August 1, 2022 • 33 mins
The decision is FINALLY handed down. NFL Disciplinary Officer, Judge Sue L. Robinson decides Deshaun Watson should be suspended 6 games for violating the personal conduct policy. The guys discuss how the Browns will navigate around the suspension and how the public will react. Plus, a fact about Liam Neeson we all know now and more stories on the FSR IR.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is the best of two pros and a couple
of Joe with Lamar Areas, Brady Quinn and Jonas Knocks
on Fox Sports Radio. We were waiting for the announcement
on Deshaun Watson's punishment, So let's go over to Eddie
Garcia with the breaking news, Breaking news from Fox Sports.
(00:25):
All right, guys, been waiting all morning. We heard earlier
that the punishment was going to come down within the hour,
and Ian Rapp report of the NFL Network is reporting
that the judge Sue Robinson is recommending that quarterback DeShawn
Watson and Cleveland Browns should be suspended for six games.
So there it is. I called it six games, and
(00:46):
Jonas was all over it, Yeah, all over. I told
you Rosen a cup of joe in between one and seventeen,
I told you, Um, but thankfully we got got first
crack at this. All right, So, um, this is about
where where we everybody. Yeah, so it's finally starting to
pop up now, Yeah, yeah, it's uh. I mean, I
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don't think this should come as any surprise. I think
this is where it was trending towards as we got
more and more information, as we got deeper into UM
and further out from the deposition of the interviews that
took place within this arbitration. So UM, I can't sit
here and give anything that's profound other than to say
(01:28):
I think that objectively speaking it it started to seem
like it made sense that they were going to go
six day. Is there not a fine that's associated with this?
And they said there was no fine, no additional fine. Yeah,
there was. There was speculation that there may be a
suspension and a fine associated with it, um and And
(01:51):
I guess the only reason I bring that up is
because you know, the the suspension you know, in some
cases would avoid guarantees within a contract because remember this
contract was only guaranteed at signing. But I do believe
there are certain carve outs that protected DeShawn Watson UH
from this sort of suspension and taking away his guarantees.
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So I think he's still gonna get all what was
out to him. The only thing that would play into
that would be an additional fine. UM. That would be
something that would take away from what he's making. But nonetheless,
like this is kind of about where we thought, you know,
as as more information came out as this thing drew out.
This is where they were going to settle. The question becomes,
you know, in their six game span where you think
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the Browns are gonna get to before you know, you
start kind of wondering, all right, like can they be
a five team? Can they still be a playoff team?
Which I would say with only a being a six
game suspension, the risk of them signing them to this deal,
trading everything they did a way to bring him on,
it still allows them to play eleven games this season
and a shot and go into the playoffs. With the
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way their schedule starts off, and and it's the easiest
part of their schedule. Um, when you look at where
they're at. So at at Lina, Um, that's that's I
still think a winnable game. Um at Carolina. You got
the Jets after that, and then you got the Steelers
at home. The Steelers are on a yeah, so and
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then you go at Atlanta. So just those first four games, look,
I mean three and one is not outside the realm
of possibility with Jacoby Brissette at quarterback's a little real
or after that, Yeah, it does. It's a little tougher
road to hole after that. Yeah, then you got the
Chargers in the Patriots, but at least those at home,
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and he'll be back for the Baltimore game and for
the Bengals game. And again we pointed out that's a
Halloween night against the Bengals on Monday Night football. So
I'm sure sure people have all sorts of cons he does.
Does his suspension start now or is he able to
go through training camp and it starts week one of
regular season? He was able to go through training camp.
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Is he able to play in preseason games? I believe so. Yeah.
See that's that's interesting though. Yeah, I mean why not.
I don't know that they would play him though, because
you know, you don't want to risk injury, even though
he'd have, you know, six weeks to come back. Man,
I think you get him a few game reps, first quarter,
first group. I think you get him a few game reps.
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There's a lot of to your point, there's a lot
of rust there, right, I mean, he didn't play last year.
It is a new system, you are playing with new
pieces like it would make some sense to get him
some getting some game reps and then get him out
of here and let him sit out his six and
just make sure you putting his contract. Hopefully clause is
there that you get to monitor him four hours a day. Um, well,
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my concern is that he gets injured in that preseason
game and he's got to get some body work done.
That's where And I mean the type injury you're talking
about doesn't require him getting hit. I mean it could
just be soft tissue, him running too fast, trying to
get out of the the pocket or get away from
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the past rusher or anything like that. I mean, you know,
the hamstrings might tighten up on him. Yeah, that's a
good point. Yeah. Drowing, I mean as a quarterback, with
the way you dropped, I mean, this is something that's
unique to a lot of quarterbacks, is I mean, you
get a lot of droin issues, man, because the way
you're dropping back there and the way your body moves.
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That could be something else to keep a n eye on,
you know. On a more serious note, Uh, we weren't
being serious, okay, I mean I was. I was just
being more serious, that's all. I was. Just on a
more serious note. I didn't say I did say on
a serious note. I said, on a more serious that's
what we do. We hit the We hit all the
the angles. Of every topic here and all in a
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serious manner on this show. You gotta know that the
NFL was prepared for this to be the verdict on him.
This was going to be the decision. What did they
do next? How do they? I would think is the
biggest question here because a lot of people came to
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kind of expect this. What does the NFL do? I
mean if anything, like is this a scenario where the
NFL actually doesn't look that bad in this situation? Like?
How are we looking at this? Um? Look there people
that were there's gonna be outraged no matter what, because
people are gonna look at this and go considering how
many allegations and all that was out there, and some
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of the testimony and the real sports and and all
the stuff that was done on this. There's gonna be
people that are that were never going to be satisfied
no matter what the punishment was going to be. They
wanted a year. It should be at least a year.
There should be one game for every uh law out
lawsuit against him, like that's been thrown out there, and
then they want to do the comps too well. Trevor
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Bauer was suspended for two years in major League Baseball.
So there's gonna be that that side of it. But
at some point you can't just suspend the guy forever.
You can't just say all right, he's never coming back.
He made a mistake. Hopefully it doesn't make you know
this mistake again. By the way, Tom Pella Sero is
reporting that, um, the judge Suell Robinson her decision says
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that part of it is that uh, Deshaun Watson must
get all his massage therapy from club therapists, per source,
So that was one of them. The added details of
this is that Rachel, um, I don't I don't know.
