The future starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns spent his time before Saturday's preseason game in street clothes, greeting old friends in Philadelphia.

That might have been Kenny Pickett , and until about three weeks ago , there was a very good chance of that. The Browns had set up a quarterback competition -- really two of them -- and it was Pickett who was expected to challenge, and perhaps prevail over, Joe Flacco to become the player who would finally carry the Browns into the post- Deshaun Watson era. But then -- like so many things in the Browns' tortured quarterbacking history -- things started to go wrong and the Browns' best laid plans for a competition fell apart.

The Browns announced the obvious Monday, that Flacco will be the starting quarterback when the B

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