Watson didn't even mention him. Actually when we talk about
Kirk Cousins before I gotta put him in there, not Kirk Cousins
down, one more Notch there,
but you know realistically like What teams do you think we
think are really looking at him right now? I know the Saints
and Panthers, we know
that's been really linked. I know you and I, you know, and
you've known for a long time. Caroline has been serious about
the Sean Watson, right? Wanted him. Last year. I traveled say
after they didn't get him. They didn't want him
that nice. Try. Sure. Jack. An
they wanted him and they were willing to take him with
the criminal cases on resolve. The civil case is unresolved. It
was 80/20 as the trade deadline approached last year, between
Miami and Carolina because he wanted to go to Miami. At
the end of the day. He wouldn't waive his no-trade clause for
the Panthers or he would be a panther
right now, right? Wouldn't waive his no-trade Clause last
year. Now the Panthers in the Saints
are the two teams that
have made offers to the Texans. They don't matter.
If Watson won't waive his no-trade Clause, right? The Panthers.
Always been part of this. The Saints are a new arrival. Yes,
and I can tell you if Sean Payton was still the head
coach. They wouldn't be
Sean Payton nodded to Sean Watson believer could have
drafted him the year that they were watching and monitoring
Patrick Mahomes, dropping and dropping and dropping. And here
comes Drew Brees into the
into the draft room.
And somebody's got to go tell Drew, you know, there's
a chance you're here with your friends as a chance. We're
going to draft a quarterback here with the 11th, pick. Okay,
fine. Thanks for telling me.
They don't get my homes. They could have had Watson. They
didn't take Watson.
Payton wasn't a Watson guy.
Now, they're interested in Watson and the owner reportedly
has signed off on Watson becoming a saint. It comes down
to whether or not Watson wants to do it. I don't know. Chris.
Hey, with Brady back with a Buccaneers. Do I want to go to
the NFC South with the Panthers of the Saints right now? I'm
not so sure I do.
I mean, yeah, it's going to be tough sledding, you know that
you do but, you know, you still going to want to put your kind
of sees not bad in general. I think when you just match it up
with the AFC, it's still the better choice.
You know, I'd take my kind of the Eagles, you know, that? So
that's where I was gonna go. Yeah, so you got
pant, let's let's, let's hit on the teams that like
legitimately need quarterbacks right now. Panthers lions,
Seahawks
Saints, Eagle coins aren't doing it lines. Aren't what?
I think they're not gonna tear it off with big guaranteed money.
They say, I don't want to see Hawks are going to do anything
either. I don't think you just traded away and got all these
assets or Russell Wilson to put yourself.
Let's go throw a bunch of assets that a quarterback, and
Watson, and still not build our team. I don't think the sea off
should be R.
Why do I want to go there? If I'm W. Exactly. 2020 Texans.
All over again? Exactly. I got nothing. Right, right. Oh,
okay. So we hit Panthers. We had Saints. We had Eagles,
the Steelers. We know need a quarterback. But there there's
already said negative Ghost Rider. The Colts need
a quarterback. I have a hard time thinking. The Texans are going
to trade DeShaun Watson to their division rival, right.
And then comes the team that we heard about this weekend for
the first time that made me perk up the Cleveland Browns.
What? Are interested in the Jean Watson. Ha
ha that would be some move there. And that tells me that
negotiations with Baker, Mayfield, probably aren't
getting anywhere close to being done or anything like that or
they're still skeptical, certainly,
but I think those are the options that I look, at least
that are are viable right now, that makes sense to wear. At
least he would think about it to Brown's Panther Saints
Eagles.
I think we may be narrowed it down to those for really.
And if you're the Texans,
Now, I don't know whether or not Charles Watson is going to
want to go to the brown, see to Shawn. Why, I think it
the goal right now. And this is the one area where the Texans
and DeShaun Watson have aligned interests. The goal is to get
the most possible teams out there as interested because
that also will make other teams that may be reluctant given
the off-field situation to go ahead and throw their hat into
the ring. Yeah, you know, we weren't going to do this, but
everybody else is so we To because you never know which
team is the
one that's going to make Watson say
that's where I want to go.
That's where I want to go.
