Former Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was featured in the just-released third season of “Quarterback,” a popular series on Netflix.
Flacco, 41, was featured alongside fellow quarterbacks Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield and Cam Ward. Flacco was asked to participate by Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning, who is the executive producer of the project.
“You don’t know how the year is going to go, but it’s kind of hard to say no to Peyton, too,” Flacco said on Glenn Clark Radio July 14. “He convinced me. I’m a little bit older. I probably see it a little bit differently than when I was 23 years old. … The value of having a time capsule for my whole family and how we were at this point in our lives and always being able to look back on it.”
“There are obviously advantages to doing it,” Flacco added. “He tried to downplay the disadvantages and how non-invasive it would be. I have to say it really was pretty non-invasive. They put a mic on you once a week. You are mic’d up for half the games anyway, so who cares if you’re putting the mic on for a few more. I would say he was pretty convincing from the phone call alone.”
One thing that stuck out in the show is that Flacco’s Super Bowl XLVII ring from the Ravens’ 34-31 victory against San Francisco as well as the Super Bowl MVP trophy and the Corvette that came with it have all been hidden away for years.
“It’s funny because it’s not like I don’t care about those things. I do care about them but I just feel like I remember thinking I would care about displaying the hardware,” Flacco said. “I care about the accomplishments, but I don’t care about the hardware as much as I would have anticipated. I think at a certain point, it will be cool to have the hardware as well. But I think you can play those things up in your mind. You make more of it than it actually is.”
The show chronicled Flacco’s 2025 season that began with the Cleveland Browns before a trade to the Cincinnati Bengals. In Week 2, Flacco returned to Baltimore for the first time since leaving the team after the 2018 season. The Browns lost, 41-17. Flacco threw for 199 yards, a touchdown and an interception in the loss.
“Of course, it would be nice at some point of whatever I have left, if all things are equal, it’d be great to have an opportunity to actually get one on them,” Flacco said of facing the Ravens.
Flacco made four starts with the Browns in 2025, throwing for 815 yards, two touchdowns and six interceptions. He along with a sixth-round pick went to the Bengals for a fifth-round pick. The Bengals needed help at quarterback with Joe Burrow out.
Flacco threw for 1,664 yards, 13 touchdowns and four interceptions in nine games (six starts) with the Bengals. With his wife and five kids back home in New Jersey, Flacco lived alone in Cincinnati. An interview that went viral last season, he mentioned he started to enjoy eating alone.
“When you get to a certain point you realize, listen I got to find a way to enjoy these things,” Flacco said. “I could have been sitting in my apartment and like down on myself and kind of homesick from missing my kids, but you’ve got to realize you’ve got to learn how to enjoy the little things and that was just a little piece of getting me out of the rut when I’m maybe thinking about being homesick. It’s like, ‘Hey let’s get something to eat and kind of try to be a normal person.'”
For more from Flacco, listen to the full interview here:
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