Sanders Makes Case in Browns QB Battle as Bills Rout Cleveland 31-7

On a late August Friday in Cleveland, the Buffalo Bills won a preseason game by a wide margin, but the score was merely the backdrop for a deeper human drama — two quarterbacks competing for one future, one rising on the strength of his performance, the other weathering the rare sting of rejection from his own crowd. Coach Todd Monken stood at the crossroads of both men's fates and said nothing, because in competition, silence is its own kind of verdict in progress. The regular season draws near, and the space for ambiguity is shrinking.