00:00a lot of people taking victory laps it's Deshaun's job Shador can't do much but it's interesting one
00:05of the best quotes to come out of today because yesterday you and I got in a Donnybrook about
00:09whether I don't think it was a Donnybrook we had a Donnybrook about DeLauder but we had a
00:14disagreement about whether Deshaun's uh given us anything real from the personality side of things
00:21specifically his third quarter interview with the Didi Kinga Bwala after his performance in the
00:26first half against the Bears well today knowing that this Bills game is going to be at home here
00:32Deshaun was asked about uh the I'll let Mary Kay ask the question but it involves the home crowd
00:39reaction this weekend against the Bills what about the reaction and have you thought about
00:43any type of reaction that you might get at the stadium on Saturday are you prepared for
00:48whatever might come I don't I don't care I don't care I gotta tell you Deshaun
00:56when we answer questions that way it sure seems like the opposite is true oh really oh yeah yeah
01:01oh yeah yeah that sounded you like the man is a cliche machine he farts out cliches at a way
01:09that
01:09would make Kevin Stefanski half chubb and and all of a sudden hey what are we thinking about this
01:16crowd reaction I don't care I think he cared I think he cared a couple years ago when he was
01:21getting
01:21booed after the injury and uh and and again not everyone was booing but certain people were booing
01:26I think he cared then I think he really did I think he spent a lot of money and a
01:29lot of time
01:29in trying to make sure and I'm talking about the paid creators that he had on his payroll uh to
01:33make
01:34sure that Cleveland fans liked him I think there was a time that existed I think we're past that
01:37time with Deshaun I I don't think he cares at all if a Cleveland Browns fan likes him or doesn't
01:42like him I think for parts of his press conference today he was kind of smiling still like
01:47again he was giving us more energy than he has previous previously given us in like the the last
01:53four years so that should be noted and then one of like two times today he was asked about something
02:00and he gave a terse answer or a short answer I can't help but look at that and go one
02:06of these
02:07or two of these things is not like the other I don't know how we could have expanded anymore though
02:11if he's like I I don't care I don't care and then goes into like a I don't know a
02:1530 second
02:15diatribe about how Cleveland Browns fans suck he doesn't really think much of them he doesn't
02:19care about their opinion that's only just gonna what's that gonna do for him that's just gonna
02:23it's gonna stoke the flame is all that's gonna do no he can lie about every other thing he does
02:28he'll come out and be like how'd you feel about that interception well it's just one play you know
02:32that interception would piss him off wasn't he can lie about that I think it was important to him to
02:37make sure that uh that we know that he doesn't care about our feelings or our thoughts I think
02:43it's important to him for him to make us think that he doesn't care which tells me he does care
02:51listen some people never shake that I think that's gonna make this Saturday very interesting because
02:56I'm not expecting a chorus of yay Deshaun on Saturday some people never shake that and that
03:03is just a part of who they are uh they they just always care about what other people think and
03:07then
03:07other people really do graduate and move off of that and I feel like that's one thing that
03:11everyone always talks about with aging as you get older you just stop caring more and more about
03:15what people say or or think or any any bit of it as it pertains to yourself and so I
03:20I don't know
03:21where Deshaun is I'm not in his head but when he said it I thought to himself good you shouldn't
03:25care
03:25what Browns fans think at this point you really shouldn't you're worried about playing as best you
03:29can for this upcoming year and then maybe that catapults you to a different team next year and you
03:33have a real shot there and that just is what it is yeah five years in when the quarterback uh
03:38answers
03:39don't care about the reaction or what really is the relationship of the hometown fans I think
03:46that's interesting and and to rebut that very quickly definitely interesting Deshaun uh has uh
03:51gone over to see the fans this year like when we saw him in camp he did he I we
03:56saw one camp one camp
03:57we did see him do that he looked a little bit more interactive with fans than he has since we
04:01saw him
04:02signing jerseys that got him crap four years ago right or five years ago really so I you know I
04:07don't
04:07want to make it seem like he's out on all fans but anytime you go too hard here like I
04:12just
04:13it was my surest reaction by saying I don't care about this that this is a guy like I can't
04:20imagine
04:20that's a guy that's going to be willing to stay here at the end of the season no matter what
04:23the
04:24other words that he's spoken on this of oh I'm open to a future with them anytime you have that
04:29terse of an answer with home crowd reaction in uh checks notes pre-season game yeah I think
04:37I wouldn't be surprised if Deshaun just told us he can't wait to get the hell out of Dodge I
04:41guess if
04:41you want to see him play well this season shouldn't you be rooting that he can just keep the noise
04:45out
04:45and not necessarily care about the booze that he's going to hear because he's going to hear booze
04:49he won't be able to play good enough in the first two games of the actual regular season to offset
04:54the
04:54booze that are coming in week three if Deshaun says uh physically this is the best I felt in two
04:59years I'm not in the man's body I can't I can't tell you whether he's lying or not unless he
05:05says
05:05things that are inaccurate over time yeah we're just playing don't match up we're just we're trying
05:09to get in his head but when it comes to like I I think it's been I think it's so
05:13obvious that
