Browns officially announce Watson trade
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the biggest thing probably yesterday provides everybody is clarity just in terms of direction. |
| 0:07.8 | I think Deshaun has clarity in his end relative to what his future holds from a football standpoint. |
| 0:13.2 | I think there's some things still on a legal front that probably, you know, I don't want to really get into that, but, you know, I have to take place. |
| 0:19.7 | But just clarity for him individually. |
| 0:22.2 | I think clarity for our organization in terms of what the expectation is moving forward. |
| 0:34.1 | Well, a lot of clarity was obtained on Friday afternoon at a time when we all thought DeShon Watson was choosing between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. |
| 0:47.3 | Nope. |
| 0:48.2 | Money talks. |
| 0:48.8 | Here come the Cleveland Browns. |
| 0:50.2 | Money talks, baby. |
| 0:51.1 | Money screams. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.5 | Money screams. |
| 0:54.1 | And really, that's what it came down to. |
| 0:56.5 | And Marriquet Cabin of Cleveland Plain Dealer had a great item on Sunday. |
| 1:00.0 | That basically, once the Browns realized what a mess they had with Baker Mayfield, |
| 1:04.2 | they started digging deep into the couch cushions at Jimmy Haslam's house for a few more million here and a few more million there. Loose change from the billionaire in order to get Deshawn Watson because they |
| 1:15.9 | knew they had a mess with Baker. So they had to get Watson's attention again. And nothing |
| 1:20.7 | gets a guy's attention like 230 million fully guaranteed on a five-year deal every penny fully guaranteed 46 million per year five |
| 1:30.7 | years every penny fully guaranteed it's signing a record deal and the browns have a franchise quarterback |
| 1:38.6 | and the texans finally offload a guy that has wanted to be out for 15 months. |
| 1:45.5 | They've wanted to get rid of him for 15 months. |
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