so yesterday we were talking about the
grubhub tweet
um and he said you gotta give me a
minute i told you
at the end of yesterday's show i know i
think he's waiting on desean watson
like he's waiting on waiting to figure
out where desean watson wants to go
um and it's not just because of hey man
i'm so sorry we wasted
you know one of your prime years um
they have a respect a relationship and
admiration for each other and who
wouldn't admire desean watson who
wouldn't want to play with desean watson
um and i think he knows that if he goes
with desean
he could finish what they started and
which brings me to the desean watson
watch
okay uh we meant to get to this
yesterday we never did but that's okay
we just
book market for the next day uh our
colleague peter king
at uh football morning in america
did a whole spread uh yesterday morning
uh laying out what a watson deal
might take and it was a really
interesting
read a lot of people have done this but
peter king doing it you know he did it
real methodically as he always does he
talked about carolina which is a lot of
buzz about carolina these days and david
tepper really want to be aggressive on
the quarterback front
we've talked a lot about the jets and
all their assets
although they are a longer way away san
francisco
is a team that looks like it's ready to
win right now they've been on the list
uh and a lot of talk about san francisco
uh denver is now a team that uh people
bring up and there have been reports
that uh he might be interested in the
broncos
a lot of people are throwing stuff out
there and seeing what sticks but
the the team
a couple of things a couple things i
think we need to be aware of all right
so the the latest reporting for the most
part has been to the effect that the
texans aren't even listening
the texans aren't even listening to
right offers
they're leaving everybody's text on red
okay
you don't believe it my sense is my
sense is that they've come to accept the
reality situation
my sense is that they realize that this
is real
that he's serious when he says
that he does not want to play
for this this organization anymore and
has no plans to play for this
organization anymore
i think they've gotten the message and i
think they're softening
their stance to to quote the
aforementioned peter king
i think i think they are softening their
here
here are ten things i think i think yeah
and uh and i really
and and they realized wait a minute like
this is not
going to go the way we think it's going
to go this is not somebody throwing a
temper tantrum that we just have to wait
out he's legitimately dug in about never
playing for us again and while we don't
want to trade him
we may have to actually consider it so
now there's that why do you think miami
though
why do you think it's miami i'll tell
you i'll tell you that that's the heart
the hard part was getting houston
on board miami
from think about it it's it it checks
all the boxes michael
they have the texans draft capital
and more their own draft capital they
have so much capital
to ship back to houston including the
third overall pick of the draft
okay look at this this is this is
peter's proposed dolphins one
a quarterback who's on a rookie contract
mind you
assuming that the texans are interested
tua christian wilkins which would be
tough for them to give up christian but
that's okay because maybe a j.j watt
comes in and fills that void
third overall pick second round pick
36 is houston's or the fifth or the 50.
this is peter kings by the way
a second round pick next year a first
round pick
uh in 2023 it could end up being you
know both first this year
you know which i think is eighteen one
and eighteen uh
i believe it's eighteen if if i'm not
mistake it could be one in eighteen
it could be um you know
thirty six and fifty you can get
creative with this they got enough draft
capital
all right to make this move they're the
most they're the team
of all the teams on desean's wish list
they're the teams that that is most
ready to win right now
their defense is incredible i know they
didn't end the season on a high note but
they got a really good defense
that's right brian flores is a young up
and coming head coach
chris greer is a sharp gm it's florida
you make you make more money in florida
than anywhere else
he's on his third year florida's going
into his third year right
next season he'll be on his third office
coordinator too
third offensive coordinator so
you want some uh whoever whoever it is
you want some certainty there you watch
whatever it is like if you're deshawn
i do you said look i do i left crazy
already
i love crazy i left turnover like this
guy doors doors always open and
somebody's leaving somebody coming in
i don't want crazy to come here hey can
you assure me that we're going to have a
some solid system some solid structure
done but no problem but i'll tell you
this
i'll say it mike but that's but so so
just just to put a real
quick bow on it got a quick bow on it if
it makes sense
it makes all the sense in the world for
desean watson when you look when you
look at the landscape of teams
is florida miami no state tax
um good time a ready-made roster
good team destination team a destination
for other free agents and whatnot again
jjy uh a coach you can
you can follow coach you can vibe with
right good situation
from the texan standpoint they can make
you as
attractive an offer as anybody maybe
even the jets included
uh including the stuff that you gave
them for laramie tunzel
um so all the texas have to do is just
come to grips with reality
and uh the last thing i'll say michael
before i pass to you finally i know the
last time we talked about desean before
vacation
i said that i thought that it was going
to get worse before it got better as in
they were going to be the type of
organization to cut off their nose to
spite their face we're not going to let
the inmates run the prison prison as the
late owners not
that way anymore um softening on that
because i believe they are too
i believe that and i i believe that i
believe when it's all said and done
he ends up a dolphin that's my that's my
hunch right now that's really
interesting
um and that's not speculation
that's that's that's coming from some
information that's some that's a little
too much
that's some information no you got some
that's some
that's some good important if i did i
would know if i did if i did i would
tell you
you would know you know if i if i had it
like that but i just i just i think it i
think it
it some things just make too much sense
for all parties involved
now if you could tell me another one