You gotta ask. I need to understand is their prejudice
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involved in the in Desaunt Watson heaven to get them
at the club facility. I need to understand that. Yeah,
I can. I can honestly say, I feel like there's
something there. You know, there could be something. I'm not
gonna I don't want people to think I'm being serious.
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Only want people to think serious. I mean like the
fact that just think about the fact that that even
needs to be put into this, that hey, we don't
want you going on Instagram to seek out all these
massage therapists. It's got to be done through the club.
The fact that that's even part of this massage, hold on,
hold on, hold on, how are they going to enforce
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that right, Like they're gonna know as private time if
someone shows up that he found on Instagram to come
give a massage again, the problem is is if he
does it and somebody thinks they're gonna get that settlement,
that's almost like some baby Mama drama type stuff like, oh,
we can get him. He's one of the dumb ones.
We could get him, Like if he in boxes me, like,
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just just make sure you save that dip, go do it.
And you got him girlfriend, and he's gonna have to
pay you so it doesn't become public. The shn Watson
can either be his biggest ally or his biggest enemy
moving forward from here, Like if you want to talk
about one hell of a reprieve, six games and coming
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through this relatively got to feel like it's a win.
His entire camp has got to feel like, they, come on,
you just got the biggest guarantee fully guaranteed contract in
the history of the league. You haven't played you had
to dodge thirty some women allegations against you, and you
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come out with a guaranteed contract, no fines in six games.
And by the way, because of the way the contract
was structured, in those games that he plays this year,
with this six game suspension added on, he's still gonna
get over forty five million dollars. I mean, his side
of it. They've got to feel like this is one
of the best case scenarios. No games would have been great,
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but this is one of the best case scenarios for
for everybody involved. I mean, he settles this last one.
And and in theory you're moving on with life, and
theory you're moving on, like you know what you might
The worst thing you might have to deal with is uh,
I want to be your massage therapist. T shirts and
stuff like that at games or whatever, signs, whatever it
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may be. I don't know. I don't They're not even
big on letting people bring signs into the stadiums anymore.
So it's not like you're gonna see a sign. You
might see T shirts, you know, massa table. You know,
maybe maybe they won't think anything about that. Let me
let me add this to the conversation. You know, there
was this brilliance that took place with Brian Bosworth, and
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and there was these T shirts that were out that
we're being sold, that we're selling out a rapid clip
that were derogatory towards Brian Bosworth. If I'm Deshaun Watson,
I do a deal with somebody and have them put
out I'll be your massage therapist to Sew. I'm just
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soothe me. I will soothe you, Desaun, or whatever it
is you come up with. I think it would be
crazy brilliant if he were behind the apparel sales of
any type of Heckling T shirt or or or any
type of you know product, whether it's a hat, you know,
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like they had to dude on the massage table and
that's going to be the alternatate helmet for the Cleveland
whatever it is. He should be in on it. Yeah, yeah,
you should get a caught, right And could you imagine
him making even more money off of what he's done?
Can you imagine him making even more money off of
what he's done? Well, I sponsors are gonna be hard
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to come by when it comes to Deshaun Watson for
a little while, right. You gotta wait for some of
the smoke to clear on this story. But I feel
like some people it's like you know, nowadays, allegations are allegations.
He was never found it was it was never found
guilty of anything. So there might be sponsors that sit
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there and they say, look, give it. Yet, like you said,
give it a little bit of time. I don't think
people are going to come run into him now, like
only six games. Let's give him a couple of million
jeesuss you know, yeah, I don't know, not, I don't know.
Um it is two pros and a cup of Joe
here on four sale batteries. So the guy that just
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keeps going and going and going. So we've got we've
got more on this news out of the NFL. When
it comes to Deshaun Watson. We're gonna get into that
for you next. But for all the latest from around
the world of sports, of course, starting with this news,
it's Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Jonas. And again
(12:50):
the NFL Network reportings Judge Sue L. Robinson ruling that
Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShawn Watson should be suspended for six
games provin the leagues personal conduct policy with no additional fine.
The NFL p A had said before the ruling that
they would not appeal the punishment. Obviously they won't now
just the six games, but the NFL now has three
days to file an appeal, which would be heard by
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Commissioner Roger Goodell. Also breaking into the overnight hour was
the fact that John Watson's reportedly agreed to settle three
of the remaining four active civil lawsuits against him. Again,
Deshaun Watson and Cleveland Brown's quarterback six games suspension headed
down today for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Some
other NFL news these servances APT Nights and Star wide
receiver Deebo Samuel agree on a three year extension with
(13:34):
up to seventy three point five million fifty eight point
one million is guaranteed. Now MCTR Brady Quinn, Lamar Arrington,
and Jonas Knox in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Thanks Eddie,
two pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox
Sports Radio. So if you were just tuning in again,
the decision has been made Judge Sue L. Robinson uh
suspending UH Deshaun Watson for six games. UH So Deshaun
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Watson will miss the first six games of the season. Now,
the NFL has three days to appeal all this. The
feeling is that there's not going to be an appeal
from the nfl PA. Do you think Roger Goodell in
the league step in or do you think they're ready
to just move on themselves as well? Just kind of
get ready for this already told you all like my
conspiracy theory. I think they wanted it to be reported
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like they were gonna, you know, come in and and
that's what they wanted, a year suspension just for optics,
knowing that it would wouldn't come anywhere close to that.
So I don't think they're gonna do anything about it.
And Tom Pellisero again has been all over this. Uh
big Tom Pellacero is a big detail guy, right Brady,
He's the one uh this stuff. Yeah, he's done. He's
(14:36):
done a pretty good job on Twitter just following along
with this. Uh so Judge Robinson um saying Deshaun Watson
must get all massage therapy from club therapist per source.
