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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.800 Welcome in episode forty one of What's Right with Nick Wright, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.680 the podcast and YouTube show. We really appreciate you guys 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.760 subscribing and rating and reviewing the show on all platforms. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.120 Today's show is going to be a little different. We 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.600 have some very serious topics to discuss with the Deshaun 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.080 Watson news coming down a few hours before we recorded. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.240 We have a very somber topic to discuss right off 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.360 the top of the show with the passing of Bill Russell, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.800 and we have what is unquestionably going to be the 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.280 single greatest moment up to this point of One Demons 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:39.959 Bird's life. Having won a ten thousand dollars wager from 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.199 me that has to be paid in cash in full 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.920 before the end of today's show, there is one slight problem. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.880 I do not have the ten thousand dollars in full 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:55.880 on me. However, don't give me that. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:56.840 Look, you don't have it. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.040 I don't have Listen, we will decius, we will get 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.640 to that before the end of the show. I have 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.600 a solid amount of money in my pocket. Okay, I 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.600 promise before the end of today's show you will hold 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.079 more money than you've ever held at one point in time. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.640 It's not the full ten thousand, though. We'll explain and 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.600 we'll see what you think the proper remedies are. Okay, okay, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.720 all right, so we'll get to that. We're gonna talk 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.679 about regular sports stuff. We'll do all our regular show. However, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.960 we can't really do the actual regular show because we 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.040 need to start with this. So before we even get 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.040 to what we're not getting into or our regular a bloc, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.560 I of course want to talk about Bill Russell, not 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.720 only the greatest winner in the history of sports, but 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.920 a true civil rights icon who passed away Sunday at 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.360 the age of eighty eight. So the Bill Russell off 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:57.120 the court life is a remarkable one. The first black 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.880 head coach in major American sports man, who was born 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:09.000 in the thirties in Louisiana, moved north and dealt with 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.639 racism and bigotry and attacks every step of the way. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.760 A man who I think not coincidentally, after his time 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.680 in Boston and some of this stuff, demands say, I'm sure, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.200 and this is no shade here, you're unaware of it. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.880 While he was winning championships in Boston, he had his 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.520 house broken into, they broke his trophies, They in his bed. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.239 They when he would go on the road, he had 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:39.200 his his daughter wrote about how he would have his 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:45.560 garbage cans every single time tipped over, and that he 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.360 went to the police and said this has to stop, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.360 and the cops like, must be raccoons, and so he said, okay, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.520 then I want a gun permit. And then all of 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.440 a sudden it stopped, and not coincidentally, I don't think 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:02.080 Bill Russell then moved, I think, to the geographic opposite 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.880 of Boston. He moved to an island off the coast 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.560 of Seattle called Mercer Island. You could not get further 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.440 away from Boston. And then he lived and he lived 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.200 there for the better part of forty years. And he 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.120 talked about how he you know, he played for his 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.640 teammates his coach were at Arbach, but not for the fans. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:30.400 And listen, there is a tortured history in a lot 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.920 of cities, but famously Boston, of their relationship with their 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:41.719 black stars. Bob Coosey was a great player, Havlichek was 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:46.040 a great player, Larry Bird was a great player. None 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.760 of them were as great as Russell was. Yet there 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.480 is to this day real questions about who the greatest 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.520 Celtic was and that had to do with the fact 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:02.680 that Bill Russell was a black man, a proud black man, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.159 and march right alongside Ali and King in the Civil 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:13.839 Rights movie. And when Bill Russell, you know, was getting 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:19.200 death threats and the family asked the FBI to help, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.600 what the FBI did was open a file on him 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.560 that referred to him as an arrogant negro who would 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.919 not sign autographs for white children. That's how the country, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.120 the city of Boston, the country as a whole, treated 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.719 Bill Russell. Okay, So that is the very very short 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.720 version of Bill Russell the activist. Bill Russell off the court. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.279 And by the way, Bill Russell signed up for Twitter 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.640 in his eighties to send out a tweet supporting Colin Kaepernick. