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Todd Monken held his first press conference of the 2026 offseason program yesterday and honestly? He said everything I needed to hear. Not in a hype, tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear kind of way. In a real, this-man-actually-gets-it kind of way. Two things stood out to me above everything else. Let me break them down. “A Team Nobody Wants to Play” When Monken was asked about the identity of this football team, he didn’t give a long drawn-out answer about systems and schemes. He sa

The QB Room All Showed Up — Including the One We Weren’t Sure About This was the headline coming into the day. We knew Shedeur Sanders was going to be there — he’s been in the building all offseason, Monken has praised his work ethic multiple times, and he clearly understands the assignment as a second-year player trying to lock down a starting job. We knew Deshaun Watson was going to be there too. Watson literally posted a TikTok of himself strapping on his Browns helmet be