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#111 - Is the NFL Just High School All Over Again for Shedeur Sanders? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So did Shadur Sanders just step back into high school?
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  Is it high school all over again for him? I think of the Mean Girls and all
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  of the popular teen movies that are out there.
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  And it just reminds me of this situation that he just experienced in the NFL
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  draft of how all of these GMs and coaches just seemingly colluded together and
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  decided not to draft this guy.
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  My name is Brandon Fogle. This is Evolution. let's dive into this odd topic.
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  This is the only way that I can make sense of it because Shadur Sanders has so much potential.
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  I mean, you are the son of arguably one of the greatest athletes to have ever lived, Deion Sanders.
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  Let's not forget that. I think of the best athletes ever.
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  You go to Bo Jackson or you go to Deion Sanders, who both of these guys played
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  in two professional sports and were amazing at both.
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  Deion Sanders, he is NFL royalty.
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  So you would think that Shadour has everything on his side coming into the NFL.
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  The only thing that tripped him up, what I would say, the blessing and the curse,
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  which is his father, his father talks.
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  His father says a lot of things, and he put a lot of the NFL aficionados in
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  a terrible position because he said, we are coming to the NFL.
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  My son's coming to the NFL on our terms.
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  I also think of steaming Willie Beeman off of any given Sunday.
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  And I think a lot of coaches out there look at Shadur in this same way that you're a quarterback.
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  You're not a cornerback or a receiver. You're a gosh dang quarterback.
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  You know, Al Pacino, any given Sunday.
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  He wants to go the safe route and play with the guy, the true tried and true white quarterback.
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  You know, I mean, there's that going on in that movie. I don't think it's going
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  on in this drama that we experienced. I don't think there is a racial undertone.
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  I think it was just this guy is coming to our high school and the popular kids,
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  which are the GMs and NFL coaches in the NFL.
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  And they just got together and they they're looking over at what's everyone
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  else doing? What's everyone else doing?
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  Am I going to put myself out on the line and take a chance?
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  Because in their world, it is one season and done.
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  You don't, they don't have enough, they don't, they're, they're given a contract,
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  but it's not really a safe contract to just stake your life on.
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  They're playing almost game by game for their, their, their NFL career and season
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  by season for their NFL career.
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  So they don't want to take a chance. So they're playing the safe route.
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  They're looking at what's the most popular person doing.
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  And if they're passing on them,
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  if they're turning up their nose on Shadour, we'll do it the same way.
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  I know there are more things in place in the NFL draft because people do like
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  they say one thing and they mean another so that they can really trick and they
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  can really sneak up and grab someone. But there was something else going on here.
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  In this NFL draft, it was something beyond any other draft we've ever experienced.
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  Nothing like this has happened where you get to Saturday and it's still interesting.
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  People pretty much tune out after the first night.
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  This one goes into Saturday and people are like, what's going on with your boy Shadur?
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  What's happened? Why is he not selected yet?
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  And then it brings all of this heat and just light and intensity on everyone.
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  Is the NFL doing something? What's going on? And I do see that NFL teams,
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  they do go lockstep, you know?
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  All these people that are underneath the owner, they are, they're playing.
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  It's a job. It's a job for them. It's a business. And it is a business. It has to be a business.
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  Because for them, they're not guaranteed to come back the next week or the next
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  year or anything like that.
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  They have to play it game by game and they have to perform. and they want to
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  control as much as they can.
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  They don't want to stake their NFL coaching life or GM life on this lightning
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  rod, which is Shadur Sanders, because he is a lightning rod.
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  And a lot of people that are lightning rods and are so polarizing,
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  usually it doesn't come from within them.
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  It comes from the outside.
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  People just throw their eyes and their attention on someone for some reason.
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  And we put them in our own narrative, our own story.
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  And you could say, I'm kind of doing that when I see this, because I see this
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  as you walk into high school.
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  I mean, I don't know how old you are right now. You might still be in high school.
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  But like you, everybody, for the most part, knows what it was like to be in
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  high school and you wanted to fit in.
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  You wanted to not go against the grain. You wanted to play it safe in a lot
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  of ways. And then you find that cool teacher, that cool teacher that can give
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  you some wisdom and help you how to cope through what you're going through.
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  And who is that in this whole, this whole fiasco that's happened with Shudeo Sanders?
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  I wanted to think that it was the Browns owner. I was like, he's got to be that cool teacher.
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  I'm starting to think that the Browns owner might be Regina George.
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  He might be Regina George, who is the really, the really popular one that's
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  got some, maybe a little bit, because he passed, he passed up on him just as
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  much as every other NFL team.
