Deshaun Watson: âI'm truly sorry to all the women that I've impacted in this situation. My decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position, I would definitely like to have back. I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character. I want to keep pushing forward."
Doug Gottlieb: âWhat do you think this does, if anything, to his appeal?â
Dan Beyer: âIt does absolutely nothing. It is a day late and a dollar short. Everything is settled, thereâs what -- one case that is still out there? The evidence has been put in, the arguments have been put out on both sides, NOW he shows remorse??âŚ. Because heâs got nothing to lose? Another thing I didnât like about it â the Browns are playing at 7:00 eastern time, itâs 6:40 eastern time, and they put it on the website 20 minutes before kickoff, and say âHeâs now remorseful, on to football! Letâs focus on the game!â Thatâs the sense that I got. It was tone-deaf. It was like, 'now letâs talk about what the Brownsâ record is going to be again!' Twenty minutes before kickoff??â
Gottlieb: âThe timing of it is very odd.â
Jason Stewart: âMy first reaction was that he really didnât explain what heâs âtruly sorryâ for. When he says âall the women that have been impactedâ, he didnât necessarily say the women that accused him of this, it could have been his sister, his mother, or any womenâs Browns fans that have been impacted by this. He wasnât specific at all, which to me kind of rang hollow. Not only was it a day late and a dollar short, it wasnât even a great apology. There was nothing specific there. This guy said six weeks ago that he had 'no regrets' about anything he had ever done with the accusers. Heâs completely denied everything. How do you go from complete denial and no regrets, to âIâm truly sorryâ within a matter of six weeks? Because you now know that the punishment is coming and youâre trying to do as much as possible to mitigate that, and it comes off that way. I donât know who was sold by that.â
Listen to Doug Gottlieb, Dan Beyer, and Jason Stewart discuss Deshaun Watson finally offering up an apology for his plagued saga that has seen him hit by 24 civil lawsuits for sexual assault and sexual misconduct.
Check out the segment above as the crew of The Doug Gottlieb Show calls out Watson for the cringe-worthy timing of the apology, coming just 20 minutes before Watson was to play in Clevelandâs first preseason game, and the âhollowâ tone of the apology that really didnât explain anything he was sorry or regretful for.
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