Should Shedeur Sanders Win AFC Offensive Player of the Week?

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00:00But an argument could be made that the AFC Offensive Player of the Week award should go to Shadur Sanders.

00:15Shadur!

00:16There's only one reason why you can't give it to them.

00:20Because they lost?

00:20Well, they did. Look, they lost to the worst team of all.

00:23Like, the idea is to win games.

00:25They didn't lose because of their offense.

00:27That's the first time you could probably say that this year.

00:29The offense was humming.

00:31He actually threw the ball down the field.

00:33Had a couple nice touch passes.

00:34One to Njoku for the touchdown in the end zone.

00:37He played well. He played well.

00:39The only evidence you'd have if I was going to argue against it.

00:45All right? Let's just play a devil's advocate, okay?

00:48Late in the game, you score a touchdown.

00:51All right? Two-point conversion.

00:54To tie the game.

00:55To tie the game and essentially force overtime, right?

00:58And the coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kevin Stefanski, takes you off the field.

01:05Now, mind you, Shadur Sanders threw for like 360 yards, had four total touchdowns.

01:11Yeah, three passing, one rushing.

01:12Right.

01:13He played great.

01:15He played great.

01:15Yeah.

01:16And despite the fact that your quarterback was the best player on your team yesterday,

01:22Miles Cowell got his 20th sack, okay?

01:24So he's two away from breaking the all-time record.

01:26Great.

01:27But you took the guy who had four touchdowns off the field with a two-point conversion and

01:37no time left, essentially, to tie the game.

01:40Now, I know they love the Wildcat.

01:42I know they run it a lot, and they have run it a lot.

01:44They have run it a lot.

01:45Even throughout the now four, three-and-a-half games, that Shadur has been the quarterback.

01:49So this wasn't like out of the blue.

01:52They love the Wildcat.

01:54But the fact that you would take your starting quarterback who is having a dominant game.

02:00Now, I didn't argue it three weeks ago when he wasn't playing very well, and they have

02:06this Wildcat.

02:07It does work.

02:08They've scored touchdowns off of it.

02:09But in this particular case...

02:12Bad weather.

02:13Bad weather.

02:14And your quarterback is balling out.

02:17That's not the time to go to a trick play.

02:21And it wasn't a normal Wildcat either.

02:24It was a reverse and a pitch.

02:26A pitch reverse in the snow?

02:28Yeah.

02:28Like, what are the odds of that working in the best of times?

02:30And obviously, the running back forgot he was supposed to win.

02:33It didn't become just a comedy of errors.

02:35The whole thing got foobarred.

02:36But I'm watching it, you know, because Red Zone has it, you know, boom, two points to

02:40tie the game.

02:40So I'm watching it.

02:42And even me, a guy that is not a Shadur supporter and just kind of wants to see him

02:46earn it or not earn it on merit, I'm not just going to anoint him a great quarterback

02:50without seeing him play like a great quarterback.

02:53But even me, I'm sitting like out yelling at the TV,

02:56you can't take that guy out.

02:59You can't.

03:00You can't.

03:01Like, 360 yards, four touchdowns.

03:04Why in the world would you take him off the field in that spot?

03:09No, and this is why there's people out there, and he keeps adding to it,

03:14that think he hates him.

03:15Because I also tell you this, if you want to say you don't know yet how good he's going

03:20to be, I'm not going to argue with that.

03:21Yeah, I don't.

03:21I feel very comfortable saying this, he's far better than Dylan Gabriel.

03:25I'll give you that.

03:26And how didn't he see it?

03:28And now it starts to be, you know what it is?

03:30You just don't like him personally.

03:31That's why.

03:32There might be some of that.

03:33Now, I'm willing to at least, what I wasn't willing to buy into.

03:37Before.

03:37Back in August and September.

03:39Yeah.

03:39I'm willing to at least listen to that narrative.

03:43I have to be.

03:44Because.

03:44He's clearly, just athletically, he's clearly so much better.

03:50And I wouldn't say poised yet.

03:52He holds on to the ball far too long, so for my liking, and takes bad sacks.

03:55But that's part of being a rookie quarterback.

03:57I'm going to give him some grace on that.

03:59I know he's the same bugaboo about him in college, but.

04:02Yeah, it's a flaw in his game.

04:03I've now seen three and a half games with Shadur Sanders.

04:06The offense has not been great up until yesterday.

04:09I've seen, what was it, six games, five games, whatever it was, with Dylan Gabriel.

04:13You cannot look at those two dudes and tell me at any point, based on watching them with

04:19your eyeballs, that Dylan Gabriel does anything better than Shadur Sanders does.

04:25Now, I don't know about understanding playbook.

04:27I don't understand about any of the practice habits.

04:30I can't speak to that.

04:31But I can speak to watching not every snap of the Browns this year, but a lot of them.

04:36A lot of them.

04:36And I can tell you that those two guys, in a one-on-one competition, on any field in

04:43America, nobody could walk away saying, Dylan Gabriel is better.

04:47Right.

04:47And he kept doubling and tripling down on it.

04:50And it would have been nice to just give the kid, because he's a rookie, the ball, and

04:54see.

04:55Because that's what you do if you believe in the player.

04:58So, that's what we believe in when they're in America, Nick strictly stands and says,

05:05oh, we have a goal, and we're not faster.

05:11We're trying to train about all the players.

05:16And I know that there is an act.

05:17I was pushing on the Browns' activity this year over again.

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