trade for quarterback. DeShaun Watson. Then we waited for
the suspension, he missed 11 games, he played six,
he's back now, completely unrestricted, unfettered by
anything. The league could do as a result of the things that
resulted in the suspension. Here's Kevin stefanski coach of
the Browns talking about his expectations for Watson
in year 2 which is
as a practical matter year, 14, Watson, full and complete year.
One in Cleveland. Here's what stefanski said.
I'd say he's going to be way more comfortable. Just it's
a new offense. It's the new verbiage those have thanks year
to. Now for him, he'll be more comfortable.
The big pieces is getting comfortable with your teammates.
There's no substitute for reps. There's no substitute for
practice reps or game reps.
So, I think all those are valuable. I think just him
having the guys down to Houston to throw.
I think it's great and that's something he's always done in
his career and wants to make that a priority to have
the guys down there and around. I'm sorry. So, I think all of that
adds up,
but I know he in any player don't under your to will be
much more company.
Look, absolutely. And they've already burned. One of the five
years of his contract, and now we're into year two and there
are expectations internally, and externally, Jimmy has, I'm
the owner of the team talked about it this week. He said,
Kevin Szymanski is not on the hot seat, but they expect to
make the playoffs this year. And that's a big expectation
for a team that that has only made it once.
Like they had that one year 2020 and they beat the Steelers
with all those flukes that happened early in the wild-card
game. And then they gave the Chiefs, a run for their money.
And in the past two years have been under achieving for
the Browns,
this is where the bar is set high.
And if it doesn't work this year with this revised offense
with a shift toward the, passing game in Cleveland,
there could be some changes, somebody could be accountable
because
they're never going to blame it on. DeShaun Watson, they've
made this decision to go for Deshaun Watson and build
the team around him. And if the other people in place to build
that team around him aren't getting it done, they're
the ones who are going to pay for it. Yeah. I mean
unfortunately. We that is the way it is in the NFL and I'll
hopefully they get a little time there, you know? Again
this is a situation like with Kevin stefanski that I think
was thrusted on him. So you got to have a little bit of a,
you know, be mindfulness of that at least to a degree. But
I do you know, I'm with you or Echo his sentiments and then
yeah, just Sean Watson. I expect him to be.
He could be another guy where you said eight, guys, right? He
could be that guy that we jump in and go to hey.
John Watson's a franchise quarterback, he was before all
this stuff went down, right? He definitely was in that top 5
combo.
So, let's see where he,
you know, he can get back to, I expect them to be kind of
dancing around that. Again, I do. I'm a Believer in DeShaun,
Watson, the football player for sure. And now, hey, some of
that other stuffs in the rearview mirror,
right? And they do have a lot of things about their team.
They like, they've certainly improved the wide receiver
room, a little, we know the old lines, good, the running backs
may be the best in football.
At the defensive coordinator, they got a new one there? And
Jim Schwartz. I think that's a big part of this thing to, you
know, how good is their defense and what does that look like?
But, you know, I think your point, yeah, is real. Playoffs
are a high bar, especially in that Division
and in that conference right now, I mean, damn, like we've
talked about the AFC is loaded with teams and players and
quarterbacks, I mean, so that is a high bar
and I hope it's not just playoffs because I have if he's
11 and they're 10 and 7 or 11 and 6 and don't make the
the playoffs. I hope it's not a type of thing where they get
rid of
chemists amancio because of that.
But the pressure is high this where the payoff comes for
everything, they did. And if you're Jimmy has them. I went
through all this crap, I had my partner's give me the cold
shoulder. I am the guy that they're all pointing to saying,
don't do what that guy did
we better get some good performance out of the Sean
Watson to make up for all the stuff I've had to deal with to
get to the point where we hope. This guy
is the right guy who's going to turn things around for
the Cleveland Browns.
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