I'd be a little surprised if they flex us out and I say that knowing full well they generally want no part of Jacksonville in prime time. They have learned to schedule our prime time games late in the season for a reason, to make sure they can in fact flex away from a bad Jacksonville team. But this is not a bad Jacksonville team and in fact has a bonafide future face of the league at QB.

Also, many parts of the country haven't seen a Jags game this year unless they got up early enough for the London games. Many on the west coast aside from those who got our game against SF, probably haven't seen the Jags at all this year. Lastly, the Bengals are still in the hunt despite losing Glass Joe for the remainder of the year.

Even if they lose to the fraudulent steelers this week, they'd be at worst 5-6 coming in. That's not an egregious enough record to flex away from when 7 teams in each conference make the playoffs each year. Burrow not being there hurts, sure, but there's really no legitimate reason to flex out of the game.

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