Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has a hard time avoiding controversy, even when he’s not directly involved in the conflict in question.
Watson has caused something of a stir around his team and the NFL at large as nagging shoulder issues have kept him sidelined for essentially all of the team’s last four games.
Some analysts — like The Ringer’s Bill Simmons — have questioned whether the team or its QB have been dishonest with information relevant to the injuries, as the two sides have made multiple contradictory statements over the last several weeks.
Other analysts, like Brady Quinn of FOX Sports, have questioned whether Watson is milking his injury because he’s lost interest in the game after signing a fully-guaranteed $230 million contract two offseasons past.
“Everyone else with a medical opinion just clears him pretty much,” Quinn told LaVar Arrington and Jonas Knox of FOX Sports Radio on Monday, October 23. “It’s kinda similar to this.
You get a kid who gets a trust find, right? $230 million, and then [someone is like], ‘Hey, you wanna go out and get a job?’ And he’s like, ‘Not really, no. I’ve got $230 million coming. I’m good.’ That’s what it kinda feels like.”
Quincy Avery, Watson’s personal QB coach who is based in Atlanta, took exception to Quinn’s comments, calling out the analyst on Tuesday.
“Brady, I’m a be real,” Avery said. “You don’t know what the f*** you are talking bout, and sit behind a microphone gossiping like a little high school chick.”
Brady Quinn Takes Shot at Deshaun Watson Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn took multiple shots at Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson this week.
The words between Avery and Quinn didn’t stop there, as the social media beef persisted.
“Come talk anytime you want, in person,” Quinn responded. “Open invitation.”
“I just seen you Saturday,” Avery wrote back. “I don’t have anything I want to talk to you about. I’m telling you [that] you are talking about things you don’t know. Talking on another man who doesn’t know you is weak.”
“How about we massage this conversation and get it to a happy ending?” Quinn wrote, taking a shot at Watson for the dozens of incidents of sexual harassment and/or assault, of which dozens of women have accused the QB over the past several years. “Does that sound satisfactory.”
“This was the joke you was dyin’ to let fly?” Avery responded. “We can table the convo until I see you in person.”
Deshaun Watson Out Against Seahawks with New Shoulder Injury
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will not play this weekend against the Seattle Seahawks.
Since Quinn made his initial comments, the Browns have announced that Watson will miss the team’s road game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, October 29, due to a new shoulder injury.
Watson sustained the injury to the rotator cuff in his throwing shoulder, the same location as his initial problem. The first issue arose after a hit in Week 3 against the Tennessee Titans. Watson suffered the new injury — a strain to the subscapularis — which often causes baseball pitchers to miss between four and six weeks, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Former third-string QB and current backup P.J. Walker is in line to start for the Browns in Seattle.
Max Dible covers the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns and Golden State Warriors for Heavy.com. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy.
