The flow of National Football League players being suspended for domestic assault incidents is in danger of turning into a tsunami of bad news for the teams.
And as one team after another has to deal with losing a prominent player, it raises a question: how many teams have players on their team who are in this kind of trouble and that the teams are hiding with fingers crossed that they don’t lose a player to some kind of suspension?
The pressure to win in the NFL is, with just a 16-game season, incredible. Teams have to put up with injuries that can be seriously harmful to any roster or game plan.
Losing another player -- be it because domestic abuse charges, or drug charges or some other kind of miscreant behavior -- is a frightening prospect team.
I’m not saying it’s happening, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find a team or two hiding a troubling incident with the hope of keeping the player playing and the certain firestorm of media at bay.
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