Jamison Hensley:Flacco is most frustrating QB in league

[polamalubeast]

BALTIMORE -- Watching the Baltimore Ravens' Joe Flacco should come with an advisory: Prepare to experience the most frustrating quarterback in the NFL.

The Ravens' season-opening 23-16 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals was four quarters of the best and worst of Flacco. He continually found ways to torment, enthrall and bewilder the sellout crowd of 70,925 at M&T Bank Stadium.


Flacco can make throws only few can think about attempting, such as throwing across his body and hitting wide receiver Steve Smith on a fourth-quarter touchdown pass that went 58 yards in the air. He also can make bone-headed mistakes you'd expect out of rookie quarterbacks -- not a Super Bowl Most Valuable Player -- such as the time he ran out the clock at the end of the first half to squash any field-goal attempt.

His nickname should be changed from Joe Cool to Joe Cruel.

The emotional roller coaster with Flacco went until the final minute of the game. After the Bengals took back the lead on a 77-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green, Flacco went 8-of-10 for 65 yards to move the Ravens to within 16 yards of tying the game. But in what summed up the day for Flacco and the Ravens, he was unable to throw a pass on the team's final two offensive plays and got sacked twice.

"It was a bad day," said Flacco, who was 35-of-62 passing for 345 yards. "We got ourselves obviously in position to win the game, but we didn't necessarily play well enough to win it."

There's no question Flacco has all the physical tools you want in a quarterback. He proved that during the Ravens' Super Bowl run 19 months ago. Where he struggles at times is making the quick decisions and adjustments.


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[Edman]

This is the same goon that months ago said Joe Flacco didn't deserve to be on the "bad contracts" list.

Again I ask, is it a coincidence that once Joe Flacco got his huge contract, the Ravens stopped being as successful as they were?

[vader29]

F you Hensley, Flacco is Elite!

[ALLD]

Rice should have punched Flacco in the elevator instead.

[steelreserve]

Yeah, he's right - it's frustrating when your quarterback sucks.

[fansince'76]

Rice should have punched Flacco in the elevator instead.

[NCSteeler]

I think Cowboys fans might want to stake a claim on that most frustrating title. But yeah he sucks a lot of the time

[Edman]

Now his favorite safety valve is gone.

[st33lersguy]

It's because it's the QB of his favorite team and he only played great in the 2012 postseason when he was playing for a salary cap eating contract

[ALLD]

He is now just an average Joe. Dude cashed in before the big implosion.

[X-Terminator]

Hey Homer Hensley...all you saw yesterday was what just about every fan with 2 brain cells to rub together has seen out of Moonball Joe for the past 5 years. He sucks, is in no way elite, and is essentially stealing money from the Ravens.

He got lucky during that Super Bowl run and should be thanking Anquan Boldin and that Broncos' DB that fell down in the AFC title game, otherwise he's just another in a long list of "never-was" QBs. Just remember, such NFL greats as Brad Johnson, Mark Rypien, Jeff Hostetler and Doug Williams have Super Bowl rings.

[steelreserve]

Hey Homer Hensley...all you saw yesterday was what just about every fan with 2 brain cells to rub together has seen out of Moonball Joe for the past 5 years. He sucks, is in no way elite, and is essentially stealing money from the Ravens.

He got lucky during that Super Bowl run and should be thanking Anquan Boldin and that Broncos' DB that fell down in the AFC title game, otherwise he's just another in a long list of "never-was" QBs. Just remember, such NFL greats as Brad Johnson, Mark Rypien, Jeff Hostetler and Doug Williams have Super Bowl rings.

Not to mention Jacoby Jones and the entire 49ers secondary, who delivered one of the biggest fuck-ups in Super Bowl history on this catch ... yup, another poorly thrown moonball:




Without both that and the 109-yard kickoff return to open the second half (also by Jones), the Ravens don't win anything and Flacco further cements his reputation as an erratic choke artist.

[SteelerFanInStl]

Hey Homer Hensley...all you saw yesterday was what just about every fan with 2 brain cells to rub together has seen out of Moonball Joe for the past 5 years. He sucks, is in no way elite, and is essentially stealing money from the Ravens.

He got lucky during that Super Bowl run and should be thanking Anquan Boldin and that Broncos' DB that fell down in the AFC title game, otherwise he's just another in a long list of "never-was" QBs. Just remember, such NFL greats as Brad Johnson, Mark Rypien, Jeff Hostetler and Doug Williams have Super Bowl rings.

Yep. Boldin constantly saved his azz during the SB run by pulling down those moon balls.

[Edman]

If there's anything I can see with consistency, is that somebody in the secondary is always falling on their ass when Flacco heaves up those ducks.