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course iHeartRadio. I'm getting right into it because I'm off on this particular Saturday, but I had to make sure I let my thoughts be known, okay, because we're gonna get started with the story that made headlines all over all the sports networks overnight and then some, and that was the NFL Draft and the precipitous slide of quarterbacks. Should Door Sanders, son of primetime Dion Sanders, who many

considered the second best quarterback in January. Sanders was just picked by the Cleveland Browns as the one hundred and forty fourth selection of the fifth round overall. Schadea wasn't drafted in round one on Thursday, he wasn't drafted on Friday during rounds two and three, and teams passed on them again earlier this afternoon in round four, so here's a look at all the quarterbacks that have been taken so far. Cam Ward went number one overall of Tennessee.

Then the Giants picked Jackson Dart with the twenty fifth overall pick, a pick they moved up to get, by the way, they moved up to get that pick. Round two began last night and the first quarterback taken was Tyler Schuck, who went to the New Orleans Saints with the fortieth overall pick. Then in round three to Seattle

they took. The Seahawks took Jaylen Milroe from Alabama with the ninety second overall pick, and then two picks later, the Cleveland Browns selected Dylan Gabriel with the ninety fourth overall pick in the third round, and there were no more quarterbacks taken on Friday. So those are the five quarterbacks that went ahead of Shadoor Sanders. And before I give you my feelings on this, I want to show you the five quarterbacks the Browns now have on their roster.

The quarterback room now includes Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, the aforementioned Dylan Gabriel, Deshaan Watson who is injured with his achilles there, and of course now Shador Sanders. Ladies and gentlemen, you know it's bad when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is pushing out tweets about how corrupted is Let me think about that, President Donald Trump is pulling out tweets about how corrupt it is and how these owners look absolutely stupid, stupid or it levised.

and I'm gonna tell you why. I'm gonna say that while in the same breath conceding and acknowledging that Shador Sanders is not blameless here, Primetime Deone Sanders is not blameless here. I'm gonna say what I have to say knowing that both of them have their hands at least a little bit dirty in all of this. But if you're the National Football League, okay, clearly it's not about

talent anymore. It's about something else. And I'm gonna tell you, I spent the law amount of the last twenty four hours thinking about nothing more than I was thinking about collusion. Because howard the hell this? Thirty two teams in the National Football League passed on a quarterback that was universally recognized one of the top three quarterbacks in the country entering this draft, and thirty two teams passed on them, not once, not twice, not three times, but four different

times they passed on them. How the hell has that happened four rounds? It doesn't happen to a quarterback. We've never seen anything like this before.

any by laws. He didn't violate any laws, He didn't interfere with what transpired once kickoff time arrived, people to trip it. But still and all he had an opportunity to get back in the NFL. All he had to do is show up to that workout that the league had organized that the Falcons to the Land of Falcons practice facility. But he didn't show up to that, and as a result, two hours beforehand, had everybody trying to come to a high school football field one hundred and

twenty minutes away, two hours away. So guess what you did that to yourself? That was not Shirr dors Anders, Shatstore Sanders with the watch, Shadoor Sanders with his bravado, Shadoor Sanders with this supposed arrogance or whatever. He's still balled. He still threw for over four thy one hundred yards, still threw for thirty seven touchdowns, still threw for just ten interceptions, Still proved himself to be one of the

better quarterbacks in football. Tremendous poors, pocket presence, accuracy, throwing the damn football, didn't have great wheels, doesn't have great athleticism, but the brother can play. I certainly never heard of no damn Dylan Gabriel or Tyler Shuck. What the hell is that I didn't hear about them? So how is sher Door Sanders going behind them? I'll tell you how. It's collusion. And why do I bring up Kaepernick because I keep reminding everybody that the owners. I'll never forget

this as long as I live. The owners in the National Football League are very big on control and Colin Kaepernick's position really railed them. It really, it really robbed them and irritated them because even though they received a check for over two hundred and forty six million dollars a piece because of their TV rights deal. They were mad it wasn't two fifty to two fifty five. They blamed Colin Kaepernick. They said he compromised their bottom line.

That's what they said. They said they got a check for two hundred and forty six million a pace and was still complaining about the five million they missed out on because of him in their estimation, no proof of that, just speculating that that that that was Colin Kaepernick. So if these are who they are, if these are the kind of people that they are, this is where Deon Sander's hands get a little bit dirty. Because we know he's the greatest cornerback that ever lived. We know he's

arguably the greatest athlete we've ever seen. We know that the man is a football savant. We also know that he's box office. The camera, the lens, it gravitates to him.

He has that kind of magnetic effect. And because he lets you know that he believed in the sun, because he lets you know what his son could do, because he lets you know that he damned Shore was gonna keep an eye on things and he was gonna have a voice in the proceeds because he alluded to if I don't like where my son is, that's not where we're going, and stuff like that. It's entirely plausible that the owners were like, what the hell he think he is?

