The Cleveland Browns have produced just four winning regular seasons since the turn of the century, and one playoff win since 1994. And it doesn’t seem like things are getting any better for them anytime soon.
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The debut of Shedeur Sanders has created a little bit of a buzz around the team. However, the roster is still just as starved of talent today as it has been for the past several decades.
The mediocre talent in Cleveland is hard to accept for people like Asante Samuel, who had been hoping to see the former Colorado Buffalo succeed in his rookie season. While reflecting on the Browns’ Week 13 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the former New England Patriots star blamed Shedeur’s supporting crew and not the quarterback.
“Jerry Jeudy, go make a play,” exclaimed Samuel. “I saw clips of Jerry Jeudy on Twitter, he was going off on Shedeur on the sideline… As terrible as Jerry Jeudy has been playing, and him not stepping up for the young rookie quarterback, he should be saying nothing. He shouldn’t have anything bad to say about anyone or anything on that team.”
After the game, Shedeur told the press that he felt he and his teammates had “let the coaches down“. But according to Samuel, it’s actually teammates like Jeudy who have been letting Sanders down. This is a bit surprising, as the two-time Super Bowl champion had initially been critical of the 23-year-old former Colorado Buffalo, especially during the early days of his rookie campaign.
Samuel admitted that he had been won over by the improved play of Sanders, before taking more shots and Jeudy.
“I’m just upset to see that Jerry Jeudy thinks he has the right to go off on a young stud in Shedeur Sanders,” said Samuel. He’s out there doing everything he can, man. Jerry Jeudy has [had] like eight drops so far in the past six, seven, or 10 games. It’s just crazy, man… Go make a play, and then you have every right to say something, but make a play first.“
Samuel suggested that there is “nothing to worry about” the future of Sanders, and the comparison between his first two outings as a starter seems to back that up.
After completing just 55% of his 20 pass attempts and throwing an interception in Week 12, Sanders improved substantially in Week 13. He completed 64% of his passes and did a much better job at protecting the football.
He still needs plenty of polishing, but then again, so does everything else in Cleveland. So until a better roster is put together, fans can expect these kinds of criticisms to continue.
