we've been waiting and watching and wondering when the NFL is
going to propose some sort of a discipline of DeShaun Watson.
If any that would initiate the disciplinary officer
process judge Sewall
Robinson would then take over and investigate have a hearing
issue a decision. The commissioner would have appeal
jurisdiction over that,
we're waiting for that to start. It's going to take some
time. The sooner, it starts the sooner, it ends the sooner.
Everyone knows whether or not Charles Watson will miss any
some or all of the 2022 season
while we wait for that.
Something that we didn't know. We were waiting for
23rd lawsuit filed yesterday
against a Shawn Watson,
alleging, sexual misconduct, during massage therapy.
Sessions is seems to be someone that, they anticipated would
potentially Sue and hadn't
according to the lawsuit,
the plaintiff claims that
Decided to proceed after watching
the feature last week on Real Sports
with Bryant Gumbel on HBO
interviewed a couple of the individuals who are suing
DeShaun Watson presented. Both sides of it made some arguments
had some information Etc something about that caused her
to go forward. Now Rusty Harden who represent the Sean Watson
issued a scathing statement. The full language of
it. Is it PFT, but the attack continues on the lawyer,
the common thread for all 23 of these planes because he Busby
also represents
the woman who sued on Tuesday,
so they're going after him. This is all about him. I still
think that's tough to pull off because you are suggesting that
23 people are coming together
and being led all over the place in a pack
with no fracture. Nah, no Fisher. Oh, no. Ha saying
they're holding them together and Common Sense tells us
there's going to be some of those 23. Staff, some of those
23 impatient. Some of those 23 not on board with it. Some of
those 23 or just done with it.
Can't do it anymore. Don't want to do it anymore. I didn't sign
up for this. I thought it was a quick payday. I thought we were
just you know, in and settle and done, none of that. There's
none of that
that's come to light. And if you're going to go after Tony
Busby and try to bring down all 23 cases by targeting him
Chris,
you would expect that Rusty hardens. People would find
something along those lines. The fact we haven't heard that
makes me think that they have I found it. I doubt that they
haven't tried, so bright 23 again. I don't know what
the magic number is to get people to say. It's too. Damn many.
It's somewhere between one and twenty three. It was somewhere
between one and twenty two. What does it take? 33? 43, 53.
Well, one is Mike people, people are still caught up in
that the grand jury didn't two different grand jury didn't
indict. So that's
that's the first thing you see. When you kind of read through
social media, or comments below any article written about
the subject that that's A big talking point for people to
say,
you know, that he's not he's not guilty because of that. And
of course, I know you've explained that very well, but
I feel like again, there's a lot of people on social media or
in. They're involved in this subject that don't seem to
really want to
pay attention to the full scope of the subject. I think that's
what's funny. They kind of only taken the little tidbits
and they don't really know how the process works or the exact
information, and that's where it's a little surprising and it
comes off of courses, you know, more times than not. Be
insensitive on social media with some of the things people
say that are just absolutely crazy.
The problem too is
like everything else. In
our current Society, we go into our,
our Corners, our camps
are tribes and we hunker down. And we say whatever we have to
say, to advance the interests of whoever side where on
regardless of whether or not those facts.
First thing. I see yesterday and it's not a surprise.
The response is to the tweet that we posed with the story at
PFT money. Grab. How do you know it's a money? Grab? How do
you know you can't just
So much. That's what I mean. Right,
right, you can't assume that it's valid or invalid just
based upon the existence of the lawsuit, but the existence of
the lawsuit forces DeShaun Watson to deal with it. Now,
there are 23 of them and the grand jury argument. That's
something that
Rusty Harden made in a podcast. A right Feldman last week,
the idea that hey, if the grand jury decided not to indict,
that means a grand, jury found. There isn't even probable cause
to believe that these crimes happen. So there were no
crimes, there should be no punishment,
Rusty hardens taken that approach. Because
Is his only way out of this thing is to convince
the disciplinary officer to impose. No discipline at all on DeShaun
Watson. If she imposes no discipline at all,
the hands of Roger Goodell become bound. He cannot at that
point. Do anything to Shawn Watson on appeal. That's
the only way a guy, avoids. The commissioner having final say,
you know, they tried to set up a process
that looks independent
and it kind of does
But at the end of the day,
the commissioner still decides what to do in the example. I've
been using and look, I don't know that it's going to happen
this way, but it could the league proposes, a one-year
suspension,
judge, Sewall Robinson decides.
It's going to be two games.
Roger Goodell on appeal, says, thank you for your service
judge Robinson, but I'm persuaded by the NFL's argue
me, you know, the people that I've hired to make these
decisions. The people that work for me, the people that report
to me, the people that checked with me before we decided
to suspend him for a year. I'm going to defer to them.
M and suspend him for a year. Boom.
Nothing anybody can do about it. After that point. It's
over. It's done. Negotiated. See, be a process for imposing
discipline. We've seen others. Try to fight it like Ezekiel
Elliott, Tom Brady.
It ain't going to work. It's not going to happen. You lose
at that point. So the only way, the only way
to avoid Goodell having final say over this
is to have no discipline at all. And that's why Rusty
Harden is pushing this idea.
This Notion this argument that I think is misplaced that
because he wasn't indicted. It means he's completely innocent.
