OT: Watson gets 11 games, $5 Mill fine

[Joel Buchsbaum]

Quote Originally Posted by feltdizz View Post
first game back against the Texans..

smh.. NFL is trash. Love how they time it so he can com back to face his former team and play up the drama.

$5 mill out of $230 mill guaranteed. Not that big of a deal, he will miss almost no $ in game checks, only being paid $1 mill for entire season, so missing 11 out of 17 games won't barely touch him and his finances. Browns could conceivably still make the playoffs.

I agree and the way the Browns worked his contacts and back load it to avoid Watson losing money stinks. 11 games is not enough. I would have broke it up to 8 games this year, and 8 games next year to make him pay for all the people he abused.

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

The settlement fines him $5M.

If his 5 year/$230M contract was evenly pro-rated, he would have lost out on $29.76M. Imagine that. By structuring the deal the way they did, and even after making him cough up (or maybe gag up) $5M, he made away with almost an extra $25M.

[Northern_Blitz]

Texans vs. browns

nobody watching that regardless of who comes back

You mean the league isn't going to hype that game up as the "sexual predator vs. the team that brought him women to abuse from multiple different states"!

[Northern_Blitz]

The settlement fines him $5M.

If his 5 year/$230M contract was evenly pro-rated, he would have lost out on $29.76M. Imagine that. By structuring the deal the way they did, and even after making him cough up (or maybe gag up) $5M, he made away with almost an extra $25M.

Yep.

But I think there is only so much they can do without ending up in real court. And I'd guess that the NFL is deathly afraid of things being transparent in this case.

They should move for fines to be based on AAV of a contract and not salary in that year. But I don't think there's any way the PA would agree to that since the current system seems to almost completely protected them from fines.

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

But I think there is only so much they can do without ending up in real court. And I'd guess that the NFL is deathly afraid of things being transparent in this case.

As much as the league wouldn't want to go to court over this, I'm sure that Watson knows what comes out if he goes to court, and that is not any better. The last thing anyone wants for this case is a brighter spotlight.