You know, it's one thing for
Art, Rooney. The second who I believe is the one that told
Jerry do lack of the post because that last week that
they weren't interested prompting. The all caps are not
interested.
Well, if you see everybody else is interested,
if you start catching win that the Browns are interested,
right? If it's one thing to say now, you know, nobody really
wants this guy right now. He's Go to the NFC. We've all of
a sudden, he's going to the Browns. He doesn't run to you,
right? Maybe, maybe, maybe it
goes from all caps to lowercase before, just
the not disappears, and it becomes, Steelers are
interested in DeShaun Watson. So,
you know, the fact that no name was announced or attached.
Excuse me to that report. The Steelers can still
Our way back in and what they want to know, our guys, Shawn
King has been banging that drum heavily that the Steelers are
going to want to Sean Watson, and it could be that you've got
Mike Tomlin fueled by Brian Flores 100, whereas that,
Watson
pushing and pushing and pushing for this and now you throw on
top of it. The possibility is going to be in Cleveland.
That's all the more reason for Mike Tomlin to be
getting Art, Rooney. The second online one and saying, we can't
afford to not do this maze. Aysen Rudolph is our current
starting quarterback art.
We've got to do this.
They're going to get I said
two years ago. When Ben Roethlisberger retires, they're
going to get left in the dirt in the AFC North. If they don't
have a good quarterback plan.
They're getting left in the dirt
right now.
With Mason Rudolph. You swap out Baker, Mayfield for Deshaun
Watson. It's see you later Pittsburgh. Steelers. Enjoy
your six Super Bowl trophies because you ain't getting
another one any time soon. Yeah. It's going to be trouble.
It's definitely the type of move in the type of player that
will
make a team reconsider. I don't disagree.
With you there
if they got wind of that and maybe they would reconsider
definitely the a lot to deal with in Pittsburgh to. And
I think there's there's the, you know hate to Sean box and like
we talked about controversial Brian Flores kind of
controversial right now,
you know, even though we know floors is a big fan of DeShaun
Watson,
but you know, I'm I hear you. He's a game changer
when he's healthy. He's definitely one of the five best
quarterbacks in football. Like, we've discussed many times. He
still got a lot of years, in front of them.
I mean, Mean one,
he's you know, athletic young all of that but to he can play
with in the pocket. See, that's where DeShaun Watson,
you know, he's special in the pocket.
This is a special football player. It's the rare blend of like
kind of what you were talking about with like The Thinker
cousins doesn't have DeShaun Watson can run the play.
Exactly the way the coach tells him to
and then when things aren't there,
DeShaun Watson go? Okay. It's time to make magic.
And that's just a rare breed in the NFL that guy that really is
and that's where Watson is special. And that's where he's
got ten years left in his career because he's a guy to,
you know, when he can't run or make plays with his legs.
He's a good decision maker.
He's a really high-quality thrower of the football.
So he's not going to go anywhere. Once he can't run
either. He's still going to be able to play and dice defense
has up and that's the value in him,
but I don't think the Steelers are happened. I think we named
the fruit, the for, I'm gonna
stay with those four.
Panthers Saints, Eagles Browns.
I think it's one of those four and I'm with you. I think
the Eagles are the ones that I think are going to be laying
lying in the weeds here and make a
make an aggressive play.
And if you made me better, as of right now, I'm going to say
Watson's the quarterback of the Eagles.
Want to trade goes down.
The Eagles were interested last year, but Watson by all.
Appearances wasn't interested in them. But you look at what
an accessory on. He's done as a head coach. You look at
the offensive line. You look at the defense. Look at everything
else. You look at the
layaway end of the NFC. You look at the NFC East.
It makes the most sense for Philadelphia to get DeShaun
Watson and and
the 22 cases are still there. As I said.
And I think it is prudent to see how this all plays out this
week with the questioning of DeShaun, Watson.
And Watson is going to want to meet any should. But what it
does, you know, we thought, okay, he gets the clean bill of
health Friday at least from the criminal side of the justice
system.
