How News flow on Wednesday Morning is Cleveland Brown rookie Dillon Gabriel He will take possession as the starting defender of the team, a good friend Gabriel sent him a photo of a fire station.
“When he sends this, he simply lists the obvious, right?” Gabriel said. “Like the doors are open, the garage doors are open, everything is ready to work, they are just waiting for this phone call to answer surgical.
“And I think that I am smiling, because this is the moment you are preparing for, and you are very happy, but also found out that this is an extreme focus, and this is what I continued to do on.
“But you are waiting for the perfect time, you will wait for a life. So, for me I have always been ready for every moment. “
Gabriel's readiness and brown button will be checked, since the choice of the third round will become the 41st starter of the franchise, since it returned to the NFL in 1999 (the majority in the league for this period).
Brows initially turned to Joe FlakkoWhich helped to bring the franchise into the play -off at the end of the 2023 season to start this season. Nevertheless, his second case in Cleveland began with a rude start, since the 18-year-old veteran published a common QBR (27.0), which occupies higher. Tennessee Titans rookie Cam WardField
The struggle of Flakko forced the coach of Brows Kevin Stefansky to insert Gabriel for his first career. Despite the fact that the weekly preparation in the first month of the season was aimed at the help of Flacco, the brownians also worked hard to develop their newcomers, Gabriel and the fifth round of choice SHEDEUR SANDERSTo configure them to success, from researching the film to the separation of the scout team of pictures for representatives of post-practitioners.
The advantages of this strategy will be on Sunday in the spotlight when Gabriel, who will become the first defender of the NFL, who began his first career in the international game, heads Brown (1-3) against Minnesotsky Vikings (2-2) in London (9:30 East time, NFL network)
“The most important thing for us is to go back to this intention of what we are doing,” said Stefansky. “This [quarterbacks coach] Bill Masgrave, this [offensive coordinator] Tommy Rice, this is our team of players developers. Everyone understands that we bring to our guys. And this can, one day, vile meetings, in one day can mean physical individual training – if you want, in practice, while this side does this, these guys do it. So, like the overall picture, very intentionally in every minute that you have. ”
There are brownies For the first time turning to Gabriel, a six -year -old player in college in UCF, Oklahom and Oregon, in an attempt to start an attack that gained second place in the NFL (14 points per game for four weeks).
From the moment of the April project, he has been taking a more quota, which has experienced numerous changes.
On Wednesday, Stephansky announced that Flakko would be a backup, while Sanders, the son of the Glory Hall of Professional Football and the football coach of Colorado Deion Sanders, will continue to serve No. 3 and Extransa KB.
Deshan Watson He has the right to return to practice from the physical inability to fulfill the list, but he continues to rehabilitate himself in his nonsense injury. Watson, nevertheless, published training videos about how he threw Achilles at his surgically repaired Achilles. And to add to the depths of passers -by in the state, Cleveland brought the veteran passers Bailey POPWhich began the game for Browns last season and is familiar with the attack of Stefansky, a training team.
Meanwhile, 24 -year -old Gabriel impressed the brownies during the predecessor process, recalling the concept and processing this information. Although Gabriel, 5 feet 11, is one of the shortest starting defenders (i.e. 5-10, Carolina Panthers' Bryce Young And Arizona Cardinals' Kayler Murray The only, in short), Cleveland's coaches do not believe that this had a great influence on his game.
Gabriel's work during a training camp and the pre -season season made a team comfortable with trade Kenny Pickett V Las -Vegas raiders And call Gabriela a backup of Flakko to start the season. Tyler Huntleywhich was signed in the summer against the backdrop of Pickett’s injuries, Gabriel and Sanders, was released as part of the registry and is in Baltic crow'Practical team.
Cleveland, c Way, entered the regular season, well versed in the distribution of time in practice for several defenders.
During the training camp, the team juggled dividing practices among four defenders when Pickett was on the list, and sometimes the fifth when he signed Huntley.
Many of these plans were postponed in the regular season, where Flacco took most representatives of practice for preparing for the game. On Wednesday, Stefansky said that Gabriel received representatives with the beginning of the crime in the first month of the season.
