John Waylon

McKenzie himself seemingly shoveling blame in the team’s direction.

Possibly, but if they’re that innocent they should be able to at least appeal to the league then. He’s essentially passing some blame to the team and that’s a weird flex. Maybe they didn’t respond well to being benched, but it was not shocking. Whatever it is I can’t see the team being in the wrong. That strikes me as the least of all possible outcomes.

What does McKenzie have to lose by telling the truth? Same goes for Brown. The team isn’t saying anything. They’ve cleaned out their lockers so what do they have to lose by defending themselves?

Pacers need to show some kind of sign of life tonight against Charlotte. We haven’t been the same since we beat the Bucs in Vegas.

Well, yeah. This makes me wonder if they were caught sharing information or something of that nature. But it could also be a fight. Maybe it was not a practice fight but something beyond that. That would also seem more appropriate than letting them finish their seasons elsewhere. Make them sit out and explain to their new teams why next spring.

I tend to doubt that scenario as well because marijuana and the league’s stance on it was one of the main areas of the CBA where the league made concessions during the 2020 changes. On the list of substances, it’s gotta be at the bottom of what they’re chasing these days, and without a positive test from the league, how would the team know? This had to have been something football-related in the building or else we would already have heard otherwise. Too many people are in the dark for it to have been anything outside the building.

Here’s Ballard gushing about Brown prior to the season. Though this is not the exact comment I am referencing, it still clearly establishes Ballard’s love of Tony Brown. https://www.colts.com/news/general-manager-chris-ballard-cornerbacks-kenny-moore-regular-season I’m trying to find the exact quote, but I can’t seem to right this moment. It had to have been after one of those really bad games from Brown because the answer stood out. In the worst way.

Player on the field. I can’t remember exactly when Ballard said it, but it caught my ear. It may have been early in the season after he’d started one of those games and got absolutely rolled out there. It was an impassioned defense from Ballard of Brown. It speaks to what Ballard appears to want in his players. He definitely was not talking about Brown as a player. He was making the point of how he was a dog (that may have even been the exact verbiage,) and he wished everyone on the team had his mentality. Brown has very much been a Ballard guy. Other than whatever has gone on here I haven’t heard any rumors about Brown’s personality, so I cannot speak to any of that. I had honestly just hoped that he was a good teammate and good for the team with the way Ballard stood up for him, even if he was a complete liability once he entered a game. But there’s definitely something else going on as well. It makes me look at the video where the players repeatedly said he was one they wouldn’t want to sit next to on a long flight differently as well. Even as tongue-in-cheek as that was, his name coming up repeatedly in those answers is curious.

That seems sus. That would be a felony and prompt an investigation from local government agencies, and their punishment would be reliant on the findings of that investigation. Whatever has gone on does not seem to be something involving legal reprimand of any sort and that leads me to believe this is something entirely internal. The punishment does not fit the crime of being late to practice/meetings, or even skipping one entirely. With the lack of any outside involvement whatever went on it had to be egregious within the football setting.

I tend to think not at this point. The league would need to be notified and involved. If a team tried to keep such an infraction from the league and letting the league handle it there would be major problems. It would look like the team was trying to cover for the players and keep it from becoming a(nother) national story, and that’s gonna make the team look worse in the end than simply saying “we got a couple more * here, drop the hammer on them”. Whatever they did was localized enough to the facility that the league didn’t have the authority to act.

I wasn’t singling anyone out, and you were not definitely not alone in raising the alarm. It was an all-time oddball of a thread (it didn’t even get a pruning from the mods, it was one those that went sideways enough that it just culled from the herd entirely.) If Decker wanted to go with frank that just raises a red flag. Frank himself shouldn’t have wanted to go with frank. Now I assume he’s out there in Charlotte still, sans frank, and now finds himself under the care of tepper. That clown show went to general expectations even if it was just a truncated version. But my original thought was not all pith, however. There’s legs to it. McKenzie and Brown are both new additions this year. They didn’t go through whatever process Baker was involved with here, and they’ve done something to the level that they have been ostracized this way… I won’t go as far as to say that Baker could have prevented this sort of thing, but it was indeed his job to attempt it… It’s also troubling to me in another sense. There’s been a Ballard comment all season that has echoed in the back of my mind about Tony Brown. It was very early on in the season or even in the preseason. Ballard was talking about Brown and said “I want a team full of Tony Browns”. It had to have been at some point after we saw how truly bad Brown could be out there, because as soon as he uttered the words I stopped what I was doing and looked on in horror at the thought. The point, however, was not that he wanted a team full of that talent, he wanted more of the mentality and whatever else it was that Brown brought to the table. Which turns out to include… whatever this situation is. Hopefully our GM doesn’t realize his dream of having a team full of guys like that…

The team is probably rounding up a posse this afternoon to run these guys out of town before sundown… Whatever it is they did, it got them nuclear heat.

I didn’t make the stink. I just witnessed it. In all of it’s deleted embarrassment.

I’m surprised the crowd who heralded Brian Decker’s departure as dark clouds on the horizon aren’t wringing their hands again connecting that to this.

I’m not upset with either instance.

This game a lot less clear with the change at QB we’re facing. The unknown is not an advantage for our defense.

The Bucs could certainly beat the Jags next week. They’re hot right now.

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And the division suddenly opens up.

I may not even have to sit out in the car and listen to the rest of this one once I get to Dukes.

I live an hour out of Indy and I was closer to Johnson than anyone on our defense was.

Welp. I’m about the leave the house to head to Dukes and not a moment too soon. Goodness.

Oh come off of it. Over 50% of the tickets are listed on secondary markets and available for purchase worldwide. They don’t sell every ticket to every seat at the local box office anymore. This is such a stupid sentiment.

The path of least resistance continues to be directly though our defense.