Dillon Gabriel’s frustration boiled over as the Pittsburgh Steelers handed him a second loss as a starter.
Fresh off the back of a defeat to the Minnesota Vikings in London, the Cleveland Browns rookie threw the ball 52 times in a 29-9 rout.
Gabriel completed 29 passes for 221 yards and no touchdowns.
The Steelers had six sacks as the Browns struggled against at elite pass rush.
At one point, Gabriel was annoyed at Pittsburgh linebacker Patrick Queen, who hit him just after a throw.
The QB grabbed his rival’s jersey and appeared to make contact with his knee in a viral video.
Some fans were happy that Gabriel was showing some fight in his second start, but others thought he crossed a line.
“Little man syndrome,” wrote one.
Another asked: “What is he doing ?”
“Now if that was Sheduer people would lose it and I don’t want to hear anything otherwise,” a third noted in reference to backup Shedeur Sanders‘ perceived negative treatment.
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Sanders was promoted to No. 2 after Week 1 starter Joe Flacco was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals.
But despite Gabriel taking so much punishment, head coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t think about putting in his fifth-round pick.
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GettyShedeur’s time could be coming after the Browns fell to 1-5[/caption]“No,” he said when asked if he considered a change. “We were just trying to fight there till the end.”
Stefanski thought his team didn’t do enough to protect Gabriel.
“He’s a tough kid. We’ve got to keep him clean. Obviously, when the game turns into how it turned a two-score game, you have to drop back, and that’s a tough team to drop back versus,” he said. “He kept battling. Wasn’t for a lack of effort by him or by anybody.
“Made some plays, but we just got to be better. I think you learn in every game, win, lose or draw.
“And obviously, we know this kid’s tough. We know he’s tough. He’s going to keep fighting. We just got to around him, make some plays. We got to coach him up.”
Shedeur entered the NFL with plenty of hype thanks to Hall of Fame dad Deion.
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His mom Pilar also made headlines as she celebrated his promotion to backup QB with what seemed to be a cryptic dig at Gabriel.
The Browns play the struggling Miami Dolphins in Week 7 with plenty of questions set to be asked about both quarterbacks before then.
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