What's the deal with Watson?

They say, Why would the Texans trade him?

You think about if you're Houston, if you give up a stud.

Q.

B, you're gonna want to study Q B in return and look at the field.

Who could do that?

A couple of teams.

Jacksonville with the number one pick the Jets.

Although we've heard from Schefter and Mortensen that that's not gonna happen in Miami.

So if you're another team, you might have the draft picks.

But do you have a stud Q B to give the Houston Texans?

I don't know.

Well, that that's one of the questions.

When you mentioned the piece about Schefty and more, they're talking about the role that to Shaun himself will play in this decision.

He may not be so enthusiastic about going to the Jets, but to your point, yes, they do have a lot of green.

How could you let your, uh my fandom is probably the single best thing they have going for them right now, but that's a whole separate issue for another time.

But Tim Hasselbeck, you're making an interesting point because I think we have talked about to Shawn Watson, and by we, I mean the larger way.

Everyone around the world of football as though he is basically already a former Texan.

But you're making the point in our meeting this morning.

Maybe there is a case to be made for them, not trading him well, listen, you would have to get a lot in return and look at the compensation for Matthew Stafford.

You know, Watson is a younger, ascending player who's under contract for a while, and so if you're the Texans, look, it better be a king's ransom to move him.

And I understand the bad blood.

But there's a new regime there.

There's a new GM.

There's a new head coach and I would be doing everything possible to try to salvage the relationship, because when you really look at it, look, it really it really comes down to one issue.

He was upset about how it was communicated to him about his involvement in the hiring of the new GM and head coach.

So if you can't get past that, uh, then I think I think that's a problem.

I think you need to try to get past that.

And I would be really reluctant if I was Nicosia, Rio, if I was David Cully in terms of moving on from Watson because he seems unhappy right now.

All right, So you're Nikos Aereo now.

Mike Tannenbaum, how are you handling this?

You have continuously made the point on this show that with every day that goes by, they have a bigger and bigger problem.

So there's there's whatever urgency your feeling on that side.

And then there's the hope that it doesn't ever go away on the other side.

So how do you handle it?

Great.

What's catastrophic for them is if they don't do something now, greeny and then they get into September.

And he doesn't show up much what happened with Jalen Ramsey in Jacksonville.

So if I'm Nick osario, I sit down with Shawn Watson, his agent.

I try to work it out.

If I can't, I cut my losses right now and maximize the compensation I should get.

Because again, worst case scenario, we get into the season.

You're trying to establish a new head coach, David Cully, you don't have the player.

And now I'll send.

You don't have anybody else behind it because you thought he was gonna be his quarterback.

That is the worst case scenario.

And greeny, there's another big intangible here.

There's not gonna be any free agent who has a choice.

That's gonna go to Houston right now until this situation is clarified.

Yeah, so they they have all sorts of things lined up against them.

But Kimberly, you were making the point, as we were talking earlier, that if they if they call his bluff and I put that in air quotes because I don't think most people think he's bluffing.

But if they do, they really do put the ball in his court.

To the extent that he's got to do a lot of things this fall, if he's still on that roster, that would seem to be out of keeping with his personality.

Yeah, when you people that know Dawson, they describe, he's a good kid.

That's the first thing they say.

We've seen the work that he's done in the community.

He was just doing stuff this weekend.

You know, this is a guy that cares about the city of Houston that cares about his team.

It's a good locker room guy.

So if you're the Houston Texans, you that August September, is he going to show up?

That's the real key.

I don't know if anyone expects that Jason Will will not show up, because that seems so quote out of character.

But if you're the Texans right now, you can say, Okay, maybe we didn't hire the GM.

You wanted to the head coach, but what we have in David Cully is a guy who was respected around the league and experienced guy Ah, guy that we brought in who we think can make you and this team better.

And the casserole, who may not have been your choice but has been a coveted GM Canada for a long time.

So that's Houston can say we have these pieces to make the situation better for you.

All right, we will see.

As of right now, he doesn't seem to be willing to give them a chance.

Maybe he will ultimately have no choice.

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