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Adam Schefter: NFL and NFLPA reached agreement on an 11-game suspension for Browns QB Deshaun Watson, per sources. The settlement also includes a fine of $5 million that will go to charity. Deal still is not signed but it is agreed to.

  • August 18, 2022


Adam Schefter: NFL and NFLPA reached agreement on an 11-game suspension for Browns QB Deshaun Watson, per sources. The settlement also includes a fine of $5 million that will go to charity. Deal still is not signed but it is agreed to.

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  1. I know this isn’t “Patriots news”, but it does impact since they will no longer play Watson this year and now there is one less team in the playoff picture

  4. Breaking: NFL and NFLPA reached agreement on an 11-game suspension for Browns QB Deshaun Watson, per sources. The settlement also includes a fine of $5 million that will go to charity. Deal still is not signed but it is agreed to.

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  5. Goodell fucking sucks. Wasn’t the whole point of Brady vs the NFL court case to prove Goodell could basically penalize players however he wanted?

  6. I feel complacent. I know the Pats had nothing to do with this and have a good track record on this kind of thing. That said, the Pats are part of the machine. By continuing to support Mr Kraft’s team we’re fueling the machine. The NFL is in American sports’ darkest timeline. They’re hiding CTE evidence. They’re fucking their retired players. There is a fucking owner on the lam in foreign waters to avoid subpoena. Speaking of Comrade Snyder, also rapey with no accountability. Enabling and incredibly soft on domestic abusers and rapists. Now Deshaun Watson’s weak AF suspension. Going to be thinking long and hard on this, boys. I might be moving on from the NFL and Pats entirely.

  7. Absolutely fucking unacceptable. Struggling with the thought of just boycotting the season at this point.

  8. Somehow they had another chance to do the right thing and the NFL still screwed the pooch with this

  9. I don’t know if this pathetic punishment and his lack of contrition is the worst part of the way Cleveland wrote his contract to spare him punishment is worst part. Its all pathetic and disgusting.

  10. I think that’s about it for me in terms of supporting the NFL. I’m still rooting for the Pats but I think I’ll skip all the games and anything else that makes money for the league. Fuck Roger Goodell, as always.

  12. Boycott the Browns game yall if you care about this.

    If you want to watch it find an unofficial stream and do not go to the game…which probably included a fat chunk of people already lol.

  14. fine should have been bigger considering how the deal was structured to not punish him for missed games. lose 3/4 of the season should lose 3/4 of your pay. 18 million would have been fair.

  16. I think they’ve loved to suspend him more but they didn’t feel confident they’d win the court battle.

  20. Fuck you nfl and deshaun. I hope he gets booed and shit on in every field in the country

  21. Notable: Since this is <12 games this suspension doesn’t push back his cap hit. This is arguably worse case scenario for the Browns..

    The Browns are currently $32M over the cap for next season (2023). They are banking on rolling over a bunch of cap space from this year to next year to pay the contracts they have on the books (currently have nearly $50M in cap space). This makes it unlikely the browns bring in a high value replacement like Jimmy G as his cap hit plus Deshaun’s both falling on this year would make it so they don’t have enough cap to rollover to next year.

    So if they brought in Jimmy G now, they wouldn’t have enough cap space rollover to next year to cover the $32M they are short for next season. So they either ride with Jacoby and probably lose enough games in that stretch to be eliminated from playoff contention, wasting the season. Or they sign Jimmy and are forced to restructure or cut valuable players after this season since they won’t have as much cap roll over as they planned for.

    While 11 games seems surprisingly low for his actions, this is probably one of the worst case scenarios from the Browns standpoint, except for an unprecedented multi-year/permanent suspension.

    My tinfoil hat theory: I think the NFL was mad about how the Brown’s purposely structured Deshaun’s contract to minimize the impact of a suspension because it took power out of their hands. So instead of giving a longer suspension like a full season, they did 11 games to maximize the headache it would cause the Browns organization.

  23. You know, if I’m the lawyer involved in the 26 cases, I’d buy ad time during every NFL game and have the victims (if they’re comfortable) talk for the 30-60 seconds and say what Watson did to them.

    Make it a PR nightmare.

  25. Yeah this is one I can’t get over. I already stopped watching the NFL regularly but now I’m not watching it at all until Roger Goodell is gone or in hell, preferably the latter.

  26. I don’t really see a difference between 6 and 11 games tbh

    Like either way you don’t feel good about it lol

    crazy someone has to decide how many football games 24 sexual assault cases is worth

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