The Official 2017 NFL Season Thread

natural born sinners wrote: »

Mister B. wrote: »

Man, ? that. That sorry-ass cac privileged coach don't need to be NO ONE's head coach anymore. Don't nobody got time for that 7-9 ? .

You kidding me...CLE fans got all the time in the world for that 7-9 ?

Cam stands by Richardson, unhappy with sale

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton plans to stand up for Jerry Richardson amid allegations against the 81-year-old owner, but he's not standing behind his decision to sell the team.

Newton and other team captains met with Richardson on Sunday, prior to the owner saying he planned to sell the Panthers after this season.

That announcement came about six hours after Sports Illustrated published an article that documented allegations against Richardson of workplace misconduct that ranged from sexual harassment to the use of a racial slur to a former Panthers scout.

Newton said he left Sunday's meeting feeling "disgruntled'' that Richardson planned to sell "because this is a person who has enlightened me on so many different types of things, on and off the field.''

Newton emphasized that the allegations against Richardson -- who, according to SI, settled with at least four former employees to keep their accusations private -- are just that: allegations.

Newton made it clear that he takes charges of sexual harassment seriously.

"But allegations, that's a different thing,'' he said.

"In this day and time, it's almost, you're automatically guilty until proven innocent rather than, in the rights of the judicial system, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.

"... Nothing was actually proven. It's just another person's word against another person's word. Needless to say, I still think extremely highly of Mr. Richardson. I don't even know any of the sources. I'm reaching to find it. I take sexual assault extremely serious, and I didn't want to offend anybody by that. Just having a lot of allegations thrown at a person isn't fair.''

Newton admitted that the days since the SI article was published have been difficult.

"I was scared on Sunday. I'm still scared now, not knowing what to even expect,'' he said. "When you hear a report about Mr. Richardson, a person that we all, as an organization, have so much respect for and the people who did come out saying certain things about racial slurs, sexual assault ... it's still allegations.''

Richardson's decision to put the team up for sale didn't sit well with Newton when he was informed of it during Sunday's meeting.

"I didn't approve of it,'' Newton said. "For him to be ejected from my life, from the sports side, I don't even know how to handle that.''

Livefromclayco wrote: »

I was gonna tell one of y'all aints fans to Avi bet but it ain't gonna be a IC next week