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.560 He never his first sweet ever was him kneeling. He 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.760 never stopped the activism. I don't want to gloss over that, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:04.839 but all so, as interested and educated as I am 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.920 on that part of his life, there are other people 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.479 in longer form that can pay a better tribute to that. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.560 So I would like to for a moment here talk 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.440 about Bill Russell the basketball player, because I think people 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.440 know eight titles in a row. They know, eleven championships 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.640 in thirteen years. I still think it under sells how 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.280 utterly dominant he was. One of the reasons I did 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.840 my list the way I did it, the fifty best 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.279 of the last fifty is not only because you can't 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.760 get film and you can barely get fully accurate full 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.320 box scores of those games in the late fifties and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.719 throughout the sixties, but also because Bill Russell causes a 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.760 problem for any ranking, because if we agree the goal 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.080 of team sports is to win, then what do you 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.880 do with a guy who lapped the field a couple 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.479 times over when it comes to winning. And it wasn't 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:10.280 just the eleven championships, it's that he never lost a 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.080 do or die game in his basketball life. You hear 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.080 this stat thrown around, but I want to emphasize it. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.440 Then we will go through the Bill Russell basketball life 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.880 quickly and then move on to the show Bill Russell 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.360 in the NCAA Tournament, in the Olympics and in Game 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.520 sevens of the NBA or Door Die Game fives of 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.480 the NBA. In this five game series played twenty one 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.119 games where the winner advances and the loser goes home. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.680 College Olympics and the Pros. His teams were twenty one 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.840 and zero in those twenty one games. He got to 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.600 the University of San Francisco and within a year Sports 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.800 Illustrated wrote an article saying that college basketball might have 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.640 to change the rules because of him, and they did. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.800 A year later, they widened the lane to try to 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.480 minimize his defensive impact. He then went on a fifty 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:09.480 five game collegiate winning streak, winning two national championships. He 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.600 then won the goal in the Olympics. He then gets 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.920 to Boston and this is where we're going too, similar 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.200 to how we have on our NBA list, go year 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.720 by year, but I will do it quickly. Built this 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.320 Boston Celtics had Bob Goozi already. He was about to 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.520 win League MVP. They had never made a finals. They 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.240 made the finals the first ten years of Russell's career. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.560 They made the finals twelve of the thirteen years he played. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.600 So his very first year in the league Game seven 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.240 NBA Finals against the at that moment best player in basketball, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:53.359 Bob Pettitt, he has nineteen points and thirty two rebounds 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.240 in a two point double overtime win. The next year, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.960 they are playing Pettit in the finals again, Russell springs 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.640 his ankle Missus game four, Missus Game five, is a 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.000 shell of himself, barely plays. In game six, Pettitt hangs 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.640 fifty on him and Russell. If you listen to Bill Simmons, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.640 still bitter about that, says I was injured, So how 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.400 did you respond? Only won eight championships in a row. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.880 But what's amazing about when you hear eight titles in 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.200 a row? You think, oh my god, they were just 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.520 far and away better than everyone. But the thing is 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.640 they weren't. They were close games in seven game series 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.120 fifty nine to get to the finals. They're in a 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.720 game seven against Syracuse and my old landlord in college. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.480 Believe it or not, well, dlphshas whose son Danny shaves 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.679 people maybe remember, Probably not Dahlsha's a great player. Russell 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.520 beats him by five in a game seven. Then they 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.680 sweep the Minneapolis Lakers, and Mike is Mike and still 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.760 on that Lakers team. I think he is. I gotta 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.760 double check that they sweep the Oh you know, Miken's 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.760 not sowing the Lakers, see my apologies, but Elgin Baylor is. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.640 And they sweep them to win the title. That's Championship 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.760 number two. The next year, he beats Wilt in the 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.880 to get to the conference finals or to get to 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.760 the finals, and then in the NBA Finals plays Bob 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.959 Pettitt again a game seven, has a twenty two point 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.600 thirty five rebound game to win title number three. The 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.920 very next year, he's in the finals against Bob Pettitt again. