This was Shedeur's first start this year.
The drifting backwards thing reared its ugly head bigtime this game. I thought we had worked that stuff out by end of year last year, but it came back.
He ended the game with a hair shy of 300 yards, 2TDs and no TOs. Anybody would look at just that and proclaim "we're saved!"
I saw a QB for 3.5 quarters operate the offense at a below-backup level. Then show some 'clutch-ness' to bring us back (good passes that allowed for heroic individual efforts by KC and Fannin), and then ultimately fail to finish the job on the very last play of the game.
You can certainly point out where his supporting cast were pretty unsupportive, but if this was his audition to stay in the conversation for the Browns long-term answer at QB, I don't know how you can say (with a straight face) that he did what he needed to do. I'm also not sure if he put space between him and Gabriel for the backup job either. I think the drifting backwards into sacks thing combined with a handful of bad execution errors (ex. running into the pulling guard, trying to hand off to Judkins who ran the opposite way) set him way back in trying to secure the starter spot.
