Watson's people expecting a full season suspension

[toldozer]

Honestly it should be more than a year.  

[SizzleBuzz]

Is a permanent ban in the set of possible outcomes ?

As it stands today, obviously that's not being discussed...

...but how much more bad stuff has to come out before that lede is published? 

[Mr. Scot]

 

[4Corners]

Man the panthers dodged a huge bullet with this guy but for some reason I think they are too stupid to realize it 

[kungfoodude]

20 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

 

Indefinite would be an interesting twist.

I still personally believe it will be only a season. 

[NanuqoftheNorth]

17 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Indefinite would be an interesting twist.

I still personally believe it will be only a season. 

Idle hands are the devil's workshop...

[ForJimmy]

26 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Indefinite would be an interesting twist.

I still personally believe it will be only a season. 

I makes sense. They did something similar with Myles Garrett. He was suspected the rest of the year and indefinitely pending the following year. 

[trueblade]

5 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

 

This is why the Exempt List makes the most since. It's both indefinite and the entire process in under the Commissioner's control. A suspension would have to go to the new collectively bargained Personal Conduct Policy.

[KillerKat]

This could end up being the top 2 worst trades in NFL history if Watson never sees the field again.

[YourLastThought]

[CPcavedweller]

22 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Indefinite would be an interesting twist.

I still personally believe it will be only a season. 

That would never hold up in Court. They cannot leave a punishment "open ended" and if they did, lawsuits would be filed by both Watson and the NFLPA. There are structures for suspensions and I doubt any of them say "12 games, but we will play the rest by ear". Leaving is open ended incentivizes new allegations that may not necessarily be true, either. I know false accusations occur rarely but if there was a case that would get them, it would be this. 

[kungfoodude]

6 hours ago, KillerKat said:

This could end up being the top 2 worst trades in NFL history if Watson never sees the field again.

There is less than 0.0001% of that happening at the moment.

[SizzleBuzz]

4 hours ago, CPcavedweller said:

That would never hold up in Court. They cannot leave a punishment "open ended" and if they did, lawsuits would be filed by both Watson and the NFLPA. There are structures for suspensions and I doubt any of them say "12 games, but we will play the rest by ear". Leaving is open ended incentivizes new allegations that may not necessarily be true, either. I know false accusations occur rarely but if there was a case that would get them, it would be this. 

Maybe the rules are different now but it has certainly happened in the past...

[t96]

9 minutes ago, SizzleBuzz said:

Maybe the rules are different now but it has certainly happened in the past...

Pretty sure that was pretty quickly reduced to 4 games