{"id":96031,"date":"2026-01-25T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:01:08","slug":"baltimore-ravens-legend-speaks-on-potentially-playing-with-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96031\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens Legend Speaks on Potentially Playing With Pittsburgh Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Joe Flacco continues to navigate the final chapters of his NFL career, the veteran quarterback has been around the league quite a bit. Still, even for a player who has played with multiple teams in recent years, he doesn\u2019t sound ready to ever put on a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco, who spent the bulk of his career with the Baltimore Ravens, was recently asked about the idea of potentially playing for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently, Flacco admitted that while he remains open-minded about his future, the Steelers would be a weird one to put on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be strange. I do think having a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey on would be a little more strange than even a Browns or Bengals jersey, for whatever reason, but I think at this point, I\u2019m pretty much open for most things if I can see an opportunity in it,\u201d Flacco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=XfdgsUmb-0M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once the face of the Ravens\u2019 franchise and a Super Bowl champion, Flacco has been thrown around the league recently.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore and Pittsburgh are one of the biggest rivals in the NFL, built on crazy games, postseason battles and hatred<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Flacco noted that playing with Cleveland or Cincinnati didn\u2019t mean as much, despite both also being division rivals. That shows how big of a rivalry the Ravens and Steelers truly are.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco\u2019s decent stretch last season reminded teams that he can still be decent in the right system. He might not be a full-time starter, but he\u2019s really not a bad player.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, Flacco doesn\u2019t have the luxury of playing with the team he wants, more than likely. Instead, he could even have to play for a team like the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>For teams like Pittsburgh, which continues to search for a quarterback, it\u2019s not the worst idea to have him on the roster in some capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Steelers fans will be too upset with Flacco if he doesn\u2019t want to play in Pittsburgh. It\u2019s not like this is Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow, two division rivals, not joining the team. He\u2019s a fine player at this point in his career and nothing more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Joe Flacco continues to navigate the final chapters of his NFL career, the veteran quarterback has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4916,3616,4977,4702,76,4778,3270,4919,73,75,74,1833,47134],"class_list":["post-96031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bengals","tag-browns","tag-cincinnati","tag-cleveland","tag-joe-burrow","tag-joe-flacco","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-veteran-quarterback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}