OT - Per AP, Deshaun Watson 11-game suspension, $5M fine

I was impressed with Kraft.  Saturday night then back Sunday AM before catching flight to AFC Championship game. In and out in 15 minutes.  2x that quick for a guy his age.  They always talked about Brady's quick release, who knew the owner also had one. 

This kind of humor rubs me the wrong way.

Good point. Locking in the next year's salary makes the $5MM fine not a big deal for him.

it still feels dirty to say "I'll take this much money to not talk to the cops..."

In criminal cases, you are either guilty or not guilty. In civil cases, you can be “partially”’at fault and will need to pay a corresponding partial amount of the damages. 

Sure. I hope the Browns calculated how many fans would ditch them for this. 

Didn't he apologize or half-apologize before their first preseason game?

It's a Crime In Sports reference. No need to take it so seriously. Give the podcast a listen sometime and you'll understand. There's always a silver-haired, middle-aged white man ready to cover up practically anything to keep a player eligible. 

Only a hit dog hollers

It's funny how it's almost always a "mid-20's African-American" in these situations and the women are typically white with these civil outcomes. It has nothing do to with race, but there sure as hell some pretty strong patterns. 

1) Look at the demographics of people with the pitchforks out versus the ones that are thinking " not so fast my friend"

2) Look at the response and the vitriol between this and Big Ben and even Peyton. I know, those were a million years ago and things were different back then. Okay, Robert Kraft got busted before he busted during his massage. I know, it's different because he didn't have 60 women come forward. I bet you dollars to donuts that wasn't his first rub n tug.

Shit, there's dan snyder who had to testify before congress about the sexual happenings with the redskins organization. 

2a) For those that didn't click the link, Peyton Manning was accused of putting his testicles and anus on the athletic trainer's face. He claimed that he mooned her. She reported it to the school. UT told her to blame it on a Black player. During the deposition, it came out that Peyton told Archie that the victim “was unattractive but had big breasts” and that she liked to hang out “with a bunch of black guys.”

2b) Ben Roethlisberger raped a woman in a bathroom. His bodyguards would not let her friends come in to rescue her. The Milledgeville cops did everything they could to protect ben the rapist and even took pics with him. Goodell reduced his suspension from 6 game to 4. No fine. There was so much more evidence and concrete facts with ben than Deshaun.

3) The grand jury declined to indict the guy twice. You know how easy it is to indict with a grand jury? Only the prosecution brings evidence forward. They can indict a fucking ham sandwich in a grand jury.

4) Let's look at more facts. This is a bit old, but it's a study from the DoJ. 1.2% of rape cases involved white suspects and black victims. 45% Black men on Black women and 26% Black men on white women. The punishments were twice as harsh and long for cases with black male suspects and white women.

5) History. There's an insanely long history of false rape claims by white women on black men. Groveland Four, Pervis Payne, Hell, Amy Cooper was caught on camera telling the black birdwatcher that the cops are going to believe her because she's white. Terrell Owens dealt with a karen last week and she flat out said, "you're a black man approaching a white woman." in front of the cop.

6) The cost to defend. People settle because the legal process is extremely expensive and one sided. There are more than a few black people that end up pleaing guilty to move on despite being innocent. 

7) KOBE

It has nothing to do with race, but I can absolutely guess what yours is based on your response and sentiments.