The Browns were once believed to be out of the Deshaun Watson race
• The Texans opened discussions on trade packages with the teams Watson said he’d consider waiving his no-trade clause to go to, but they didn’t have turnkey deals in place with each of them. Instead, GM Nick Caserio established a threshold of three first-rounders with additional considerations—and teams would need to cross that threshold to get permission to talk to Watson from Houston.
• The Browns, according to a source close, intrigued Watson from the start. He liked the roster that Berry had built, and that Berry was young, and would be around awhile, appealed to him. When he talked X’s and O’s with coach Kevin Stefanski, Stefanski told Watson what he liked about his game, a detailed plan for how he’d use him in his offense and also where he thought Watson needed to improve as a player. He also liked how Jimmy and Dee Haslam knew the roster.
So he told Mulugheta, who called Berry and told him to call Caserio to work out the trade. The agreement, which started roughly as three-first-round-picks-and-thensome, morphed into this final deal on Friday afternoon …2022 first-round pick, 2023 first-round pick, 2023 third-round pick, 2024 first-round pick, 2024 fourth-round pick.
So what does all this say about the NFL and Watson, given that the civil cases are still pending? That’s been discussed over the last few days and will continue to be discussed in the weeks and months to come. To be sure, there are a lot more serious matters at hand here than just football. That the quarterback in question is doing that for the Bills is new, though. And yes, the example that Beane was referencing, in a player picking Buffalo over Dallas and L.A., is a real one, and not a hypothetical.Von Miller was who he was talking about, and Miller might be the best example there is of what’s happening. He got word to the Bills ahead of free agency–and not the other way around—that he’d be interested in coming to Western New York.
But yes, Miller’s addition is the one that probably best exemplifies change in perspective in Buffalo, and the hope is that he can bring a little more than just what’s on the tape from L.A. and Denver. He can still play, of course, and fills the team’s biggest need. “You look at every year and you say,” Beane said. “And we had the No. 1 defense, but we weren't always able to get the quarterback down.
It was September 2018, the Bears had just traded for Mack, and Staley was his position coach. Mack had been holding out all summer, with the Raiders holding the line in contract talks, so the concern was that he wouldn’t be in shape, and there might be a few weeks transition as the star defender got his legs back. Which is when it happened.
This offseason, from the start, was going the other way—bolstering Staley’s defense, and with the guys in-house having a year of technique and scheme work, that it was time to find more personnel to match what the system demanded. And first and foremost, that meant finding guys who could bring premium performance from premium positions, which wasn’t ever going to be easy.
“This group of guys that we're looking at, it's like, ‘No, we really targeted these guys specifically.’” “When we got to the games, what our guys would say was, 'Hey, take the field.' Like that's what he would say all the time when we would go out there and it's just, 'Hey, we're coming fellas,' and he really changed the entire culture on defense,” Staley said. “And just all those guys, if you look at that season—career year for Kyle Fuller, career year for Akiem Hicks, career year for Eddie Goldman.
With Mack and Jackson aboard, they at least look a lot more like one than they might have just a few weeks ago.If Carson Wentz needed a wake-up call on his new NFL reality, he got it on Super Bowl Sunday. ” he said. “Whether it was something big or small that didn't work, or all of those things, you just take little nuggets of that, try and still be the same person, same player, and just try and always have that growth mindset. The same way I do with my marriage, my kids, my friendships, all of it, just continue to get a little bit better and learn from past experiences and I look forward to continuing to do that for the rest of my career.
That brings us to one last twist on the story—and how a Washington football icon helped get Wentz the shot to do just that. And really, maybe more than anything else, it came down to Trubisky honestly assessing himself as a player and taking from his experiences both in Chicago and Buffalo. Or at least that’s what I took from talking with him Friday, and especially when I asked what appealed to him about Steeler OC Matt Canada’s scheme.
In a certain way, it was how one philosophical piece in how the quarterbacks were being coached wound up showing up in an important aspect of any quarterback’s game. Which brings us back to Pittsburgh—and its appeal to Trubisky. On tape, sure, he saw the scheme fit, and the young rising talent, both on the line, and in bona fide weapons like Chase Claypool, Diontae Johnson, Pat Freiermuth, and Najee Harris.
One overarching theme on the Raiders’ moves—yes, they’re taking big swings, but there’s also a player profile that they’re adhering to. • The fit with Jones really goes back to an old Patriot tenet, even if Patrick Graham’s defense isn’t going to be a carbon copy of Bill Belichick’s. Outside linebackers, going back to the days of Willie McGinest Jr. and Mike Vrabel, have to be able to set the edge in the run game. Jones, at 6'5", 265 pounds with 35.5" arms, is bigger and longer than the guy he’ll replace, Yannick Ngakoue, with ability to disrupt on all three downs, rather than just third down.
And again, this isn’t to say the players in question here didn’t do good deals. They did. It’s just that thefactor that accompanied the initial newsbreaks, and questions to follow on how this would hamstring the teams in question probably weren’t as justified as they seemed at the time .
“Aidan played 14 games, did everything at the combine, and all the position drills at his pro day,” said McCartney, who was once an NFL scout himself. “I feel like that’s plenty for teams to figure out who he is as a player.” But that didn’t make it any less-painful on Sean McVay & Co. to let Robert Woods go on Saturday. Woods was one of the first acquisitions of the McVay era, coming in with Andrew Whitworth, and making a similar impact on who the Rams would wind up being under their new coach. And that’s why they worked with him on the trade, to try and help find him the right destination, with Tennessee being an outstanding football and intangible fit.1.
5. All of the above also made it harder to move Woods—a really good player, but one who’s expensive, turning 30, and coming off the torn ACL. Bottom line, the Rams probably weren’t getting much to begin with, and especially so when they decided to let him help pick his next team . The Watson trade should open up the next phase of the quarterback trade market—which will be the final phase involving starters.
• The Cordarrelle Patterson story is a good one for players to learn from. There’s a humility, as I see it, in being willing to reinvent yourself like he has, and a toughness it takes to get through the failed experiments of his past. He earned the two-year, $10.5 million deal he got in Atlanta this week. Good for him. He deserves it.
• That the Eagles and Fletcher Cox were able to get back together after Cox was cut, and do a new one-year deal, reflects well on everyone involved. Philly for keeping the door open for a local icon, and Cox for not taking the business of the game personally. 3. I don’t have football expectations for Ohio State basketball, and I really like Chris Holtmann as a coach. But nine years without a trip to the Sweet 16 is too many.in this space last week, and I’m all caught up now. And my God, does Elizabeth Holmes come off looking like crap .
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