Examining the Deshaun Watson trade & allegations with Mike Sando, Jenny Vrentas & Aaron Reiss
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Lindsay Jones and Mike Sando react to the Texans trade sending Deshaun Watson to the Browns. Plus, Lindsay sits down with The Athletic’s Aaron Reiss and New York Times reporter Jenny Vrentas to discuss what’s next for Watson’s legal case and potential discipline from the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Athletic Football Show contains sensitive content and details of alleged sexual misconduct. |
| 0:07.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:12.2 | This is the Athletic Football Show. Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:27.9 | Today is Friday, March 18th, and there is major breaking news in the NFL. |
| 0:33.7 | Deshawn Watson is being traded from the Houston Texans to the Cleveland Browns. This has been a |
| 0:39.4 | stunning move. It's going to have major reverberations across the NFL. And joining me right now |
| 0:45.0 | to talk about it is my colleague, Mike Sando. Mike, how are you? Well, I was, Lindsay, I'm doing well. |
| 0:50.4 | I was just recording my weekly podcast with Randy Mueller when this happened midway through it. |
| 0:56.3 | So that's, isn't that the NFL now? I mean, all the things that seemed impossible now happen every day. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah. So this has just been kind of a wild afternoon. We've really been waiting for this Deshaun Watson decision for days now, right? |
| 1:08.6 | Ever since it was very clear that Deshaun Watson was going to be traded, we've been waiting |
| 1:13.0 | to see what his decision was going to be, what the trade compensation compensation was |
| 1:17.6 | going to be. |
| 1:18.3 | But what's really wild here is that the Browns were out of it by many reports, including |
| 1:24.3 | from our Jeff Howe. |
| 1:26.7 | Watson in his camp informed the Browns late this |
| 1:30.0 | week that they were no longer in the running after they met in person a couple of days ago |
| 1:33.5 | in Houston. And we thought this was down to the Falcons and the Saints. It seemed like the |
| 1:38.5 | falcons were kind of in the in the driver's seat there, had the most likely chance to land |
| 1:43.6 | Deshaun Watson. And then all of a most likely chance to land Deshaun Watson. |
| 1:44.7 | And then all of a sudden, this afternoon, Deshaun Watson changed his mind. |
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