He can be traded by Wednesday and the Texans very much would
like to do it. They create more than 24 million in cap space if
they do it,
but
He-hey,
I doubt, he's available to meet with anyone today virtually or
otherwise, because today's the day that, if I'm Rusty hard and
I am getting him ready to testify tomorrow. He, testifies
tomorrow. It could extend into Wednesday. I don't know what
the time limit is for this
or how many other days they have blocked off,
but I don't know, you know, maybe you do meetings at night
or whatever, but he needs to get to the point where he's
happy enough to
to dump his no-trade Clause
to go somewhere and I agree with you. If it were me, I'd
pick the equals right now. Now, now again for you, you want to
get
you want. Get on Zoom with someone and just get a feel for
who they are and how it all works. But the Eagles make
a lot of sense
and the Browns would make some sense. Yeah, not nearly as
much. I want to stay in the NFC it. You want to get to the NFC.
He's already in the AFC. You want to get to the NFC
and get to a team that you think is laying the foundation
and has stability in the coaching staff. To that's
the other side of it. That's what carriage ride, ocean liner,
right? I don't want Carolina. I don't want Seattle for that
reason. And many others Philadelphia. You got Year One.
In the books and the guy took the team to the playoffs. Yeah, so
that even makes it even more attractive. Yeah, you're right.
You're one in the playoffs, you know, if
you talk to people around football, I mean, all you have
to do is watch film. If you're John Watson, it's a good
offense. Go back through time. And watch the think, what? Nick
Siri, I need before we got with the Eagles. Shane steichen,
the offensive coordinator there. What he was doing with
the Chargers.
That's a damn good offense. It's one of my favorite and
football and then you said it. I mean the old lion
and a tight end, you got Dallas.
Damn, he's good. They got good receivers there in Philadelphia.
That is the team that jumps out to me. Definitely. There's no
doubt. No klieman, of course, would be very interesting to
there just a few more moving parts and,
you know, Baker Mayfield is there and all that, but that
would be a game-changer no doubt in the AFC, if you added
Watson to the list, but if I'm him, I'm, I'm looking at those
Eagles. Seriously, like you said,
we need to take a break but I didn't raise this question with
you earlier when we were talking about the Browns. Do
you think the Texans would take on Mayfield is It that simple.
Now, obviously, the Browns would have to send more assets
to Houston than Mayfield.
But is that where may feel goes because over the weekend? It's
like, okay, Mayfield goes to Tampa
and then the Browns, make the play for Watson. Could you see
Mayfield being welcomed by the Houston Texans? I, I could see
that,
you know, I could see I owed, always heard there was love for
Baker, Mayfield up in the New England Building when Baker was
coming out in the draft and it was right. You're right. Right.
Went to Texas.
I mean, he's from the state of, Texas. Went to Oklahoma,
you know, I could see them selling that. Bella belt, bill
of goods down there. Look, we got Baker, Mayfield back down,
one of our own back here in town,
and I certainly could see that happening. Yes.
And if that fails what about Derek Carr for Baker Mayfield,
haven't thought of that because it wasn't Josh McDaniels. The
guy that was all in all things. Maybe that's what everybody
heard. Right? I mean that was kind of the rumor going around
on the drive, at
work out with him, right? The private workout with him. It's
kind of like, why
do I remember? Yeah. Yeah. I remember going why right?
I kept thinking, wait, you know, New England saw it, you know,
we've talked about it so much. One of those teams that has
their measurables and what a quarterback should be and
Baker. Mayfield didn't necessarily fit it to where
I was always a little, you know,
scratching my head about that.
Yes, that was always the rumor going around that New England
and Josh McDaniels. Definitely were, you know, a little bit
hot and heavy for Baker Mayfield.
But here's the reality that's before he ever played in
the NFL. We now have four C's yet. Been of help film that may
change people's minds about Baker made. I'm not trading.
Derek Carr for Baker, Mayfield. I want Derek Carr over Baker.
Mayfield.
And it didn't change Bruce, Arians mind about
Baker, Mayfield. Because in 2018
during Baker, Mayfield rookie season. Aryan said, the only
team I come Out of retirement to coach his the Browns now,
obviously he contradicted himself. He went to the bucks,
but it was Mayfield
and that's why the Bucks were interested. If you know that
that whole Buccaneers interested in, Mayfield kind of
gave legitimacy to the idea of Mayfield, potentially having
a fresh start somewhere else. So, who knows?