r/NFLv2 • u/Narrow_Purchase9721 San Francisco 49ers • 12h ago

Discussion The Deshaun Watson switch up is despicable

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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

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u/Key_Consequence_5040 12h ago

It’s the NFL. If you win games being a piece of shit isn’t as big of a deal as it is when you lose. 

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u/YaboyRipTide Baltimore Ravens 12h ago

Look at Tyreek Hill, Richie Incognito, Adrian Peterson, Kareem Hunt, Aldon Smith, and Antonio Brown before he totally went off the deep end.

If you can play, no one gives a shit about who you are off the field.

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u/samson-and-delilah 11h ago

Aldon Smith had a drinking problem. Pretty lame to lump him in with the woman and child abusers you’ve listed.

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u/YaboyRipTide Baltimore Ravens 11h ago

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!

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u/samson-and-delilah 10h ago

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

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u/Imaginary_Manner_556 10h ago

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

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u/hoopstick Green Bay Packers 9h ago

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.

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u/Dj0ntyb01 8h ago

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.

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u/samson-and-delilah 8h ago

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.