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Originally Posted by Lewis_D
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The posters who are ok with this hire and believe he's learned from his mistakes, we didn't fully know his role etc. you're completely entitled to your opinion, but my question would be - if the Oilers hired Seabrook would you have the same rhetoric? Or would you use his past to throw pot shots at the Oilers? If the answer is the latter that's where I have a problem. Not accusing anyone in the thread of this btw.
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I've tried to avoid that type of argument becoming a focal point here because I didn't think it would be totally substantive to anything, but the thought obviously crossed my mind and was very hard to ignore.
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The report actually doesn't say if players knew at the time.
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All relevant reports have most if not all the players knowing what had happened by start of training camp. This is around when the taunting of Beach started to happen. So even if he didn't find out until then, he still stood by and listened to the kid get taunted for what happened. He still didn't speak up after finding out and this was all only months old. He still didn't speak up when he realized this was getting rail roaded. And he still hasn't spoken up after the fact.
The flip side, you have guys like Boynton and Sopel being quite clear that everyone knew very early on.
Again, I don't hold Seabrook solely responsible and he may have many reasons for not coming forward. But he had some responsibility (as any of us would) to do more and in my mind there are no reasons good enough to stay silent. And like everyone else who was a member of the organization at that time, I don't think that can be forgotten and ignored.
But I've said all this already and no one's minds seem to be changing.