Bengals Trade For Joe Flacco?! | Pat McAfee Show

Bengals Trade For Joe Flacco?! | Pat McAfee Show

There’s a breaking news in the AFC North. What? The Bengals. Oh no. After getting their asses absolutely smacked the last couple weeks without Joe Flacco, I’m sorry, without Joe Burrow are trading for the other Joe Cool. Oh no. What? Joe Flacco. Rap sheet and Tom Pelisero were on it. They go from cool Joe to the coolest Joe. They go from Burrow with an E AU X to Flaco with a John accent. Ty Schmidt, you are seemingly flabbergasted by this move. Why are you reacting the way that you were reacting? Because the [ __ ] Packers play the Bengals this week. Joe Flacco just beat him a couple weeks ago at the Browns. He’s going to come back in [ __ ] beat him again. Joe Flacco is going to beat the Packers time. I was really looking forward to, you know, getting getting a bite out of the Jake Browning app. [Laughter] So, what about those DBs for the Packers? Yeah. Now, we got Joe Flag coming back to town. So, on that note, Mike Mike Tomlin said this about the Pittsburgh Steelers a couple years ago when Anthony Richardson was playing and Joe Flacco was the backup. Mike Tomlin told the Pittsburgh Steelers defense, “We do not hurt Anthony Richardson.” Okay, we do not want that 6 foot6 thing walking onto this field and playing against us. Now, inevitably, Joe Flacco did make an appearance in that particular game. I think people that have been around ball respect Joe Flacco. Okay. So, I think that’s why Tai right there goes, “Oh, no. Joe Flacco can do it.” Jake Browning Apple and he’s got Jamar. Yeah, I wanted all Jamar Chase still there. Yeah, T. Higgins is healthy. Joe Flacco can still he’s going to come in and say, “I beat these guys a couple weeks ago. I know exactly what we got to do.” Yeah, he probably is. AJ, how is Ohio going to react to the Flacco move from one part of the state to the other? I think Ohio people are going to be very happy about this. I’ve been I I live in Bengals country pretty much. There’s definitely Browns fans as well, but a lot of people have been saying Jamus, Andy Dalton, somebody like they got to bring somebody in here to Cincinnati. I feel like Flaco and maybe I did overlook him at first, but maybe maybe he is the answer. He’ll get the ball to he’ll get the ball to those superstars though. I promise you that he’ll push the ball to them. Is he the ruler of the jungle this week, too? Is please no. Oh, if he is, then they Packers might might as well not even [ __ ] play this. I mean, this is just bad news. This just bad. This is not what I needed today. Did do you think just in the history of sports media, do you think that the way ESPN because our show is currently on ESPN would react to a starting quarterback trade within a division will go the way we just did it right there. Do you think they’re 39y old quarterback who’s playing backup? Oh no, he’s going to beat the Packers twice. Packers are best year football we that’s got to be that’s got to be one of the stats guys. Has anybody started for two different teams and beat the same team in the same year? Yeah, we’ll see you Sunday, coach. It’ll be the first time and the last time it’s ever happened. Okay, let’s talk about this actually. Uh because I think there is a BS or no BS about the age of quarterbacks. So, let’s let’s get to the age of quarterbacks one because Joe Flack obviously 39 years old still playing and then these guys that are getting like their mid prime resurgencies is because the conversation is basically maybe there aren’t enough talented young quarterbacks in the NFL. So that statement has been made on a plenty of occasion which is why these guys get a second shot at it. There aren’t enough talented young QBs in the NFL. Quarterback Whisper Ba. Is that BS or is that no BS? That is total [ __ ] Oh really? But you look at the kids I call them kids 26 and under. This is the future of the league and the league is in great hands. I mean just look at what they’re doing. Drake May, Caleb, Jaden Daniels on and on. There’s like eight or nine of them and uh it it is Jordan Love. I mean they’re all every team is in good hands with these young guys and I I think it’s just bright bright future especially for offensive football. Okay. So these guys like Joe Flacco are still getting opportunities or maybe these older quarterbacks that are getting ops. That’s always the way it’s been around the league or are we just putting more spotlight on now? Like Joe Flacco getting another opportunity to be a starting quarterback. That’s not an indictment on the other options that are