Ok, so while this isn’t akin to Pro Football Hall of Famer Otto Graham starting, backed up by Bernie Kosar, Brian Sipe and Frank Ryan, the Browns’ quarterback situation is still a whole heckuva lot better than it has been in every other season of this mostly miserable and dysfunctional expansion era.
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Indeed, that’s what missing about this four-man quarterback derby. Everybody is poking fun at it, which is not only incredibly unfair, but also tremendously incorrect and misguided.
The facts spell it out:
There’s newly-announced starter Joe Flacco, who is in the Pro Football Hall of the Very Good and already rescued the Browns once before, in 2023, when he was signed off his couch following a number of injuries and carried the club into the playoffs for just the third time since it returned to the NFL in 1999.
There’s the presumed (young) veteran backup, Kenny Pickett, who is trying to get into a game if only his hamstring would heal. The Browns are hoping that Pickett, a first-round pick of Pittsburgh in the NFL Draft in 2023, is one of the young guys who finally blossom after bouncing around from team to team.
And then there’s the two rookies, Dillon Gabriel and Shadeur Sanders, both of whom have distinguished themselves in their starts to open the preseason.
So, then, there are good things to say about all four quarterbacks. When the last time you could say that with the Browns?
Steve King
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