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dgment on Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill.Goodell was interviewed by Sam Ponder of ESPN after prosecutors declined to charge Hill with child abuse but before audio emerged of Hill and his fiancée discussing the allegations that Hill abused their son , leaving him with a broken arm. Goodell said he doesn’t have the facts.“Well you should wait and get the facts. That’s the first thing you should do, Sam. I mean, you know, they don’t have any information that they’re willing to share with us. When you get the facts, then you make a decision about how it fits into our personal conduct policy. But you don’t rush to judgment, and you don’t make a decision without having those facts,” Goodell said.But the NFL has previously acted without waiting for all the facts to emerge. When Reuben Foster was accused of domestic violence last season , he was placed on the commissioner’s exempt list immediately, without waiting for an investigation. After police investigated Foster wasn’t charged, and after the NFL investigated the league decided not to suspend Foster.There’s nothing stopping Goodell from putting Hill on the exempt list based solely on the information currently available to him, which includes the fact that Hill’s son was removed from his home by child protective services. Goodell may think “wait and get the facts” sounds high-minded, but the NFL’s past actions have shown that there is no such requirement. Patrick Mahomes and Kirk Cousins will meet on the football field for the first time in 2019. They squared off this weekend as basketball-team hype men, and the end result was Mahomes 1, Cousins 0.Cousins spoke at a Michigan State pep rally on Friday night , in advance of Saturday’s semifinal game against Texas Tech. Mahomes, the NFL’s 2018 MVP, spoke to Texas Tech’s team on Saturday afternoon, hours before tipoff.“It was great,” redshirt senior Norense Odiase said, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com. “He was excited. You could see his blood rushing, veins popping. He was turnt. Travis Kelce was there as well. It was a blessing to have those guys come.”“He came in our film session , and he said he’s proud of us,” sophomore guard Davide Moretti told Cronin. “We did something that nobody [at Texas Tech] has done before. He was cheering for us, and he said that we’ve got this because he knows how hard we play and how hard we’ve worked for it. He’ll cheer his butt off for us.”And it worked. The Red Raiders will play in the championship game for the first time ever on Monday night, against Virginia. Mahomes surely will be there again, cheering his butt off in the stadium where Cousins plays his home football games — as few as five months before Mahomes squares off against Cousins in the stadium where Mahomes plays his home football games.

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