The Dream of Deshaun Watson

Two seasons ago, the Browns traded for a dream and that's all it remains.

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Legend has it that the idea for Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s now infamous seven day block of programming surrounding the ocean’s gnarliest inhabitants, was born on a cocktail napkin. In the mid-80s, some execs at some bar scribbled the thought down on that small, square, piece of paper that came with their martinis, and now they’re rich.

The “Idea On a Cocktail Napkin” origin story is a fun one to think about; that a group of people slightly buzzed on their drink of choice tossed out an idea that later became something everyone knew. Whether those napkins exist or not doesn’t really matter. What matters is that the idea was eventually lifted off said napkin and turned into a real, tangible thing.

One can imagine Jimmy Haslam, Andrew Berry, and Kevin Stefanski sitting at a bar, their drinks half-finished, staring at a crumpled napkin in front of them that bears the chicken scratch “Deshaun Watson.” They’ve been sitting there for three years now, and the name on that piece of paper remains nothing more than a grouping of letters.

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