Mike Tomlin was welcomed back from the Steelers' bye weekend last Tuesday with news that the Cincinnati Bengals had swapped a Day Three draft pick with the Cleveland Browns for the rights to 40-year-old quarterback Joe Flacco.

Other than it being the first trade between the Ohio teams since the Browns returned to the NFL in 1999, it might not have meant much to most.

But it meant a heck of a lot to Tomlin, whose Steelers will face Flacco and the Bengals on Thursday night.

Flacco, 40, opened the season for the Browns and started four games. He threw only 2 touchdown passes to 6 interceptions, which forced his passer rating to bottom out at 60.3, last in the NFL.

But in less than a week, Flacco started for a Bengals team flailing without injured starter Joe Burrow, and kept the Bengals c

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