05:15Deshaun still feels like a bit of a victim in this process there's a guy who was again the face
05:21of
05:21the Texans unquestioned by Texans fans uh until the trade deadline I'm sorry till the trade request
05:28and is a guy whose entire image has has been shattered and while being looked at as the
05:35worst trade in NFL history the last thing he remembers in front of these fans is getting
05:41booed out of the bill I'm sorry cheered out of the building for an injury which is why he said
05:45two
05:45years which is why he said two years to basically say I don't think I can't let these guys hurt
05:49me
05:49anymore I can't let these guys uh ruin my emotional state teammates coaches I think he cares about what
05:55they have to say and what they think I don't think he cares about what the fans think at all
05:58I think
05:58that's something you say if you're Deshaun Watson and you care what I think somebody that has
06:02completely thrown you down in this entire process and doesn't think you can play football anymore
06:06then you're lost no I think there is an element when you get to be this level of an athlete
06:11and fall
06:11from grace the way Deshaun has uh you can you know that you can control the I can repair my
06:18image
06:19kind of side of things if you only play good football he hasn't had a chance to do that that
06:23cannot be anything but driving him crazy and you can't tell me he has love for Browns fans hearts
06:29no there's no way he's got love for Browns fans hearts that's why I think he knows that he can't
06:34win over Browns fans there's too many that are like me that I'm sorry we wasted four years of our
06:38lives
06:39you've you've day in day out for four years you put us in this spot that we're in where we
06:43won
06:44eight games over the last two years and are a nothing burger of a team like like that's you
06:48that's on you there's nothing you can do this year to offset that for myself and there's too many
06:52people that feel that same way and I think Deshaun knows that and so I think Deshaun is just kind
06:57of
06:57uh put himself in his nice little box and is saying you can't get at me you can't hurt me
07:02if you wanted
07:02to you could years ago you can't do it now I'm not even opening myself up to that listen I
07:07think it's
07:08I think the Browns have done a great job of coddling Deshaun the entire five years here
07:13of limiting the uh media exposure even now I mean it is apparent he is the the favorite and they've
07:20started and they have started to do this more we didn't hear from Deshaun until June the guy the
07:26guy that had been the front runner they've been calling him the front runner to any national media
07:30member that would listen we got in trouble because we tried calling out the idea that he didn't speak
07:33in April and uh and hey they were gonna get to him eventually and they did but I think the
07:38point
07:38is we're never gonna have the access with Deshaun that we would for almost any other starting
07:43quarterback in the NFL that is either Deshaun's wish or that is the Browns wish or it is a conjoined
07:48wish so anytime somebody says I'm not mad they're mad or I'm not bugged I guarantee you that there has
07:58he's a human being no he would there has to be some sort of reaction to boo birds on Saturday
08:03he
08:04has a human being who has failed excessively the first real failure in his oh I think he cared two
08:10years ago I don't think he cares I think he cares that everyone still thinks the worst of him after
08:15five years how could he he's been living in that he's been living in that for so long like there's
08:20nothing he can do to change it as you've said he's been living in that for so long I just
08:23don't think
08:24I think at this point in order for him to go to bed every night and feel comfortable with
08:28himself I think he's had to make peace with the idea that the Browns fans are never going to like
08:31him Browns fans he's never going to be their favorite and under the idea that they protected
08:35him yeah if Deshaun wanted to repair his image he he'd be speaking all the time and he'd be trying
08:40to make it seem as if he was uh the greatest person to ever live he's he's not doing a
08:45lot of that he's
08:46speaking mandatory every Wednesday now at this point but he's not trying to repair anything because
08:50he knows it's a it's a lost cause there's too many people like me that'll never give him
08:53another chance I want the parabolic mics focused on Deshaun this is not going to happen because the
08:59NFL you know we keep it within shield I want the parabolic mics pointed at Deshaun so that when he
09:04is announced and he goes and bleep y'all under his breath I want that I want that out there
09:10I hope
09:10when he's announced I hope he's playing music in his ears and can't even hear the crowd reaction
09:14that's what I would do if I were him I well no this is not even not even let it
09:17not even really let
09:18it even bother you and there's nothing I'll tell you right now Deshaun you're going to hear booze
09:21you know that I know that that's not breaking any news how you respond to that I think matters
09:26the most and I think he knows that he's got to tell himself he doesn't care about the Browns or
09:30Browns fans in order to get through what is going to be a tumultuous time with a lot of booze
09:34yeah but
09:34I think I think therein lies there is are you denying your own truth because you think it's
09:40what's good for you I don't think that's actually good for you I don't think that shows any growth
09:44you can't say it's a whole new me and then you come out I don't want to sit there about
09:48the home
09:49crowd reaction yeah I don't want to I don't want him to sit there before an important game and be
09:53like oh gee I'm really torn up they booed me like that's not that's not good either yeah I mean
09:58you
09:58let that get to your head and some of the things we talked about a couple years ago about him
10:01being
10:01mentally cooked is going to be right at the forefront well I mean I think his answer made me wonder
10:05if he
10:06still is secretly meant not secretly but if he's still mentally cooked
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