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05-01-2022, 12:55 PM

Quote: @AGRforever said:

@StickyBun said:

@AGRforever said:
Time will tell if he was the monster portrayed or a horny teenager or nothing at all.

The story will resurface if he was as shitty as the article made him out to be.
If he owns it when questioned by the media, it will be fine. Hopefully he has matured greatly. I like his upside, he can be a starter.
Correct me if im wrong. With charges dropped, couldn’t he be recharged with new evidence? I’m sure his lawyer told him exactly what to say when questioned.

Depends upon the applicable statute of limitations (probably already passed). More likely he was told not to address the issue because if he said the two sisters lied, they could sue him for defamation and all the allegation would then become part of that litigation.

05-01-2022, 01:10 PM

Quote: @Mike Olson said:
I think in this town with its history of having sex abuse and rape scandals in its sports scene you find a different player to draft. There were MANY players of equal value we could have picked there.

Why would Minneapolis be any different than any other town in this regard? I'm sure the team knows about it and they must have been satisfied with his response to questions about it. Very young people make stupid mistakes, this one ain't pretty but again charges were dropped.

05-01-2022, 01:24 PM

Ridiculous to me that everyone just assumes he's guilty of what he's been accused of.

05-01-2022, 01:31 PM

Kwesi said they did a lot of work on his background, but I personally wouldn’t have had the guy on my board. In my opinion, this was a poor pick in regards to where it was made.

05-01-2022, 01:34 PM

Quote: @Havoc1649 said:
Kwesi said they did a lot of work on his background, but I personally wouldn’t have had the guy on my board. In my opinion, this was a poor pick in regards to where it was made.

Yes, that's a more valid debate. I've seen some recaps giving this pick a C grade, but again hard to say yet. He's a LSU kid so he's talented.

05-01-2022, 01:37 PM

Quote: @Mike Olson said:
I think in this town with its history of having sex abuse and rape scandals in its sports scene you find a different player to draft. There were MANY players of equal value we could have picked there.

Yes, off draft board completely.

05-01-2022, 02:13 PM

Quote: @StickyBun said:

@Mike Olson said:
I think in this town with its history of having sex abuse and rape scandals in its sports scene you find a different player to draft. There were MANY players of equal value we could have picked there.
Why would Minneapolis be any different than any other town in this regard? I'm sure the team knows about it and they must have been satisfied with his response to questions about it. Very young people make stupid mistakes, this one ain't pretty but again charges were dropped.

I am thinking that thought might be in relationship to the U of MN where Antoine Winfield Jr. was one of the players charged then cleared. There were suspensions, a countersuit, a coach fired and a settlement.

05-01-2022, 02:29 PM

There could be any number of ways the incident went down. I just don't want to deal with it when following my team. I follow sports as a distraction, If I want speculate on stuff like this I'll start watching "The Bold and The Beautiful" and see if Flo will get back in Wyatt's good graces. Enough is enough, is there no escape!

05-01-2022, 02:39 PM

Quote: @BigAl99 said:
There could be any number of ways the incident went down. I just don't want to deal with it when following my team. I follow sports as a distraction, If I want speculate on stuff like this I'll start watching "The Bold and The Beautiful" and see if Flo will get back in Wyatt's good graces. Enough is enough, is there no escape!

O c'mon now...

We all know how easy it would be for Flo to get back in Wyatt's good graces for goodness sakes!

05-01-2022, 02:53 PM

Quote: @MaroonBells said:
Ridiculous to me that everyone just assumes he's guilty of what he's been accused of.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I've seen guys drop much farther for less. They are allegations (charges dropped and docs sealed) so only a handful of people know what happened (or didn't happen). Just seems like a bad value to take him in the 2nd round... he is a good prospect but there were talented players there with clean backgrounds and no incest rape allegations in their past. It's ok to question if we should have drafted him when we did (or at all).