The dam has finally broken in Cleveland. The carefully constructed, front-office-led “Dylan Gabriel agenda” that has choked the franchise for months has just come crashing down in a spectacular and humiliating public execution. It was all set ablaze by a single, leaked hot mic video that exposed the “frat boy bullying” happening behind the scenes, and it has triggered a full-scale media meltdown that is now threatening to burn the entire organization to the ground.

At the center of it all are two rookie quarterbacks: one, Dylan Gabriel, who is now going viral for all the wrong reasons, and the other, Shedeur Sanders, who has been the victim of one of the most blatant, orchestrated character attacks in recent NFL history.

It all began in the press room, the very place the pro-Gabriel narrative was born. After another pathetic offensive performance, Gabriel, the man nicknamed the “supercomputer,” gave his usual robotic, coach-speak answers and walked off the podium. But the cameras kept rolling. A reporter, allegedly identified by dozens online as Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal, was caught on a hot mic turning to his colleagues. He wasn’t torching Gabriel’s “historically bad” 5.1 yards-per-attempt. No, it was far worse. He was caught mouthing, “I’m taller than him,” laughing and mocking his own quarterback’s height.

This “sickeningly personal shot” was the crack in the armor. This wasn’t professional criticism; it was a public humiliation. It was the embarrassing, unprofessional truth of what the insiders really think about the man they’ve been selling to the public. This leaked moment signaled that the “agenda is dead.”

If the hot mic was the appetizer, what followed was the main course, the dessert, and the after-dinner execution all in one. The floodgates opened. Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, a pillar of the Cleveland media, finally decided to unleash the truth that fans have been screaming for weeks. This wasn’t a hot take; it was a journalistic reckoning.

“I’m so frustrated that Andrew Barry did this,” Ruiter bellowed, his voice dripping with the exasperation of every Browns fan. “I told you in training camp this guy wasn’t it… This is unwatchable!”

“Unwatchable.” That was the word. Not “struggling.” Not “developing.” Unwatchable. Ruiter, a man who is at practice every single day, flat-out declared that Dylan Gabriel is “not an NFL QB.” The stats back him up. The 2-6 Browns are 38th in the league in passing. The “supercomputer” is getting a “404 error” every time he drops back. He’s playing scared, taking safeties, and, as the hot mic proved, he “can’t see over the offensive line.”

This public torching of the man the Browns spent a top-100 pick on begs the real, haunting question: If Gabriel is this bad, why is the immensely talented Shedeur Sanders buried on the bench? Why is he, as coach Kevin Stefanski just admitted, not even getting first-team reps in practice?

The answer is the real story. This is not a simple coaching decision. This is a “coordinated, planned attack on Shedeur Sanders’s character,” a “conspiracy” set in stone by the very people in the Cleveland media and the Browns’ front office who are now scrambling to save their own jobs. The entire agenda was to “justify anointing their handpicked, undersized supercomputer.”

This conspiracy isn’t a theory; it’s proven by a “disgusting double standard.”

First, let’s look at the “speeding ticket scandal.” Before he ever played a snap, Shedeur Sanders received two speeding tickets (91 in a 65 and 101 in a 60). The Cleveland media machine exploded. It was a “character assassination.” Every blog, every radio show, painted him as a “reckless, immature, spoiled brat” who wasn’t fit to lead.

Just weeks later, who else got a speeding ticket? The face of the franchise, Miles Garrett. He was clocked going 100 in a 60—just as fast as Shedeur. And the media reaction? “Crickets.” It was a “footnote.” A “good learning experience.” This was a blatant, undeniable attempt to “hurt Shedeur” and create a “character concern” narrative to justify keeping him on the bench.

Second, the media establishment despises Sanders because he is “not controllable.” While they were dragging his name, what was he doing? He was “pulling up unannounced at local Cleveland high schools… in the hood.” He was being a “man of the people,” inspiring kids and promising a Super Bowl. You don’t see other rookies doing that. He wasn’t playing their game.

The smoking gun that proves the media agenda is personal is the “Tony Grossi story.” After a preseason game, Shedeur Sanders, with his brother filming, walked right up to the “king” of Cleveland media. Instead of “kissing the ring,” Shedeur “confronted the king” to his face. “Tony, I be hoping you got something positive to say about me,” Sanders said, with his signature charisma. “You only say negative stuff about me… I ain’t do nothing to you.”

He called him out. He refused to be their puppet. From that exact moment, the “agenda was locked in.” This kid was too confident, too smart, and had too much power. They had to keep him on the bench. They had to prop up the guy they could control: the “supercomputer” who is too small to see the field and “too scared to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage.”

This lie is now collapsing the entire locker room. Miles Garrett, a generational talent, is watching his prime “get set on fire” by this “historically inept” offense. After a loss to the Patriots in which Garrett had a historic five sacks, he was seen on the sideline, “seething” and slamming his helmet.

And the hypocrisy? Media insider Mary Kay Cabot praised Garrett’s “angry, emotional tantrum” as “leadership,” “stepping up,” and “caring.” But Shedeur’s speeding ticket? A “character risk.” It is the most “disgusting double standard” in the league.

This brings us to the “hell week” bye. The team is 2-6. The fans are in open revolt. The locker room is broken. The solution? Kevin Stefanski has publicly ruled out benching Dylan Gabriel. The “fix” is Stefanski “giving up play-calling” or, as Cabot suggested, “trading for a wide receiver.”

This is, quite literally, “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” The ship is sinking, and the captain is obsessed with changing the band’s playlist. They will do anything except get in the lifeboats.

Benching Dylan Gabriel now would be an “admission of failure.” And this front office, this coaching staff, and this media establishment are “so drowning in their own ego” that they would rather “lose the rest of their games, lose their fans, and lose their franchise player in Miles Garrett” than admit the simple truth: they picked the wrong guy.

To ensure this, Stefanski finally admitted the darkest part of this agenda: Shedeur Sanders “does not get first team reps in practice.” They are not just neglecting him; they are “actively sabotaging his development.” They are sabotaging their own team to protect their egos and their “failed supercomputer project.”

The leaked hot mic video of a reporter mocking his quarterback wasn’t just an embarrassing clip. It was the end of the lie. It exposed the people in charge, from the front office to the press box, as “not serious people.” They tried to assassinate the character of a young man who wouldn’t play their game, and they propped up a player who is “unwatchable.” Now, the entire city knows.