{"id":879974,"date":"2026-05-01T23:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/879974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:33:23","slug":"browns-coach-todd-monken-accidentally-fuels-shilo-sanders-mary-kay-cabot-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/879974\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Coach Todd Monken Accidentally Fuels Shilo Sanders, Mary Kay Cabot Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only May, and yet, the Cleveland Browns<\/a> already have a quarterback controversy on their hands.<\/p>\n

Browns coach Todd Monken announced earlier this year that Dillon Gabriel<\/a>, Shedeur Sanders<\/a> and Deshaun Watson<\/a> would battle for the starting quarterback job. Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reported this week that Watson has the “inside track” at being the Week 1 starter. She even suggested that Cleveland should name him the starter as early as this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith my breaking news here that Deshaun Watson has taken the lead over Shedeur Sanders in the Browns QB competition and has the inside track to win it, I think they should declare him QB1 asap and let the 1st team offense start to cook,\u201d Cabot wrote on social media. \u201cThere\u2019s no time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those comments from Cabot didn’t sit well with Sanders’ brother Shilo<\/a>, who responded by telling Cabot to “make a sandwich.”<\/p>\n

\"DecDec 21, 2025; Cleveland<\/a>, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) warms up prior to a game against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> at Huntington Bank Field. Mandatory Credit: Scott Galvin-Imagn Images\u00a9 Scott Galvin-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Shilo Sanders wasn’t done ripping Cabot publicly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf\u00a0you\u2019re going to be a reporter, be a reporter and report facts,\u201d\u00a0Shilo said.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWhenever you have your opinion, and your opinion is always something hateful to Shedeur, it makes it seem like it\u2019s something weird, like it\u2019s an agenda that you have going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monken didn’t address Shilo Sanders’ harsh remark, but he did say that he’s not ready to name a starting quarterback.<\/p>\n

“Would love to [have a starter before training camp],” Monken told Ken Carman. “But I\u2019m not there yet so I can\u2019t say that. We\u2019ve been on the field 3 days.”<\/p>\n

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Browns fans aren’t thrilled about this situation.<\/p>\n

Now that Monken has said he’s not ready to name a starter, Browns fans are questioning if Cabot has an anti-Shedeur agenda. While there’s zero evidence she does, that won’t stop people from firing off angry tweets.<\/p>\n

“There everyone has it\u2026.straight from the mouth of the actual person who makes the decision,” one fan said.<\/p>\n

“Sounds contradictory to what Mary has told us,” a second fan wrote.<\/p>\n

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“The fact that the coach gotta go on this show to clear up this mess the ownership created and a ‘source’ is ridiculous,” another fan commented.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Sanders will be given the chance to earn the starting job. It’s up to him to actually take advantage of this opportunity.<\/p>\n

If Sanders can’t outperform Watson in practice, there’s zero reason for the Browns to believe he’ll do better in an actual game.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s only May, and yet, the Cleveland Browns already have a quarterback controversy on their hands. Browns coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,53,85,54,2337,563,1033,7,8934,6,32904,17,1362,23813],"class_list":["post-879974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-dillon-gabriel","tag-football","tag-mary-kay-cabot","tag-nfl","tag-quarterback-controversy","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-shilo","tag-todd-monken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116501939375376439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879974","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=879974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}