Watson will play against Bengals

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(08-01-2022, 10:05 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: It's more like the ruling makes no sense to me.

I don't even know how someone could come to the conclusion of 6 games for this.

I can only think of two conclusions that a person could possibly come to in regards to Watson:
1. There is not enough evidence of any wrong doing on Watson's part. He did not get charged with anything. As far as the law is concerned, he is innocent and therefore we should treat him as such; 0 games.
2. He settled over 20 civil cases with these women. The details and evidence are convincing enough to conclude that he almost certainly did something wrong, even if a court cannot convict him of anything due to the intentionally high bar for burden of proof set in America for criminal cases. We do not wish to endorse this behavior and Watson needs to be punished; minimum of 1 year suspension, must apply and be approved to play in 2023.

The 6 game suspension would imply the federal justice believes Watson committed some sort of sexual violence on these women but...that's it's not that big of a deal? I just can't understand how someone could reach this conclusion without their character coming into question.

It's like they intentionally chose a middle ground that will leave no one happy.

The amount of civil cases he settled is irrelevant. The NFL took 5 cases forward and then it ties to the conduct policy. The NFL deemed that most of the other cases didn't violate the conduct policy apparently or they would have taken them forward as well I'd assume.

There were lots of good twitter posts in the weeks leading up to this. The NFL conduct policy is meant to punish violence which didn't occur in this.

Then, the NFL went light on owners like Kraft.

I wanted him to get more, but given the things I typed above...I understand how a 3rd party would go 6.