Ben Roethlisberger was disciplined by the NFL in 2010 under a different collective bargaining agreement and a different set of rules.
His case is not comparable to Deshaun Watson’s, and had Roethlisberger had his off-field issues under this current collective bargaining agreement, there is a very good chance he would have received no discipline at all.
So, let’s start there and stop with the phony outrage in comparing Roethlisberger’s suspension to the recommendation of arbitrator Sue Robinson of six games for Watson. The two cases aren’t similar because the rules both cases happened under were different.
