seanlinden
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I would agree. Teams have suspended players for showing up out of shape, and then they go off and exercise, and report back, get reinstated.
Richards has not been suspended, but more interestingly, this is the off-season, so it's not like they can say he showed up to camp out of shape. If it had happened during the season, why no suspension? They certainly needed the cap relief at that time.
I personally have to think it would need to be a fairly egregious violation, and not easily remedied since he has 5 (?) yrs remaining on his contract. Something that is a temporary issue surely can't warrant the termination, sans suspension anywhere along the way, of the entire term.
Yeah, I'm on the same train of thought.
If Richards didn't meet fitness guidelines at camp, or whenever, then the correct procedure was to warn him in writing, suspend him, and such. However, legally, I don't think you can take a whole year to instate a punishment, and there's no fitness testing at the end of the year.
So back to the question... what could it possibly be?