Nightcap Hour 2: Von Miller JOINS + Dak Prescott DUBBED Cowboys GREATEST OFFENSE + Todd Monken GIVES Shedeur His SHOT + Cardinals Jeremiyah Love Ankle SPRAIN + Tom Brady RIPS NFL Starters for RESTING + Aaron Donald 2nd WORKOUT for Rams

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Todd Monken says it would be unfair not to give Shedeur Sanders the starting opportunity versus the Bills, and split ribs this week given how close it is heading into the Bears game. Let's take a listen to what Todd Monken had to say today on this situation.
Going in the last game, that it was relatively close, you know, in terms of both having an opportunity at the starting position. So it would be unfair to not go into the next game and allow Shedeur that opportunity, albeit a different team. Certainly at home, there's no guarantee that, you know, the same players will be playing this game, but it's the closest you have.

**Von Miller** (0:38)
And we owe it to both players who have really handled it well and have competed at a high level.

**Chad Johnson** (0:46)
That what Yom Buur is talking about, huh?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:49)
He's saying, look, it would be unfair not to give Shedeur Sanders an opportunity to start the game.
Even though they're going to split the ref during the course of the week. Considering how close it was with the Bears game.
That, and this competition is still extremely close. So to not give Shedeur an opportunity to start. And he said, hey, who knows what Buffalo is going to play? I don't know. I don't know how many guys of our guys we're going to play. But I know that he's earned the right to get a starting opportunity with the guys, just like Deshaun got last week against the Bears. And we'll see what happens. Yes, it's different because Deshaun was on the road, Shedeur be at home. We get that, but it is what it is. And he says basically he deserves an opportunity and he's going to get that opportunity this week.

**Chad Johnson** (1:34)
I mean, that's dope. That's dope. I'm glad he came out and set the record straight. So Shedeur knows the ones, the offensive line, the receivers, the running backs, they know who is going to be. They understand whoever's calling the plays understands exactly what Shedeur does well. Those first 10, 15 plays, they can be scripted well for Shedeur and what he likes to do, what he's most comfortable with, especially when you practice this week and what he's had success with. So obviously, obviously, you're going into the pre-season, you're playing against another team, they have no clue what you're doing. So therefore it should be easy being that everything is vanilla outside of the blitzes that we've seen, which is kind of weird, for a team to be doing in the pre-season outside of cover one, three and cover two.
But outside of that, man, listen, Shedeur made some good throws, he had an interception to ball, you know, it got away from him.
I'm excited, I'm excited. I like the quarterback battle that they have going on. But again, from the business side of things, I know who's going to be the star. And I'm sure those who've been around the game long enough understand as well, as much as we want to see Shedeur play, you know where to come down to. It's Deshaun Jackson's, Deshaun Jackson, Jesus Christ, Ochocinco, it's Deshaun Watson's job to lose.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:44)
Yeah. Hey, I think Shedeur definitely deserves an opportunity to start and get a chance to play with the 1s, Unc and Ochocinco.
You know, whether it's the first quarter, first half, whatever it may be, because when you look around the NFL, this is probably the only really competitive quarterback situation to where you like, damn, we don't know who's going to really start in game one. Yeah, we leaning toward Deshaun because of the money that he make, and you got to give him an opportunity to get out there and play. But at the same time, I think Shedeur definitely deserves that opportunity. Regardless of how things have been, I don't think it's been clear cut as far as like their play in game one. I thought they both made mistakes, whether it was Deshaun fumbling, whether it was Shedeur, you know, throwing the pick. So I think they all got some room for improvement, bro. I'm looking forward to the to the competition to continue. You know what I mean? Throughout these last two preseason games, see what we come up with.

**Chad Johnson** (3:40)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:40)
If you really look at it, the quarterback competition is really two teams. It's the Falcons. It's the Browns.
Everything else has been decided.

**Chad Johnson** (3:49)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:49)
Now, it seems like Tua has a slight lead in Atlanta.

**Chad Johnson** (3:55)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:56)
But for the most part, other than that, I think, look, it's going to be interesting to see.