Shedeur Sanders, the Cleveland Browns’ third-string quarterback, stood at a podium and mouthed answers to reporters. The whole thing was a response to Rex Ryan’s on-air critique, but it landed like a glitch in the matrix. It was weird. And it begged a question that had nothing to do with what Sanders wasn’t saying.
Leave it to a guy like Bruce Arians , the former Browns OC and Super Bowl-winning coach, to cut right through the noise. “ Why is the third quarterback getting interviewed? ” he asked on the Up & Adams Show . It’s the kind of simple, devastating question that resets the entire conversation. Look, Arians gets it. He knows Sanders is a personality, that the clicks are tempting. But he also knows the cardinal rule of the NFL grind. The personality, Arians explained, “c