Richard Sherman REACTS to Shedeur Sanders being PULLED for Browns 2-point conversion vs. Titans

Richard Sherman REACTS to Shedeur Sanders being PULLED for Browns 2-point conversion vs. Titans

Hey everybody, I appreciate you joining us as always. You guys are phenomenal. You’re the best in the world. You’re watching the Richard Sherman podcast, but if you could do me a huge favor and hit that sub button, it would be greatly appreciated. You would do a a service for your boy Sherm. And I tell you what, I got your back. You got my back. All love. Richard, let’s take it to the Shadore Sanders land in Cleveland. Uh the Browns. I mean, talk about a game that you did not expect to be good against the Tennessee Titans, but Shador Sanders put up 364 yards, three touchdowns, uh, brings back the Browns against a double-digit deficit against these lowly Titans and almost ties it up late, but for probably one of the most ridiculous two-point conversion calls that I’ve ever seen in recent memory. But let’s talk Shadore Sanders. It looks to me like Cleveland might have found someone here for the future. I know you like Shador Sanders. You’ve stood on the podium and sung praises to this man’s name for the last couple of years. Are you liking what you see right now despite the loss? No question. I love what I saw from Shador Sanders today. Obviously, there’s still some some growth there and there’s growth. Every rookie quarterback, whoever steps in the National Football League will have growth. They’ll have growth each game. They’ll have things you could do better. But do you see the potential? Do you see an NFL quarterback? Do you see NFL level throws? Do you see NFL level decision-making? You see all those things with Shador Sanders. You saw a dime of a throw on his first touchdown pass um to his first touchdown pass was to Nooku. Um it was a pinpoint pass, tight coverage, him off of his back foot. Maybe not the best footwork in the world, but accurate pass for a touchdown. Then you see a a really beautifully layered throw to uh Jerry Judy that ends up in a in a touchdown. Jerry Judy catches the ball in stride, does the rest, gets the ball to the end zone in a in a huge I think it was a 60-yard touchdown pass. But you saw great things from Shadore. He even did did it with his legs. He he had a 14 yard um touchdown run where he sacri or um I think it was around 14 yards touchdown run where he sacrificed his body. He ended up with four total touchdowns in this game. And the underlying thing I I I know you don’t you don’t worry about storylines and and and these these background stories, but he was playing against Cam Ward and they they’re known to be really good friends. Cam Ward obviously the number one pick in the draft and he was outplayed today by Shador Sanders and and far outplayed. Shador Sanders had was 23 of 42 for 364, three passing touchdowns. did have a a really bad I mean not a bad INT but a INT you don’t want a pass I’m sure he would would have wanted back he was a little high trying to take a shot down the field um Woods making him pay for it again a learning opportunity he’s not the only one to throw an interception he’s not the first won’t be the last but what you did see in this game was consistency from you saw hey when the when when it’s not there he’s either he’s either getting the ball throwing the ball away or he’s eating it he only took two sacks in this game. That’s growth. And I’m sure the offensive line for the for the uh Cleveland Browns is excited to hear that because that’s one of the knocks on Shador Sanders. He holds the ball too long. He takes unnecessary sacks that puts his team in a really difficult situation. He’s a guy that really values completion percentage. So sometimes he doesn’t throw the ball away as much as he probably should. I think today he threw all that out the window. Said, “Hey, whatever it takes to win, uh, I’m going to do.” in a in a game where the run game wasn’t necessarily as effective as it usually is. The run game for the Cincinnati Bengals, I mean, for the Cleveland Browns is something they usually lean on. Um Judkins has been phenomenal this season has has really been productive, but today it just wasn’t his day. He had 14 carries for 26 yards, only 1.9 a carry average. But sure, Doris Sanders carried carried the the the weight this game. He did a good job each and every drive of making good decisions, figuring out where he needs to go, going through his progressions, and that’s growth. That’s what you would expect. He played like a guy, not like a guy picked in the fifth round. He played like a guy you would have, if you didn’t know any better, would have thought was picked in the first round and probably should have been picked in the first or second round of this draft, but you know, that’s not here nor there. There are quarterbacks in the league playing worse than him, drafted a lot higher. But who who am I? I’m just a humble servant. The questionable thing and frustrating, probably the most frustrating thing in this game if you’re just a casual fan, not even if you’re a fan of the Titans or or the Browns was the two-point conversion at the end. Shador Sanders drives this team down the field. Scores it. They