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Gauranteeing $230 million to a known sex pest was a bad idea from the start. Even if he bounces back and wins them a Super Bowl, they still gave a sex pest $230 million guaranteed. That makes it the worst contract until someone else gives another sex pest even more money.

God I hope so. Screw Deshaun and screw the browns for signing him. He should he fallen off the face of the planet.

Is this a daily post now?

"All time"? I dunno, I can't predict the future.

To date? Not even a debate.

And the 2nd worse isn't even in the ballpark. Haynesworth, D Jones, Wilson, Jamarcus etc don't even compare.

without a doubt

The only way its not the worst of all time is if he wins a superbowl

Well the rookie pay scale is now in effect thanks to Jamarcus Russell.

Yep seems like a safe bet, and let’s not forget the haul of picks they gave up for the honor of giving a rapist that contract.

Oh look another Deshaun Watson post.

Will go?

It was the worst contract the day it was written.

Not just the contract but the trade as well.

cleveland deserves every last penny of that contract.

Easily. The Browns went all in thinking this was their move to get them to the SB and there's still time but the early returns aren't looking good. Generally speaking, Watson is better than Mayfield, but I do wonder how Mayfield would be doing with Cooper and Moore to throw to and this defense. Mayfield was throwing to Jarvis Landry, Rashard Higgins, and Donovan Peoples-Jones.

Mayfield is certainly not perfect but he has a 93.7 QB rating this year and only one more INT than Watson in 3 more games played.

Idk how the city of Cleveland hasn’t booted this shit franchise out yet. What an embarrassment.

The Browns parted with three first round picks, one third round pick and two fourth round picks. They still owe Watson $138 million He played 12 games in his first two seasons.

Already is

that boy is getting everything he deserves.. I use to think the universe stuff was BS but I’m a believer now..

He and Jimbo Fisher just swimming through pools filled with cash.

Nope. r/NFL loves to hate on Watson and will post every day about him to get free internet points. You are all so dramatic. You can't predict injury. It's just unlucky. His play was starting to get back to normal. He's had valid excuses for some of his bad play. Rust is a real fucking excuse. While it's super frustrating, it's not the end of the world. Our window is still open, he's shown he can play at a high level still. He's shown he can last game winning drives (something Baker never could do).

Berry is also very good at managing the cap space. We have 33mil in cap this year that's gonna roll over.

I have full confidence that this Brown's FO has at least one more historically-unprecedented bad deal in them. I believe in them!

Sam Bradford may be worse

always has been

Watson is the worst NFL recent contract and Masoli would be the CFL version

It was the worst trade and contract even if Watson wasn’t accused of sexual assault by 30 separate women.

There are very few players who would warrant 3 first round picks and a fully guaranteed contract— Watson was never one of them. I’d offer that for Mahomes and I think that’s it.

But, once you add the sexual assault allegations, the trade and contract went from “incredibly stupid” to “holy shit what the fuck are you doing” stupid.

Too early to tell imo. He’s obviously not his old self, but he’s been teetering on the good/bad. Could still come out with upside.

Injuries happen. I think while it’s gone bad right now, it’s being blown out of proportion due to his off field shit.

Worst,, and dumbest.

So far....

bro was 5-1 until he got hurt. so uhh I'm gonna go with no lol

I will always think less of my Falcons for even considering bringing him to Atlanta. I would rather lose than win with a loser.

Albert Haynesworth has to be up there. At least Watson has put forth effort when on the field and has had a couple good games. There's also still 3 more years for him to prove that the contract is not as terrible as it currently seems.

The problem is that even if he plays well, the cap hit after this season is massive. 63 mil a year for a single player insane. They're going to have to work magic over the next few years.

The only way it isn’t is if Watson wins them the Super Bowl. Otherwise it is the worst contract by far and a reason no one else is offering even better players comparable contracts

It somehow manages to be worse than the Haynesworth/Russel Contracts AND worse than the Hershel Walker trade and Ricky Williams draft haul trade.

So it’s not just the worst contract, but the worse personnel move in all aspects in NFL history.

I call dibs on asking this same question tomorrow!

Not for him

I can't believe nobody has brought this up here before until right now

How many times is this gonna get re-posted?

We can only hope

The browns are 6-3 how can anyone say this early on the signing was a disaster? Outside of the off the field problems there's been nothing wrong with the signing so far. If they go deep or win the superbowl under this contract will be a non-issue

Deshaun Watson getting the contract he did solidified a thought in my head. These owners aren't smarter than me, they just had wealthier dads.

Not at all! It was and still is a great contract and deal made to trade for him, and whoever is making these decisions for the Browns should be given a permanent spot :)

The contract/trade was a turning point for the Texans franchise as well. Texans are in a great spot and browns are fucked.

Browns also went from a team everyone was rooting for to being despised

Until the next time a bad team overextends for a bad player, yea.

of all time?

Just wait. There are plenty of inept owners with more money than football acumen.

Considering his background before coming to Cleveland, how bad the trade was followed up by a contract that gave him the most money ever to an NFL player, and now include the injuries along with what was really just decent QB play that the team could have had from many other QBs at 1/4 the cost; it has to be considered the worst contract and maybe even trade the NFL has seen.

This cuts so many ways because I think it ruins the potential for another player to make a similar request going forward. A cautionary tale, if you will.

Part of me wants to say it depends if they win the big game or not. If their D plus whatever they get from watson gives them a SB next year, it'll still be bad but because they got a SB out of it, it'll be worth. If not, yes it's pretty bad.

The Browns will outdo themselves. Just give it time

Jamarcus Russell was a rookie, this is such a weird comparison.

Cleveland for one half of this season has looked like they could contend with good QB play let’s not try and paste this year over last year.

There will be arguments for the Watson contract being an all time worst because it’s guaranteed and because he’s a sleeze but there is still next year to play, how can we fully judge it yet?

Very original post, very novel thoughts, definitely haven’t seen this in this sub 14 times this year, well done

I think it's borderline impossible to argue that there's a contract worse than it, in league history, through the first two years.

Because of the guarantees, he'll see out the contract and potentially have a chance to make it better, but through two years - yeah it's by far the worst.