Stephen A. & Shannon Sharpe DON’T WANT EXCUSES from Deshaun Watson! | First Take

Dak Prescott agrees to a four-year/$240M extension D Prescott who was in his room in Cleveland at the Marriott when the Dallas Cowboys quarterback got the call that he was going to become the highest paid player in NFL history a 4-year extension worth 240 million 231 million guaranteed by the time Prescott plays out the deal in 2028 he could potentially make more than 400 million in his career he led the Cowboys to a 3317 win against the Browns going 19 of 32 for 179 yards in a TD it's a good day to be decked right now it's about celebrating this win tonight um hell of a win with these guys excited for this plane ride back with them uh but turning the page tomorrow getting on to to to the Saints and uh taking it one game at a time but but that's the that that's what is at the Forefront of my mind um not the money it's about holding up my end of the deal and that's winning and and I want to do it here what it means is a big commitment uh to the next 5 years to our future if you will uh there's a lot of me that thinks uh I'd hope to act as our quarterback for the rest of my time Dan Orlowski joining the party good to have you with us Dan good morning how are you guys what's going on we're good we're good it's good to be in the FL it is good to be in the FL good morning good sir I'm in the house how are you said how are you what I ha could look just like Ernie oh my goodness who's Ernie you'll figure out don't worry about it wor about Shannon tell you later Shannon I'll start with you was that a statement win by the Cowboys no um you know they were Cleveland without their two two right tackles and it wasn't like it wasn't like the Cowboys uh had 500 yards of total offense they ran the ball for 150 yards D threw the ball for 300 yards it was nothing to that it was a situation where look they took advantage uh Mike Zimmer knew um that the ball was going to have to come out quick they s on a lot of routes uh uh uh Deshawn really never had an opportunity because they couldn't run the football they became one-dimensional early in the ball game that's not to try to diminish what Dallas Dallas won the ball game the defense looked very impressive but your two right tackle 79 the right tackle oh my good Stephen A he couldn't block you I mean to be it should be a crime to be that big and that sorry I mean he couldn't block the Sun out of his eyes so when whoever got on his side he was either false starting illegal formation or he's getting a holding call and so I don't want to try to minimize that but was it a statement win no because I don't think I think the right tackles not being of the both the left and the right tackle and they started two guys uh two backups I thought that had a lot to do with it but on the other side man the uh the give Cowboys the defense their credit but I thought the the Cowboys played okay um they didn't do anything spectacular now I can see them improving along the way but I don't look at this as a statement when I just thought that the Cowboys off excuse me the browns offensive line was inadequate and they couldn't do anything with the pass rush for the Cowboys and it made them onedimensional and it look made it look worse than probably what it was but I don't look at this as a statement when they won the game had to feel good to D he got his money earlier that morning and he came out there and he played he played okay but I don't think it was a great win and I'm looking at them like okay yeah they're absolutely going to be in the NFC championship game I don't look at it like that no I look at it as a statement win Shay because listen when when you know you have the noise that they've had in the off season you didn't out there and get anybody uh you waited Stephen A. Smith chimes in! for ever to sign CD lamb and ultimately Dak Prescott all right you acquired Ezekiel Elliott in the off season and and people were looking at that like it wasn't going to be anything it wasn't going to matter so much and and it may it may end up being that way one of the statements that you want to make is that if you're a contender you want to beat up on people who are trash compared to you and that's what the Cleveland Browns were trash they're hor they were horrible now I'm not saying they're a horrible team but they might have a horrible quarterback we don't know that yet I'm certainly not going to sit up there and say that about Deshawn Watson definitively but my brother if you are watching my God it it's it's really really bad I mean Houston was a long long time ago you understand but and and it looks so bad for Deshawn Watson right now I'm 0 for 10 passing on throws of 15 or more air yards on Sunday 0 for 10 0 for 10 I mean he couldn't throw a pass past five yards it it was really that bad yeah you don't have the two tackles yeah you don't have Nick chub who's out for the first four games of the Season obviously because he's still healing from the knee injury we got that part but