score the touchdown and you’re like, “Okay, all right. They need a two-point conversion. What are they going to do?” This guy has been fantastic. They put the ball in his hands 42 times. He’s completed 23 passes, 364 yards. What is he going to do this time? Even if you decide to run it, the running game isn’t isn’t doing great. But you take him out the game. You take him out the game on the most critical play of the game. And then Judkins, who’s not a quarterback, who’s who’s a really good running back, I believe, and is going to be a really good running back in the future, forgets on a on a Oh my god, Mitchell. on on a play where it’s a Wildcat and you know so much was going through his head so much. He had to he had to give the play call. He had to do this. He had to do that and then he forgets to pitch the ball. Mitchell, he had taken five steps past the guy he was supposed to pitch the ball to before he remembered, “Oh my god, I’m supposed to pitch the ball.” And then tried to turn around and throw it back to the guy. That’s what we do for the game. Like I I think Stansky has done a done a pretty solid job in Cleveland. And I think he’s he’s done some good things, especially early on. He won coach of the year a couple times, but my goodness was that awful. My goodness, was that awful. And I and I know he’s going to be criticized of it because of how polarizing Shador is in America right now. And Shor played a fantastic game. He gave you a chance to win the game. He gave you a chance to tie it. And you say, “Hey, we’re gonna take you out. We’re gonna we’re gonna we’re gonna we’re going to give the play to a guy who doesn’t really call plays in the most critical time in the game and we’re going to see if he can do it. We’re going to we’re going to say, “Hey, can our rookie running back get us where we need to be?” Mitchell, that’s what they said. They said they said, “We’re going to give our put put the game in our rookie running back’s hands. He’s going to call the right play. do make the right decision instead of our rookie quarterback who plays quarterback whose job it is to call plays and run plays. We’re just gonna take him out and and win. See see what happens. I if I’m not Cleveland Browns defense, I am frustrated. I am pissed. I am pissed. I mean, they didn’t play the their greatest game by by any means. They gave up 31 points, but what was that, Kevin Stfansky? I I don’t I I I can’t I’m sure somebody can explain that play. Somebody can can peel back the layers and tell me why they went with a rookie running back Wildcat. They sure they’ve had some success with it. Sure. But Mitchell, you want to you want to put on that tinfoil cap with me here, Richard? I got a conspiracy for you. Let’s put it on. I mean, I I think Kevin Stfans is a good coach. I think he’s underrated. I would I wouldn’t mind him as my head coach if I was the Cleveland Browns, but they’re three and 10, three and nine. You know, Titans are 1 and 11. There’s something called draft positioning, right? I mean, this Cleveland Browns team is not going to make the playoffs. Richard, could he have gotten this from ownership? Hey, Kevin, uh, we got this this play that, uh, the owner wants to run. Why don’t we try it out now? We don’t want to win this game anyways. Cuz that’s kind of what it looked like to me. looks like, seems like, feels like the Cleveland Browns did not actually want to win this game, Richard. Uh, that being said, I will say this about Cleveland. You know, next year it’s they’re bringing back Deshun Watson and his massive cap hit. There’s nothing you can do about that. Once this team gets out from under that huge mistake that they made and getting rid of Baker Mayfield and bringing in Deshawn, uh, I think you might have something with Shadore here. I mean, you’re going to have a ton of cap space. You’re still going to have Miles Garrett in his prime. Who knows? I mean, maybe Cleveland is actually doing something smart by losing this game. Yeah, I I I want to see that vision, Mitchell. I want to say, “Oh, man. They they’re they’re above the brain. They’re big brain in this thing.” But they’re not. They’re not. They’re not big brain in this thing. You could have lost a game in OT, Mitchell. You There’s many other ways you could lose a game. Like if if you’re telling me you you decided, hey, we’re going to do this to lose the game, it’s FBI is going to add to their investigation. No question about it. And Steph Kevin Stfansky is going to be on that list. But I I really don’t know what they do at quarterback next season. It’s going to be a crowded quarterback room. What do you do with a healthy Deshun Watson? There are a lot of QB needy teams. Every year there’s going to be a QB needy team. Does anybody still believe in Deshun Watson like that? Potentially. Can he has some add some value to somebody? Probably not for that contract because not a lot of people are going to want to pay him that money. Are you desperate enough to eat that salary for maybe a couple draft picks? Those are decisions they’re going to have to make, but the way Stfansky talks about Shidor Sanders and I mean maybe he talks about all rookie quarterbacks and young quarterbacks this way. It doesn’t seem