Putting aside any crossover with both fan bases that will be watching the game anyway—and I’m 100% certain there is some—Sunday’s game between the Raiders and the Browns is a bowl game for the absolute worst people on (sports) earth (plenty of competition for regular earth).
On one side will be the ones who pirouetted out of the woodwork last week like final-number dancers at the Nutcracker prepared to defend Shedeur Sanders for the sport of it. This defense can take place on numerous fronts and multiple battlefields, but let’s just say that we arrived at a place where a group of people were bewildered by—and made sure others were bewildered by—the fact that a backup quarterback didn’t receive reps with the Browns’ starting offense. This, in a regulated, modern NFL where repetitions for any player are more valuable than peak Hawk Tuah coin.
