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As the trade deadline approached for the NFL last November, details emerged from trade talks between the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans that had a clear mandate: For any deal involving Deshaun Watson to advance, the Dolphins wanted the quarterback’s legal issues settled. First and foremost, the 22 civil suits that were pending against the Texans QB in the Harris County Court system. The leaking of an alleged settlement offer from Watson appears to indicate the quarterback was at least… Source link

In a theme that’s stretched on for essentially one year, Deshaun Watson has some sizable quandaries on his hands. But as far as what he can control — the waiving of his no-trade clause — the firing of head coach Brian Flores in Miami is expected to reset the trade landscape for the quarterback. Through the entire process of Watson’s trade demands, he has pointed his compass toward the Dolphins. And the sources in his camp have said consistently that the driving force behind Watson’s… Source link

A judge signed three search warrants for some of Deshaun Watson‘s social-media accounts, including Instagram and Cash App, back in October, according to a report from ABC13.com. Watson has been accused in a series of 22 known civil suits of indecent behavior with massage therapists. Although he has not been charged with any criminal complaints, Watson has not suited up for the Houston Texans while the legal process plays out. This action, however, would suggest that Houston police have been… Source link

As the NFL rolls toward arguably the only dead period in its 12-month calendar, the two biggest rifts in the league — Aaron Rodgers vs. the Green Bay Packers and Deshaun Watson vs. the Houston Texans — are about to cross an important threshold. Come Wednesday, both Rodgers and Watson will officially become easier to trade, thanks to a provision that allows NFL teams to split salary cap hits over two seasons if a player is released or traded after June 1. That doesn’t mean a deal for… Source link

HOUSTON — A moment of clarity arrived for the Houston Texans‘ Deshaun Watson with Thursday’s revelation that four women met with NFL investigators regarding their civil lawsuits against the star quarterback. The league now has testimony from some of Watson’s accusers, and one way or another, it will have to decide what to do with that information.  It’s a crossroads between Watson’s civil litigation and an NFL investigation that was never guaranteed to materialize given the reality… Source link

HOUSTON — For the past 16 days, the NFL had the luxury of time and patience as civil suits piled up against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. While lawyers slung accusations back and forth through litigation and media statements, the league has been able to go about its due diligence without a ticking clock of criminal investigation hanging over its own disciplinary process. The bottom line? If Watson wasn’t part of a police probe, the demand on the NFL to do something about his… Source link

The Guardian There’s another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus ‘Climate change is invisible, in everyday political consciousness, because it occurs on a scale too vast in time and space to see with the naked eye and because it concerns imperceptible phenomena such as atmospheric… Source link

If the Houston Police Department or Harris County District Attorney move to investigate sexual misconduct civil suits currently pending against Deshaun Watson, the Houston Texans quarterback would be made available to cooperate with authorities, according to Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin. That declaration was made by Hardin on Thursday, after the counsel for the 21 women who have filed the civil suits reversed course earlier in the week and declared he would not be turning information… Source link

HOUSTON — As the 20th and 21st civil suits against Deshaun Watson became public on Wednesday, the attorney representing the Houston Texans quarterback countered with a lengthy release of on-the-record statements from 18 female masseuses who claim they had only positive business interactions with Watson. In terms of strategy, it’s the most significant public response to date from Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, countering the layered, sexually driven narrative that has been put forth in… Source link

When it comes to legal matters — civil, criminal, or in Deshaun Watson’s case, even in the workplace version of NFL justice — the best narrative often wins. Lawyers can wrangle over the law all they want, but the best of them know that juries (including the one-man decisions of Roger Goodell) tend to side with the best, and most plausible, story out there. This isn’t a secret to Rusty Hardin, who is defending Watson in what is now 19 civil lawsuits from massage therapists who allege… Source link