2025 Browns Offseason Thread: Delusions Of Grandeur?

[macbdog]

Browns lose a home game in Cleveland for a home game in London:

The passive aggressive punishment from the Halsams begins. Pay for our palace... Or else.

 

[CBBI]

The passive aggressive punishment from the Halsams begins. Pay for our palace... Or else.

I am pretty sure the NFL rotates which teams “host”an international game year to year (outside of Jacksonville) kind of like what they do with Hard Knocks.

Don’t think the Browns/their owners had anything to do with it.

 

[RaidenDAWG2]

We play with multiple years' worth of cap while some other teams don't. And every year, there's another future year's worth of cap for you to use.

It is more money...until we change how we operate.

At which point, you'll be right.

And then you're the Saints. If you time it right, the wheels come off, you go through a year or two of cap hell, then reboot the money printing press.

Do it wrong, and you spend oodles of money on Derek Carr to win not many games.

 

[RaidenDAWG2]

I am pretty sure the NFL rotates which teams “host”an international game year to year (outside of Jacksonville) kind of like what they do with Hard Knocks.

Don’t think the Browns/their owners had anything to do with it.

Yep, we're due to go overseas, and this is a year in which we would have otherwise had 9 home games.

There's reportedly 8 international games next year, so I'd imagine all of the host teams will come from the AFC.

 

[natedagg]

This thread man. We got people arguing over cap deferral, Pip being Pip, and the smarts focusing on the Watson contract and if he violated it by not having the walking boot.

I just looked at his instagram and he is kneeling without that boot. Went on a boat without that boot. This guy is an idiot.

Now if you are the Miami trainer… are you going to cover for him? Insurance company will be investigating. Haslam will be hiring the best PIs a billionaire can buy, and Watson could very well turn on you. Is the story really that he RERUPTURED his Achilles during rehab and you, as the trainer, didn’t record the incident or call the team? Or did it not hurt to have that rubber band SNAP again?!? So he didn’t mention it bc he didn’t even notice, yet the Browns took one look at how he was in that interview and ordered an exam?

This has potential to be glorious. I am trying to not get my hopes up, but if you are AB…. What exactly is going through your mind right now?

 

[Lee]

Andrew Bynum getting injured while bowling comes to mind.

Now if DeShaun could top that

Only way this gets better if Watson rolled his ankle while getting a massage some how. That would complete this really fucking stupid but hilarious story.

 

[PIP]

This thread man. We got people arguing over cap deferral, Pip being Pip, and the smarts focusing on the Watson contract and if he violated it by not having the walking boot.

I just looked at his instagram and he is kneeling without that boot. Went on a boat without that boot. This guy is an idiot.

Now if you are the Miami trainer… are you going to cover for him? Insurance company will be investigating. Haslam will be hiring the best PIs a billionaire can buy, and Watson could very well turn on you. Is the story really that he RERUPTURED his Achilles during rehab and you, as the trainer, didn’t record the incident or call the team? Or did it not hurt to have that rubber band SNAP again?!? So he didn’t mention it bc he didn’t even notice, yet the Browns took one look at how he was in that interview and ordered an exam?

This has potential to be glorious. I am trying to not get my hopes up, but if you are AB…. What exactly is going through your mind right now?

PIP is gonna PIP, bruh!!!

Love ya, nate!!!

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

This thread man. We got people arguing over cap deferral, Pip being Pip, and the smarts focusing on the Watson contract and if he violated it by not having the walking boot.

I just looked at his instagram and he is kneeling without that boot. Went on a boat without that boot. This guy is an idiot.

Now if you are the Miami trainer… are you going to cover for him? Insurance company will be investigating. Haslam will be hiring the best PIs a billionaire can buy, and Watson could very well turn on you. Is the story really that he RERUPTURED his Achilles during rehab and you, as the trainer, didn’t record the incident or call the team? Or did it not hurt to have that rubber band SNAP again?!? So he didn’t mention it bc he didn’t even notice, yet the Browns took one look at how he was in that interview and ordered an exam?

This has potential to be glorious. I am trying to not get my hopes up, but if you are AB…. What exactly is going through your mind right now?

If you're AB you operate business as usual.

If someone gifts you extra cap in the form of a Watson voided contract, sweet.

 

[2 For The Brew]

In one respect this news is disappointing because part of me (a small evil laugh part) wanted Deshaun to take a snap next year so @Los216 could take a victory lap. Would have been hilarious.

But he’s done in Cleveland and won’t be taking another snap. The insurance / salary cap will be sorted out by doctors, insurance investigators and other boring ass people. I’d rather follow a cattle drive.

It’s all about new people coming onto our team for next season and our returning vets. I don’t care about the actual, soon to be or virtually departed.

 

[natedagg]

If you're AB you operate business as usual.

If someone gifts you extra cap in the form of a Watson voided contract, sweet.

Business as usual is, in this case, getting some details on what happened with the injury. Instagram says no boot 1/2/2025…
Setback announced 1/6/2025… insurance company knows about it…

Yes he has to scout and speak to agents and GMs, but that doesn’t excuse him from this.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Business as usual is, in this case, getting some details on what happened with the injury. Instagram says no boot 1/2/2025…
Setback announced 1/6/2025… insurance company knows about it…

Yes he has to scout and speak to agents and GMs, but that doesn’t excuse him from this.

Berry isn't investigating this. That isn't a responsibility on his plate.

It seems like the Twitter and Reddit sleuths have this covered anyways

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Maybe the only thing dumber than this proposal is Vikings fans somehow saying no to Myles and #2 overall

But then I remember a decent bit of browns fans last year saying they wouldn’t trade Watson for Josh Allen and I think fans just can’t stop overrating their own assets

 

[PIP]

Maybe the only thing dumber than this proposal is Vikings fans somehow saying no to Myles and #2 overall

But then I remember a decent bit of browns fans last year saying they wouldn’t trade Watson for Josh Allen and I think fans just can’t stop overrating their own assets

Guy is wearing a sport coat and a hoodie....

We are done here!

 

[adam81king]

Maybe the only thing dumber than this proposal is Vikings fans somehow saying no to Myles and #2 overall

But then I remember a decent bit of browns fans last year saying they wouldn’t trade Watson for Josh Allen and I think fans just can’t stop overrating their own assets

I would rather trot out Deshaun Watson with a reruptured Achilles than trade Myles (let alone *with* the #2 pick) for JJ McCarthy. That'd have to be Mahomes, Burrow, Lamar or Allen, and maybe not even then.

 

[DirtyDan]

I would rather trot out Deshaun Watson with a reruptured Achilles than trade Myles (let alone *with* the #2 pick) for JJ McCarthy. That'd have to be Mahomes, Burrow, Lamar or Allen, and maybe not even then.

Who wins in a QB competition between a reruptured Achilles DeShaun and DTR?