Flacco takes his No. 2 place here retaining his title as the Bengals’ oldest player ever in front of No. 3 Josh Johnson, just signed to a one-year deal Sunday two months before he turns 40. They were teammates in the Baltimore offseason of 2015, as well as briefly with the Jets during the 2021 season.
“No surprise to me when Joe balled out,” said Johnson of Flacco’s run last year. “No surprise at all.”
Flacco is 14th on the all-time passing yards list, just 1,824 shy of 50,000 yards, and he’s 21st on the all-time touchdown passes list, one back of Joe Montana’s 273.
But the numbers didn’t seem to matter when he talked about it late last season.
“Go into my 19th year. It’s what I do man,” Flacco said. “I’m a football player. Keep it going.”