aldon smith met with goodell yesterday and you'd be hard pressed to know it if you were to go to nfl.com.

3 felony gun charges reduced to misdemeanors (really?...how does that happen?), a DUI and a false bomb threat at LAX. in the article the niners are expecting him to get 8 games but are hoping for 4-6 game suspension.

first off how do the feds not charge this guy with a crime being he made a bomb threat in a national airport? second how do you get 3 felonies (gun charges) dropped to misdemeanors? and the most disturbing getting a DUI at 6:30 in the morning all get reducedto where he spends 10 nites in jail and pays 2 thousand dollars in fines?

john q. public would be looking at a year easy.

and i believe goodell would face even more criticism if he goes lighter on smith than he does gordon. he's in a no-win situation right now considering how they dropped the ball on the ray rice deal.

@westside-steve said:

Maybe but I wouldn't think it was a pattern of behavior if he was able to not smoke the stupid shit even while his homies were.

WSS

@comeonman said:

Except if Godell rules that it a pattern of behavior with his iron fist, like someone mentioned earlier. I would bet it all that this would be his basis for suspension

Maybe but I wouldn't think it was a pattern of behavior if he was able to not smoke the stupid shit even while his homies were.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

given the facts of the case I say any suspension is a screwing.

if he had failed both rounds with a high enough level that it was undoubtably smoking then a year would be fair.

WSS

if he had failed both rounds with a high enough level that it was undoubtably smoking then a year would be fair.

WSS

Just tell us already

@broganreynik said:

Exactly.

@broganreynik said:

This.

Thanks for clearing up some of what I was trying to say, lol.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

What I am saying is stating "it's unfair for ..." is a childish, liberal, everything should be equal for every situation argument. It's like arguing that its not fair that Florida and Texas don't have state income taxes so players can make more money off the same salary in those states, theoretically, giving those teams a higher salary cap. I don't want to get too political on this forum.

If a player is getting 8 games playing for Atlanta he isn't getting 0 playing for Oakland.

its childish because it reminds me of an argument you would have had with your parents when you were a child. "that's not fair, daddy." "well, the world isn't fair, son."

@downsouthkc said:

So you think that two players commit the same violation, one in CA, the other in GA. One gets suspended 8 games, the other none is fair? It should be a uniform punishment for everyone, hardly childish.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Not trying to be rude but that seems like a childish argument.

@miktoxic said:

not really. i think you'll see womens groups doing some type of on camera protests. wearing pink shirts with some anti-NFL saying on them. i'll guarantee it.

don't fuck with a pissed off lady. you should know that by now.

How well do you think it will go over when rice comes out in pink in October?

@diehardbrownsfan said:

In this particular instance, I happen to believe in the right of the corporation to discipline to the letter of the agreement between union and business. That doesn't mean however, that it's the way it always works... And it doesn't mean that it's always (as you said) fair.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Is it fair that one player would pay more in taxes than another? Even if they made the same annual salary and spent that money the same way?