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#DeshawnWaston ‘s career: From brief potential to dramatic decline in an instant. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  So time for a little sports talk.
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  It's always riveting in a way that when you see in sub
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  football tape by way, it's always riveting when you see a
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  player that look like to be on the rise as one of the top
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  players in this league all of a sudden have a steep and
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  precarious fall from not only grace, but from what he could
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  have been. You just have to think back to
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  yourself, well, how did it happen?
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  Because there's been so many cases for, you know, NFL players
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  who look like they were on their way to the level of being elite
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  for a long time. But then something were to
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  happen where all of that immediately goes away.
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  So the person that I'm with influencing, in case you need to
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  know, is Cleveland Browns court. Back to Shawn Watts.
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  So today, according to head coach Tom Monken, he was named
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  the Week 1 star. And Monken said earlier today
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  that he doesn't see this as a week to week thing, meaning he
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  doesn't essentially want to have to evaluate the position every
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  week during the season. Now let me give you all a tidbit
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  of how the Browns in a lot of ways, them naming Deshaun Watson
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  the regular season starter makes absolutely no sense.
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  Now, mind you, this is a guy that was the 12th overall pick
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  in the 2017 NFL trap who was electrified at Clemson, one
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  national child and everybody thought he was going to be among
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  the next wave of quarterbacks that we talk about as of right
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  now. And let's start, you know, in
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  Houston, he was there really for Four Seasons.
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  It should have been a fit, but I'll get into that in a moment.
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  At times it looked like he was going to be Dairy Court.
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  He had that one great year where it looked like he was going to
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  be a perennial All Pro Pro Bowl quarterback.
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  And then, you know, there was a night year where he actually so
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  something so you can say it's really two years, but then
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  that's when everything fell apart.
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  After a couple seasons there, the organization had completely
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  fell apart. GM changes, coaching changes,
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  what have you, players coming and going and DE Sean at at a
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  certain point just felt he needed to get out of Houston.
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  Now mind you, he had a list of teams he wanted to possibly be
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  traded to. Cleveland was not even on his
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  way and so he was supposed to play what subsequently was his
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  last year in Houston. But he did.
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  He saw the entire season and ultimately never stepped foot in
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  the field for the Texans again. But then that same year, he got
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  named in a handful of sexual harassment allegations.
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  And forgive me if I don't remember the name or number off
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  the top of my head, but it was over 20 women that had accused
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  Watson of a lot of things, which I'm not going to go into a
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  massage parlor. But while he wasn't playing
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  football and trying to get out of Houston, he had that scenario
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  to deal with. And even though the lawsuits,
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  you know, resolved itself over time, that didn't exempt him
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  once he was able to get out of Houston from a suspension from
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  the league office. That part I will get you in the
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  moment. And so after this century
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  playing or not really playing in Houston and what was his final
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  year, Cleveland called up the Texans, gave him a boatload of
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  draft picks. And you can now argue a contract
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  that you can say is the worst contract in the history of
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  sports. Now it qualifies as the worst
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  contract in FL history. But if you want to say, you
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  know, sports history, what have you, I'm willing to listen.
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  But here's what makes it by far the worst.
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  It was all guaranteed, OK? Not, you know, guaranteed for
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  like 3 years. And then, you know, if they have
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  to figure out the remaining parts of it, they can.
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  No, all five of those years were guaranteed. 230 million of it to
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  be exact, even though they had to kind of like restructure at
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  times and all that. 230 million is what they guaranteed to Shawn
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  Watson and they ended up getting him from the Texans.
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  So now let's transition over to his off time in Cleveland and
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  you'll know why I set that part in a moment.
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  Now, when he got there, even though there was some Browns
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  fans that were kind of willing to give him an olive plants to
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  support him, there were many of them that were not in favor of
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  this, and rightfully so. But once he got there, that's
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  when everything really started to climb.
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  He got because of the league office after the lawsuits had
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  come and gone. He had had to serve an 11 game
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  suspension because of it. And if you thought that was just
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  the first domino and you are in four more after really his 11
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  game suspension, take a guess as to how many games he has played
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  with Cleveland since being acquired a couple years back.
