There's no court order in place preventing the lawyers in
the DeShaun Watson litigation from sharing with media any some or
all of the deposition transcripts generated in
the case. So yesterday
on USA Today, there was a story
that Trace directly Tony Busby who represents the 22
individuals who have sued DeShaun, Watson Watson while
testifying under oath last week admitted that Ashley Solis.
That's the first of the 22 plaintiffs who went public.
She cried at the end
of the massage.
He texted her an apology. He was grilled about that. He
admitted that she cried. I dont think that fact was in dispute,
but he admitted she cried. He claimed he didn't know what it
was about
and that's what you're going to see without a protective order
that prevents this information from being
made public. And it's not like a protective order, is
an automatic thing. It's,
you have to have grounds for it. Usually in cases, like this
civil cases,
the transcripts from the depositions are taken in
advance of trial are Are public documents and can be shared
with the media
and Chris? You know, what, if you're
in Watsons Camp, you could make the argument. Although it's
a delicate argument to make, you can make the argument that.
Where's the, where's the rest? This is it? That's all you got.
You got 22 people. How many, how many Snippets have we seen
of DeShaun Watson testimony?
In these cases involving 22 individuals
where it can be painted as problematic for him. They think
that the facts are on their side in most of these cases.
And I think they would argue that,
Tony Busby had a bunch of great evidence to show that DeShaun
Watson was clearly in the wrong for multiple of these cases.
He would have given it to USA Today as well
to me. That's kind of like when one of the,
you know, Smoking Gun issues here a little bit. And I know
a lot of people yesterday and Mike, I do want to ask you.
This was was that a horrible admission
yesterday that he did that. And I was a little surprised by
the, like, the reaction of social media like that. Was it
now, he's Guilty, and I want to be like I was a little more
like you like,
is this is this the best? We're going to get here. Is this it
right again, I'm not trying to be insensitive and anything,
but I am a little surprised by that aspect as well.
If you had that testimony in 22 different cases, I think it is
problematic as problematic for the Ashley. So, least claim
because what in the world happened that would make her
cry.
Yeah, during right and make him acknowledge if
that there was some level of discomfort. What? What would
What you sow
it when you couple that with her? Sure, I am sure about what
happened. It does make her case stronger, but you got 21
others. And my point is this from Watson's perspective, if
there was
problematic testimony
that supported the K, they could say well, where is it?
It's not there. So,
you know the this this is, you know will defend this case as
best we can. But we got 21 others and we feel confident
about those. It's just it's all a mess because the end of
the day
So you're going to have
22 trials. And there had not been any expectation that these
cases were going to be done before this season begins.
Most likely, they're all going to be tried next year if
they're not settled and through it all. And we said this
yesterday, it's time for the NFL to do something. For
the brown sake, for the fans sake, for the opponents, say can
appoint, I made last night too.
You got seven sports betting Partnerships. Now,
those
Sports books, want to take action on the Browns. They're
not on the board. Why aren't they on the board? Because
the NFL hasn't made. A decision yet and all other reason set aside
when you get these
people that are paying you a crapload of money. I won't use
the version that we used yesterday just in case but when
they're paying you a crapload of money, they kind of like to
have maximum bets on the board. That's a business reason for
the NFL to make a decision here. So,
yeah, I think I think something's coming sooner than later.
I think it's, I'm next Friday.
I think next Friday is when we find out gut, just gasps wild.
Guess. Maybe they do it Thursday. So, it's not as
obvious home Friday that, it's part of the bad news dumped
Before Memorial Day. Weekend. But, they've got to they've got
to get this moving or it's not going to be resolved by
the start of the season.