If there’s one starting quarterback in the NFL playoffs this year who wasn’t expected to be there, it’s definitely Joe Flacco. The Cleveland Browns signal-caller spent the first 11 weeks of the season sitting at home before getting a call from the Browns in November after Deshaun Watson went down with a season-ending injury.
The Browns are now getting ready to make just their second playoff appearance in 20 years, and if Flacco can lead them to a win, then he’ll make NFL history. If the Browns beat the Texans on Saturday, that will be the eighth road playoff victory of Flacco’s career, which would move him past Tom Brady for the No. 1 spot on the all-time list. Flacco and Brady are currently tied at the top of the list with seven road wins in the postseason.
When Flacco met with the media this week, he was actually asked how he felt about the possibility of breaking Brady’s record.
“Anytime you get to be in the playoffs and win football games, there’s some part of you that takes pride in that, no matter where it is,” Flacco said. “This is what we go to work for every day, is to be in this position, and to play these types of games. I think we should all hold our head high.”
Flacco was probably starting to think that he was never going to have a chance to break the record, and that’s mostly because it’s been nine years since his last postseason start. Before this year, Flacco’s last playoff start came in a 35-31 divisional-round loss to Brady’s Patriots during the 2014 season.
The Browns QB will be going 3,290 days between playoff starts, which is the second-longest gap in NFL history. The only QB who had a bigger gap was Doug Flutie, who went 4,382 days between postseason starts (Jan. 3, 1987 to Jan. 2, 1999).
The playoff loss to the Patriots in 2014 was the beginning of the end for Flacco in Baltimore. He lost his starting job in 2018 and then was traded to the Broncos in…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-01-11 18:00:15
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