WEBVTT - Deshaun Watson Named Starter, Boutte Traded, Jeanty Update and More Camp Buzz 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.840 Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're really getting tired of 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.640 the Browns letting us down. I am Greg Rosenthal. I'm 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.160 in my garage with Jordan Rodrieg. This is a last 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:20.560 minute campus episode going live because we have to talk 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.280 about some follow ups to our long show Sunday night. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.080 Deshaun Watson has been named the starting quarterback of the Browns. Jordan, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:29.120 We're going to get to you in a second, but 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.880 let's just start with the sound the press conferences on 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.320 Monday morning after we learned Deshaun Watson was going to 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.600 be the Browns quarterback, Todd Monkin and Deshaun Watson both spoke, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.879 we will get to Ashton gent news. We will get 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.000 to a lot of interesting injury news, players returning from 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.360 injuries as well around training camp, but we have to 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.199 start in Cleveland and we'll get you out of here 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.720 in about thirty minutes or so. Let's hear first from 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.160 Todd Monkin and how he made the decision, how. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.760 DeShawn is going to start against Jacksonville. Took in the 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.720 whole body of work over the course of off season, 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.600 to training camp, to the games, the joint practice, and 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.000 ultimately felt like to start the season on the road, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.760 Deshaun gave us the best chance to move the ball 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.679 and score points. I mean, that's really what it's about. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.399 And felt that way going in the last game, but 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.920 wasn't sure, and after we talked as a staff and 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.240 after we relooked at everything, we're gonna go that direction. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.920 Spoke on Sunday night that I thought I didn't have 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:34.800 any trust in the Browns to do the right thing, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.600 which I think for their football team in this case, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.679 would have been to start Shador Sanders and to just 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.960 end the Deshaun Watson era in Cleveland. I was curious 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.960 how Moncin and Watson would both respond to the fans reaction. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.760 Let's hear from Monkin in terms of whether that was 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.040 a factor. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.040 In his decision. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.360 The big booze that they gave to Deshaun Watson after 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.120 his rough performance over the weekend. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.200 I don't like being booed either. I don't like up 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.840 all sides three times at the other game. Okay, But 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.760 we earned that right. We earn our respect by how 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:12.240 we play. We earn our fans right in terms of 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.440 appreciation of the product we put on the field, and 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.560 that's our job. So on one side, I one hundred 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:23.080 percent understand where de Shawn is coming from. But ultimately 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.240 we're pros. I mean, we got to put on a 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.680 good product and we gotta play. You gotta pull your 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.200 big boy pants up and let's go play. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:34.160 I was actually surprised by the media reaction after everything 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.000 that they just couldn't play the Shahn Watson again, that 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.359 they just thought it's gonna be shitar standers. It made 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.280 me hope that the fans could actually have a say here. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.080 Ultimately they didn't. I thought it was telling Jordan that 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.400 Monkin mentioned in his first bit there that starting the 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.520 season on the road mattered to him. Just curious for 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.880 your thoughts of like what they are thinking here and 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.799 what you are thinking. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.560 Yeah, well, I Greg, you know, I love football so 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.919 much and it brings me a lot of joy. And 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.000 this entire year's long saga at this point it makes 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.639 you feel really cynical as as just a person who 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.880 loves what the sport can do and what it can 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:18.640 do for fans. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.880 And you know, there's a lot of layers to it. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.120 Obviously we've covered all of this at length, but it 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.520 you have no choice but to really feel cynical watching 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.120 not only all of this unfold, but expecting it this 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.440 as I did, expecting this to happen this way the 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.720 entire time. I think that one thing that certain NFL 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.320 teams will remind us again and again and again is 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.839 that they truly believe that they can make you forget 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.720 everything that they previously had done, good, bad, or indifferent, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.360 as long as at some point they're winning football games. