Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders spent another game on the team’s inactive list Sunday, forced to stand and watch helplessly as the team that drafted him in the fifth round this year, 144th overall, took an unceremonious 34-10 trouncing from the Detroit Lions.
On Monday, one former NFL head coach â the last coach to lead the New York Jets into the postseason, 15 years ago â made his feelings about Sanders’ attitude very clear.
“Something’s missing with this kid,” said former Jets and Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan on Monday morning. “This kid talks, runs his mouth like he’s a, I could be a starting quarterback with his arms crossed like this.”
Ryan went on to blast the 23-year-old son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders as “an embarrassment.”
Sanders Says He is ‘Ready’ to Start
Sanders, who has yet to get into an NFL game for even a single down almost a quarter of the way through his rookie season, must have found the experience Sunday especially frustrating, as he watched the Browns’ starting QB â 40-year-old, 18-year veteran Joe Flacco â put in ineffective performance.
Flacco managed to complete just 16 of 34 passes for 184 yards without a touchdown, while throwing two interceptions.
Sanders’ fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel wasn’t any better, replacing Flacco late in the game to throw a single pass, which landed incomplete.
While the often outspoken, flamboyant Sanders has largely made a point of staying above the fray when it comes to the Browns’ quarterback situation, he also last week seemed to hit a breaking point.
Sanders made it clear that he believes he should be playing, and even starting under center for Cleveland which has managed just a 1-3 record while averaging just 14 points scored per game â second-worst in the NFL (the Tennessee Titans have averaged 12.75).
âBased on the situation, if things happen, if things pan out where I play, then Iâll be out there and Iâll be ready to play,” Sanders said, speaking to an ESPN outlet in Cleveland. “Iâm ready to play right now.â
Ryan: Sanders Needs to Sit in Front of Meeting Rooms
In his ESPN Cleveland interview last week, Sanders confidently proclaimed,”if you see the quarterback play in the league right now, I know Iâm capable of doing better than that.”
But Ryan had a suggestion for Sanders.
“Are you sitting in the back of the meeting rooms with scout-team receivers? If you are, get your butt in the front. You probably would be starting,” the former eight-year NFL head coach said.
“Get your a** in the front row and study and do all that,” Ryan continued in his morning rant on the subject of Browns’ quarterbacks. “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.”
At the same time, Ryan appeared puzzled and infuriated the Browns continue to rely on Flacco â the Super Bowl 47 MVP in 2013 â as their starter.
“He canât play anymore. He couldnât play eight years ago,” Ryan said of Flacco. “Heâs your starting quarterback? Give me an absolute break.”
Ryan, in addition to being the last Jets head coach to take the team to the playoffs, also holds the distinction of being the las Buffalo Bills head coach not to take that team to the postseason.
Ryan coached the Bills in 2015 and 2016, missing the playoffs both years. His replacement, Sean McDermott, has led the Bills to the postseason in seven of his eight seasons at the helm.
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