Flacco Offers ‘Old Man Answer’ When Asked About Young Browns originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

The quarterback battle between Shedeur Sanders, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and Dillon Gabriel is heating up. General manager Andrew Berry has provided an update on what the Cleveland Browns' next steps are for defining their NFL Week 1 starter.

Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders are competing in two realities. We're tracking the wrong one.

If Joe Flacco ever had a period when he wasn't a curmudgeon, he's definitely past that point now that he's 40 and entering his 18th season in the NFL.

The Cleveland Browns have finished their offseason workout program without resolving the question of who will be the starting quarterback, a question that has lingered since the NF

Quarterback Dillon Gabriel (5), Quarterback Kenny Pickett (8), Quarterback Joe Flacco (15) and Quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) during fieldwork in Phase II of the offseason at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on May 12, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland Browns

However, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Mary Kay Cabot revealed during the latest edition of the "Orange and Brown Talk Podcast" that Cleveland is "trending toward" naming Pickett its Week 1 starter regardless of what national media members are saying about the situation.

The Browns dialed back quarterback Joe Flacco's reps in this week's minicamp practices and head coach Kevin Stefanski said that the intent was to make sure they closed out the spring with as much information as possible about all the players competing for the starting job.