Mr. Scot

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From Aaron Reiss, Texans reporter for The Athletic... Where could Watson land? Reiss: Only where he wants, as the $156 million contract extension he signed before the start of this season possesses a no-trade clause. A limited number of suitors could drive down the price for Watson in the trade market, but so long as there is more than one bidder, the Texans should still be able to flip him for a huge haul of assets. What's next for the Texans? Reiss: Team officials are adamant that they do not want to trade him, so McNair, Caserio and Culley will try to repair the Texans' relationship with Watson. But if they don't make progress toward that by the 2021 NFL Draft, the team will face a big decision: Deal Watson and begin the rebuilding process with a ton of high picks, or wait until the season to see if Watson is willing to exercise his only leverage, which is sitting out games. If he is indeed willing to give up game checks, the Texans will have to wait until the following offseason to deal him. Trading him at midseason, when they won't know the slots for the 2022 first-round pick(s) they'd be receiving, is the worst-case scenario. Link This doesn't sound like something that's gonna be over quickly.

That the Panthers are interested and willing to aggressively pursue trade talks has been confirmed by more than one established source. Outside of Watson's social media account liking a post about him going to the Jets, there hasn't really been much from his end. As far as rumors, I'm pretty sure I could go to twenty different NFL message boards and every one of them would have somebody who knows somebody who knows he wants to come to their team, and they probably all have an equal amount of credibility (i.e. not much). Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. Maybe he ends up here. Maybe he doesn't. Right now, I'm not buying either Watson's or Stafford ending up here... ...but you never know.

What year?

See above. For whatever this kid knows, I seriously doubt he's better connected than Jones, and Jones says he doesn't know whether Watson wants to play for the Panthers or not. I suppose it's possible for a high school kid with a website to know something that an established reporter doesn't, but I'm kind of skeptical.

Roaring Riot is pretty well established. And more to the point, he was proven right. The source here is apparently a high school kid.

That's talking about it from the Panthers side, not Watson's. Jones is way better connected but he says he doesn't know if Watson would want to play here.

I think that's a fairly popular filter on here right now.

Here's a little more established source, with a pretty rational take.

Probably because the source is a kid who's apparently either still in or just barely out of high school.

I didn't see a date on that page but his Twitter pic doesn't exactly look much older.

You know guys, we already had one thread shut down...

Same could be said of strippers, but there's places like Scores New York and Club HooHa in Myrtle Beach. (can't believe I made that comparison)

The Twitter page links to a website with a bio.

This is a good hire.

Yet somehow even that ended up working against us

Well there's established sports journalists, and and there's guys with a website and a Twitter. I'll grant that he may be legit, but inbetween now and late March I expect we'll hear from probably fifty people who know a guy who knows a guy who used to know a guy who worked with a guy who talked to a guy who ran into a guy who saw a guy at an airport that once talked to an acquaintance of Deshaun Watson on Facebook. Reports like this tend to be stuff I make a mental note of, but don't necessarily take as gospel.

Ouch.

And I'm sure he has no interest in generating web traffic for his site or his Twitter. Sorry dude, but I'm skeptical.

Yeah, I don't really think it's that simple. Gantt doesn't either.

I'm not so sure a freelance sports guy from South Carolina is what I'd call "a solid source".

Gantt, via Nick Carboni... "Everybody's lathered up about Deshaun Watson right now," said Gantt. "As they should be. Being able to get that done is another thing." With several big-name quarterbacks like Watson and Matthew Stafford potentially hitting the market, and with the No. 8 overall pick in the draft, Carolina has many avenues to explore at the position, which still includes sticking with Bridgewater. "I think they've been careful to not just absoutely say it's not Teddy," said Gantt. "Because I think they understand it could be Teddy again. Then you go about figuring out how do you fix things around him." WCNC

One of the Jonas Brothers disagrees?

Guys like Mitchell Schwartz, Eric Fisher and some other elements of a pretty good line overall. (granted, they're a little banged up at the moment)