Quote:Not sure how that is worded in the contract, but that will be Baltimore's argument.

 

A judge will have to sort it out. The wishy washy way the league handled the incident may work in Rice's favor. It will be hard to say the personal conduct magnitude is justifiable to withhold his salary when the league gave him a pass to begin with. The end result of the altercation was already known. The video just turned it into a PR nightmare. It will be hard for the NFL to make a case for flip flopping the interpretation of the CBA based on public outcry. They basically already agreed to pay his salary after the incident was known. It's going to be hard for them to go back on that.

For the moment Baltimore is in the clear, they don't have to pay him while he's suspended.  If a court strikes down the suspension, then he'll probably get the guaranteed portion of the contract. 

 

I think it all comes down to the video (why do we still call it that when everything's digital?) and proving whether or not the league had access to it originally.

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