“On the field, timing-wise, all that, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t affect that at all because it did,” Evans acknowledged. “And I got a late start coming halfway through training camp. So I already knew I was behind the eight ball a little bit, and me missing those games certainly didn’t help. But the only thing I could try to do was still try to be around everybody and be able to talk to Joe in meetings and be there for him on the field as well. I wasn’t able to play and catch balls, but I think I was able to build some type of rapport not only with Joe, but with the receivers as well, being able to help them even when I wasn’t playing.”Flacco said the pair are working on their on-field chemistry.“It’s growing. It’s getting there,” Flacco said. “I think he came in here as a pretty explosive player from the beginning and then, obviously, not being healthy at the beginning of the year threw a little bit of that off. But he’s out there and getting better each week.”
