Watson to Cleveland and Free Agency Review, Part II
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🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Conor and Gary start things off with a discussion of the Browns, from their stunning decision to pursue Deshaun Watson while the quarterback is under the cloud of 22 civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, to their stunning decision to award him an unprecedented contract, to their off-putting decision to build the contract around a likely suspension.
Then, the Davante Adams trade to the Raiders, what sense it could make for Vegas, and why it’s an even more significant setback for the Packers than you might realize.
Plus, whether Allen Robinson to L.A. signals another evolution for Sean McVay’s Rams offense, Robert Woods’s fit in Tennessee, what’s next for the Bengals after adding La’el Collins, and what might be the weirdest halftime show in Super Bowl history.
Again, the Deshaun Watson piece from May that will give you a much more complete understanding of what’s going on in Houston: https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/05/21/new-information-proper-context-for-deshaun-watson-sexual-misconduct-lawsuits-daily-cover
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | Don't know if you're going to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Gary Grendling. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Connor Orr. |
| 0:10.0 | And Connor, we have a lot of development since the last time we were together on |
| 0:13.8 | Thursday morning we're gonna get to de Monte Adams and Alan Robinson and |
| 0:18.0 | while college all that stuff in a little bit but we are starting obviously with |
| 0:21.5 | Deshaun Watson and the football side of the saga. |
| 0:26.2 | Comes to a close here. |
| 0:27.2 | He is traded to the Cleveland Browns despite continuing to face allegations from 22 different women in civil lawsuits. |
| 0:36.0 | It was jarring one because the Browns were declared to be out of the running and then got themselves back into the running but |
| 0:44.5 | also just jarring from a bigger picture standpoint that this ended at a time when you |
| 0:51.0 | know this whole situation with allegations of sexual misconduct |
| 0:56.6 | has not yet been resolved. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah, which makes the Brown's joint statements from, and here's a funny thing about this, so the |
| 1:05.8 | Brown's issued statements from the Haslam's from Andrew Berry and from the GM and from Kevin |
| 1:11.2 | Stophanski, and in true Denzel Washington Training Day style, right? |
| 1:17.4 | They make everybody put their name on that statement so that they are all complicit in what they know is a complete horseship maneuver. |
| 1:27.0 | You know? |
| 1:28.0 | They were talking about the due diligence, but how could there be due diligence if none of the teams had |
| 1:32.4 | reached out to any of the women in the lawsuit? |
| 1:35.2 | And how could it be due diligence if there's still active criminal investigation going on here. |
| 1:42.8 | Like a grand jury declining to indict is not an exoneration and yes like we in the media who have |
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