you've already said you've already said
michael that the texans need to do this
for their own good you said that i know
and i think they do
but you know here's this is why i can i
have some compassion for them now
because seeing peter king uh respected
football writer uh always been cool with
peter
just seeing him put it out there and
he's not just throwing it out there he
never does
that's coming from a place that's coming
from from an informed position too
so you see you know tua and wilkins and
the two first round picks and the second
round pick
and i look at all of those and i count
six players known or unknown six players
that the houston texans get for deshawn
watson
and just looking at it on paper mike
they still lose the trade
so i understand i understand why don't
why they don't want to do it look okay
so so tua tua is a
there's nothing there's nothing to make
you feel good about trading deshaun
watson but
there's no there is no trade that can
make you feel good about trading sean
watson
i can do this all day long you put it on
screen so to justify
the picks two uh yeah let's run through
them all let's run through all them yeah
tua and wilkins for deshawn all right
well that's the price of doing business
so
hey we're gonna give up to it so what
you're getting deshawn watson
i'm already i lost that part yeah
uh christian wilkins that's fine
a third round pick
so now we're talking about it yeah
oh oh i'm sorry third overall pick third
overall pick sorry you you get two in
the third overall pick that's nice
that's nice but then the first rounders
uh the first rounder in the second round
and 23 and 22
yeah so what the the one exception i
took with peter
when he laid this out here's what here's
what doesn't fly with me and from the
texans
tool was the fifth pick and christian
wilkins was the 13th pick so in essence
we're trading you the
no you're not no no
no no just because they were taken in
the first round don't mean that that's
like no no no no no no no they use cars
at this point
so no okay like maybe we like them but
don't try to play that whole well in
essence you're getting
four first-rounders from us like no
we're not um
so uh but yeah you're losing carolina
speculation
yeah you're losing uh you're losing a
franchise quarterback and i wonder
if if miami were to get uh i'm sorry if
houston were to get the third overall
pick i wonder
if they would want tua and the third
overall pick
because they might be inclined to say we
lost to sean watson
we're not we're not wild about to it or
maybe they are
uh but if you're not okay leave two out
of it because we're gonna take our
quarterback right here
with the third pick that we just got
from you
and you're gonna have they could have
two they could play that wouldn't happen
and
you have to replace two with another
number one pick
or something like that you know um
but i mean the carolina speculation is
fascinating too
because they're uh the offensive
firepower
i don't think they would include
mccaffrey cap wise they probably can't
include mccaffrey
um san francisco
they got so many people they gotta pay
coming
so that seems complicated
you know and if i'm the texan man look
at that look at that panthers
offer i i'm not i'm okay yeah the
mccaffrey that's that's
yeah i mean i why would you do that's
paige mccaffrey
that just feels prohibitive why would
you do that do that
i'm saying i told you when this first
started
there is no price that's too big for
desean watson although
the name mccaffrey feels a little rich
and literally just paid him so i don't
think
they include him in this i think they
can get away with not including chris
mccaffrey
um but i but but i'm answering your
question why would you do it
you know whether you or i would do it
with mccaffrey you would i mean it's
desean watson
it's a sean watson there's a reason why
i think domino's story just enough all
season
you know it's it's interesting that
we've uh you know talked about our beat
because we
we hold down houston uh all day
long and so when we talk about the
houston players
former and current houston players we
have some
we just we just see them differently i
think jj watts can be a really dominant
player or a good
very good player next year you think
okay
and you think you you give up anything
for deshawn watson
because you think exactly at the mahomes
level
i do and i don't quite
never quite no he didn't no he's not
necessarily i mean bro he's not the same
he's not i'm never quite curled category
but i don't say he's like he's not
patrick
my whole draft what would i not
i don't know my whole draft sure take it
you know
i mean the the conundrum is if you're
desean or the team
you know if you're trading if you're
trading away everything for desean how
much does that compromise your ability
to compete with desean and
and desean has to be aware of that like
he doesn't want to go somewhere
and it cost him it's almost the carmelo
anthony nix thing
remember that back in the day when he
got traded to the next really wanted his
money and from the nuggets and his life
where they
got the roster in order to get it's like
you don't want to gut the roster
but if you're if you're one of these
teams
that can set yourself up at that
position like
a handful of other teams are in the nfl
for a long time i mean the dude just had
one of the best years we've seen period
let alone on a 4-12 team
so i don't know you know i think you
know the trade picks until 2023 anyway
so it's not like the nba we can just
trade them you know
alternate years forever practically
feels like whatever
i don't know if there's a limit on how
far out you could trade nba picks
but yeah why not i mean you know it's
just
i i would i would i would sleep good at
night knowing that deshawn's my
quarterback
and all i got to do is figure out the
pieces around him but just to wrap
i think jj watts waiting for deshawn and
you know
a domino to fall what do you got to say
let me just say as a as a note
uh i think you know the answer put me on
blast again
huh no no i'm just saying your nba
question you said you know i don't know
how long
how far out you can trade uh first round
picks just look at your favorite team
the brooklyn nets
they don't have a first round pick for
what
five years six years something like that
you know so i know that's not how you do
business
but you know yeah you know how it is
just go ahead give up those first round
picks
all right listen the rams are onto
something though
the rams are onto something oh yeah the
ram they only mean something
they only mean something if you hit on
them the lottery tickets
they only mean if something if you hit