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The\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0could soon have to make an interesting quarterback decision.<\/p>\n
Dillon Gabriel is still the starting quarterback, but fans have called for\u00a0Shedeur Sanders\u00a0to start games. Yet,\u00a0Deshaun Watson\u00a0is inching closer to a return, as he could have his practice window activated in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
However, even if Watson is healthy, Browns insider Ken Carman doesn\u2019t think the veteran will start or play in any games this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ready for someone new. I\u2019m ready for name whoever it is,\u201d Carman\u00a0said on 92.3 The Fan. \u201cAs this season goes, I\u2019m ready for Shedeur. I don\u2019t have very much belief that Deshaun Watson will get his career restarted anywhere else, and even if he does, fine. The fans don\u2019t like him here; this has been a nasty chapter in our history here. I\u2019m getting Facebook invites for when the guy gets cut, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t want him out there. If I\u2019m looking at it from a football sense and I\u2019m just a football coach, yeah, of course, what Albert Breer says is true. But, I\u2019m not; I talk to fans every single day of my life. And, they don\u2019t want him out there. The ones who do have just given up. You are curious to see Shedeur.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carman believes Watson\u2019s time with the Browns was a failure, and he shouldn\u2019t play another game for the team, even if he is healthy.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Browns insider thinks Cleveland should stick with Gabriel and start Sanders later on in the season before finding a franchise quarterback in the offseason.<\/p>\n
Although Carman doesn\u2019t want to see Watson play for the Browns, the veteran quarterback is closing in on a return.<\/p>\n
Watson has been showing videos of himself training, and Cleveland could activate his 21-day\u00a0practice window very soon, according to insider Mary Kay Cabot.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeshaun Watson continues to make excellent progress in his comeback from a re-ruptured Achilles, but the Browns aren\u2019t opening his 21-day practice window this week,\u201d\u00a0Cabot said, citing a league source. \u201cThe Browns will wait at least until least Week 12 against the\u00a0Raiders\u00a0to designate Watson for return from reserve\/Physically Unable to Perform. They expect to have more clarity on his timeframe over the next couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said on Monday that he wasn\u2019t sure what the plan for Watson is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u201d\u00a0Stefanski said.<\/p>\n
Watson has been out for more than a year due to an Achilles injury. He had a setback in January, which resulted in a second surgery.<\/p>\n
As Cleveland was searching for their franchise quarterback, the team made a bold move to acquire Watson from the\u00a0Houston Texans.<\/p>\n
The Browns acquired Watson in a package that included three first-round picks. Cleveland then signed Watson to a $230 million contract that was fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
Due to his poor play and injuries, the trade hasn\u2019t worked out, and before the season, Browns co-owner Jimmy Haslam called the trade a big swing-and-miss.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took a big swing-and-miss with Deshaun,\u201d Haslam\u00a0said. \u201cWe thought we had the quarterback; we didn\u2019t. And we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him, so we\u2019ve got to dig ourselves out of that hole. \u2026 (The trade) was an entire organization decision and it ends with Dee (Haslam) and I, so hold us accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watson went 9-10 as the starting quarterback for the Browns.<\/p>\n
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Gardner Minshew is in a situation he hasn’t been in too often, given how his NFL career has played out.<\/p>\n
Often in quarterback battles in preseason, going back to his Jacksonville Jaguars days in 2019 and 2020, along with stints with the Indianapolis Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders last year, Minshew has always been in with a shot at playing in the regular season.<\/p>\n
But now, coming to a franchise that has Patrick Mahomes as its quarterback, Minshew isn’t about to beat out No. 15 for the starting role. So his position is a little different from what he is used to.<\/p>\n
So, how does he approach it?<\/p>\n
“Just the same,” Minshew said. “Every day you’re out here to get better, you know? It’s for the coaches to do the competition, for them to take stats and figure out. For us, for me, it’s just getting out there and getting better with every rep, trying to learn, not make the same mistakes, and push myself in the ways that the coaches are asking me to push myself.”<\/p>\n
So Minshew’s approach doesn’t change, and he got some nice work in the 20-17 preseason loss to the Arizona Cardinals, going six for nine for 54 yards, while he also rushed for a touchdown before being asked to take a seat.<\/p>\n
It is all a learning process, and Minshew isn’t in a battle with Mahomes for the starting role; he’s in a battle with himself to get better every day so that, in the event he is needed at some point in the regular season, he can operate Andy Reid’s offense well enough.<\/p>\n
Minshew feels content where he is right now, and when you have the best head coach\/quarterback duo to learn from, it makes it that much easier to love what you’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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