It’s been a chaotic week for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Joe Burrow and Co. took an international trip and trounced an opponent before returning home for a critical primetime bout with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Plus, the front office botched a trade at the deadline and asked Zac Taylor to explain it for them.
One can be forgiven, then, for missing or forgetting that the Bengals lost quarterback Josh Johnson to the Arizona Cardinals.
Taylor revealed early this week that the Bengals won’t add another quarterback to compensate for the loss.
"Josh had played so well. He's obviously a roster-caliber quarterback. We just weren't in a position to do that. So we were very fortunate to have him on the practice squad," Taylor told reporters. "We felt good about
Sean Clifford, too. We feel like we absolutely have had the best quarterback room in the NFL, top to bottom. I still feel that way."
Roster crunch left the Bengals with just Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco on the 53, pushing Johnson and Sean Clifford to the practice squad and exposing them to getting plucked away by another team.
No big deal though, given the presence of Flacco behind Burrow. So much so, the Bengals are openly rooting for Johnson to go succeed in the desert.
“But I was just really impressed by him and would have loved for him to be able to stay here,” Taylor said. “But also really happy that he's getting an opportunity to go to Arizona. We'll be pulling for him."
This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Bengals update roster plans after losing player to Cardinals
