Matt Derrick

Rasheed Rice could be considered a failure in some ways.

you know, they've had some players that they have struggled with.

So it's not a perfect record.

It's not that you're saying that this is an environment, an organization, and a locker room that you can simply drop any player into and that they're going to conform and follow the straight and narrow.

That hasn't necessarily been the case.

And this is different.

I mean, this isn't an accusation of violence.

It's not, like you said, I mean, there's a difference between careless and reckless and

There's a probably, it sounds like a distinction between what happened in this case with Ruben Bain versus what happened with Rasheed Rice.

But, you know, it also gets in a little bit, too.

Again, if teams didn't know about this and this is something that Ruben Bain, I understand why he would want to hide it and wouldn't want to reveal it.

But, again, I think he would probably have said more about his character if he had said, hey, wait a minute, you know,

You need to know about this.

And somewhat you could say, once again, very, very different circumstances, but it reminds me a bit of the Clyde Edwards Hilaire situation.

Andy Reid didn't know about his situation and the issue that he had in college when he had to defend his life and his friend's life.

And

But Clyde knew that he was going to get asked about that, and it addressed it and everything, and there was no hiding it.

I mean, people knew about that, so there's a little bit of that difference there.

But again, if that's the case that NFL teams did not know about this and Bain wasn't necessarily being direct about it, that's a concern.

They are, and we don't have perfect information, and people make mistakes and judgments.