And then this is a quote from Judge Suell Robinson
according to Tom Pellisero that Deshaun Watson had a pattern
of behavior that was egregious, but notes that behavior was
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nonviolent sexual conduct and explain any of the decision to
suspend him six games. Um, so, I mean, you know,
identified the guy's got a problem, but did he actually
break the law in this case? And uh, and that's
where she came up with the the decision here. Non
violent doesn't mean you're not a sick oh, you know,
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like non violent doesn't mean that. I mean, look, I
got three young girls, and I could only imagine one
day if some guy, you know, they're in a compromising
situation where they're trying to do a job and they
sign up for something and then all of a sudden,
some guys exposing himself for asking for certain things, Like
he can be nice about how he asked about it
or be non violent about it. That doesn't mean he's
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not a sick. Oh. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean
that something illegal hasn't happened. And that's the unfortunate reality
of violation right right. And that's the key point to
me is even though it wasn't considered to be valent,
that that doesn't mean that there wasn't a violation that
took place. Look at the testimony and some of the
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details and they all sort of line up A lot
of similarities, like it's it's weird, man, just some of
the stuff that that was out there. Again, I think
it comes back to the fact that he started, you know,
getting those knocked out. You know, he started settling those
those cases. So she's probably looking at it um speaking
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of of the arbitrator and those scenarios, saying that if
if they're not being compensated, if this isn't being shut
down and taking care of, then this becomes a different
conversation altogether. The fact that he jumped to it and
started started settling them and he only has one left,
that says to me, there was the conversation that was had,
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like settled these and you play you don't settle these
and it's indefinite if he still has twenty plus cases
out there still pending civilly, I don't think this happens
the way that it happened. So I think that he
understood he had to get aggressive on on getting these
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these you know, suits, these claims, get them, get them settled,
and and and give yourself the opportunity to get a
favorable judgment from from whoever was going to arbitrate the situation.
I think that that's kind of I think that's kind
of like easy to put together, to be honest. Uh
from a football standpoint, are the Browns of playoff team?
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Because I I still don't see them making the playoffs
this year. I mean, and I know that's six games
in comparison to what we thought it could be a
season long eight twelve, whatever the numbers that were being
thrown out there. I just think even if you start
off five hundred or two and four during that stretch
to to kick off the season, with their schedule down
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the stretch and that loaded conference, I just don't see
it happening. Here's what I see. They only play what
one divisional game during the period of time that he's gone.
Now he is back into two divisional games in a row,
which is tough, but I think that gives them a
fighting chance. I think if they're three and three when
he comes back, they've got a shot. And if he
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plays the way he's capable of from the last time
we saw him outh throw on the field, which is
obviously a couple of years ago. Yeah, I think you
view them now as a playoff team, and I think
they're probably if they're not winning the division and stealing it,
there they're a wild card team that's stealing one from
the n f C West. I think, oh, man, I
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don't know that they're a playoff team because he hasn't
shown me anything in the last couple of years. I
don't know what we're walking into with him. I think
it definitely depends on what type of player he shows
to be once he gets back. But he does have talent.
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They do have they do have a defense, they have
a running game. There's the strong possibility that this could
be a team that that makes an interesting run. I
just wonder how much, Like I asked this question, I
know we're up on the break, but give me this
one Q. If he has a better season than any
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other quarterback out there when he gets back, is it
possible that he can become the m v P of
the league and they would give it to him? No chances? Yeah,
I mean it not in eleven games? Yeah, I think
so either. I don't even think there's a chance next year.
Well no, I don't know. I don't. Reputationally, I don't.
I don't think it happens. So you don't think he
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would ever be able to win like the Walter Payton
Man of the Year Award he could win. Comeback, there's
that came back from so much you know he got.
I mean, if we're being honest here, he's probably come
back from way more than anybody else's come back, right listen, Uh,
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I Heart Radio. Right now, though, it is time for
a weekly tradition every single Monday, it's called this After
(20:23):
Your Sports week at happens. So it's time to get
the f SR I R Report, all right, and the
way we go? Now? Do we want to start with
with Brady your tail from your travels across the country
to uh to l A here. Do you want to
get into it or what I mean? We can't if
you'd like. It's not really about me though this this
(20:48):
might turn this segment into a tailspin to Lord only
knows wheth Well, you're gonna need the proper music for
a two PC o jure, So here we go. We
got your cover to her Brady Live Studio Band you know,
l A County every but hey mashed up Brady. All right,
so away we go. Yeah. So on the flight out,
you know, between besides doing some work, doing some school work,
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I was like, all right, I might need to put
something on TV to watch while I'm doing this. So
I put on some Liam Neeson movie, which they're all
the same. At some point, someone kid naps his family.
Ever since Taken, it's all the same. Someone kidnaps his family.
He's like killing people and you know, kicking ask to
get back. Well, I had to text my buddy the
(21:30):
meat Wagon and he's like, hey, what are you doing
on the plane. I go, I'm watching some awful Liam
Neeson movie that's the exact same as Taken, just not
called Taken. He goes, do you know Liam Neeson constantly
pieces pants? And I said, I was not made aware
of when Yeah, he goes, do you know Liam Neeson
(21:51):
constantly pieces pants? And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like google it? And so sure enough I went
down that rmhole or rabbit hole of googling Liam Neeson,
which there's a ton of photos of him in public
pet's pants and I don't know if it's like out
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of being like really drunk, or if it's like I
don't know something cool now where depends. Let me get
to the boy. We're a diaper for goodness sakes you,
I mean, I'm not making this up. It's so I
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asked him, I go, well, how do you know this?
And he was like, oh, I listened to a Joe
Broken podcast where I was mentioned, he said, And then
I couldn't help myself but look it up to confirm
if it was factual. He's like, sure enough. There are columns,
countless photos and sights talking about Peter pants. By the way,
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some of these aren't even just like because like if
you're a guy out there, I mean, you know every
guys had had that issue before. It's like, man, he thought,
I thought everything got taken care of. And then some
of these are just egregious, Like I don't even have
time to get to a urinal cake and put the
fire out early. These are egregious. That's old man going
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on right there. Yeah, is what that is? Like uncontrollable
Platter defends it's got I got leakage. It's uh address it.
These are like this is a legitimate, Brady, you are right,
this there's a legitimate articles that is just crazy. Man.
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I'll never I'll never look at the same I mean,
he's got unique talents seventy years old. But when you
typed inam Neeson, the second thing that comes up is
piece of past God, Like you know, I mean, I
got news for yet if it became the difference between
saving my family not saving my family was Liam Neeson.
