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Zac Jackson and Friends

Farewell, Mr. Flacco

Zac Jackson and Friends

Blue Wire

Sports

4.7686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Zac Jackson talks the news of the day: Joe Flacco to Cincinnati in the first ever Browns-Bengals trade. Plus, what's ailing the Browns' offense certainly isn't a one person or one phase problem and a combo conversation with The Growler pod and Paul Dehner Jr. on why the Browns and Bengals made this trade right now and what Flacco might (or might not) have left in the tank. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Good morning. Good evening. Good day, mate. Sorry, that's Australia. I was in London.

0:09.0

Welcome to Zach Jackson and friends, where I'm still jet lagged.

0:13.6

If you thought I was hard to be around before, it's harder now. But I came home.

0:22.8

You know, spent a lot of time over there just chilling, listening to a lot of Taylor Swift, searching eBay to get my Mark Sanchez

0:27.2

jersey for Halloween and thought I would just come home and have a day to recover. And the

0:32.8

Browns traded Joe Flacco. Once the shock wore off, it made sense.

0:41.2

It was more shock now than certainly in a few weeks.

0:44.8

Today is October 7th.

0:46.2

It's exactly four weeks, four Tuesdays from now is the trade deadline.

0:50.1

Obviously, Joe Flacco was no longer in the Browns plants.

0:52.6

Obviously, the Bengals are trying to salvage their season, and they feel like, hey, we got these receivers that we paid.

1:00.2

We got this offense that we've paid or committed to, at least.

1:07.0

And whatever Jake Browning was doing was clearly not good enough.

1:11.8

And the AFC is wide open.

1:13.6

The AFC North is a wreck, quite frankly.

1:16.1

It's as dysfunctional as it's ever been.

1:18.3

So in a way, you get it and you respect it.

1:20.6

And obviously here in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Joe Flacco will be a legend for 2023.

1:30.7

He will be remembered for coming back. He will be remembered for not being welcome back in 2024, obviously, but for coming back and giving it a go. And look,

1:36.6

this Brown's offense is completely broken, which you knew. So whether you're new here,

1:41.0

if you are welcome, or whether you've been coming here, welcome back.

1:50.4

This Brown's offense is completely broken. And so as I sat on the plane last night and scribbled some notes and took out and sent myself some emails this morning as I usually do on, hey, how are we going to

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