No matter the level of play — from the peewees to the pros, and everything in between — everybody in football watches the quarterbacks.
That includes media members and fans alike.
That’s understandable, for it’s the most important position in team sports. If you have a good one, then you have a chance, and if you don’t, then you don’t.
That’s especially the case in the NFL, the most high-profile level play of them all. And it’s even moreso the situation with the Browns, who have been looking for their franchise quarterback for the entirety of the quarter-century-long expansion era and this time have brought in four players to vie for the starting job. You can make a case for any of them to be the starter, or to be on the bench.
So, then, it will be fascinating to watch these quarterbacks through training camp and the preseason to see how it all plays out.
But that’s not all. It will also be fascinating to watch General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski — and perhaps owner Jimmy Haslam as well — to see how they conduct the competition. Forget what those three men have said previously, because this process will reveal precisely where they think the Browns are as a team at this stage of their dig-out from last season’s crash-and-burn 3-14 finish. Joe Flacco is a longtime veteran who has accomplished a lot. Kenny Pickett is a young veteran who has not done much yet but may have a lot of upside. Dillon Gabriel is the rookie picked in the NFL Draft by Berry and Stefanski, snf Shadeur Sanders is the rookie thrust upon Berry and Stefanski by Haslam. As such, they almost couldn’t be more different from one another.
Stay tuned. It will be fun.
Steve King
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