too.
What does Sean had to say today? Because I found it
stunning last Friday when he was talking to a DD King
Kabbalah from the team Hotel before the preseason opener,
when he apologized for the first time
because what was it before?
What was it? It was, it was pull string phrases.
I never harassed. I never disrespected. I never assaulted
anyone, whenever he got ask any question about it. That's what
he said. There's a snake in my boots. I mean, that was,
I don't mean to make light of it, but he had it condition that
that was his response.
Now all of a sudden he's apologizing,
he issues a statement today
saying he apologizes to the people affected. I take
accountability for my decisions and then
there he is. Speaking to the media miles
and proclaiming his innocence.
I don't think he gets it
and it's troubling and I can't help but Wonder a point. Josh
Alper made on our text thread. I can't help but wonder whether
or not the NFL looks at this and says
he's already in violation of his settlement agreement.
Well, I mean he certainly could be I guess but you know,
the other thing too. I mean he's talking about how mean the
the pull-string phrase from the media availability, today was
basically, I'm ready to move on with my life. I want to move
on with my life. Anytime,
they are asking him, well, how did you get from being so
defiant and saying, you know, I never disrespected any woman to
this and he said, I maintain that, you know, I maintain
that. I never disrespect any women. And you know, they said
well what do
you mean when this is the the fighting space as well? Well
you know I apologizing to anybody who may have been
affected by this and so he's not apologizing in particular
to any of the women who accused him of sexual assault just
a Friday night on Friday 90 said by the women impact and I mean
it's all I
know place he's all over the place
I know but that that's what he's saying and then he also
said
Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com asked him a question and he
basically what are you going to explain? What your side of this
isn't? He says yes I really To
because I mean we've been sort of trying to do that but we
haven't necessarily been able to do it fully so whatever that
means whatever exactly his side of the story is, I don't know
and I hope if it ever comes out or if he tries to go on
a podcast, whatever,
like it needs to be held up to journalistic scrutiny. First of
all because you can't just believe anything. Anybody says,
do you like I feel like that's not, you know,
breaking any new ground by saying that but
whatever he wants to really say he is still still maintaining
his innocence in this process and the fact that he you know,
agreed to a settlement that he said the nflpa and he's legal
team agreed to with the NFL.
That is him saying I'm ready to move on with my life
and here's the exact quote from today. I've always stood on my
innocence and always said I've never assaulted anyone or
disrespected anyone I'm going to continue
to stand on my innocence
that's the equivalent, frankly
of
The defendant in his plea hearing suddenly saying,
I didn't do any of this, I didn't do it.
I've agreed to, I've agreed that I did all this, but
I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I know. It says I did it. I know,
I just signed the paperwork that says I did it,
but I didn't do it.
That's what's got to make the NFL concerned. I'm looking at the
press release, the actual one, not the one that was accidentally
tweeted or
same thing. Deshawn has committed to doing the hard
work on himself that is necessary for his return to
the NFL. Roger Goodell said this settlement requires compliance
with a professional evaluation and treatment plan,
a significant find in a more substantial suspension.
Okay, fine.
If he thinks he didn't do anything wrong, if he's going
to continue to stand on his innocence, what's the point of
treatment? What are you being treated for a while to Shawn?
Let's talk about how to properly behave during
a massage. Well, I always did I stand on my innocence
CI.
This is, this is just troubling because we're led to believe on
one. And he's
confessing.
And then on the other hand, he's reserving the right to
maintain his innocence and I think for a lot of people
that's not going to fly, I know for me it doesn't you can't
have it both ways. You can't say I'm accountable in your
written statement
and then say, I stand on my innocence
in my
spoken statement. Well you can but the rest of us can call BS
on it and it tells me that he was backed into a corner. He
was in Checkmate and he did what he had to do
to get back on a football field.
Do I have to agree to 11 game suspension?
