{"id":35047,"date":"2025-10-10T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=35047"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:19:36","slug":"breaking-bengals-star-receiver-takes-brutal-shot-at-old-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=35047","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Bengals star receiver takes brutal shot at old quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tee Higgins burned Joe Flacco<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.thecomeback.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/USATSI_24887322_168384754_lowres-832x447.jpg\" alt=\"Cincinnati Bengals\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dec 1, 2024; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; A general view of the helmet of Cincinnati Bengals running back Trayveon Williams (32) during warmups before the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Paycor Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Katie Stratman-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Bengals made the shocking move to trade within the AFC North with the Cleveland Browns to acquire veteran quarterback Joe Flacco after it became clear that Jake Browning wasn\u2019t the guy to replace Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco is 40 years old, which may as well be 70 in NFL years. Bengals\u2019 star receiver didn\u2019t pass on the opportunity to take a dig at his new quarterback, according to one prominent insider around the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTee Higgins said he told his teammates Joe Flacco was already in the NFL when they were getting in trouble for being outside when the streetlights came on,\u201d reported Jay Morrison of Bengalstalk.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.newsweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2237032387.jpg?w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;q=88\" alt=\"What Bengals' Joe Flacco Trade Means for Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins in  Fantasy Football - Newsweek\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to Higgins on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe would have been just as pumped if we were told our new QB was going to be Joe Namath. Can you imagine what Tee would have said to that?\u201d one fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youngest Bengal, Shamar Stewart, was 4 when Flacco was drafted,\u201d someone else noted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3300,h_1856,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/all_bengals\/01k74p1wq3jagn7tt9y8.jpg\" alt=\"Bengals QB Joe Flacco can accomplish rare feat not seen since 1962.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in the league when I was covering my middle school football team on the morning announcements,\u201d another person added.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see how Flacco does with the Bengals. If he can lead them to the playoffs in Burrow\u2019s absence, he may even win Comeback Player of the Year with his second Ohio-based team.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL fans react on social media after Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins jokes about Joe Flacco&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Bengals star receiver takes brutal shot at old quarterback - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=35047\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Bengals star receiver takes brutal shot at old quarterback - 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