No apologies from Greg Hardy as he talks about Tom Brady's wife,Afore the accessible anytime saw the anathema video of above NFL amateur Ray Rice animadversion out his approaching wife, there was the calm abandon case of Greg Hardy.
For those communicable up: Hardy hasn't played able football aback the aboriginal anniversary of the 2014 NFL season, aback if the arresting end was a affiliate of the Carolina Panthers. That's because Hardy, who in July 2014 was begin accusable of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and aggressive to annihilate her, was benched by the Panthers and afterwards placed on the NFL's Exempt/Commissioner's Permission List. Hardy appealed his confidence and asked for a board trial. He connected to aggregate paychecks as he sat abroad from the accessible eye. His confidence was chaotic in February if the woman didn't abet with the commune attorney's office.
Bleacher Report: Hardy proves he hasn't abstruse a thing
Now, afterwards a four-game suspension, Hardy is back, this time with the Dallas Cowboys. He is acceptable to play this anniversary adjoin the New England Patriots. But instead of demography the tactic of Rice, who apologized assorted times for his act of calm violence, Hardy was absolute brassy in the locker allowance this week, calling his time abroad "the a lot of alarming aeon of my life.""I achievement I appear out accoutrements blazing," the man who was already accused of throwing a woman assimilate a couch abounding of advance rifles and aloof that they were loaded said Tuesday. "I'm abounding of action and abounding of juice. I'm accessible to go."
Hardy aswell absurd jokes and talked about Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, according to the The Dallas Morning News.
"I adulation seeing Tom Brady, he's air-conditioned as crap," Hardy said. "Have you apparent his wife? I achievement she comes to the game. I achievement her sister comes to the game, all her accompany appear to the game. One of my admired amateur of the year, guys."
A anchorman told Hardy that the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles is aswell attractive.
"Is she?" Hardy asked. "This affectionate of advice is important. That's how I baddest my Pro Bowls."
Pretty glib for a man who has absent the endure 19 regular-season amateur and two postseason games.
Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones, at the Waldorf Astoria auberge in New York on Wednesday for the NFL owners meeting, was asked by Sports Illustrated about Hardy's comments. He said he was blind of what Hardy said, but if he was told about Hardy's comments about Bundchen, he responded, "When I saw him ally her, Tom went up in my eyes 100%. She's actual actual attractive, and it shows what an outstanding alone Tom is."
On Thursday, Cowboys arch drillmaster Jason Garrett told the media that he has appear to Hardy about his arguable comments.
"We addressed it immediately," Garrett said. "That's not how we wish to accomplish as an organization. The amateur and coaches in our alignment accept that, and we wish to analyze ourselves with our play, not with what we say. We ascertain ourselves by what we do, not by what we say. I anticipate Greg understands that now and that's how we wish to advance traveling forward."
After the NFL owners affair in New York on Wednesday, CNN's Rachel Nichols asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during his account appointment about Hardy:
"I just capital to chase up on Greg Hardy. He's abiding from a abeyance that complex calm violence, and when, affectionate of accustomed the befalling to be apologetic yesterday, instead he came out and said he brand arena the Patriots because Tom Brady's wife is hot. He hopes he brings her accompany to the game. He said he selects added players for the Pro Bowl based on how hot their wives are. What do you anticipate about a adumbrative of the NFL talking about women that way, abnormally advancing aback from a abeyance that he is advancing aback from? And accept you artlessly accomplished out to him or the Cowboys to allocution about it?"
Goodell ducked answering the catechism directly, adage that he was not acquainted of Hardy's comments, but that a lot of NFL players are "good ancestors men.""There's a very, very, actual baby allotment of men who don't chase the policies, and if they don't, they accept to be captivated accountable," Goodell said. "And we'll do aggregate I can to anticipate that -- to arbitrate and to try to accomplish abiding that we get them to chase our behavior and see the way the NFL does things, the standards that we achievement to authority -- and we will not accommodation on that."
Hardy active a one-year arrangement with the Cowboys in March. In April, the NFL abeyant him for 10 amateur for actionable the Personal Conduct Policy. However, Hardy appealed, and the abeyance was bargain to four amateur by adjudicator Harold Henderson.
When the NFL had originally appear Hardy's abeyance (before it was reduced), it said that the league's analysis assured that Hardy abandoned the Personal Conduct Policy by application concrete force adjoin the woman in at atomic four instances: First, he acquired her to acreage in a bathtub. Second, he acquired her to acreage on a daybed that was covered with at atomic four semiautomatic rifles. Third, he placed his easily about her close and activated abundant burden to leave marks. And fourth, he shoved her adjoin a bank in his apartment's access hallway.
"The net aftereffect of these acts was that (the woman) was acutely traumatized and abiding a ambit of injuries, including bruises and scratches on her neck, shoulders, high chest, back, accoutrements and feet," Goodell wrote in a letter to Hardy. "The use of concrete force beneath the affairs present here, adjoin a woman essentially abate than you and in the attendance of powerful, military-style advance weapons, constitutes a cogent act of abandon in abuse of the Personal Conduct Policy."
But instead of absorption over the accomplished or assuming anguish Tuesday, Hardy's alone acknowledgment was for not getting there for teammates. If asked if the endure year was difficult for him, he ashore to football.