damn you got Amari coup out there you got en joku out there you got some weapons to do absolutely nothing and I was listening to you come coming in and you're talking about dorsy and the offensive coordinator and it's not his system Etc figure it out I don't nobody want to hear that you got to figure this out you got 230 million up until yesterday yesterday morning Deshawn Watson was the highest paid quarterback in NFL history yeah now you are the second by $1 million that's it okay nobody wants to hear okay that that you know it's going to take some time when you had enough damn time and you're looking at Cleveland right now and by the way I know CD land was putting on the show and denel well had a hard day I get it I understand I was watching it but if you look at the Cleveland Browns if they're offensive giving them anything totally different game it it would if they had given him anything it would have been a totally different game you could see demoralization kicking in like yo uh it's pretty bad out here the only thing that I saw worse than the Browns yesterday were the Carolina P the New York Giants and the Giant game no no no no no no on wait a minute wait a minute you hear the fans that's different they were like goodbye hold on y' hold on y'all there's a difference I told y'all the Giants ain't had nothing but saquon Barkley in a bag of chips and now he's gone had that look in Carolina's saquin look on Friday in Carolina's case in Carolina's case you saw demoralization in Cleveland's case you saw demoralization they looking at it like damn we we just don't have that dude at the quarterback position it would have surprised me if guys were sitting in Cleveland right now clamoring Statement win for the Cowboys? for Joe flacker but I'm just saying Winston being there but I'm talking about flacker because of what he did last year it's bad let me let me hit the game real quick no not a statement win by mature win I'll give him that I actually thought Cleveland would win this game if if not for a terrible offense to Stephen a point I think it's a little bit different game they were fine offensively they ran for like three and a half yards per carry Dak through for five yards per attempt so wasn't outrageous but they minimized miles Garrett so I'll give Mike McCarthy the Cowboys credit make sure he didn't R win the game now on to the situation at quarterback I think there's a problem in Cleveland at quarterback it I would be thinking long and hard about playing jamus Winston in the very near future the the the Browns are in a crisis at that position okay crisis how many years has it been a revolving door at that position and they gave him the most guaranteed money at the time I mean the year that they moved on from Baker Mayfield that you know Baker Mayfield was coming off of that really good season I think in 20 when they beat Pittsburgh in the playoffs and then they moved on from him I believe after 21 here here's the biggest issue in Cleveland right now like Kevin stefanu who's their head coach coach and play caller he two-time coach of the year he comes from this offense that is from Mike shanan Gary kubak Kyle shanon which is the old school quarterback under the center the outside Zone Run game the big play action stuff off of it and they've built their team around that that's what they did with Joe last year so the offensive line it's better for that the skill position players Coupe it's built for that Nick chub they can't do that offense with DeShawn I don't know the exact reason why they can't do that offense with DeShawn when they try to call it it's not executed well the the Time to bench Deshaun Watson in favor of Jameis Winston? the fundamentals of it are not executed well when they don't call it and they try to play this spread offense that was a little bit college and then what Deshawn thrived with in Houston it's bad the ball doesn't come out the Dynamic Athlete is no longer there right now and then there's no plus plays you know Stephen you know this miles you Shannon you know this when you get to a certain price point in this league you're expected to overcome some deficiencies there is none of that happening there was some misses yesterday there you're like oh my God go dude there's balls that missed by six or seven yards egregious misses there that's why I sit there and I go I would be thinking long and hard very shortly about going to jamus Winston to because to Stephen A's Point man like everybody in that locker room is it's not it's not difficult to see go ahead Shay I'm not I'm not there yet Dan as far as with jamus Jameson um jamus Winston I'm not there yet I'm not there yet but I'm come I'm getting there cuz at some point in time we can't keep saying well he's only played x amount of game in 13 in in in three years we can't keep using that he doesn't look the same he doesn't move the same he doesn't throw the ball the same and Dan you're absolutely right I played in that West Coast system they want to run the ball and then they want to