If I were he and I knew already, I have to trade to Shawn Watson, I would be saying exactly what he's saying right now.

I would be telling the world I'm not trading him.

So do we have any insight as to whether or not they have privately come to the conclusion that Watson is not bluffing, that he's genuinely never coming back there and that ultimately he will have to be dealt?

I don't think that that that front office has come to that conclusion even privately.

I think they still believe it could be patched up.

The question, of course, is whether they're right, whether they're kidding themselves.

But Nick Osario took that job, either either knowing that this was going to happen or believing he was gonna have the Shawn Watson, a quarterback.

Those are two very different things and I think it's the latter.

And if that's the case, he needs to recalibrate and get to a point where what's best for this franchise do we dig in our heels and call his bluff Or do we deal him and get the high draft picks that we've traded or my predecessor traded away the past couple of years?

It does make sense that he may not have known that, because, frankly, it seems to have been his hiring, even if it isn't him in particular.

That was the last straw here and created these problems.

Marcus.

What do you think?

It's irreparable.

It's not gonna be shown.

I believe that Shawn Watson to sit out before he goes back and plays for the Houston Texans.

I think this relationship is it soured, and obviously it's from the top in Cal, McNair and ownership.

So when you look at the Shawn Watson making these statements that he's made by not saying much, but also knowing that what what we want, what we see him wanting his future to be, there is no other conclusion to come to, and you have to earn that opportunity to be in this position.

That Shawn Watson, his end.

He knew that it would be high trade value for him.

He knew that this was probably the right time to move along after this latest thing transpired outside of the litany of things that have taken place before this.

So I believe he'll suit up for another team next year.

And if the Houston Texans air smart, then I just show you all what the hell they got for that DeAndre Hopkins trade.

They need some most stuff.

They need to just look forward to the future.

I know it's hard to let the Shawn Watson go, and it's not the right thing to let a franchise player go, but they need to let it go.

This is irreparable, Jeff.

You've been saying all along you wouldn't trade it no matter what.

Have you changed to that perspective at all?

I don't know.

Not at all.

Listen, if I'm if I'm, ah GM there a head coach there, I get what has happened with Shawn Watson and the owner and little.

There's nothing you could do about it, right?

You're you're both new to this to this whole organization.

But you understand how valuable D Shawn Watson is, and I don't mean just as a quarterback, I mean, as a man in the community and in Houston and what he does not only for his locker room, but for everybody around that city and for all the fans to give him up and to allow him to go somewhere else without sitting out games or without forcing his hand.

I would continue my my.

You're trying to repair relationship for the next six months and just explain to him we're going to give you everything we possibly can set out what you have tow have for us, for you to stay here and let's work through this process.

And I think that's what they have to go to.

A true vulnerability and true transparency.

Listen, we've screwed this thing up.

What can we do to make you happy and get this thing back together and then allowed to Shawn Watson to dictate that that transition And then you have the guy that you wanna build your team around?

That's who you want to be running the Houston Texans in 10 years.

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