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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Sorry, I meant JQ.

There is little evidence he lied, outside a tweet stating he lied, for the reason I stated above.

This is the only issue I'm having with this whole situation (outside of the situation it revolves around, of course). The report lays out pretty clearly what happened and who was responsible and for what. Everyone who was in the room is responsible for (as you put it) the best case scenario: ignoring sexual harassment (and maybe in words lighter than that). You can say everyone in the room is equally responsible for not doing anything, but there were people there whose responsibility it is to make those decision and people there whose responsibility it isn't. I can't see holding them equally accountable. Then you have HR, which offered Aldrich the opportunity to resign and save his career or be investigated. Why isn't this more talked about than the meeting? John McDonough drove this entire situation and from all accounts, was not afraid to hold control of decisions outside his scope of President and he did nothing. He told people in that meeting that he would handle it, and he did nothing. He directed HR to keep it quiet, and so they did the equivalent of nothing.

I don't agree with placing all of the blame on this one meeting and holding everyone in it equally responsible, because in no way were they equally responsible. It's not that it's unfair to guys like Chevy and JQ, because their involvement was not admirable, but by treating them the same as guys like Bowman and McDonough, we let Bowman and McDonough off the hook for just how responsible they were.

And I don't agree with pointing to players who were not mentioned in the report and who do not fit the description of those mentioned in the report and placing blame and doubt on them.

We should take the report at face value and trust that Jenner & Block did their job, but I don't see a lot of people doing that. I see a lot of people jumping to conclusions beyond the report, when there's plenty in the report to be upset about.

Sorry, JQ's version makes zero sense. This was his direct underling. which is also why he bears as much responsibility as the GM. Tell me that Q couldn't say "I want him off my staff now" and it wouldn't have happened. Or even "I want him sidelined until this is done".