Posted on 04/30/2025 2:08:58 AM PDT by dennisw
Who’s to blame for Shedeur Sanders’ plummet to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft?
Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter thinks it’s simple: Sanders has no one to blame but himself.
“You’re going for a job interview,” Carter said about the pre-draft process during an episode of the “Fully Loaded” podcast released Monday. “So, for his job interview, he was so concerned about what his outfit was, his necklace was over a hundred grand. Like, he hadn’t even convinced people that you’re the face of our franchise.
Cris Carter had a 16-year, Hall of Fame NFL career.
“Matter of fact, he had convinced people that they were better off going in a different direction, even with people who had lesser talent. That’s the rub he put onto people.”
If Sanders had gone in the top three like he and many around him expected, he would have been in line to make far more money than he’ll now make after being selected by the Browns in the fifth round.
“He threw away at least 30 to 50 million dollars,” Carter said.
Carter also mentioned how the young quarterback’s father, Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, could have been part of the problem, too.
Deion went as far as to say a year ago that Shedeur might refuse to play for a franchise that the family saw as undesirable.
“Shedeur and his family, they overplayed their hand,” Carter said. “Them thinking that he was in the same evaluation mode as Eli Manning, they didn’t play that right. Them trying to narrow the teams that he was going to go to, that didn’t do right.”
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Despite what he and his father, Prime Time, think of his talent level, he's not good enough to wield the same pre-draft leverage that Eli Manning or John Elway did. He may turn out to be one of the all-time greats, but he certainly got off on the wrong foot.
“The draft has been made a spectacle to give the “fans” something to sit and watch on TV anyway.”
Because of sports betting and even more so now, with legal online sports betting everywhere.
I don’t see Will Howard as fat and slow.
I didn’t much like Neon Deion, because he always came across as flashy and self-absorbed to me. Over the years, that hasn’t changed much. The guy is talented, but he’s an egomaniac. I respect him, but I think he was part of the problem with Shadeur’s fall.
I thought I had read one who did that. I just thought it was smart if he did that.
“After all the BS and fake hype he ends up with the Browns. Too funny.”
You know it’s bad when the Jets don’t draft you.
Maybe Qualer Quift will be there to lift dar spirits by writing dem dar song fur him and eating little Debbies in the booth, while in spring training sessions.
Chris Carter was a HOF receiver, who almost singlehandedly cost the Vikings a Superbowl title, by being a total disruptive cancer, in the locker room. Great hands, terrible judgement.
Manziel had the dual problems of being bipolar and an alcoholic. His counselors and agents should have gotten help for him. Instead he was marketed like chattal by an adoring media and big league college football administrators.
Maybe Shadeur Sanders has a noticeable glaring personality
disorder also.
IMHO
I have my moments of insanity. I ment to type “mouth” vice moth, but on my phone it’s difficult to always see what is going on, esp. with the auto-dictionary wars daily.
1. He used his baseball career as leverage in his NFL contract negotiations. That itself made him a risky bet. Why spend a precious draft pick on a guy who might never sign a contract?
2. Atlanta drafted him and he was a great player for them, but he won two Super Bowls with other teams (San Francisco and Dallas). Atlanta got nothing in return when he signed with the 49ers as a free agent in 1994.
I hope that it’s a strip club called ‘Solid Gold’, like the one owned by former Buffalo Bills kicker, Scott Wood, in the film ‘Buffalo ‘66’. Actor Ben Gazzara’s best film.
Rarity for the necessary info to be contained in the "excerpt" so you don't have to click on the link.
As I said previously, the nfl draft is a cross between a slave auction and a minstrel show.
Cris Carter. All he does is catch touchdowns!
Sanders reminded everyone of another cocky college QB whose mouth wrote a bunch of checks his playing couldn’t cash. Ask the Bears how #1 pick Caleb Williams worked out.
Cleveland is where QBs go to fade away into the CFL or USFL.
That’s basically what I wrote last week, Cleveland is where football careers go to die..................
Who would want to deal with Dion as his agent ?
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