Shedeur Sanders Makes Puzzling Choice to Work Out Away From Team

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00:00Can you guys, once again, give me the video of Shadur Sanders working out at that local high school?

00:04I think it's called Wallace High School in Cleveland.

00:09Nothing against Shadur Sanders. It's great, hey, you're working out, right?

00:12You're out there getting reps in. You can't knock a kid for out there, you're getting reps.

00:15But everything's being videotaped by his people.

00:18All the time.

00:18This is an attempt to try to curry favor, I think, with NFL writers and pundits and shows like this.

00:24Look how hard the kid works. Look how much Shadur Sanders cares.

00:27And maybe he does. I can't wrap my head around the fact that you're an NFL football player.

00:35And I know it's their bye week, right?

00:37Yeah.

00:38But you're an NFL football player who has the greatest of all services made available to you

00:43because you're a quarterback of an NFL team.

00:46Meaning, if you really want to get working and become a better quarterback at the NFL level,

00:51doesn't it make sense to all of you that you would practice and work out at the NFL facility that you're a member of?

01:01They've got fields.

01:02They've got balls.

01:03They've got trainers.

01:04They've got wide receivers willing to go out there and catch the ball as you throw routes,

01:09what they call on air, meaning no defense there, right?

01:12You have coaches there that would love to spend extra time with you and help you perfect your craft

01:17so that one day they can turn the ball over to you and give you a shot, maybe, to be their starting quarterback.

01:22And the thing that just rubs me weird is not the kid's work ethic.

01:26It looks like he's working out.

01:27Great.

01:27All good.

01:28It's the fact that he's going to a local high school with his own camera crew to film his workout,

01:37and he's not going to the Cleveland Browns facility under the guise of their experts and their coaches

01:44and their trainers and their wide receivers, et cetera, et cetera, and doing the workouts there.

01:50And it's a really strange thing.

01:52I've done this a very, very long time.

01:54I have traveled with and covered multiple NFL teams.

01:58I know what I'm talking about.

02:00I have never seen a quarterback, no matter where he is on the depth chart,

02:05in the middle of a regular season, leave the team facility to go work out on a regular basis at a local high school.

02:15I have never seen that from any quarterback in the history of football.

02:19And the only way I can take it is it's him snubbing his nose, giving the middle finger to Kevin Stefanski and the Browns.

02:29You won't start me.

02:31You won't play me.

02:33Then I'm not going to practice with you.

02:35I'm not going to learn from you.

02:36I'm not going to go to you.

02:38I'm going to do it on my own.

02:39And it's another example of why it's so hard for me to back this kid, support him, and want to see him succeed at the NFL level.

02:50I've never witnessed this, ever.

02:52I traveled with and covered the Cleveland Browns way back early in my career.

02:56I traveled with and covered the Philadelphia Eagles under Rich Coatite and Ray Rhodes in the mid-'90s.

03:02I've seen a lot of quarterbacks on a lot of football teams.

03:06I have never in my life, in the middle of a season, seen a quarterback, in this case, second on the depth chart,

03:12that leaves an NFL facility to practice without NFL people at a local high school.

03:21And it's not like he went to the high school as like a make-a-wish thing or like to help out the local team

03:26and see how their quarterback's playing and be a member of the community.

03:29Obviously, he's going there to film himself doing it, to thumb his nose at the Cleveland Browns

03:36because they chose Dylan Gabriel over him.

03:39And it's weird to me.

03:41And I don't want to come in here every day and take shots at Shadir Sanders.

03:44He's a backup quarterback.

03:45I don't think about all that much.

03:47But he makes it impossible not to comment on some of the dopey decisions he makes.

03:53Like, and I'll give you the example.

03:54If the video came out, not from him, from the Browns, that Shadir Sanders asked a bunch of the wide receivers on the Browns

04:04or Njoku, you know, the starting tent or whoever, to get extra work in with him to prepare him for the inevitable,

04:12Dylan Gabriel getting hurt or playing poorly and getting his crack, that's a story we can embrace.

04:18That's a story you wrap your arms around and you go, that's what I wanted to see out of this kid.

04:24But when you don't invite Browns wide receivers or tight ends or coaching staff,

04:29when you don't do it at the Browns facility,

04:32when you instead leave the facility, go to a high school,

04:36and bring your own camera crew with you to document how hard you're working,

04:41it just feels wrong.

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