
Zac Taylor had Joe Flacco in his office last Wednesday and he was going through a call sheet, giving his new quarterback the new language he’d be expected to speak fluently four days later at Lambeau Field. And then the volume of the Bengals’ new quarterback’s mental football library was, almost by accident, put on display for the head coach.
“This is Fenway,” Taylor said, a call the coach got from his father-in-law, former Packers coach Mike Sherman, named in reference to Sherman’s Massachusetts roots.