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This is almost surreal. Would a team really trade for this guy with everything hanging over his head like this? Just from a PR perspective alone you'd think he'd be radioactive. 

@"StickyBun" said: This is almost surreal. Would a team really trade for this guy with everything hanging over his head like this? Just from a PR perspective alone you'd think he'd be radioactive. 

There are some football cities that would overlook his transgressions for his talent.. I think of Philly first. 

So. Beach or Carolina would be my guesses. He will be traded and given a 2nd chance somewhere, IF he doesnt end-up in jail for a long time. 

@"purplefaithful" said: So. Beach or Carolina would be my guesses. He will be traded and given a 2nd chance somewhere, IF he doesnt end-up in jail for a long time. 

Honestly, I don't think he'd get much jail time for those offenses. And he hasn't been charged with anything as of this moment. 22 women have sued him, that's as far as it goes currently. Its just sexual misconduct,, right? Its not sexual assault, rape, etc. as far as I understand it from a legal standpoint. Complaints have been filed. He might even plea out of most of it. But from a PR standpoint for a new team, that's what I'm talking about.

I think the MLB is the most poorly ran sports league out there, but they at least handled the Trevor Bauer situation quite well. I'm bringing that up because look how poorly the NFL is managing Gruden, WFT, and Deshaun. Does Goodell and other executives within the NFL actually care about the law or is it 100% whatever the owners want? 

The NHL is wading through the Blackhawks scandal, they are basically cleaning house. I doubt anything comes of Snyder's bs. Absolutely despicable and disgusting behavior all around by the league and the Blackhawks.

No one caught it at the NFL level until there were 22 incidents?

1,2,... .....10  .............22? incidents  ?

and no one at the NFL level sees a pattern?

And it appears the  NFL's course of action is to move  Watson to South Florida so he can start over?

@"Mattyman" said: No one caught it at the NFL level until there were 22 incidents?

1,2,... .....10  .............22? incidents  ?

and no one at the NFL level sees a pattern?

And it appears the  NFL's course of action is to move  Watson to South Florida so he can start over?

Hey, talented QBs don't grow on trees.  The NFL is willing to overlook these minor issues as long as he can sling the rock.  

Raiders’ owner Mark Davis told reporters today that he would like the NFL to provide a written report of its findings on its investigation of the culture of the Washington Football Team.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 27, 2021

@"Hawkvike25" said: I think the MLB is the most poorly ran sports league out there, but they at least handled the Trevor Bauer situation quite well. I'm bringing that up because look how poorly the NFL is managing Gruden, WFT, and Deshaun. Does Goodell and other executives within the NFL actually care about the law or is it 100% whatever the owners want? 

I’d imagine they’re concerned about the law as much as it can be leveraged against them or cause damage to their bottom line.

I’d guess that if the most profitable option is ignoring it,
they’ll ignore it and if the most profitable option is pretending to care, they’ll
pretend to care, obviously as long as it doesn’t mean they themselves are going
to jail.  If at some point, someone needs
to be sacrificed to maintain the good of the whole, it might come to that, but
the public is bad at remembering things, so you just wait it out for a while
until people forget about it or run out of steam and then slowly restart the
positive press campaign as if nothing bad ever happened.

This whole thing sounds like a whole lot of nothing.

The Dolphins will trade for him, but not until his legal
issues are resolved.  His legal issues
probably won’t be resolved until after the trade deadline.  Once his legal issues are resolved, a bunch
of other teams will re-enter the conversation and we’ll start over?

Watson would be a small blip on Florida’s radar, ‘cause Florida has bigger fish a fryin’, pretty much on a daily basis…  ;)  B)  

@"StickyBun" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: So. Beach or Carolina would be my guesses. He will be traded and given a 2nd chance somewhere, IF he doesnt end-up in jail for a long time. 

Honestly, I don't think he'd get much jail time for those offenses. And he hasn't been charged with anything as of this moment. 22 women have sued him, that's as far as it goes currently. Its just sexual misconduct,, right? Its not sexual assault, rape, etc. as far as I understand it from a legal standpoint. Complaints have been filed. He might even plea out of most of it. But from a PR standpoint for a new team, that's what I'm talking about.

Here's the hilarious part: Texans rejected Deshaun Watson offer of three first-round picks and three third-round picks before draft. That ship has sailed. I don't think he's tradeable now unless Houston wants to take significantly less.