{"id":117304,"date":"2020-11-21T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jets-joe-flacco-talks-super-bowl-win-nfl-future-ray-lewis\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T21:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:02:33","slug":"jets-joe-flacco-talks-super-bowl-win-nfl-future-ray-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jets-joe-flacco-talks-super-bowl-win-nfl-future-ray-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jets’ Joe Flacco talks Super Bowl win, NFL future, Ray Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jets’ Joe Flacco talks Super Bowl win, NFL future, Ray Lewis<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Jets backup QB Joe Flacco connects with Post columnist Steve Serby for some Q&A ahead of his fourth start of the season, with Sam Darnold sidelined with a shoulder injury.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q: What was the feeling like holding the Lombardi Trophy after you won Super Bowl XLVII MVP by beating the 49ers in February 2013?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I don\u2019t know if I was on this planet. My wife, my mom were down on the field, and I just remember looking back at them. It\u2019s tough to look back on that \u2019cause I don\u2019t know exactly what memories are real and what I\u2019m just kind of making up. It was definitely otherworldly.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe your on-field mentality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I try to stay as in the moment as I can. My on-field mentality is, to a certain extent, how I am off the field. I\u2019m probably a little bit more reserved on the field. I don\u2019t like to let my emotions get the best of me, I like to try to stay in the moment as much as possible. I\u2019m confident, but I don\u2019t like to showboat, and I tend to view a lot of the things other than your normal celebrations or sitting on the bench and not crying and not doing a bunch of antics. I kind of view a lot of those things as, \u201cLook at me,\u201d or you\u2019re looking to pass blame on others, so I just try to stay as even as I can and not let my emotions get the best of me, no matter what might be going on mentally. Stay in the moment and try to persevere no matter what.<\/p>\n

Q: Didn\u2019t that result in criticism that you didn\u2019t care enough?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I think I\u2019ve probably, to some extent, gotten that my whole life. People don\u2019t know what to make of it, I guess. It\u2019s tough to say. I definitely have gotten criticized for it. But it\u2019s who I am (chuckle). I grew up in a family [where] that\u2019s not what was rewarded \u2014 showboating, celebrating. It wasn\u2019t like you couldn\u2019t show emotion, it was nothing like that, but those things didn\u2019t matter. What mattered was playing well, and doing the right things and carrying yourself like a professional just in a respectful way. It\u2019s not in my personality to do that. I\u2019d be embarrassed to start dancing around in my bedroom by myself, let alone in front of a billion people. I played sports because I loved playing the sports, not because of the attention that necessarily you get from \u2019em, it\u2019s just kind of part of it.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe Ray Lewis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: First of all, he\u2019s the best linebacker to ever play. Unbelievable leader. It wasn\u2019t even all the stuff that everybody saw. It wasn\u2019t all the speeches \u2026 those things are cool, don\u2019t get me wrong. When you sit in front of Ray Lewis and hear him give a speech, it\u2019s tough not to be like, \u201cHoly s\u2013t, man, this is unbelievable.\u201d When you see him come out of the tunnel, it\u2019s one of the best experiences you\u2019ll ever go through on a football field, especially when you\u2019re on his side. And I remember looking over my shoulder and watching the other team just stopping and staring and looking at him. But there was something more to him, there\u2019s something about him. When he was around, when he was on the field with you, there was always a sense of calm and a sense of control. It just seemed like we were going to control this game<\/a>. And it seemed like, no matter what the situation, he was able to make everybody feel good about whatever the situation we were in was, and then turned it into an advantage for us. He\u2019s a unique person, and a unique football player.<\/p>\n

\"Ray
Ray Lewis is seen in 2012 before a game against the Patriots.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: Ed Reed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I swear to God, it seems like every game I played with Ed, he had an interception. He just knew how to find the football. And when he got to the football, he never missed, he made the play every single time. You get spoiled.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe Ray Rice, and his controversy \u2014 charged with simple assault of his wife Janay on an elevator in 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I think ever since the controversy, Ray\u2019s proven to be a pretty damn good guy. I have nothing but good things to say about Ray. Obviously, it was unfortunate what he went through, and I think he\u2019s probably learned from that, and I think he handled that situation well, I think his wife handled it well. But Ray was a fun, young kid, awesome personality, great to be around, really hard worker. I think Ray Lewis had a really good influence on him.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe the 34-minute Super Bowl brownout, which seemed to ruin the Ravens\u2019 momentum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I guess you could say that for sure just because of the way it ended up working out and the fact that they kind of built a little bit of momentum after that, but who knows if that would have happ<\/a>ened anyway, you know?<\/p>\n

Q: Colin Kaepernick led the 49ers comeback.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I don\u2019t think he had a ton of rushing yards against us, which was probably a big part of us beating them. They definitely got in a groove there in the second half, it was more him to Vernon Davis, him to [Michael] Crabtree. They were able to actually start moving the ball through the air a little bit.<\/p>\n

