Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson should have been sent to the shower early for shoving an official Monday night. The NFL justified not ejecting him. Statements that do not match the video.
So why wasn’t he sent off?
An anonymous club employee who “works by the rules” expressed this sentiment to TheAthletic.com’s Kalyn Kahler.
“There has been very clear articulation on this point,” the official said. “The error was in the league office The reason we don’t ask them to leave is because that’s their standard and it’s up to them to police them equally.”
The source is correct. A pipeline from 345 Park Avenue to the stadium will allow league officials to direct officials to eject players who deserve to be ejected. Watson should have been, but he wasn’t.
“You’re talking about ‘on script,'” another anonymous team official told Kahler. “Here’s why. [Because] They don’t enforce the rules fairly. ”
it’s not. In this case, they didn’t want to eject their starting quarterback from a prime-time standalone game.
The NFL needs to put a firewall between business considerations and football operations. That’s not the case, as evidenced last year by the frank relationship that emerged between aggressive enforcement of the roughing-the-passer rule and TV ratings assuming the starting quarterback was available. .
If Watson had been eliminated, many people might have changed the channel or done what cord cutters do when switching from one program to another. So if any other Browns player had done the same thing Watson did, he would have been ejected. But he’s not the starting quarterback.
That’s the explanation.rules are postponed big mamu. That can’t be true. it’s just that.