He's done. At least a year. In this environment.... As long as Rice is out ADP is out.
The slope the NFL is sliding down is going to get out of control. Wait until the next DUI arrest. If there is no suspension some MADD activist looking for a headline is going to start screaming.
As Peterson has stated, this is the kind of discipline he received when he was younger. That isn't in the 50s. That's in the 90s. The pictures look horrible, but I seriously doubt there is nearly as much concensus on this as there is on the Rice case. This is an issue the NFL shouldn't want to get anywhere near in any capacity.
The genie is out of the bottle.
The Rice situation is a joke. PTI for a third degree offense is part of the NJ legal system. IT was a perfectly acceptable sentence given the circumstances including an uncooperative witness. The NFL then goes and punishes him more than the state can and would have. And people got up in arms because it wasn't enough. Then we see the video and today's culture of having to be the more outrages person in the room took over, social media exploded and a waive of stupidity has now awashed so many things that Roger Goodell could lose his job because..... he punished Rice more than the state did but it's not enough to..... the very people who helped created the PTI law to begin with.
And in that charged atmosphere we get this. ADP is going to get hammered because of the time his infraction was made public. Sometimes a perfect storm just catches you and you have no defense to it. It's stupid and the NFL shouldn't get involved. But it started getting itself involved in off the field stuff and slowly but surely that monster has now overtaken its daily operations.
Neither Rice nor ADP deserve to lose their livelihood over this but it looks like they are going to so that the social media frenzy of making sure everyone knows how outraged you are about something has just gotten too big and while everyone I'm sure hates it on some level.... the people that make the money, the sponsors, aren't going to take a chance. We've said it time and time again - if you get in the way of making money they are going to get rid of you so that you aren't in the way of making money anymore. Everyone in the NFL.... every single commissioner, front office person, GM, coach and player, is replaceable in the face of a $10 billion dollar business model.
