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Joe Flacco Starting for Ravens Despite MCL Sprain
The Baltimore Ravens and Joe Flacco are ignoring his sprained MCL, taking certain percautions in the form of a knee brace, but keeping him as their starting quarterback for the next game at least.
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Baltimore Ravens – Keep On Winning Somehow
Unlike last year, there’s nothing about the Baltimore Ravens that seems to be pointing towards a season that will end in glory. However, despite not looking impressive or putting up big numbers, the defending Super Bowl champions keep advancing towards a playoff spot, getting over their latest hurdle, the Detroit Lions, with a game winning field goal by Justin Tucker.
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Baltimore Ravens – Luck Was On Their Side
Games between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers are never pretty affairs. Conservative play calling, a lot of defense and usually a play or two that decide the whole game. The Thanksgiving edition of this AFC North rivalry wasn’t any different, as a failed two-point conversion kept the win in Baltimore (22-20), mostly relying on the kicking of Justin Tucker to pull away by half a game from their rivals.
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Baltimore Ravens – At Least the Defense is Working Again
With the weight of the Super Bowl ring and a huge contract being a burden on him, Joe Flacco has struggled early on in the season to bring his usual brilliance to the quarterback position for the Baltimore Ravens. Luckily for him, the defense is doing just about enough to make him look less awful than he’s actually been so far.
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Baltimore Ravens – Joe Flacco Between Perfection and Awfulness
In what could only be described as a two-faced performance from the Baltimore Ravens, the easiest thing to notice was Joe Flacco acting like the all-commanding Super Bowl MVP he is on some drives and making the simplest of mistakes on others, showing he’s not quite ready to be the perfect quarterback some expect him to be.
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Baltimore Ravens – Joe Flacco Not Finding a Rhythm
Preseason wins mean nothing. The ability the team displays when their stating lineup is on the field for a short time is what really matters, and Joe Flacco failing to find consistency in his passing seems to be quite concerning, despite remaining unbeaten in the exhibition section of the year.
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Joe Flacco & Mark Sanchez are the Only Quarterbacks to Beat Tom Brady & Peyton Manning in the Same Playoff Year
Would you call Joe Flacco an elite quarterback? While that’s still debatable, he does have a Super Bowl ring, and the “elite” contract to showoff with. How about Mark Sanchez? No one would call him elite, or even a good quarterback. But the two do have something in common – they’ve both beaten Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the playoffs, in the same year.
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Baltimore Ravens Needed to Re-Sign Joe Flacco Earlier
One season, and what a different it made. Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, giving him the upper hand in the negotiations with the team, winning him a six year contract worth $120 million which is unlikely to run its full course.
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Baltimore Ravens – The Details of the Joe Flacco Contract
Everyone knows by now that the contract Joe Flacco signed with the Baltimore Ravens is the biggest in NFL history, which makes you wonder about how valuable is it to win a Super Bowl for any franchise, and also want to dive a little bit deeper into the details of the deal Flacco got.
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The 100 Million Dollar Men of the NFL
By signing the most expensive contract (per season) in NFL history, Joe Flacco became the highest paid player in the league (obviously), but as history tells us, getting these $100 million deals doesn’t always mean that it’s an actual “lifetime” contract, as players like Michael Vick, Drew Bledsoe and Daunte Culpepper might choose to tell.