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.040 And so these mileage of misery that has been happening 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.560 that's been played out so long here in Cleveland over 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:08.200 the last several years, the Browns are clearly setting themselves 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.920 up or trying to to get a top quarterback next 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.840 or this offseason. They're clearly operating with the belief and 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:22.960 expectation that they have a plan, and silly you for 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.880 thinking that you could be disgruntled along the way. They're 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.920 going to do what they want anyway and what they 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:32.560 believe they are smarter than everyone else in doing. And 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.200 they are also going to really really hope and depend 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.039 on what they believe clearly to be a truth, and 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.080 that is that people will forget everything and forgive everything 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.120 if eventually they're winning football games. I don't know that 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.560 this organization will, but that's clearly what they're telling you 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.160 right now, and Todd Munkin's even saying that, he says 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.279 it in his press conference, we earn our respect with 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.120 how we play. Okay, Well, that says a lot of 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.159 things to me right there. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:00.640 It does. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:07.360 And yet I agree when when Deshaun Watson was booed 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.360 and he said, you know, it was personal on some level, yes, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.320 because of all the misery that he's brought them in 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.440 the embarrassment, I mean, the contract was an embarrassment when 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:18.880 it happened, and they knew that they were in the 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.680 crosshairs immediately, And I think the front office totally misunderstood 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.120 the human element throughout number one of how Deshaun Watson 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:32.080 would handle being so vilified, of how long the NFL 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.960 would suspend him after he was credibly accused of sexual 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.159 assault by twenty seven women and settled with the vast 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.159 majority of them. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:39.800 And yet I. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.400 Actually think the up out, you know, pouring of Deshaun 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:49.320 Watson news and hatred over the weekend was more about 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.360 a his performance. He was truly awful in that game, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.480 and he has not looked like a remotely good quarterback 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.160 for years, and he's coming off to torn Achilles. He's 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.080 just slow to process, slow to everything. If he was 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.520 playing well, I think they would forget about it. But 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.720 number two, I think people were just mad about how 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.599 he handled the press conference. That was it that he had, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.640 you know, the temerity to still be so clueless and 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.360 tone deaf about getting mad at the fans and that 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.440 if he could play football they would cheer, and you 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:23.360 know what, they're probably right. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.200 And I know he was saying. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.480 Starting on the road was a factor in this and 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.920 wasn't the biggest factor. And I don't I'm going to 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.839 give him the benefit of that. I don't think he 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.640 meant that he's afraid of the fans just booing him. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.359 He says they didn't talk about that at all. He 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.520 thinks it's because he can run an operation better than 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.440 Shador Sanders, getting the plays out, you know, pre snap penalties, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.600 all that is more difficult on the road. And that's 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.520 the biggest difference between Watson and Schaudure. And I believe 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.240 him in that evaluation. But it's not going to be 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.600 easy at home either when they're booing the crap out 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.360 of them. And I hate to think that they're sole 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.559 Jordan that they think well, We'll give them two games 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.280 on the road. They aren't they aren't easy, Jacksonville and Tampa. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.680 And if he's bad in those two games, I have 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.520 to think that they're already thinking in the back of 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.840 my mind it's shirirr Sanders by week three, Like I'm 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.240 my over under for Shoudur Sanders playing football for this 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.400 team is halftime of week three, Like, I don't even 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.440 know if he gets the halftime. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:20.840 It could be, it could be before that. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.160 I just fail to see. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.000 First of all, how are you running your I don't 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.239 know the answer to this question. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.480 By the way, this is a I would like to 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:31.320 know the answer to this. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.120 How are you running your approach to the to the development, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.480 the quarterback development, to where you're not confident enough in 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.840 a player who did start home and road games for 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.520 you last season to operate on the road that you 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.440 still need to see more from one of those players, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.640 and that you might I think that honestly, them doing 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.000 this now because I feel so cynical about this, and 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.880 I again, I expected them to do this the entire time. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:04.360 The second they guaranteed Deshaun Watson all of that money. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.440 This was their fate that they sealed themselves, and so 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.840 I expected this to happen the second he was actually 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.840 like physically capable to play like some version of football. Again, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.400 this is what I expected, because you obviously can't cut 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.120 him with the Dutch. I mean, you could do anything 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.760 you want, honestly, truly, you could do anything you want, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.840 but in terms of realistically operating a football team, that 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.120 the dead money incurred would just be too exorbitant to 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:37.400 even feel the roster, right, So I always believed that 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.800 this was going to be the case. And to me, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.680 it's like, what would even be the point of even 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.800 doing this if you're not going to roll with him 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:45.360 the full year. