Completely silly. Any “problem” there might have been happened when he dropped below 10. of course there never was going to be a “problem”, because, well nobody actually cares. And the other owners didn’t hate the Watson contract. They mostly laughed and knew that the Browns wouldn’t be competitive for a while.
It was the largest guaranteed contract at the time and the other owners knew they would be pressured to provide similar contracts. Watson’s was $230 million guaranteed. At the time the next largest was $150.3 million to Rodgers.