If Watson did not have the sexual assault allegations hanging over him he'd be worth 3 firsts and two starters. But he does, so he's not. I don't want any part of that soap opera. There is no evidence that he's sorry for what he did, and how do we know he wouldn't get himself in trouble again if we signed him?
I don't know that I am. Seems more likely the next Eagles QB is someone they draft or trade for next year. But given how much time and effort and trouble they've put into what is now the Hurts era, and given they can't win a championship this season regardless, may as well let it play out. Watson with no baggage might be a different story.
Despite the Eagles being featured here it sounds like he's not going anywhere any time soon. He thinks next spring.
The Texans have been willing to trade quarterback Deshaun Watson for months, but teams aren’t making offers because of his legal issues that include 22 civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault and misconduct as well as police and NFL investigations.
For some reason, many seem to think because Watson reported to training camp with the other quarterbacks and rookies on Sunday to avoid being fined $50,000 a day that all of a sudden the Texans are interested in trading him.
That’s not the case. General manager Nick Caserio would have traded Watson before, during or after the draft — not to mention yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Texans want to trade Watson, and he wants to be traded.
With the first practice of training camp Wednesday morning, Watson still hasn’t resolved his legal issues, and no team has yet to step up with a legitimate offer to entice Caserio.
Included in the discussion of Reagor failing his conditioning test is that he lost a close friend recently to murder. That is obviously sad, but it is very disappointing that a guy who had a pretty bad rookie season showed up in sub-optimal condition. We already had to use another 1st round pick because he isn’t a #1 WR, now one has to really question how hard he is really working. Unfortunate.
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I don't think he actually is physically fragile. He plays kamikaze style. He tore up his knee on a play where he stupidly ran upright into the endzone between two defenders, who unsurprisingly managed to disable him. The situation didn't require that and a normal QB would have slid, dived in the direction of the pylon or gone out of bounds or not attempted that play at all. It was a stupid injury, but I think most guys hit like he was hit would have been injured. He then continued to play after the injury, undoubtedly aggravating it. His refusal to throw the ball away, get rid of it downfield in reasonable time, or run out of bounds added numerous, what I'll call 'voluntary' hits. His problems were mental, not the result of a fragile body. He never really learned that NFL defenders are better than the guys he faced in a minor college league and that he couldn't get away with what he got away with in college. He was stubborn, seemingly stupid, and in his last season had poor receivers and a poor OL. He lost his mobility through that goal-line hit. Then, what seemed to be a very severe concussion, because he refused to slide. Dirty hit, despite no call, but his style of running enabled it.
I guess I should say foolish and stubborn rather than stupid, he seems reasonably intelligent, he just never played that way.