Gabriel spoke of those novice repetitions as “here and there, throughout the practice, but also respecting Flakko, receiving his repetitions during these weeks. Therefore, I think we try to enter it as much as possible, but I think that we also coped with this well in the training camp. Therefore, as I said, you must build these moments in order to get to this point, and I think that a great week of preparation will begin success. ”
However, most of Gabriel's practice appeared when the Cleveland intelligence team is cholled by the Scout team among him, Sanders and POP.
“On Wednesdays there is a meeting of the scout team, so we will go there, and protective coaches will go through cards to somehow give us their heads,” said Zap, “because the environment is like volume, this is your great practice. These are the practices that you practice the most. So they want to get what they are definitely tuned. ”
According to most NFL teams, the rotation of the representatives of the scout team among several quoters is slightly different, but allowed each quota to get valuable pictures, even if they are not prepared for the beginning.
“Sometimes the concepts are reminiscent of the fact that we will run here with brows, and sometimes they are completely foreigners,” Magrave said. “But the fact that they exist and should make decisions and process, and then deliver throws for sure, everything that is really good. And we are trying to develop it or organize it, where certain concepts are almost met with our defenders. ”
For Sanders, who began his four-year-old college in the FCS Jackson State and Colorado program, for the first time after the Covid-19 season in the spring of 2021, he was an early admission in Jackson, he ruled the Scout team.
“This is a concept. Every time you throw the ball, there are only so many ways that you can get to different places, ”Sanders said. “I just like it, and, as I say, this is my gaming day. This is my gaming day. “
For ZAPPE, a four -year -old professional, the advantages of the scout teams use practice time to hone the mechanics.
“These are not always the plays that you launch or play, which you are used to running into,” said Pope, “but actually just uses the same work of the legs, and reads the same, just trying to imagine, well, this is the play that we launch. So, it seems like he calculated her. ”
For example, in the training camp, backups often remain subsequently with the cattle catchers for representatives of post-practitioners that they are not provided for a week of preparation for the game.
“We will try to work on throws in our plays this week, but perhaps things, perhaps we missed last week,” Gabriel said. “An attempt to stay at the top of this so that you can get as much as you need. So this is a kind of quota and the situation, but we are all definitely trying to get into our mixture of films, passages, additional throws, throws before the department or even between them during special teams, when we have a lot of positional work. ”
Masgrave noted the difficulty of finding a new weekly routine – and one that maximizes the possibilities with disabilities – not only for Sanders, but also Gabriel, whose 63 colleges begin most for the defender in the history of FBS. This week is also presented an unorthodox schedule for Gabriel and Brows, which flew to London on Wednesday afternoon after training in their institution in Birch, Ohio. They spent on Thursday and train on Friday.
“There are problems there because you do not get time for the task and get a real representative,” Masgrave said. “Thus, drilling work is crucial. I call them a simulation, where we hold almost persistent meetings or passages, both in a conference room, and, possibly, on the grass or even on the carpet where we have more space.
“So, there are ways in which we are trying to be creative, and this happens with each defender room in the entire league at all levels of football. Guys who should be prepared for the game, but also, they are young. And therefore, we want them to develop and continue to work on their craft at the same time. ”
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JJ WATT says Pat Makafi that he hopes that Dillon Gabriel can become an excellent defender for brows.
Last weekendOne NFL team has already raised its newcomer Kvoterme as before without victories. New York giants Started Jaxon Dart25th choice in the April draft. Violation of New York showed signs of life after a change, since Dart amounted to two landings in victory 21-18 over previously invincible Los -Angeles ChardersField
However, on the eve of the first start of the Darth, the giant coach Brian Daball said that there is no reliable way to find out when the QB beginner is ready to take the reins of government.
“I do not think that any quota -a -tank is when the lick is ready to play,” Dabull said. “You put him there because you think that he did enough to show you that he could go there and compete, and he did it at every step.”
Last week, Sanders told Cleveland that he was “ready to play right now.” Although Sanders remains No. 3 QB, many are surprised when he debuts in the regular season. The owner of Browns Jimmy Haslam said that it is important to see how both beginners play ahead of the 2026 draft, when there are two choice in the first round in Cleveland.
At the moment, however, the main attention is paid to Gabriel and his first start.
“Since he was here, he worked very hard, a very smart young man,” Stefansky said on Wednesday. “He did a good job throughout the training, and all this season he learned to prepare himself and understand the rhythm of NFL week, and that it looks like backup, and, obviously, now feels that he is ready to start.”
