Colts QB Joe Flacco sculpted the Pittsburgh Steelers up a bit on Sunday, even if his numbers weren’t eye-popping. That is simply what previous Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger feared when his old bane checked out the video game. He would have chosen to see Colts starter Anthony Richardson play the entire video game.
“Having Joe Flacco in the video game makes me more worried than having Anthony Richardson in the video game”, Roethlisberger stated on his Footbahlin podcast the other day while examining the Steelers’ loss to the Colts. “Joe’s not gon na beat you with his legs. You have a guy that can sling the ball. Made me anxious, and sure enough, Joe did it”.
Richardson left the video game in the very first half due to injury, with Flacco playing the majority of the method. He went 16-of-26 passing for 168 backyards, tossing 2 goals. On the entire he played effective football, even with periodic cars. He now has the third-most goal passes versus the Steelers in NFL history, by the method.
Ben Roethlisberger invested the majority of his profession fighting Joe Flacco in the AFC North as Steelers and Ravens’ quarterbacks, respectively. Flacco won the Super Bowl with Baltimore in 2012, however his profession began going downhill after that.
For the previous 6 years, Flacco has actually been mainly a backup, however he discovered brand-new life with the Steelers and Ravens’ competitors in 2015, the Cleveland Browns. While he is not knocking on the door of the Hall of Fame, he has had an excellent profession.
And Flacco offered the Steelers issues on Sunday, as the scoreboard informs us. “Joe got some big 3rd downs”, Roethlisberger kept in mind, consisting of 4 on one drive. “Every time that there was a 3rd down, I fidgeted. I’m like, ‘Joe’s gon na get this'”.
He is retired, Roethlisberger went to the Steelers’ video game on Sunday and welcomed Flacco after the video game. “I stated, ‘Joe, when you can be found in the video game, I simply had a tension’. And he goes, ‘Can you think it? Pittsburgh, the one group that I’ve played a lot of years?'”.
Flacco’s groups are 11-11 all-time when he plays the Steelers, consisting of Sunday. That marked his very first time playing Pittsburgh because leaving from the Ravens a variety of years earlier, remarkably. He did not begin the video game, so he did not tape a win, however he put in a winning efficiency.
Flacco is clearly a more skilled and smart passer at this moment in his profession than is Richardson, however there’s a factor one is supporting the other. He has actually shown that he still has the arm skill, however at almost 40, his beginning days are over. Disallowing injury, anyhow.