Browns Making Another QB Error? 7 Takeaways From Week 2 Of The Preseason

Two weeks of preseason games are in the books, and we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

This past week's slate of preseason games, plus joint practices, brought us more glimpses of what we could expect to see in the regular season.

But it brought some drama, too.

Deshaun Watson was named the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback on Monday after making pointed remarks to the team's fans following his lackluster performance on Saturday.

There's also an unusual storyline developing with players who might wind up playing college football in the next couple of weeks.

So, with only one more preseason week to go, here are our takeaways from the latest slate of preseason games.

Ralph Vacchiano: Deshaun Watson showed everyone on Saturday why he shouldn’t be the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback, with a terrible on-field performance and an even worse one off the field.

Then, Todd Monken gave him the job anyway.

Maybe that’s a sign that the new Browns coach had nothing but bad options in his quarterback competition, but his choice still couldn’t have been any worse.

He went with a 30-year-old who’ll surely be an ex-Brown next season over a somewhat promising young quarterback, Shedeur Sanders.

And he did it two days after Watson was terrible in a preseason game against the Bills (5 of 12 for 36 yards and an interception) and then showed an incredible lack of self-awareness (and an abundance of immaturity) when he whined about being booed.

"I think the whole world knows it has nothing to do with the performance," Watson said.

"It’s a little more personal than that.

So, I think that’s a disrespectful thing." OK, that’s a little rich and a lot outrageous, coming from the man who got the biggest fully-guaranteed contract in NFL history from the Browns in 2022 (five years, $230 million) even though he hadn’t played in two years and was accused of sexual misconduct by 27 women.