Six games is nothing. Especially when you're Deshaun Watson and you keep winning and winning and winning, partly because the NFL's 'legal system' continues to be an annual mess, writes sports columnist Brian T. Smith.
, who was promised a cool $230 million by Cleveland after an absurd bidding war, after he quit on the Texans.Just listen to the words issued on Monday by league disciplinary officer Sue Robinson, who got lost in the fine print and missed the obvious big picture.
The NFL looked like it so often does when reality stares the league directly in the face: hollow and fake. How many across Football America will soon be praising Watson’s incredible athleticism again .. and willingly ignoring all the lawsuits and settlements that forever changed his professional image?
Robinson used the league’s past legal unpredictability against the NFL, ultimately ruling in Watson’s favor – he is able to play in 11 more games than the NFL wanted him to be available for – and knocking The Shield down a couple notches.Then-New England QB Tom Brady was suspended for four games during the Deflategate controversy, which looks flimsier than ever seven years after the fact.Ridley’s name wasn’t mentioned in Robinson’s 16-page ruling.
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