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And I saw that he had pete himself in the front,
I'd be like, dude, get out of here, like like,
I'll I'll figure something like I'm not just waiting for
the movie where it's more realistic, where they can't hide
it anymore. And in the movie shows up to save
his family and he's got peen his pants all over himself,
like that's just that's part of the movie. Now always pants?
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Why why ever wear light pants when you know you
potty yourself? And he never and there's just like it's
like no facial no facial expression, no no looking down
at it, like oh not again, Like he's just he's
just going about his business. And Brady, Brady, you're you're right, Uh,
not exactly the the story I thought we were going
(24:44):
to get from your travels, but he's always like a
master and one in in the movies he's in like,
isn't he in? Uh? Like Batman is being like like Master, Yeah,
you know what, you gotta go, you gotta go. Um
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I was. I was injured this weekend. So I was
at a Kincianetta. Um for those of you are Kincianetta,
so in the in the in the Mexican sure did
this weekend? Uh this? Uh so when when a young
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lady turns fifteen years old they have a big party
for it's I mean it's a huge Yeah, okay, I
don't get it. All right. It was church in all Spanish,
of course, so that was fun. Uh it wasn't. I don't.
I don't get it. When I turned fifteen years old,
I got like a bag of funyans and like a
(25:48):
gift card to some store like I don't remember, but
fifteen years old, it's church. It's dancing, the whole presentation crazy.
And we were there hanging out with my son, and
my wife's out, you know, with her family, and they're
dancing and and all that. I'm just, you know, standing
there holding my son and I turned my head to
the right right as he goes to high five my
(26:12):
face and he thumbed me in the eye and it's
still scratched, like I still it's still a little bit
blurry um like it. It's it waters periodically ever since then,
and something to myself. I I don't know if I've
got like a scratch cornia or what, but my son
basically turned me into a cyclops for the rest of
(26:33):
the time at at the Kincineta And so I'm but
I'm fighting through all of that to be here to
do this show and not just want you guys to
know this. Yeah, build for this, you better believe it
all for this. Yeah, it is a little bit more lighthearted.
I mean, you know, as usual, I was double fisted.
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I was double fisted. They were Pacifico, Pacifico and Long Islands.
This is less right a um. Yeah, I made friends, well,
I made friends. You know I always make friends at
the bar, So we made we made friends. I was
eating my wings. I had the barbecue saracha and uh
(27:14):
the tarayaki uh wings shouts out to my people at
the Stubborn Mule. Uh. Yeah. And for you know it,
I was like, you know, we were all buying each
other around you know, I'll never understand when you buy
somebody around and they buy you around, and then you
buy you'd like keep buying each other rounds, like you're
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just canceling each other, just canceling your own round that.
But I guess it's the camaraderie that you build. Um
I double fisted my my normal double fisting, and um yeah,
I had to sit there for a little bit. You know,
ate my food, but I had to sit at that
bar and hang out for just a little bit. I would.
I was a tabbit banged it was. I was a
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tab bit banged up. Man. I had happy hour. That's
probably like the first time I've hit happy hour and
like years, get loose, Yeah, I never come on, now,
come on, get loose in the building. I did. I
definitely did. Did you Did you roll there alone just
to get something to eat? You know? I did? Made
friends and out and we were just getting it in.
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Do they know who you are? Like when you go
in there, they don't act like they do until you
get going in Like I knew who you were and
then it goes there. But it's fine. Like when you
do it the way we did it on Friday, it
was fine. I don't want to feel awkward about double fisting.
I would have probably paid my tab and went home
and did my double fisting in my backyard. Yeah yeah,
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But the way the way they did it was like
a group of them. It was pretty cool. We had
a really good time about it, too good at a
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you get your podcasts. So it is six games for
Deshaun Watson. Uh, the news came out about what twenty
five minutes ago. The NFL has announced the six game
suspension of Deshaun Watson. According to Judge Sue L. Robinson,
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Um part of the agreement there is no fine, but
also he must only go through team massage therapy, so
no more of the d m NG random women out
there who maybe don't even specialize in that to uh
to make sure he can get his himself worked on.
So there's all that, and now we're starting to see
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people are bringing up the fact that Calvin Ridley was
suspended for an entire year and Deshaun Watson only got
six games. You're starting to see, well, Ben Roethlisberger was
six games and Ezekiel Elliott, how with this many accusations
can It's like, I just like, you can't make anybody happy.
I don't I don't know what what everybody wanted. If
he got suspended a year, there were going to be
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some people that said, well, in comparison to Trevor Bauer,
that's not enough. And it just at this point, the
world is about, right, I mean, and that's literally what
society is about. Like you know, yeah, I mean that's well.
I always say football is sports is a microcosm of
the entire hole, right, So you're always going to have
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those those type of comparisons. I mean everybody, because everybody
has to have something to talk about. I mean, it's
a debatable topic, and and you're going to bring up
the relevant issues or aspects of it that are debatable
topics of it, and it's going to go on for
a little while. Now, I think it should have died
out pretty quickly, though, go ahead, No, no, it will
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because you know, ultimately, you know that some of the
people who are condemning, you know, whether it's the decision, uh,
the NFL for not appealing and trying to make it
longer sewell Robinson, the team, Um, their team might have
been trading for him, like something that said, like literally
like their team might have been inquiring about trading for him.
So people just pick and choose when they want to
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be outraged by something. I mean, ultimately, if you if
you really wanted to, you know, point the finger at
someone to be the NFL, because they would just have
a zero tolerance policy when it comes to certain acts. Um. Now,
the hard part is it becomes a slippery slope, and
you obviously find yourself in situations like this where he
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settled everything pretty much from a civil case standpoint, criminally,
you know, nothing's he hasn't been convicted of anything. So
it's you know, you find yourself in this gray area
where it's hard for the NFL to understand how to
how to create a proper punishment, and I feel like
they probably feel like this is just so people can
complain all they want. At the end of the day,
it's not gonna matter when it comes down to Once
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the games start being played, a lot of this will
be forgotten. I'll tell you what, win, loser draw. The
Cleveland Browns probably become must see TV more so than
maybe most other teams. That first game back the game,
you know, uh at Houston, that game is gonna be crazy.
