The Cleveland Browns are not just losing; they are imploding.

A 2-6 record is bad enough, but it’s merely the public face of a franchise that insiders describe as being in a state of chaos. The team has become, in the words of one commentator, the “laughing stock of the entire National Football League”. But the on-field losses are just the symptom. The real story, brewing with volcanic intensity, is a firestorm of internal criticism, blistering accusations of player “mistreatment”, and a mysterious injury to a star rookie that has prominent media figures crying foul.

At the white-hot center of this inferno is “Browns Insider” Tony Rizzo, who, in a stunning broadcast, “unloaded” on the entire Cleveland Browns front office. His message wasn’t just a critique; it was a demand.

“The front office needs to go,” Rizzo declared, his frustration palpable. “You need to change everything”.

This explosive call for mass firings stems from one core issue: the baffling and allegedly negligent handling of rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders.

The current situation in Cleveland is dire. The team is trotting out Dylan Gabriel as its starting quarterback, a third-round pick who was lauded for being “smart”. But that intelligence isn’t translating to the field. Gabriel has been ineffective, his “luck finally ran out with the picks”, and he even “gave up a safety”. The team is getting “beat on and beat on and beat on”, and the frustration from star players is reportedly boiling over.

Rizzo, having seen enough, articulated what many fans are screaming. “Does anybody really think running Dylan Gabriel out there… he’s going to get better?” he asked. “The answer is no”.

This isn’t just a slump; it’s a systemic failure. The Browns, at 2-6, are “not going anywhere”. And while the current starter flounders, the man many believe to be the future sits on the bench.

That man is Shedeur Sanders.

The call to play the rookie is no longer a whisper; it’s a roar. Former Eagles star LeSean “Shady” McCoy weighed in, echoing the sentiment. “What are we waiting on?” McCoy demanded. “See what you got. Maybe Shadore is better than we thought… maybe he’s not… but let’s find out”.

McCoy argues that Sanders possesses an intangible quality the team desperately lacks: a “spark”. He compared the potential to Jackson Dart, who, despite not winning games immediately, gave the New York Giants a “spark”. “I think Sanders has that same type of ability,” McCoy said. “I look at Dylan Gabriel, I don’t see the team responding to him like that”.

The logic is simple. The season is lost. The current quarterback is failing. The logical next step, as in any professional sports organization, is to evaluate your future assets. “Now is a perfect time to make the change,” Rizzo stated flatly.

So why hasn’t it happened? This is where the story turns from simple incompetence to something more suspicious.

Just as the calls for Sanders to start reached a crescendo, he was suddenly declared inactive. The official reason: a back injury.

Almost no one is buying it.

Commentators, including the host of “Mad Dog TV,” immediately questioned the timing. Is this injury legitimate, or is it a convenient excuse? Is it “a way for them to kind of like slide it under the rug,” to hide the fact that the organization has “haven’t prepared Shadur Sanders” to play?

This suspicion is not just fan conspiracy; it’s being echoed by the biggest names in sports media. Skip Bayless pointedly noted, “Just see Shador Sanders was suddenly inactive today because of a back injury. Even though he did participate in warm-ups”.

Rizzo himself was openly mocking. “How do you get hurt?” he scoffed, noting Sanders tried to get loose before the game. “They won’t even let the kid play… phantom back injury, huh?”.

This “phantom injury” is seen by critics as the smoking gun of a deeper organizational rot. The core accusation, which Rizzo has heard from “people around the league,” is that the Browns “have not prepared Shador Sanders to play”. It’s not just that they won’t play him; it’s that they have failed so profoundly in their developmental duties that they can’t play him, and may be using an injury to cover their tracks.

“What are you waiting for?” Rizzo demanded, pointing to the 2-6 record. “Are you waiting till you’re 2 and 12, when it doesn’t mean anything? … It doesn’t mean anything now!”.

The Browns have a bye week, a perfect two-week window to get the rookie the reps and preparation he allegedly never received. But the cynicism from insiders is absolute. “You have two weeks to prepare Shador,” Rizzo said. “And they won’t do it. Of course they won’t”.

This, for Rizzo, is the final straw. This single, catastrophic failure at the most important position in sports is, in his view, an indictment of the entire leadership structure.

“Nothing they have done,” Rizzo stated, “starting since the end of the year last year at the quarterback position, has made sense. Nothing has made sense”.

“And for that reason alone,” he concluded, “the front office needs to go”.

The call is to clean house. To burn it all down and start over. But the most terrifying part of the Browns’ current predicament is a final, damning realization: it might not even matter.

Even if the front office is fired, and even if Shedeur Sanders is healthy and named the starter, he may be destined to fail. Why? Because the problems run even deeper, right down to the headset of head coach Kevin Stefanski.

The “Mad Dog TV” host called Stefanski’s play-calling “horrible”. He cited reports of rival coaches, like Mike Vrabel, “throwing shots” at how “gimmick” Stefanski’s offensive plays are. The system itself, critics argue, is fundamentally broken.

The chilling conclusion is one that should send a shiver down the spine of every Cleveland fan. “Even if it’s Shador Sanders on the center,” the host warned, “hell, even if it’s Patrick Mahomes, nothing will change because the play calling is that bad”.

The Cleveland Browns are at a crossroads. They are a franchise in civil war. They have a 2-6 record, a furious fanbase, a benched and allegedly mistreated rookie, a highly suspicious injury, a failing starter, and an insider blowtorch calling for a complete regime change. The organization is facing a crisis of confidence that goes far beyond the gridiron. The question is no longer if heads will roll, but when.

And in the middle of it all, Shedeur Sanders waits—a potential savior trapped in a franchise that seems pathologically determined to fail him.