AFC Notes: Joe Flacco, Zack Moss, Bengals, Browns, Ravens

AFC Notes: Joe Flacco, Zack Moss, Bengals, Browns, Ravens
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Bengals

Bengals RB Zack Moss enters 2025 after breaking his neck in three different places last November. Moss, who was recently placed on the Non-Football Injury list, said he’s committed to continuing his career and is rehabbing at the team’s facility.

“Like I told coach Taylor, if I wanted to be done, I could have stayed at home and not left my wife and two kids by herself,” Moss said, via Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic. “I could have made that call and called it a day. My intention is to be here, to do what I have to do rehab-wise and then go from there. Wherever it is at, make a decision from there. That’s all I can do.”

Moss said he started losing feeling in his arm in Week 8 against the Eagles.

“I started losing feeling in my arm,” Moss said. “Coming out of that game, I pretty much played that game with seven fingers… I didn’t know, no one knew. Friday before the Raiders game, it stunned everybody. I didn’t know it was broken.”

Moss describes that he was surprised by learning about his broken neck, given that he was only dealing with soreness for a period of time.

“We never had any tell outside of my neck just being really sore,” Moss said. “That’s the thing people don’t know. I haven’t really spoken about it because I really don’t care too much. Team didn’t know. I didn’t know it was broken. That’s the part where I say, so many different variables. If I knew my neck was broken, I probably wouldn’t have played.”

Browns

Browns QB Joe Flacco spoke about limiting his interceptions as he tries to hold onto the starting job, with three younger quarterbacks pushing for playing time before the season even begins.

“You don’t want to throw ’em,” Flacco said of interceptions, via BrownsZone.com. “You want to be aggressive, and you want to be smart. I have thrown some picks recently I feel like, but I do still pride myself on not and making good decisions. And having said that, you know that they’re going to happen at some point. You want to be aggressive, but that’s not necessarily an excuse. Being aggressive is not an excuse. The goal as a quarterback is to make good decisions, be accurate and take care of the football for your team. So ultimately that’s what you want to do and you have to find that balance of being able to be yourself, be really aggressive and not turn that damn ball over. It’s very important.”

“They affect me,” Flacco added*. “Maybe I don’t show it. I hope I do a good job of not showing it but, man, yeah, there’s times where you turn the ball over and there’s definitely times in your life as a 40-year-old where you wish you were like 6 years old and it was acceptable to just cry about it. You can’t hide on an NFL field and...