The Browns’ quarterback state of affairs has all of the bizarre drama of an episode of Love Island, and Shedeur Sanders wished to ensure he was front-and-center. Sanders was requested how he felt about his position as QB3 on the depth chart as Cleveland made the change from Joe Flacco to rookie Dillon Gabriel as starter, and there have been 1,000,000 methods he might have dealt with the query.
Sanders picked the million-and-first manner, by pantomiming all his solutions.
Like a lot of the drama surrounding Sanders it’s persistently the subtext with how he responds to the media. Whereas there are smiles, and he seems to be having a great time — there’s undoubtedly an underlying tone behind is silence. Sanders has been recognized to place his foot in his mouth, which is likely one of the causes he precipitously fell within the NFL Draft, and enjoying video games like this solely opens the door for individuals to make assumptions.
Had Shedeur mentioned one thing alongside the traces of “I’m joyful for Dillon. Going to maintain working exhausting, getting higher, and serving to this staff nonetheless potential,” then there could be no headlines at the moment. It’s the boring, inventory reply a depth quarterback is supposed to provide in these conditions. The silence, nonetheless … nicely, that might imply something.
Is that this Sanders’ manner of claiming he’s not going to provide his actual ideas on Gabriel getting the nod over him? Is he making a press release concerning the staff wanting him to say much less and never be the focus? Is that this fairly actually a silent protest to being locked at QB3 on the chart when he thinks he ought to be a lot greater?
We’re pressured to guess, as a result of Sanders desires us to. There’s unquestionably a component to this as nicely that Sanders looks like something he says will get twisted and weaponized, however there comes a time the place there are roughly 1,700 gamers within the NFL, and no one else will get this type of scrutiny. Sooner or later it comes again to the participant’s actions previously, not the media asking a reasonably benign query about his place on the depth chart.
There’s an unquestioned actuality right here that Sanders has to be taught the media recreation, and it’s beautiful he’s so unhealthy at this contemplating his father’s expertise for years within the limelight. Even Deion knew when to cowl up the character so he wouldn’t make waves, however his son simply doesn’t fairly get that but.
At finest this comes off as extraordinarily weird habits. At worst individuals are going to imagine he’s being quieted and desires to say one thing. It’s simply an unforced error that didn’t must occur.
