06-09-2022, 06:43 PM
(03-26-2022, 01:07 PM)Stewy Wrote: Dude you are seriously mis-remembering.
Ben Roth. - One woman accuses him, pays off loads of money, accusations but NO CHARGES BROUGHT, no guilt admitted or proven - 6 game suspension
Ezekiel Elliot - One woman accuses him of assault, NO CHARGES BROUGHT, no guilt admitted or proven - 6 Game Suspension - reduced to 4 on appeal
Deshaun Watson - 22 separate women in several different states over a 3 year period files a class action suit, at least 10 press charges, Depositions of details being leaked, NFL has and continues to have a HUGE black eye, NFL has been conducting it's own inventigation since the get go for over a year now - It doesn't matter how much he proclaims his innocence or doesn't pay them off, he is going to get suspended and suspended for a LONG time. 6 games for one offense for Ben - How many do you think DW is going to get for 22?
Goodell has absolute power to punish and it can be for no more than "Embarrassing the NFL". He can place players on the exempt list at a whim and for very little reason. On top of this, The Browns and Watson have tried to get around NFL punishment by reducing his 2022 salary to 1 mil dollars, so he won't lose money from a suspension. I can guarantee you this pisses Goodell the hell off. Lastly, the other owners are pissed at Watsons contract and the precedent it sets. It is the first full guaranteed contract of it's kind and represents TWICE as much guaranteed money than the next largest contract ever given. It's a baseball contract, and the other NFL owners don't want that.
The hammer is coming and it's coming down hard: To teach Watson a lesson, to punish him, to punish the Browns and Watson for trying to circumvent punishment and punishment to the Browns for proposing a contract with so much guaranteed money.
To be placed on the exempt list an action requires fitting into just ONE of these categories, not all three.
Note how entirely open ended number 3 is.
My prediction:
(1) - Close to the start of training camp or the start of the season, Watson will be put on the Exempt List "Until the league finishes it's investigation", their investigation will strangely take the entire 2022 season, thus negating the Brown and Watson tactics of reducing the monetary loss of any suspension.
(2) - Some time after the 2022 season ends, it will announced that the leagues investigation is complete and it's finds disturbing and egregious with Watson being removed from the exempt list and suspended for the entirety of the 2023 season. This will cost Watson 55 million dollars, that the Browns have to pay that still eats up cap space.
Remember this isn't just about whether anyone believe DW or not. One has to look at how the league has reacted before, and knowing how the league reacts to being embarrassed (not good) on top of the Browns owner and organization embarrassing the other owners and setting a precedent they do not want with DW's salary.
The hammer is coming, and the punishment will be unprecedented.
(03-31-2022, 07:11 PM)Stewy Wrote: No they won't. He didn't play by choice. He refused to step on the field and got paid anyway. That wasn't punishment.
Wow you people who think there will be no punishment really are clueless to the situation and how the NFL has handled similar issues in the past.
Mark it down. The hammer is coming.
Hope you are right Stewy and tend to believe you are. The question is if you are right will Mayfield play for the Browns
now after the way they treated him? They really screwed the pooch here if you are correct and it will bite them in the ass
big time. Mayfield played damn good against us and shitty against everyone else. I would like him out of the Division for
this very reason.
