Trade: [CLE/HOU] Deshaun Watson (signs 5 years, $230M) and 2024 5th for 2022, 2023, and 2024 1sts, 2023 3rd, 2024 4th

[DoyleG]

I think you are giving Brissett a bit too much credit, he is not very good and teams will stack the line to stop the run game, and Brissett has a mostly garbage WR core at his disposal

Brissett's more a game manager QB than one that can go out and win. Knowing the Browns, they'll keep trying the latter with him.

 

[Canes]

Still a punishment Browns fans can say they support while they eagerly await for Rapeshaun Watson to come back to give them something to cheer for. Masterful PR moves from the NFL, NFLPA, the Browns and more.

 

[GKJ]

Brissett is a perfectly adequate backup quarterback. This is why he was brought in after all.

 

[fin8]

I'm not as confident as the rest of you that this will impede him in any way once he returns.

I agree. He wasn’t a great QB before this and he won’t be a great QB going forward. He’s not in the top 10 and never will be. He’s all yours Cleveland.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Brissett is a perfectly adequate backup quarterback. This is why he was brought in after all.

If Garoppolo isn’t starting for them by week 4 they’ll be in trouble.

 

[Troy McClure]

If Garoppolo isn’t starting for them by week 4 they’ll be in trouble.

The early part of their schedule isn’t bad, and the defense last season showed they can hold bad to average teams to low point totals as long as the QB isn’t turning the ball over a bunch. Brissett isn’t going to be asked to do much. If he can avoid turnovers, the team will be fine.

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[Troy McClure]

And it’s not going to matter. The season is lost.

I think they hoped for a shorter suspension for Watson with the belief they could weather a six game suspension before getting Watson, but it turns out the team has problems far deeper than just QB. Even if peak Watson was playing all season, this would still not be a great team.

This bad season has to be shaking the Browns front office to their core. They used a lot of draft capital from their tanking seasons on defense. They’ve given huge contracts across the defense. And the defense is just terrible. A lot of those high draft picks aren’t difference makers.

 

[BB88]

And it’s not going to matter. The season is lost.

I think they hoped for a shorter suspension for Watson with the belief they could weather a six game suspension before getting Watson, but it turns out the team has problems far deeper than just QB. Even if peak Watson was playing all season, this would still not be a great team.

This bad season has to be shaking the Browns front office to their core. They used a lot of draft capital from their tanking seasons on defense. They’ve given huge contracts across the defense. And the defense is just terrible. A lot of those high draft picks aren’t difference makers.

& from next year on they’ll be hit with a heavy cap hit by Watson

 

[blueandgoldguy]

And it’s not going to matter. The season is lost.

I think they hoped for a shorter suspension for Watson with the belief they could weather a six game suspension before getting Watson, but it turns out the team has problems far deeper than just QB. Even if peak Watson was playing all season, this would still not be a great team.

This bad season has to be shaking the Browns front office to their core. They used a lot of draft capital from their tanking seasons on defense. They’ve given huge contracts across the defense. And the defense is just terrible. A lot of those high draft picks aren’t difference makers.

I haven't followed the Browns situation closely at all. What happened with the defense that it is terrible? It was pretty good last season wasn't it? Injuries? defensive schemes?

 

[TheGreenTBer]

And the defense is just terrible.

except against the literal monument to "wtf" that is the bengals.

 

[Panthaz89]

Back just in time to lead the Browns to the promised land

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Back just in time to lead the Browns to the massage parlor

ftfy

 

[John Price]

They won one game with Watson

Well 2. But still they failed to make the playoffs lol. And their offense actually got WORSE. Terrible trade.

 

[Troy McClure]

They won one game with Watson

Well 2. But still they failed to make the playoffs lol. And their offense actually got WORSE. Terrible trade.

Today, Watson hit three receivers in the hands with catchable passes in the end zone. Two were drops (DPJ and Njoku), and one wasn‘t really the receiver‘s fault because Cooper’s feet slipped on the snowy turf as he was reaching for the ball causing him to drop it. But this is what the Browns do. They never just lose a normal game. The losses always have to be funny in some way.