Brandt's Rants: Watson Settlement & Big Ten Media Deals

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week on the Business Of Sports, Andrew breaks down the Deshaun Watson settlement between Watson, the NFLPA, & the NFL (:49), the Big Ten Media deals (17:19), NFL Hold Ins, (21:21) & the Glazer family's possible sale of Manchester United (24:09). Connect with the Andrew Sports Business League: https://andrewbrandt.clickfunnels.com/sales Website: https://www.andrew-brandt.com Andrew’s Sunday Seven Newsletter: https://www.andrew-brandt.com/sunday-seven Twitter: @AndrewBrandt Instragram: @AndrewBrandt2 Clubhouse: @adb719 Twitch.tv/andrewbrandtlive If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/ NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. N/A in NH/OR/ON. New customers only. Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 wager. $200 issued as eight (8) $25 free bets. Ends 9/19/22. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The total amount lost in his complete discipline from the NFL on this contract is $650,000.
0:12.0	Hey there, boys and girls.
0:13.3	Welcome to another edition of The Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.
0:16.0	It's a special edition about the Deshawn Watson disciplinary result. I'll get for that a minute. We are presented
0:22.9	as always by Draft Kings, produced by Brian Neal. My music producer is Sam Brant. The music
0:28.0	here under us is from my son, Sam. We're going to get to the Dishan Watson thing in a minute.
0:33.3	I hope that this gives you some perspective on what has just happened over this year and a half period where we started hearing about Deshaun.
0:43.0	So let's get right to it.
0:44.9	We have a decision and it's a settlement.
0:48.1	So right away, we had the appeal hearing officer handpicked by Roger Goodell to appeal the decision of remember Judge Sue Robinson,
0:57.7	the disciplinary officer jointly picked by the NFLPA and the NFL.
1:02.3	She gave out six games. Peter Harby was poised to give out a suspension that was clearly going to be a lot longer.
1:09.6	We'll never know what it was.
1:11.6	He never ruled because we have a decision.
1:14.6	And here's the decision, not a decision, a settlement.
1:17.6	And here's the settlement. The settlement is between the NFL PA and Watson's legal team and the NFL.
1:24.6	So management and player have reached a settlement on this disciplinary matter,
1:29.3	and it is an 11-game suspension. Deshaun Watson will not appear in the first 11 games of the
1:34.8	2022 NFL season and a $5 million fine, which he'll have to pay, and that will be added to by the Browns a million dollars and the
1:46.7	league a million dollars towards health relationships, towards women's groups for sexual
1:52.6	assault, whatever it may be.
1:54.8	There it is.
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