Colorado head coach Deion Sanders has claimed that the Cleveland Browns never spoke to him or tried to pick his brain about his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, during his rookie season. Now that Shedeur has a new head coach in Todd Monken, will the team finally try to meet with the Hall of Famer to get his thoughts on his son's playing ability?
The answer appears to be yes.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Monken announced that he welcome the chance to meet with Coach Prime about Shedeur. While he didn't specify a date for the meeting, he said that he's looking forward to the upcoming discussion.
"I'm open anytime he wants to meet..." Monken said, via ESPN. "I really am looking forward to it. I got a ton of respect for him, and I got a ton of respect for Shedeur because all he has done since I've been here is work. That's all he has done is compete."
Sanders & The Browns
Some weeks ago, Deion Sanders appeared on The Barbershop and lamented that the Browns made no efforts to meet with him before or after they drafted his son, or his other star pupil, Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter.
"I want to meet him because I think it's vital that as a coach, not the dad, I can tell him a few things about [Shedeur], how to get him going," he said at the time. "That wasn't asked of me a year ago. I don't understand it. Even a guy like Travis Hunter being drafted to Jacksonville, and I've had him for the last three [years], don't you think you would want to talk to me to ask me what gets him going and what backs him off? You would want to know that."
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To be fair, at the time that Shedeur Sanders was drafted he was largely seen viewed as somewhere between third and fifth on the team's depth chart heading into the season. But by the middle of the season, Shedeur was starting games and finishing up the season.
Head coach Kevin Stefanski got the boot at the end of the season and replaced with Monken, who has enjoyed a reputation as one of the league's best developers of quarterbacks for about a decade.
Will Monken be able to get even more out of Shedeur than Stefanski did?
