CLEVELAND, Ohio — Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders conducted an odd pantomime interview on Wednesday at the team facility in Berea.
The interview came after the team announced that fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel will start on Sunday vs. the Vikings in London and that Sanders will remain the third quarterback.
However, the interview was done as a response to ESPN analyst Rex Ryan, who ripped Sanders for comments he made to ESPN Cleveland about how confident he felt that he could be better than some quarterbacks currently playing.
“This kid talks and he runs his mouth,” Ryan said on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Monday morning. “Like he said, ‘I can be a starting quarterback’ with his arms crossed like this. Get your a– in the front row and study and do all that. If I know, the whole league knows.
“Quit being an embarrassment that way. You’ve got the talent to be the quarterback you should be. You should be embarrassed that you’re not the quarterback now.”
Here is some of the reaction to Sanders’ response to Ryan.
Among the ones who reacted to Sanders was Ryan’s colleague at ESPN in Dan Orlovsky.
“Every single thing that you do at that position, no matter where you rank, is an interview. And yesterday, the question is, did you help yourself within your building?” Orlovsky said on Thursday’s episode of “Get Up.”
“Is there something where the people within your building could point to and say, ‘He’s getting it. I want that guy as part of my football team. He’s going to make us better. Our team, our organization is better because he’s here.’
“At that position, everyone always has an opinion on you. Always. No matter how good you are. That’s obviously not what happened. You can be fun, don’t act like a clown. You got to be a professional all the time.”
Another ESPN analyst, Ryan Clark, responded to Orlovsky on “First Take” by discussing how unique Sanders’ situation is.
“There are no other third quarterbacks on the depth chart getting interviewed every day. There are no other third quarterbacks being asked, ‘Why aren’t you No. 2? Why aren’t you starting? What do you need to show to the world, to the organization in order to be that guy?’” Clark said. “There’s also a part for Shedeur Sanders that all of this, the scrutiny, the way he’s criticized, the wordage, the wording that’s used is unfair to him. But it’s where he is. He has to be aware of that.”
Rich Eisen also had his own reaction on Wednesday during The Rich Eisen Show.
“It’s not going to be helpful for people who are trying to, you know, tear him down. And it’s not going to be helpful. If you want to be taken seriously in this league, it’s not going to be helpful. It just won’t,” Eisen said. “And even if he’s trying to make a point that you’re going to use words against me, I think, you know, or whatever, it’s you still you’re still going to be criticized no matter what.”
On Thursday, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio dropped a video explaining that while there needs to be context applied to what Sanders said, he felt Sanders went about it the wrong way.
“He shouldn’t care,” Florio said. “The problem is it’s one thing to react in a way that makes the person who said what they said look bad and everybody kind of knows why you did what you did. What Shedeur did yesterday, I think a lot of people are gonna see that and say, ‘Well that’s weird,’ because they’re not going to understand the whole story.
“They’re just thinking that this is his reaction to not being the starter. This is his reaction to being the third-string quarterback. I just think that it was a clunky look for Shedeur and it’s gonna put a lot of people off because they’re not gonna understand that what he was doing was reacting to a guy he shouldn’t bother reacting to anyway.”
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