, Captain Caveman said:

 

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/08/27/bills-investigation-of-matt-araiza-didnt-include-information-from-alleged-victims-perspective/

 

 

That’s pretty vague.  It shows that the Bills did in fact speak to her lawyer.  It’s safe to say her lawyer told them plenty about the allegations…he doesn’t say that he made his client available to them and he doesn’t say what he would have told the team if they called back that he didn’t tell them initially. I think you’re putting too much faith in the word of the esteemed Mr Gilleon.

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Given all the attention around Araiza's spot on the roster I think it is only fair that the Bills make an exception to this rule. The fans deserve to know what's going on.

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4 minutes ago, Rc2catch said:

There’s not much any of them can say


Agree… But as owner, he should be visible, and like McD, express empathy for all involved… and his confidence in the ongoing internal investigation and upcoming decision process… Doubt Jerry Jones would be hiding… Unimpressed…

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1 minute ago, HappyDays said:

Given all the attention around Araiza's spot on the roster I think it is only fair that the Bills make an exception to this rule. The fans deserve to know what's going on.

If he is practicing, or not, just opens things up to even more rumors and questions before mcd speaks 

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