I, that's shout expedite, the ruling, they're trying to work
out a settlement
and Peter Harvey who is essentially controlled by the NFL here.
He knows I'm waiting. I'm waiting
to issue the ruling
until I know that the settlement possibility
has hit the brick wall and it's not going to happen.
Now, I don't know how difficult it is to get
to the end of this. You're talking about. Eight, nine ten,
eleven twelve games, that's your range, in my mind of
the total
acceptable potential games, that DeShaun Watson would take
without Peter Harvey, issuing a ruling
and then it comes down to how much money he reportedly is
willing to pay five million. How much more than five will
the NFL want to, they want the full 10 million that he made
last year when he didn't play.
So Chris, I think it's eight to twelve games
five to ten million.
And at some point,
they just have to reach
Decision. And here's the problem because they control
Peter Harvey,
there isn't a real deadline.
Now, there is, I mean,
Week 1, but they can kind of take their time for now and
stare at each other. And wait for someone to Blink because
Peter Harvey isn't going to rule
until he hears from someone at the league.
Okay, it's over. It's done. Go ahead and issue your ruling.
Well, let me ask you this. Do you do you think there's any?
I mean, obviously then
with Peter Harvey. I just feel like the he obviously doesn't
want a Doesn't want to suspend DeShaun Watson for the full
year or a full calendar year or the 17-game seasons. You think
there's anything into that? I mean, I think
if he looked at this and was just like, whoa, this is
egregious, this is crazy.
It's a full year suspensions, totally warranted or a full
year. I think we were already got to that. So I mean I mean
yeah I guess you know to your point I heard you kind of say,
you think, 8, 10, 12 games, but do you think there's something
to that there?
This is Peter Harvey, the NFL being in lockstep,
even though they aren't they are
and together the league and Harvey understand that
if they suspend him for a full year,
they're going to get a federal court challenge. You're going
to have some of these other owners who haven't been held to
a higher standard than players dragged into this thing. My
understanding is there are other factors the league is
concerned about,
I don't know what they are yet,
but the Just trying to avoid a federal court challenge to
the DeShaun Watson case. And
part of it too, is
as Paul tag lubu
proudly said, when he was the commissioner all's, well, that
ends
there is something to be said for bringing this to
a conclusion and not having AP story after AP story and
a topic on TV shows and first block of radio programs talking
about the latest development in The DeShaun Watson litigation
and there's a hearing coming up. And will they get
a preliminary injunction will be forces way back onto the field
for week, 7 and
what other names are going to be dragged into this? What
other arguments going to be made? There's a point where you
just want it to end, but if it's going to end Chris,
it's got to be with enough of a punishment
that the league is insulated from
the criticism eight games,
you're not going to avoid the criticism. It's got to at least
beat 10,
it can't be less than 10 and they better do a damn good job
of explaining to everyone that the fine simulates last year,
being an unpaid suspension. So, it's 10:00
if that's the number this year,
plus whatever the fine translates to from last year.
And if he's fine 10 million, hey, you missed 17 last year
and you didn't get paid for them
and you're missing 10 this year, that's 27 games.
If they sell it that way,
they may have a better chance of getting people. To accept
it. Yeah I understand I don't know people going to really
accept it. I don't know
and I feel like 10 is still going to get tremendous
backlash their kind of a no-win situation there. And again
I think more people are on
that side of the fence than
whoa it should be less than 10
and so that's where I think they're going to get it. No
matter what but you're right. I think that they could package
is like that. Maybe it's softens the blow to a degree
and man if I'm DeShaun Watson 510
Leaders. I mean I would go I don't care either way who cares
if it's 5 or 10. I know
that's a big. I'll take five million dollars right now in 10
million dollars right now certainly that's huge but and
the big picture things, have you got to pay 10 million
dollars, okay? You got 220 million more coming so don't
worry.
I think that's something that I would take in a second. If I'm
DeShaun Watson, eight games, 10 games, 10 million. Boom, sign
me up. I'm out of here.
I'll see you in week 11. I would I would run to
To sign that agreement of I'm DeShaun Watson at this point,
this really is surprising though.
When you think about it,
we saw the comments last Tuesday from Roger, Goodell
invoking. The quotes from Judge, Sewall Robinson's
decision that the behavior was egregious and predatory,
they're scared. I made that made both of us think,
man, they're gonna drop the hammer on to Sean W. Forget
about 12, they're going to spend it for the whole season,
they're going to do this and they're going to do that.
Something has them. Scare ya
and I don't use that term lightly. We both have used
the same term organically. The NFL is scared about something that
will happen.
If they don't suspend
or if they do, suspend DeShaun Watson for the full season
otherwise they would have done it by now. Yeah yeah.
Yeah. Because here's the other side of it too, it's Wednesday.
Okay. Think of how the NFL typically does business,
the NFL is the bull in the china shop and it doesn't care how
much China it breaks.
It's gonna, it's gonna do what it's going to do and
To think that the NFL has slammed the brakes on this
thing for five days now, when clearly, the ruling was ready
to go on Friday. I mean, it had to be it had to be expedited.
Ruling expedited process, expedited. No,
not five days later, not two weeks later
between Friday to Wednesday, something has caused them to
say, well, let's take a more calm and reasoned view.
Let's see if we can work out a resolution that is mutually
acceptable to everyone involved and they haven't yet. They
haven't And,
and, and they apparently haven't yet said, hey,
you either take our offer
by noon Eastern today,
or we're issuing the ruling at 12:01, they haven't gotten to
that point. So I think our instincts are right here,
although we thought our instincts were right a week ago
and maybe maybe both things are true,
they were ready to go. But something happened that has
caused them to be scared and I think they're scared right now
of doing it. They're scared of what's going to happen.