Should Myles Garrett be criminally charged?
Posted on Nov 21, 2019 10:33am PST
Should Myles Garrett be criminally charged?
The simple answer...No.
His conduct was deplorable and brought shame to his team, the game of
football and Myles Garrett himself. I am fully aware that if this happened
off the field and Mason Rudolph called the police, Myles Garrett would
likely be arrested shorlty after or at least have a warrant out seeking
his arrest. What makes it any different is that it happened on the field
and not the street? Football is known, designed and loved for its hard
hitting, direct contact, high energy, emotional nature of the game. To
take an act like this, that was likely fueled mostly from emotion and
adrenal and now call it criminal changes the game in it’s entirety.
Once we begin to criminalize such conduct in football, it would only be
fair to do the same for hockey, basketball, lacrosse, soccer and all other
contact sports. Here, the NFL is the proper authority to offer sanctions
in a manner justified to its rules and regulations that will penalize
and deter such behavior in a greater way than the criminal justice system
would. There is a high practicality, that based on the public figure status
of Mr. Garrett, if charges were filed, if he even sees the inside a courtroom,
the likely outcome would be some form of probation, likely non-reporting
and a fine that wouldn’t cause a person in his tax bracket to blink an eye.
We are truly grateful that Mason Rudolph did not sustain any serious bodily
injury from this act of stupidity. We hope
Mr. Garrett learns and grows from this incident.
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