ESPN\u2019s Scott Van Pelt said after the performance,<\/a> according to Awful Announcing. \u201cBecause the fact that he slid to a third day pick was this, why did it happen? Is it this? Is it that? Is it the other thing?<\/p>\n\u201cThen, it was like, \u2018He\u2019s being set up to fail.\u2019 Then he plays, and it\u2019s, \u2018Oh, the NFL looks stupid for not drafting this guy.\u2019 It\u2019s like, my God.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreseason football is meant to do one of four things. If you think a guy\u2019s good and he plays well, \u2018See!\u2019 If you think a guy\u2019s good and he plays bad, \u2018Well, it\u2019s just the preseason and it doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 If you think a guy\u2019s bad and he plays well, \u2018Well, it\u2019s just the preseason and it doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 And if you think a guy\u2019s bad and he plays bad, \u2018See!\u2019 And that\u2019s all anyone did here.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was then that Van Pelt gave Sanders his flowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe handled it better than we did, I think,\u201d SVP said about his colleagues in the media. \u201cBut it\u2019s just so wild to watch people stumble all over themselves to turn the fact that he was being set up to fail into the fact that the NFL failed because they didn\u2019t draft him. It was Week 1 of preseason, man. We\u2019re pretty reasonable about how we digest most of this, not that.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Sanders continues to silence his detractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders\u2019 brash, bragadocious, and abrasive personality has made the young quarterback an easy target for members of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1238,593,51721,1244,85],"class_list":["post-64649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-nfl","tag-scot-van-pelt","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}