Over the weekend, second-year Cleveland Browns
quarterback Shedeur Sanders stated that he felt “it was extremely essential” that he and veteran signal-caller Deshaun Watson co-hosted a passing camp for teammates in Miami this previous week amid the NFL’s ongoing summer time break.
Sanders additionally mentioned his relationship with Watson amid the competitors for the crew’s QB1 job.
Shedeur Sanders, Deshaun Watson are “making an attempt to be the most effective model of ourselves we could possibly be”
“It’s the identical factor that we’ve been saying from Day 1,” Sanders defined, per Scott Petrak of BrownsZone. “We’re each making an attempt to be the most effective model of ourselves we could possibly be. So we’re not going to let something get in between of that. So it’s a stage of respect that all of us within the quarterback room have for one another. And we’re not likely emotional in terms of issues that we will’t management. We primarily give attention to and thrive on getting higher within the work day by day. So if I like one thing he’s doing, I ask. If he likes one thing I do, then (he) ask. It’s dialog, and that’s what’s only.”
Beforehand, concerns have been raised that Watson and Sanders may maintain competing or separate passing camps earlier than veteran Browns gamers are attributable to report for coaching camp on July 28. That proved to not be the case, and it looks as if the 2 quarterbacks are positively pushing one another this summer time.
“Be the most effective individual I could possibly be, whether or not that’s on the sphere, off the sphere, locally, spiritually, emotionally, all the things,” Sanders stated about his mindset forward of coaching camp. “I simply attempt to be the most effective.”
How issues are completely different for Shedeur Sanders after first season
At the moment final yr, former Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski had Sanders buried on the depth chart. Whereas Watson reportedly will enter coaching camp with a lead within the quarterback battle, Sanders allegedly is not far behind.
“It’s only a completely different house that we’re all in,” Sanders added about what has modified with new head coach Todd Monken main the Browns. “As a crew, as people, all of us really feel extra assured in ourselves, and that’s sort of what we thrive on. You’ve obtained to earn the respect of your teammates and all the things. You simply can’t are available and dictate. That’s not a type of respect within the locker room, and we perceive that. So it simply took time and numerous relationships and to maintain gamers to have the ability to get on the identical web page and be capable of do it. And it doesn’t really feel compelled.”
Barring a shocking improvement, each Sanders and Watson ought to play when Cleveland opens the preseason with a sport on the Chicago Bears on Aug. 15.
