Deshaun Watson has been suspended for six games

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So let's watch the first one and I had forgotten them, and I'd seen it now here and there, but it's not one of my favorite movies anyway. I'm not even sure I'd put my top five. Tom Cruise movies but it's a is so what like early 90s task Dick should think. Gosh it's just she's dripping off of it all over the place. I've forgotten how what a young Meg Ryan met Ryan was fantastic and the energy not what an award they like. There's so many so much white teeth in the movie everybody got perfect smiles in the movie once oiled up guys man with short hair, aviator sunglasses. This tremendous we watch that we watch that yesterday underwent whatever maverick Top Gun maverick shows up on Amazon prime will probably watch a that's what we did yesterday so all the movies you need to hear about talk about all right here we have a lot of things to do today. The NFL got there DeShawn Watson news so we'll get to that we've God's the passing of an absolute sports legend yesterday and Bill Russell were to work in some college football talk some ACC football talk. As well, and we will check out what's going on in panther town as well. We are now into week two of the Panthers training camp, but I believe there in pads tomorrow for the first time. I don't think you're in pads yet today actually sitting first on the day okay I I would been hearing different reports I guess are not doing pads in Cleveland yet. I don't talk a little bit about Cleveland as well. But then we have another we have a brand-new controversy and enough NFL. Have you heard about the guardian. Yes I have seen said Gosh people are losing their minds over the guardian He ate them. Yeah, I mean I could see why some people don't like it they do look funny.

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No fine.

They were actually negotiating with the Watson camp. I me all the way heading up. I think through the weekend and the though the least amount of games. The NFL would offer the suspension was 12 and a fine that was reportedly in the $8 million range that is not what happened.

It was a slap in the face that Sue L. Robinson, a former big District Court judge handed down today.

She is she's a retired judge but she was the arbitrator and this is not what the NFL wanted to hear Dominique Foxworth from ESPN and and scape on how the union is looking at this most important thing. Union is always to try to protect the rights of all the players, and no individual case is the case that they are necessarily fighting so while they are defending Michelle Watts right now is important I think for them right now they want to do is how to set this precedent on appeals back to writing to kinda move the power away from him into this case into judge Sue Robinson's hand. So that's all I think they're receiving this as a step in the right direction because the penalty came down to the whale supposed to from 1/3 party as agreed upon by both sides, but from here on out. I think their fear is that working to get in a situation were all things that appeal to ready to go anyway. So we end up in a similar system was before he kinda had all the power to get to that part in just a second. Michael will bond from PTI and ESPN is a little surprised and shockingly light we got yesterday when hearing that from the NFL PA. Sounds like you have been going to appeal, which means they have been a bench and of course he would never even hinted they would not jump on her decision to be six-game to me, given what we know what we do. We haven't heard from will be interesting. Shockingly light. The Cleveland Browns and DeShawn walking real with getting it fixed six games does seem a little like Ryan Clark from ESPN with his reaction shouldn't matter who is playing, except it's about getting this right and doing the right thing by all parties involved. I do believe this is low as what I was expecting the in the sale of the handouts of the saw Watson and now I think we are entering into an even touchier situation of perception perception and money. The NFL wants to continue to grow the game if they believe that this is has in some way hurt them from doing that.

I believe that they will attack the saw Watson further, not necessarily just because they want to see the suspension or a fine levied but because they want the perception of the NFL to be is that we care about women more than we care about the game well good luck completely on board with what Ryan Clark had to say. But good luck convincing women of that yesterday.

The players Association and Watson put out a joint statement saying that they would abide by the decision of former federal judge Sue Robinson they would not appeal, and they challenge the NFL to pledge the same now. Maybe they just assumed that this suspension would be lighter than the what the NFL wanted.

Certainly they they guessed right. And if that's the case, they were they were applying pressure ahead of time that the NFL would do what they did, would simply say hey whatever judge Robinson hands down his now should be enough though wish to appeal the decision on length of suspension and anything that comes along with it. Besides, if you will could be left to the discretion of the commissioner Roger Caddell.

This is something Dominique Foxworth alluded to and he continues his point here.

My expectation is that the league will and will probably try to expand John Watson's penalty.

I think that the players union has with anything right now in this neutral arbiter they have something that is closer to fair and that's where they want to keep it. I think Roger get down will be better served keeping it bear honestly going for because never want to get in the situation that they were and other previous CVA where every penalty was coming at the feet of Roger Gallant which we then passed moral judgments on Roger about this case right well and they may just stand by that I don't think Roger will go back in a world where morning after deciding whether right or wrong when I trained. Here's my my feeling on this.

Dominique Foxworth is as smart duties are to find if if it were up to me.

If I were Roger Caddell, the last thing I would do no matter how how much I feel like judge Robinson got it wrong. I would not appeal the suspension. I think it would be a terrible move for the league to do that because as what Dominique alluded to is that it's really becomes up to Roger so there's no impartiality if Roger Caddell is doing this no impartiality at all. Roger forms it out. Maybe it's the same outcome. So they go to an arbitrator and Roger says I'm not doing it were to get this other arbitrator to rule on Sue L Robinson's ruling.

Maybe it's the same thing if I were Roger Caddell and I were mad at the decision, I would simply use the court of public opinion, I would simply hold a press conference the note but were not appeal. We respect the decision of Judge Robinson but here's why this is worse than so many of the other things that drew suspensions in the past, Ezekiel Elliott three time domestic violence accused right by his girlfriend when he was at Ohio State. Six games not reduced.

Ben Roethlisberger six-game suspension reduced to four for essentially borderline kidnapping a girl in a bar in Georgia right with with help.

