He’s playing very well right now. I kinda think he was tanking on purpose to get rid of O’Brien.

He's having a career year statistically while piling up garbage time stats. He's been trash in the 1st quarter and has allowed his team to fall behind.

Everyone's gonna start sucking his dick again because wow oh wow he has a high QB Rating and he's led them to 4 wins. 2 wins against the 1-9 Jags, 1 win vs the 4-7 Lions, 1 win against the 4-6 Pats. How outstanding of him that his only wins are against losing teams with a combined record of 10-31.

So he's cranking out wins vs trash teams and padding stats at the end of games where the TDs and YDs mean nothing. How very top 10ish of him.

I can’t remember who it was, but someone actually said that this morning.

When I've seen Watson play, which hasn't been that often and includes his relatively poor game against the Chiefs this year (QBR of 45.1), he looks like a good QB to me, a winner. Right now, he's ranked 9th in QBR (https://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr). Of the 8 QBs ahead of him, he younger than 6 of them. Mahomes is 3 days younger and Josh Allen is 9 months younger than Watson. I think Watson is going to get even better than he already is, because experience really helps most talented young QBs get better and better.

You can see his 2020 splits here: https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/spli...deshaun-watson

He's gonna get better also b/c BOB is finally out of his way. Ive seen most of his games - dude can play and he's a leader. Very coachable too. If KC would have drafted him, he'd be better than he is now. Cant understand how anyone could say that he's not a Top 10 QB. I think I've said that at least 10 times throughout this thread, so what's one more?...

You're way off base here. He's not Drew Lock.... Watson has been playing very well at all junctures of games since BOB was fired. As far as doing it against bad teams, well he's on a bad team himself. Its pretty obvious you have a narrative and aren't seeing the full scope of how he is playing.

It's crazy to think the AFC is gonna have Mahomes, Watson, Burrow, and Lawrence. Not to mention guys like Allen, Tua, and Herbert. Lotta Qb talent in the conference.

3.5 of Chris Jones 5.5 sacks this year were against teams with losing records. Guess he sucks too.

Maybe now you’ll see how stupid that logic is.

Watson is better than what CP thinks he is and worst than what the national media thinks he is. I'm glad he isnt in the AFC West or on Baltimore. Raiders or Ravens would be legit good with Watson as their QB.

Good post, probably true.

Mostly agree, although Carr is good as well. Loved how Watson played yesterday.

You know, looking through my list, I see a lot of age on there.

If I took out the older guys and went solely on youth, Watson is probably #2 on my list after Mahomes. Either him or Josh Allen. Maybe Kyler Murray.

With guys like Herbert and Burrow, they're TOO young and haven't really proven they can sustain in the NFL.

Everybody else that is really good has multiple years of experience, they aren't really "young" anymore, not even Wilson.

In fact, if I really look at it, the list is Mahomes, Watson, Murray, and Allen and that's kind of it.

So yeah, I may have to rethink my stance on Watson. I still don't know that he'll ever be an elite QB but I probably haven't given him a fair shake.

You realize his record was 24-13 before this season right? And he still was putting up really good numbers. So no, I don't buy the "it's just garbage time stats" bullshit.

If BoB didn't completely ruin that team he'd still be putting up great numbers except they'd be winning too.

The narrative that Watson is a guy who gets all his yards during garbage time is something conjured up by Chiefs fans after we first faced him in 2017. And at that point, it was fair.

It’s pretty clear since then he’s done a lot more than that though. And if he were our starter, I’d respect the hell out of his game.