Frey's NFL picks Week 13: Always More Competent than NFL Security

The NFL's Head of Security reacts to the fact that a hallweay full of cameras actually saw something.

Prior to venturing into the always dangerous and sometimes entertaining realm of prognostication, I wold like to take a moment to express my disgust with the baboonery of everyone involved in the Kareem Hunt fiasco.

But officer, she said mean things!

Obviously, I'll start with the Chiefs' second most egregious perpetrator of violence against women (Tyreek Hill still occupies the top spot), Kareem Hunt.

According to Hunt, he and his entourage were mortified to discover that the victim, who they invited on their party bus and plied with liquor until after 3:00 AM, was only 19 years old.

Upon discovering this startling news, they asked her to leave, whereupon she spontaneously launched into a diatribe of racially charged rants and vile name calling.  Hill valiantly fought of his own group of friends who attempted to restrain him, knocked the woman down with a totally legal hit showing perfect form, and then returned to kick her in the butt as she sat dazed on the floor.  

Immediately after the hit, one of Kareem’s erstwhile comrades wisely stole the cell phone from another woman filming what was going down.

If you have the IQ of an envelope and believe Hunt’s version of events, “she called us names” is still not a viable defense for assaulting anyone, much less a college Freshman that you have been trying to get drunk all night.

Incidentally, the young woman assaulted says they were partying all night together and Hunt tried to pimp her out to one of his buddies.  When she refused, they belittled her and physically removed her from the party.  She was drunk, angry, and embarrassed and became very belligerent.

Now on to the Cleveland PD who show up shortly after the events went down.

Hearing a wildly disparate set of interviews about what transpired, they ignore the hallway full of cameras, label the assault a  “he said, she said”, protect the local famous athlete, and press no charges.

They later said they didn’t ask to see the plethora of footage because whatever took place (and I guess only Sherlock Holmes is astute enough to figure this one out) was unlikely to be a felony.

This may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  Well played Cleveland PD.  Well played.

   

Finally, the NFL, a multi-Billion dollar company whose crack team of security professionals and investigators can tell you what every goat farmer in Afghanistan ate for breakfast the morning of August 4^th 2006, was (yet again) unable to obtain video footage painting one of their stars in bad light.

It is now reported that the NFL told the Chiefs to stop trying to get the tapes of the assault because the investigation was now a league matter.

I am tempted to call this a cover up by both the NFL and the police but will settle for “willful ignorance” in accordance with Hanlan’s Razor to “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”

In the future, I want TMZ to handle all investigations for everyone going forward.  They seem to be the only entity of note capable of doing anything meaningful in these circumstances.

I’m too hacked off to keep going on this topic and am out of time.  Let’s pick.

Baltimore Ravens @ Atlanta Falcons (+1 ½)

Buffalo Bills (+5 ½) @ Miami Dolphins

Cleveland Browns @ Houston Texans (-5)

Kansas City Chiefs @ Oakland Raiders (+14 ½)

Week 11:  2-2

2018 Record: 24-23-1

Trap Game Record: 6-6