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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The "no tolerance" of any deliberate contact made with an official. In virtually all other instances, there is a substantial amount of evidence to suggest that in each one, all contact with the official was either accidental or incidental. There is a lot more room for reasonable doubt in the Wideman case.
There is very little doubt that the contact between Joseph and the official was anything but accidental. The same cannot be said for Wideman and Henderson.
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Cujo's actions that lead to the contact were very deliberate/intentional. Lucic's punch was very deliberate/intentional. Neither were trying to make contact with the official, but their reckless actions were deliberate. There is no evidence to suggest that Wideman's actions leading to the contact with the official were deliberate/intentional, but his split second reaction was reckless. Probably a bad analogy, but all three would likely fall into 'manslaughter' if the victim had died.
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Even Deadspin is getting in on this.
Wideman is expected to say he was “woozy” or “foggy” from a hit immediately preceding the check—that is, he was concussed and he didn’t know what he’s doing.
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Woozy/foggy does not always = concussed
Concussed almost always - woozy/foggy
I don't get how people don't understand this anymore.