Bengals address need for guys who punch women in face depth

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(05-07-2017, 03:20 PM)Vlad Wrote: Love how people like to marginalize or mask the severity of the incident with the notoriously overused "made a mistake" line....because "made a mistake"  automatically evokes pity or mercy from the listener or reader.

Pro athlete gets busted with pot in the trunk...yeah "he made a mistake". Poor guy. Was a mistake, he really didn't mean to.

"Used bad judgement" is also used a lot, but its not nearly as bad as "made a mistake". Go with that instead. 

It wasn't like he had a history of this or has repeated the offense.

It's also not like he made a conscious decision to put pot in his trunk.  It was a knee-jerk reaction and something he immediately regretted.

It's not like he went to a club with intentions to get a college girl drunk, have his bodyguards force her into a bathroom, and rape her.

There was no intent.  Sometimes we all do stupid things in the spur of the moment without thinking, especially when we're that young.