like like a guy that’s excited about him, like a guy that he’s excited about playing and and excited for his success. And I didn’t hear him after this game. I didn’t have a chance to to hear his press conference after this game. But if you listen to to the way Vel talks about Drake May, you know, or or even even the way Shawn Peyton talks about Bon Knicks or, you know, guy coaches who speak confidence into their young quarterbacks, there’s something to be said about that. There’s something to be said to to know that your coach and play caller thinks highly of you, thinks you can get the job done, believes you’re the guy. And obviously, they didn’t believe Shadur was the guy because if they thought he was the guy, they would have drafted him higher. They drafted Dylan Gabriel higher. So that’s the guy who obviously in their mind in the in the ownership’s mind, in the front office’s mind, in the coach’s mind is the better player. Now, Shadore has played better. Like I Dylan Gabriel doesn’t have a game comparable to this where he in my opinion where he had four four total touchdowns in a game where he threw for 364 where he looked like an NFL quarterback. A lot of Dylan Gabriel’s games were sometimes efficientish, but they were conservative. He just was trying to play no risk football. Hey, I’m not going to push the ball down the field. I don’t want to risk a turnover. So, I’m just going to lean on my defense and run game and hope for the best. Shador Sanders is playing, hey, I will push that. I will push it down the field. And now, they do throw screens and he benefits from some yak and running backs making big plays, but running back fumbled the ball today. It it hurt this team. That’s probably a big reason they lost this game as well. But I think Shador Sanders showed he’s an NFL quarterback and he can be a really good NFL quarterback if he continues to develop and continues to build on this. And I know people talked about how arrogant he was like, “Oh man, this is only a week of practice. This is only a week of practice.” Like what what like that’s it just rubs people the wrong way. And and for people that have grown up in that culture and grown up in neighborhoods like that where you have to be where you have to to walk it like you talk it, where you have to back up what you say, where you have to really be about what you say you’re about. It didn’t sound that crazy to me. sound like a guy who who knows himself, who who been through the fire, who thinks he can go through the fire and knows he can do the job he’s being asked to do. And that’s sometimes what is needed. Maybe every other quarterback doesn’t doesn’t outwardly say it, but they feel it. I guarantee you. I guarantee you Drake May feels he’s the best quarterback in the National Football League. I’m not even gonna talk about the top five guys, Josh Allen and Burrow and Lamar and and and uh Aaron Rogers and talk about how they feel about themselves when they step on that football field because there is no doubt. So, a young kid just outwardly displaying it. It’s it’s going to always rub people the wrong way. But so what? So what? Maybe that’s why y’all not special. Maybe that’s maybe maybe you need to change the way you feel about yourself to be able to go out into the world and perform like you’re capable to really to really realize your potential. Maybe that’s not the the right way to do things in your eyes, but there are many ways to skin a cat, many ways to have success and many ways to play this game. And that’s part of the journey. Maybe one day Shador Sanders will wake up and be like, uh, I don’t really want to play it like that no more. I want to I want to go a different route. I want to I want to be quiet, speak up on my teammates. But he speaks highly of his teammates. He celebrates his teammates. He speak He does the things. He doesn’t throw his quarterback, I mean his coach under the bus at all when when coach makes obvious mistakes. I’m sure after in his press conference, they’re going to ask him, “What did you feel about Kevin Stfansky’s decision to take you from under center and put Judkins in on the most critical part of the game?” And he’s probably going to say, “Hey, I trust my coach. Hey, if that’s what they decide, that’s what they think is best. That’s what we got to go with. I’m just excited to be a part of this team and a part of this organization.” He says the right things. So, it’s frustrating when guys treat treat young quarterbacks a certain way that that believe in themselves. But, you know, it is what it is. It’s me.

Richard Sherman reacts to the wild Cleveland Browns vs. Tennessee Titans matchup, where rookie QB Shedeur Sanders delivered his best NFL performance yet—364 yards and four touchdowns—only for Cleveland’s coaching staff to spark national outrage with a bizarre 2-point conversion decision that took the ball out of Shedeur’s hands in the biggest moment of the game. Sherman explains what went wrong, whether the Browns cost themselves a win, how Shedeur outplayed No. 1 pick Cam Ward, and what this game means for Cleveland’s future QB plans. Full analysis, film-level insight, and unfiltered reaction from Sherm.

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