BEREA, Ohio — Joe Flacco and David Njoku sat on the end of the bench late in the Browns’ preseason finale over the Rams, kicking their legs up and down like two 4-year-olds at recess instead of the Super Bowl MVP quarterback and Pro Bowl tight end that they are.

Earlier in the game, with the veterans done for the night and the backups in, Flacco tried on Njoku’s color-changing smart glasses, and marveled at how it made the Rams’ blue even more vibrant. He looked like Joe Cool in his shades, and not the 40-year-old, Kohl’s cash dad from New Jersey that he is.

They’re an unlikely pair, the 29-year-old wild child with the two-toned braids, and the buttoned-down, neatly-coiffed father of five. But there they were a few weeks ago, cruising around in a decked-out ATV while singing along to

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