Cleveland made its call on Monday. Deshaun Watson is the starter, Shedeur Sanders is not, and a fanbase that's spent all preseason booing Watson now has to live with the decision. He didn't make it easy on himself either, calling the reaction from his own crowd disrespectful after a preseason game that did nothing to quiet anyone down.
Now comes the response, live, against the Patriots. This is the last preseason look before Cleveland has to actually open a season with this at quarterback, and New England is walking into a building where the home team's coaching staff and its own fans are not on the same page about who should be taking snaps.
None of that decides a football game. Watson's standing in Cleveland and the Patriots' preseason finale are two separate stories that happen to collide on the same night. So who wins it, Patriots or Browns?