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  So how this all plays out, because I cannot see Shadour going to the Browns
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  and that becoming a historic franchise. I cannot see it.
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  But then I'm also a fan of the Chiefs. And how quickly we forget that the Chiefs,
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  for the longest time until Patrick Mahomes came,
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  how many times we had our hearts broken in the playoffs.
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  Year after year. I mean, decades.
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  Decades. But eventually we found our diamond in the roughed or roughed or whatever it is.
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  Rough. And I did not see Patrick Mahomes coming whatsoever. This Shador Sanders
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  has so many different angles to it.
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  What's going to happen with him? Because he is going to be the talk more into the offseason.
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  And as we get to training camp and as we get to the preseason games,
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  can he actually, he's not, he wasn't even the first quarterback drafted on the
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  team that selected him, which is just crazy why they reached out and got him
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  the Browns owner. He was just probably just not even watching the draft.
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  He didn't even know what was going on. I was like, what the.
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  Should we put it into this stupidity? This is stupid.
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  I think all the owners just got together and they went out and had some beers
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  or something and they weren't even watching the draft because owners,
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  maybe that's the reason they're not the ones that are making the choices on
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  what's actually happening down below because they will do something just crazy and outlandish.
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  That's why you always see Jerry Jones. People want to say, man, stay out of it.
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  You don't, the owner doesn't need to be saying something.
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  And also, you know, the Jaguars owner who went out and reached out and grabbed
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  Tim Tebow and brought him in. You could have said it was just a stunt to see
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  him come in and be in a tight end, which was I don't think he should have done that at all.
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  Tim Peepo should have came back as a quarterback.
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  He should have came back as a quarterback. I have to throw that out there.
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  But it was the owner who decided, said, bring him back. Let me try it out.
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  And then it just it was not working. And they had to cut ties.
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  But these owners, they are cowboys. They are wild, wild west guys.
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  But sometimes they go to the saloon and they just hang out
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  and they drink beers and they don't even they don't even watch what's going
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  on until someone just says hey do you know what's going on down in the holla
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  down in the holla go get him go go go get him go get him and he did and he said
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  he got up from his table he went and he said snatch that boy snatch him i cannot
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  even believe he is still out there.
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  This is insane. This is insanity.
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  And he put it into it. But I am, I cannot see him as the cool teacher that's
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  going to impart wisdom to Shador.
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  I can only see him as that popular girl that is going to almost somehow pull
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  everything out from under him because he can only take him so far.
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  He's not going to be the one that's going to be throwing him in the game and calling the plays.
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  It's going to be those other popular kids that are down below that are the coaches and all that.
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  Shadour's got to go out there. He's got to perform. He's got to make him,
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  he's got to make it known why he should be there in the first place.
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  But like, he has got some incredible genes just being born from Deion Sanders.
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  So I am, if, if.
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  Andy Reid had not already the quarterback of his dreams, Patrick Mahomes,
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  he would have grabbed him.
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  There's not a question in my mind he would have grabbed Shadur.
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  Because Andy Reid, he knows I can take the best talent and I can make him the
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  best product available.
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  And he took Patrick Mahomes and did that. He saw that, he saw what nobody else saw.
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  But now he's going to the Browns and it's like, the Browns, I cannot see that becoming Hollywood.
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  So Shadour is going to go in there, put in his time, and I think he will have to mature.
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  He's going to have to mature, and this is going to be a humbling exercise for him, no question.
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  But I think he's going to come away much stronger, much stronger from it than
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  if he would have been a top five pick.
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  If he would have just been a top five pick, everything would have been reaffirmed
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  in his mind that he can come to any, he can decide where I want to go.
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  I can determine my terms and say every team, it would have been Eli Manning,
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  but another version of it.
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  But he didn't, and he didn't get picked in the top 10.
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  He didn't get picked in the first, second, third, fourth round. He went to the fifth.
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  He fell extremely far. So this is the beginning of the saga that is going to
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  be Shadur Sanders because he is a lightning rod and he's going to bring attention where he goes.
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  And I think, I think, I believe he will be great in the NFL and probably not
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  the very first couple of years.
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  He's going to put in his time and it's going to, and I think maybe all the other
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  teams are like, man, that was stupid of them because we're going to get him
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  on the, on the better end because he's going to put, he's going to have to just
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  get beat the heck up when he, where he goes right now.
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  And he's just going to basically have spend a time to mature and he's going
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  to use that as time to mature.
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  So the team that gets him after that is going to be the real lucky one because
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  I cannot see him being just turning around that franchise. I cannot see it.
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  I cannot see it. All right.
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