Deion Sanders Wants to Meet Browns’ Head Coach to Talk About Shedeur—As a Coach, Not as a Dad

Fathers typically believe they know best, and Deion Sanders is apparently no different.

“I was supposed to go, actually next week but I’ve got to shoot a commercial, to Cleveland to meet [Monken],” Sanders said via Pro Football Talk. “Because 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. 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 [seasons], 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. So, I anticipate, and I can’t wait to have that conversation with Coach Monken.”

This is a big season for Shedeur.

Unlike last season, where the starting job fell to him due to a combination of injuries and poor play from the QBs ahead of him. This year, Sanders faces competition not only from returning second-year player Dillon Gabriel but also from former Browns starter Deshaun Watson, who is returning from injury.

“I love it, man, because he’s a straight shooter,” Deion said of Monken. “All these little side conversations that was had before him, he ain’t with that.”