Myles Garrett, Browns stars rip fans for cheering Deshaun Watson Achilles injury: Model citizen
Myles Garrett and Jameis Winston vehemently defended quarterback Deshaun Watson, who was booed by Browns fans during intros before they cheered when he was carted off the field with a likely season-ending Achilles injury. The two players criticized the fans who appeared to be cheering over Watson’s exit on Sunday with Garrett going as far as to say that Watson had been a “model citizen” through his college and pro football career. “With the reaction that the fans gave, whether it’s an opponent who goes down or one of our own, we don’t boo,” Garret said.“We don’t boo guys that are injured on the field, especially when the cart comes out.
We should be ashamed of ourselves as Browns and as fans to boo anyone and their downfall.Could be season-altering, career-altering injury.
Man is not perfect.He doesn’t need to be.
None of us expect to be perfect.“Can’t judge him for what he does off the field or on the field because I can’t throw stones from my glass house.We need to do better.
We need to do better on the football field, and we need to do better as fans for having some empathy for a man who is doing the best he can and did the best he can up to this point.We have to be better.”Watson had gone down late in the second quarter of the Browns’ loss to the Bengals when suffered the noncontact injury. The QB had been running with the ball when he planted his left leg and the likely torn Achilles occurred, sending him to the ground quickly in pain. He was eventually carted off the field and that’s when fans had apparently booed Watson. “Man does pretty much everything right,” Garrett added.
“A model citizen through college and also the pros.Plays the game as hard as anyone I’ve ever seen.
Puts everything on the line, willing to throw his body out there.He plays the game at 100 miles an hour, and there’s a risk of being injured, and he took that risk.
“We have to be there for him as a team and as an organization.We can...