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**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
They might be starting to Cleveland. A source told Mary Kay Kawhi that DeShaun Watson knew he would be first team quarterback on Saturday before Todd Monkin told the media that it was Shadour Sanders' day with the Ones. As it turns out, Watson knew right after the walkthrough about noon that he was going with the Ones on Saturday, which is about 45 minutes before Todd Monkin told the media that Sanders will still be day 10 QB1.
Ocho, what's going on, man? What exactly is going on?

**Chad Johnson** (0:29)
Hold on, Unc, say that one more time. I just want to make sure I heard you correctly. Go ahead.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:35)
Mary Kay Cabot said that DeShaun Watson knew he would be first team quarterback on Saturday before Todd Monkin told the media that it was Shadour Sanders' day with the Ones. As it turns out, Watson knew right after the walkthrough about noon that he was going with the Ones on Saturday, which is about 45 minutes before Monkin, Monkin, Monkin told the media that Sanders was still day 10 QB1.

**Chad Johnson** (1:01)
I mean, well, I mean, is it is based on what was said? Is there anything wrong with what I said and told you before on who would be the day one starter in general?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:08)
Why would he lie though? Okay, why would you say that it's going to be Shadour's day, day 10, when you had already told DeShaun that he was going with the Ones the entire for the entirety?

**Chad Johnson** (1:18)
It's one thing, it's one thing that coaches will do when they get in front of the camera and they and they spew whatever they want to spew. And in public, it's always going to be different behind closed doors.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:27)
But don't lie to your player, Ocho. Just, you got to, I thought you said you were dealing with men. And men, you deal with them straight up. You say, look here, Shadour, there's been a change of plans. I know you're supposed to get the reps with the Ones on day 10, but we've, as an organization, as a staff, we think that DeShaun, we're going to let DeShaun take all the Ones, tuck all the reps with the Ones, and you'll have a day where you take all the reps with the Ones.
Just don't lie to the man because the man got expectations. I'm sure he told his dad, hey, hey, Pops, call time, Pops, hey, Pops, you know, it's my day to run with the Ones. He probably told him, said, son, hey, hey, you've been here, you're preparing for this moment your whole life, just go do what you should do. Go do what you should do or does. That's all you gotta do. I don't know why, in situations like this, we just can't be honest.
Just be honest.

**Chad Johnson** (2:19)
Yeah, I mean, it's unfortunate. I'm assuming this is something, I think that that call might have come above Todd Monkins' head, as far as wanting to see DeShaun take those reps in general.
The coach's plan probably was to have Shadour take it, take the 10 day with the Ones, but I think that call came from upstairs being that DeShaun Watson is probably going to be the starter. We want him to get more reps with the Ones. Because you know who we gonna see in the preseason, right?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:48)
Shadour. Shadour. Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (2:50)
Shadour. And when Shadour gets in the preseason, he's gonna look good. I guarantee you that. He's gonna look good, because he's taking enough reps with the Ones to date and gonna pick up right where he left off last year, and all the improvements that Todd Monk and say that he's seen so far from Shadour is going to show in the first preseason game, which I'm assuming is what, four or five days from now. So listen, I'm excited for both of them. I'm excited for both of them. And again, if DeShaun Watson's job to lose at this point, at this point, his job to lose because they're going to play the $46 million quarterback. He's not going to be sitting on the bench. As much as I myself would like Shadour to start, and everyone else that enjoys watching him play because of the excitement and the unpredictability that he brings to the game, DeShaun has planned based on the business side of things, money.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:37)
Okay, Ocho, can DeShaun lose his job in the preseason? No, he can't. Even if he go out there and he don't look great. He ain't gonna look good because he ain't gonna play enough to look that bad.