He'll be available for that game now. Based on the
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six game suspension like this is, it was a risky
move for them to make the move to trade form.
But if you if you said at the beginning it's
only gonna be six games, that's a win for them. Man.
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of Joe with Lamar Areas, Brady Quinn and Jonas Knocks
on Fox Sports Radio. We were waiting for the announcement
on Deshaun Watson's punishment, So let's go over to Eddie
Garcia with the breaking news, Breaking news from Fox Sports.
(00:25):
All right, guys, been waiting all morning. We heard earlier
that the punishment was going to come down within the hour,
and Ian Rapp report of the NFL Network is reporting
that the judge Sue Robinson is recommending that quarterback DeShawn
Watson and Cleveland Browns should be suspended for six games.
So there it is. I called it six games, and
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Jonas was all over it, Yeah, all over. I told
you Rosen a cup of joe in between one and seventeen,
I told you, Um, but thankfully we got got first
crack at this. All right, So, um, this is about
where where we everybody. Yeah, so it's finally starting to
pop up now, Yeah, yeah, it's uh. I mean, I
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don't think this should come as any surprise. I think
this is where it was trending towards as we got
more and more information, as we got deeper into UM
and further out from the deposition of the interviews that
took place within this arbitration. So UM, I can't sit
here and give anything that's profound other than to say
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I think that objectively speaking it it started to seem
like it made sense that they were going to go
six day. Is there not a fine that's associated with this?
And they said there was no fine, no additional fine. Yeah,
there was. There was speculation that there may be a
suspension and a fine associated with it, um and And
(01:51):
I guess the only reason I bring that up is
because you know, the the suspension you know, in some
cases would avoid guarantees within a contract because remember this
contract was only guaranteed at signing. But I do believe
there are certain carve outs that protected DeShawn Watson UH
from this sort of suspension and taking away his guarantees.
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So I think he's still gonna get all what was
out to him. The only thing that would play into
that would be an additional fine. UM. That would be
something that would take away from what he's making. But nonetheless,
like this is kind of about where we thought, you know,
as as more information came out as this thing drew out.
This is where they were going to settle. The question becomes,
you know, in their six game span where you think
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the Browns are gonna get to before you know, you
start kind of wondering, all right, like can they be
a five team? Can they still be a playoff team?
Which I would say with only a being a six
game suspension, the risk of them signing them to this deal,
trading everything they did a way to bring him on,
it still allows them to play eleven games this season
and a shot and go into the playoffs. With the
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way their schedule starts off, and and it's the easiest
part of their schedule. Um, when you look at where
they're at. So at at Lina, Um, that's that's I
still think a winnable game. Um at Carolina. You got
the Jets after that, and then you got the Steelers
at home. The Steelers are on a yeah, so and
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then you go at Atlanta. So just those first four games, look,
I mean three and one is not outside the realm
of possibility with Jacoby Brissette at quarterback's a little real
or after that, Yeah, it does. It's a little tougher
road to hole after that. Yeah, then you got the
Chargers in the Patriots, but at least those at home,
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and he'll be back for the Baltimore game and for
the Bengals game. And again we pointed out that's a
Halloween night against the Bengals on Monday Night football. So
I'm sure sure people have all sorts of cons he does.
Does his suspension start now or is he able to
go through training camp and it starts week one of
regular season? He was able to go through training camp.
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Is he able to play in preseason games? I believe so. Yeah.
See that's that's interesting though. Yeah, I mean why not.
I don't know that they would play him though, because
you know, you don't want to risk injury, even though
he'd have, you know, six weeks to come back. Man,
I think you get him a few game reps, first quarter,
first group. I think you get him a few game reps.
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There's a lot of to your point, there's a lot
of rust there, right, I mean, he didn't play last year.
It is a new system, you are playing with new
pieces like it would make some sense to get him
some getting some game reps and then get him out
of here and let him sit out his six and
just make sure you putting his contract. Hopefully clause is
there that you get to monitor him four hours a day. Um, well,
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my concern is that he gets injured in that preseason
game and he's got to get some body work done.
That's where And I mean the type injury you're talking
about doesn't require him getting hit. I mean it could
just be soft tissue, him running too fast, trying to
get out of the the pocket or get away from
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the past rusher or anything like that. I mean, you know,
the hamstrings might tighten up on him. Yeah, that's a
good point. Yeah. Drowing, I mean as a quarterback, with
the way you dropped, I mean, this is something that's
unique to a lot of quarterbacks, is I mean, you
get a lot of droin issues, man, because the way
you're dropping back there and the way your body moves.
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That could be something else to keep a n eye on,
you know. On a more serious note, Uh, we weren't
being serious, okay, I mean I was. I was just
being more serious, that's all. I was. Just on a
more serious note. I didn't say I did say on
a serious note. I said, on a more serious that's
what we do. We hit the We hit all the
the angles. Of every topic here and all in a
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serious manner on this show. You gotta know that the
NFL was prepared for this to be the verdict on him.
This was going to be the decision. What did they
do next? How do they? I would think is the
biggest question here because a lot of people came to
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kind of expect this. What does the NFL do? I
mean if anything, like is this a scenario where the
NFL actually doesn't look that bad in this situation? Like?
How are we looking at this? Um? Look there people
that were there's gonna be outraged no matter what, because
people are gonna look at this and go considering how
many allegations and all that was out there, and some
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of the testimony and the real sports and and all
the stuff that was done on this. There's gonna be
people that are that were never going to be satisfied
no matter what the punishment was going to be. They
wanted a year. It should be at least a year.
There should be one game for every uh law out
lawsuit against him, like that's been thrown out there, and
then they want to do the comps too well. Trevor
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Bauer was suspended for two years in major League Baseball.
So there's gonna be that that side of it. But
at some point you can't just suspend the guy forever.
You can't just say all right, he's never coming back.
He made a mistake. Hopefully it doesn't make you know
this mistake again. By the way, Tom Pella Sero is
reporting that, um, the judge Suell Robinson her decision says
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that part of it is that uh, Deshaun Watson must
get all his massage therapy from club therapists, per source,
So that was one of them. The added details of
this is that Rachel, um, I don't I don't know.
