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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Not saying that isn't true, but what source said the woman was asking silently for a 100K?To think for 100K all of this could have gone away, I think he may have screwed himself biggly here. Whoever gave him the advice not to pay has helped put the nailed in the coffin. He dug the hole.
Do you think these sponsors are dropping because the public perception is getting worse or because it's looking more and more like he is guilty?
Public image. Sponsors don’t want to be viewed as endorsing someone who doesn’t “reflect their values” (which is corporate speak for “he’s making us look bad by association and it’s not worth risking our bottom line”). The optics of the situation became too bad to ignore once a public face was put to one of the alleged victims, and the sponsors made their moves.Do you think these sponsors are dropping because the public perception is getting worse or because it's looking more and more like he is guilty?
I know that ultimately sponsors only care about public perception and not actual guilt.
My question is more does the sponsors dropping indicate a guilty settlement coming and the sponsors are dropping before that comes, or is the current perception too negative to wait it out anymore?
It was a settlement offer, likely an opening number that could have been brought down. Instead of responding in a manner Buzzbee was comfortable with, Watson's side responded in a way that did not sit well with Buzzbee. So now we have the **** show.Not saying that isn't true, but what source said the woman was asking silently for a 100K?
I ask because I hadn't seen that. Was there ever an attempt to quietly settle without making the matter public? If so I find the initial accuser a lot less credible.
It has been reported everywhere and was released by Watson's lawyer.Not saying that isn't true, but what source said the woman was asking silently for a 100K?
I ask because I hadn't seen that. Was there ever an attempt to quietly settle without making the matter public? If so I find the initial accuser a lot less credible.
Right, and Florio reports $100k was the opening bid, the final result was likely to be in the $50k-$75k range.It has been reported everywhere and was released by Watson's lawyer.
Deshaun Watson's lawyer: First plaintiff sought $100K before filing suit
At a press conference at lawyer Tony Buzbee's office on Tuesday, a woman named Ashley Solis revealed that she is the plaintiff in the first sexual assault lawsuit filed against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson.profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
It seems to me that what he is trying to do is get some cases summarily dismissed based on having the judge require the plaintiffs to identify themselves. Presumably, some might refuse. I'd say that's not a bad strategy at this point.A day late and a dollar short, Hardin attacks Buzzbee over anonymous women.
Deshaun Watson files his first court document in pending assault cases - ProFootballTalk
Hardin really needs to step up his game.
I don’t like how this plays out for all involved.It seems to me that what he is trying to do is get some cases summarily dismissed based on having the judge require the plaintiffs to identify themselves. Presumably, some might refuse. I'd say that's not a bad strategy at this point.
Well, I mean, the man does have the right to formulate a defense and a large part of that is knowing who his accusers are.I don’t like how this plays out for all involved.
he knows who they are and if he doesn't remember a couple of them he can always check who he has dm'd and the dates the girls say it happened.Well, I mean, the man does have the right to formulate a defense and a large part of that is knowing who his accusers are.
Yeah, but it doesn't exactly work that way in a court of law. They are going to have to show up at some point (if this goes all the way, which I doubt it will)he knows who they are and if he doesn't remember a couple of them he can always check who he has dm'd and the dates the girls say it happened.
I think it may have been a good strategy a few days ago.It seems to me that what he is trying to do is get some cases summarily dismissed based on having the judge require the plaintiffs to identify themselves. Presumably, some might refuse. I'd say that's not a bad strategy at this point.
Like I said yesterday.... not a bad strategy at this point.A day late and a dollar short, Hardin attacks Buzzbee over anonymous women.
Deshaun Watson files his first court document in pending assault cases - ProFootballTalk
Hardin really needs to step up his game.
Hardin admitted that consensual sexual encounters sometimes occurred with massage therapists. Hardin insists, however, that he did not coerce the massage therapists or use his status as a celebrity to violate the ability of the massage therapists to provide consent.
Before Florio was a football guy he was a lawyer, so he sometimes gets the legal stuff right. Then... before he was a lawyer, he was an engineering major, so he grasped the stupidity of the deflategate allegations and got that right.Florio, who seems to specialize in getting damn near everything wrong, actually got this right. It's shocking, but true.