Still feels like the Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Flacco trade transpired in some bizarro alternate timeline in the multiverse. Sure enough, however, it's a very real move, loaded with the intention of rescuing the Bengals' 2025 season from disaster.
Jake Browning wasn't cutting it in place of an injured Joe Burrow, so Cincinnati turned to another Joe, surname Flacco. The Bengals beat him in Week 1 when he was the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback.
So now that the deal is sealed, anyone who's everyone affiliated with the Bengals is weighing in. Perhaps nobody's take was more anticipated than that of head coach Zac Taylor, and shoot, the man of very few non-coach-speak words delivered the goods with a subtle-yet-effective message.