The Shedeur Sanders situation was a mess — from his fall to Round 5 to how the discourse unfolded, this wasn’t just a surprise, it was embarrassing across the board. In this NFL Draft Recap from Couch Potato Diary, we dig into Shedeur’s landing spot in Cleveland, the QB room chaos, and where the narrative went completely sideways.
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00:00the NFL world was on the edge of its seat waiting for Shadira Sanders to get drafted
00:11and waiting and waiting and waiting uh that that was it it got out of control the whole thing
00:18got so out of control and look we talked about it a couple of months ago with our um quarterback
00:25needy teams and everything like that and the desperation that comes with that and I will say
00:30I kudos to NFL teams for not doing what NFL teams have done for a very long time and that is well
00:38we need a quarterback draft a quarterback need him we gotta get him let's do it um because I feel like
00:45there would be a lot of drafts where Shadir would have gone very early now do I think he fell too
00:51much yes I do I absolutely do um that like he is better than a fifth round pick there's there's no
00:56question about that from a talent aspect he is so much better than a a fifth round pick but uh like
01:05also like the talk of him going second at some point well he wasn't the second best prospect in
01:09the draft when we did the quarterback needy episode a while ago like during the NFL season um Cam Ward
01:15was the ninth best player on people's boards and Shadir I think was 15 was kind of a consensus where
01:21he was at and so drafting that guy second can set your franchise back a little bit because while I
01:26do think that Shadir has um quite a bit going for him I also don't believe that he should be a starter
01:33year one and so like the talk of well he like New Orleans needs a quarterback Pittsburgh needs a
01:38quarterback like that is doing him a gigantic disservice to put him in a spot where he needs to
01:44go out and needs to be successful right especially with Pittsburgh to go out and battle with Lamar Jackson
01:49and Joe Burrow four times a year and try to keep up with those teams in the playoffs while also
01:55having to deal with Mahomes and Allen um and all these teams in the AFC to try to grow into a
02:01playoffs but while also trying to overcome what are some talent deficiencies in his game that's just
02:07that's not fair to him it probably also wouldn't have been fair to just throw him out there with
02:11the Saints although you don't really have that same level of competition and so maybe you could get
02:14away with it but um I I do think that there is a lot of discussions that need to be had and I do
02:22think that for a very long time and probably still there are a lot of things that you can look at in
02:29the NFL and if it's like a hmm that seems a little bit questionable questionable pointing to racism
02:34doesn't seem like it is the weird the biggest stretch to go to when you look at how some NFL people
02:40are treated how some other NFL people are treated how some NFL people are talked about and how other
02:44NFL people are talked about so I I could absolutely see where if you saw this situation playing out
02:51and you just wanted to walk by and be like ah that's racism you can you I can see where you would get to
02:56on that one I I genuinely and look as a white dude in Canada maybe this isn't my place to decide no
03:02I I am not the the high court of this or anything like that but I think that there are at least a few
03:07footbally things that you can use to justify it uh not racism but uh to to justify the the Shador
03:15Sanders falling at least here so I um I think the big one and it's deeds mentioning it in the chat
03:24the reports of him ignoring some teams during interviews is crazy he is either getting some
03:29really really bad advice or that's probably it like he or just has an inflated sense of self
03:36which it's probably both right like that there wasn't um because he's him and his family is what
03:43it is he didn't really have an official agent and I think that is the first thing they needed to keep
03:48the Dion aspect of it kind of at arm's reach a little bit and that was one of the things coming
03:52out of their camp was that oh this is an attack on Dion I was like well if he is so attackable why do
03:56you have him so close to the kid then and I get like father-son relationship and it's that is something
04:01that is kind of overlooked in all of this because of how they portray themselves sometimes is that
04:04it's really cool that that was a relationship that played out over the last four years in college
04:09and now that this is going to be an NFL thing that they share like that's a really really cool thing
04:15that could be happening here um but if if this is how it's going to play out it was a gigantic misstep
04:22the advantage of being that the nepo kid is Dion has been in the NFL and he understands kind of how
04:30the game works and all those different things and so as a coach too and as a recruiter you have to
04:36know that you can't go in with that sort of a thing look if he wants to sandbag an interview with
04:42the Chiefs that seems that Kansas City's probably set at quarterback right although given how this
04:47whole thing played out I would suggest that maybe him being the backup to Mahomes wouldn't have been
04:52the worst thing you know um but yeah to unless you are like look at this draft right now uh that
04:59we just had Cam Ward I don't even think Cam Ward could have effectively ignored and sandbagged
05:06interviews you had a pretty good idea that he was going to go one to the Tennessee Titans but they
05:11were saying look we're not going to pass up generational talents well that's Travis Hunter and that's
05:14Abdul Carter um like and then after that like again there are certain teams that need a quarterback
05:20you probably don't need an interview with the Patriots they got their guy um but other than
05:25that like I don't even think Cam Ward could have really just passed on a lot of interviews Travis
05:31Hunter could have Travis Hunter didn't need to take an interview with the Packers he wasn't getting
05:36down to he wasn't getting down to the Falcons down at 15 okay that wasn't happening he would the
05:41furthest he was going was three uh maybe four if teams got a little frisky with the quarterbacks there