I had somebody standing guard Tom Brady was suspended for four games for maybe probably deflating footballs for games Ray Rice was suspended to it eventually became an indefinite suspension when the video surfaced of him slogging his wife in an elevator in Atlantic City and you know how many help what you know what the punishment for Dan Snyder was for years of grotesque behavior as the owner of the Washington commandos. Nothing. Oh I am sorry they find multibillionaire $10 million and they took away ownership of the team. I gave it to his wife. Yeah, the ability to run day-to-day operations.

So here's where I go to this part of the story here is where we might surmise that the NFL got the verdict they deserved right.

It will follow me on this, and this is not about what DeShawn Watson did DeShawn Watson is at best a serial creep us like I don't even know if I would call him a predator, but my read on the situation is that this is out. Watson gets down right puts himself in situations where he's getting a massage from credible massage therapist and fell off and see what happens to my read on it. I call that a serial creep and that's what the NFL was fighting against your right, but the NFL has in their recent history just an awful record of policing. This type of behavior and full record and Sue Robinson probably guess that if the NFL were to do this on their own. This is probably the suspension they had. I mean I'm not saying she's right understand.

I think you could justify that is the end of the response based on the NFL's past behavior in these types of settings and I think it was a stroke of brilliance that the crux of Watson's defense was hey these owners get away with this crap all the time that they used in Robert Robert Kraft situation with the massage parlors in Florida right they use that as part of their defense because Robert Kraft. I think my got to find if anything now I don't.

The two situations are not in any way similar but he didn't get find me.

Basically, Robert Kraft was Ms. ordering off the menu. No some some things that were not on the menu because they can't be but I those things are common. DeShawn Watson was doing these things in private and he was.

Not really ordering off the menu anyway. 24 lawsuits were filed 23 of them have now been settled.

The 24th will be settled for 30 lawsuits were filed against the Houston Texans all 30 had been settled.

None of this is good for the league. The decision for from the judge, Sue Robinson. Not good for the league but if I were Roger Caddell, I just move on. I would just move on. Take the L and move on. One more thing before we start the program yesterday and I thought this would be the top story until we started finding out that the DeShawn Watson decision would come this morning.

Bill Russell passed away yesterday at age 88 Dennis when we talk about the greatest player in the history of basketball. The debate generally comes down to two people.

It comes down to Jordan to come down to liberal yeah if you had to surmise why. Second, use the word surmise that might be the first history sports radio while if you had to venture a guess as to why people like revert to Jordan over Lebron, what would it be championship right six undefeated six. No. In NBA finals. Okay Lebron's got 40s lost a bunch, Russell is not led 11 NBA championships. The last two. He was the player coach my read our back was not that coach and 68, 69, it was Russell five-time MVP and this is my favorite step. 21 times in Bill Russell's career either in college in the Olympics or in the NBA. His team faced a do or die game when stay alive. Maybe with a title lose season over 21 times. He is 21 421 yeah never losing the game that could end your season.

While that's Bill Russell that's breast that is that whole crazy. That's impressive. So, but if you listen to the people talk about Russell.

It's never about the basketball it's about everything else.

Oscar Robertson, one of the greats of all time, a contemporary of Russell's talked about male went to a lot of different things when he was claimable to the book itself the vehicle and I told him on several occasions about this. She was just a man's man himself and his people got involved a lot of school life situation in which people didn't didn't didn't do at the time, but he had to get the connector stage yet yet the background waiting to get away with it and Bill looked a lot and I don't think really enjoy the people in this world are they really understand all of the units, with roots and weightlifting of the best quote quickly and with the Boston Celtics. I read a story over the weekend actually was retweeted and read the whole story of an excerpt of the story that was retweeted by Howard Bryant from ESPN and in that the story is that Russell had his home vandalized and essentially somebody defecated in his bed and wiped on the walls.

This is after winning the title in Boston.

I mean, this is what you deal with Jackie McMullen covered Russell and we take take it again. More along the lines of it's more than just basketball.

I would say the most important and impactful are one of the most important cattle athletes that certainly the most impactful basketball player but you can't begin to say that because he wanted every level, which he did. I don't say that because he won 11 championships in 13 seasons which will never ever ever be duplicated.

I say it because in the face of all that was so much to lose John. This man was a fearless Civil Rights Act of this at a time when our country was really very, racially divided, particularly by the way, in the city.

He was playing and I can walk you talk to talk me walk the walk. Every step of the way.

So imagine being in a city like Boston at the height of the civil rights struggles and being the famous photo of Russell with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jim Brown supporting Mohammed Ali in his fight to avoid military service based on religious reasons, regardless of what you think about the ultimate fight that Ali was waiting that that resonated with a lot of people and angered as many others. He was he was willing to put himself essentially you to use a phrase. This is obviously not literal in the line of fire. He was willing to do that and it impacted the rest of his career. It impacted the rest of his life and I'm not even sure I was thinking about this yesterday.

Is there another athlete that has it. Is there another athlete that really compares to what Russell had to go through team sport athlete city like the could be Boston could be New York could be Chicago that had a checkered relationship with that city and also is revered by density, not that I can think of laws and not that I cannot not instantly of them. I just just in terms of performance, yeah the way Jordan is probably revered in Chicago works right, but it has nothing to do with anything other than basketball. Nothing to be fair, the was trying to explain this to my son is a big NBA fan the bulls really are not that great a franchise overall know that their success is essentially a decade. That's it.

Like the next go. Gosh, you have done nothing just a joke. Get that that the next expense because it deletes the next word. I mean good and challenging in the 60s and 70s, but mandibles just I mean not. Not a great franchise at all except for that Jordan. There, that's it, but I don't mean Russell is just the special special guy they name the finals MVP award after him and he is been been there giving out the award forever and that's that's abets a big loss to big loss for a lot of reasons, but he meant a lot to a lot of people that have nothing to do with basketball.

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