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.840 This one doesn't go seven in five, they win. He 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.480 has a thirty point thirty eight rebound game to win 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.840 ring number four. The very next year, he plays Wilt 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.319 in a game seven to get to the finals, beats 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.080 them by two. In the finals, plays Jerry West. It's 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:54.560 a game seven. That game seven goes to overtime. Russell 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.880 plays all fifty three minutes, has thirty points and forty 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.160 rebounds to. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.480 Reach These rebulds are crazy. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.480 They played a super fast paced and missed a lot 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.880 of shots. They're still insane. That's ring number five. The 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.160 very next year, there's another game seven to get to 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.240 the finals. This is against Oscar Robertson in Cincinnati. He 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.280 of course wins with a twenty and twenty four and 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.800 then they win the title against the Lakers. Poor Jerry 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.040 West at this time in six. That is ring number six. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.679 That is five in a row. The next year, it's 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.199 nice and easy. They win the title in five. That's 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.359 ring number six. The very next year, they're playing Philadelphia. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:38.160 It's a game seven. Philadelphia, of course has Wilt Chamberlain. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.160 Russell wins that game seven to get to the finals 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:46.760 by one point, playing all forty eight minutes against Wilt 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.480 and holding Wilt if you will, to thirty, which back 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.920 in the day, holding Wilt to thirty is a hell 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.360 of an accomplishment. They then beat the Lakers again, poor 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.800 Lakers in the finals. He has a twenty and thirty 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.280 to win that title. I've lost track. I think that's 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.040 rings seven and six in a row. The very next year, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.200 they have an easy one. They win the title. Oh no, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.680 they get to the title easily. But another game seven, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.360 another game against the Lakers, another time Jerry West is 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.800 so close. They win Game seven by two points. He 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.160 has twenty five points and thirty two rebounds. That is 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.880 I want to make sure I have this right. That 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:28.160 is title. That is title number nine. No, maybe maybe 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.320 I'm confused. I've lost track at this point. That is yeah, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.120 that is that is title number nine eight in a row. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.720 The next year they lose before the finals, will and 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.880 the Sixers get them in the conference finals. So you 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.960 know what happens. He becomes player coach and they win 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 two more rings. How do they win those two more rings? 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.200 They beat Bought, They beat Philly in a game seven 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.040 by four points, and then to get to the finals, 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.559 and then they beat the Lakers and six and then 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.160 his final year in the league, in the final game, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.160 he'll ever play another game seven against the Los Angeles 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:13.480 Lakers that they win by two. So the reason I 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.800 say all that is it's not just that he won 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.040 five MVPs and did all that winning. It's also it 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:25.040 is impossible to look at how close those games were 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.640 and the fact that he never came out on the 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.760 short end of it and come to any conclusion other 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.640 than he understood what it took for his team to 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:41.559 win better than any athlete we've ever seen. So again, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.560 that was And by the way, his athletic career was 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.920 not the most important part of his life. It was 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.200 the off the court stuff. But on the court, pardon 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.880 me ear muff, kids, that was a bad mother man. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:03.040 The guy came to college was a track star, learning basketball, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.880 and as soon as he picked it up a little bit, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.880 won two national championships, then an Olympic gold medal. Then 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.920 in a thirteen year NBA career, made the finals twelve times, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.679 won eleven rings, and the one time he didn't win 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.720 in the finals, he missed two and a half games 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.960 with injury. An all time all timer by any measure, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:46.120 the great and incomparable Bill Russell. All right, so there's 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.680 the Bill Russell portion of the show. Now to the 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.000 regular show. That will not quite be a regular show, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.520 but we will do our best today. Here's what is 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.320 not on today's show. What is not on did not 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.560 make the cut for today's show is Pallo on Caro 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.400 dropping fifty in a pro am these listen, I love 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.360 the crossover like everybody else. That's Jamal Crawford's little pro 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.760 am thing. Your guy up in Seattle. Crossover. Yeah, he 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.640 spells it like his last name. He calls it the crossover. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.720 He puts it all in the tournament. But these, these 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.520 these NBA guys playing in pro ams not that impressed, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.520 to be honest. He includes Lebron whatever he did at 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.520 the Drew League. Draymond wants more money and a one 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:26.040 point two eight billion dollar Mega Millions jackpot win. