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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Deshaun Watson Suspended 11 Games and Fined $5 Million

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

00:00 Welcome 8:19 Deshaun Watson Maintains his Innocence 29:29 Watson On Telling His Side of the Story 34:02 Jimmy Haslam on Second Chances

Transcript

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0:00.0

Look, I want to say that I'm truly sorry to all the women that I've impacted in this situation.

0:05.0

My decisions that I made and my life that put me in this position, you know, I would definitely like to have that.

0:12.0

I'm moving on with my career, with my life, and I'm continuing to stand on my innocence just because, you know, settlement and things like that happen,

0:19.0

doesn't mean that a person is guilty for anything.

0:22.0

I feel like a person has the opportunity to stand on his innocence and prove that and we prove that on the legal side

0:28.0

and we're just going to continue to push forward as an individual and as a person.

0:38.0

Oh, boy.

0:40.0

Just what we think it's over.

0:42.0

We get a curveball thrown right in our heads by Brown's quarterback, Sean Watson.

0:48.0

It was a crazy couple of hours yesterday as the word first started to surface

0:55.0

and Miles Simmons sent on the PFT text chain that the Browns had delayed their media availability for Thursday.

1:03.0

That's what got me to start poking around seeing where I could find out.

1:08.0

I quickly learned there would be news.

1:11.0

The league inadvertently posted at their communications media website.

1:18.0

The draft of the statement announcing the 11 game suspension and the five million dollar fine and Miles Simmons and I spent a lot of time yesterday breaking down some of the more obvious angles.

1:31.0

Shireen, but the thing that really sent this off the rails and could potentially be a problem for Dishon Watson with the comments.

1:40.0

I don't know why the Browns rushed him to a microphone yesterday.

1:45.0

Why did they do anything?

1:47.0

Just give it a day.

1:49.0

Just rest on the written statements for a day and let's see how the world reacts to it.

1:57.0

And then maybe on Friday, if we need to, if we need to, we make people available.

2:04.0

If we don't, don't say a thing.

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