It doesn't it doesn't?
Yeah, because the the prosecutors have such broad
discretion, the saying, and he worked this saying in his
podcast appearance,
a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich
if the prosecutor wants to,
that's true.
But the flip side is also true. The prosecutor cannot indict,
a ham sandwich or a murderer
or anybody. If the prosecutor doesn't want to because at
the end of the day, the standard for the grand jury is probable
cause okay, fine. The jury the grand jury finds probable
cause. Now the prosecutors got to go forward
and try to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.
So if you don't think you're going to think about this, you
got two people in the room. Yeah, it's he said, she said
that's all I know. Are you, are you ever ever going to prove
anything beyond?
Reasonable Doubt. When you have he said,
she said it's very difficult to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
when there's no one to break the tie.
And and I could see the prosecutor in these cases after
being worked and worked and worked by Rusty Harden and his
people from months
months of pressure and persuasion. And persistence
saying, I didn't want to mess with this. I don't want to
spend the next year of my life
with these 22, or however many. No complaints would have become
indictments. I don't want to prosecute these because this
guy is going to rest until he gets his guy acquitted and
I don't want to lose. I never want to lose but I don't want
to lose 10 12. However,
many cases. There were that only made it to a grand jury.
So I think it was 10 at the end of the day so that that's
the other side of this. That's why it's not exoneration. Remember
when Chef T tried to suggest it was exoneration. Yeah,
and he got shouted down and actually actually unstopped on the
Can and clarified. Yeah, it's not exoneration. But that's all
rusty Harden has at this point. Yeah, try not to s*** his
exoneration
right now. They're trying to he's trying to win a little bit
of the public PR battle. I don't think he's really
winning, you know, not one with, you know, that argument
the argument of
you know, the the Tony Busby
as far as you know, what's attack him
and attack his credibility and it's a Witch Hunt at all that
stuff. I mean you said it right? I mean, come on, Tony
Busby we've gotten this far. This many people. Nobody's
tattletale. That hasn't fell apart. We hear no rumors
nothing.
I mean again if we heard stuff like that to start to fall
apart. Okay, then we start to question things, which is this
point. It's been,
I mean Ironclad, there's been no issue. I mean, so I feel it.
Find it hard to
attack Tony Busby's credibility, as far as that's concerned.
You might be a showman and
cocky and whatever else but
I don't get the sense that,
you know, we're at a point here. I mean, again Busby's,
kept it very Jim be running the CIA as far as I'm concerned
because like you said, you can't keep secrets with that
many people. If it was really an inside deal to screw over,
DeShaun Watson.
Come on, that's like crazy and sensitive for people to think
that, you know, again, I don't know if tall 23 people who
don't have a case here. But again where there's smoke,
there's fire. There's 23.
There's another 18 that he used to get massages from.
Oh, nothing happened. It doesn't matter. That's still weird.
It's weird. That's where people are dropping the ball here.
And then, you know, for people to think
they'll L HBO did this and now we have another lawsuit.
I mean, come on, you know, people all know. They're just trying
to get attention. No. No, this is not an easy subject to come
forward for anybody.
Let alone, you know, a female who was putting in an awkward
position.
It's not easy to come forward,
you're going to have to now, tell that all your secrets to
family members and you're going to go under public scrutiny
and you got to tell details of maybe some of the gross things
that the Sean Watson might have done. Like we've heard from
the other people. That's that's not easy to go.
Yeah, here's my life and that's been going on in my brain and,
you know, well, no problem. I'm just I'll go on with life no
problem. And so people are crazy and I just can't get over
how insensitive some people are on social media about
the subject
and this is court of public opinion type stuff. Rusty
Harden has said not that long ago that he's trying not to
engage
in the court of public opinion. Well,
of course you are, you have to,
you have to because public opinion is going to drive this,
the entire NFL, personal conduct policy is a about
public opinion and public perception and getting
the Public's expectations
set in a certain way.
So he's trying in some respects to engage in a battle
in the court of public opinion and failing. And that's the one
thing Tony Busby is done. Well from the get-go. He has seized
the momentum
from day one in the court of public opinion.
And look,
it's 23. People, I keep coming back to that. And that question
was posed to one of the lawyers. Leah G last week by
Soledad O'Brien. Why do we believe one
over at the time? 22. Now, 23 and the answer was it's all
about Busby Busby wants to enhance his social media
following and get on TV shows like this
and I just think the average person is not going to buy that
23 and again the fact that he's held 23 together. You can't
hold 23 together.
If it's all fake.
Fake and phony, and manufactured, and embellished
and fabricated. You cannot do it. You cannot do it for 15
months. No,
you can't. And if he has, but any
unbelievable, if he's managed to hold together, 23, meritless
cases with people who just want to be done with who don't want
to be sitting in these depositions. Don't want to be
asked these
hostile questions
don't have to deal with all the stress.
Just give me my money and let me go forward. You told me,
I was getting paid for this. I mean again, if we're accepting
the fact that these are all meritless. Cases.
The Tony Busby is somehow
spun together at some point. They fall apart. Exactly. At
some point. They fall apart. Maybe they fall apart today.
I don't know.
But with each passing day,
it's hard to believe. They're going to fall apart at some point.