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During the season, Cleveland Browns fans vote in SB Nation Reacts to express their confidence level in the team or their thoughts on other topics.
The good faith from Browns fans did not last long. Even though fan confidence jumped from 66% to 76% after the team’s Week 1 loss, the loss to the Baltimore Ravens last week was just too reminiscent of “same old, same old” for Cleveland fans. It’s almost incomprehensible how the Browns can have such two dominant halves of football (the second half against Cincinnati, and the first half against Baltimore), and yet still lose that first game, and then look at the scoreboard in Week 2 and see 41 points allowed. It’s insanity, and that is why there was a drop of 47 percentage points in this week’s fan confidence, all the way down to 29%. Our opponents this week, the Green Bay Packers, have 98% confidence from their fanbase in the direction of their team.
We asked one other question to fans this week, and it was whether they thought the team should stick with veteran quarterback Joe Flacco as the starter, for now. We knew heading into the poll that head coach Kevin Stefanski had already said he was sticking with Flacco, so the question was strictly about what the fans were feeling. The results were clear: 63% of fans are ready to kick Flacco to the curb, which means that either Dillon Gabriel or Shedeur Sanders would be in the starting lineup instead (and realistically, we know it would be Gabriel).
It would be a quick fall from grace for Flacco, who was beloved by fans when he was the Comeback Player of the Year in 2023. Many fans were eager to see how he could stabilize the offense when the team re-signed him for the 2025 season, and he had a solid Week 1 performance that ultimately led to a loss. Last week’s debacle against the Ravens was the first time (aside from that one playoff game) that he looked a bit lost on what to do, and out of his element. Fans still like Flacco, but I think they are seeing the writing on the wall that Cleveland could be headed to an 0-4 start, and another losing season, so why not just get one of the rookies in there to start evaluating what we truly have at the position.
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