The Cleveland Browns are in a precarious situation at quarterback. Even before Deshaun Watson went down with a season-ending Achilles injury, he was playing like arguably the worst quarterback in the league.
After suffering a setback in his recovery, Watson’s status is uncertain for the 2025 season. Earlier in this offseason, after Watson’s setback, Cleveland traded with the Philadelphia Eagles for Kenny Pickett.
That wasn’t the only move Cleveland made at quarterback. The Browns also signed veteran Joe Flacco, who won Comeback Player of the Year with the Browns in 2023.
Flacco recently talked about how much longer he is willing to play the game, per Pro Football Talk.
“I’ve gotten that question — players ask a lot. You know, ‘why are you still doing this?’” Flacco said in a Wednesday press conference. “And what eventually came to me is, I want to. I want to play.
“I think it’s easy to. It’d be easy to say, ‘all right, I’ve done enough,’ but I made a decision that I’m going to do this. And I feel like once I made that decision, in my mind, then I didn’t give myself an out, and I want to play, and I’m going to play until I can’t.”
Flacco noted that he has had to make changes to his routine.
“I’ve had my trainer for the last 15 years, and we get after it and keep it simple and not trying to reinvent the wheel, but, you know, just staying strong, staying fresh,” he said.” And I think the biggest thing when you get to this age is just kind of the mental side of it and not getting worn out with the daily kind of monotony. So, you just kind of have to keep that fresh.
“And I think, you know, the best way to do that is just kind of have good relationships and develop those relationships as much. And that kind of keeps everything fresh and exciting.”
