{"id":702110,"date":"2026-01-24T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702110\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:42:16","slug":"browns-shedeur-sanders-kevin-stefanski-detailed-report-of-extensive-plan-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702110\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Shedeur Sanders, Kevin Stefanski: Detailed report of \u2018extensive\u2019 plan, work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Once the head coach is selected, a ton of attention will return to QB Shedeur Sanders, along <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-news\/111582\/browns-2026-plans-qb-deshaun-watson-contract-role-shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with QB Deshaun Watson<\/a> and QB Dillon Gabriel. Sanders is the lightning rod, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was far more talk about Sanders and his relationship with Stefanski than actual information available about said relationship. Fans and media assumed many things, good or bad, based on what they saw from the outside looking in. The reality is that most reporting noted that Stefanski believed in Sanders but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-roster\/109704\/shedeur-sanders-rumor-browns-starter-plan-dillon-gabriel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">believed he needed to sit for the season<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-roster-players\/112082\/browns-developing-shedeur-sanders-right-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">develop to become the quarterback<\/a> they thought he could become.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A part of the Browns gameday coverage, Aditi Kinkhabwala provided a more detailed breakdown of the work Stefanski did with Sanders and his other quarterbacks, including Gabriel, last season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A lot of details there showing how dedicated Stefanski was to making things work with each of his quarterbacks. Perhaps the most interesting notes are the amount of time spent with Sanders during the time he was inactive and this statement: \u201cwas willing to go away from his core principles to suit either rookie when he was starting.\u201d Did the dedication to developing Sanders hurt Joe Flacco or Gabriel during their time starting. Is it always good to make changes to \u201ccore principles\u201d because of the quarterback?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Obviously, the results were not good for any Cleveland quarterback last season, outside of a game or two, so it didn\u2019t work. On the surface, the process laid out above seems like a strong plan, even if the outcomes didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What popped out to you from the detailed report above? Does that look like a strong process for working with quarterbacks despite the results?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your Stefanski\/QB-related thoughts in the comment section below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once the head coach is selected, a ton of attention will return to QB Shedeur Sanders, along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,85398,1696,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-702110","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-discussion","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-roster","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115951550322452415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702110","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=702110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}