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No Butt Stuff posted:That seems easily abused. It is and has been. The exempt list is a pure PR exercise. It’s a “quit making us look bad” list. My complaint is if Goodell has used it without hesitation in the past, what the gently caress is he waiting for? The Texans aren’t going to blink
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I really do think it's the Texans asking Goodell to not put Watson on the exempt list, so that they can showcase him at practices to other teams in hopes of a trade. If Watson's on the exempt list his trade value is shot (even more so). Goes to show the exempt list is useless as here's is a prime example of when it would be utilized but isn't because it hurts a team in a non-PR way.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I really do think it's the Texans asking Goodell to not put Watson on the exempt list, so that they can showcase him at practices to other teams in hopes of a trade. I admittedly haven't been following the Texans camp at all but I do remember that report about him playing safety on the scout team. My impression was they were just embarrassing him in order to embarrass him mostly, but maybe not. I'm sure they don't want him on the exempt list or they'd just suspend him on their own, but I'm also not sure they're really doing their best to up his trade value if that makes sense.
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the real answer is no one in the texans organization or the top of the nfl has the skill or willpower to actually do anything about this situation they're all just failsons who coasted into their positions in life on the backs of their parents' accomplishments instead of making any move that could prove risky they're just sitting on their hands and waiting for SOMEONE to do something
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I have occasionally wondered if the training camp nonsense was an effort to get him to quit and/or invoke some clause in his contract if he went "lol gently caress you I'm not lining up at safety" because I just can't make any goddamn sense of it any other way
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FizFashizzle posted:the real answer is no one in the texans organization or the top of the nfl has the skill or willpower to actually do anything about this situation Yea, I think it’s sheer terror at making a decision that could somehow rebound on them and so they’re all just fervently hoping that charges get filed and gives them cover to put him on the list without having to answer any unpleasant questions about what their investigation uncovered that lead to them doing so.
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I pointed it out earlier in the thread, but Vick didn't even end up on the exempt list until after he was released from prison. So the idea that the NFL is waiting for charges to do something is ridiculous. The league just doesn't want to lose one of it's most popular players and is hoping that the news dies off (which a lot of it has now), and that Watson just settles with them so the league can pretend it was just a money thing. But I've been wrong before. I assumed Watson was never showing up for camp.
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FizFashizzle posted:the real answer is no one in the texans organization or the top of the nfl has the skill or willpower to actually do anything about this situation This may sound conspiratorial but I also think the NFL doesn't do anything because they want to dangle any domestic violence issues for union negotiations to keep pay down.
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Mooseontheloose posted:This may sound conspiratorial but I also think the NFL doesn't do anything because they want to dangle any domestic violence issues for union negotiations to keep pay down. Care to elaborate how this would be a carrot to be utilized in labor negotiations? Like some extra morality clause to fine players?
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Android Apocalypse posted:Care to elaborate how this would be a carrot to be utilized in labor negotiations? Like some extra morality clause to fine players? We won't put a restrictive domestic violence clause in the contract if you agree to less money on guaranteed contracts.
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Mooseontheloose posted:We won't put a restrictive domestic violence clause in the contract if you agree to less money on guaranteed contracts. Jesus, that's a dark thought - but yeah... I can't fault your logic. FizFashizzle posted:the real answer is no one in the texans organization or the top of the nfl has the skill or willpower to actually do anything about this situation Yeah this too. Not to tout the Panthers as paragons as virtue given the old ownership but when Greg Hardy was awaiting his case the Panthers suspended him for 14 games. It took the league almost another year before they handed down their penalty. The ownership directly stepped in and refused to offer him another contract despite protestations from players and coaches in an effort to "do the right things". I'm not saying again, that the Panthers were 100% clean in the situation but its a lot better than the almost complete silence from the Texans.
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Maybe it’s like a Book of Job thing.
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Just uselessquote:Yahoo Sports' Charles Robinson reports the criminal case against Deshaun Watson "may ensure he’s eligible to play the entire 2021 season."
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AndrewP posted:This thread could entirely be made of Rivers McCown tweets but this is funny He's doing research for his next stand up routine/sermon. "Before we get into God's Word, I wanted to talk about how the different races dap you up."
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FizFashizzle posted:Just useless Keep in mind the Commissioners Exempt List is just paid administrative leave and Goodell has the power through the CBA to put whoever he wants on it with no limits. The only thing stopping the NFL from stopping Watson from playing is the dumbass Commissioner.
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Android Apocalypse posted:One weird trick that normal people with morals hate! That poo poo's outdated, now all you have to do is to be so consistent with immorality that immorality becomes a reasonable expectation and therefore unenforceable.
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Aug 23, 2021 16:01
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It was cool Watson made that NFL top 100 list and they played a nice little video for the sex offender under investigation rather than just say his name and spot and move on.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:I wonder what OJ's would have been like if he'd been in the league during the trial. It would've been an even bigger circus. And the  with his acquittal would've been off the charts.
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It’s been 4 months since these accusations all started dropping and it blows my mind how there are still sports media people saying “oh Watson will just settle” like it’s been him holding out while he divides on whether to unilaterally do it. If he could settle he’d have done it months ago.
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/08/28/chatter-builds-of-a-potential-deshaun-watson-trade/PFT posted:Multiple executives from teams not directly involved in the discussions tell PFT that there’s mounting chatter that Watson will be traded in the coming days. oh boy
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Has Florio been right about anything with Watson? It's not just Florio saying it this time https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/1431685635702726658 https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/1431685769693913089
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If my team traded for Watson I'd be done as a fan. That's so loving gross.
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BlindSite posted:If my team traded for Watson I'd be done as a fan. That's so loving gross. It does bother me a little bit that the Panthers would even still be kicking the tires at this juncture.
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Ehud posted:Ross is a piece of poo poo who donates money and does fundraisers, but he was never a cabinet member. He was the secretary of commerce
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Elephanthead posted:He was the secretary of commerce That was Wilbur Ross, not Stephen Ross.
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