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By Matthew Couden
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With quarterback Shedeur Sanders part of the ongoing competition to become QB1 for the Cleveland Browns, he recently addressed how the media sometimes gets carried away with their reporting.
At Wednesday's Browns practice, he was asked for his reaction to veteran quarterback Deshaun Watson getting his first-team reps the other day.
"Whatever's said is direct. ... We was informed and everything the right way, so it was never a miscommunication between us," Sanders said, per Cleveland.com's Mary Kay Cabot. "I just don't really appreciate sometimes, if things happen and y'all just jump on the coach like he's tripping or something, I don't really like that, because it just creates extra, and I hope y'all here to want to win and be a team and be a franchise.
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"It's kinda like we gotta slow down, you know, that's what we want, but if we just in here to just make money and get clicks then you know we understand that too," he added. "I appreciate the team. I appreciate everybody that we don't let anything online or anything really get to us because we're in our own cocoon, we're a team. So, anything outside of that don't really affect us in the building."
Sanders became the Browns' starting quarterback in the second half of last season. He went 3-4 in seven starts and threw for 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns, and 10 interceptions.
Watson, the Browns' veteran quarterback, was out for the entire season while recovering from a January 2025 surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon, which he had torn again in a rehabilitation setback. However, with Watson healthy, that has put pressure on Monken and his staff to figure out which QB will be the better option to begin their season.
Throughout the battle for the QB1 spot between Watson and Sanders, Monken hasn't indicated he's leaning toward one player over the other. The other day, Monken addressed the QB battle and shut down a reporter whom he thought was trying to trap him into saying Watson was "better" than Sanders recently at practice.
As of this writing, a starter hadn't been announced for Saturday's preseason game against the Chicago Bears, and Monken has said both Watson and Sanders will start a game during their preseason slate.
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