"It's harder to get sacks if you're not on the football field," he said. "That's my capital purpose. Football is to get aback there and get a sack and accomplish a aberration for the team, and I wasn't able to do that."
For those communicable up: Hardy hasn't played able football aback the aboriginal anniversary of the 2014 NFL season, aback if the arresting end was a affiliate of the Carolina Panthers. That's because Hardy, who in July 2014 was begin accusable of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and aggressive to annihilate her, was benched by the Panthers and afterwards placed on the NFL's Exempt/Commissioner's Permission List. Hardy appealed his confidence and asked for a board trial. He connected to aggregate paychecks as he sat abroad from the accessible eye. His confidence was chaotic in February if the woman didn't abet with the commune attorney's office.
Bleacher Report: Hardy proves he hasn't abstruse a thing
Now, afterwards a four-game suspension, Hardy is back, this time with the Dallas Cowboys. He is acceptable to play this anniversary adjoin the New England Patriots. But instead of demography the tactic of Rice, who apologized assorted times for his act of calm violence, Hardy was absolute brassy in the locker allowance this week, calling his time abroad "the a lot of alarming aeon of my life.""I achievement I appear out accoutrements blazing," the man who was already accused of throwing a woman assimilate a couch abounding of advance rifles and aloof that they were loaded said Tuesday. "I'm abounding of action and abounding of juice. I'm accessible to go."
Hardy aswell absurd jokes and talked about Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, according to the The Dallas Morning News.
"I adulation seeing Tom Brady, he's air-conditioned as crap," Hardy said. "Have you apparent his wife? I achievement she comes to the game. I achievement her sister comes to the game, all her accompany appear to the game. One of my admired amateur of the year, guys."
A anchorman told Hardy that the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles is aswell attractive.
"Is she?" Hardy asked. "This affectionate of advice is important. That's how I baddest my Pro Bowls."
Pretty glib for a man who has absent the endure 19 regular-season amateur and two postseason games.
Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones, at the Waldorf Astoria auberge in New York on Wednesday for the NFL owners meeting, was asked by Sports Illustrated about Hardy's comments. He said he was blind of what Hardy said, but if he was told about Hardy's comments about Bundchen, he responded, "When I saw him ally her, Tom went up in my eyes 100%. She's actual actual attractive, and it shows what an outstanding alone Tom is."
On Thursday, Cowboys arch drillmaster Jason Garrett told the media that he has appear to Hardy about his arguable comments.
"We addressed it immediately," Garrett said. "That's not how we wish to accomplish as an organization. The amateur and coaches in our alignment accept that, and we wish to analyze ourselves with our play, not with what we say. We ascertain ourselves by what we do, not by what we say. I anticipate Greg understands that now and that's how we wish to advance traveling forward."
After the NFL owners affair in New York on Wednesday, CNN's Rachel Nichols asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during his account appointment about Hardy:
"I just capital to chase up on Greg Hardy. He's abiding from a abeyance that complex calm violence, and when, affectionate of accustomed the befalling to be apologetic yesterday, instead he came out and said he brand arena the Patriots because Tom Brady's wife is hot. He hopes he brings her accompany to the game. He said he selects added players for the Pro Bowl based on how hot their wives are. What do you anticipate about a adumbrative of the NFL talking about women that way, abnormally advancing aback from a abeyance that he is advancing aback from? And accept you artlessly accomplished out to him or the Cowboys to allocution about it?"
Goodell ducked answering the catechism directly, adage that he was not acquainted of Hardy's comments, but that a lot of NFL players are "good ancestors men.""There's a very, very, actual baby allotment of men who don't chase the policies, and if they don't, they accept to be captivated accountable," Goodell said. "And we'll do aggregate I can to anticipate that -- to arbitrate and to try to accomplish abiding that we get them to chase our behavior and see the way the NFL does things, the standards that we achievement to authority -- and we will not accommodation on that."
Hardy active a one-year arrangement with the Cowboys in March. In April, the NFL abeyant him for 10 amateur for actionable the Personal Conduct Policy. However, Hardy appealed, and the abeyance was bargain to four amateur by adjudicator Harold Henderson.
When the NFL had originally appear Hardy's abeyance (before it was reduced), it said that the league's analysis assured that Hardy abandoned the Personal Conduct Policy by application concrete force adjoin the woman in at atomic four instances: First, he acquired her to acreage in a bathtub. Second, he acquired her to acreage on a daybed that was covered with at atomic four semiautomatic rifles. Third, he placed his easily about her close and activated abundant burden to leave marks. And fourth, he shoved her adjoin a bank in his apartment's access hallway.
"The net aftereffect of these acts was that (the woman) was acutely traumatized and abiding a ambit of injuries, including bruises and scratches on her neck, shoulders, high chest, back, accoutrements and feet," Goodell wrote in a letter to Hardy. "The use of concrete force beneath the affairs present here, adjoin a woman essentially abate than you and in the attendance of powerful, military-style advance weapons, constitutes a cogent act of abandon in abuse of the Personal Conduct Policy."
But instead of absorption over the accomplished or assuming anguish Tuesday, Hardy's alone acknowledgment was for not getting there for teammates. If asked if the endure year was difficult for him, he ashore to football.
"It's harder to get sacks if you're not on the football field," he said. "That's my capital purpose. Football is to get aback there and get a sack and accomplish a aberration for the team, and I wasn't able to do that."
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