You gotta ask. I need to understand is their prejudice
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involved in the in Desaunt Watson heaven to get them
at the club facility. I need to understand that. Yeah,
I can. I can honestly say, I feel like there's
something there. You know, there could be something. I'm not
gonna I don't want people to think I'm being serious.
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Only want people to think serious. I mean like the
fact that just think about the fact that that even
needs to be put into this, that hey, we don't
want you going on Instagram to seek out all these
massage therapists. It's got to be done through the club.
The fact that that's even part of this massage, hold on,
hold on, hold on, how are they going to enforce
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that right, Like they're gonna know as private time if
someone shows up that he found on Instagram to come
give a massage again, the problem is is if he
does it and somebody thinks they're gonna get that settlement,
that's almost like some baby Mama drama type stuff like, oh,
we can get him. He's one of the dumb ones.
We could get him, Like if he in boxes me, like,
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just just make sure you save that dip, go do it.
And you got him girlfriend, and he's gonna have to
pay you so it doesn't become public. The shn Watson
can either be his biggest ally or his biggest enemy
moving forward from here, Like if you want to talk
about one hell of a reprieve, six games and coming
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through this relatively got to feel like it's a win.
His entire camp has got to feel like, they, come on,
you just got the biggest guarantee fully guaranteed contract in
the history of the league. You haven't played you had
to dodge thirty some women allegations against you, and you
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come out with a guaranteed contract, no fines in six games.
And by the way, because of the way the contract
was structured, in those games that he plays this year,
with this six game suspension added on, he's still gonna
get over forty five million dollars. I mean, his side
of it. They've got to feel like this is one
of the best case scenarios. No games would have been great,
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but this is one of the best case scenarios for
for everybody involved. I mean, he settles this last one.
And and in theory you're moving on with life, and
theory you're moving on, like you know what you might
The worst thing you might have to deal with is uh,
I want to be your massage therapist. T shirts and
stuff like that at games or whatever, signs, whatever it
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may be. I don't know. I don't They're not even
big on letting people bring signs into the stadiums anymore.
So it's not like you're gonna see a sign. You
might see T shirts, you know, massa table. You know,
maybe maybe they won't think anything about that. Let me
let me add this to the conversation. You know, there
was this brilliance that took place with Brian Bosworth, and
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and there was these T shirts that were out that
we're being sold, that we're selling out a rapid clip
that were derogatory towards Brian Bosworth. If I'm Deshaun Watson,
I do a deal with somebody and have them put
out I'll be your massage therapist to Sew. I'm just
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soothe me. I will soothe you, Desaun, or whatever it
is you come up with. I think it would be
crazy brilliant if he were behind the apparel sales of
any type of Heckling T shirt or or or any
type of you know product, whether it's a hat, you know,
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like they had to dude on the massage table and
that's going to be the alternatate helmet for the Cleveland
whatever it is. He should be in on it. Yeah, yeah,
you should get a caught, right And could you imagine
him making even more money off of what he's done?
Can you imagine him making even more money off of
what he's done? Well, I sponsors are gonna be hard
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to come by when it comes to Deshaun Watson for
a little while, right. You gotta wait for some of
the smoke to clear on this story. But I feel
like some people it's like you know, nowadays, allegations are allegations.
He was never found it was it was never found
guilty of anything. So there might be sponsors that sit
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there and they say, look, give it. Yet, like you said,
give it a little bit of time. I don't think
people are going to come run into him now, like
only six games. Let's give him a couple of million
jeesuss you know, yeah, I don't know, not, I don't know.
Um it is two pros and a cup of Joe
here on four sale batteries. So the guy that just
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keeps going and going and going. So we've got we've
got more on this news out of the NFL. When
it comes to Deshaun Watson. We're gonna get into that
for you next. But for all the latest from around
the world of sports, of course, starting with this news,
it's Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Jonas. And again
(12:50):
the NFL Network reportings Judge Sue L. Robinson ruling that
Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShawn Watson should be suspended for six
games provin the leagues personal conduct policy with no additional fine.
The NFL p A had said before the ruling that
they would not appeal the punishment. Obviously they won't now
just the six games, but the NFL now has three
days to file an appeal, which would be heard by
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Commissioner Roger Goodell. Also breaking into the overnight hour was
the fact that John Watson's reportedly agreed to settle three
of the remaining four active civil lawsuits against him. Again,
Deshaun Watson and Cleveland Brown's quarterback six games suspension headed
down today for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Some
other NFL news these servances APT Nights and Star wide
receiver Deebo Samuel agree on a three year extension with
(13:34):
up to seventy three point five million fifty eight point
one million is guaranteed. Now MCTR Brady Quinn, Lamar Arrington,
and Jonas Knox in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Thanks Eddie,
two pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox
Sports Radio. So if you were just tuning in again,
the decision has been made Judge Sue L. Robinson uh
suspending UH Deshaun Watson for six games. UH So Deshaun
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Watson will miss the first six games of the season. Now,
the NFL has three days to appeal all this. The
feeling is that there's not going to be an appeal
from the nfl PA. Do you think Roger Goodell in
the league step in or do you think they're ready
to just move on themselves as well? Just kind of
get ready for this already told you all like my
conspiracy theory. I think they wanted it to be reported
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like they were gonna, you know, come in and and
that's what they wanted, a year suspension just for optics,
knowing that it would wouldn't come anywhere close to that.
So I don't think they're gonna do anything about it.
And Tom Pellisero again has been all over this. Uh
big Tom Pellacero is a big detail guy, right Brady,
He's the one uh this stuff. Yeah, he's done. He's
(14:36):
done a pretty good job on Twitter just following along
with this. Uh so Judge Robinson um saying Deshaun Watson
must get all massage therapy from club therapist per source.
