BEREA, Ohio -- During the 2017 season in Minnesota, Kevin Stefanski often would kick his starter out of the quarterback meeting room.
Stefanski, then the Vikings quarterbacks coach, was into the TV show Game of Thrones. So too were quarterbacks Sam Bradford, Taylor Heinicke and Teddy Bridgewater.
But Case Keenum was not. And so, whenever the discussion would veer from dissecting defense to dissecting the Dothraki, Keenum was ordered to leave.
“I’d literally be out of the meetings for like 20 minutes,” said Keenum, now Cleveland’s backup quarterback, “while they were breaking down the latest episode of Game of Thrones.