Watson Settlement Reaction; 2022 Rebound Candidates
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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A room filled with some heroes - Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler, and Gregg Rosenthal start by reacting to the settlement reached between the league and the NFLPA resulting in Deshaun Watson receiving an 11-game suspension and $5M fine. Then, the heroes discuss their favorite rebound candidates for the 2022 season (21:23), including a former MVP quarterback (22:50), a former Pro Bowl tight end (28:31), a coach-quarterback tandem in Florida (33:22), a quarterback who finds himself as a backup at this stage of his career (37:43), a wide receiver on a new team this season (44:40), and the wife of a star player (48:42).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | So now, after discussion, after months, after weeks, after negotiation, after a ruling |
| 0:12.1 | and then waiting for Peter C. Harvey to rule in place of Roger Goodell, it is now over, |
| 0:17.4 | Deshawn Watson, not going to take the NFL to court. |
| 0:20.5 | The NFL not going to have to listen to these headlines over and over throughout the season. There is a settlement, 11 games, $5 million fine. Deshawn Watson should be back against his old team to Houston Texan to week 13. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to Around the NFL, Dan Hansis with Greg Rosenthal and Mark Sessler. |
| 0:40.4 | There you heard it from Ian Rappaport. |
| 0:42.7 | It's the biggest news story of the day, and we're going to talk about it, whether we |
| 0:45.5 | want to or not. |
| 0:46.6 | And this is a story that Deshawn Watson desperately wanted to go away, a story that |
| 0:52.9 | Cleveland Browns desperately wanted to go away. And story that Cleveland Browns desperately wanted to go away. |
| 0:55.8 | And today, Thursday, through their actions, I think we learned that the NFL made a calculated |
| 1:01.4 | decision. |
| 1:02.1 | It was in their best interest to make this sordid story go away. |
| 1:07.3 | Greg. |
| 1:08.0 | And yet, because of the way the day played out, and I believe the length of the suspension, |
| 1:14.6 | which felt insufficient, insufficient and disappointing, I don't think it's going away. |
| 1:21.6 | And I've talked about this from day one, remorse. |
| 1:24.6 | And that ended up being, I think, a big theme of what the day was all about, |
| 1:29.4 | the total lack of remorse from Deshaun Watson and his agent, |
| 1:34.7 | that he believes he still did nothing wrong. |
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