play action off of it well you don't have Nick chub and you can't run the ball if you become onedimensional against any good defensive team is going to be it's going to make you look you going to be embarrassed because that's what they couldn't run the ball and so now DW and now Micah and now they can just pin their ears back in the corners I knew early on in that ball game I watched Carson uh number 21 I watch him jump two routes two and I'm like you're gonna have to double move him but Zim is told him with those two right tackles they can't block us and if they double move us early that's on me I don't want you to give them thing anything quick we want Desa to pack take away number one and make him bring the ball down and he'll bring his eyes down and we can get him well Deshawn is GNA have to play better he has to now at some point in time we can't well you know he missed an entire year well you know he was suspended for the first 11 game well you know he he got hurt and he had to have surgery the Cleveland Browns are were still cutting checks even though he missed the first well he didn't get paid for that but those five games and then the off season and then last year at some point in time we can't keep using that he's been away from the game and he hadn't played an ex amount of games in a certain amount of time he has to play better let me say this Shannon first of all the game seems too fast for him right now that wasn't what it was back in the day it seems too fast for him now so let's get that out the way that's number one number two we could point to Dallas this speed on that quick Zimmer is a hell of a defensive coach we all that's how you got a head coach a job to be with before in Minnesota he the man is highly respected as a defensive mind plus you switching from the 34 to the 4-3 so obviously you getting at him you you're putting Michael Parson in positions where they can get after Demarcus Lawrence had two sacks yesterday as well so we got to take that into consideration okay but we can't act like when it comes to Deshawn Watson it was just about the Cowboys Deshawn Watson NFL ranks among 45 quarterbacks with 300 plus pass attempts since he became a brown a Cleveland Brown two years ago in completion percentage he's 42 out of 45 40 42 out of 45 ladies and gentlemen you talk about 45 quarterback it's 32 team you understand saying he's 42 he's 42 in yards per attempt he's 43 in passer rating he's 43 only Bryce young and Zack Wilson have been worse and the man is at $230 million they going to run him out of Cleveland I'm telling you right now listen it it they're going to make it very very very uncomfortable off a lake eie for this brother to stay on board way that he calls plays and the whole team is built like that Shannon the whole team you know how it is like the whole team is built to play into that and I've watched Baker play great in this offense I've played watch Joe flacko play great in this offense and I sit there and I go through this off season I'm going hold on this team's got David and joku in a big-time offensive line and two good packs and Amari coopy Cooper and Elijah Moore and Jerry Judy and they're trying to trade for Brandon auk like why are you trying to trade for Brandon auk with all this talent and now I'm watching this game I'm going they got a problem like they they got a problem and I know the money is what it is I would feel way more comfortable with James Winston I feel no I don't think you know what here's the thing Stephen go ahead sh go ahead Stephen can I say this yeah had we saw glimpses of had we seen glimpses of DeShawn prior to yesterday we can say you know what the Cowboys that's an anomaly because we've seen since he's been in Cleveland we've seen situations where he's look good since he's been in Cleveland we haven't come out here once Sunday once a Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday and say desan looked like himself when he was in Houston there hasn't been a time in three years that we we saw a little Glimpse and he and then he ended up having shoulder surgery against Baltimore but when when was the game Stephen A that you and I do that you said that looked like DeShawn Watson in Houston none he did look good once against Cincinnati but I'm just saying it's not enough it's not enough of a sample size I'm I'm it's pretty bad with DeShawn Watson and it has to be said it has to be said because Cleveland you you don't see teams that have everything else everything they got a defense yeah they got wide receivers they got a tight end yeah okay I mean yeah yeah when chub comes back I I you know that one with surise they'll have a running game if he's healthy because we know how big time he can be but there is no there's absolutely no excuse whatsoever for Deshawn Watson to look as as anemic as he looked yesterday we saw a Joe Flo did he came off the street last year they play Jacksonville next week y then the Giants and then the Raiders I mean the reality is if it doesn't get good by then yeah he