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DETROIT, MICHIGAN – SEPTEMBER 28: Shedeur Sanders #12 of the Cleveland Browns looks on against the Detroit Lions during the fourth quarter at Ford Field on September 28, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Mike Mulholland\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
For the\u00a0Browns, it is a mostly hopeless situation at this point, no matter what decision the team makes next at quarterback. They want to keep\u00a0Dillon Gabriel\u00a0going as the starter, despite the fact that his struggles seem to be getting worse with each start, not better. He has completed only 58.6% of his passes and is averaging just 170.0 yards passing per game, for a rating of 80.4.<\/p>\n
At Pro Football Focus, Gabriel has notched a grade of 49.9, which ranks 37th out of 37 graded quarterbacks this season.<\/p>\n
The choice, then, is to stick with Gabriel and continue to watch his conservative yet inefficient style, or to pull the plug on him and essentially admit that the five games with him at the helm were a wasteful experiment. Making matters more untenable for the Browns is that QB2\u00a0Shedeur Sanders\u00a0is in the background, and there has been a rising call for him to get a shot at the job.<\/p>\n
That public pressure has been there for much of the season, but has gotten more intense and more widespread\u2013you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a talking head on the national sports scene who has not taken a swipe at the Browns for their mismanagement of the quarterbacking situation and their unwarranted devotion to Gabriel.<\/p>\n
Publicly, the Browns remain committed to starting Gabriel. Coach Kevin Stefanski was asked, as he always is, about the possibility of playing Sanders this week, and he demurred as he always does. He\u2019s sticking with Gabriel.<\/p>\n
If Browns fans are hoping that, behind the scenes, there is a shift going on that could result in Gabriel finally being benched and Sanders being elevated to starter, well they got some bad news from ESPN league insider Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n
He wrote on Wednesday: \u201cComing out of the Week 9 bye, the Browns\u2019 plan was to give Dillon Gabriel\u00a0a fairly long runway of games to evaluate what they have in him. But as we see with young quarterbacks and teams in transition all the time, those plans can change.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe public pressure in Cleveland is mounting. But I simply haven\u2019t sensed that the Browns have been eager to turn to Shedeur Sanders.\u201d<\/p>\n
And so we can expect to see more Gabriel in the future. Certainly, he will be on the field in Week 11 against the\u00a0Ravens, a team that has won three straight and is finally getting its defense together\u2013Baltimore has held four straight foes below 20 points.<\/p>\n
It will take a better overall effort offensively, not just from Gabriel, to hang with the Ravens,\u00a0Stefanski said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our job as coaches and certainly the players to go be productive on offense,\u201d Stefanski said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very, I understand that a lot of the focus goes to the quarterback position, but I look at it also globally and try to look at ways that we can improve across the board, whether it\u2019s how we\u2019re designing some of those plays, who were putting in those spots in some of those plays. I think that\u2019s as big a part of it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
East Rutherford, November 11, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Just hours after being dramatically fired by the New York Giants on Tuesday morning, former head coach\u00a0<\/p>\n Buffalo Bills<\/strong>, the team where he reached the peak of his career as offensive coordinator (OC) before departing in 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you, Giants, for the four-year ride. But if Sean McDermott has a spare seat on the bus in Orchard Park, I\u2019m ready to hold the play sheet again \u2014 as long as I can call plays for Josh Allen one more time. #BillsMafia, can I come home?\u201d<\/p>\n Attached was a throwback photo of Daboll and\u00a0Josh Allen<\/strong>\u00a0from the 2021 playoffs, alongside the hashtag\u00a0#TakeMeBackToBuffalo<\/strong>, which rocketed to the\u00a0No. 3 trending topic globally<\/strong>\u00a0within 90 minutes.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Bills Mafia<\/strong>\u00a0responded like fireworks: over\u00a0120,000 likes<\/strong>,\u00a025,000 retweets<\/strong>, and a flood of \u201cDaboll coming home\u201d memes filled X timelines. One fan joked,\u00a0\u201cYou left us for New York \u2014 fine. But if you\u2019re coming back, bring wings for the whole team!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n