BEREA, OHIO – JUNE 10: Kenny Pickett #8, Dillon Gabriel #5, Joe Flacco #15 and Shedeur Sanders #12 of the Cleveland Browns evaluation tape throughout Cleveland Browns necessary minicamp at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on June 10, 2025 in Berea, Ohio. (Photograph by Nick Cammett/Diamond Pictures through Getty Pictures) | Diamond Pictures/Getty Pictures
The Cleveland Browns quarterback room in 2025 was a narrative even Hollywood’s finest writers would have had bother turning right into a plausible one.
Beginning within the offseason and persevering with by means of coaching camp, the preseason, and into the autumn, followers and media members alike believed at one time or one other that:
Kenny Pickett was really going to start out a regular-season recreation for the Browns.
Deshaun Watson would see the sector in the course of the common season regardless of nonetheless recovering from a twice-torn Achilles tendon.
Joe Flacco might re-create his transient however magical run from 2023.
Dillon Gabriel was the quarterback equal of former head coach Hue Jackson.
Shedeur Sanders was conspired towards within the NFL Draft, deliberately sabotaged by head coach Kevin Stefanski, and posted a heroic season, regardless of being statistically one of many worst rookie quarterbacks of the previous 25 years.
Whereas Hollywood would by no means purchase such a narrative, Netflix had no such issues, as Flacco is without doubt one of the 4 quarterbacks profiled in Season 3 of the Quarterback docuseries.
It was throughout episode two that Flacco shined, because the veteran teasingly identified to Sanders and Gabriel that substance is extra essential than model within the NFL.
Shedeur Sanders carrying a visor on Quarterback on @netflix allowed Joe Flacco to precise his disdain for them 😭“If you wear a visor it’s for look, you think you look sweet. I don’t want my kids to wear visors either. They’re just annoying, they’re gunna fog up.”Shedeur: “No… pic.twitter.com/2Rh561br0F
— Houston Stressans (@TexansCommenter) July 14, 2026
Flacco is on the apply subject in Berea when he spots Sanders carrying a mirrored visor over his helmet. From there, Flacco first mentions it to a close-by coach earlier than explaining why it’s a poor option to the rookies (quotes through The Beacon Journal):
“Yeah, however when you put on a visor, it’s for appears. You suppose you look candy. It’s that period. I don’t need my children to put on visors both. All of them need visors. I’m like, ‘Guys, they’re simply annoying. They’re gonna fog up.’
“They (expletive) suck, dude. It’s all about look. Once I was a child I needed a visor too, after which I’m like, ‘The visors suck. They don’t make sense.’
“I would let (my kids) wear it, but I would tell them, ‘You’re a quarterback, bro, you’re (expletive) wearing a visor? You look like a (expletive) idiot. If you’re a quarterback, you can tell (when) you’re trying to look too sweet.”
The trade was all in good enjoyable, however it was additionally a very good lesson for Sanders and Gabriel to study what’s essential and what’s not when you have aspirations of being a quarterback within the NFL.
