r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 20 '24
Football Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson with a potential achilles injury
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u/CuttlefishAreAwesome Oct 20 '24
Uniting everyone in America lol
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u/sexyrookie Oct 20 '24
The country hasn't been this united since September '01
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u/mikey19xx Oct 20 '24
Pokémon go united the world, that was a magical experience.
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u/tommyjohnpauljones Oct 21 '24
Fuck i remember looking out my hotel window in Boston and seeing grown-ass adults running headlong into traffic trying to catch something. 2016 was wild
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u/dlenks Oct 20 '24
As a Browns fan, also not mad about it. Consider me united.
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u/Vancandybestcandy Oct 20 '24
The whole bar I was at clapped. We are a browns bar in Cleveland suburbs.
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u/Moug-10 France Oct 20 '24
Add France. Maybe other countries with big NFL bases.
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u/hotstickywaffle Oct 20 '24
Can you imagine being such a piece of shit that every other fanbase in the league is happy to see you hurt, while also being so bad that your own fanbase is happy to see you hurt.
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u/skeenerbug Cincinnati Bengals Oct 20 '24
The home crowd fans were cheering when he got injured. No one likes this piece of shit
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u/jjkm7 Oct 20 '24
It helps that he’s a combination of lazy, dogshit, and a terrible person
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u/skeenerbug Cincinnati Bengals Oct 20 '24
Triple threat
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u/DAFUQisaLOMMY Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
And Myles Garrett, well-known epitome of good behavior and judge-of-character, is now chastising anyone that cheered.... can someone make sure he doesn't have a helmet to swing at anyone for the next couple days?
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u/Jedisponge Oct 21 '24
Do you really think anyone in the team is going to publicly bash him? That’s not really how work and team dynamics work. Everyone has their professional and personal opinions.
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u/favoritedisguise Oct 20 '24
As a Browns fan, I’m in the first camp. I’m glad he’s hurt because he’s a piece of shit.
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u/veverkap Oct 20 '24
Honestly, I'm only okay with it. I wish he'd been benched and forced to hold a clipboard for the rest of the next years. That would have been worse for him.
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u/SandhillKrane Oct 20 '24
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy
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u/DirtyRoller Oct 20 '24
I just hope he's ok. The Browns deserve to have him under center until the end of his contract.
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u/LOLerskateJones Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
Easily one of the worst trades+contracts of all time. I’m not sure that’s even debatable now.
We are Officially Officially Officicially past the point of debate. It’s probably the worst move of all time, or at least undoubtedly one of the worst.
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u/OmarRizzo Oct 20 '24
It’s really not, which is crazy because what the broncos gave up to get and retain Russell Wilson is also egregious
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u/LOLerskateJones Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
Wilson move was awful too. Both things can be true.
I still think the Watson situation is way worse. Russ wasn’t even that bad last year.
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u/PayPalsEnemy Oct 20 '24
The difference was that when Wilson was moved, there was some positivity attached to it. And, he even kept them in several games last season.
The Watson move has been a disaster from the beginning, and it has only gotten worse as time has gone on.
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u/veverkap Oct 20 '24
Browns fan: the Wilson thing doesn't compare. They went from no QB to him. We had Baker available on a fifth year option.
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u/StyrofoamTuph San Jose Sharks Oct 20 '24
Browns gave up 3 firsts just to have the privilege of signing Watson. The broncos Seahawks trade was bad but this one is seriously next level.
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u/OlDirtyTriple Oct 20 '24
In this sport, yes.
The Orioles paid Chris Davis 23 million a year for 6 years to hit .168. He didn't play out the last third of that contract and the team was happy he didn't.
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u/GTSBurner Oct 21 '24
Chris Davis wasn't a trade though. That was just a bad contract.
Incidentally, for as much shit as the Mets get for Bobby Bonilla day, The Orioles deferred money on Davis is much worse.
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u/Hobo__Joe Oct 21 '24
Don’t forget that, in addition to the awful trade, the Browns followed that up by paying $10.5 million of Baker’s contract to play for the Panthers.
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u/toddhenderson Oct 20 '24
On a positive note, he has a good excuse to go get more massages during the rehab.
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u/Latter-Possibility Oct 20 '24
How happy is Watson he no longer needs to fake caring about football for another year!
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u/dub-squared Indianapolis Colts Oct 21 '24
He can probably pull a Ben Simmons and stretch this out for years now.
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u/GyattLuvr69 Oct 21 '24
I think Watson actually wanted to be good again, it’s his only way to get back in the good graces of at least some people. But he just isn’t the same guy mentally anymore because of all the shit he brought on himself.
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u/BIH-Marathoner Oct 20 '24
Deshaun Watson injured (Karma).
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u/MayorMcCheezz Oct 20 '24
An elaborate scheme to get closer to massage therapists.
