{"id":800994,"date":"2026-03-08T20:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:13:21","slug":"joe-flacco-will-strongly-consider-return-to-cincinnati-if-he-cant-find-starting-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800994\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco will strongly consider return to Cincinnati if he can\u2019t find starting opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Joe Burrow suffered a turf toe injury in Week 2, the Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 season was all but lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Then they signed Joe Flacco, and the offense was powerful once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bengals quickly saw how much Flacco has left in the tank and how much of an upgrade he is over Jake Browning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It would be quite the luxury to have Flacco back up Joe Burrow again in 2026, but the 41-year-old QB has made it clear that he wants the chance to start, and he wouldn\u2019t have that in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Tom Pelissero is reporting that Flacco would \u201cstrongly consider a return to Cincinnati\u201d if he doesn\u2019t get the opportunity to be the guy elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are a handful of teams that could use a bridge veteran QB, such as the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. But if the interest isn\u2019t mutual, there\u2019s a decent chance that Flacco is back as Burrow\u2019s backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Joe Burrow suffered a turf toe injury in Week 2, the Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 season was all but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2424,7574,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-800994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-free-agency","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-rumors","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116195387625317016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}