This is perfect.

It really is.

But will the Browns, particularly in the person of General Manager Andrew Berry, who has a problem in too many times in thinking he’s the smartest guy in any room into which he walks, try to make it difficult, or to not let it happen at all?

There was a report out earlier this week that free-agent quarterback Joe Flacco’s first choice is to re-sign with the Browns.

Wow!

Double-wow!!

Triple-wow!!’

The Browns need a backup quarterback they can trust to play behind starter Deshaun Watson, and Flacco proved late last season that he can do the job, and then some — perhaps even better than Watson himself, some or even many may say — by leading the club to the AFC playoffs after Watson was lost to a shoulder injury. He wants to come back, and the Browns need him to do so because — guess what? — Watson will likely get hurt again since he’s a running quarterback and running quarterbacks tend to get hurt.

The Browns are built to win now, so they need a quarterback who could come right in and win now. Flacco can do that. Last year’s rookie, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, is still learning. The Browns don’t have time right now to wait for him to develop, if he ever develops at all.

I don’t want to hear about the money part of this. The salary cap is now just about the gross national product of some small countries. Quarterback is the one and only position at which a team needs to over-spend, because you have to have a good quarterback to win, no matter how many quarterbacks ahead of him on the depth chart are lost to injury.

So if the Browns want to sign Joe Flacco, then they can do it. There are no excuses to fail to do so.

Scrimp elsewhere on the roster, but never at quarterback, like the Browns did last year. They were lucky as all get out to find Flacco. They won’t get lucky and fall into that miracle again.

Steve King