When the Browns decided, two days after an all-time press-conference meltdown from Deshaun Watson, to make him the Week 1 starting quarterback, it immediately seemed to be a product of the fact that Cleveland starts the season with two games, you know, not in Cleveland.
And with the teamâÂÂs Florida road trip ending today, the winds of change to Shedeur Sanders are already blowing like a Category 2 hurricane.
As Ian Rapoport of ESPNFL explains it, Cleveland will âÂÂmake its evaluationâ after SundayâÂÂs game against the Buccaneers in Tampa.
Of course it will. Not even the Browns-is-the-Browns are so dysfunctional that theyâÂÂd trot out Watson for a home crowd that wants nothing to do with him. Even if the Browns managed to beat the Bucs and the still-salty (always-salty, and we love it) Baker Mayfield on Sunday, it will be a very hard sell â unless Watson has one of those 400-yard, five-touchdown days that he claims the media expects from him every week.
RapoportâÂÂs article doesnâÂÂt mention the biggest elephant in the room, when it comes to the possibility that Sanders will start next week. The customers do not want him. Period. Full stop. End of story.
Coach Todd Monken has used a restaurant metaphor to explain fan discontent. Absent a dramatic menu change before the Week 3 home opener against the Panthers, the foodstuffs will be flying from the stands next Sunday.