kungfoodude

I agree with this. If we could get him on a cheap 1 year deal, how is he not an upgrade over the guys we have now? At worst, he is an instant upgrade for our #2 QB.

Last year was perceived as a far weaker QB draft than this year. Reasonable chance Burrow is the 3rd or 4th guy in this draft(depends on upcoming workouts/evaluations). Remember we have had drafts where players like Mitch Trubisky went second overall. So, sometimes a much weaker QB will climb the board because the class is weak, the need for a QB is high and the benefit from hitting on a QB in the draft is so great. I wouldn't be excited about Jones in the second. Any of the top 4 guys I would be excited about getting at 8. Jones or Trask I wouldn't be excited at all about. High intangible, very low ceiling players. I wouldn't even be very excited about a guy like Newman that has a far greater ceiling.

He is also just 25 years old. It would suck to lose that money but if he wants to leave and it becomes a standoff, I suspect he will sit out. He has YEARS of potential income ahead of him in the league. I don't think this scenario is likely, however.

Ironical.

I mean....he is smarter than that dolt the Lions hired.

Lol. Yeah, he can. Why don't you go take a look at what he has pocketed so far? That is more than enough to live comfortably on.

Yeah, the kind of guys that make terrible franchises stay terrible. If the Texans want to the the 1990's Bengals, they are more than welcome to it. Winners don't go to dumpster fires. Burning one of the elite NFL QB's isn't going to get good players to your franchise. But, this is all theory. I suspect the Texans will blink in the next 3 months.

Yeah, I mean I can't make you understand logic.

Because that matters in the NFL.....

Someone will reach in the late first and get him. I agree.

The Texans will lose more being a dumpster fire than Deshaun will by sitting out a year or two. NFL teams will still want Deshaun Watson. Not many NFL players will want a part of the Houston Texans. Not many fans will want a part of the Houston Texans. Like I said, McNair has plenty of money but if he wants to go to war, he will stand to lose the most.

Lol. He literally has been paid millions. He can afford to sit out.

They can. If they do or even try, it will make the place poison for free agents. Not many guys are going to want to play for them.

First time I have actually gotten to try this. Unreal. Hype confirmed.

@Mr. Scot This is their mission statement. So....basically just a bunch of us here that started a website. Fitting.

Enough said.

Keep in mind you are referencing a guy whose lack of career aspirations have him writing for The Defector. What would he know about being motivated to be better in his career?

Yep. It is what it is. He'll always be a Panther, at the end of the day.

Yeah, I think unless that price comes down to something more reasonable or Watson really, really, really wants to be here for some reason, I can't see it. We actually make a lot less sense than a lot of the locations that have been speculated.

Oh poo.....you think we would really be trading for Jamarcus Russell????

It sucks to lose an old Panther like Carrier. But if it is for the best of the organization, so be it.

Yeah, I think we should wait before we completely write the last chapter of that story. It may end up like the Kobe/Shaq episode. Success for both parties but just not nearly the level of success they had together.

It was going to be an interesting offseason anyway with the salary cap retracting and some teams being in dire straits now you add this Watson saga and it's going to be a page turner. I don't think any of us knows how this is going to end up, so it's pretty fun to wildly speculate right now. I do think the price will not be as steep as the Texans want it to be. I think they will inevitably have to come down off their rumored cost. IMO, not many NFL teams or NFL GM's are going to be willing(or some even able) to give up that kind of haul, even for a guy like Watson. We'll see though.

Nah. I cut and run pretty quickly. Zero commitment for me. Just the way I have always been geared.