Flacco on Browns: Putrid, washed, useless.
Flacco on Bengals: 470 YDS; 4 TD.
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- 27 yard Fail Mary arm
His first 400-yard game…
I wasn’t paying that close attention, but it seemed like about 300yds and 3TDs worth of garbage time.
No one’s arguing that 2025 Flacco is elite.
But he is relative to his performance on the Browns.
And to Dillon Gabriel for that matter.
It’s a cryptic story about the Browns’ ineptitude, not Flacco’s brilliance.
Well if Gabriel was throwing to Chase and Higgins, he might look a lot better too. Then again, Browning was throwing to them and he was trash. So, Flacco does bring something to the table.
I always assumed they just benched Flacco since they were writing the season off and figured they should see what they’ve got. Flacco might be a bit better, but obviously he ain’t the future.
Also the Bengals are pretty strong in the ineptitude department. After all, they are losing these monster Flacco games. And they’re wasting Burrow’s prime behind that horrible line.
Bottom line is that the Browns are trash, the Bengals are more exciting trash and Flacco is mid.
Pretty sure the defense is a bigger problem than the offensive line.
I think it’s more a 41 year old QB understanding he has 2 elite wide receivers and using it to his advantage.
The Bengals have scored 80 points in the last two weeks with Joe Flacco, and are 0-2. Fire everyone
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Does seem like Tomlin had a point. Pretty dumb of the Browns front office to trade Flacco to a divisional rival to basically only swap late round picks. How much win equity is this move given Cincinnati already this year?
If the Browns wanted to improve their draft pick having another team get in front of them seems like a good move (Cinci we’re level IIRC at the time of the trade).
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If the Browns ever want to be good they need to be able to beat the teams in their division. Trading a high quality backup QB to a team that is down to a complete shit backup is giving up a lot more win equity than you’re getting for a 7th round pick or whatever. It would make sense to get something rather than nothing if it was an NFC team or someone out west even. If this is just part of a tank job… also OK? but then why give the big raise to Myles Garrett? It just makes it harder to dig out of cap hell.
To me, the dumb move was letting Flacco go and keeping Sanders rather than putting Sanders on the practice squad.
IMO there’s pretty small chance of either Gabriel, or Sanders having a 3 game stretch where they throw for >= 1k yards, >= 10TDs, and <=2 INTs at any point in their career, but that’s What Flacco is doing for Cincinnati after 1 week to settle in.
For the Browns only or ever? I find that hard to believe ever unless it’s all Browns.
What’s classic about Sanders is he was asked if he’d go back to the Colorado homecoming during the bye week. He was like, ‘I don’t have time for that, gotta get big ready’. He was at the homecoming.
GB’s Tucker Kraft tore his ACL. And today is his birthday.
I mean, maybe don’t fire the people who are doing the offense. Fire the fake GM who’s a nepo hire cosplaying as an NFL talent evaluator. They’ve used like every pick in the last five drafts on defense and all of them have been busts except for maybe DJ Turner.
What if it’s the same people?
It’s not.
Dylan Fairchild with the 81st pick was also a huge reach. All of the media adjacent talent evaluators were saying these guys were busts. The only person who doesn’t know is apparently the fake GM and his two-man scouting department. Bungles are one of the teams who should be trading all of the picks to get known quantity talent.
I think Duke Tobin drafted both offense and defense…
He did, but the only reason the offense is good is because they were bad enough to have Burrow and Chase fall into their laps as Top 5 picks. It doesn’t take much drafting talent to realize that those guys are good. Almost everyone else has been a bust outside of Tee Higgins.