{"id":300657,"date":"2025-08-19T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/300657\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:18:11","slug":"marcus-spears-calls-out-browns-for-handling-of-qb-competition-impact-on-shedeur-sanders-dillon-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/300657\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Spears calls out Browns for handling of QB competition, impact on Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN\u2019s Marcus Spears<\/a> did not like the way the Cleveland Browns handled their QB competition, especially how it impacted Shedeur Sanders<\/a>. Injuries caused a lot of shuffling around, when it came to reps in practice.<\/p>\n

But with four quarterbacks vying for one job, Cleveland didn\u2019t announce a starter until this week. Of course it was Joe Flacco<\/a>, the long time veteran. That leaves Sanders, fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel<\/a> and an injured Kenny Pickett<\/a> competing for the No. 2 job.<\/p>\n

Spears argued Flacco should\u2019ve been the guy from the get-go. At that point, you have three guys compete for the No. 2 job to eventually take over, maybe even this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should have never been a competition \u2026 Like the plan was, Joe Flacco starts (at quarterback) right,\u201d Spears said on Get Up. \u201cAnd let these three duke it out to figure out who\u2019s going to be our starter eventually \u2026 I don\u2019t know the rep count in practice. I don\u2019t know how many looks they had against the number one defense. I know Myles Garrett rushing is completely different than the other guys that are in there, but that\u2019s what I said after a performance. I said that performance (from Shedeur Sanders) should have bought him more reps of good on good in practice to compete for who was going to be the number two guy to eventually be the number one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sanders got the start against the Carolina Panthers this preseason. He went 14-of-23 passing for 138 yards and two touchdowns while Tyler Huntley played out the rest of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sanders was injured and held out while Gabriel got the start. He went 13-of-18 passing for 143 yards and one interception.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that worries me, and we talked about this last night, is if you\u2019re if you\u2019re getting to this point with Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, and you\u2019re saying we\u2019re two weeks away from the season now we go start treating one of you guys like a backup, and something bad happens to Joe Flacco, both are set up for failure,\u201d Spears said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the part that bothers me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m saying if you didn\u2019t have Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, because Kenny Pickett has been dealing with the injury, obviously, if you didn\u2019t have them getting second team reps, at times getting reps with the ones. And now you going into this point saying, \u2018Hey, Dillon you the two.\u2019 Or \u2018Shedeur, you the two.\u2019 Well, bro, I\u2019m so far behind of what it\u2019s like to be out there with David Njoku, I\u2019m so far behind game-like scenarios that Joe Flacco has been through a million times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Marcus Spears did not like the way the Cleveland Browns handled their QB competition, especially how it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,12952,7,50975,50976,6,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-300657","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-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-dillon-gabriel-19-mililani","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-joe-flacco-03-audubon","15":"tag-kenny-pickett-17-ocean-township","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-shedeur-sanders-21-trinity-leadership"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115055631172803890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300657","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=300657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}