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.200 You heard the fans, You heard the fans. You know 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:50.360 that that's not changing. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.040 The play is probably not getting any better, and you 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.439 want an early pick next year, and you don't want 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.480 to have to spend all of these resources you just 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.679 acquired to go get it. So you're you're going in 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.960 with this. To me, they are this is all of this. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.720 It's almost like the easiest, simplest answer, and the obvious 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.199 truth is it just is what it is. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.960 And yet if he plays at the level in regular 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.120 season football and the the you know, mental firing doesn't 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.040 get faster than it's been in the preseason or even 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.040 when he last played before the achilles. I think they'll 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.960 they'll have no choice but to make a change. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:28.640 It is. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.480 It is really crazy that this front office got so 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.480 much love this offseason for a good offseason, and yet 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.360 they are willing to put their fans through this. Deshaun 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.360 Watson did not apologize for his press conference the other day. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.920 I have watched headlines that say Deshaun Watson apologized. At 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.320 no point in the press conference, just like when he 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.319 talked about the allegations against him, did he actually apologize. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.400 What he said was I was I'm human and the 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.240 emotions got the best of me. Let's listen to a 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.280 little more of what Watson said. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.360 I'm moving forward. I just want to focus on football, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.760 making sure that you know, I'm putting the best product 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.400 out there, having the best ability. You know, because I 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.360 thrive off the energy. I throw off the energy of 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.560 the fans, I throw off the energy of the community. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.600 I thrive off all that stuff. You know. I think 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.599 looking back in my history at Clemson and you know 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.840 previous set up Houston organization. You know, I was a 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.240 big community guy, big city god, big fan guy, you know, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.160 during the game. So you know, again, my emotions got 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.720 the best to me. I'm a human. I'll take full 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:32.880 responsibility of that. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.280 I picked that particular part of his two and a 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.120 half minute long intro because I think it speaks to 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.719 something we talked about a little bit on Sunday night. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.600 You forget that, Walter, You know, Deshaun Watson was not 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.800 just like a beloved figure in college and with Houston. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.400 That actually being the good guy was central to his 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.360 entire identity and his entire reputation in the NFL. And 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.160 that's where I think the Browns also miscalculated things. He 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.679 does not play with confidence, he does not speak with confidence. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.679 He does not speak honestly. Even in this press conference, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.960 he said, the reason I came to Cleveland was to 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.640 you know, you know, put them on the map and 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.560 win a lot of games. And I wanted to, you know, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.080 the fans to be proud of me. And it's like, no, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.319 the reason you came to Cleveland is because they guaranteed 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.880 all your money. You wanted to go to Atlanta, you 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.160 chose to go to Cleveland at the very last second, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.360 after they were literally the one team out of the 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.840 four that wanted you, that you eliminated in the process 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.079 because you didn't want to play in Cleveland. Like the 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.040 whole thing has been a lie throughout. But one thing 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.440 I think that he is hinting at there, which I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.760 do think is true, is that his fall from Grace 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:50.360 and the fans hatred of him is all interconnected into 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.600 why I have no hope that this is going to 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.200 work and why why it hasn't worked. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.760 Like I do think it affects the product on the field. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.720 Yeah, I do. I you mentioned it in the show 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.880 you did with Nick Schook. Great show, by the way. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.000 It was like you said, you didn't want to be 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.080 like an armchair psychologist about it, but it's almost like 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.520 it's like on a billboard at this point, you know, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.719 of like it can't it can't be anything other than that. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.840 He even sounded nervous talking. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.760 There at the at the lectern to me and seemed 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.319 sort of fidgety, like he just wasn't quite sure of 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.680 himself there even at the at the lectern. And you 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.680 know you you asked the question, did it even sound 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.040 like he wanted this job? Uh? 