After giving Deshaun Watson a fully guaranteed $230 million contract, Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam trotted out GM Andrew Berry and their shiny new QB to do an impossible job on Friday while the real money sat back and waited back for a Zoom call an hour later.
Once the Haslams decided to acquire and pay Watson, their underlings’ task was to act like the allegations of sexual abuse in 22 ongoing civil lawsuits against Watson were very serious, but also completely false. They predictably flailed about, emphasizing that the Browns and Watson respect women and talked to them before making this trade — though they didn’t talk to those women, who are not telling the truth.
Berry was pressed directly on perhaps the two most important questions:
