If he’d still been the starter in Cleveland, it would have been a story last week. Now that Joe Flacco has been traded to the Bengals (and immediately installed as the starting quarterback), it’s a nugget worth highlighting in advance of Thursday night’s game.

Flacco vs. Aaron Rodgers. A pair of quarterbacks on the wrong side of 40. That has happened only three times before.

All three occasions occurred in the same season: 2020. It was Tom Brady’s first year in Tampa and Drew Brees’s last year in the NFL. The Bucs and Saints squared off three times that year, with Brady at 43 and Brees at 41.

It’ll likely happen again in four weeks, when the Bengals and Flacco visit the Steelers and Rodgers. Then, who knows when it will happen next?

Brady’s ability to play until 45 has caused many to b

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