BEREA, Ohio — So you think you can dance?

Joe Flacco certainly doesn’t. That became evident last week when Flacco was mic’d up during a Browns organized team activities practice, and his spring sidekick Shedeur Sanders asked if he “ever hit that dance,” demonstrating the “schmoney,” with bent arms moving in and out, and knees bending alternately.

“Definitely not,” the buttoned-up Flacco said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever hit a public dance move in my life.”

While Sanders, 23, can make the 40-year-old Flacco laugh like a sixth grader, he can’t make him dance like an NFL rookie. No way.

“I don’t know what dance he was talking about, but he’s not getting me to do anything,” Flacco said with a laugh during his podium interview on Day 2 of Browns minicamp on Wednesday.

And it’s safe to say you won’t see him busting a move on TikTok with his wife Dana or one of their five kids, ages 7 to 13. Not happening. He’d be more apt to be using his Kohl’s cash just in the nick of time along with his contemporary Kirk Cousins.

“No, TikTok dances,” Flacco said. “The fact that people, that’s different too. This generation, the fact that people want to get on their phones and show people the most, like that’s embarrassing. You’re an adult. Be an adult, it’s just like I can’t wrap my head around that. And I get it. You have kids and you want to have fun with your kids. Like have fun with your kids in private. That’s what I think.”

While sharing the minicamp grass with dozens of players young enough to almost be his kids, Flacco — seven years older than offensive coordinator Tommy Rees — flipped into get-off-my-lawn mode on Wednesday.

“When I initially came in (in 2008), I think Twitter started right around ’07, ’08,” he said. “I can remember the first time I walked into the cafeteria in Baltimore and somebody was like, Hey, you mind if we tweet this? And nobody knew what that meant. I think the evolution has kind of come from, that’s a method to kind of see some stuff and have some fun to like it’s the main news source.

“So the difference now is everybody’s getting their stuff from there and it’s treated a little bit more seriously because that’s the main news source, but you still have the same thing you always had, which is a million different opinions. So it kind of blends your actual news source with a bunch of other stuff. And now I think we live in this world where everything you see on there, there’s a good portion of people that are taking whatever you see on there very seriously.

“And sometimes it’s not the case … I’ve been on Instagram. That’s the only thing I’ve ever logged in on in my life. I won’t download the other things because I don’t miss them. If you told me you’re taking Instagram away, I’ve been on it. I’m too far down the road, but Twitter and all those other things, I won’t even download it on my phone just because I know it’s a trap to just get sucked in.”

While Sanders livestreams every aspect of his rookie experience he can, the only live stream Flacco wants anything to do with is one on which he’ll take the kids fishing. The rest of the live-tweeting and such, in his mind, is for the birds. But don’t suggest he’s guarded.

“I don’t think I’m guarded at all,” he said. “I think honestly, if you talk to me in person, I’ll tell you a lot. I’ll be pretty honest with you. But yeah, social media, no chance. No chance. There’s a part of me, there’s a piece of me at times that’s like, ‘gosh, should I be this guy that does this a little bit?’ Because I feel like in order to have a good social media, you do want to be honest and show what you do in your life, but it’s just like, eh, that’s a job in itself.”

He does acknowledge that living in world of TikTok and Snapchat players is “different. I mean, listen, if I grew up when they did, I’d probably be … my personality is what it is. I don’t think I’d be dancing on camera, but yeah, I would be more similar to them than I would probably admit.”

Social media aside, Flacco is like a kid again in this camp with Sanders, 23, and fellow rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel, 24, in the quarterback room. Kenny Pickett, 27, for that matter too. It’s almost like being at home with his four sons and a daughter, the Flacco Flock.

During Browns media day on Monday, Flacco and Gabriel punked Martin Emerson Jr. and Grant Delpit by recreating their duo photo, nailing the poses perfectly. He won’t do the Dougie, but he’ll willingly mug for the cameras for a good laugh.

“Yeah, that was kind of harmless,” he said. “That wasn’t that embarrassing. That was like lightly, mildly embarrassing, but whatever. And all I was doing was copying somebody else. I can do that.”

Almost every time Sanders sidles up to Flacco in the locker room or on the field, Flacco bursts out laughing, eyes crinkling. Sanders, with plenty of Prime Time charm and charisma, has that effect on coaches and teammates.

“Sometimes we’re laughing together, sometimes you’re chuckling because of whatever they’re thinking as the young guys,” Flacco said. “But I would say I’ve had a smile on my face a good portion of the time I’ve been here this spring, so it’s been a lot of fun.”

The rapport between Sanders and papa Joe hasn’t been lost on Kevin Stefanski, who’s only three years older than Flacco and can relate more to him in the non-social media realm and dad world than he can the younger guys.

“Just having (Sanders) in the meeting room, he brings a great personality,” Stefanski said. “To see those two bounce ideas off of each other, is hilarious. Joe will say a few things and I’ll be like, ‘Joe, Shedeur wasn’t born then.’ So it’s just, he’s got great energy, great kid, working his tail off.”

To Sanders, Flacco is such a novelty that he can’t get enough of him. A 40-year-old former Super Bowl MVP with a cannon arm and Comeback Player of The Year Award from 2023 who might just beat out the three younger challengers for the job. Content, content, content.

“Joe’s the old guy in the room, so I joke with Joe all the time every day I see him,” Sanders said. “I can’t tell you all my jokes, but whenever you see them or they’re mic’d up or anything, all that stuff is real. It’s spur of the moment and then after that, it’s time to lock back in. Our minds are always consistently and constantly moving.”

Inside the building, Sanders will wind Flacco up and watch him spin tales. With 17 years of NFL lore stored inside that brain, and plenty of life experience, Flacco is only too happy to oblige. Besides, he’s got a brand-new audience, and all of the old stories are new again.

“Shedeur might throw something out there and then I could just kind of build off of that,” Flacco said. “I can think of one time, we had a meeting at 9:00 and I think we were lifting at 9:20, so we had 15 minutes and somebody started it off with, we were talking about — this wasn’t even a football story — we were talking about vacations and do you actually like going on them? And I was like, ‘Eh, sometimes, but not necessarily.’ And that turns into five stories and the next thing you know it’s 9:17 and you’re like, all right guys, see you later.”

Vacillating between feeling spry and ancient, Flacco finds himself reminding the young guys how much easier they have it now, with short practices and no two-a-days.

“My first three years, before that CBA hit and John (Harbaugh) ran hard camps as it was, I think he learned from Andy Reid,” he said. “I told them we had 110, 120 plays scripted. We would round a two-minute period and it’d be like ‘ones, twos, threes, ones twos, threes, alright, twos, let’s go. You get one more.’ And I was like, whoa, we just did a 45 minute, two minute period.”

And like with any respectable fish tale, the catch gets bigger every time.

“When I’m telling the stories, of course I embellish a little bit, probably add a half hour to each practice,” he said with a laugh. “But it was different. And the difference was that even when it got easier in 2011, I think everybody that was playing at that point had been through two days at some point in their life. Guys that come to the NFL now have never done it. We’re out there for an hour and 15 minutes and guys think it’s hard. Our OTAs were over two hours for sure in Baltimore when I was younger.”

In minicamp, Flacco didn’t take many 11-on-11 reps because he doesn’t need them. But don’t be fooled. He knows this offense better than any of the other quarterbacks, and he can still deliver heat-seeking missiles with the best of them. If he wins the job out of training camp, don’t be shocked.

Now, if he could just show you the schmoney.

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