Joe Flacco Details Browns QB Plan for 2025

Veteran quarterback Joe Flacco re-signed with the Cleveland Browns this offseason amid the team's quarterback issues.

Deshaun Watson suffered his second Achilles tendon tear in three months back in January and is likely out for the 2025 season.

Flacco joins a QB room that also has former Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback Kenny Pickett.

While neither has been named the starter, Pickett said earlier this offseason when he signed that he expects to be the starter. Flacoo is playing the situation a little differently.

"I don't think there's any expectation of exactly who's going to be the starting quarterback," Flacco said during an appearance on ESPN Cleveland. "So, you know, I'm excited to get in that room and go show that I have a lot of football ahead of me and kind of become part of the team and do my best to prove all those things -- just like you always would when you kind of come into a new situation and want to be the guy."

Flacco has alreay had a measure of success in Cleveland back in 2023 when he was signed late in the season due to injuries to Watson and Dorian Thompson-Robinson. 

Flacco went 4-1 to finish the year and earned the Browns an unlikely playoff spot before bowing out in the Wild Card round to the upstart Houston Texans.

The former Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl-winning QB won the 2023 NFL Comeback Player of the Year award, and thinks competition at QB is good.

"I do think competition in that quarterback room, in general, kind of breeds the environment to learn and become the best version of yourself," he said.

The former Delaware quarterback just turned 40 and will enter his 18th season in the league. He commented on continuing his NFL career vs. sitting at home in retirement.

"I love football," Flacco said. "I still feel like I can do it at a high level. ... I don't have regrets in my life. This is one of those things, like, if I still feel like I can do it and somebody else still feels like I can do it enough to [give me] a chance, well, this probably would be something I would regret not doing. And then also, I have five kids at home and I've got to get away from them, you know, a little bit."