Q: How neat was it beating Peyton Manning\u2019s Broncos and Tom Brady\u2019s Patriots on your way to Super Bowl XLVII?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It was cool, man. I don\u2019t think you really think about it when you\u2019re in that moment, especially since I\u2019d played \u2019em a couple of times at that point.<\/p>\n

Q: Where does your last-minute, 70-yard touchdown bomb to Jacoby Jones to force overtime in the double-OT divisional round win over the Broncos rank?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It\u2019s pretty up there. I just remember being in the locker room after that game. I remember getting on the bus after that game \u2014 probably an hour, or an hour-and-a-half after the game was over \u2014 and I was still on Cloud 9. I was still hootin\u2019 and hollerin\u2019 at the top of my lungs. I was still seeing guys on the bus making phone calls and just screaming into the phone. I\u2019ve never been in a more emotional locker room after a game, never. I don\u2019t anticipate I ever will be. And that throw obviously had a lot to do with that.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your most bitter defeat?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Oh, for sure it was going up to New England in a 2011 AFC Championship game [Jan. 22, 2012], the year before we went up there and beat \u2019em in it. We were driving down with like 20 seconds left, and we had a chance to score a touchdown, we didn\u2019t score a touchdown. We ended up lining up to kick a field goal to tie the game, and we missed it. You\u2019re literally inches away from going to a Super Bowl, and then the game\u2019s over and you lost, and now you gotta stare a whole new season in the face and get back on and try to do it all over again.<\/p>\n

Q: You got grief after saying, \u201cI think I\u2019m the best\u201d quarterback in the NFL in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q: I was doing a radio show and somebody asked me basically, \u201cWho do you think is the best?\u201d Whether you say you are or whether you say you aren\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna get a little something because of that.<\/p>\n

Q: Define what \u201cJersey Guy\u201d means.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: (Laugh) Well, I just think they got a certain attitude to \u2019em. Honestly, it depends on where you\u2019re from. You\u2019re a New Yorker or you\u2019re basically from Philadelphia. I think both of those cities have a certain attitude to \u2019em, that\u2019s kind of like \u2014 you don\u2019t want to say it \u2014 but it\u2019s kind of like an F-U mindset. You grew up around a few wiseguys, you probably grew up with a pretty blue-collar working class background, and it molds you into who you are today, you know?<\/p>\n

Q: What do you remember about Jets GM Joe Douglas scouting you at Delaware for the Ravens?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: (Laugh) If I was to think back at Delaware, I don\u2019t exactly know what I remember from Joe. You don\u2019t necessarily know too much about what they think of you, but it wasn\u2019t \u2019til I got to Baltimore, and there he is, you see him again, and you realize that he had a big hand in bringing you there. Joe has a presence about him though, man. He\u2019s a big guy that looks like he can be out there with us. So he\u2019s tough to forget.<\/p>\n

\"Joe
Joe Flacco is seen playing for Delaware in 2007.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: If you could challenge any cornerback in NFL history who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Deion [Sanders].<\/p>\n

Q: Who was your boyhood idol?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I liked watching NFL Films and Barry Sanders, and by the time I got to high school, I loved watching Randy Moss.<\/p>\n

Q: Who are athletes in other sports you admire?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Ken Griffey Jr.<\/p>\n

Q: Did you consider switching to baseball after your junior year at Delaware?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: The story kind of gets blown out of proportion a little bit. When I got recruited out of high school, that was one of the things that I thought I might want to do at some point, if I could. I brought it up to [Delaware football coach K.C. Keeler], but not really, like, I wasn\u2019t really too serious about it at that point.<\/p>\n

Q: How good of a basketball player were you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I was a ball hog. You passed the ball to me, you weren\u2019t getting it back. I had the Kobe [Bryant] mentality: If I got the ball, it was going up. Was I the most polished basketball player? Probably not.<\/p>\n

Q: What drives you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It\u2019s always been to be the best, and to win. I think that in order to get to this level, you have to have a certain motivation within you, and in order to stay at this level, you definitely have to have something that drives you personally, and that\u2019s to be the best. I want to prove to myself that I\u2019m the best. I want to prove to everybody that I\u2019m the best. I get motivation from my family still to this day. I talk to my dad a bunch, I talk to my wife, I talk to my siblings, at this point my kids. All of those things drive me to be better, and there\u2019s still lessons to be learned from all of those people that help me to be best that I can be.<\/p>\n

Q: What was your best moment at Delaware?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: We were on a [FCS] playoff run my senior year there, we went all the way to the national championship. We ended up getting blown out by Appalachian State. But that was a ton of fun. Just staying in little hotels with your college buddies, hanging out, going to play in the football games \u2014 it was such a cool time, such a cool experience to be able to play four playoff games in college. All the Division I-A teams were kind of in their little month-long break before their bowl games, so it felt like we were kind of like the main show in town on Saturday nights, whoever we were playing.<\/p>\n

