The Browns are going with Joe Flacco as their starting quarterback headed into their battle against the Los Angeles Rams. It’s the same Joe Flacco that used to torture Cleveland fans with an 18-3 record overall, including a 10-1 lifetime record at Cleveland Browns Stadium. It’s too bad that Flacco is playing this game in LA, because if it were a home game down at the Stadium I’d guarantee a win.

The former Baltimore Ravens QB, even carried his winning ways against the team he will now suit up for, when last season in a Week 2 matchup he orchestrated a stunning comeback as the New York Jets QB.

No wonder players on the current Browns team are happy Flacco will be wearing Orange and Brown when they play the Rams. Cleveland wide receiver Elijah Moore played with Flacco last year in New York and will likely be targeted a time or two. The Browns best wide receiver Amari Cooper, despite a rib injury is also excited about the possibilities describing the way Flacco throws the ball as “poetry in motion”

If you told any Browns fan that Joe Flacco would be the fourth quarterback to start this season and 37th since that dubious 1999 reboot, you might have been laughed out of the room.

Flacco has had a very successful 15-year career, accumulating a 99-81 record, and winning a Super Bowl with the Ravens back in 2013.

Now Flacco gets his chance with the Browns on Sunday. It could be a permanent substitution for the rest of the season, especially if he can bring some veteran experience to the team. Time will tell soon as we will be watching every play with precision. If he wins Sunday, it would be a career 100th win in the regular season one where he’s wearing a Browns uniform.

It was a funny moment on our recent Fanatical Elfz Show when one of our colleagues referred to Joe Flacco as “Falco” by accident. That Shane “Falco” was a fictitious character in the 2000 football movie called the “Replacements”  which was loosely based on the actual 1987 NFL season when replacement players played on real NFL teams during the three-week strike.

Falco was played by movie star Keanu Reeves, who played a washed-up former college football star.

The real Flacco has had a brilliant career in the NFL. It would be a fantastic moment in time if this quarterback could lead a team like the Browns, who have been seemingly cursed over the past 60 years, to “ The Promised Land” and a Super Bowl!