Best of NFL News Part 2: Deshaun Watson's MESSAGE to Browns fans + Mike McDonald vs Sean Payton BEEF + Matt LaFleur on HOT SEAT?

Shannon Sharpe (0:05)

The Browns prefer for their first home game in Cleveland this Sunday against the Panthers. Quarterback Deshaun Watson said he doesn't want to be at war with the Browns fans. Let's take a listen to what Deshaun had to say.

Deshaun Watson (0:17)

Yeah, I mean, the biggest thing, I don't ever try to go at war with the fans, so the biggest thing is just, you know, ready for support, ready to feel their energy, ready to get this big dub for the city of Cleveland, you know, to do this great feeling that we have this week. So that's my motto, and just keep pushing forward, find the ways of being on Sunday to, you know, take advantage of the opposing team and get it done.

Chad Johnson (0:44)

I like it. Hey, listen, I'm happy for him. I'm happy for him based on how he played last week. I'm happy for him for all the struggles and problems and adversities he had to deal with, not only off the field, but on the field with the injuries. So I'm glad he played good last week, Unc. I'm glad he's one and one right now, and he had the chance to rectify everything with the fans this week with his performance. It's all going to come down to a performance. But one thing about it, he's going against a Carolina team that's hot and Bryce Young is playing really, really good football. Really good football. That young bull, Devin Lloyd over there, with the Carolina Panthers, man, boy, they got them one over there.

Shannon Sharpe (1:22)

The big D line with Derrick Brown, I think his name is Derrick Brown.

Chad Johnson (1:26)

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (1:27)

You got JC on the back end.

So they play really well against the Falcons. We did see them in week one, Ocho give up 59 I don't know if Cleveland have the arsenal, the firepower to go get 59 But they're like, can we go get 29? Can we get half of what the Bears got? But the question is looking at Carolina offensively, 37 in week one, 34 in week two.

Chad Johnson (2:04)

I was just going to say that.

Shannon Sharpe (2:05)

I have to put some colors on. Let's see, they 30 game.

Chad Johnson (2:08)

We see, hey, my ex-man, Xavier Leggett playing good. Caterola McMillan playing good. Coker playing good.

They let my boy, Jimmy Horn go. So Jimmy over there with-

Shannon Sharpe (2:23)

In Cleveland. Brown.

Chad Johnson (2:25)

With Cleveland now. So you know he, well, listen, this is what they doing here. This is what they gonna do here. You know how that goes.

Shannon Sharpe (2:31)

They got him under the lights. The thing is Ocho, that he a little young, so he's not, if that was you or I in year five, year six, that might be a different ball game because we'd be established, entrenched in the office, know all the fine nuances, know all the checks, all the signals. When they do this, don't even worry about that. That don't mean nothing. Bryce Young bulljacking. But when he does this, he actually means something.

Cause that was a lot of times, cause a lot of times we are, when we played somebody that would play with us and they were abreast in the West Coast, we had to do some dummy stuff because everybody knew what smoke was and everybody knew what line and look he had slat, Sally, slat and go, you know, everybody knew what that was.

Well, look, I'm happy for Deshaun, bro. You know, he gets another opportunity, Unc and Ocho, you know, to play the game that he loves. Obviously, I know he wants to play well and perform well in front of that home crowd. And his swag, his swag seemed a little different too. He got a little more bounce in that step because he got that win. You can kind of tell, like, I don't know about y'all, but I'm just reading body language.

Chad Johnson (3:38)

You know what I mean? Watch how he walk, Joe.

Shannon Sharpe (3:40)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He look a lot more comfortable up there.

Chad Johnson (3:43)

Watch how he walk. You can tell when somebody comfortable and they know they're playing well, look how they walk. Matter of fact, look how he dropped back with the ball.

Shannon Sharpe (3:49)

Yeah.

Chad Johnson (3:50)

You know, body language take everything, boy.

Shannon Sharpe (3:53)

It do. I think the thing is what Deshaun needs to understand. Look, he says, I don't want to be at war with the fans, but you can't break. Look, I found the best way to defuse the fans is to kill them with kindness. Yeah, you upset because they cheered that you were injured. And I'm first to admit, come on now. I don't think you cheer anybody that's injured.