Posted on 08/18/2022 11:05:54 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Watson will be suspended 11 games. He’ll pay a fine of $5 million.The draft press release also mentions mandatory evaluation and another $2 million from the NFL and the Browns that will be given to relevant non-profit organizations that work to minimize and prevent sexual misconduct and assault.
He’ll be eligible to return on November 28.
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So you think that that is worse than 29 sexual assaults?
So, in your opinion, due process be damned. Here I was under the impression that conservatives believed in the innocent until proven guilty form of justice. You, and the NFL, are no better than a communist form of justice. Now I believe the NFL should have the right to suspend him without pay until the case is adjudicated, bit the fine should not exist. Accusations,, regardless of the number involved should remain a non factor until evidence is heard, and a verdict is returned.
Oh, and I won't be at my flat screen when the season starts either.
Only looked this up to see who he is and what he had done. If he is found guilty, he should be blackballed from the NFL
Professional sports? What’s that?
I’ve gotten so far removed from that crap in the last 10 or 15 years but I barely know it exists except when we have a high profile professional athlete criminal. Actually I don’t notice many of those.
Are you Roger Goodell? What you were saying is not believable. There was plenty of evidence of his guilt. He was a well-paid professional athlete most of them get massages from a professional massage therapist who works for the team for free. If not they get it from a well-qualified massage therapist. He went on social media and found unlicensed massage therapist and he had 66 of them in a little over a year.
What’s Rae Carruth up to?…
It’s really weird to me. If you’re an NFL QB, it should be really easy to get laid.
“Was it rape-rape?”
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The guy makes normal rapist look good.
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While I definitely agree it’s degrading to genuine massage therapists to seek ‘a handy’ (because there are some who will do them, just ask Patriots owner bob kraft, that’s no excuse) I hope you are not suggesting inappropriate sexual advances and forcible rape are anywhere close in the same ballpark.
No, just that the guy is a creep
The only way this kind of stuff will stop is if the NFL & the individual teams are forced to bear in some way a significant cost in having such felons in the league & squad. Perhaps threaten them with loss of monopoly protection might a inducement to do a better job.
Look for the Browns to hand him another $5 million guaranteed just for being warm and fuzzy to cover his expenses
Yes, that is part of the problem many of these professional athletes have. It is really easy to get laid. Then you have multiple baby mama’s looking for child support. Very similar to the speech the Sergent makes in the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” about women that will try to trap young naval aviators.
Here is another amazing fact:
Young men sometimes make bad decisions
Unfortunately, not every pro athlete is Tim Tebow.
I never made any bad decisions…
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The only way this kind of stuff will stop is if the NFL & the individual teams are forced to bear in some way a significant cost in having such felons in the league & squad. Perhaps threaten them with loss of monopoly protection might a inducement to do a better job.
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He wasn’t even indicted with a criminal charge, let alone convicted.
How do you tell the difference between a self-employed young female massage therapist and a hooker that go to private hotel rooms? I wouldn’t advice a young woman to put herself into that situation unless she were employed by a large healthcare company.
It doesn’t matter whether he’s charged, etc. its behavior!
If such behavior (and it’s not just him!) is not checked it gets worse, which we have seen.
I feel so bad for Browns fans - more inept even than the J-E-T-S.
At least it gives us Lions fans another franchise we can laugh at.
Russia would have put him to death!
That may be true, but I'll be watching Citizen Kane or Lawrence of Arabia and sure as hell won't be watching sportsball.
THANK YOU!!!!
NO criminal charges filed. NONE.
He ASKED women to do things and they did them.
Jackpot Justice lawsuits were filed. These “victims” were ALL happy to take his money.
I hate the NFL and Goodell. I wish he would fight it.
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