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.320 Yeah, he lost like. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.240 The football players, that's where he lost the dan Or 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.640 Lafski's and everything. When he started to sound like this 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.080 is too much for me. I don't even want to 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:47.880 do this anymore. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.440 Yeah, and and so I just think and again, and 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.319 just to be a little bit clearer because I sort 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.800 of stumbled over my point earlier. If you don't have 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.839 a development program where you feel confident that a player 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.040 and it's truly more upside than Deshaun Watson in shoulder 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 Sanders right now has more, in my opinion, more upside 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.160 if you don't believe that you're getting him prepared enough 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.520 to run a road operation. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.040 Like that. This is the alternative here, Yeah, what are 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:18.520 we doing? 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.960 Yeah? It's a bummer. And I think this team is 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.839 more talented than many of the Browns teams over certainly 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.520 like the like a decade ago when they were really 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.440 among the worst league, but even in terms of young 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.920 talent than the last few years. And they've mismanaged the 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.120 quarterback situation so bad because ultimately should here when you 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.400 watch that tape, wasn't that good this week? And he 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.920 takes a long time to process. He is a mid 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.360 round pick level second year quarterback to me, where I 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.280 think if he has a good career it'll be as 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.200 a backup and sometimes starter, and you shouldn't see what 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.800 you have in him. They drafted a quarterback they preferred 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.520 over him two rounds before Dylan Gabriel, who wasn't even 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.840 in the mix here. So as an organization, Andrew Berry 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.000 has to wear all the decisions that they've made, even 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.640 since Deshaun Watson. Let's move on and let's get to 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.199 the rest of the league. We had a nice update here, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.000 Jordan when we talked to Ashton Genty on our Sunday 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:17.000 night show. The Raiders are praying and everything looks terrible, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.480 and it's part of the reason why I wanted to 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.240 do just a quick news show today is because we 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.840 have a positive Ashton Genty update and that it's an 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.600 ankle injury. The timeline right now is uncertain, but the team, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.040 according to Ian Rappaport, does not believe it is a 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:31.880 long term injury. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.360 What a relief too, because all the reports that were 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:41.440 coming out in the moment were dire, right Like, I'm genuinely, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.280 legitimately worried about Ashton Janty's well being at that point 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.920 when these things happen, and I mean, it's a relief 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.160 and I think too. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:52.400 I'm really excited. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.920 I hope that he plays gets back out there sooner 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.160 rather than later. These can be fickle injuries, but especially 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.160 from what I saw and I was doing part of 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.880 my trading camp tour, what I saw at the Raiders 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.080 joint practices against the Texans, getting him involved in the 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.760 passing game, and getting him much more involved in the 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.160 passing game, in the screen game, and all of these things, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.000 getting him to space, catching and running. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.760 Like, I'm so excited to see it. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.200 So I'm happy for him that he avoided what sounds 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.160 like something way that could have been or looked at 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.800 least like it was way more serious. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.320 Right, There's all sorts of different types of ankle injuries. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.480 Jeremiah Love is coming off a high ankle spraining that 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.480 could keep him out for the beginning of the season. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.320 We don't have all the details yet, but I did 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.040 some poking around. I don't think it's crossed off yet 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.360 that gent misses weak one, but we don't know. It's 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.360 these types of injuries, and I think the timeline will 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.040 be spelled out more. The bigger thing is they need 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.880 to figure out how to run the ball consistently. It's 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.920 an offensive line where they're still figuring out who the 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.320 starters are going to be. Jackson Powers Johnson like still 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:51.880 not you know, sharing reps and everything. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:52.960 It's a new system. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.280 But I like Mike Washington, and I like the fact 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.720 that Genti will be back early enough. If you're like 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.880 me and you're draft in your fantasy league tonight, well 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.760 just you know, I would just avoid the whole thing 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.440 or take Mike Washington. At some point, we have breaking 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.960 news on this show that I don't know if you 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.320 even know if you've checked your text there, and our 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.680 producer Eric Roberts is so on top of things, I 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.040 don't know if he's going to have a graphic if 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.480 you're watching us on YouTube. