{"id":302819,"date":"2025-11-24T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302819\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:43:08","slug":"browns-shedeur-sanders-sends-strong-message-to-critics-after-first-nfl-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302819\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns&#8217; Shedeur Sanders sends strong message to critics after first NFL start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After delivering a win for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> in his first career NFL game, quarterback Shedeur Sanders had a strong message for his doubters and critics.<\/p>\n<p>Following Cleveland&#8217;s 24-10 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, Sanders made it known that anyone who predicted or cheered for his failure will continue to be disappointed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people wanted to see me fail. You know, it ain&#8217;t gonna happen,&#8221; Sanders said in his postgame press conference in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Browns\/status\/1992758155546099864\" rel=\"nofollow\">a video shared by the Browns on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The win was the first of its kind for the Browns in a long time. <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-shedeur-sanders-makes-franchise-history-starting-debut-raiders\/5256e6ea3750f471affd890e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanders became the first Cleveland quarterback<\/a> to win his first NFL start since the team was reintroduced in 1999. The <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/shedeur-sanders-live-stats-highlights-browns-raiders\/88df65508218fa24317714c4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last Browns&#8217; rookie quarterback to win<\/a>\u00a0his first career start was Eric Zeier in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was 11-for-20 during the game, passing for 209 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Sanders&#8217; numbers might have been better and the win might have been more convincing if receiver Jerry Jeudy didn&#8217;t make <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/shannon-sharpe-criticizes-jerry-jeudy-fumble\/697600247d33b9872317fec9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a critical error following a big reception<\/a> from Sanders late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether Sanders will start Cleveland&#8217;s next game if fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel is healthy. The Browns will next be in action in Week 13 with a home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After delivering a win for the Cleveland Browns in his first career NFL game, quarterback Shedeur Sanders had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-302819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}