Joe Flacco's CLEAR Value as Joe Burrow's Backup | Is Flacco the Bengals' Future Backup QB?

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🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals face a pivotal offseason as Joe Flacco’s value as backup quarterback has gone up based on his performance in six starts and their need for a proven commodity behind Joe Burrow. Should Flacco be an offseason priority, and can the Bengals afford to let him walk with a weak backup QB market? James Rapien and Jake Liscow examine salary expectations and slim pickings for alternatives headlined by Marcus Mariota.

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0:00.0	Joe Flacko very clearly demonstrated his value to the Cincinnati Bengals and should be an offseason priority.
0:07.2	Let's break it down.
0:13.8	You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:19.1	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:24.3	What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:28.3	Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network in the land.
0:33.0	He's James Rapine.
0:34.2	I'm Jake Liscoe.
0:35.5	We've been Lockdown Bengals on this podcast since 2016,
0:39.5	your best one-stop shop for all things Bengals anywhere online. And as we continue to dive
0:46.2	into a series of relatively high-level off-season topics, yesterday we got to the Bengals
0:51.6	internal free agents and we alluded to the importance of a guy like Joe Flacco for this football team and how exactly they should navigate the Trey Hendrickson situation this offseason.
1:03.5	We dive into those topics in a little bit more depth today, and we're soon going to be talking about some of the other off-season topics that we have briefly alluded to in the last week.
1:15.7	Excited to talk about Joe Flacco's future today in an episode brought to you by PrizePix where you can download the PricePix app and use code locked on NFL.
1:23.5	You'll get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.
1:29.1	James, one of the things that was evident as we were discussing Joe Flacco briefly
1:33.7	on our overall internal free agent preview show was the state of the quarterback market in general.
1:43.2	Obviously, Duke Tobin, Zach Taylor, Joe Burrow, this football team really appreciated Joe Flacco as a human being and as a player.
1:51.2	But as our everydayers, no, because they listen to that internal free agent show, shout out to the everydayers, welcome back.
1:59.8	The quarterback market, if you're looking to find a
2:02.9	quality backup is not great this offseason yeah and that's what's tough is it tough for the bengals at
2:12.9	least because i think you and i both agree joe flaco is a must keep. Like I want to do every.
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