Disagree about him being the future, unless you're OK with the part he played in 51-7.
Agreed about the 3 yrs. Unfortunately
I'm not Ok with his part in 51-7. He failed just like the rest of the team.
But one game nor one season makes a career.
I see enough good things out of Watson to think with the right system and coaching , he can be good enough.
You go back to his rookie year , those 7 starts before getting injured - He had the quickest average release time in the league. Today he's probably closer to last than first. WHY ? That's simple - this offense.
Not too long ago we were complaining that Watson couldn't beat the blitz …. Now teams don't blitz him at all.
Why ? Because he was beating it often enough.
Now they almost never blitz , just sit back in a zone …. while Watson waits for someone to come open which doesn't happen with regularity - Hard to be "open" when the offensive scheme allows for one defender to cover 2 targets.
Hard to be open when the defense doesn't have to defend slants or RB screens and doesn't have to worry about the edges of the defense.
So you have Watson back there doing his best impersonation of Brady …. until he has to do his best impersonation of Barry Sanders.
I don't think Watson is the greatest thing since sliced bread (That's Mahomes) but I do think he's potentially good enough to win a championship , assuming he has the right people around him and is in the right scheme.
The narrative that "we don't have the QB" is kinda overblown when you look at some of the QB's who have won it all and Watson being infinitely more talented than quite a few of them. A QB alone doesn't get it done , its a team effort and I don't mean just the 53 that play but from the head coach down to the waterbody.
Lets put the right coach and the right system in place before we say Watson isn't good enough.