instead of more than 20, women?
I can speak on on what people
opinions are because everyone have their own opinions, but
I can continue to do is tell the truth and that is, I've never
assaulted or disrespected or
harass any woman in my life.
Like I said before, I was raised differently. That's not my
DNA. That's not my culture. That's not me as a person.
That's not how I was raised. And for me just to continue to
push forward and And show people that who
I really am. And a lot of people hadn't met me before. A
lot of people haven't spoke to me before. A lot of people
haven't been and the same environment environment as me
before
and I want to continue to open that up and be able to have
people, you know,
come to me and be able to talk to me about, you know, certain
things
that all the 22 civil suits.
That's not my tent. My intent is to continue to clear my name
as much as possible and that's what I'm focused on.
Now if by saying that's not my intent,
that's Pete Carroll. Not my intent, then that means going
to settle the cases. Hmm. And he can't come out and say look,
this is where it becomes very
difficult.
If he says, yes, I am motivated, seller of the cases.
You may as well. Just hand Tony Busby a blank check. That's
the problem. You have to at least create the impression that
you're going to fight it because you can't let Tony
Busby think
that there's an urgency to settle. But at some point as
I said last week and earlier today,
You just got to do what you got to do and there are devices. We
talked about the offer of judgment last week. There are
ways for the plaintiffs to end up realizing. Oh wait, if
I don't take this and I don't do better than this at trial. I
may have to actually pay out of my own pocket. Why don't like
the sound of that. Yeah. I better go ahead and settle this
case. So there are ways to put pressure on them
within the confines of the legal system.
But, you know, miles look,
this is why I think they just shouldn't have done this today.
If all he's gonna do is recite. I never assaulted anyone.
I never harassed anyone. One, I never disrespected anyone.
I wasn't raised that way. I was raised by a single mother and
my two aunties
and I, you know, it's not in, not my DNA. I mean,
you could see he was remembering everything he
possibly could from the statement that was written for
him. And that's fine because he's got 22 pending cases, but
maybe you just don't do the press conference because of
the 22 pending cases.
Because again, this is supposed to be
a happy day in the history of the Cleveland Browns. Not What
It ultimately became. So at some point
Somebody need to take a step back and say, you know, they
say they want an adult in the room at quarterback. This is
why they want to get rid of Baker, Mayfield there. Need to
be an adult in the room when it comes to whether or not, they
should do this, press conference and say,
we probably shouldn't at least not now, at least not until
these cases are settled. Well, I mean, if you're, if you don't
do it, then what are you? I mean, you're basically then
sending Kevin stefanski out there,
you know, next Monday. Tuesday, whenever
the arc coaches talk that point at the breakfast,
the answer, all of these. These things and answer again. Why
has it, why have you not, you know, said anything, why have
you not introduced to Sean Watson? Why haven't Jimmy Andy
house and spoke and wise and you bury spoken and you're
you're leaving that for
Kevin stefanski, so
that's sort of where you and I would disagree on whether or
not, they should have held the press conference, but there are
two things that, you know, what he was talking about, kind of
makes me think about it, and he being DeShaun Watson, and that
clip that
we just saw one is Jimmy Haslam in the zoom press conference.
That I mean d Haslam had with local reporters
after the in-person press conference because Jimmy Andy
has them said they had a previous International
engagement. So that's why they weren't there in Cleveland. So
Jimmy Haslam said we're comfortable. They will make
the right call
when he was asked about DeShaun Watson potentially settling
these 22 cases. So,
I think that the Browns have a good idea of where this is
headed. And like you said, DeShaun, Watson can't just come
out and say, Say, you know, oh my gosh. Yes. I'm so motivated
to settle all of these different cases, etc, etc.
Because then that's not good for
what? He's ultimately trying to do is basically as
a negotiation tactic. The second thing that it made me think of
what DeShaun Watson starts talking about, you know, I was
raised by a single mom. I was, I do, I all these aunties, it's
not in my DNA. It's this, it's that
what we're talking about with Jon Gruden,
few months ago, and the racist bone thing.
Just because you raised a certain way.
Or you grew up a certain way
or whatever. It happens to be that doesn't mean that you're
incapable of doing something. And so when I hear stuff like
that, that doesn't really mean anything to me and it made me
something
that other people out there or what have you. But you can be
raised by anybody
and that doesn't necessarily mean that you in a certain set
of circumstances are not going to do something untoward. So
I just
when I hear something like that,
At that doesn't necessarily mean anything to me.
And that's an excellent point. I mean,
anyone no matter what they do
had a mother
and probably loved her at some point and probably still does.
That doesn't mean that you're absolved a potential wrongdoing
and when he says, I wasn't raised that way the response
can be. Yes, you weren't raised that way. So what the hell's
going on here?
You surely weren't who's raised? That way.
Who's who? Who in this world that
if they're Body of doing what he's accused of could say, you
know, that's exactly how I was raised. That's exactly how
that's the defense for anyone.
I wasn't raised that way. No, you weren't
kids aren't raised that way.
But sometimes these things happen,
Andrew Barry.
Explains some things that
we hadn't previously heard before there was the question
about why they haven't engaged the 22 women who are making
the complaints. And he said that the lawyers told them don't do
it. You could be potentially interfering with a criminal
investigation. So they hired a third party investigator to do
instead apparently to fish around and find these things
out. Mean. I don't know how you get to the point where you're
comfortable without hearing from these individuals and
I don't know if these investigators.
I don't know what they did. You wouldn't say what they did, but
they weren't going on vacation directly here. I mean, what
what would it matter were the Browns or the Falcons or who,
whatever other of the you know, 13 teams that express interest
where they ultimately not going
to do this regardless of what these 22 people said?
Because that's the thing that I keep coming back to you every
time I hear all the Browns, didn't, you know, they didn't
talk to these. What
would it have mattered? I really don't think it would
have mattered for any of these teams. I just don't I
I personally think it was less about what happened. In
the past and more about exacting. I guarantee that it's not going
to happen
again, right? Yeah. I think that's what it came down to.
The due diligence wasn't about, do. We believe he did what he's
accused of doing the due diligence, was do we think this
guy will do it on our watch, regardless of what he's done.
Will he do it
once? He's an employee, the Cleveland Browns?