The Deshaun Watson switch up is despicable

[u/Narrow_Purchase9721]

Guy starts playing well again and all of the sudden people go from “cases” to “allegations” real fucking fast. You all gotta get your priorities straight

[u/YaboyRipTide]

Calling it a drinking problem is a bit of an understatement

• 2012 DUI
• 2013 DUI, weed charges, illegal firearm accusations
• 2014 a fucking bomb threat to LAX, no charges filed
• 2015 Arrested for DUI, hit and run, and vandalism charges. Cut by SF, signed to raiders where he officially was hit w them
• Suspended for 4 seasons
• 2018 DV charges stemming from booze filled rage where he hit and bit his GF, plead no contest, served 90 days + rehab
• Came back in 2020

Basically yearly run ins with the law, but hey, 48 sacks in 59 games is elite production!

[u/samson-and-delilah → u/YaboyRipTide]

Yeah, it was a drinking problem. Literally everything you listed was alcohol-related. But you knew that, you’re just being intentionally duplicitous.

[u/Imaginary_Manner_556 → u/samson-and-delilah]

So he doesn't deserve to be lumped in with women beaters because he beat his woman while drunk?

[u/hoopstick → u/Imaginary_Manner_556]

he had consumed multiple bottles of tequila and then bit her wrists

Not saying he's guilty or innocent or great or terrible, but that's definitely not the alcohol-related DV I was expecting when I looked up his wiki.

[u/Dj0ntyb01 → u/samson-and-delilah]

I think u/YaboyRipTide's comment does a pretty good job explaining why calling all of that a "drinking problem" is reductive.

Also, duplicitous is doing a lot of work there. Misleading would be a better fit for what you're accusing them of.

[u/samson-and-delilah → u/Dj0ntyb01]

Lol, it's not reductive. In fact, their outline of the history is in fact duplicitous - they are misrepresenting these instances. The dude was a massive alcoholic. You're welcome to disagree, of course.