Video of a man dragging his unconscious fiancee out of an elevator wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough for us. It wasn’t enough for the Panthers.We weren’t enraged until we actually saw former Ravens running back Ray Rice punch a woman. And while no publicly-viewable evidence exists of what Greg Hardy is accused of doing to his ex-girlfriend in May, the Panthers were going to let “the legal process play out” before disciplining their star defensive end. Everything changed last Monday.Without TMZ, Hardy would have played against the Lions on Sunday. Instead, the second Rice video set off a firestorm of controversy that culminated with the Panthers making Hardy a surprise addition to their inactive list.Hardy is guilty of at least one thing. He’s guilty of putting himself and the Panthers in bad spot. The team knew that in May, but they waited four months to do anything about it.We don’t know if Hardy is guilty of the horrible things Nicole Holder said he did to her. A North Carolina judge found him so, but Hardy’s Constitutional right is to next have a jury trial. Yet the Panthers could have acted when district court judge Becky Thorne Tin said “guilty” in July. They didn’t.If the Panthers were going to ding Hardy, they could have done it long before Sunday. They could have done it before they spent the last few days claiming they would continue to respect “the process.”The Panthers screwed this up. Not necessarily the what, but the when.We all screwed up, really.Too bad TMZ had to release a videotape before we realized it.