Skip Bayless is calling Deshaun Watson’s performance the greatest performance he’s ever seen from a player on the losing team in the history of sports. I need to think about that for a day, but Deshaun Watson was clearly the best college football player in America this college football post season.
There is a beauty in his game which is joy to watch even if he did flame our Oklahoma Sooners. What he did last night wasn’t against a Big 12 defense. He did this against an Alabama front seven which is regarded as one of the best ever. This wasn’t against Texas Tech or Kansas—this was against a team with forty-three high school All-Americans on its roster and NFL caliber talent at every position.
In retrospect—the Heisman voters got it wrong. It should have gone…1 Watson, 2 McCaffery, and 3 Henry, but we get one more season of both Watson and McCaffery at the college level so that makes it somewhat easier to take. As stunning as Watson is—Christian McCaffery is every bit as an exciting player to watch.
I’ll be watching Clemson and Stanford games every chance I get next season. Special players from special families.