{"id":98589,"date":"2025-06-02T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/98589\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:49:10","slug":"joe-flacco-says-hes-not-a-mentor-in-browns-quarterback-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/98589\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco Says He\u2019s \u2018Not a Mentor\u2019 in Browns\u2019 Quarterback Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During last week&#8217;s practice, Flacco split first-team reps with Pickett, while Gabriel and Sanders also got regular practice reps. Deshaun Watson, who is still on Cleveland&#8217;s roster, is absent while recovering from a torn Achilles tendon, and his future with the team is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco said he&#8217;s been receptive when the younger quarterbacks have asked him questions. Despite the competition, Flacco said the signal-callers are getting along as they compete to be Cleveland&#8217;s starter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first day we&#8217;re out here throwing routes, like, Shedeur was asking me about steps and things like that,&#8221; Flacco said. &#8220;Dillon was calling me up, trying to mimic my cadence, for whatever reason, he wants to get it similar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spent a lot of time together, all the quarterbacks do. I think that&#8217;s the nature of the beast&#8230; We&#8217;re having a blast and having a lot of fun, talking football and then just laughing at things that come up on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler believes the Browns are unlikely to keep all four quarterbacks on the roster and could consider trading one of them during training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During last week&#8217;s practice, Flacco split first-team reps with Pickett, while Gabriel and Sanders also got regular practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[9434,184,117,2282,783,7,781,786,20472,6,782,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-98589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-around-the-afc-north","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-clifton-brown","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-general","15":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","16":"tag-inline-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-offseason","19":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114615036456623273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}