Discussing the Deshaun Watson six-game suspension recommendation with Jenny Vrentas

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Deshaun Watson faces a six-game suspension to begin the 2022 NFL season for violating the league's personal conduct policy. The league has three days to appeal the recommendation made by judge Sue L. Robinson, the disciplinary officer appointed by the league and the players association. Jenny Vrentas from the New York Times joins Robert Mays to discuss her reporting on the story, what the recommendation means in the short and long term, and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:15.9	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:17.9	Today's Monday, August 1st.
0:19.6	I'm Robert Mays.
0:21.4	We got some news today, obviously.
0:23.3	It was announced on Sunday night, or leaked out on Sunday night, hard to pin down which
0:27.1	one at this point that the Dishon Watson ruling was going to come down around 9 a.m. on Monday
0:33.0	morning from Judge Sue Robinson, who is the independent arbiter overseeing the case
0:37.0	as part of the NFL's new policy as it relates to personal conduct and disciplinary matters.
0:42.6	Six games.
0:43.6	It was our initial ruling.
0:45.0	There's a lot to dig into here from what the next steps are from the league, from the
0:51.2	public response to this and just all the nuts and bolts of kind of how this happened and
0:55.8	why and to help us sort through that, someone who has covered this story from the beginning
1:00.3	in a way that really no one else has.
1:01.9	And I think we're lucky to have her this morning as Jenny Verantis from the New York Times.
1:05.7	Jenny, thank you so so much for joining us and helping us provide some context to all
1:09.6	this.
1:10.6	Yeah, glad to be here, Robert.
1:12.4	All right.
1:13.4	So, six games.
1:14.8	Sue Robinson lands on six games.
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