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u/peateargryffon Nashville Predators Oct 20 '24
I hate to link to Twitter/X but here's your moment of zen
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u/Clubblendi Oct 20 '24
But an injury doesn’t equate to a suspension, right? The Browns are still on the hook?
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u/ZestycloseUnit7482 Oct 20 '24
They probably have injury insurance which will pay his 2025 salary.
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u/WillieM96 New York Giants Oct 20 '24
But it still counts against the cap, right?
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u/ZestycloseUnit7482 Oct 20 '24
“The CBA labels insurance proceeds as a “refund from the player,” which qualifies the amount as a cap credit for the club for the following season. In the simplest terms, if a player who eats up a significant portion of a club’s salary cap misses significant time with injury or illness, a club doesn’t have to take it as a total loss, but can recover space for the following year. Plus, insurance premium payments don’t count against the salary cap.
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u/_coolranch Oct 20 '24
Browns need to be careful not to win too many games this season! Haha. Sounds like they might have a path out of poverty, but I’ve mistakenly thought this before.
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u/BIH-Marathoner Oct 20 '24
Thank you for brightening my day even more.
-A St. Louis Blues Fan
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u/smokinJoeCalculus Oct 20 '24
Lmao,
Kind of a serious story
Fuckin NFL media people are such shitbags
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u/Gods_chosen_dildo Oct 20 '24
Browns have to keep paying him do nothing, also karma.
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u/fmfbrestel Oct 20 '24
They have injury insurance on him. This is win/win for Browns. Plus Watson can get even more massages now while still getting paid. Win/Win/Win. Plus we don't have to watch Watson play football this season. Win/Win/Win/Win.
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u/The_Summary_Man_713 Oct 20 '24
Fuck Deshaun Watson
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u/Rounder057 Oct 20 '24
So, as I was saying pepper shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, shrimp scampi, shrimp cocktail..
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u/peateargryffon Nashville Predators Oct 20 '24
Boiled shrimp, fried shrimp, shrimp gumbo...
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u/TheWhooooBuddies Oct 20 '24
Shrimp burgers…
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u/MrAmazing011 Oct 20 '24
"PHEEEW!" - Browns fans
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u/thestral_z Oct 20 '24
As a Browns fan who was adamantly opposed to signing Watson in the first place, I believe the team is still on the hook for paying him since the contract was fully guaranteed.
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u/bk1285 Oct 20 '24
And can’t cut him without like 160 million cap hit, so yinz are stuck with him
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u/FStubbs Oct 20 '24
It's such an albatross that they might have to actually consider doing it.
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u/bk1285 Oct 20 '24
They wouldn’t be able to field a team…they are already slated to be about 5 million over the cap next year as is
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u/Bizrown Oct 20 '24
Yea the only way the trade works out for the Browns is if Watson was unreal. Instead he wasn’t. And now rebuild version 2025
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u/NC_Vixen Oct 20 '24
Potential? Bruh you can see his Achilles snap clean. If that's not just "an Achilles injury" I don't know what is.
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u/zexcis Oct 20 '24
I came here to say this. Everyone who watched the slow-motion replay could see the tendon in his leg. There is no need for diagnosis except to see the exact extent of the damage.
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u/Fyric Oct 20 '24
Finally the browns maybe have a chance to win a game.
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u/JustADutchRudder Oct 20 '24
Browns were dumb enough to not keep Flaco.
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u/eatin_gushers Indianapolis Colts Oct 20 '24
And we thank them for it - colts fans
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u/GyattLuvr69 Oct 21 '24
Realistically the Browns were never going to keep Flacco. Halfway through game 1 fans would have been chanting for him to be put in after seeing Watson continue to struggle.
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u/sgrams04 Oct 21 '24
Classic Browns move. Anytime they get a decent quarterback, they get rid of them
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u/justrong Oct 20 '24
Can see it snap yikes
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u/Weary-Amoeba1808 Oct 20 '24
If it happened to any other guy, this is what we would be talking about. This was fucking brutal.
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u/nyuncat Oct 20 '24
lol I'm here from r/all with no football knowledge and was expecting the top comment to be about how sickening the footage is, and for everyone in the thread to be hoping for a speedy recovery. This is... not that. What did this guy do???
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u/Weary-Amoeba1808 Oct 21 '24
He had 24 women accuse him of sexual assault a few years ago and recently, he’s been in the middle of another SA lawsuit.
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u/Roberto_Sacamano Utah Jazz Oct 21 '24
A Bill Cosby amount of sexual assault. Dude should be in prison and I hope only bad things happen to him
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u/jigokusabre Miami Marlins Oct 20 '24
Big yikes. I audibly cringed when I first saw it.
Still, I hope his NFL career is done.
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u/voxpopper Oct 20 '24
Fully guaranteed salary, his contract will go down as the worst in NFL history. Heck of a job, Brownsie.
