Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
Watson is a heck of a QB but it's a hard pass on him for me, especially with regards to the Niners situation. He clearly has some character concerns and I don't want to go down the Rueben Foster road again, especially at the most critical position in football, QB. Lance has everything you can ask for in a QB, he just needs to play. He also has a great contract that benefits the rest of the team tremendously. I look forward to watching him develop even if it were to cost us a trip to the playoffs next year, which I don't think it will.
Foster and Watson are not comparable. If Watson wasn't trying to force his way the Texans, then the Texans wouldn't have exposed his life. you and everyone else wouldn't have known.. just like we don't know what our 49ers are doing off the clock
Explain to me how they aren't comparable? Foster made several poor life decisions that derailed his career and he has never gotten back to the promise he once showed. Watson has also made some poor life decisions that have derailed his career at least momentarily. I'm guessing Watson gets back on track unlike Foster but who knows, maybe he doesn't. Foster was also expected to be the leader of the defense much like how Watson is expected to be the leader of the offense.
And there is also a very good chance that Watson's actions off the field would have came to light at some point. When you are that high profile, and you start making questionable choices, you have a LARGE target on your back. All it takes is one person to expose you and then the snowball effect begins.