Over the weekend, second-year Cleveland Browns
quarterback Shedeur Sanders mentioned that he felt “it was extremely vital” 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 season break.
Sanders additionally mentioned his relationship with Watson amid the competitors for the crew’s QB1 job.
Shedeur Sanders, Deshaun Watson are “attempting to be the most effective model of ourselves we may very well be”
“It’s the identical factor that we’ve been saying from Day 1,” Sanders defined, per Scott Petrak of BrownsZone. “We’re each attempting to be the most effective model of ourselves we may very well be. So we’re not going to let something get in between of that. So it’s a degree of respect that all of us within the quarterback room have for one another. And we’re probably not emotional with regards to issues that we are able to’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 best.”
Beforehand, concerns had been raised that Watson and Sanders might maintain competing or separate passing camps earlier than veteran Browns gamers are because of 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 season.
“Be the most effective individual I may very well be, whether or not that’s on the sphere, off the sphere, locally, spiritually, emotionally, the whole lot,” Sanders mentioned about his mindset forward of coaching camp. “I simply attempt to be the most effective.”
How issues are totally different for Shedeur Sanders after first season
Right now 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 totally 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 type of what we thrive on. You’ve obtained to earn the respect of your teammates and the whole lot. You simply can’t are available in and dictate. That’s not a type of respect within the locker room, and we perceive that. So it simply took time and loads of relationships and to maintain gamers to have the ability to get on the identical web page and be capable to do it. And it doesn’t really feel compelled.”
Barring a shocking growth, each Sanders and Watson ought to play when Cleveland opens the preseason with a recreation on the Chicago Bears on Aug. 15.
