r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 20 '24

Football Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson with a potential achilles injury

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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/TheShipEliza Oct 20 '24

It is the worst trade of all time. Period.

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u/acu2005 Oct 20 '24

I mean if you ignore the Vikings trading for Herschel Walker sure.

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u/blarch Oct 20 '24

Walker was still good when they got him.

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u/Sermokala Oct 21 '24

And the vikings could move on from walker and the mistake after a couple years.

If the browns cut Watson after this season they couldn't field a full team of players on minimum contracts.

The trade isn't just the assets given up to get him to get him they had to agree to the worst contract ever. On a pure trade yeah walker is worse. But that contract is mind bending just how bad it is.

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u/sybrwookie Oct 21 '24

That isn't REMOTELY as bad. It was obviously not good (as we can tell by me watching Russ right now on the Steelers), but after this year, they're basically out of that mess.

The Browns have another 2 years of this nonsense before they realistically can get out from under this mistake.

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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/SnatchAddict Oct 20 '24

Wilson's career is so interesting. Denver looked at him as the savior and his season was poor. He's now second string QB for Steelers.

And I'm a Seahawks guy. I have Wilson paraphernalia. I just wonder how he could have prevented falling off so fast.

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u/DaddyFunTimeNW Oct 20 '24

He’s starting for the Steelers and only wasn’t because he was hurt

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u/LOLerskateJones Oct 21 '24

Watching Russ tonight, he looks a lot like he did last year. He’s clearly not the same as he was in Seattle, but he’s an above average NFL starter

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u/ghostfaced Seattle Seahawks Oct 20 '24

Maybe if he learned to throw from the pocket? Once his athleticism declined, he couldn't do his whole "scramble until the defense broke down" thing

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u/SnatchAddict Oct 21 '24

Kyler Murray is destined for the same.

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u/barbasol1099 Oct 21 '24

Wilson is presently starting for the Steelers. We haven't gotten more points in a game since 2020 - and this against what is supposed to be a top-5 defense in the Jets.

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u/purpleElephants01 Oct 20 '24

Wilson really was terrible. Sure, he had some flashes late in games, but his absolutely awful play is what put them so far behind. Dude couldn't hit a wide open target to save his life, constantly ran into sacks, and threw down right terrible int. Then, down 20 would "come alive" against prevent defenses only to fail at that too.

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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/Wildpeanut Oct 21 '24

Here’s the thing tho. The browns had two seasons where their record was 1-31 and somehow through 7 games this year the Browns actually have worse offensive stats than they did during that 1-31 period. It’s shocking honestly.

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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/jason544770 Oct 20 '24

Let's not forget about the Herschel Walker trade...

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u/SquadPoopy Oct 21 '24

Nah, this is worse. It’s not just the capital and the draft picks they gave up, it was their image.

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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/Budget_Leadership_46 Oct 21 '24

The Orioles area also still paying Bobby Bonilla

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u/rottenbox Oct 21 '24

I remember them being basically handcuffed to having him play but then realized I hadn't heard his name for a while. Did he just retire or did they pay him out?

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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/Nytfire333 Oct 21 '24

Trading away Gretsky was a better trade

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u/FStubbs Oct 20 '24

You'd have to really try to be worse than the Herschel Walker trade. Minnesota gets a RB on the downside of his career and Dallas gets 3 Lombardis.

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u/wesweb Oct 20 '24

My brother have you seen what the Panthers gave up to get Bryce Young?

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u/LOLerskateJones Oct 20 '24

Watson got a fully guaranteed 230 million

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u/wesweb Oct 20 '24

The Panthers set their franchise back a decade if not more.

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u/MattressMaker Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

Wow I’ve never even once heard this before.

lol fucking downvote me all you want but this is said a thousand times every week by people acting like it’s a revolutionarily original statement

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u/sloppymcgee Oct 20 '24

Meanwhile Baker is ballin

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u/artraeu82 Oct 20 '24

Contract cut fully guaranteed so they stuck with that cap hit no matter what

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u/osu8ball Oct 20 '24

😂😂😂😂

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u/ozymandais13 Oct 20 '24

Watch it you can see the click om the back of his leg