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Bengals HC Zac Taylor believes that while the team lost to the Packers, they can build momentum with QB Joe Flacco leading the offense.
“Yeah, I think it has more of a chance to do that than not,” Taylor said, via NY Times. “You have confidence, but (we’re) careful because we didn’t do enough to win there, but there is confidence on offense with Joe just showing up that we can continue to play off that. It will be an entirely different defense, a different structure, and again, we just have to come together as a team to figure it out and find a way to win.”
Flacco admitted that it took him some time to settle into his new offense.
“I probably settled down a little bit for sure,” Flacco said. “There was at least one or two where I could have taken just quicker, the short one.”
Nevertheless, Flacco made the Bengals offense look more efficient despite the short preparation time.
“I thought he did a great job,” Taylor said of Flacco. “He did a great job with the protections. Did a great job of handling the whole offense, and that is a credit to him … I know he has played a lot of ball, but it doesn’t matter when you are going into a new offense and new receivers, and Ja’Marr really was limited two of the days this week, and to go out there and have that connection is pretty impressive.”
Flacco provided the team with hope and looks to build on whatever momentum they can get heading into a divisional game against Pittsburgh.
“This is a long season, and I know it’s easy to be down on yourself in hard times, but playing with confidence shows,” Flacco said. “So, we’ve got to find a way to kind of get some of that back, but I think we do have the ability to do that. Listen, we’ve got a big week coming up, and these division games are always good matchups, and going in and playing a good game this upcoming week could help a lot with that. And today probably helped a little bit, but you still want to win the game.”