You don't run the shop we do, because these owners are like that. But ultimately we got to get to Schador Sanders himself because I spoke to some executives giving me some background, because they didn't like some of the things that they were seeing, and when they talked about it, they said stuff like him sending out tweets tagged with hash tag legendary. They talked about him appearing to have more of an interest in his own brand and that he thinks about that more than he thinks about the

team or the league. They talked about if he was more buttoned up and all about ball and team as opposed to himself, he would have fallen know later than number twenty one in the draft to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Instead, he fell at one forty four. And they call it a minimum of a thirty million dollar mistake. It's what they said. They also pointed out how it was the perfect year to come out in the quarterback class because it's the lightest, weakest quarterback class in a long time.

So a late one pick could easily turn into a top ten because of position and need. But that didn't happen with him because of his bravado, his brand, his swagger, etc. Now you have people talking about how he possibly just just suited NC doublea for to get his eligibility back, possibly pay Ryan Day or somebody so he could throw the ball to Smith for one year and then re

enter the NFL draft. Rather, I don't know what the possibility is the likelihood of that happening, but basically, between primetime Deon Sanders natural bravado coupled with that of his son, they say that the whole interview process wasn't that impressive. When he showed up at the NFL scouting combine and refused to work out, that hurt him. The interview process while he was there hurt him, et cetera, et cetera. You know what, y'all, I get it. It makes perfect

damn sense if he's drafted in the second round. It's the fact that he fell to fifth that's alarming. So in other words, you're willing to collectively send that kind of message, and don't act like it wasn't a collective effort. For all we know, teams collectively meaning owners had come to the conclusion nobody's gonna touch them in the first

four rounds. All right, now that the round round five is here, our message has been sent, so y'all could go about the business of sort of lifting the embargo. For lack of a better phraseology, I don't know what the hell happened. All I know is this. It's freaking unfair. It ain't right. I understand that your door sanders as

a kid and may have some things to learn. I understand that you have to move a little bit with a little bit more discretion, that you don't want to stick out your chest and bloviate about who you are, who your daddy is, and etcetera, etcetera. I get that part. I understand that. But the kid doesn't get in any trouble. He can ball, and he's healthy. And there were numerous teams from Cleveland to New York, to New Orleans, to Pittsburgh to la and various other places who needed quarterbacks.

And you're gonna tell me you don't take this kid before until the fifth round, you're gonna tell me that you're gonna take a Dylan Gabriel and a Tyler Shook before him. You're gonna tell me that. You're gonna tell me that. But we want to pride ourselves on being the league of merit to the National Football League. I'm not talking about Roger can Devil in the league office. To the owners, do you have any idea how bad you look? You understand that you've given credence to arguments

against you involving collusion and stuff like that. More so than ever ever, do you realize what you've done? Because his talent is not a fifth round talent. There's absolutely, positively no excuse for waiting until the fifth round to take a quarterback who could play better than most quarterbacks available in the draft. With the number of teams needing a quarterback, y'all did this, and I just think it's sad that it happened. Shy Lowe should door with dancing

after he got picked by the Browns. That was a good video to see. Go to Twitter to check out their draft celebration dance. All of that's good and I'm glad that it hasn't shattered his spirits, and to be quite honest with you, should do Sandy should be able to go into Cleveland. I mean, there's Joe Flacco there and Kenny Pickett. I think that's a job you could potentially win. But my Lord, for him to have to

go through that so wrong. And I know it's not just the owners's team executives and then micro managing every little thing and looking at your attitude. It can't be about you. It can't be about team. How about it

being about production? How about that? How about it being about a brother that knows he can play, that knows he comes from a pristine pedigree, and me personally, no matter what folks want to say about your door, Sandy, you're hearing noise about him having taken out some loan assuming he was going to be drafted in the first round, of anticipating and already counting his money and stuff like that.

I'm not judging this kid like that. I don't know if that's true or not, first of all, and secondly, even if it was, so, what, he's a kid, he's a young adult. Chill out. What what really really bothers me is that I think a lot of this was because of Dion Sanders. I think a lot of this was about a message to his father. I think a lot about this. A lot of this was about, Hey, you'll never run this. This is us. We ain't even hire you as a coach in the National Football League.

What makes you think you gonna have that kind of say, Oh, by the way, we hire you know, we draft your son, and then all of a sudden we gonna hear noise turning around on how you want to coach the team. Eventually, we don't need that kind of problem. Yeah, that's one of the things that people can point to. Let me tell y'all what I think. The other is a complete and utter lack of appreciation for what primetime Deon Sanders

has done for the game of football. Primetime Deon Sanders had more swag, more provider than anybody you could ever imagine what else you do? All a brother did was go out there and perform at a very very elite level, bring pizazz and sizzle to your product, helping it grow into this multi billion dollar brand. Has a great relationship with the commissioner, has a great relationship with a bevy of players and coaches in the National football League knows

the sport backwards and forward. And because of his swag and his provider or whatever, you'all gonna turn against him. How about y'all should have drafted. How about y'all should have drafted, should door Sanders earlier? Because of that alone. I'm not talking about at the expense of his skill. I know he's got to have skilled. That's not what I mean. I'm saying. Rather than look at all of those things as a negative, how about looking at it as a positive. You got a prime time deon Sanders.

