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Shedeur Sanders' Shocking Fall to Cleveland Browns 🤔 The Truth & Fear of NFL Teams
Jun 29, 2025
Why did Shedeur Sanders fall out of the top 4 rounds?! How did he slip all the way to the Browns in the 5th round?
Damon Amendolara tackles the most debated question of the NFL Draft, using logic, reason, and football insight to break it all down.
Was it just about X's and O's?
Or is there something bigger at work here?
From conspiracy theories to real scouting concerns, D.A. explains why Shedeur’s surprising draft slide has become one of the most talked-about stories of the year. Even President Donald Trump has weighed in
If you're looking for clarity and real answers, this is the video you need.
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there's no doubt that the Shadore
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Sanders slide through three full NFL
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rounds seems to be the craziest draft
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story we've seen in a long time But I
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actually think there's a lot of logic to
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it and the the crazy conspiracy theories
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or embedded secondary meanings are are
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unnecessary So let me get to all of that
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dives like this one as I break down the
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NFL draft the NFL off season the NFL
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storylines going into the season or next
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year when we finally get into NFL
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regular season action Keep it locked
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right here So let's just start with the
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first round stuff because he was
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projected by many mock drafts to be a
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top two pick in the NFL draft dating
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back to October I think that was
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completely misleading and I think that
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ended up creating unfair unrealistic
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expectations of where Shadore would go
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As we got closer to the NFL draft as we
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made our way into April you started
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seeing more mock drafts potentially put
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him later in the first round And then
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you had guys who said they liked Shadore
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and favorably would comp him to kind of
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journeyman okay middle-of the road
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quarterbacks You know when Dan Orlovski
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compared him to Andy Dalton he was not
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doing it as a slight He was doing it as
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a favorable comp but he would never
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draft Andy Dalton with the second
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overall pick or the fifth overall pick
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of an NFL draft And I think what ended
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up happening was the people that put out
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mocks during the regular season really
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it was just an exercise in entertainment
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And that whole industry has become kind
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of ridiculous where we have mock drafts
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the day after the current draft is over
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And ultimately it was an ill-informed
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group of mock drafts I think through m
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much of the regular season once we got
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into draft season the film started to
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speak for itself and there were a lot of
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flaws in Shadore Sanders game This
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happened to be a remarkably thin
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quarterback season a remarkably thin
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quarterback draft And so in some years
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where there's five potential NFL
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quarterbacks in the first round perhaps
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we would have seen Shadore projected
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early second maybe if there were a group
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of of draftable first round QBs like
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last season we would have seen the early
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mock drafts have Shadore at 25 32 38 to
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then kind of calibrate realistic
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expectations of where he was But because
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he was either the first or second best
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quarterback in this draft he had to go
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way up
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high It was tough I think for GMs to
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look at his film and square with the
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fact that he's not a great mobile
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quarterback So he's not going to create
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things with his legs like a Josh Allen
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like a Lamar Jackson He doesn't have a
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huge big arm and he took a lot of sacks
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On top of it there wasn't elite
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competition that he played elite against
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It was two seasons of a rebuilding
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program that didn't have these kind of
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massive college football playoff caliber
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matchups where you could say "Wow look
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what he did there." I think all of that
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really hurt his film and hurt his tape
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in in the evaluator's minds And so they
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looked at him and said "He doesn't get a
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first round grade." But in our mind the
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public's mind it was "Well Shadore is
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famous He's got to be great." And that's
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where the problems began to to happen
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Once we got out of the first round you
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could say "Well there's just there's not
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an NFL GM that looks at him as a
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potential franchise quarterback yet."
