The Cincinnati Bengals made a shocking commerce after they acquired former Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco and a sixth-round choose in trade for a fifth-round choose. This shocked the NFL world for a number of causes. One, if the Bengals needed a brand new beginning quarterback, why go for the 40-year-old Flacco? And two, why would the Browns assist out their rival by giving them their former beginning quarterback?
The Bengals host the Pittsburgh Steelers for Thursday Evening Soccer this week, and the Flacco commerce caught Steelers coach Mike Tomlin abruptly, as effectively. He appeared to take a shot at Browns common supervisor Andrew Berry for serving to Cincinnati out with its quarterback scenario.
“To be sincere it was surprising to me,” Tomlin mentioned. “Andrew Berry should be quite a bit smarter than me or us, as a result of it would not make sense to me to commerce a quarterback that you simply suppose sufficient of to make your opening-day starter to a division opponent that is hurting in that space. However that is simply my private emotions.”
Whereas the Browns constructed essentially the most attention-grabbing quarterback room within the NFL with Flacco, Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and Kenny Pickett, NFL Media’s Mike Garafolo reported that Flacco by no means actually acquired pushed throughout this extremely publicized competitors. The Browns then gave up on Flacco after simply 4 video games, and despatched him to a rival that is making an attempt to make the playoffs.
In Flacco’s first begin for the Bengals, a 27-18 loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers, he accomplished 29 of 45 passes for 219 yards and two touchdowns, turning into the sixteenth participant in NFL historical past to throw a passing landing for six completely different groups. Regardless of taking part in with a brand new squad on a brief week, Flacco seemed to be an improve over Jake Browning. The two-4 Bengals sit in second place within the AFC North behind Tomlin’s 4-1 Steelers.
