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Welcome in Brian Baldinger, Odyssey NFL Insider.

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What's up, Baldy? Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. What's up? So tonight, week seven, kicks off, and look at what we've got here. We've got a matchup of 40-plus-year-old quarterbacks, and Aaron Rogers, who's 41, and Joe Flacco, who's 40. When's the last time that's happened? I think the last time was Brady and Breeze were both post-40 when they got together a few years back.

What do you expect to this matchup between the Bengals and the Steelers tonight on Thursday night football?

Well, I think that Joe Flacco has been there for a little over a week.

You know, it's not much time.

I've been in that situation before where you need a quarterback and you got to upgrade it

and you trade for a guy or somebody falls to you.

And you're in the huddle.

And they kind of know a lot of the things about the offense, but not all of it. So, I mean, it's just a huge disadvantage, honestly. I mean, Aaron's been there now, the whole offseason, preseason, he's playing pretty good. Pittsburgh's got a better team around the quarterback than does Cincinnati. I mean, honestly, Pittsburgh's looking at this team, and they're going, there's two guys that could hurt us.

It's Jamar Chase and T. Higgins.

Nobody else can really hurt us.

And so I don't think Joe Flacco thrown to those two receivers is going to be enough to defeat the Steelers tonight.

But it also is a statement about where we are with the quarterback situation this league.

And it's really never changed.

Even when it was only a 12-team league,

we've never had enough good quarterbacks in this league,

and we don't have enough good ones,

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