With the Baltimore Ravens still finding their footing, despite a surprisingly solid record, Joe Flacco remains a hot-topic among people who like to discuss quarterbacks.
From the debates about him potentially being elite (which became a running joke at a certain point) to his iffy play the last few seasons, people outside the Baltimore bubble have turned on him.
Joe Flacco, however, won't turn on the idea of him being a player who has impact beyond the stat line.
“There’s a little bit of you that wishes you didn’t care so you could just go out and play and react,” he said, by way of the Baltimore Sun. “But listen, this is my life. We all care. I don’t want to say especially me, but I carry a lot of load for the team and how they prepare. A lot of people look at me and say, ‘This is how Joe’s doing it.’ So yeah, I care a ton. This is what I love. And the more I care, the more I think it bleeds into everyone else.”
“Listen, it doesn’t bother me that much if people feel that way,” he said of his critics. “Because they don’t know.”
You should read the entire piece from the Baltimore Sun, as it provides Flacco in a brutally honest light.
“What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right,” Flacco said. “Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might’ve been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don’t know that. That’s the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.”
Basically, he's out here saying folks simply don't know enough to judge him.
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