Colt player suspended for season, possibly Rodgers
 

Adam Schefter reports that the Receiver has been suspended for betting on NFL games.

If he bet on Colts games, he might be looking at a lifetime ban.

Are you talking about the fake Schefter twitter account?


There are a lot of people speculating that it is Pittman but I haven't seen any confirmation yet.

Lots of reporting on this, yes, a player is under investigation. Pittman was named by a fake Schefter account. All Adam Schefter has reported is below.

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The NFL is investigating an unnamed Colts player for possible violations of the league's gambling policy.

I hope it was not him.

Damn. Is this why we signed another receiver?

Hopefully Pittman is just speculation.

Whomever it is, if he bet on Colt games his career is done. Bummer. I am old enough to remember Alex Karras being suspended not to mention good ole Art Schlichter.

I’m not sure if it was a fake account; I hope it was. A friend messaged me the story, and I gullibly accepted it at face value.

If it was a fake account, it’s one more reason to spit on Elon Musk as he drives by in the Tesla truck, which seems to have a lot in common with nuclear fusion…it’s forever two years away from being ready.

One reason I fell for it is the fact that Pittman falls wihin the description of the unknown player under investigation…he’s a recognizable player, but not a star. That would seem to rule out guys like Nelson, Leonard and Taylor.

It’d also seem to rule out half of the starting lineup; after all, who’s ever heard of Bernard Raimann, Will Fries, or Jelani Woods?

Any speculation worth more than a plugged nickel?

JMV was reporting that the word is- it is a player with a name casual fans will recognize, but it not a "star". Doubt that means Pittman- and sure AF hope not. I don't think he is every going to be an NFL definition of a 1, but he is our 1 and has the tools a guy like Richardson can surely use in his early development.

JMV also said the report is "hundreds of bets" including a lot on Colts games. Done for 4 sure if so.

We'll see how good his sources are:


https://twitter.com/TheDestinAdams/s...38052567130114

Look at this link, picture of the tweet from fake Schefter account. You can tell by the @adamschefterre misspelling. :cool:

https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/s...280323/photo/1

Dude has to be real stupid to blow millions of dollars for a gambling high.

Who is this guy?

Holder also writes that it is Rodgers:


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ssible-betting

Could one of the mods change the thread title?

If this is true then he's done :cool:

No doubt. If true he pissed away $2.8M that he was scheduled to make this year :confused:

Got it. I almost changed it to "Isaiah Rodgers is one dumbass"

Probably lifetime ban.

I've seen enough to believe it's officially Rodgers. That's a totally separate conversation than the merits of the rule itself. It's a rule, it's known. No excuse for dumb shit like that. Pretty surprising.

That said... unless he was betting on his team to lose, I've never understood the outrage with this kind of thing. Especially with the level of advertising the NFL does incessantly pushing gambling onto it's consumers.

But again, that doesn't excuse Rodgers.

I'm not necessarily defending Rodgers, well I kinda am because I like him and we need him, but the NFL brought this on themselves with their neverending chase of $. I expect more of this to come (in all major sports). NFL revenue increased 40% since 2019 because of sports betting.

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In addition, I don't really trust having pro teams in Las Vegas. The Golden Knights (NHL) have been winning their division and/or in the playoffs since their inception. Hmm. IF the Raiders and (future) A's suddenly are good, questions will be asked. When was the last time the A's were good? 1990? The 70s with Reggie Jackson and Rollie Fingers? Billy Bean days for a while I guess.

Vegas is also going to run out of water.

Rodgers statement on Twitter

https://twitter.com/rodgers_isaiah/s...94638899658752

Well, shit.

He is done as a player with this team. Time to move on. To bad, wasn't a deep spot to begin with.

Colts' Isaiah Rodgers apologizes for gambling investigation
 

https://www.indystar.com/story/sport...n/70291550007/

He has talked and written about the Colts for several years for various websites and platforms. So he does have legit sources. However, you always need to keep in mind when reading these alternate media sources (vs traditional media) that they probably won't use as strict of vetting processes and procedures of sources as traditional media. So they will occasionally "break the story" before traditional media but they might not have the whole story or everything 100% correct.

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And/or in some cases, completely fabricate a story under a phony account (somebody pretending to be a sportswriter, somebody pretending to be a professional athlete, etc.)

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I'm curious how long the FO knew about this. Can't help but look back at the draft and how heavy we went at DB (four total, three CB's) and wonder.

I know we were already thin at CB, but still.

Someone asked Holder about this and he responded with:

https://twitter.com/HolderStephen/st...88422082240514

What decent free agent corners are still available and will we sign one? Off the top of my head we have Moore, Flowers(?), and three rookies.

Tony Brown is the only other player on the roster that i can think of that has any experience with the Colts at least. Maybe we picked up some random guys in the off season who may have seen a little game time, that i am unaware of, but no-one of any real note.

Here is a list of Free Agent corners, scroll down a little bit.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/cornerback/

There are a few "names", Marcus Peters, Troy Hill, Kyle Fuller, Logan Ryan, but are they any good now?

Chappell listed the current CB room with the (lack of) NFL experience:

https://twitter.com/mchappell51/stat...03379472687104


https://twitter.com/mchappell51/stat...04693510393856

I don't want stupid players on my team! It sounds like Rodgers is a very stupid player.

I'm not going to lie....I'm glad it is Rodgers and not Pittman! Poor Pittman, why is this guy so hated? LOL No player on our team gets cheap shotted more than Pittman, if a player can let up on a hit they never do on Pittman, and I notice fans on opposing teams hate this guy! No surprise that he was the one they picked out to falsely accuse!:D

Marcus Peters is the best football player available at CB and Ballard has history... but he's a shit head and not a size freak like Bradley likes (of course neither is Rodgers).

Who's next best? Ronald Darby?

I think Pittman was just a little unlucky with the timing of this news and the transaction wire.

Earlier in the morning, the Colts announced that they signed another WR (Perriman).

So there was a lot of speculation on-line that the person involved was a WR.

And what name would be the most click-baity of all the WR's? The WR1.

The speculation wasn't only on Pittman - there were other WR names thrown out there, too, at the time before other details started to surface.