After Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders made an impressive NFL debut in Cleveland\u2019s preseason opener, he had a largely playful message for veteran reporter Tony Grossi.<\/p>\n
In a video from inside the bowels of Bank of America Stadium, Sanders is seen saying this to Grossi: \u201cTony, I be hoping you got something positive to say about me<\/a>. You only say negative stuff about me. And I\u2019m like, \u2018I ain\u2019t do nothing to you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders has a smiling, friendly demeanor throughout most of the exchange. He\u2019s laughing at times during the clip. He\u2019s more exasperated than irritated, far more pleading than intimidating.<\/p>\n Grossi\u2019s response is hard to hear.<\/p>\n \u201cI ain\u2019t seen nothing positive you ever said,\u201d Sanders later says. The 28-second clip ends with Sanders saying to Grossi, \u201cWhat I do? What I do to you, Tony?\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders handled the situation in a mature way. (He refrained, for instance, from dousing Grossi with ice water. Twice.) And it remains to be seen how that approach will work on Grossi, who has a history of being pointed in his criticisms of Browns-related figures.<\/p>\n Indeed, a remark about Baker Mayfield<\/a> got Grossi suspended in 2020. Either years before that, an accidental tweet calling former Browns owner Randy Lerner a \u201cpathetic figure\u201d and \u201cthe most irrelevant billionaire in the world<\/a>\u201d got Grossi reassigned from the Browns beat at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders made an impressive NFL debut in Cleveland\u2019s preseason opener, he had a largely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-57937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57937","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=57937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}