Baltimore Ravens want contract extension for quarterback Joe Flacco – NFL news
Owner of Baltimore Ravens Steve Bisciotti is hopeful of a contract extension for Joe Flacco, their all-time leading quarterback in touchdown passes and passing yards at the end of the 2012 National Football League season.
Bisciotti spoke with a Baltimore, Maryland area newspaper during the NFL Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“I hate to speak for (general manager) Ozzie (Newsome), but I would imagine that, like (coach) John Harbaugh, we would be starting negotiations with (Flacco) so that entering 2012 he won't be playing in his final year (of his contract),” Bisciotti said.
“I would anticipate an extension that starts in 2012.”
Flacco had an amazing performance with the Ravens in 2010. He had 3,622 passing yards for 25 touchdowns and only 10 interceptions. He had the seventh best passer rating in the entire league, at 93.6. Flacco has also taken the team to the playoffs for the
third straight year. He became the franchise’s all-time leader in touchdown passes with 60 and in passing yards with 10,206 in the three years that he has been playing, after being drafted 18th overall in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft out
of the University of Delaware.
“(The Indianapolis Colts) franchised Peyton Manning,” Bisciotti told the newspaper. “That's something that we have under the CBA (collective bargaining agreement). It happened with Haloti Ngata. It happened with Terrell Suggs and Chris McAlister. It's not
out of the question. If Peyton Manning is the sacred cow, there's precedent there. But I would hope we would get something done again. And that gives us a whole year. Our goal is to get it done for 2012 for sure.”
After quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn was fired in January 2011, Flacco felt that it was an attack on him after his successful and solid performance in 2010. Even though he later said that he understood that head coach John Harbaugh wanted to have their offensive
coordinator Cam Cameron coach quarterbacks as well, he preferred that Zorn would have stayed as his position coach.
The 6 ft 6”, 238-pound quarterback had arguably his best season in 2010. He has started every single game since he was drafted. From a total of 48 games, Flacco has completed 878 passes out of 1,416 attempts, a completion percentage of 62. He has a total
of 10,206 passing yards and averages 7.2 yards per attempt and 11.6 yards per completion.
Flacco has a total of 60 touchdowns with 34 interceptions and 108 sacks, for a total sack yard loss of 788 yards. He also ran 130 times for a total of 320 yards and three touchdowns while losing eight of his 28 fumbles. In 2008, Flacco led the Ravens to
an 11-5 record, a 9-7 record in 2009 and a 12-4 record in 2010, making the playoffs in all three years.
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