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  If you don't know what the answer is, 19, 19 games over
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  parts of really Four Seasons Throughout those four years, he
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  suffered two Achilles injuries on both of his feet per SE.
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  And whenever he has been on the field, you can tell, you know,
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  outside of the injuries and obviously the suspension that he
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  had, you can tell that he just does not look anywhere close to
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  what he was for that one or two years in Houston.
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  Not only has his play fallen off, but his one standing as far
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  as you know, NFL circles has completely been evaporated.
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  And here's what makes it as far as you know on the field stuff
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  makes it even worse for the Sean Watts.
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  Like I mentioned, he was supposed to be among the group
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  of quarterbacks that we talk about and hold and high regard
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  for mania from. By this point, all those guys
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  have done more than he has. So you can attribute his fall
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  from promise, as you can say to a lot of things, whether or not
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  the allegations which were serious, several instances of
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  season ending injuries or just being completely lost on the
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  field. He is a shell of himself.
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  And I don't know if you heard what he said Saturday, but this
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  pretty much cemented for me as to why he has no credibility.
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  So he has started the 1st or as first really home game since
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  20/24. He had took the field.
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  He didn't play all that great in the preseason game on Saturday
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  against Buffalo. And then the fans in Cleveland
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  booed him mostly. And then after the game, he made
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  a comment saying basically they felt it was disrespectful for
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  the fans to Boo me and also said that we think I, I think we know
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  that them booing had nothing to do with my performance today.
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  To me. Do you know why I take away from
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  that comment? It's two things.
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  Number one, it signals to me a guy who is using that as a cop
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  out for why not only has his overall play deteriorate in a
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  handful of years spanning, but it's like he feels as if he's
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  been the victim here when he clearly is.
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  And the second thing, and this is probably the most obvious
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  thing in all of this. I never thought, you know, even
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  when he was coming out of the draft, I never thought he was
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  going to be that great to begin with.
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  OK. There's something to me about,
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  you know, guys that were really electrifying college that looked
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  like they were going to transition that to the NFL.
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  It's always been, well, can they continue that at the next level?
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  And I think we have seen, obviously along with other
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  things, I think we have seen why just because you have had
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  college success does not ultimately mean it will
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  translate to the next level. And so that's why if you're a
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  Browns fan, you are essentially hope that the season comes and
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  goes and as well As for the organization so that you don't
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  have to not only pay the son Watson anymore, but you can
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  hopefully, you know, restart the clock once again on another
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  rebuild the right way as far as, you know, the aforementioned
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  look, I think. And if I'm wrong, I won't have a
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  problem with it. But after this season, you know,
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  no matter how it plays out, I don't think any team should pick
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  up Deshaun Watson ever again because not only has his play
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  deteriorated significantly, but he just he just kind of gives
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  the impression that he was really a one year wonder who had
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  that glimmer of promise that he showed when he was at Clemson.
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  And then when you add in him one out in Houston, the million of
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  allegations that came after and then subsequently since being in
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  Cleveland being a show of what he could have been.
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  It all ties in to a player that was never really anything but
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  one year one. So if I'm any NFL team after
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  this season, I would not take a flyer on Deshaun Watson.
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  I mean, it would have to take, you know, a team that is so
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  desperate or just have been, you know, injury rate and at the
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  quarterback spot that they're almost desperate to try
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  something. And I'll tell you why he would
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  be among the very last people or probably the last I would ever
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  consider bringing it because we do live in a, what have you done
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  for me lately, you know, kind of world?
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  What has he done over the last couple of years to show that he
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  deserves to be on the NFL roster?
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  I would, if I were Agmi, would not even consider, OK, I don't
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  care how much, you know, others try to maybe persuade.
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  I want nothing to do with a guy who, not only for the
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  seriousness of the things that he was dealing with, but because
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  he ultimately has never been able, since leaving Houston,
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  recaptured that form that should have made him in the weak
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  quarterback. I can't do it.
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  Follow Regia. But you know what?
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  That's what ultimately he gets when stuff like this comes home
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  to haunt you.