Mary Kay Cabot talks Cowboys/Browns, Deshaun Watson, Browns defense

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Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com joined Shan & RJ to discuss the Cowboys' season-opening opponent, the Cleveland Browns. They discuss what expectations are for Deshaun Watson this year, the weapons he has on offense, why the Browns defense is so feared, and more.

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00:00Well, having a hard time with this game kind of feels like a defensive, ugly toss up.

00:21How are you feeling about it?

00:23You know, I don't know about it being a defensive game because I really do look out there and

00:28see a lot of weapons on both sides of the ball.

00:31I think you've got Deshaun Watson ready to show that he's got these great weapons and

00:36Amari Cooper, Elijah Moore, Jerry Judy, David Njoku.

00:40And then of course you've got Dak and C.D.'s ready to roll.

00:44So I don't know if it's necessarily going to be a defensive sort of game, although the

00:49defenses are both really, really good.

00:51So you're right.

00:52It is hard to predict.

00:54And I guess it just depends on which way it gets started and if it turns into somewhat

01:00of a shootout the way the last meeting did.

01:03What is Deshaun Watson now?

01:05I don't think anybody would say that he's met expectations there.

01:10Do they see him resurrecting his career the way that he was in Houston and what they expected

01:14to get?

01:15Well, here's the thing about Deshaun Watson.

01:18I think people have a tendency to forget that he was injured most of last season.

01:24It was in week three where he first suffered the shoulder injury.

01:28It was first diagnosed as a rotator cuff.

01:30Later on, after he suffered the fractured shoulder and underwent surgery, I did ask

01:34him, he alluded to the fact that he had been playing on this fractured shoulder for a couple

01:38of games and I asked him, is it possible he could have fractured it all the way back in

01:43week three?

01:44And he said, it's possible.

01:45Now, the Browns have maintained that he fractured the shoulder on November 12th against the

01:50Baltimore Ravens, but it's probably a little bit hard to say how it all went down in there.

01:56But nevertheless, he was injured almost the whole entire season.

02:01And so I don't think people can really judge his performance based on much of what we saw

02:06last year.

02:07So now that he looks pretty healthy, I think he should be a lot better this year.

02:12How much of, you know, you talk about the health issue there, does anything look like

02:16a guy whose confidence has been shaken when you watch him, or does he remain kind of resolved

02:21in that sense?

02:22You know, I think the thing is, he has not forgotten how to play football.

02:26And people seem to think that he has forgotten how to play football.

02:30But I think if he's healthy and his weapons around him are healthy and he likes this new

02:35offense and can adapt to it pretty quickly, I think he's going to be just fine.

02:40You know, I just don't think, just because he hasn't played a full season since 2020,

02:44I just think there's so much good football in him that it's in there.

02:49And it's just a matter of pulling it out of there.

02:51And we'll see if that gets going this season.

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