The Bengals acquired QB Joe Flacco on Oct. 7, and on Oct. 16, he outdueled the Steelers without even always knowing the play. After the game, both he and HC and offensive play caller Zac Taylor talked about the communication issues they had to work through. While they didn’t go into lots of detail, both made clear under no circumstances was Flacco supposed to run as he did on a successful scamper late in the game.
“I have to enunciate my formations better because some of them, we’re hearing them for the first time, so I’ve got to do a better job enunciating”, Taylor said of communicating with Flacco, with whom he has only worked for a few practices up to this point.