{"id":43212,"date":"2026-02-10T23:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=43212"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:51:33","slug":"bengals-joe-flacco-turns-heads-with-recent-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=43212","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Joe Flacco turns heads with recent comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/12\/08\/SBEN\/87663097007-usatsi-27767554.jpg?crop=7401,4164,x0,y246&amp;width=3200&amp;height=1801&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Bengals' Joe Flacco turns heads with recent comments\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cincinnati Bengals\u00a0quarterback Joe Flacco is from a different era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No disrespect: He\u2019s had incredible staying power, hence his coming over via trade last year while Joe Burrow was hurt and keeping the\u00a0Bengals\u00a0alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But that comes with some insightful commentary that isn\u2019t necessarily prevalent with today\u2019s generation of players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Flacco\u2019s comments about the NFL around this year\u2019s Super Bowl illustrate that point well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[G]uys can\u2019t even play defense as aggressively because they\u2019re getting fined so much money for just normal hits,\u201d Flacco said during an interview with Kevin Clark. \u201cIt\u2019s changed the game a lot. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going back, so I\u2019m just kind of ranting here. But, man, I don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I asked Joe Flacco if the NFL has a quarterback development problem and he launched an impassioned take on how personal calls have changed games and hurt the position and sport. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We signed up to get hurt, you might not like that but it&#39;s what we kinda did.&quot; Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51fkGnMnGY\">pic.twitter.com\/51fkGnMnGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bykevinclark\/status\/2019166709828186225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Flacco added this: \u201cListen, we signed up to get concussions. We signed up to get hurt. It is what it is. You might not like that, but that\u2019s what we kind of did when we decided to play this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Usually, this sort of talk comes from a retired guy like Tom Brady. Not to say it\u2019s wrong, either, but that seems to be the trend.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco, of course, intends to keep playing. And the\u00a0Bengals want him back. Provided another team in free agency doesn\u2019t offer him an outright starting job, there\u2019s a chance he\u2019ll be signing up for it all again in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usatoday.com wants to ensure the best experience for all of our readers, so we built our site to take advantage of the latest technology, making it faster and easier to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43212","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>Bengals&#039; Joe Flacco turns heads with recent comments - 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=43212\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bengals&#039; 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