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Browns Watson status check 2025/2026

Pluto is always so damn reasonable and grounded. Of course, unlike CLE AM radio, which has duo after duo all day long, or the UCSS, who have to create content, Pluto doesn't have to bend to that grind.

Monken and Berry haven't declared anything about QB1, because it's to their advantage not to, whether you're thinking draft or trade.

Otherwise, anyone who can read the room know what's going on.

Watson has too much bad blood to be contract extended by the Browns into his mid 30's. Injuries, bad recent on field play, and the baggage.
Gabriel isn't even around.
Sanders flashed with big plays last year. He's in-house nearly every day.

Anyone other than Shedeur, at least at the start of the upcoming camps, makes no sense.
 
List of QB's who have torn their achilles, and then returned

Marino age 32 - came back to throw for 4000 the next season
Testaverde age 35 - never really made it back
Rodgers age 39 - too old in general
Cousins age 35 - returned with okay success, but never to form

QB has the most "successful" return rate post-achilles, fwiw.
Really, the only successful QB to do it was Marino, but he was damn good up to the injury, modified his game, and used his high-end arm strength to continue on.
 
Not all the world goes on precedent, but I can't think of any athlete who got off his game for various reasons for 5 years, then, returned to form.

I mean, Watson was good in 2020, then sat out for a year, got in legal trouble, was suspended, came back, played poorly, injured his shoulder, played poorly again, then his tore his achilles, then did it again, took forever to rehab and viola, looks decent in shorts in spring.

That's quite the gauntlet. But hey, you never know. I don't think it fair to say he's 100% cooked, but, meh, I'll eat my hat if he's good again.
His only real hope is Monken, who has designed successful offenses for every kind of QB.
 
It's trade bait. If Watson does well, we can trade up in the draft. He'll need a new contract but somebody will take a shot. Maybe even near the trade deadline. Yeah it sucks that Sanders gets even less of an opportunity but it's not a complete waste of time either.
 
Can we fully guarantee the extension too? Then burn down the dog pound and piss on the ashes?

How many times do you have to stick your hand on a hot stove? The flesh is melted and fused to it at this point.

If they start him and if he somehow has a mirage season of success before the inevitable regress to reality, we will be truly in football Hell.
 
Personally, I'm just done with Watson, in that, I don't believe the pre-injury, pre-legal-shit, pre-headcase, mid-20's version is coming back.
The best case scenario is Monken squeezes a decent amount wins out of him, and we let him go, and we continue to set the record for the team who looks for the QB multiple years in a row. Because, I don't see him as a long term option.

I'd put money on Dewand Jones being and OT of the future, before I'd put money on Watson being the QB of the future.
 
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