The Saga of Deshaun Watson

[Badger]

Mayfield:

‘the browns panick-traded/panick-paid watson after they freaked out about me breaking up with them.

Im going to leave this relationship becoming a better woman and ending up with a better guy.’

Beat me to it

[Johnny English]

Do it you freaking cowards.

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1504927012711976965

[Heismanberg]

Do it you freaking cowards.

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1504927012711976965

suspend him for the season

[Libero_2]

suspend him for the season

Can they suspend him for 2023 instead? That way he is actually financially impacted?

[Johnny English]

Texans played this like champs.

https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1504963852949204999?s=21

They go from being a dyfunctional mess whose star QB wants out because they're run by lunatics, to trading him for king's ransom despite a large suspension hanging over his head because he's a horrible queynte and looking like the good guys.

[d sw0rdz]

wtf kind of immoral deal is this. 45m signing bonus with 1m in base, which will be the amount that gets fined during the season when he gets suspended

haslam is evil. the browns literally hold no self-respect as an organization

[dcm1602]

wtf kind of immoral deal is this. 45m signing bonus with 1m in base, which will be the amount that gets fined during the season when he gets suspended

haslam is evil. the browns literally hold no self-respect as an organization

I wonder if the nfl has anything they can do to work around this.

Clearly this was manipulated to get around discipline.

I mean why not just have teams do this all the time to appease players (obviously in a way that benefits the team, ie leverage in extensions)

Oh you're gonna get suspended 6 games. Well let's convert your salary to a signing bonus.

If i was the nfl I'd really freak him in the derriere and suspend him one game for every woman he sexually assaulted.

[Heismanberg]

Goodell sucks but he has to know how bad of a look this is for the league right now.

[Jumbo]

wtf kind of immoral deal is this. 45m signing bonus with 1m in base, which will be the amount that gets fined during the season when he gets suspended

haslam is evil. the browns literally hold no self-respect as an organization

It's a pretty common structure for big deals now that helps with cap flexibility... but it looks terrible in this situation

[delavan]

Imagine earning a living bending over spread-eagle in front of a Deshaun Watson..

Attn Nick Harris: clench

[dcm1602]

Goodell sucks but he has to know how bad of a look this is for the league right now.

I think you'd need the fans to start chanting something offensive during games to light a fire under the NFLs derriere

If they can chant freak Joe Biden, I don't see why they can't chant rapist when Watsons on the field

And I'm sure the NFLs sponsors would love nothing more than to watch thousands of people chanting rapist while broadcasting their logos to millions of people

[SixFeetDeep]

The weirdos online underneath every DeShaun Watson post simping for him because he beat criminal charges are breaking my brain

[dcm1602]

The weirdos online underneath every DeShaun Watson post simping for him because he beat criminal charges are breaking my brain

Lebrons simping for him too.

He's all for his social causes, unless you're a Chinese slave or a woman asking for it

[Andrew Ryan]

Pretty sure I'm going to be rooting against the Browns every game they play this season except for when they play Brady and our division rivals.

[delavan]

Pretty sure I'm going to be rooting against the Browns every game they play this season except for when they play Brady and our division rivals.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/03/19/cleveland-browns-never-live-down-deshaun-watson