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Once we got through the second and third
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rounds and other guys like Tyler Shuck
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or Dylan Gabriel get picked ahead of him
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now we can start asking questions Well
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why do those guys end up getting picked
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as project quarterbacks there's no way
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you could look at Dylan Gabriel and
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think that he's going to start and
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compete for QB1 when he hits training
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camp So what's the difference and the
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difference there is what I think people
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are wondering about And that's where
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this whole thing gets kind of confusing
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The difference there to me is the
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concern about the celebrity of your QB2
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QB3 or project quarterback You know one
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thing that I've heard from talent
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evaluators in the league not mockdraft
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analysts is that he's got such
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fame that it becomes a headache if he's
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not playing Now you can consider that
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fair or unfair but here's where I would
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say it's very logical These NFL teams
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are wildly petrified of
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distractions They do not want the
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distractions as though there's some
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ghost and boogeyman around every single
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corner The leaks the distractions off
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the- field distractions on the- field
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distractions it becomes a catch-all for
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anything that is not aligned with the
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message in the building And the NFL
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obviously has so much media attention on
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it that they are peering around every
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corner wondering where's it going to
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come from today is it going to come from
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my local media is it going to come from
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the national media is it going to come
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from the social media other leagues
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don't have to worry about the intense
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scrutiny on their teams on their players
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and coaches as much as the NFL does The
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NFL has this incredible glare on it
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because everybody around the country
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seems to have a take on every team in
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the league The difference between the
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Tyler Shucks the Dylan Gabriels the
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other project QBs that would get drafted
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ahead of Shador Sanders is they don't
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have fame and celebrity and they don't
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have a platform like Dion has with their
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dads That that is terrifying I think for
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a lot of these GMs and coaches I think
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it's terrifying I think it's terrifying
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because let's face it there are plenty
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of NFL GMs that'll take a risk take a
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shot on a guy's character or potential
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distractions if they are convinced he's
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going to make our team better They'll
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take a lot of chances with a lot of
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questionable character guys as long as
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that guy is going to help them win
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There's always one GM Well Shador didn't
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have any character questions in terms of
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off-the- field problems criminal baggage
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poor
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decisionmaking Perhaps he didn't
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interview well Perhaps he comes off as
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entitled but he wouldn't be the first
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one to not interview well or come off as
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entitled It's the celebrity That's the
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difference It's the celebrity of Dion
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the celebrity of Shadore Because if you
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draft Shidor Sanders to be your QB3 as a
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developmental guy the Giant took Jackson
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Dart and he may be QB3 the entire
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season Well you have to now deal with a
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media a public a fan base that's
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constantly wondering well what's
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happening with our third quarterback why
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isn't he in why did he not get elevated
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he's already a story because he's Shidor
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Sanders And perhaps that social media
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fame that ability to to rally the troops
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at the click of a few buttons on your on
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your iPhone that he has because of that
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incredible social media following and
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that celebrity also worries them that if
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he does not get playing time he feels
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like he's not getting a fair shot at the
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competition that he could fire off a
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tweet to millions of followers and it is
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massive massive news The second part is
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I think there's a fear of Dion's
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platform I think there's GMs and owners
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head coaches as well that heard loud and
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clear when Dion Sanders last season said
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that he would try to steer Shidor to the
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right situation that Shador was not
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going to play anywhere that he didn't
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want Shidor playing in cold weather
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climates Now note that Dion backed off
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of those bold proclamations but I think
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that's because he started to hear
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started to realize uhoh Shador's market
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is drying up Well I think there's a fear
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that if Shadore is QB2 and QB1 has a few
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bad games that Dion Sanders goes on
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college game day before a Colorado
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football game and says something like
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"It's time for Shador to play It's time
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for my son to play." Dion has remarkably
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famous friends I mean the president is
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tweeting about Dion and Shadore There
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are a lot of celebrities or power
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brokers around sports and entertainment
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and obviously politics that Dion's
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become very friendly with I think
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there's a worry that if Shadore doesn't
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play then Dion gets involved and then
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the whole thing blows up in your face
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And those are risks you wouldn't take
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for a guy to be your QB2 QB3 or project
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developmental quarterback So the whole
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thing has kind of been I think a little
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sideways from the start Because of
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Shador's fame we as a public misjudged
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his ability He was more famous than he
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was good And once we got into the NFL
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draft he wasn't good enough to be
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drafted where we thought he would be And
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then afterwards instead of a team taking
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a flyer they got scared because they
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worry about the fallout of distractions
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for a guy that's a depth guy on their
10:21
roster I don't think there's much more
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than that It's impossible to get into
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the mind of 32 different GMs but I don't
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think there's any grand conspiracy
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theory I don't think there's a symbol of
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what the NFL doesn't want from their
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college football players I think this is
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kind of a singular moment in time
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because there just hasn't been
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another middle of the NFL draft
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QB whose dad was as famous as Dion
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Sanders And there's rarely a player as
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famous as Shadore who gets a third round
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grade let's say from a lot of NFL
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evaluators just as a postcript in all of
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this And there's a lot of middle round
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quarterbacks that ended up playing very
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well earning starting jobs and having
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really good careers Russell Wilson was a
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third rounder Dak was a fourthrounder
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Mark Brunell was a fifthrounder Rich
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Ganon Joe Thyman all these guys played
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for Super Bowls in Super Bowls won MVPs
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played in big playoff games championship
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games There is no reason that Shador
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can't be drafted in the middle of this
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draft and not go on to have a really
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good career if he's worthy of it This
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does not end his NFL career because he
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did not get drafted in the first three
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rounds Hopefully that clarifies things
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