Joe Flacco is BACK! Bengals Finally Paying For Quality Backup QB

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals were so impressed with Joe Flacco, they're bringing him back for another year to back up Joe Burrow. Jake Liscow and James Rapien hope this is an insurance policy the Bengals don't need to cash, but Flacco proved last year that he's still got a little something left in the tank. The guys discuss why it's great news that the Bengals are bringing Flacco back, from his impact in the locker room to his ability to keep the ship afloat if Burrow needs to miss any time in 2026.

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0:00.0	The Bengals are paying for a quality backup quarterback.
0:03.7	Joe Flacco back in stripes.
0:11.5	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:16.7	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:22.1	What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:25.8	He's James Rapine. I'm Jake Liskow.
0:27.4	We are your host of the Lockdown Bengals podcast coming to you today to talk about Joe Flacko's return to Cincinnati.
0:34.3	We told you when the Bengals signed Josh Johnson to be one of their backup
0:38.1	quarterbacks that did not close the door to a Joe Flacco return. And some of you didn't
0:43.6	believe us. And yet here we are. We're not always right. But sometimes we do know what we're talking
0:48.7	about here on lockdown Bengals, James. Joe Flacco has agreed to return to Cincinnati on a one-year
0:53.6	deal worth
0:54.2	six up to nine million dollars with incentives.
0:58.8	And he'll be the backup quarterback for Joe Burrow, which obviously is good news.
1:03.8	And there are a few things that we can talk about around Joe Flacco returning to Cincinnati.
1:08.7	First is obviously what it means to have Joe Flacco back in a vacuum.
1:12.4	Second is, does it change your free agency grade at all?
1:17.1	Does it move the needle?
1:18.0	Third is the Bengals were paying a backup quarterback.
1:23.0	And I, we looked into this before we started recording, could not remember the Bengals paying for a backup
1:29.1	quarterback. Like in my mind, it went all the way back to Kitna. And Kitna was more of a bridge
1:32.9	quarterback than a pure backup. And then you brought up Bruce Grackowski, which was a good shout,
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