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Patrick Andres

Joe Flacco Demonstrates Newness to Browns in Amusing Fashion During Loss to Rams

In a year of quarterbacking-by-committee throughout the NFL, no team has had a revolving door quite like the Browns.

Cleveland has started four signal-callers this season—Deshaun WatsonDorian Thompson-Robinson, P.J. Walker and now Joe Flacco. Somehow, the Browns have emerged 7-5 and remain in the thick of the AFC postseason quagmire.

The casual fan may see Cleveland's record and wonder whether the Browns have been seamlessly, through skill or luck, able to trot out any warm body in 2023. This has hardly been the case, as Flacco proved Sunday to humorous effect.

In a clip that circulated following Cleveland's 36-19 loss to the Rams Sunday, Flacco is shown checking his wristband mere seconds before a snap—ostensibly to refresh his memory of the playcall.

Flacco had been elevated to the active roster on Saturday, and was returned to the practice squad on Monday.

Seemingly disregarding the transient nature of his assignment, Flacco posted a solid statistical line of 254 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

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