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If his sons had gone to school to be doctors of neighborhood that might have been more help to Deion. Bad joke. I feel bad for his hereditary health issues. That’s not funny at all. Hope he will be ok. He was always such a treat to watch as a player. 

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I can see CU beating Iowa State. The Cyclones look kind of slow and their secondary is riddled with injuries. Iowa State will run all over them, because everyone does, but I can see CU outscoring them.

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28 minutes ago, Chooky said:

I can see CU beating Iowa State. The Cyclones look kind of slow and their secondary is riddled with injuries. Iowa State will run all over them, because everyone does, but I can see CU outscoring them.

Careful, not EVERYONE runs on Colorado. 

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6 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

Careful, not EVERYONE runs on Colorado. 

I thought TCU did fairly well against the run. Or maybe I just assumed they did. Never looked at the boxscore.

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21 hours ago, The Dog said:
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Baker Mayfield ranks fourth in the NFL in passing yards. He’s third in passing touchdowns and he’s tied for sixth in Expected Points Added per Dropback, according to TruMedia. He is thriving in late-game situations, which was once an enormous knock against him, and he has enjoyed a complete career renaissance since leaving Cleveland and landing in Tampa Bay. He has the Buccaneers atop the NFC South and is now widely considered one of the early favorites for the league’s Most Valuable Player award. 

I hesitate to mention Mayfield and Cleveland because of the vitriolic emotion it brings out of Browns fans. There is a lot of revisionist history tied to the Mayfield saga these days in Northeast Ohio. 

Nevertheless, it’s worth mentioning Mayfield within the context of the current Browns quarterback room because there are only two reasons I can find for why Shedeur Sanders is still on this team.

Either the owner is requiring it or there is a fear held by someone in the building that Sanders will develop elsewhere and turn into this franchise’s next Mayfield horror story. There really is no other explanation at this point, and neither is a strong enough reason to keep him around. 

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has proved time and again that he cannot trust himself to make football decisions, and the odds of Sanders developing into that rare fifth-round quarterback in NFL history to have any career of substance (Mark Brunell? Steve Grogan?) are slim. It’s time for the Browns and Sanders to part ways. The sooner the better, and certainly before next month’s trade deadline. 

I’m tired of writing about and mentioning Sanders, a player who hasn’t taken a meaningful snap since Aug. 23. I thought it was outrageous we’re into October and still wasting so much time discussing the third-string quarterback of any NFL team. But now that the Browns have traded Joe Flacco, their former starter and team captain, another Sanders conversation is at least warranted this time because he should theoretically move up and become the backup behind rookie Dillon Gabriel. 

The Flacco trade took me by surprise because I thought they saw value in him being there as a veteran presence. So it wasn’t all that surprising when Browns coach Kevin Stefanski went out of his way Wednesday to say without saying that Bailey Zappe will likely be promoted from the Browns’ practice squad to be the backup quarterback beginning this week at the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

Since they already had three quarterbacks on the active roster, the only reason to even carry Zappe on the practice squad was to move him ahead of Sanders in the event there was an opening at backup quarterback. Now there is. 

“I always have to be mindful of our players, and our players’ development, and I want to make sure that I’m always doing what’s best for our players and, of course, our team,” Stefanski said when asked if Sanders will be the backup. “But with young players … you have to think long and hard about that, because these are young players that you’re so invested in their development. So I’ll let the week play out and make a decision later on.”

That hardly screams anything close to Sanders becoming the backup. 

The Browns are adrenaline junkies who thrive on car crashes. They have been driving without brakes and seat belts for generations. From Jeff Garcia’s Playboy playmate girlfriend’s bar fight to the Johnny Manziel disaster, from Odell Beckham Jr. begging opponents during games to come rescue him from Cleveland to the Deshaun Watson debacle, the Browns have more tire fires than Goodyear. Now it’s Sanders and all the unwanted attention on their third-string quarterback. 

At what point is it enough? At what point will the Browns grow up enough to leave the kids’ table and sit with the other adults? 

The Browns deserve no benefit of the doubt when it comes to evaluating quarterbacks. Gabriel represents the 41st starter they’ve had since 1999, a grotesque figure that is worthy of constant heckling. That number is likely to grow by at least one more next year since they have two picks in the first round.

But this isn’t just one inept team saying Sanders isn’t ready. It’s easy to find people around the league, and within the Browns, who will tell you Sanders isn’t a good NFL quarterback right now. What you’ll struggle to find is a team that believes he is ready to help them win games right now. If one existed, Sanders wouldn’t have fallen to the fifth round.

Sanders’ legion of fans would rather believe it’s the incompetent team he is with and not the idea that he just might not be a very good NFL quarterback. Given Cleveland’s history, the skepticism is warranted. 

But if Bailey Zappe — Bailey Zappe! — is more trustworthy to a team that has spent 25 years searching for competent quarterback play, then what are we really doing here? 

Cut Sanders, just as the Philadelphia Eagles did with sixth-round quarterback Kyle McCord and countless other teams do every year with countless other late-round rookie quarterbacks, and end this silly madness. McCord returned to Philadelphia on the practice squad. The Browns are protecting Sanders on their 53-man roster so another team can’t pluck him off their practice squad, yet they’re about to promote Zappe from the practice squad ahead of him. When else has that ever happened?

Stefanski is constantly peppered with questions about the third-string quarterback. Gabriel, whom the Browns spent a third-round pick on and whom they actually like, is constantly badgered with questions about his backup. 

Stop forcing Gabriel into this untenable position where every word out of his mouth is judged as to whether it’s a shot at Shedeur. Stop forcing the head coach to field questions about the third-string quarterback every week. Just stop. 

If the Browns could get fifth-round picks for both Kenny Pickett and Flacco, they ought to be able to recoup the fifth they spent on Sanders last spring. I had one member of the organization tell me a few weeks ago that they should’ve traded him for a draft pick immediately after his preseason showing against the Carolina Panthers. We already know the Ravens and Eagles were ready to take him in the fifth round. Maybe the Ravens will still want him. Is it a risk trading him within the division? Of course. But at this point, it feels like a risk keeping him in the building. 

Cut him. Trade him. Whatever. Let him become someone else’s daily topic of conversation. At 1-4, the Browns have enough problems. Clearly, he isn’t viewed as one of the solutions.

 

Gee it's almost as if THAT was the reason that he keep falling in the draft and not some weird "trying to teach him a lesson" crap?

What team would want some rookie QB, who'd most likely start the year as a backup no matter where he was drafted, to be a topic of conversation.

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Deion's issues causing him to be a quiet loser on the field this season is making it impossible to care anymore. 

Browns need to just start his kid and Shedeur needs to go full 1980s style NWA wrestling heel talking tons of shit no matter how badly he plays. 

3 hours ago, Drew said:

What team would want some rookie QB, who'd most likely start the year as a backup no matter where he was drafted, to be a topic of conversation.

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