Let Me Tell You Something: Pump the Brakes on the Christian Watson Extension
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo is back — and he needs Pack Nation to pump the brakes before Green Bay writes a thirty-million-dollar check. Christian Watson is an absolute weapon. When he's on the field. And that right there, says Sal, is the whole conversation.
- Sal lays out the cold math: Watson has suited up for just 48 of a possible 68 regular season games across four NFL seasons — a pattern, not a bad-luck streak — and yet the Packers may be on the verge of handing him one of the richest wide receiver contracts in the league
- The fishing resort analogy hits hard: everyone at the dock swears the motor is beautiful when she runs — but Sal isn't signing a thirty-million-dollar lease on a conditional clause
- With Romeo Doubs gone to New England, Matthew Golden stepping into the number one role on rookie money, Jayden Reed locked in underneath, and Tucker Kraft returning from his own ACL — Sal argues Green Bay may already have everything they need without the mega extension
- Big Sal's ask isn't to walk away from Watson forever — it's to let training camp breathe, let Golden show what he is, and then reward Watson IF he proves it on the field
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pack Nation, I need somebody to pump the brace with me for a second, because I feel like I am the only adult in the room right now. |
| 0:20.0 | And before anybody comes from me on this, and I know you will, just hear me out. |
| 0:24.9 | Because I love Christian Watson. |
| 0:26.9 | You know I love Christian Watson. |
| 0:29.2 | The man is an absolute weapon when he is on the field. |
| 0:32.4 | But that, that right there, that is the whole conversation, isn't it? |
| 0:37.7 | When he is on the field. |
| 0:43.1 | Pac Nation, we are sitting here in the spring of 2026, |
| 0:47.6 | getting ready to hand this man somewhere between $27 and $30 million a year. |
| 0:58.0 | $30 million for a wide receiver who has played... Okay, so last year was 10 games. |
| 1:01.0 | The year before that was, I want to say 15. |
| 1:05.0 | No, I think it was closer to 14. |
| 1:08.0 | The point is, across four years of professional football, Christian Watson has suited |
| 1:13.8 | up for 48 games, 48 out of 68 possible. You understand me? That is not a wide receiver one |
| 1:22.7 | contract. That might not even be a wide receiver two contract. That is a we love you and we are hoping real hard contract. |
| 1:31.3 | And listen, I am not here to bury this man. |
| 1:34.3 | Do not twist my words. |
| 1:36.3 | When Watson runs a route, it is art. |
| 1:39.3 | The man averaged 17.5 yards per reception last year. Third in the entire NFL, you saw |
| 1:47.6 | what he did in Detroit, 51 yards, gone. You saw what he did against the bears, catches |
| 1:54.6 | a six-yard slant and turns it into 41 yards because he left the entire secondary standing there like they forgot how to play football. |
| 2:03.6 | The talent has never been the question. The question is whether you give 30 million a year |
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