Mr. Scot

This is a good hire.

Yet somehow even that ended up working against us

Well there's established sports journalists, and and there's guys with a website and a Twitter. I'll grant that he may be legit, but inbetween now and late March I expect we'll hear from probably fifty people who know a guy who knows a guy who used to know a guy who worked with a guy who talked to a guy who ran into a guy who saw a guy at an airport that once talked to an acquaintance of Deshaun Watson on Facebook. Reports like this tend to be stuff I make a mental note of, but don't necessarily take as gospel.

Ouch.

And I'm sure he has no interest in generating web traffic for his site or his Twitter. Sorry dude, but I'm skeptical.

Yeah, I don't really think it's that simple. Gantt doesn't either.

I'm not so sure a freelance sports guy from South Carolina is what I'd call "a solid source".

Gantt, via Nick Carboni... "Everybody's lathered up about Deshaun Watson right now," said Gantt. "As they should be. Being able to get that done is another thing." With several big-name quarterbacks like Watson and Matthew Stafford potentially hitting the market, and with the No. 8 overall pick in the draft, Carolina has many avenues to explore at the position, which still includes sticking with Bridgewater. "I think they've been careful to not just absoutely say it's not Teddy," said Gantt. "Because I think they understand it could be Teddy again. Then you go about figuring out how do you fix things around him." WCNC

One of the Jonas Brothers disagrees?

Guys like Mitchell Schwartz, Eric Fisher and some other elements of a pretty good line overall. (granted, they're a little banged up at the moment)

Rip Scherer tried. It didn't go so well.

Weird to realize that after leaving a team that had a history with it, both Rivera and Dave Gettleman were diagnosed with cancer. Happily, both seem to have beaten it.

Not quite, but this seems to be what a lot of people are counting on. There's no actual indication that it's true.

I mean, at this point is there anybody not convinced we're moving on from Bridgewater?

Yeah. That's a deal breaker.

Per his daughter...

I don't know what his teammates think, but I do know the team is committed to him and I don't really see that changing.

Yeah...No way in hell I'd offer that package. It's not that we have no shot. It's that what it would take for us to have a shoy is cost prohibitive. Ask teams that have made similar trades if it was worth it (the Vikings and Bears, for example).

I wouldn't count on that.

And if their "next best offer' is insane?

Second day in a row with at least two picks...

Pretty much. Watson can say no to a deal. That doesn't mean he can negotiate one. Throw in that if news were to come out that he only wanted to play for a specific team, the trade market for him would die a quick death, quite possibly to the point that trading him wouldn't even be worth the effort for the Texans.

I think Watson for Wentz is somebody's pipe dream. Heck, the Eagles just hired a head coach specifically for his connection to the last guy who coached Wentz to an effective season.

Not that easily. But like I've said a couple of times already, anybody who thinks he's absolutely got his heart set on playing for the Panthers and will force the Texans to trade him for a lesser offer just to play for us probably needs to put down the Madden controller.

If you're clinging to the idea that Watson is going to demand he be traded to the Panthers and the Panthers only, and that because of this the Texans are going to trade him for less than what he's worth, you're likely going to wind up very disappointed.