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Browns QB Joe Flacco said he’s not concerned about the team’s quarterback competition and whether or not he will be named the starter.
“I’m not worried one bit,” Flacco said, via Browns Zone. “I’m just out here enjoying it and doing the best I can every single day, trying to show these guys that: ‘Man, I can do it. You should have confidence in me.’ When I talk to my wife at night, maybe she’s not as patient. But, listen, I’m having a lot of fun just going out there and slamming it around at practice right now, and I’m doing a good job just kind of keeping my feet where they are, and that’s all I can do right now.”
Flacco added that he’s not getting too excited about getting first-team reps and said that he’s learned that teams will distribute reps without having a set starter in mind.
“I’m not trying to look into too much,” Flacco said. “I can say that when you get a little bit more (reps) you can start to feel like yourself, get in the groove and you calm down a little bit. It’s just human nature. When you’re getting two reps, three reps, ‘oh, this has to be perfect.’ And when you feel that way, you’re not going to be as good. So to be able to relax a little bit, let it loose and get a little bit more, it just feels right. So I’m not going to look into what it means, but it definitely feels good to be out there.”
One of the top reasons new Jaguars HC Liam Coen was hired was his reputation as an offensive play-caller and his work getting a career year out of Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield in 2024. He’ll be tasked with pulling the same potential out of Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence, and he’s already deep into a plan to sharpen Lawrence’s game, specifically his ability to get through multiple reads.
“We’re working the heck out of progression drills,” Coen said via ESPN’s Dan Graziano. “What our defense does, which is nice, pre-snap to post-snap it’s different looks. So what you may have pre-snap completely changes post-snap. So we’ve tried to put him in enough positions that he has to progress and move on to No. 2, No. 3 and sometimes No. 4 in the read. And also, hey, man, like, let’s get used to using your legs as a weapon a little bit too. Like, you can run…”
“So much of what made us successful last year with Baker was his ability to run, to make plays. So that’s something that we’ve been working hard at. Our defense doesn’t give you the No. 1 read open all the time, so he needs to work on it. And it’s happening organically. Where he’s at with that, I can’t really say. But definitely we know, and that is something we are working on.”
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