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This being the Browns, I can foresee such a situation. I wonder if the precedence his contract was suppose to set never comes to fruition.
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This being the Browns, I can foresee such a situation. I wonder if the precedence his contract was suppose to set never comes to fruition.
It has wrecked the QB market. QB's will look at that and say Watson got $230M guaranteed, but never played. Teams will have to put their foot down and throw that comp out.
Given the Omissioner can do whatever he wants, he could impose the penalty of 1 year and $42M cash fine --OR-- 2 years with salary forfeited, just to eff with the smartass agent and the Browns. It'd be the player's choice. He can get it over with to prove he's all in on Cleveland (
) or he can say me first and rest his body for an extra year.NFLPA had Brady's back too, right?
I totally agree. If you read the NYT/Vrentas piece, in one part she describes a case where Watson drove a half hour out of his way to meet one woman in her own home. Clearly if all he wanted was a massage he could have found someone a lot closer that probably would even be willing to come to him. He's getting off on the power trip of being able to perv on these women in their own homes, and he's going way out of his way to be able to do so. To me, it shows he's sick, and it shows he isn't gonna get better till he admits he has a problem and admits he needs to deal with it. To me, this shows the Browns have no idea what they're getting themselves into, because there's every chance he does it again.
…having said that : how many professional sports teams are dumber than the Cleveland Browns ? I’d venture it’s few.
But he want back the next day to get an early bird hj & bj from two women, so there's a pattern. Penalty should be stiff.
"punishment, if any, should reflect the consequences those owners received — especially since the Personal Conduct Policy warns that owners are held to a higher standard than players."
What situation? Pulled over with $30k in a laundry bag, a suitcase full of pills and a dead hooker at the house? That's not a situation.
The issue of consent plays out a bit differently in your scenario.
I see what you did there.
We learned from the Brady saga that the NFL changes its rules on the fly and courts do nothing about it. Commissioner has ultimate authority to decide what the rules mean and if/when/how they are applied. TB12 could have taken it to the highest court in the land but then again if he had chances are high he wouldn't have just signed a deal to be the face of the sport for FOX at twice the pay of the previous record setting contract.
That's not the part that bothers me, the part that bothers me is they say they care about character, but know that they don't. They want the benefit of being seen as being squeaky clean when they know they're just as tainted as anyone else, probably more since we all know money corrupts. IMO it'd be far better if they would drop the pretense. Stop pretending you're more moral than everyone else, more patriotic too.
I know at least one person who has dropped their life-long Browns fandom over the Watson move. Before the move, they were an up and coming team largely built via the draft and led by a gritty QB. In one move they threw the gritty QB under the bus, tanked the next few years drafts, and committed a huge chunk of their salary cap to a deeply troubled player. Jimmy Haslam showed his true colors.
Its actually not that weird.
I exaggerate a bit of course, but it sounds like his behavior is well within "normal" expected NFL player behavior.
