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Longtime Cleveland Browns beat writer Tony Grossi is singing a different tune about rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders after his impressive preseason debut. But there may well be more than Grossi’s change in attitude than meets the eye.
Sanders, who some claimed was being set up to fail by the Browns, did exactly the opposite against the Carolina Panthers. The former Colorado star completed 14-of-23 passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns in one half of action.
Afterward, Grossi, who has been covering the team for four decades, was effusive in his praise of the young signal callers.
“My bottom line on Shedeur Sanders’ impressive debut: He put the pressure on QB2 Kenny Pickett and QB3 Dillon Gabriel to get healthy and perform next week,” Grossi said on X.
But he wasn’t always Sanders’ biggest cheerleader.
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“Tony, (I’m) hoping you’ve got something positive to say about me,” Sanders told Grossi in an awkward interaction between the two in preseason. “You always say negative stuff about me. And I’m like, I ain’t do nothing to you. I ain’t seen nothing positive that you’ve ever said.”
Grossi then broke the tension by jokingly telling Sanders to do something positive, to which Sanders replied “I do something positive every day.”
The two appeared in good spirits as they went their separate ways, and it appears the interaction may have changed the lens through which Grossi sees Sanders.
Sanders’ debut against Carolina isn’t a guarantee of future success. But it was undeniably positive, and the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders said as much afterward.
“…Overall, I felt like I felt like me out there,” he said. I couldn’t do it, of course, without the time. I couldn’t do it without the play call. I couldn’t do it without anything.
“So, I’m just thankful to even be able to have the joy of just being on the field overall, then carrying the responsibility of doing the right thing. So, that’s two badges under my belt already that I got out there. I feel like we operated the huddle really, really good”
A confident Shedeur Sanders is a dangerous Shedeur Sanders for the rest of the NFL, and a potential big time player for the Cleveland Browns.
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