NFL Discipline For Taylor

[MonkManiac]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

OK thanks for the clarification. But when it comes down to it, it's really splitting hairs when you're talking about the difference between "no contest" and a guilty plea. Either way you're sentenced as guilty, and you go down in the books as having committed the offense. In terms of the NFL's policy, I don't see any reason why they should punish Taylor any differently for a "no contest" compared to a "guilty" plea.

It's not splitting hairs - one plea admits guilt, the other does not. That's an important distinction.

The NFL must (and, I believe, will) take this distinction into account, because you can't punish someone for committing a crime when there is no finding in any court of law that they actual committed that crime. I'd be truly interested to see how the NFL can justify a severe punishment against ST considering this difference.

Again, I'm really interested to hear if anyone has heard of the types of punishments handed out for a plea of no contest. We've all seen the quote from some NFL source that the typical punishment has been a one or two game suspension and a fine for "similar incidents," but I just don't buy it.