Deshaun Watson continues to be the biggest NFL story in recent memory, and thanks to the continued, exceedingly thorough reporting of The New York Times’ Jenny Vrentas, it is not going to go away anytime soon.
Included in this episode: addressing the rampant whataboutism when it comes to Watson and Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner who was charged with solicitation of a prostitute—charges were later dropped—in 2020, stemming from an alleged visit to a sex worker operating out of a massage parlor.
The following transcript is an excerpt from The MMQB NFL Podcast. Listen to the full episode on podcast players everywhere or on SI.com.
Conor Orr: Jenny, it seems like there's this sort of groundswell of whataboutism any time that there's a story like this. And for some reason there seems to be this sort of foundation of Watson supporters who have said, what about this? What about that? One of the things that we've come across—and I'm sure that you've heard a great deal of now—is, well, what about Robert Kraft? And this seems like the same thing, and it's obviously not. And I'm just kinda curious, because I feel like I'm not doing a good enough job at it: How do we adequately draw the line here for folks to understand that these are two very different things that we're talking about here.
