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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 447488" data-attributes="member: 6211">Well because the NFL pays White, it's misleading for anyone to call her "independent." There's a difference between offering sound legal advice to a client (typically in private) and making a remarkably misleading public statement that exaggerates the nature of the primary evidence against Hargrove in a move clearly calculated to sway public perception. Can't say I'm proud of such pandering by an attorney when it so clearly bastardizes the reality of the actual statement. (Morningwood explains this nicely above: the statement was clearly drafted very carefully to avoid directly confirming the existence of the bounty program and/or any direct participation by Hargrove. The statement was clearly drafted by a lawyer and an attorney such as White should have known better than to characterize it as she did.) Again, a more public discipline process before a neutral arbiter would probably eliminate such tactics. Since fans would be able to evaluate the body of evidence themselves, it would eliminate the rampant speculation about the league manufacturing a case against these players. And it's much harder to complain about punishments being excessive when they're levied by a neutral party...</blockquote>

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