Lets look at the part of my post that you're addressing here.
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I'm talking about the four years that Watson was our QB. I thought I made that clear but apparently I didn't. Going back to what made the Texans choose to select him 12th overall in the first round in 2017 we see this
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Was he overrated then? I don't see how anyone can say that. That's just college so we should move on to his professional career in Houston.
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Now absolutely the Browns got fleeced on the man who showed up (eventually) to play but those four years in Houston (OK three before that last stinker where the team went 4-12 and ALL the wheels fell off) Look like genuine franchise QB play to me. I imagine they look like franchise QB play to anyone not grinding an axe over Watson's many transgressions. Look, I'm no fan of the guy but the Texans took him in the first round because he was a great college QB. Cleveland traded for him because they thought the same thing. You sit a guy for year, have him miss a big chunk of the next year and then do it again and he's going to find a new level of suck. It's as simple as that. Also you put so much money in his bank account that he never has to work again and there's a good chance he just might choose not to.
The Texans sucked every year under O'Brien until the season was just about to go down the drain before Watson got here. Every year. That was some of the ugliest football I've ever witnessed. Then suddenly they would begin to perform better. Under the mixed bag of stooges he ran from Fitzpatrick to Savage it never got great but they would string just enough together to limp into a 9-7 "AFC Champions" finish and then go home soon enough. We all saw that year after year. The one thing Watson brought was an ability to improvise. He brought wheels that kept plays alive and kept defenses honest and it made the Texans look better than they were. I don't know how good the guy is (or was) at following a playbook but when the play fell apart he became more dangerous.
Now, am I saying he's even been average since he was traded? No, I'm not saying that. I didn't even mention him in Cleveland and wasn't talking about his play since, well since he actually "played" here. If you saw that in my answer it's because your mind put it there. Even if my answer was "no" however that isn't the definition of anything. That's just a QB who hasn't played much football in a while, who is constantly battling injuries because (I bet) he's probably not keeping up with his conditioning, and who probably isn't all that motivated to work hard anyway because he's too busy diving into his "Scrooge McDuck Money Vault".
So since you want to talk about it (I didn't even bring it up) Yes, steelbtexan DeShaun Watson is NOW one seriously overrated QB. For some reason the Cleveland Browns didn't see this. Probably because it was concealed under the small mountain of red flags that were blocking their view.
I'm sure glad they went for it though.