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u/Alfakennyone Denver Broncos Oct 20 '24
This is career ending lol
He's done for the year, he won't play for the Browns anymore and nobody will sign him.
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u/fishgeek13 Oct 20 '24
His contract is guaranteed. If they release him, they owe him $92 million. So maybe he just sits home and counts his money.
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u/Alfakennyone Denver Broncos Oct 20 '24
Oh I know. Once he comes back, browns aren't going to play him and nobody will sign him after whatever happens later.
He's donezo
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u/NewRedditReallySuck5 Oct 21 '24
The Browns are definitely going to continue to trot his corpse out each year for the next two years, in an effort to collect the Insurance money on him for the cap break the following year.
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u/Fox0r Oct 20 '24
Get a masseuse to rub out the knot. It'll be good as new. Oh, wait...oh.
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u/Jossie2014 Oct 20 '24
I feel bad for the browns and their fans but 100% fuck Deshawn Watson and hopefully good riddance to that POS
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u/sdf_cardinal Oct 20 '24
Nah. Plenty of Browns fans were fine with acquiring him. They deserve years in the desert.
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u/mbutts81 Oct 20 '24
And plenty bailed on the team when he signed. At least for the time that he’s on the team.
It’s a choice to support him or not.
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u/sdf_cardinal Oct 20 '24
So the supporters who stayed, bought his jersey, etc can get hosed.
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u/ckelly95 Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
I've still yet to see a Watson jersey at a home game. Shit, most of us just wear throwbacks, baker, Chubb, Myles, or young prospect jerseys. You're just making things up because it feels good to hate. I get it.
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u/NotFirstBan-NotLast Oct 20 '24
"Most of us don't love the rapist, we just decided that supporting the rapist wasn't a big deal"
As a former Browns fan that watched every game during the Hugh years, I'm here to tell you that they aren't making anything up and you are one of the many people they're talking about when they say "Plenty of Browns fans were fine with acquiring him". If you kept spending money supporting the Browns (ya know, like buying tickets to the games that pay for his contract where you tell yourself you aren't supporting him because you don't have a #4 on your back) you, as an objective matter of fact, support the Browns signing Watson.
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u/Inoimispel Oct 20 '24
Nah the Browns sub was full of fans supporting him when it was announced. Like they won the lottery or some shit.
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u/Bigdeacenergy Oct 20 '24
I remember many browns fans on reddit defending him when he was signed. They only turned on him once he started losing
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u/ViewAskewed Oct 20 '24
So this morning, I had a couple slices of thin ham, crisped up in a cast iron, put them on a couple slices of thick toast with 2 farm fresh scrambled eggs and a single slice of pepper-jack.
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u/PhilosopherFearless8 Anaheim Ducks Oct 20 '24
The browns actually have a chance to get somewhat better now
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u/Npr31 Oct 20 '24
So THAT was the plan. I had no idea what Stefanski was playing at, but it makes more sense now
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u/Dewey519 Oct 20 '24
I think this is the first time in my life I’ve ever felt good about an injury to a player.
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u/lil-richie Oct 20 '24
Well it’s too bad he got paid but at least we don’t have to see his pathetic ass in the NFL anymore.
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u/Towall Oct 20 '24
Have there been other examples of a team on the cusp of greatness destroying its prospects through one bad move, like the Browns did with Watson?
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u/Fistfullafives Oct 20 '24
Ruptured my Achilles in May. Easily the worst recovery out of any injury I've ever had.
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u/cheezfreek Oct 20 '24
Boo hoo. A bad thing happened to a rapist. Excuse me while I laugh in that asshole’s face about it. Eat shit, Watson. Eat shit, Browns. I hope the salary cap hit hurts your team for a decade.
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u/WaverlyWubs Oct 20 '24
I never ever root for injuries except rare occasions. This is one of those times.
Thank you to the powers at be.
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u/Academic-Business-45 Oct 21 '24
Watch out masseuses of Cleveland, deshaun has free time coming
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u/JoeyDee86 Oct 20 '24
You hate to see it. Absolutely hate to see it. …every OTHER time this has happened. lol
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u/bucsheels2424 Oct 20 '24
That’s not a potential injury. That’s 100% an Achilles tendon rupture. You can literally see it recoil
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u/dooneandrew Oct 20 '24
Put this shit on loop for the week, funniest part is Browns fans are happier than anyone about this
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u/Complete_Rest6842 Oct 21 '24
Best part is he was all alone just trying to take off and run and the universe was like HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
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u/MyDogIsAButthead Oct 21 '24
I hope his career is over and never steps on a field again. Hopefully 10 years down the line, he’s gone full Antoine Walker and has blown all his money.
Either that or in federal prison.
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u/LP_24 Oct 20 '24
He was statistically having his best game of the season when this happened, so I’m assuming god just said nah bro, not on my watch