05:47but then after that like yeah he probably didn't need to I was gonna say he didn't need to
05:50take an interview with Jacksonville Jacksonville ends up taking him uh which is also the other
05:53part of the Shador thing like ah I'm not gonna be there when you guys draft like have you heard
05:56of trades have you seen some of the dumb trades that have been made we just saw Ricky Williams on
06:01a podcast the Saints traded their whole draft class for that guy so I I don't think you can dismiss anyone
06:07if you are a quarterback and there are teams potentially moving up for you in the draft um so
06:12yes two guys two guys in this entire draft could have um sat out the the interview process so that is
06:18it is an arrogance and it is just a level of dumb that should not be happening around that kid the
06:25other part of it is that if he is not going to start for you is that a distraction you really want
06:33and I don't think he should be starting for you and so that's why I still think the Raiders were the
06:39best situation for him um because you have a very for the first time in a long time you have
06:46basically for lack of a better term a mature front office in in Vegas with um like Tom Brady is the
06:55owner Pete Carroll Chip Kelly like these guys have been around the block a time or two I'm not gonna
07:00say Chip Kelly's job security is great like one of those things is not like the other uh Tom Brady
07:04Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly but for Brady and and Pete Carroll they're not going anywhere like they
07:09have an understanding and they've kind of seen a lot of these things before so if Gino Smith goes two
07:14and three with the Raiders to start and Deion Sanders is up at the podium after week six in
07:18the college football season like yeah I know we just lost 28 21 but what the fuck are the Raiders
07:23doing that Pete Carroll's gonna be like well I um like he can do the Patrick well like I'm sorry I
07:27couldn't hear I got my my Super Bowl ring in my ear um but those guys can handle that a lot of coaches
07:32couldn't and a lot of front offices couldn't and so if if you're gonna bring him in to redshirt him
07:37which is what the kid needs maybe you would rather have Jackson Dart and look maybe Jackson
07:43Dart's ceiling isn't as high as Shador's but Dart's not starting week one for the Giants neither was
07:47Shador and I'm not gonna have to fucking hear about it from Deion for week after week after week
07:51and from the media week after week after we're like hey why isn't the kid playing why isn't the
07:55kid playing because he's not ready and then I have to say that my kid's not ready and now that's me
07:59shitting on him and it turns into a whole other thing so it just become it became this problem that
08:05they created themselves and that's you feel you feel tough about it but again I do think a lot
08:13of the conversations kind of veered way too far away right because like I was talking to my wife
08:19about the whole situation explaining to her everything that was going on and everything
08:22with it and then I was like the good thing is is that as the draft was going and basically after
08:27Pittsburgh passed it was like okay so this kid's gonna be in a free fall and so people
08:32Mel Kiper but a lot of people got very frustrated and so you were starting to see clips of him on
08:37social media and I do think that the reactions kind of went a bit too far on Shador because
08:41watching it I was like oh right like he was good you know and there are measurables that he
08:47needs improvement on he doesn't have the biggest arm he doesn't have um a lot of those offensive gifts
08:53that a lot of these guys have but the fact that he was able to drag that Colorado team to basically
08:58national relevance with minimal help aside from Travis Hunter was quite something um and so like
09:04he has those intangibles that you really do like but again if we're gonna be selling a guy on
09:08intangibles let's not be screwing up the board interview and everything like that right so um
09:15but it was nice at least to see the videos it's like oh right this isn't a guy who we're gonna get
09:20to training camp and get to OTAs and it's like oh maybe he should have been uh throwing left-handed
09:24the whole time that was the problem he wasn't that bad but he wasn't nearly as good as he thought he
09:30was and I actually think the Browns are now a bad landing spot for him I think they were a spot that
09:35made the most sense you have the big money quarterback in Deshaun who's probably not playing
09:38this year um who again by the way can never mention him without saying awful human being um so you have
09:44that you have Joe Flacco who is in there as the the whatever now you're gonna have some explaining to
09:48do because the social media video came out with Deion Sanders being like Joe Flacco he's my age
09:52which is a funny line but kind of an awkward thing for your dad to say about your teammate now
09:56but then they also draft a quarterback and so like it just once you do that I feel like it takes you
10:03out of the Shador thing regardless of like okay it's fallen enough um I just feel like no matter what
10:11is happening whether it is Flacco or whoever at quarterback there's always going to be a but what
10:17about Shador what about Shador what about him why not hey and the Browns aren't in a spot that
10:22lets him develop in that way and now you have two rookies who you're trying to develop so honestly
10:27like I feel like what should happen is Joe Flacco gets to just like hang out like read the playbook
10:33whatever get a couple of things but it should be Shador getting all the reps in practice which is
10:38kind of what the Patriots were able to do with Drake May because Jacoby Brissett knows the system that
10:42he was in so you let him just kind of zip the ball all the way around whatever and Drake May gets all
10:47the reps in practice because Jacoby what's Jacoby gonna turn into at this point you let Drake May get a lot
10:51of the reps in practice let him develop so that he can hit the ground running um you have two rookie
10:55quarterbacks you're gonna try to do that now with out in Cleveland so I just I I think they screwed it
11:00up quite a bit I think all of the different sides really did screw that one up
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