{"id":20421,"date":"2025-04-14T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:25:07","slug":"%f0%9f%98%b1-shocking-inside-scoop-the-real-reason-the-browns-let-joe-flacco-walk-in-2024-%f0%9f%8f%88%f0%9f%94%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=20421","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\ude31 Shocking Inside Scoop: The Real Reason the Browns Let Joe Flacco Walk in 2024 \ud83c\udfc8\ud83d\udd25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20422\" src=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1830696741-scaled-e1701803174501-768x478-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1830696741-scaled-e1701803174501-768x478-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1830696741-scaled-e1701803174501-768x478-1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joe Flacco is back with the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a sentence most people thought would be written at this point last offseason, but it never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the team went with Jameis Winston.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with not many other options available, they turned back to Flacco to add a veteran leader to their locker room.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, team insider Terry Pluto confirmed that, just like some people speculated, they didn\u2019t sign Flacco last season because of Deshaun Watson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Browns will never admit it, but one of the reasons they didn\u2019t bring back Flacco in 2024 was Watson. The Browns knew fans would start chanting for Flacco when Watson struggled. They also knew the media would be a loud voice in that chorus,\u201d Pluto wrote. \u201cThey went with Jameis Winston instead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flacco went from foe to friend in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/advancelocal\/IFNZXMMNENB5DKZGK2A2NSIY6Q.JPG\" alt=\"Even with Joe Flacco in the building, Browns' draft plans at quarterback  remain wide open - cleveland.com\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fan base embraced him and the team rallied behind him, so having him there could\u2019ve and would\u2019ve been a huge distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the team should\u2019ve still done what was better for them and not necessarily for the player, but it\u2019s not unusual to see an organization protect one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>They still thought that Watson was their guy and that he could lead them to success once he got back to full strength.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/.image\/ar_4:3%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200\/MjEzODgwNzQ1NzA0ODI2MzE5\/usatsi_25510791.jpg\" alt=\"Cleveland Browns Re-Sign Familiar Face for 2025 Resurgence - Athlon Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the case, but, in hindsight, it\u2019s hard to blame the team for trying to make things work with him and putting him in a position to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is no longer a priority for the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Team owner Jimmy Haslam openly claimed that they swung and missed with him, and they\u2019re clearly not trying to protect him anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, it won\u2019t be too late, but we\u2019ve seen how quickly and drastically things can change in this line of business.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Joe Flacco is back with the Cleveland Browns. 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