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What are you talking about, I wonder? Players have been suspended for a myriad of reasons, and chiefly, one, not all of them have been charged with a crime to drive the impetus to suspend them.

There are rules in the NFL, just as there are rules in society, and in most profit-minded organaizations (I'm suspecting, even, yes, at Google). So to justify a suspension of player, they first need to be charged and guilty of a crime? I'm not sure that was the case for the three most recent examples of wide receivers who were suspended from games to begin the season, those like: Steve Smith of Carolina, B. Marshall when with Denver, and this year, S. Holmes with New York. Neither of them were charged with a crime, yet they were all suspended.

I suspect, and as much as I hate to even state it aloud because it's obviosuly been made clear from the onset of this discussion, that you, Dave, are a homer, a true fan, willing to ignore the reading between the lines of the very news you are giving us to read. Also, what's with the talk of Holmes as well, and citing a fantasy article as the wide-reaching implications of the trade?

Sure, I'm sure a fair majority of us here partaking in this talk about play fantasy, but that has not much to do about what the NFL and the Steelers' investors/owners now see Ben Roethlisberger as: tarnished, irresponsible, liability. He may be a winner on the field, and able to escape tackles and make something incredible happen every once in a while, but he only does that but an hour a week for a few months out of the year. It's not good to put your faith and your millions of dollars of investment in a guy if you can't even trust he man once he's out of your sights, and the trouble he seems to get himself involved with doesn't stop with just him, but when the news breaks out, do you know the words that come out of every reporter's mouth first? It is unequivocally the "organaization (NFL) and team (Steelers') position (quarterback)", each and every time when an athlete is rumoured to be up a creek and in heat.

The facts are right there for you to face them: Ben Roethlisberger brought this mess on himself, and not for the first time, and if Guccilvr is right, then his employers are just about sick of it.

If today really is the draft, and the Rooney family is indeed listening to offers about trading him, I'd say the percentage of it actually happening are a high 8% chance, and it will be for a top-10 pick, maybe with a side bonus.

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