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.640 Not going to get like six hundred million though, I 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.720 like seven hundred maybe only taxed out that it gets 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:33.440 taxed like crazy. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.520 Yeah, So I mean, what's the point really if you're 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:36.640 only having seven hundred million? 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.920 No, no, no, no, I'm not one of those guys six 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.400 hundred more. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.400 I mean, I mean you are kind of one of 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.400 those guys, because but you're listen, I get it, you're 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.480 feeling yourself. You're about to have ten thousand dollars in 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:46.000 your pocket. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:51.160 You feel like seven Yeah, you're onto it. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.880 You might have had a little spoiler alert there. Okay, demons, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.480 all right now we must we must gain our bosure 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.960 because we have another serious topic to discuss. The Deshaun 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.600 Watson situation go ahead. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.560 An independent NFL Disciplinary officer, Judge Suo Robinson decided Deshaun 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.400 Watson was guilty of violating the NFL Contact Policy yep, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.800 but she only called for a six game suspension YEPH. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.280 The NFLPA says the league should accept the independent ruling 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.480 and move on without any appeals. But if you go 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.240 strictly by Twitter reactions, yeah, it seems like six games 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.440 isn't isn't enough? The commissioner could step in in the 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.200 next three days and extend the time. Yep, should he? 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.280 I think he should, and I think he will. So 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.240 this is kind of We're gonna do an all encompass, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.080 all encompassing Dashaun Watson discussion here. First of all, I 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.360 want to talk about where I think I have failed 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.440 on this, and I don't think I'm the only one 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.280 in the media, but I will speak for myself. I 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.200 think one of the reason reasons there was not as 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.360 much public outrage as there should have been when it 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:07.240 comes to more than two dozen women accusing Deshaun Watson 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:13.399 of some really heinous stuff is because it was so 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:20.560 uncomfortable and awkward and embarrassing to discuss. I think a 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.160 lot of us in the media, myself included, particularly on television, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.720 chose the path of least resistance, which is at let's 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.479 talk about something else, Because if you are talking about 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:40.040 some if you're talking about a guy masturbating ejaculating on 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:45.600 women without their consent, you know, trying to force them 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:51.000 or cajole them into sexual acts, and doing it repeatedly 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:57.280 and repeatedly and repeatedly across more than two dozen women 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.679 where you read that the Texans kind of had a 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.360 set up for him where he had a club membership, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.879 and the all of it is so grotesque and so 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.960 uncomfortable that it wasn't like, here's a video of someone 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.600 committing an act of violence, we can all discuss it. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.040 So because of that, I don't think it got the 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.960 general attention it deserved initially. So that's where I failed, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.479 And I you know, I don't think I'm the only one, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.640 but I'll speak for myself where I think I failed 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.280 in regards to this. Now, as far as what is 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.240 the appropriate punishment, I think I said on the show 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:44.840 this show a long time ago that I don't think 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.439 this is one you can split the baby on, And 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.000 by that I mean I felt like the independent arbitrator, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.040 Judge Suel Robinson almost had to come down on zero 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:03.199 games or a season plus years. Yeah, because it is 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.119 very difficult for me to rationalize the idea of I 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:13.760 believe you did this, and I believe you deserve less 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.520 than one of the most punitive suspensions in NFL history. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.280 But it seems like that is exactly what she did. 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.640 That and some of her quotes, according to Tom Pelisarrow. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.600 She was saying, like, hell, it wasn't violent. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.159 Yeah, I thought the whole Tom Pelisarrow reported on Twitter 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.160 on Monday, and by the way, again, it's possible by 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.560 the time you guys hear this, the NFL announces that 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.679 it is appealing, and we'll talk about that process in 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.719 a moment. But as of right now, the NFL has 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.960 said nothing about this. There are some very very awkward 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:52.760 and odd quotes from the judge. She says his pattern 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:57.040 of behavior was egregious, but says the behavior was quote 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.520 non violent sexual conduct. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.960 Well, guys like Calvin Ridley, I got a full season 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.480 for making parlay bets while he wasn't even playing well. