Cleveland Browns Plan To Workout Veteran Quarterback Joe Flacco
The Cleveland Browns need a third quarterback on the roster following Deshaun Watson‘s season-ending shoulder injury and they took the first step to solving that issue by bringing in Joe Flacco for a workout. According to reports, Flacco is the only quarterback in Berea working out today and signals a serious interest in bringing the veteran quarterback into the fold.
It’s been a career of up and down for Flacco who won the Super Bowl in 2013 while with the Baltimore Ravens and was named Super Bowl MVP.
Flacco, now a free agent, most recently played for the New York Jets, a team he spent three seasons with. Prior, he spent a year with the Denver Broncos and a few months with the Philadelphia Eagles, but most of his career was spent with the Baltimore Ravens, where he played for 11 seasons.
Over his career, Flacco has started 180 games with a 99-81 record. He has a career completion percentage of 61.6% and has thrown for 42,320 yards and 232 touchdowns.
In 2022 with the Jets, Flacco started in four games, playing in five total, where he completed 110 of his 191 passes for 1,051 yards and five touchdowns.
The Browns are likely drawn to his years of experience and noticing first-hand inside their own stadium what he can still do in this league. He led a miracle comeback over the Browns in Week 2 of 2022 when he went 26-44 for 307 yards and four touchdowns in the Jets 31-30 victory over the Browns.
The offense will be simple enough for Flacco to operate and his experience could be valuable when compared to the two quarterbacks currently on the roster. There would be a hope for a late-season stretch similar to Jacoby Brissett last season.
Tennessee judge Kathleen Gomes ruled on Wednesday that she is ending the conservatorship agreement between Michael Oher and Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, according to the Associated Press.
The conservatorship became the center of a public spat between Oher and the Tuohy family. The judge also announced that she will not dismiss Oher’s lawsuit against the Tuohys. Oher, the focal point of The Blind Side, alleged in August that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy chose conservatorship over adoption to benefit from his football fame for personal gain.
“According to the suit, the Tuohys did not adopt Oher in 2004, rather they instead entered him into a conservatorship and impressed upon him that it was the same process as adoption,” CBS Sports reports. “Under a conservatorship, the Tuohys were able to enter into deals legally without Oher’s consent. The conservatorship also allowed the Tuohys to take ownership of Oher’s finances even though he was not a legal member of the family.
The Tuohy family says Oher threatened them with going public after requesting a $15 million check, per TMZ Sports. They added that the conservatorship in question was established to help the former offensive tackle get recruited by Ole Miss and other major programs.
Oher’s allegations against the Tuohy family were brought to light when he filed paperwork alleging he was never adopted. He says that shortly after he turned 18 in 2004, the Tuoys tricked him into signing a document that designated them as his conservators. As a result, he unknowingly granting them legal jurisdiction to conduct business deals on his behalf.
The 14-page petition filed by Oher in probate court alleges that the Tuohys used that power to negotiate an agreement that resulted in substantial royalties stemming from the Oscar-winning movie that amounted to millions of dollars for them the Tuohys and their two biological children. The Blind Side movie amassed more than $300 million in earnings. Meanwhile, Oher reportedly received nothing from a movie “that would not have existed without him.”
Oher was an unanimous All-American in his final season at Ole Miss in 2008. He was a two-time, First-Team All-SEC selection with the Rebels in 2007 and 2008 before declaring for the NFL Draft after three years in Oxford.
Oher rated as a five-star prospect in the 2005 class and ranked as the No. 38 overall recruit nationally according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite. He also ranked as the No. 6 offensive tackle and No. 2 overall prospect in Tennessee coming out of Memphis Briarcrest Christian.
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