out there at a younger age. It’s just Joe Flacco is a guy that can still play good ball. somewhere. Yeah. I mean, Jake Brownie, he he’s had some really good games for the Bengals and I think he’s just had some really shitty ones lately and they had enough. Uh so they they they turned to door number two and there’s Joe. It’s like I would have guessed Jamus or somebody else, too. But I’m I’m excited to see Joe throw to those guys. Yes. I mean, the speed and he’s still one of the best deep ball throwers in the league. I think Zack Taylor’s probably pretty pumped up about it as well. He’s about sick and tired of watching Jake Browning sit on the sideline after his third interception. Yeah. And Zack Taylor’s thinking to himself, everybody thinks I’m a big dumb [ __ ] You think you think Zack Taylor’s pump about Joe Flaca? You think he’s pumped about when this deal came? Did you see the way Packers fans just reacted? Debut, I’m I’m just asking the question. What What do you think? What do you think? I mean, look, I I like Joe. I love Joe. Former Colt. Is that right? Footstep. He did some good things for us. Um, and I guess this is a situation where I guess you know what you’re going to get. You know, you expect Joe Bird to come back maybe at the end of the year. Uh maybe some people expected uh the other Browns quarterback, Shador Sanders, to maybe be beat, but you don’t know what you’re going to get as a rookie. At least you can see what you got there. Maybe even Russ and and so this is this is a head scratcher. Uh but we’ll see. Ty Ty obviously feels a certain way about it, so maybe I’m wrong and maybe we do get the new QB bump at least for this week. But we know we we know the conversation we’re going to be having in about two weeks. Uh somebody uh just dropped into my ear with a Yinszer accent. Let’s go to hammer time. AP Tony AFC North cooking big quarterback shuffle in the AFC North. Tone, this sucks. And Debbuts is right. He’s eventually going to be right. But I had the same reaction that Tai had cuz I don’t think Joe’s going to play this week. I don’t think you get traded on a Tuesday and play on Sunday against the Packers. I think you get traded on Tuesday, you learn the offense for a week, and then you beat the Steelers on Thursday night football at home. Like that’s the quarterback bump game. That’s the game you win, okay? And then you go off and you suck the rest of the season. So, I think Tai’s okay. I think the Steelers are screwed. So, listen. This is how our show is reacting to Joe Flacco getting traded. By the way, a sixthrounder and a fifth rounder getting flopped in the trade as well. There’s a little bit more details. We got Tai from the Packers going, “Oh no, Flaco’s about to beat us.” And then you got the Steelers next week going, “He’s not actually he’s going to beat us.” I mean, there he is. There’s fear around the NFL with Joe Flacco getting traded and uh hey maybe he does another magical midseason run with a team to the playoffs con man. Yeah exactly no matter what you know whether they’re winning or losing we know T. Higgins and Jamar Chase are about to have some 80 yard touchdown opportunities. A ball going through the air the whole time. But kind of awesome for the Browns. Like if you look at that young quarterback’s you know conversation all of a sudden Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders you got to think Cleveland feels great about both of them if they’re comfortable moving on from Flacco. Dylan Gabriel I I believe played you know turnover free football in his first game and his first game happened to be he looked the part I thought he looked fantastic against that defense. I mean, and the size obviously was talked about because it had to be talked about because it was one of the only things that was like a big time knock because if you looked at any his college tape against damn near everybody, he is very efficient in a very accurate quarterback. I think people talk about his leadership and how people like him. So, like the only knock was, hey, he’s 5’11. We got to talk about that because most these quarterbacks, big tall guys, it’s not easy. He looked very comfortable as an NFL quarterback and he was spinning it all over the place. Do you think Cleveland with this move is saying we’re comfortable with what we have here and we’re going to continue to I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. Yeah, they they really like what they saw and they obviously feel like Shador’s uh ready to go too. That’s fascinating. Kenny Picket out of town, right? Joe Flacco out of town. Now it’s just