And then this is a quote from Judge Suell Robinson
according to Tom Pellisero that Deshaun Watson had a pattern
of behavior that was egregious, but notes that behavior was
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nonviolent sexual conduct and explain any of the decision to
suspend him six games. Um, so, I mean, you know,
identified the guy's got a problem, but did he actually
break the law in this case? And uh, and that's
where she came up with the the decision here. Non
violent doesn't mean you're not a sick oh, you know,
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like non violent doesn't mean that. I mean, look, I
got three young girls, and I could only imagine one
day if some guy, you know, they're in a compromising
situation where they're trying to do a job and they
sign up for something and then all of a sudden,
some guys exposing himself for asking for certain things, Like
he can be nice about how he asked about it
or be non violent about it. That doesn't mean he's
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not a sick. Oh. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean
that something illegal hasn't happened. And that's the unfortunate reality
of violation right right. And that's the key point to
me is even though it wasn't considered to be valent,
that that doesn't mean that there wasn't a violation that
took place. Look at the testimony and some of the
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details and they all sort of line up A lot
of similarities, like it's it's weird, man, just some of
the stuff that that was out there. Again, I think
it comes back to the fact that he started, you know,
getting those knocked out. You know, he started settling those
those cases. So she's probably looking at it um speaking
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of of the arbitrator and those scenarios, saying that if
if they're not being compensated, if this isn't being shut
down and taking care of, then this becomes a different
conversation altogether. The fact that he jumped to it and
started started settling them and he only has one left,
that says to me, there was the conversation that was had,
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like settled these and you play you don't settle these
and it's indefinite if he still has twenty plus cases
out there still pending civilly, I don't think this happens
the way that it happened. So I think that he
understood he had to get aggressive on on getting these
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these you know, suits, these claims, get them, get them settled,
and and and give yourself the opportunity to get a
favorable judgment from from whoever was going to arbitrate the situation.
I think that that's kind of I think that's kind
of like easy to put together, to be honest. Uh
from a football standpoint, are the Browns of playoff team?
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Because I I still don't see them making the playoffs
this year. I mean, and I know that's six games
in comparison to what we thought it could be a
season long eight twelve, whatever the numbers that were being
thrown out there. I just think even if you start
off five hundred or two and four during that stretch
to to kick off the season, with their schedule down
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the stretch and that loaded conference, I just don't see
it happening. Here's what I see. They only play what
one divisional game during the period of time that he's gone.
Now he is back into two divisional games in a row,
which is tough, but I think that gives them a
fighting chance. I think if they're three and three when
he comes back, they've got a shot. And if he
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plays the way he's capable of from the last time
we saw him outh throw on the field, which is
obviously a couple of years ago. Yeah, I think you
view them now as a playoff team, and I think
they're probably if they're not winning the division and stealing it,
there they're a wild card team that's stealing one from
the n f C West. I think, oh, man, I
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don't know that they're a playoff team because he hasn't
shown me anything in the last couple of years. I
don't know what we're walking into with him. I think
it definitely depends on what type of player he shows
to be once he gets back. But he does have talent.
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They do have they do have a defense, they have
a running game. There's the strong possibility that this could
be a team that that makes an interesting run. I
just wonder how much, Like I asked this question, I
know we're up on the break, but give me this
one Q. If he has a better season than any
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other quarterback out there when he gets back, is it
possible that he can become the m v P of
the league and they would give it to him? No chances? Yeah,
I mean it not in eleven games? Yeah, I think
so either. I don't even think there's a chance next year.
Well no, I don't know. I don't. Reputationally, I don't.
I don't think it happens. So you don't think he
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would ever be able to win like the Walter Payton
Man of the Year Award he could win. Comeback, there's
that came back from so much you know he got.
I mean, if we're being honest here, he's probably come
back from way more than anybody else's come back, right listen, Uh,
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way we go? Now? Do we want to start with
with Brady your tail from your travels across the country
to uh to l A here. Do you want to
get into it or what I mean? We can't if
you'd like. It's not really about me though this this
(20:48):
might turn this segment into a tailspin to Lord only
knows wheth Well, you're gonna need the proper music for
a two PC o jure, So here we go. We
got your cover to her Brady Live Studio Band you know,
l A County every but hey mashed up Brady. All right,
so away we go. Yeah. So on the flight out,
you know, between besides doing some work, doing some school work,
(21:10):
I was like, all right, I might need to put
something on TV to watch while I'm doing this. So
I put on some Liam Neeson movie, which they're all
the same. At some point, someone kid naps his family.
Ever since Taken, it's all the same. Someone kidnaps his family.
He's like killing people and you know, kicking ask to
get back. Well, I had to text my buddy the
(21:30):
meat Wagon and he's like, hey, what are you doing
on the plane. I go, I'm watching some awful Liam
Neeson movie that's the exact same as Taken, just not
called Taken. He goes, do you know Liam Neeson constantly
pieces pants? And I said, I was not made aware
of when Yeah, he goes, do you know Liam Neeson
(21:51):
constantly pieces pants? And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like google it? And so sure enough I went
down that rmhole or rabbit hole of googling Liam Neeson,
which there's a ton of photos of him in public
pet's pants and I don't know if it's like out
(22:12):
of being like really drunk, or if it's like I
don't know something cool now where depends. Let me get
to the boy. We're a diaper for goodness sakes you,
I mean, I'm not making this up. It's so I
(22:32):
asked him, I go, well, how do you know this?
And he was like, oh, I listened to a Joe
Broken podcast where I was mentioned, he said, And then
I couldn't help myself but look it up to confirm
if it was factual. He's like, sure enough. There are columns,
countless photos and sights talking about Peter pants. By the way,
(22:53):
some of these aren't even just like because like if
you're a guy out there, I mean, you know every
guys had had that issue before. It's like, man, he thought,
I thought everything got taken care of. And then some
of these are just egregious, Like I don't even have
time to get to a urinal cake and put the
fire out early. These are egregious. That's old man going
(23:18):
on right there. Yeah, is what that is? Like uncontrollable
Platter defends it's got I got leakage. It's uh address it.
These are like this is a legitimate, Brady, you are right,
this there's a legitimate articles that is just crazy. Man.
(23:40):
I'll never I'll never look at the same I mean,
he's got unique talents seventy years old. But when you
typed inam Neeson, the second thing that comes up is
piece of past God, Like you know, I mean, I
got news for yet if it became the difference between
saving my family not saving my family was Liam Neeson.
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And I saw that he had pete himself in the front,
I'd be like, dude, get out of here, like like,
I'll I'll figure something like I'm not just waiting for
the movie where it's more realistic, where they can't hide
it anymore. And in the movie shows up to save
his family and he's got peen his pants all over himself,
like that's just that's part of the movie. Now always pants?
