That's kinda what makes the nfl funny as they try to stir up drama with this shit but you can tell a lot of it is faked. While they did have guys like greg hardy/ray rice, truly scum of the earth wife-assaulters with the former going onto an mma career (because I guess domestic assault prepares you for fighting men?), they don't have that now so they had to glorify the deshaun watson stuff.
Not going to go into all of the details as for the most part the criminal stuff was quite boring. Guy was accused by 5 massage therapists of inappropriate actions at the start, blossomed into 30 once word of mouth got going. When he wanted to pursue the trial 28 of them dropped their cases and the remaining 2 settled outside of court. His actual NFL stuff was interesting though, as at the time he was considered a really good player on a bad team approaching a year in his contract where teams will either re-sign for hundreds of millions of dollars or trade for massive amounts of capitol. They ended up choosing the latter, sent him to the browns, and despite the massive cloud lingering over him got a ton of stuff in return (with him ending up signing an extremely lucrative contract despite never winning a playoff game).
I wouldn't necessarily say "rape" is the big thing associated with athletes and more just disrepect of women as a whole. In the NFL we've seen far more domestic abusers. In the NBA we see a ton of welfare/alimony stuff where they'll have 10 kids and abandon them all. Each sport has their own niche that they seem to be really good at.
The NFL can get fucked for obvious reasons, but I will be tuning in to see Watson's first game back from suspension today. I argued with enough retard virtue signalers on reddit who acted like he was Satan because a bunch of blatant gold digging women said so that I would love nothing more than the ratings for that game and that game alone to be through the roof.
See, I remember me and a few buddies discussing the trade and I thought cleveland had paid way too much for him, both to the texans and the overall contract. For a guy who has never won a playoff game and put up pretty meh numbers, they gave up 3 first round picks and 3 other draft picks, with the first rounders all being protected (so if cleveland ends up tanking there's a very real chance houston could end up with multiple top-5's including their own picks). I get that the QB market is weird with teams shelling out tons of money for unproven guys hoping that they become good, but if they wanted someone of his same talent level they could've sent a 4th to philly and picked up gardner minshew and saved themselves $200m.
I think that vastly undersells how good Watson was a few years back. Of course that doesn't mean he necessarily has what it takes to do it under higher pressure in the playoffs. But that being said, I think today's game makes it very clear that it's still a big question mark whether he will ever be able to get back to the level he was at.
See, I wouldn't really say he was good though and just got carried by a weak division a la stafford (let's not forget that his lone 5,000 yard season came when he both had megatron and got to face a crippled bears/vikings team 4 times that year). Even if he goes back to the level he was at, we're at a point in which one guy can't really transform an offense and it's more about the pieces around him (see: my team where jared goff, a QB many people had touted as one of the worst, is leading a top-7 offense with one of the greatest rookie treasure troves in history). I'm under the impression he's going to be incredibly average, have something like a 65% completion percentage with 3,000 yards/21td's/10ints next year and be dead last with a 6-11 record next year. The bengals should remain dominant, the ravens (while also bad due to how overrated their QB is) should still be a playoff-bubble team, and the steelers should get better once they get some weapons for their QB.
That's kinda what makes the nfl funny as they try to stir up drama with this shit but you can tell a lot of it is faked. While they did have guys like greg hardy/ray rice, truly scum of the earth wife-assaulters with the former going onto an mma career (because I guess domestic assault prepares you for fighting men?), they don't have that now so they had to glorify the deshaun watson stuff.
Not going to go into all of the details as for the most part the criminal stuff was quite boring. Guy was accused by 5 massage therapists of inappropriate actions at the start, blossomed into 30 once word of mouth got going. When he wanted to pursue the trial 28 of them dropped their cases and the remaining 2 settled outside of court. His actual NFL stuff was interesting though, as at the time he was considered a really good player on a bad team approaching a year in his contract where teams will either re-sign for hundreds of millions of dollars or trade for massive amounts of capitol. They ended up choosing the latter, sent him to the browns, and despite the massive cloud lingering over him got a ton of stuff in return (with him ending up signing an extremely lucrative contract despite never winning a playoff game).
I wouldn't necessarily say "rape" is the big thing associated with athletes and more just disrepect of women as a whole. In the NFL we've seen far more domestic abusers. In the NBA we see a ton of welfare/alimony stuff where they'll have 10 kids and abandon them all. Each sport has their own niche that they seem to be really good at.
Ray Rice was not scum of the earth. We have the video evidence.
The NFL can get fucked for obvious reasons, but I will be tuning in to see Watson's first game back from suspension today. I argued with enough retard virtue signalers on reddit who acted like he was Satan because a bunch of blatant gold digging women said so that I would love nothing more than the ratings for that game and that game alone to be through the roof.
See, I remember me and a few buddies discussing the trade and I thought cleveland had paid way too much for him, both to the texans and the overall contract. For a guy who has never won a playoff game and put up pretty meh numbers, they gave up 3 first round picks and 3 other draft picks, with the first rounders all being protected (so if cleveland ends up tanking there's a very real chance houston could end up with multiple top-5's including their own picks). I get that the QB market is weird with teams shelling out tons of money for unproven guys hoping that they become good, but if they wanted someone of his same talent level they could've sent a 4th to philly and picked up gardner minshew and saved themselves $200m.
I think that vastly undersells how good Watson was a few years back. Of course that doesn't mean he necessarily has what it takes to do it under higher pressure in the playoffs. But that being said, I think today's game makes it very clear that it's still a big question mark whether he will ever be able to get back to the level he was at.
See, I wouldn't really say he was good though and just got carried by a weak division a la stafford (let's not forget that his lone 5,000 yard season came when he both had megatron and got to face a crippled bears/vikings team 4 times that year). Even if he goes back to the level he was at, we're at a point in which one guy can't really transform an offense and it's more about the pieces around him (see: my team where jared goff, a QB many people had touted as one of the worst, is leading a top-7 offense with one of the greatest rookie treasure troves in history). I'm under the impression he's going to be incredibly average, have something like a 65% completion percentage with 3,000 yards/21td's/10ints next year and be dead last with a 6-11 record next year. The bengals should remain dominant, the ravens (while also bad due to how overrated their QB is) should still be a playoff-bubble team, and the steelers should get better once they get some weapons for their QB.