{"id":28681,"date":"2025-07-20T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=28681"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:42:59","slug":"breaking-news-former-player-sends-big-warning-to-kenny-pickett-joe-flacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=28681","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Former Player Sends Big Warning To Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28682\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28682\" src=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joe-flacco-kenny-pickett-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joe-flacco-kenny-pickett-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joe-flacco-kenny-pickett-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>BEREA, OHIO &#8211; JUNE 12: Quarterbacks Shedeur Sanders #12 Kenny Pickett #8 and Joe Flacco #15 of the Cleveland Browns run a drill during organized team activities at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on June 12, 2025, in Berea, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns have given little indication about who is going to win their four-man quarterback competition between Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel, and Shedeur Sanders as training camp has recently gotten underway.<\/p>\n<p>The team is playing things close to the chest, which is the right move for such a delicate situation, though one former player recently sent a big warning to Pickett and Flacco about the short leash they could have.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2219062357.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960\" alt=\"Only other option' - Browns handed warning about problem with starting Joe  Flacco over Shedeur Sanders | talkSPORT\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a recent episode podcast episode, former star cornerback Asante Samuel said that people want to see Shedeur Sanders play, and if Pickett or Flacco starts and doesn\u2019t perform well, the stadium could turn on them quickly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople want to see him play. Imagine the stadium booing Flacco &amp; Pickett because they want #12. If they don\u2019t produce, you can guarantee fans will start chanting we want Shedeur,\u201d Samuel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd25 Shedeur. Cleveland Fans Believe<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to the city man. Appreciate the event. Turn us up bro&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShedeurSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShedeurSanders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O2dyu3Pdoy\">https:\/\/t.co\/O2dyu3Pdoy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLxUP50h7N\">pic.twitter.com\/XLxUP50h7N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JaKi \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JaKiTruth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaKiTruth\/status\/1945594236759351312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s entirely possible this could happen because the Browns have a brutal early-season schedule, and it\u2019s likely that the front office and coaching staff have planned on getting a look at all four quarterbacks at some point anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important for the Browns to figure out if they have their franchise quarterback on the roster ahead of the 2026 draft, where the team has a pair of first-round picks in a loaded QB class.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this notion is that the early momentum to get Shedeur on the field is so strong that it comes across like everyone in the media has completely forgotten the fact that Dillon Gabriel exists.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel was drafted two rounds ahead of Sanders and is ahead of him on the depth chart, so for now, he is beating him in his quest to be this team\u2019s franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to be excited about Sanders, but fans should be getting excited about Gabriel, too.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Cleveland Browns have given little indication about who is going to win their four-man quarterback competition between Kenny Pickett, Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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