Call it the Joe Flacco paradox. The Browns enter 2025 riding the high of his storybook run two years ago, but the question lingers—can a 40-year-old quarterback really summon that magic again? Twenty months removed from his improbable playoff push in Cleveland , Flacco is again QB1. At 40 years old, he’ll take the field against Cincinnati on Sunday (September 7, 2025), seventeen years to the day after his very first NFL start came against those same Bengals.

On the surface, the Browns’ QB situation should finally feel stable after trading away Kenny Pickett to the Raiders and officially handing Flacco the crown. But heavy is the head that wears the crown. The opening six weeks will be a grind, the kind of stretch that demands more than one arm to survive. That’s why rookie Dill

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