As far as the rookie quarterbacks go, it\u2019s an assumption many believe that both will be on the roster come Week 1, but in what order? Throughout the duration of minicamp, to OTA\u2019s leading up to training camp, Gabriel has received most 1st team reps with a mixture of 2nd team reps, while Sanders has been relegated to 2nd, 3rd team reps but hasn\u2019t received any 1st team reps. So why is that?<\/p>\n
The Browns have a plan, but it\u2019s flawed<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a plan that was flawed from the start, but the team is trying their best to make it work. Considering how bad the quarterback play was last season and how it derailed the entire season, the team decided to exhaust all of its options at quarterback.<\/p>\n
Whether it was signing Flacco, trading for Pickett or drafting two rookies, the team wanted to explore all options. However, the plan was going to have flaws from the start.<\/p>\n
Having to distribute reps evenly between all four quarterbacks was going to be difficult. It\u2019s clear that Flacco was likely to start Week 1, but trying to get reps between the two rookies was always going to be a challenge. You can only have so many reps you can distribute evenly and it can disrupt the flow of the offense when you have a revolving door of quarterbacks playing with the 1\u2019s and 2\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Browns like Gabriel & Sanders, but neither is likely the long-term answer<\/p>\n
If I am wrong about this in the future, so be it. When the Browns drafted Gabriel in the 3rd round, it was a shock to everyone. The same can be said for Sanders when he fell all the way to the 5th round and the Browns traded up to get him. As far as who was better coming out of college, it\u2019s clear Sanders was a better prospect than Gabriel.<\/p>\n
Gabriel doesn\u2019t have a ton of redeeming traits and he doesn\u2019t have a high ceiling, but Sanders has some traits while having a low ceiling. Both quarterbacks are different, but neither should be considered the long-term answer for this team. Their draft positioning and Cleveland adding a second first-round pick in a trade down earlier in the NFL draft are proof of this thinking from the team.<\/p>\n
Sanders got his opportunity in a live setting in the preseason opener against the Carolina Panthers and he took full advantage of it due to Gabriel being out nursing a hamstring injury. With Sanders having the performance he had in the preseason, it puts pressure on Gabriel to match or somewhat emulate the performance Sanders had if he gets a chance to play on Saturday against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n
The entire QB situation is a complicated one, but the team will likely get clarity on this situation with the preseason winding down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As far as the rookie quarterbacks go, it\u2019s an assumption many believe that both will be on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,51955,4397,3295,1696,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-292968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-depth-chart","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-draft","13":"tag-cleveland-browns-free-agency","14":"tag-cleveland-browns-roster","15":"tag-clevelandbrowns","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115038994187965137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}