(24:23):
Why why ever wear light pants when you know you
potty yourself? And he never and there's just like it's
like no facial no facial expression, no no looking down
at it, like oh not again, Like he's just he's
just going about his business. And Brady, Brady, you're you're right, Uh,
not exactly the the story I thought we were going
(24:44):
to get from your travels, but he's always like a
master and one in in the movies he's in like,
isn't he in? Uh? Like Batman is being like like Master, Yeah,
you know what, you gotta go, you gotta go. Um
(25:05):
I was. I was injured this weekend. So I was
at a Kincianetta. Um for those of you are Kincianetta,
so in the in the in the Mexican sure did
this weekend? Uh this? Uh so when when a young
(25:27):
lady turns fifteen years old they have a big party
for it's I mean it's a huge Yeah, okay, I
don't get it. All right. It was church in all Spanish,
of course, so that was fun. Uh it wasn't. I don't.
I don't get it. When I turned fifteen years old,
I got like a bag of funyans and like a
(25:48):
gift card to some store like I don't remember, but
fifteen years old, it's church. It's dancing, the whole presentation crazy.
And we were there hanging out with my son, and
my wife's out, you know, with her family, and they're
dancing and and all that. I'm just, you know, standing
there holding my son and I turned my head to
the right right as he goes to high five my
(26:12):
face and he thumbed me in the eye and it's
still scratched, like I still it's still a little bit
blurry um like it. It's it waters periodically ever since then,
and something to myself. I I don't know if I've
got like a scratch cornia or what, but my son
basically turned me into a cyclops for the rest of
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the time at at the Kincineta And so I'm but
I'm fighting through all of that to be here to
do this show and not just want you guys to
know this. Yeah, build for this, you better believe it
all for this. Yeah, it is a little bit more lighthearted.
I mean, you know, as usual, I was double fisted.
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I was double fisted. They were Pacifico, Pacifico and Long Islands.
This is less right a um. Yeah, I made friends, well,
I made friends. You know I always make friends at
the bar, So we made we made friends. I was
eating my wings. I had the barbecue saracha and uh
(27:14):
the tarayaki uh wings shouts out to my people at
the Stubborn Mule. Uh. Yeah. And for you know it,
I was like, you know, we were all buying each
other around you know, I'll never understand when you buy
somebody around and they buy you around, and then you
buy you'd like keep buying each other rounds, like you're
(27:35):
just canceling each other, just canceling your own round that.
But I guess it's the camaraderie that you build. Um
I double fisted my my normal double fisting, and um yeah,
I had to sit there for a little bit. You know,
ate my food, but I had to sit at that
bar and hang out for just a little bit. I would.
I was a tabbit banged it was. I was a
(27:58):
tab bit banged up. Man. I had happy hour. That's
probably like the first time I've hit happy hour and
like years, get loose, Yeah, I never come on, now,
come on, get loose in the building. I did. I
definitely did. Did you Did you roll there alone just
to get something to eat? You know? I did? Made
friends and out and we were just getting it in.
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Do they know who you are? Like when you go
in there, they don't act like they do until you
get going in Like I knew who you were and
then it goes there. But it's fine. Like when you
do it the way we did it on Friday, it
was fine. I don't want to feel awkward about double fisting.
I would have probably paid my tab and went home
and did my double fisting in my backyard. Yeah yeah,
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But the way the way they did it was like
a group of them. It was pretty cool. We had
a really good time about it, too good at a
time I was banged up. Be sure to catch live
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you get your podcasts. So it is six games for
Deshaun Watson. Uh, the news came out about what twenty
five minutes ago. The NFL has announced the six game
suspension of Deshaun Watson. According to Judge Sue L. Robinson,
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Um part of the agreement there is no fine, but
also he must only go through team massage therapy, so
no more of the d m NG random women out
there who maybe don't even specialize in that to uh
to make sure he can get his himself worked on.
So there's all that, and now we're starting to see
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people are bringing up the fact that Calvin Ridley was
suspended for an entire year and Deshaun Watson only got
six games. You're starting to see, well, Ben Roethlisberger was
six games and Ezekiel Elliott, how with this many accusations
can It's like, I just like, you can't make anybody happy.
I don't I don't know what what everybody wanted. If
he got suspended a year, there were going to be
(30:34):
some people that said, well, in comparison to Trevor Bauer,
that's not enough. And it just at this point, the
world is about, right, I mean, and that's literally what
society is about. Like you know, yeah, I mean that's well.
I always say football is sports is a microcosm of
the entire hole, right, So you're always going to have
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those those type of comparisons. I mean everybody, because everybody
has to have something to talk about. I mean, it's
a debatable topic, and and you're going to bring up
the relevant issues or aspects of it that are debatable
topics of it, and it's going to go on for
a little while. Now, I think it should have died
out pretty quickly, though, go ahead, No, no, it will
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because you know, ultimately, you know that some of the
people who are condemning, you know, whether it's the decision, uh,
the NFL for not appealing and trying to make it
longer sewell Robinson, the team, Um, their team might have
been trading for him, like something that said, like literally
like their team might have been inquiring about trading for him.
So people just pick and choose when they want to
(31:37):
be outraged by something. I mean, ultimately, if you if
you really wanted to, you know, point the finger at
someone to be the NFL, because they would just have
a zero tolerance policy when it comes to certain acts. Um. Now,
the hard part is it becomes a slippery slope, and
you obviously find yourself in situations like this where he
(31:58):
settled everything pretty much from a civil case standpoint, criminally,
you know, nothing's he hasn't been convicted of anything. So
it's you know, you find yourself in this gray area
where it's hard for the NFL to understand how to
how to create a proper punishment, and I feel like
they probably feel like this is just so people can
complain all they want. At the end of the day,
it's not gonna matter when it comes down to Once
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the games start being played, a lot of this will
be forgotten. I'll tell you what, win, loser draw. The
Cleveland Browns probably become must see TV more so than
maybe most other teams. That first game back the game,
you know, uh at Houston, that game is gonna be crazy.
He'll be available for that game now. Based on the
(32:41):
six game suspension like this is, it was a risky
move for them to make the move to trade form.
But if you if you said at the beginning it's
only gonna be six games, that's a win for them. Man.
It's finally over though, guys, so is this show. Fox
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