All eyes were on Shedeur Sanders as he started for the Cleveland Browns in their preseason game against the Buffalo Bills on August 22. However, even though he is entering his second season, he made a rookie mistake.

“I messed up before I got on the field,” he confessed on a sideline interview with News 5 Cleveland at the Bills game on Saturday. “I didn’t go out for the coin toss. I know I was the captain, but I just thought I was the captain of the team for a week. I didn’t know I was captain of the coin toss.

“It was a laughing moment with Coach [Todd] Monken and everybody. It was funny. I’m like, ‘My fault, Coach. I thought we were just being situationally aware. I thought you were just informing me on what we’re going to do when it happens.’”

Shedeur Sanders needed this game to be a good one. This was the chance he got to prove himself a worthy candidate after a bad game vs the Chicago Bears, where he also threw an unnecessary interception. Luckily for him, he put forward a performance good enough for Monken to let the coin-toss goof-up slide.

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After the Bills opened the scoring, Sanders responded immediately with a touchdown drive that tied the game at 7-7 with 2:56 left in the first quarter. He went 9-for-11 for 74 passing yards and scored only once, but he also threw an interception and was sacked. The pick happened on a pass thrown slightly behind Jermaine Terry, which deflected off the tight end’s hands and landed in the hands of Bills safety Damar Hamlin.

However, he came away with a respectable passer rating of 87.1.

“Really pleased with Shedeur,” Browns GM Andrew Berry said on the telecast. “I think everyone can see how well he threw the ball, he played with poise, he played with command of the offense. You could see his playmaking. That fourth-down throw to Blake Whiteheart and then we got a holding penalty on the scramble that he overcame with a nice throw to Luke Floriea.”

“My half of the game, it felt great to be back in the stadium,” Sanders said in the mid-game interview. “It went really great today. I’m real proud of the way how we operated.”

Deshaun Watson took over after halftime, but it wasn’t a pleasant outing for him. He was booed by fans, and completed just 5 of 12 attempts for 35 yards with no touchdowns and one interception over four series spanning the third and fourth quarters.

Now, both quarterbacks are on the clock. Todd Monken said before the game on the University Hospitals Browns Radio Network that he “[does] not anticipate the quarterback decision going past early in next week.”