I hadn't heard that his accusers contacted the Ravens. That does cast them in a bad light.
Even if they investigated the first case and ended with a "he said, she said" conclusion, the subsequent accusers should have been believed and Tucker cut or, more likely, traded.
I wonder if his godly facade helped him convince Harbaugh of his innocence?
So for me, the whole "they should have cut him tens year ago" thing doesn't really hold up.
For starters, you don't have criminal proceedings at all. So you're 100% cutting a player based solely off accusations, which I think is a total disaster from both a PR perspective (which obviously I think fans dramatically overvalue) and from a morality standpoint.
Second, you're going to be in a dogfight with at least the NFLPA over it, and likely in litigation with Tucker himself. IF the accusations turn out to be untrue, the organization is stroking a sizeable, 8-figure check to Tucker as a settlement. Minimum.
But even if everything is true and he really is who people say he is... there's no evidence the NFL, or the Ravens, do, will, or arguably even should care about any of this. Watson is still an NFL player. Was still a starter this year. Making shit loads and shit loads of $. There's people with domestic violence cases, DUIs, drug charges, gun charges, etc. up and down the league. Some got suspended, some never had anything happen to them.
This franchise, maybe above all franchises, has zero grounds to take a moral stance. There's literally a statue of a guy out front who, at a minimum, was heavily involved in a murder. At maximum, he did the killing himself and rolled over on his friends to save himself. Ray Rice was a thing. Terrell Suggs was a thing. Fuck Zay Flowers was a thing just last year.
People want to cut him now? I'm fine with that. But this whole "well they should have done it 10 years ago" stuff is bullshit. The NFL doesn't care. The franchise doesn't care. And the fans sure as fuck don't care. How do I know that? Because they're still here, after all the shit that's happened.