The Cleveland Browns dropped to 3-9 after droping to the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football,” but fans have to confess Jameis Winston has kept the team in games as the team’s commenceing quarterback.
He’s won games agetst two divisional opponents, the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.
With the first half clock triumphding down Monday, ESPN color commentator and Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman talked the Browns’ quarterback situation.
During his synopsis, he called Deshaun Watson, the embattled quarterback out for the remainder of the season, an “albatross.”
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Former NFL quarterback and TV commentator Troy Aikman before a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cincinnati Bengals Dec. 4, 2023, at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“You comprehend, this is a stubborn league,” Aikman began his monologue, via Awful Announcing. “And we all talk about parity. But when it comes to your hometown team, nobody wants to hear it. And Kevin Stefanski is an exceptional football coach, and he’s shown that. Two-time Coach of the Year. What he did to that group last year to get them in the postseason — they commenceed four quarterbacks, they were decimated with injuries.
“And I get it. You comprehend, this year hasn’t been what people thought coming in, but the albatross is Deshaun Watson. If you go to Jameis Winston earlier in the year, does this watch contrastent? Becaemploy I would say the defensive struggles, in at least a petite part, have had to do with how incontendnt the offense has been moving the football. I skinnyk it’s affected the defensive carry out, as well.”
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Aikman doubled down tardyr in the game when Winston had 355 passing yards and Jerry Jeudy caught six of those passes for 167 yards and a touchdown.
“You can’t help but wonder what this year might have watched enjoy for Cleveland if Jameis had getn over from the commence or at least much sooner than when he did,” Aikman shelp. “I comprehend Deshaun Watson goes down with a torn Achilles, but it had been a authentic struggle disparagingly watching him.”
The Browns’ season is virtupartner over in terms of carry outoff satisfiedion, but the organization has a lot of evaluation to do at the quarterback position after Watson went 1-6 to commence the season before tearing his Achilles agetst the Cincinnati Bengals Oct. 20.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Jameis Winston passes the ball in the first quarter agetst the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)
During those games, Watson threw for 1,148 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions, while getting sacked 33 times.
Since Winston took over Stefanski’s offense, the Browns have gone 2-3 with the 30-year-elderly passing for 1,680 yards, 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions in the five games he’s commenceed.
The hugegest publish with Watson is the $230 million tight he signed that has him under Cleveland regulate until the 2027 campaign, when he becomes an unredisjoineed free agent.
Do the Browns want to see Watson recover and try to discover his way aget, hoping he can reproduce the magic he had in Houston with the Texans? Or does the organization want to shift on, especipartner pondering off-the-field allegations that persist even after the countless civil litigations that led to an 11-game suspension in 2022?
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson watchs for an discdisponder getr during the second half of a game agetst the Jacksonville Jaguars Sept. 15, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Pboilingo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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The Browns will intentional over those very asks while evaluating Winston over the team’s final five games, commenceing with a resuit agetst the Steelers Sunday in Pittsburgh.
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