The judge who reviewed this said he was a sexual predator but only did 6 games because that appears to be the NFLs usual punishment for this conduct, which should be a great embarrassment to NFL and Goodell. With word like assault and sexual predator in the ruling it will be hard for Goodell to not appeal, and if not he will lose all credibility when it comes to promoting women rights to a safe harassment free workplace that it appears doesn’t now exist in the NFL which is truly sad.
Pay attention... im gonna get deep here. If you read any cstate criminal code on sexual assault, the state legislature will actually define the type of behavior they are criminalizing. So SEXUAL ASSAULT will be defined by the state. The NFL had no such definition prior to Watson doing what he did. So at the hearing, the league defined what they felt that term to mean. The judge accepted their definition saying it is their league, they can define what sexual assault is.
She specifically states using the LEAGUES definition of sexual assault, Watson did in fact do said beh
Great point and we expect the NFL to be the moral compass. I think the league should have stayed out of this from the start.
and expecting the NFL to be some moral compass says a whole lot about the people that expect it to be so IMO. This is why I have never once wavered in my opinion that if a player is not in jail, Im ok with them playing in the NFL.
If a player is free to work at McDonalds then they are free to start at RB on Sunday if they are good enough.