Skip Bayless lays out why NFL is in "tricky" spot with Watson, exempt list

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Thursday on Undisputed, Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe react to USA Today's Mike Freeman and his scathing piece about the NFL's "inactivity" with the Watson case, thinking the league is just waiting for this story to blow over. Skip goes point by point through Freeman's article which eliminates most of the objections "Deshaun defenders" have made about the legitimacy of these claims. We highly recommend watching the video for this portion of the conversation as Skip does a good job of explaining how most of these objections have already been debunked, according to Freeman. This starts at the 5:23 mark in the video.

Finally, Skip agrees with many of the points Freeman made, but not with the conclusion that the NFL is avoiding action intentionally. Bayless goes on to say that he believes the NFL is "all over this." Thinking they have to be after the backlash from the Ray Rice incident. But Skip thinks the NFL is in a tricky position because the league has to get to the bottom of this before taking action against Deshaun. And at that point, what action do they take? Do they make him the first player to land on the except list during the offseason? Be sure to check out the entire video to learn more.

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Christian Walker delivers late heroics to push Astros past Rockies

The Astros beat the Rockies, 4-3. Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images.

Christian Walker homered twice, capped by a tiebreaking solo shot in the eighth inning to lift the Houston Astros to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday.

The game was tied 3-3 with no outs when Walker sent the first pitch from Luis Peralta (1-2) into left center field. Walker also homered in the first inning to make this the 15th multi-homer game of his career.

Jose Altuve also homered for the Astros, who won a second straight after dropping the series opener.

The Rockies had a chance to take the lead when they loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh. Jordan Beck reached on a catcher’s interference call on César Salazar, but Kaleb Ort struck out Brenton Doyle to leave everyone stranded.

Bryan King (4-3) threw a scoreless eighth for the win and Bryan Abreu allowed one hit in a scoreless ninth for his fourth save.

Altuve and Walker hit back-to-back homers with two outs in the first inning to put Houston up 2-0. Mauricio Dubón scored on a bunt single by Salazar to push the lead to 3-0.

The Rockies loaded the bases with one out in the third and made it 3-1 when Mickey Moniak grounded into a force out that sent a run home.

Ezequiel Tovar homered into the seats in right field with two outs in the fourth.

Yanquiel Fernández tied it when he belted his second homer this season to right field in the fifth.

Key moment

Walker’s second home run.

MLB.com's Brian McTaggart caught up with Walker after the big win.

Key stat

The Rockies left 10 men on base.

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Colorado RHP Germán Márquez (3-11, 5.67 ERA) is expected to come off the injured list Friday to oppose RHP Cade Horton (8-4, 2.88) in the opener of a three-game series against the Cubs.

Houston RHP Cristian Javier (1-1, 5.40) opposes LHP Tyler Anderson (2-8, 4.73) when the Astros open a four-game series with the Los Angeles Angels Friday night.

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