Although Joe Flacco, a former quarterback for the Ravens, feels honoured to have won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award, he isn’t sure he deserves it.
Although Joe Flacco, a former quarterback for the Ravens, feels honoured to have won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award, he isn’t sure he deserves it.
He feels Damar Hamlin, the safety for the Bills, should have received the honour instead. After experiencing a heart arrest episode and needing to be revived on the pitch, Hamlin passed away on the pitch in January of last year.
On the red carpet at the NFL Honours event, the Browns quarterback admitted to Cleveland.com that it was difficult. Undoubtedly, Damar’s actions were extraordinary. It’s really unusual that he played at all, or even that he wanted to play at all.
Flacco prevailed against Damar Hamlin of the Bills and Baker Mayfield of the Bucs, despite Hamlin’s higher number of first-place votes. In total points, Flacco prevailed.
After joining the Browns in Week 12, Flacco ignited the team by taking over as the starting quarterback when Deshaun Watson and Dorion Thompson-Robinson were sidelined.
The former Ravens signal caller registered four consecutive 300-plus yard outings in five starts to help the team clinch a playoff berth.
After winning the award he gave a kind shout-out to the city of Cleveland – something probably unheard of a few years before when he was playing in Baltimore.
Big thanks to the city of Cleveland, everybody in Cleveland,” Flacco began. “I want to say thank you to my teammates just for welcoming me into that locker room at that point in the year. To welcome a new guy is not the easiest thing, so want to say thank you to those guys
Want to say thank you to the organization for just giving me the opportunity to do what I love to do, and that’s play football. And I want to say thank you to the city just for making me and my family feel at home for a couple months.”
Flacco has expressed a desire to return to the NFL in 2024, and specifically with the Browns, but Cleveland VP Andrew Berry avoided making any promises at the end of the season.
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