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Todd Monken hasn't watched much past film from Deshaun Watson
Browns coach Todd Monken had a big decision to make at quarterback. In settling on Deshaun Watson over Shedeur Sanders, Monken didn't spend much time looking at Watson's past performances. solvita.blog
“I really, to be honest, haven’t looked at it," Monken told reporters regarding whether he studied Watson's film from past seasons. "To be honest, only from afar. When people say, 'You had to look at it,' well, not really. I looked at it from afar when I was down the road, right? In crossover film or something, but I try to take everything at face value. What I see, right?
"It doesn’t matter what the player is, I think we owe that to our players, guys that are on the roster. I want to go into it thinking every player we have is elite, and all they have to do is prove me right. That’s all they have to do. That’s what I’m going to go into it — they’re on an NFL roster, I expect them to play well, and I just want them to prove me right. And so I really haven’t really looked at that, different staff, different system. We’ll let it play out. We’ll see where it goes starting a week from now.”
Regardless of whether Monken did or didn't watch much Watson film, his performances from his time with the Texans are ancient history. It was six years ago. And while there's some value in looking for plays that he has run well in the past, the more pragmatic approach would be to ignore Watson's play from 2017 through 2020 and focus on things that will work now, with the 30-year-old version of Deshaun Watson.
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Nick Caserio: NFL players going back to college is "ridiculous," but "doesn't really impact our job"
More and more NFL figures are addressing the current chaos in college football. And most of them don't like it.
Texans G.M. Nick Caserio joined the chorus on Tuesday, with two observations.
"First of all, it's ridiculous," Caserio told reporters. "Secondly, it doesn't really impact our job. The whole concept, we could spend an hour having that discussion. It doesn't necessarily materially impact kind of what we're doing specific to training camp and those types of things. If they are in college, if they go back to college, you just evaluate them as if you would through the college lens, through the college process. We didn't have any players that fell under that restraining order so it wasn't really going to affect us. Conceptually it's affected basketball as well. There was a kid that went back to Alabama that was in the G-League. Look, if you’re a professional player then you're a professional player. To go from being a professional player to a college athlete or amateur athlete, the whole thing is kind of ridiculous.”
But is it really ridiculous to expect the NCAA to adopt a five-year rule while also denying a fifth year to those who didn't have access to one? Plenty of players who entered the draft would have stayed put if they'd known they'd have another year.
All problems in college sports trace to a system that denied compensation to players for as long as possible and the problems the reckoning has created. The players are simply reacting to the circumstances, and attempting to secure fair treatment under the relevant rules.
Regardless, the process of sorting out who will and won't be able to play college football this year after spending time on 90-man rosters continues. And the NFL will proceed unaffected by the situation, except for the fact that the players who return to college can't be signed by NFL teams during the 2026 season.
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Carlos Rodríguez: “El peso tan grande de la mochila me arrastró al suelo”
Con cadencia alegre, sentado elegantemente en la bici y con pisotones firmes, realizó una contrarreloj ilusionante en la apertura de la Vuelta, a menos de 30 segundos de Pogacar, el ganador de la etapa, ahora el gran ausente. “Sí, hizo una gran prueba, pero luego…”, conceden desde su equipo. El pero, claro, no es negativo, aunque sí desbravado porque cuando llegaron las montañas de Andorra perdió 22 minutos a las primeras de cambio. Carlos Rodríguez (Almuñécar, Granada; 25 años), una vez más, sigue sin encontrarse tras dos años complicados. “Por el motivo que sea, las piernas no están yendo esta temporada en los momentos claves. Mi cuerpo responde como si tuviera un limitador puesto. Pero bueno, intentaremos ir quitándolo conforme vaya pasando esta Vuelta y poder aportar más al equipo”, resuelve el ciclista, que en la etapa octava, camino hacia Xeraco, se dio dos topetazos que, sin embargo, no le retiraron de la carrera. “Son riesgos del pelotón, gajes del oficio que uno nunca sabe cuándo van a producirse”, desliza. Por él, que no sea.