Well it's my only way back on a football field this season,
I'll do it. You have to pay five million dollars. If it's
my only way back on a football field for week, 13 against
the Texans, I'll do it.
But I still reserve the right to maintain my innocence,
that's really not the kind of growth that everybody seems to
be looking for, in DeShaun, Watson. True growth is I did
this.
This is my Reckoning.
I am making amends, not I'm just doing whatever I have to
do to get back on with my life, which is kind of what it feels
like.
Well, I mean, it's not just what it feels like that, that's
Literally what he's saying. My God, I mean that part of
the going to counseling to as a part of the settlement
agreement. I think we can say that DeShaun Watson is been
like, yes, I'm doing this because this is the way to get
me back on the football field and
so I don't know if he thinks that the counseling is just
for, you know, sending Instagram DMS to different
massage therapist and saying hey I would like a massage and
how that's not the proper way
to get a Forts massage, I don't know,
but there has to be some sort of counseling that he has
agreed to, whether it will be effective or not. I don't know
how much he's going to accept it. We don't know from his own
words though, if he's still maintaining his innocence
then maybe it's not necessarily going to work as well as it
should. But you'd have to hope that because it's mandatory and
because he's going to have to go to, at least some number of
bees, then something will get into his mind, that will help
him understand
why there was such
Concerning and predatory. As for judge, Sewall Robinson's
words. Predatory behavior that he exemplified there.
Another pull string phrase for Deshaun Watson which actually
the Browns picked up on and their statement a couple of
weeks ago after the judge Robinson decision, a lot of
people were triggered
by this. There's just something derisive in the use of that
word like that's on you, you're triggered. Why are you
triggered by this? This is your problem? Why are you upset? Let
me live my life. I didn't do anything wrong.
I'm sorry. All these people are triggered like they're really
being unreasonable. They're being unrealistic. They're
being arrested. Rational, I just think there are issues
here, that, that just shouldn't be ignored because to
the extent, the Browns have bet on the idea that the Sean Watson
isn't
going to repeat these behaviors, and I'd like to
think he's smart enough, not to have whatever is compelling him
to do, what he did manifest itself in this specific way, it
doesn't mean it's not going to manifest itself in some other
way until he admits the what
he did was wrong, until he takes a full Reckoning and
fully understands why he did what he did. And why it was
wrong where the line is between consent and non-consent. And
when you have to back off when you think somebody
is interested in something that
they're they're showing you by their behavior and their words,
they're not interested. That's the deeper issue and until he
recognizes that, he's unless this is just good old-fashioned
stubbornness where I'm never going to admit. Even
though, I know in my heart, I did wrong, I'm never going to
admit it. If that's the case, that's actually good news. That
would at least explain why. He's doing it. But if he truly
doesn't understand
why he did something wrong,
that's a problem. Because how do you ever solve it
if you don't acknowledge that, there's even a problem there.
Well, right. And it's
when you see the statement that he issued via the Browns, where
it says I take accountability and then you pair that with
what he was saying at his press conference
where it's, you know, well
I'm just want to move on with my life, I can't necessarily
explain the terms of the settlement because I just saw
him just seeing, you know. I've just got out here, I've been
concentrating on being the best Browns quarterback that I can
be and then I
maintained my innocence and I did nothing wrong and it's
the sense that what are you taking accountability for? Are you
taking accountability for ostensibly to use that word
again triggering people, I like that people who may be affected
in some way like what what are you
taking accountability for if not for the actions that judge
Sewall Robinson, said that you have committed It. I don't
really understand
what it is that he's playing at here. Other than,
you know, I'll, I can say I agree to this because I want to
move on with my life. But, you know,
not really
and you know what, we'll see whether or not the NFL is
troubled by any of this or whether they just want to move
on with their life too and be done with this
and be ready. If there's any further misconduct, at some
point, down the road to pounce on DeShaun Watson with
something even more significant, all right, we're
gonna let you
move on. With your lives.