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.479 So and I want to get I want to get 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.280 to the of course, and I want to get to 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.520 that part in a moment, because that is a bit 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.439 apples and oranges, but it's what people's brains are naturally 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.600 going to go to. But I want to say I 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.720 fundamentally disagree with what the judge said that this was nonviolent. Now. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.879 I just I feel like there are different forms of violence, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.119 and I feel like if someone. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.400 Is like emotional violence almost. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:40.439 Well, and I would say I believe the women in 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.000 this case, and I want to talk more about that 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:46.640 in a moment as well. I believe someone ejaculating on 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.399 you without your consent is violent. I think that is 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:54.600 a violent act. There's violence, is not always punching someone 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.720 in the face. Now, I also want to say this, 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.160 and this is again why I think people have been 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.600 hesitant to discuss this on television or in short sound bites, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.840 because you don't want to be misquoted, you don't want 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:16.560 to be partially quoted. So I believe it is incredibly 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:23.879 important that our criminal justice system has a massively high 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:29.160 burden of proof. That innocent until proven guilty remains the standard, 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.399 and that reasonable doubt in order to clear that threshold, 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.760 it needs to be as high of a bar as 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.320 possible in order to cage a human being, in order 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.920 to send someone to jail at a prison, in order 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:47.720 to deny someone that they're liberty. I think that standard 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:53.240 is what it should be. That does not mean that 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.400 must be the standard for what I believe happened. And 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:02.320 so whether or not I, on a jury, could convict 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:06.000 to Sean Watson on any of these individual cases, it 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.480 does not have to me much of anything to do 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:13.800 with the fact that I believe, without a shadow of 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.600 a doubt, that he is guilty of what many, if 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.800 not all, of these women are accusing him. It is 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:26.960 a logical impossibility that more than two dozen women, many 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.639 of whom did not file a single lawsuit, had nothing 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.919 to gain from this, would allege this behavior and have 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.880 it what just be a massive conspiracy to what end, 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:43.480 to what gain for the women, particularly who have no 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.520 skin in the game when it comes to the lawsuit. 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:48.560 He just also, he doesn't really seem to have like 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:50.760 the demeanor of somebody that didn't do what he did. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.040 I've seen like conferences held and stuff, and it just 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:54.640 kind of. 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:58.720 The whole thing seems there is no part of me 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.520 that's like he's innocent. There's no part of me. So again, 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:07.160 my opinion is just my opinion on it. But I 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:12.639 think anyone that follows this story, that reads the lawsuit, 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:18.000 that reads the testimonials that Jenny Brintis has acquired those things, 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.240 I find it impossible to come away with the conclusion 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.880 Deshaun Watson was set up. Okay, So if we can 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:29.360 acknowledge that he did at least some, if not all, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.760 of this, now we get to what demands was alluding 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:38.040 to the others suspensions. So Miles Garrett got six games 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:41.320 for an on field fight when he conked Mason Rudolph 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.920 on the head with his own helmet. Michael Kendricks got 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:50.920 eight games for insiders stock trading, right, Deshaun's former teammate 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.919 DeAndre Hopkins got six games for a trace amount of 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.640 peds in a system, and Calvin Ridley got a season 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:03.600 for on a game he wasn't playing. Now, what some 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.520 would say, and they would not be wrong, is the 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:11.560 difference between certainly the DeAndre Hopkins PDS and the Calvin 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.480 Ridley thing is those are black and white rules. If 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:18.040 you test positive, you get this many games. If you 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.359 bet on a game, you get this many games. I 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:24.560 get that, but the optics of it are horrified. 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.000 Yeah, Deshaun Watson's one is like a huge morality issue. 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:31.600 Of course, nearly on the same level. 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:36.960 Correct, And I would argue that if Deshaun Watson was 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:42.960 caught on video punching one woman, he would have gotten 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.280 at least this, if not more. The fact that it's 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:48.200 not video, and so there is the question, I guess 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:50.800 you could argue the question of did he do it 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:55.000 or not? And in the court of public opinion, which 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.880 I think is going to sway to he should get 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:05.280 a longer suspension. However, there will be some folks who, well, 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:08.520 how do I say this, I just say what I think. 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:10.359 I'll just just be totally transparent with you. 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:10.800 Guys. 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.280