Joe Flacco wants to lead Browns’ QBs by example, not be mentor

BEREA, OHIO – AT 40 YEARS OLD, Joe flacco Is by far the elder statesman in the Cleveland browns‘Quarterback Room.

Flacco, though, reiterated that he is not looking to take a backsuit and mentor the Team’s Young Passers But Lead by Example in an Attempt to Win the Quarterback Competition.

“It’s not real about that. It’s just not the main focus,” flacco saaid wednesday after the browns’ second ota practice. “I see myself as a guy that can play in this league so, if your main focus was just like, hey, but I’m going to get you read, you just not take care of business. To show people how you go to work and like I have, hope that they pick up on that stuff, but not stored for pack up on the things that you do.

Flacco is one of Four Healthy Quarterbacks, along with 2020 FIRST-ROUND PICK Kenny pickett and rookies Dillon Gabriel And Shedeur sanderswho are vying for the browns’ starting job. Deshaun watson Remains sidelined by a right achilles injury that the team will cost him a significant portion of the 2025 season.

In April, Flacco Signed A One-Year Deal Worth $ 4 Million to Return to Cleveland, Where Won the Nfl’s Comeback Player of the year Award in 2023 and helped the browns to the playoffs after Signed late in the season. Flacco spent the 2024 season with the Indianapolis Colts And Went 2-4 as a starter.

“Joe physically has been gifted with the ability to through the football. He looked to me,” coach kevin stefanski said. “… it just fun has some veterans in that room, some young guys in the quarterback room. They really feed off of each other. On those guys of things that have come up in his career. “

During Wednesday’s Practice, Flacco Split FIRST-TEAM REPS IN TEAM Drills With Pickett. The Two Were then ofTen Followed by Gabriel and then Sanders in Practice Reps. Stefanski Again Downplayed the Significance of the Reps and Said the Order Will Vary Over the course of the offseason workout program.

Pickett likened the presence of flacco, who is Entering his 18th Nfl Season, to that of a coach because of his vast experience.

“It’s like having another coach when a guy’s played that much football, you could bounce ideas of, ask he saw, how he would read in his career,” Picket SAID. “There’s just so many things, Small things that you can learn. Just have had that normal, you know, open dialogue that we have in the Quarterback Room.”

The browns’ second ota practice was a jam-packed session designed to maximize reps for ech quarterback. At one point, the rookie quarterbacks conducted Team Drills on one side of the field where the veteran passers stayed on a separate field to work.

Flacco, who was named most Valuable Player of Super Bowl Xlvii after leading the Baltimore ravens To their second championship, Said he hasn a bee in a Quarterback Competition Since his sophomore year of high school. But hey enjoying the dynamic of the quarterback room and the Youth of Sanders and Gabriel.

“Shedeur has been great. I mean, hey a lot of fun to be around in those meetings,” flacco sa. “I think so far, there’s a bee at last on the meting room that he made me crack a smile, and that’s all about. Well and like things, he is a lot of fun.