Q: What was your best moment at Audubon High School in New Jersey?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: We always played our rival [Haddon Township High] on Thanksgiving morning every year, and it probably was a little bit extra because the rival high school that we played was where my parents went to high school, and I had some cousins that went to high school there, so it was always a fun game. It either made your Thanksgiving dinner or completely ruined it for the night.<\/p>\n

Q: Did you fear your career would be over after your April neck surgery?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I would say before the neck surgery. I definitely probably had a little bit of fear that it would be over. I wasn\u2019t sure I wanted to get surgery; I was sure I wanted to play again. I wasn\u2019t sure if I was gonna have to get surgery, and I wasn\u2019t sure I was gonna want to, because I wasn\u2019t sure I was gonna have to. I think once I made the decision to get it, I kind of felt like I was moving in the right direction. So I never really too much thought about not getting signed after I got it, I just kind of felt like if I did get it, then at some point, I\u2019d get a chance to sign somewhere. I don\u2019t know if that was a good thought process by me or not, but bottom line is: I wasn\u2019t ready to be done playing. At some point along the road, it became evident that I was going to need to get the surgery if somebody was going to sign me. And I didn\u2019t care if they weren\u2019t going to, but that was the only chance they were going to. So I got the surgery, and I really never looked back.<\/p>\n

Q: What was it like emotionally for you being traded by the Ravens to the Broncos in the 2019 offseason?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I obviously saw myself finishing my career there, and playing a long time. But at the same time, I\u2019ve seen a bunch happen in this league. Listen, I love that city, I love their fans, I love the organization. \u2026 There\u2019s definitely a part of me that is I wish we could have won more games and won another Super Bowl, but there\u2019s also another part of me that\u2019s a competitor. \u2026 Stuff happens, I want to play football at a high level, and I gotta still go out there and prove that, and that\u2019s what this league is. It wasn\u2019t like it was like a sudden thing, like it came out of the blue, like, \u201cHey Joe, you\u2019re traded now,\u201d and I had no idea that was coming. I don\u2019t think I was too affected by it. I was more excited about the opportunity I was gonna be given in Denver than I was down about getting traded.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe the Ravens-Steelers rivalry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: The reason that those are such good rivalries is because how intense the fans are about the rivalry in both cities.<\/p>\n

\"Ben
Flacco congratulates Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger after a 23-16 Pittsburgh win in 2018.<\/span>Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: How much longer do you want to play, and thoughts on life after football?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I haven\u2019t thought about life after football, and I really don\u2019t really think about how much longer I want to play, I just want to keep on playing \u2019til I can\u2019t, and we\u2019ll see what happens after that.<\/p>\n

Q: Favorite movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cShawshank Redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: Favorite actor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Christian Bale.<\/p>\n

Q: Favorite meal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Homemade lasagna.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe the challenge of being a father of five kids during a pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: My wife has dealt with the brunt of that. And man, I\u2019m surprised as to how little I\u2019ve heard about it. It\u2019s a shame. My kids, luckily I have a bunch of \u2019em, so they have built-in friends, but they need the social<\/a> contact with other kids \u2014 just get out of the house and go do things with, not to mention the education part of it. Not to mention my wife\u2019s sanity through all of this. I would say I dealt with a little bit of it when we first shut down in the spring, because I was home at that point. All of a sudden, I become a high schooler, I become a teacher, and it\u2019s like, man, I do not have the patience for this thing. I think I\u2019m a pretty patient person. Out on the football field, I can keep my emotions in check pretty good. I gotta tell you, in the dining room table \u2014 where there\u2019s a bunch of papers rolling around, there\u2019s a bunch of spelling and math and reading and writing and all kinds of homework going on \u2014 I have the patience of about a 2-year-old. Lots of yelling, lots of crying. I can\u2019t say I was a very good influence as a teacher.<\/p>\n

Q: What was it like when all those \u201cWacko For Flacco\u201d T-shirts started popping up in the early 2010s, and do your kids wear them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019ve seen \u2019em, man, I don\u2019t even know they know what that is. But it was cool. I mean, [Baltimore is] a football town, so to go from being a small-school quarterback to starting in the NFL right away and having all that happen \u2026 you\u2019re playing well, you\u2019re winning football games, and people are loving it, it\u2019s definitely a cool environment. I\u2019m sure at some point I\u2019ll have to go back \u2014 when my kids are telling me that I stink \u2014 I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll have to go back at some point and show them that Dad could do it. In 10 years, I\u2019ll be talking to \u2019em and they\u2019ll be sitting at the dinner table making fun of me and doing all kinds of things, and I\u2019ll probably have to bring out some old highlights, and then some people cheering and wearing those kind of things.<\/p>\n

Q: No one dreamed, maybe except you, of being a Super Bowl MVP coming out of Delaware, correct?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a certain point where nobody suspected Tom Brady was gonna win as many as he has, and everybody, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning \u2026 Listen, I think the most important thing is that I believed it, and those guys have all believed it.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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