the two rookies basically in that quarterback room that we’ve chat chatted about since the offseason. Didn’t a lot of people say, “Hey, this is how it’s going to go.” I’m sure Dan Orlovski is taking a full Oh, yeah. If you were going to trade both guys, why why aren’t we starting the rookies? And I don’t even know if he’s allowed to tweet that. He’ll probably post a time stamp from NFL Live and when he said, “Hey, listen. I’m not allowed to tweet this.” Uh, I could certainly go make something happen to be able to tweet this, but I’m just going to sit here and be told no and just not do anything about it. But he basically said, “If we’re inevitably going to get to the rookies, why are we even doing the song and dance?” I think they thought they were going to win with Flaco. Like I thought I think they thought that they were going to be able to do what they did a few years ago, have success, and then there would be some perfect time to hand it over to a rookie, whichever one. Now, they like Dylan Gabriel more. They draft him in the third round as opposed to the fifth round. I think that was their envision. That was what they were hoping for. They obviously get to Dylan Gabriel at the time they get to him. He looks the part and then they decide to pull the trigger and move on. How do you think it goes in that building? What do you think the thoughts are over there? Because the defense, you can win with that defense every week. Every week. Every week. They they can in the playoffs too. Yeah. Every week in the regular season and every week in the playoffs you can win with that defense. So the offense just needs to be uh in Stfansky what offensive guru. So he’s at the point now where both these rookies he thinks he’s going to be able to win with. I think it’s a good thing for the Cleveland Browns. And then Deshun Watson, I don’t know who mentioned it earlier in the week, but he will be healthy at some point during this season. So we’ll see what happens there. Uh he’s still, you know, fairly young. We’ll see what happens when he’s healthy. But yeah, you got to feel pretty confident about Dylan Gabriel number one. Uh because this this team, if you can go out there and score, let’s say 21 24 points a game, you got a chance to win every week with this defense and how they play ball on that side of it. And then you got to be comfortable with Shador and his progression and where he is to be able because when you have a backup, you got to be ready for this guy to go in and play and and and drive the ship as well. So, uh I’m interested to see how this goes. Everybody kind of saw it playing out this way. start the season with the vet flacco, move on to the rookies because next year they have the multiple first round picks. They could possibly move up and draft the quarterback as well depending on how things shake out with the guy that has 230 million guaranteed. So this be interesting. This is uh you know Cleveland being Cleveland. On that note, I think that guy got the $230 million flu uh when it comes to onfield stuff. I’m not getting into off-field stuff. onfield stuff. Feels like that guy’s trying not to ruin life, you know, uh because he has a the biggest bag in the history of the NFL. That whole thing did not work at all, which has put them into the position that they’re currently in. And not to be forgotten in the entire story, Bailey Zip on the ball, Zappy also on the Cleveland Brown. A man. Yeah, they got they got talent over there. They feel real good. They got talent over there. I just wish that defense would have showed up in the last three minutes. Oh, yeah. You’re talking about Carson Wentz. Yeah. You don’t think Carson Wentz just figured him out? It took him 57 minutes maybe to figure out what was going on defensive side. What’s the laugh? What’s the laugh? We’re paying these defensive linemen a lot of money. They need Carson W need to be on his ass. That’s hilarious. We talked about him talking about Ganon earlier. Mhm. You heard him just old school right there, too. These guys getting how much money? Can’t make a [ __ ] What are we paying him for? Fifth overall pick. What are you even here for? We got a rookie quarterback who’s got the lead and we can’t close the game with this defense. How do you feel about the Browns? Hm. I mean, the AFC North as a whole has become I want to see that defense be dominant. When they are dominant, I think they can win them with a rookie quarterback because they got a hell of a running back. They got enough talent around them, good offensive line. So, yeah.

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