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As it turns out, it’s not just current members of the Eagles secondary that wholly lack awareness: Troy Vincent, in his role as executive vice president of football operations, promised Adrian Peterson he would only be suspended for two games, according to Adrian Peterson.

After AP lost the appeal of his now-indefinite suspension on Friday, his lawyers released a recorded conversation between AP and Vincent where it certainly seems like Vincent was telling Peterson that this whole thing would blow over and he’d be back on the field in no time. A portion of that conversation went like this:

“It will be two additional games, not time served?” Peterson asks during the conversation.

“No, no, no, no … it won’t … The one this weekend,” Vincent responds. “So really, it’s just next week and you … you … you … you will be back.”

“Unless you want a different hearing, you want a proceeding go to another hearing,” Vincent says. “You will be reinstated and back with your club, you know, potentially the … you know, that next week.”

Peterson’s lawyers claim that the eventual indefinite suspension was handed down as a punishment for “for failing to meet with the league days before he was suspended – a meeting his lawyers claimed was not required under league rules.” Roger Goodell said Vincent was not speaking for the NFL when he said those things, but instead was trying to “help Peterson put this issue behind him and get back to his life, his family, and football.”

It makes sense that AP would think the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations was speaking as the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations when he told him how long his suspension would be, but it makes even more sense that the NFL’s front office is just staffed by morons who don’t know how to shut their mouths across the board.

You can hear audio of the call after the jump.



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