NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Pash claims no one from the league promised Adrian Peterson any credit against his pending suspension toward ‘time served’ in 2014.
Just a day after it was revealed that Troy Vincent told Adrian Peterson he’d get credit for all the games he’s missed in 2014 stemming from his child abuse misdemeanor, another NFL executive has stepped in to contradict that report. Executive VP Jeff Pash came on Mike & Mike this morning to say that no one from the NFL promised Peterson anything of the sort.
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“I’m quite confident that no one told him that,” Pash said, via Pro Football Talk.
The wording there is a little suspect. Pash isn’t stating that he knows as much, so there’s a little wiggle room there, but Pash’s ensuing comments do speak to the idea that the league is set on roasting Peterson for his charges one way or another.
“He hasn’t served any time. He was on paid leave. He was being paid for the entire time that he was out. In no corporate setting is that considered discipline. We don’t consider it discipline here. We didn’t take his money back as part of the action that the commissioner decided on yesterday. So the concept of ‘time served,’ I think, is a misnomer here,” Pash said.
So even if someone did actually mention ‘time served’, that doesn’t mean it applies to games played. The NFL won’t try to recoup Peterson’s salary from the last ten weeks when he’s been on the exempt list, but it seems they also won’t count those games missed against their suspension ruling, which takes Peterson out for the 2014 season and possibly into 2015, pending an appeal.
Someone may or may not have told Peterson something about consideration for punishment served in 2014, but it likely won’t matter now. Adrian Peterson is almost certainly done for the 2014 season and whenever he is reinstated, he’ll have a long uphill battle to repair his public image to even convince the Minnesota Vikings to further honor their contract with Peterson, which at this point doesn’t seem likely.
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