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    Ashish Mathur
    Oct 9, 2025, 18:16
    Updated at: Oct 9, 2025, 18:17

    No one on the Green Bay Packers thought they'd see Joe Flacco again this season. 

    The Green Bay Packers lost to the Cleveland Browns on the road in Week 3. Veteran Joe Flacco was the Browns' QB and no one on the Packers thought they'd see the former Baltimore Ravens star again this season. 

    However, the Browns traded Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals this week and the Bengals just so happen to face the Packers in Week 6. 

    "It was not, 'See you in a few weeks,'" Packers QB Jordan Love said about his conversation with Flacco in Week 3. "I was not expecting that one. But that's how the NFL is, man. Crazy stuff happens. Obviously, it's probably weird for the defense going up against him, pretty close timeline. We'll see. It'll be interesting for him. New team. New situation. We'll see."

    Flacco went 21/36 for 142 yards and one interception in Week 3 against the Packers. Cleveland defeated Green Bay by a final score of 13-10. 

    "I can say that I don't think outside of a division game, I've ever seen the same quarterback on a different team," Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. "So, it'll be interesting."

    Flacco didn't play well with the Browns. He threw six interceptions and only two touchdowns. 

    However, Flacco can still throw a decent deep ball and the Bengals have two of the best wideouts in the NFL in Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. 

    "You pick up the little things that kind of make a quarterback a quarterback," Packers safety Evan Williams said. "The unique little footwork that he has. Is he a guy that looks you off in the middle of the field? Is he a guy that is mobile enough? Obviously Flacco's not, in this case, but yeah ... those things differ from quarterback to quarterback, so you try to take as much of those unique details as you can and transfer that into this game. But at the same time, you understand that it's completely new scheme, a completely new amount of weapons that he's using.

    "I'm assuming that they'll probably just try to get the ball out of his hands quick into some playmakers that they got and he doesn't have too long of a time to learn a whole system, so we're definitely expecting it to be pretty rudimentary as far as scheme goes, but you carry the little details that he has individually, but most of that doesn't transfer over."

    The Bengals traded for Flacco because Jake Browning played poorly after taking over for Joe Burrow, who could miss the rest of the season after undergoing foot surgery. 

    Browning has eight interceptions in four games.