“We have a quarterback that we trust and we know he’s going to make the plays,” Joel Bitoni said of fellow veteran and teammate Joe Flacco as the Cleveland Browns prepared for their 2025 campaign. Cut to game 1, much of Bitoni’s assessment proved true. Joe Flacco went 31 of 45 for 290 yards, scored one touchdown, and had two picks. That being said, it’s just game 1, right? And the Browns conceded a 17-16 defeat to the Cincinnati Bengal s. For Mike Sando of The Athletic , however, that’s enough.

“Flacco was far from perfect in his first game back with Cleveland, but he deserved better results,” wrote Sando in his report card. After all, both of his game-changing interceptions came off his own receivers— Jerry Jeudy and Cedric Tillman . Jeudy himself couldn’t help but

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