Callan: The Patriots’ spillover effect on Deshaun Watson originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston.
The fruits that fell from the Bill Belichick tree weren’t that sweet. This also applies to coaches and, to a lesser extent, personnel.
But from now on, let’s record that the Texans GM Nick Caserio ended up on the winning side of what would be the most biased deal in NFL history.
Six picks (3) for quarterback Deshaun Watson after Watson revealed that he would never play in Houston and was fighting 20 proceedings from women alleging sexual misconduct. Do you deal with people’s first rounders)? It’s like someone taking a dynamite lit stick out of your hand and paying you for the opportunity to do it.
Watson’s situation continued over the weekend, and the NFL reportedly demanded an indefinite suspension lasting at least a year.
The reason behind it is that the two-year statute of accusations will expire in March 2023, according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. This assumes that Watson’s actions were suspended when the first proceedings were filed in March 2021. In the situation of Roethlisberger in 2010, when the league declared a suspension of six games and reduced it to four games for “good behavior”, Watson’s reduction is probably not.
Watson’s optics playing in the league is bad enough given the avalanche of accusations. Allowing him to return this season raises new claims, anxiety about having to re-impose discipline, and triples the damage.
So Watson, who gave Browns an incomprehensible iron-covered contract that was the most lucrative in NFL history, played for the second year in a row with a fully guaranteed five-year, $ 230 million contract. There is likely to be. Meanwhile, Cleveland completely alienated former functional starter Baker Mayfield with Watson’s pursuit and signature.
Currently, Mayfield and his $ 19 million salary are still on the books, but by mutual agreement they are not participating in anything. Browns couldn’t find Mayfield’s trading partner on his salary and would eventually have to release him and hand over his team to Jacoby Briss.
Not too far in the past, the Patriots didn’t have to worry about what was happening with the middle-class team at their meetings. The Patriots are now one of the crabs in the bucket. … pray when bad news hits those teams, which is good news in New England.
AFC middle class Tom E. Karan
But for a while, I’ll be back in Baserri. Remember that it was his employment in Houston that inspired Watson to start a wildcat strike. Watson was “furious” at not being consulted during GM’s search and agreed a few months ago to extend the four-year $ 160 million by the Caserio / Jack Eastaby coalition at the front office. Nevertheless, Watson has begun a holdout.
Caserio has been playing poker all the time. Even when accusations against Watson began to flood, Caserio did not sell off his strange and distressed assets for peanuts (Watson also had a non-trade clause to take into account. ). With all the slings and arrows absorbed by the Texans, and all the pointing and laughter we all did, Caserio negotiated Watson’s situation so well that no one could have predicted it.
On the other hand, the spillover effect of the Cleveland situation can be felt here in New England. First, Watson is unlikely to be on the field when the Browns and Patriots play on October 16th. This will make the Patriots’ life easier for the day. In addition, however, Browns’ nearly constant turmoil helps the AFC Patriots.
Not too far in the past, the Patriots didn’t have to worry about what was happening with the middle-class team at their meetings. New England was looking down on everyone. The Patriots are now one of the crabs in the bucket, alongside Cleveland, Miami, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, Indy and more.
When bad news hits those teams, prayers go up, which is good news in New England. Browns is effectively running a bad news assembly line.
Since 2000, when he drafted Spergon Wynn ahead of Tom Brady, 33 different starters have been in that position. Mayfield, Deshon Kitzer and Johnny Manjiel have won the first, 22nd and 52nd picks in the draft over the last decade. Compared to the other two, Mayfield was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Now he goes out. Watson, a human stone mill, will appear someday. And Bill Belichick, a former Browns coach, will be forever happy with the flow of his life.
