in about five weeks.
I don't believe we've spoken to you since the settlement.
Are you satisfied? That he is meeting the terms
at this point. The conditions that were laid out for him and
what is your response to another
lawsuit that was recently filed against him?
The answer. Your first question is yes, he's followed
all of the terms of
the agreement
as far as any additional. We obviously will follow all of
those. If there's new information we will take that
into consideration
but we'll see. Is that
time goes on?
Good news for Deshaun Watson. He's complying with the various
terms and conditions of his suspension treatment
evaluation. I remember having a concern early on
when the deal was announced and he almost immediately said,
I stand on my innocence that he doesn't
get the message about what he did wrong,
what behaviors need to change.
What
the Merit was in the claims being made against him, where
the problems arose, He's not going to get
reinstated but it sounds Chris based upon what Rodrigo had to
say yesterday. He's figured it out, he's complied and he's
doing everything that he has to do to change to improve and to
ensure that similar issues won't arise in
the future. Yeah. That's good to hear. I mean it is and
hopefully he's in the the process of getting his life in
order and realizing what he did wrong at all that and
yeah we'll see where it goes. I'm happy to hear that.
I certainly am and the Cleveland situations interesting all
together. I mean, we just put it into football terms to
Cleveland's a team that's sitting there what to and for
really should not be tuned for
crucial mistakes and big moments. Bad managing of
the football game and they we were sitting here, I mean, a few
weeks ago, men
Cleavon looks kind of good because it could be a
question here. When DeShaun Watson gets back will they will
they definitely just hand the job over to him.
But now with the way it looks in the current state of
the football team and where their schedules going, you know, they
should be one of those teams. You talked about with
the Giants, the Jets, the Vikings to put some wins
in the bank early on.
And, you know, they could deal with some of the tough parts of
the year now, they're in danger of like, oh crap the your could
fall. Apart Ravens, Bangles Dolphins. Bills bucks, you
know, Texans. Bangles Ravens Saints.
Those are next. That's their next slot of games. Like wow.
That's a tough schedule. I don't know what they're going
to look like when it's all said and done
but if they can hang around the fringes of of the conversation.
Yeah. Until week 13. Yep. When to
And comes back to the final six games. They fit the profile of
a team that could make a push late. You look at that? Yeah,
final six games.
They could make a push late to get to
the postseason and DeShaun Watson will have had six games
under his belt by then, who knows what happens if and when
that occurs but week 13 at the Texans is when he's due to come
back and the Browns are trying to hold it together and win as
many games. They can't was after that Steelers game.
Where we thought
they're moving in the right direction.
And that's when we started having the
Shinji. Could they
they possibly decide to stick?
Would you cover said, how many wins would it take? Yeah,
the stick what you call a set, right? And obviously, two out
of six, not nearly enough for that conversation, but it looks
like he'll be back week 13
and and as to the lawsuit that was filed last Thursday, which
alleges the same kind of conduct that was the subject of
the other claims.
It was something that happened well before
August of 2022 and the Argument will be from Watson's camp in
the nflpa that anything that happened before. August of
2022, cannot be the subject of further discipline.
It would have to be completely different misconduct or similar
misconduct happening since the signing of that settlement
agreement. That's the only way. The NFL can take further action
against DeShaun Watson, any massage therapy misconduct
pre-august 2022. No matter how many lawsuits are filed. That's
already been
the subject of punishment. He cannot be punished again.
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