Will it be Lamar Jackson or Joe Flacco who ends up winning the honor of being the quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens All Quarter Century Team?
No kind of football team is complete without a quarterback, so let’s go ahead and find out who will be slinging passes for the Ravens All Quarter Century Team.
We’ve got two obvious choices in Lamar Jackson and Joe Flacco.
On one hand, you have an uber-decorated player who hasn’t quite been able to win the big one yet. On the other, you have a player who’s only accolade of any kind in the NFL was taking home the Lombardi Trophy and earning Super Bowl MVP honors.
Two successful quarterbacks, but by totally different standards. Which one will the fans vote to represent their team?
Let’s go ahead and dive in!
Lamar Jackson (2018-present)
The Ravens traded back up to the final pick of the first round in 2018 to draft Lamar Jackson as the heir apparent to Joe Flacco. While he hasn’t delivered a Super Bowl the way his predecessor did, Jackson has essentially done just about everything else Flacco failed to achieve as far as accolades go.
Jackson is a two-time NFL MVP (2021, 2023) and a three-time First-Team All-Pro (2019, 2023-2024) to go with four Pro Bowls (2019, 2021, 2023-2024) and an NFL passing touchdowns title (2019) and passer ratings leader (2024).
It’s tough to get more decorated than that in your first seven seasons outside of winning a Lombardi Trophy.
Joe Flacco (2008-2018)
Flacco was drafted by the Ravens in the first round of the 2008 draft out of FCS Delaware. From humble beginnings by NFL standards, Flacco worked and worked to become not only the team’s all-time leader in passing yards, but the team’s most recent Super Bowl-winning quarterback.
In Flacco’s 11 seasons, he threw for 38,245 yards and 212 touchdowns. He was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLVII and currently sits tied for the record of most passing touchdowns thrown during the postseason with 11.