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:27.840 Oh look at that sound breaking news. The Houston Texans. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.640 Are making the trade that everyone, including myself, but I 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.320 was hardly the only one was saying they should make 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:39.040 Keyshaun Boody going from New England to the Patriots. Tom 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:44.240 Pelisero is the first insider that we see with the news. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.040 It is for safety Jalen Read not believed to be 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.560 a big factor for the Patriots this year and a 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:58.120 draft pick. Sources tell Tom Pelsero now of the Bringer, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.320 and I love it when teams make a trade that 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:08.080 just makes sense. Jordan, this makes the Texans better. And 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.399 the fact that it says and a draft pick, I 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.959 guess it depends where he's getting the information from, so 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.720 I won't speculate too much, but that tends to make 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.560 me think it's a Day three draft pick either way. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.840 What do you think about the fit and the trade 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.320 Kishon Booty to the Texans. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.960 Well, perhaps or maybe there's some conditions to it. The 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.560 fact that there's a player attached to it too makes 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.760 me kind of think you're on the right track there. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:33.760 I love this. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.720 I mean it was the obvious thing we had heard 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.760 since training camp began, not only that Kishon Boudy was 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.840 playing really really well, but that also he might be tradeable, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.280 especially with AJ Brown's arrival in New England, and so 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.640 the two front offices know each other really really well. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.640 There's a lot of crossover on that Texan staff from 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.960 former eras of the Patriots, and it just I love 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 this For CJ. Stroud, I think this may so much 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.000 sense in this offense, which is sort of like an 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:09.080 amalgamation of New England's previous iterations of its schemes and 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.400 what the Rams did at one point. So it makes 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.800 so much sense. This is a you are going to 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.080 come in and start for us right away. Good for 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.640 Kishon Booty too, because he'll get he'll get more he'll 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:20.080 get a lot. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.240 Of looks, and he'll get more money potentially in free agency. Yeah, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.160 if he's productive, and he would have been in good 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.640 spots with the Patriots. But to Mario Douglas was their 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.240 clear three. You know by the money, it's obvious that 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.119 aj Brown and Romeo Dobs are one and two, and 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:35.960 so you're the fourth receiver and you're going to be 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.639 worked in. Whereas in Houston for fans who aren't on 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.199 top of this news every day, Jayden Higgins is it 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.280 was a second year player. Is a second year player 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.680 that is out for the entire season with the torn 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.720 ACL has some similarity size wise, I think they're different 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.720 players in terms of Kishon Booty is just more of 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:59.520 like a downfield ball winner, contested catch guy, vertical threat 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.320 despite not being like the biggest burner. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.359 That's just how he wins. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.119 But on some level, they're both physical receivers and he 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.920 can replace part of what Jayden Higgins was going to 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.439 do in this offense, and tankdal still hasn't practiced fully. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.800 Jalen Noel was a guy they took in the middle 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.000 rounds last year that was up and down as a rookie. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.919 He hasn't been practicing all Campbell though he did recently return, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.280 so that's a good sign for him. And after that, 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.520 it's like it's role player types that have been kicking 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.960 around their roster for a while, Guys that make a 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.480 lot more sense as wide receiver four or wide receiver five. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.359 Like I think kish On Booty is not going to 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.760 get a long term extension from Houston, but he's going 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.480 to have a really good chance to have an excellent 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.440 season and make a lot of money in free agency, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.080 or who knows, maybe the Texans decide like he is 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.240 a fit with US long term. Nico Collins is relatively 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.880 affordable for a wide receiver one. Maybe we can get 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.960 a relatively affordable like wide receiver two Slash three and 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.000 Booty ends up signing their long term. But I don't 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.160 think that's going to happen right away. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.160 Updated terms, It's nice to see the guys working sort 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.879 of together again, but I know they are at different 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.480 companies now. But Ian Rappaport is saying it's a twenty 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:12.159 twenty eighth seventh rounder, so definitely a later pick, but 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.680 like I mentioned, a player being involved in that too 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.000 does make a difference there. Also, I do want to 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:22.840 point out I love seeing this for Tom. They've already 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.159 got him the breaking news graphics at the Ringer. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:27.200 They're slick looking. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.240