you just know Baker is loving this shit ...
The Browns and their owner in particular have royally screwed up with Watson and their $230 million guaranteed. They may eat all of this, and they will also never get those draft picks back that they gave Houston.
I also am flabbergasted that they gave David Njoku a 4 year $56 million contract this offseason. On what planet is Njoku worth $14 million per season based on his production over the last 5 years?
The Browns could sign Bell and AB just to get their team full of more characters of that type. Or even Pac Man Jones and Burfict.
Bell had a very high opinion of himself and smoked weed at stupid times, but I don't think it was anything like some of these clowns.
Then again, with the particular way he went about things, it actually would have had less negative impact on the team if he'd just gotten himself suspended for a whole season, so fuck him.
See you Space Cowboy ...
Indeed. Another big part of Bell's problem was the outsized influence his blithering idiot of an agent had on him - the same agent who holds the batshit crazy view of the player/team NFL employment dynamic being roughly equivalent to the slave/plantation dynamic of the antebellum South and who conducted negotiations in that light as well as filling his clients' heads (including Bell) with that ridiculous bullshit.
All of them are idiots. Of course there are differences in detail... Burfict deliberately tried to hurt players multiple times, which the other three didn't (or only rarely). Bell didn't have as much antics but holding out a full year to go to the Jets (for what we would have paid him) is still idiocy.
Yes! I will always question his decisions, but as far as a team player, he was all in. He would never get another OL that worked with his running style like he did with the Steelers. So …..I would never put Bell in that category. I liked him as a Steelers, and wish he had stayed a Steelers.
Okay fellows, this thread is going off course ... let's get back to talking about how stupid the Browns (not Antonio) are!
Report: NFL Will Likely Target One-Year Suspension for Browns' QB Deshaun Watson
Oh my Almost nothing would make me happier than to see all that guaranteed money go down the drain for Cleveland.
https://steelersdepot.com/2022/06/re...eshaun-watson/
And all that cheese is guaranteed.
Someone needs to get fired over this. The morality of it all can be packed up and set aside for a moment.
The Browns leadership team claimed they talked to “everyone” and were confident it was good to go.
Clearly they talked to not everyone.
Almost certainly someone wasn’t willing to tell the owner “no”.
Couldn't happen to a better owner.