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Deshaun Watson reacts after Browns' season-opening loss to Jaguars
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

Deshaun Watson reacts after Browns' season-opening loss to Jaguars

The Cleveland Browns didn't get off to the best start to the Todd Monken era.

Deshaun Watson struggled all day in a 34-10 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars that was even more lopsided than the final score suggests.

Watson got things going early by throwing a pick on his team's opening drive, and things pretty much went downhill from there.

However, as much as there's some well-deserved criticism going his way, the former Houston Texans star remains unrattled by all the outside noise.

Deshaun Watson is unfazed by Week 1 blunder

“Of course, everyone’s gonna look at the quarterback in this situation. Overall, I haven’t even looked at the box score or whatever, the stats, so I don’t even know what that looks like,” Watson said (h/t Mary Kay Cabot). “But yeah, we gotta put points on the board. That’s what you gotta do in this league.”

The stats look better than the tape, and they still leave plenty to be desired.

Watson completed 16 of 22 passes for 205 yards, one touchdown and one pick. At least four of his completions came on passes batted at the line of scrimmage, and the bulk of his production came on a garbage-time 46-yard bomb to Denzel Boston for his lone score of the evening.

He also tried to show that he can still make plays with his legs, scrambling six times for 38 yards.

That said, he could've found open receivers multiple times instead of taking off at the first sign of a collapsing pocket. So, again, the numbers might be misleading.

When asked about his interception, the former Clemson star once again didn't seem to agree with the critics, and he thinks that's just a part of the game:

“Nah, bad plays are going to happen all the time,” Watson said (h/t Camryn Justice). “Look all around the league. Everyone throws interceptions, everyone makes bad plays. You got to give defense credit. He made a good play on that.”

Of course, he's got a valid point right there. Everyone makes mistakes; the thing is that he seems to make them way too often.

And as much as every player should have a short memory and just move on to the next play, this was just too predictable. There was no way this would've ended any differently.

Ernesto Cova

Ernesto is a bilingual (English-Spanish) sports writer with over eight years of experience covering major leagues such as the NBA, NFL, and MLB. Ernesto’s work focuses on providing insightful, up-to-date coverage of sports, blending his expertise in sports psychology with a passion for analyzing player performance, team dynamics, and trade developments across various sports leagues

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