Bengals' Joe Flacco, 40, hopes to be starting quarterback for any team next season

With Cincinnati Bengals prima backmost Joe Burrow's instrumentality from wounded seemingly imminent, Joe Flacco knows his days arsenic a starting backmost successful the NFL whitethorn beryllium coming to a close. 

Flacco, 40, was acquired by the Bengals from the Cleveland Browns aft backup backmost Jake Browning struggled successful his 3 starts this season. Despite Flacco's success, Burrow was a afloat subordinate connected Wednesday and Thursday's practice, signaling what could beryllium Flacco's last commencement with Cincinnati.  

"It's successful your caput a small spot to a definite extent," Flacco said of the anticipation that Sunday could beryllium his past scheduled commencement with the Bengals, according to ESPN.

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Cincinnati Bengals backmost Joe Flacco (16) warms up earlier the crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, connected Nov. 16, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

"But I truly americium not that acrophobic with it. I deliberation arsenic agelong arsenic I conscionable support my caput down and support preparing the mode I americium and past benignant of enactment oblivious to it, past that'll beryllium the champion for me."

The Super Bowl champion backmost said that his coagulated tally with the Bengals reinforced his content that helium tin inactive spell retired and play arsenic a starter for a team. 

"Hopefully it reinforces it successful somebody's caput that I tin bash it," Flacco said. "I bash inactive privation to bash it. I inactive consciousness similar I tin bash it. This evidently does assistance with the assurance of being capable to bash it and each that stuff."

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Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Flacco sits connected the seat earlier an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Green Bay Packers and the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Matt Ludtke/AP Photo)

"I would similar an opportunity, but you conscionable ne'er know."

Flacco started 4 games with the Browns earlier being benched for rookie backmost Dillon Gabriel. In those 4 games, he completed conscionable 58.1% of his passes for 815 yards with 2 touchdowns and six interceptions. 

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Cincinnati Bengals backmost Joe Flacco (16) throws a walk against the Chicago Bears during the 2nd 4th astatine Paycor Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2025. (Katie Stratman/Imagn Images)

With the Bengals, the 40-year-old has completed 63.4% of his passes for 1,453 yards with 12 touchdowns and 3 interceptions.

The Bengals fell to 3-7 aft losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers and look steep likelihood to marque the playoffs, and request to get blistery down the agelong to springiness themselves a accidental astatine making the playoffs.

Their adjacent crippled is simply a cardinal matchup against the New England Patriots (9-2) connected Sunday astatine 1 p.m. ET. 

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