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Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
Shedeur Sanders made two mistakes. The first mistake was driving his car at a reported 101 MPH on I-71 North after Midnight.
His second mistake was driving his car at a reported 101 MPH on I-71 North after Midnight at a time when there was no other Browns news to talk about.
Since I spent my time on Thursday morning fighting spam on our boards rather than writing the OBR Daily Newswire, I missed writing about this exciting development yesterday. Dammit.
So, now we're at a point where the story has dominated the Browns' news channels for the past couple of days. We went from the initial reports, to learning that Sanders had a previous citation, to getting the "shocking" footage of the citation, to the expected lectures from the media about his bad behavior, to Steeler fans enjoying themselves, to clickbait "Insider says this" stories, to Sanders admitting he "made some wrong choices" within about 36 hours.
Fred and I discussed this briefly in the opening minutes of this week's OBR Weekly on Wednesday night. We felt the story would fade pretty quickly, and it raised some questions about Sanders' judgment, but there was no on-field impact from the situation.
That was it. And that's what it deserves.
For those who already doubted Sanders and spent March and April warning he would be a distraction, this is as much vindication as they're likely to get. Otherwise, Sanders has been great around the building and a model teammate.
However, this will create an annoying and persistent conversation because, as Pete Smith puts it, there is a Cleveland Sports media vacuum to fill. This will do the job.
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101 mph is just a small percentage of the speed of light, so no time distortions at all. Cool. (Photo: 247Sports)
GROWN-UP CONVERSATIONS: The pattern that politicians use to justify a highly visible expense with dubious justification - in this case, giving away at least $600 million to build a state-of-the-art Domed Stadium for a privately-owned football team - is usually predictable. Since they know there will be opposition to cutting into the basic services provided by the state or extracting new taxes from simple common folk like your humble narrator, they'll dream up ways to make the expenditure seem "free" or painless.
In the case of building Jimmyworld, the two "painless" ways used to pitch giving a billionaire money are a gambling tax (which only affects those who are inveterate gamblers) or reaching into a free pot of unclaimed funds in Ohio. Unfortunately, it turns out that the latter proposal might not be exactly, um, legal because of the inconvenient fact that the money doesn't actually belong to the state - it belongs to citizens. The state's pro teams think it's a nifty idea regardless.
No matter. They'll either work around that annoyance or come up with some other "painless" method to spend public funds. The dome will be built.
Fortunately, though, the city council now wants a "grown-up conversation" about the dome as they come to grips with Brook Park's inevitability. Good luck with that.
YOUR QUARTERBACK DAILY: Since we've already dealt with the traffic citation for Sanders, here are the other exciting developments in the Browns four-way quarterback derby.
NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah told Rich Eisen yesterday that he feels either Dillon Gabriel or Shedeur Sanders will start game one as Browns quarterback. I feel like a gossip even repeating that.
That was really it. Everyone else was writing about Shedeur Sanders' driving habits.
TRAINING CAMP DATES ANNOUNCED: Browns rookies arrive on July 18, veterans arrive on July 22nd. So, we just have a month to consider Shedeur Sanders' motoring skills until practices start.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
Have a good one! GO BROWNS!
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