Breer: Teams afraid to draft Shedeur Sanders because of Deion?
On Friday’s Toucher & Hardy program, Albert Breer discussed why some NFL teams might be afraid to draft Shedeur Sanders.
Teams Afraid of Shedeur Sanders?
Parts of conversation abbreviated for clarity.
Fred Toucher: So, I have a question about Shedeur Sanders. Mostly because he’s the most intriguing prospect, some have him as the number one quarterback.
Teams obviously do a lot of due diligence with quarterbacks, especially considering all that’s required off the field. How sketchy are people feeling about drafting Shedeur Sanders?
Albert Breer: Those questions certainly exist and they’ll always exist with quarterbacks. Where is their ability and capacity to control and manage everything around them? Mahomes is a great example, right guys? There’s a lot of stuff of the field going on around him that he has to manage.
Toucher: Yeah, Mahomes is the gold standard. He’s the face of the franchise but has a crazy brother and a weird wife. So yeah, he’s got a lot going on.
Breer: Right and even the father has got his issues too. And I’ve had people there tell me that Mahomes greatest accomplishment is how normal he turned out based on everything happening around him. He’s got such a steady presence for somebody who could easily have been pulled in the wrong direction.
There were even questions about Jayden Daniels’ mother. How much was she going to be a part of managing him? But he’s done a phenomenal job of dealing with that.
You can say the same thing with Caleb Williams and his father.
Hardy: Caleb Williams was the bigger concern, too, as I remember.
Breer: But I mean, the point is that there’s a lot of these guys with major questions.
Now, with Shedeur Sanders, this is like a higher level of that because of the high profile that Shedeur Sanders’ dad has. Yeah, I mean, that’s certainly part of the equation. There’s no question.
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3 Stars: No silver linings for Bruins in Dallas
Third Star: Tyler Seguin
Nov 7, 2024; Dallas, Texas, USA; Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin (91) in action during the game between the Dallas Stars and the Chicago Blackhawks at the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)
Thursday night in Dallas, perhaps fittingly, saw ex-Bruins forward Tyler Seguin become the first member of the 2010 NHL Draft class to hit the 800-point mark. And entering this contest sitting at 799 career points, Seguin needed just 69 seconds to hit that milestone, as he picked up the secondary helper on the game’s first goal.
“It’s cool, I guess,” Seguin, who spent the first three years of his career with the Bruins, said of collecting point No. 800 in the victory. “I wasn’t aware of it except for my wonderful wife, who gets into hockey all of a sudden since she met me and texted me after last game and she said you better get it against Boston. Glad it was done the first shift.”
Seguin collected a secondary helper by the night’s end, and finished this contest with six shots on goal.
In case you’re wondering, the Bruins are officially without any sort of connections to the Seguin trade tree from 2013. Loui Eriksson and Joe Morrow both departed as free agents (Morrow is currently playing in the EIHL in the United Kingdom), Matt Fraser left Boston via waivers (he’s currently playing in Austria), and Reilly Smith was flipped to Florida in the 2015 trade that brought the late Jimmy Hayes to Boston. Hayes was ultimately bought out by the Bruins and not traded, thus ending all branches of the trade tree from Boston’s point of view.
Second Star: Matt Duchene
Nov 14, 2024; Dallas, Texas, USA; Stars defenseman Thomas Harley (55) and center Matt Duchene (95) celebrates a goal scored by Duchene against the Boston Bruins during the first period at the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)
The Bruins had circled a strong start as the key to this game.
But the Stars’ Matt Duchene said ‘nah’ to that.
In Duchene’s 14:15 of five-on-five ice time, Dallas controlled the shot attempts 17-6, outshot Boston 14-3, out-chanced them 9-3, and most importantly outscored them by a 2-1 mark. In addition to the goal, Duchene also added an apple, and finishes the season series against Boston with two goals and five points in two games.
Just an absolutely fantastic performance from Duchene.
First Star: Evgenii Dadonov
Nov 14, 2024; Dallas, Texas, USA; Dallas Stars right wing Evgenii Dadonov (63) scores a goal against Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman (1) during the second period at the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)
A first-period penalty shot awarded to Evgenii Dadonov was almost certainly an early Christmas gift. (I’m honestly not sure it was a penalty at all, let alone a penalty worthy of a penalty-shot opportunity.) But the officials called what they called on the ice, and Dadonov certainly made it count in what was a gigantic goal for the Stars.
On the board with the penalty shot snipe through Swayman, the penalty shot marker was the fourth of Dadonov’s NHL career, which ties him with Mats Sundin, Joe Sakic, David Vyborny and Charlie Conacher for fifth place on the NHL’s all-time list. The only players with more penalty-shot goals: Pavel Bure (7), Brad Marchand (6), Mario Lemieux (6), and Vincent Lecavalier (5), according to NHL Stats.
“I mean I knew I was going to shoot but didn’t want to do it,” Dadonov said of his penalty-shot attempt. “To be honest, I was pretty tired so I just shot, I opened my blade and saw the hole and shot.”And Dadonov didn’t stop with just the penalty shot goal, as he also banged home what was the fifth goal of the night for the Stars, scored with 10 seconds left in the middle frame to give the Stars a more-than-comfortable four-goal cushion through two periods of play.