His son is going to be motivated to perform at a higher level. He is all about performing at a higher level. He would be in his son's ear imploring him to listen to his coaches, imploring him to play better, imploring him to be dedicated and focused and on point. Did you ever think about that? Of course not, because ladies and gentlemen, as times change, they remain the same. Young kid privilege to be raised by a father who's universally recognized one of the greatest athletes the world has

ever seen, and a champion. By the way, he's still black. We don't like his brashness, we don't like his absence of humility. We gotta teach him a lesson because we gotta make sure he understands under all circumstances, we still run this. We're the bosses, and we can put our foot on your neck any damn time we want to. That's what happened to Shador Sanders and Dion Sanders over the last few days, spanning five rides and one hundred and forty three picks. That's what happened. It was a

check hook. Stay in your lane, know your position. This is a national football league. You ain't running a damn thing this way. You will be humble, You will conduct yourself with humility. Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned, and even then we'll decide whether we want to give it to you or not. That's how they treat it. Should door Sanders and I find it very very difficult to believe that the people who would do that would feel the need to have the energy to do this

to a kid straight out of college. That kind of energy, that kind of message, that insatiable appetite to send and cement that kind of imprint on this young man has to be at least to some degree about his father. And let me tell y'all something about Deon Sanders real quick. He is confident as hell, supremely so it's very little you could tell him because the brother is smart. He studied, he's learned, and he's sincere with what comes out of

his mouth. But I'm gonna tell y'all something about Dion Sanders real quick for the moment. I don't give a damn about his greatness as a player. I want to tell you about him as a man. He is a great man. Is he always right? No? Does he always say the wrong of the right thing?

become because of it. He deserved better than this. Shadore Sanders, in my opinion, was targeted because prime time Deon Sanders was targeted. He'll be all right because he has a strong faith in God, just like Prime Time Deon Sanders,

his daddy has taught him to have. But I'm speaking to all of y'all out there as a man who knows prime Time Deon Sanders, who's a friend of Deon Sanders, who Dion Sanders has reached out out and touched and imparted words of wisdom and support and strong love at times, tough love at times with yours. Truly, he is a great man. What happened is Shador Sanders, in part, not totally, but in part, was a direct assault on Dion Sanders. He did not deserve this. His son didn't deserve it.

His play didn't deserve this, his production didn't deserve this, his projected skill set didn't deserve this, his accomplishment didn't deserve this, and his pedigree didn't deserve it. Because say what you will about Dion Sanders, he has never taken

from the game. He has only given to it. And for Shador sand Is to be treated like this, I found myself so sad because in my soul, having not spoken to Primetime Dion Sanders in the last several weeks having not spoken to him, but knowing him the way that I do. Although he has the strongest faith in God and a strong belief in his son, I know there's a part of him who intimately knows that what was done and his son dropping to the fifth round was a direct assault on him. It's America at its worst.

It's the powers that be showing you that old adage that I ripped from Mission Impossible number one when they were looking for Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt and they turned around and said, this ain't complicated. You find this soft spot and you squeeze. You can't touch prime Tom Dan sand that you can't shake his confidence, his innate belief in himself and what he's doing and how to go about doing it. So to rattle him, you targeted his son. That is my opinion. I'm not saying that's

all it was. Certainly shoud Dorsanders could have done things better, better interview process, a bit more humility. According to people in the NFL, etc. I get that. And no, he was not better than cam Ward, and maybe, just maybe Jackson Dart was the right pick for the Giants to make. But when thirty two teams select to pass on a quarterback that was projected as a top two quarterback in the entire draft for nearly five complete rounds. That ain't

about football. That's about something else. It's about what the hell I just spent the last twenty twenty five minutes of so telling you, and it's a damn shame. I'm sick to my stomach. I want to throw up, and my heart goes out to Dion Sanders more than anybody. I know it's bad and it's a bad experience for Shador, but he got drafted. You see him dancing. He's gonna

be fine. But I know in my soul that Dion Sanders knows they did this to Chadere at least in part because of him, to Deon Sanders, not that I have to tell you this. Keep your head up, bro, keep your head up. Chador did not deserve this. I don't give a damn what anybody says. This is a black mark on the National Football League. And I'm not talking about the league office. I'm not talking about the Roger Goodell's and Troy vince in the world and others.

I'm talking about the owners. Shame on you, Shame on you Shador, do your thing, baby, this is your opportunity. You went to Cleveland Browns. They got a pretty damn good team. You know what you gotta do now, more than ever before. To Saint Jackson State, the Saint Colorado. It's National Football League.