NFC East teams lead the way in ConorOrr's NFL Power Rankings, but the list grows unpredictable from there
Here comes Deshaun Watson, at one time the favored son of this city from a sports standpoint. A smile on his face as he takes the field for the first time as a member of the Cleveland Browns…
If you searched under deep-wooded rock piles to find Sunday’s Browns-Texans game, this is how you were introduced to Deshaun Watson’s first on-field action in almost two years. The lead play-by-play man, Spero Dedes, channeled his inner Cris Collinsworth and decided to roll with a description of Watson’s facial expression instead of, you know, the reason why Watson hasn’t been playing football.
As I hope you know by now, he was sued by more than two dozen women, who alleged graphic accounts of sexual assault and harrassment. Though, by the tenor of this broadcast, he was heroically returning from some kind of crippling injury with a purple heart affixed to his shoulder. The broadcast team had multiple opportunities in the opening seconds of this game to recover, including a window of time where the officials were discussing the spot of the ball…but…alas…nothing.
To me, this was a sad moment. As podcast co-host Gary Gramling said on The MMQB podcast this week, I need to remember that I am in a world tied to journalistic principles, where they are in a world that is focused on presenting a league-approved product. Fair enough.
There’s no good way to pivot to the rest of the power rankings from here other than to say that we can have a discussion about football and about sexual assault in the same space and our heads won’t explode. We don’t have to just ignore the existence of one thing in order to clear the way for our enjoyment of another.Eric Christian Smith/AP
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