Just a Regular "Joe"

by Bruce Raffel on Jul 27, 2010 12:23 PM EDT

After the Baltimore Ravens initial practice of the team's Training Camp this morning, third year QB Joe Flacco stood at the podium to field the media's questions. He laughed about their questioning of whether or not he actually gets excited and teased them that he has his own ways of getting excited. He was peppered with questions from how it feels to be in his third Training Camp to how helpful it is to have a fellow QB like Jim Zorn as his position coach.

I got an early question into him and the exchange went like this:

Beatdown: "Joe, what's it like sort of teaching the playbook to a veteran like Marc Bulger?"

Flacco: "Marc's been in a similar offense so it's just like the little things,..the different little words that we have for certain things. He's run the same plays just like everybody pretty much has. It's just we might call it a little bit different than he's used to. So it's just those little details. What do we call this, what do we call that? So, it's pretty easy. He's in a habit like that."

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I saw Joe and Marc joking around with each other very often today, Troy Smith as well.

Best part of seeing those guys today was when they were doing the drill involving the QB’s attached to a huge rubber band on the goal post and had to touch cones 10 yards away. Bulger was going after his cone and was struggling to get there and just before he touched it, he let go of the band and it snapped back, causing laughter from all the other guys.

by Mr MaLoR on Jul 27, 2010 1:31 PM EDT reply actions

I've seen guys fall over and

get snapped back towards the goalpost dragged on the ground. EVERYONE laughs, even the media!

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Jul 27, 2010 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Damn it, I actually kinda like Joe...

Just seems like a cool guy. Doesn’t mean I don’t like seeing Woodley crush him, but still.

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
— Charles Bukowski

by NYSteelersFan4 on Jul 27, 2010 2:20 PM EDT reply actions

Yup, ain’t a sex addict we have to worry about. His addiction to his Mom’s lasagna and the fact that she still does his laundry worries me though, thank god we signed Bulger.

by Mr MaLoR on Jul 27, 2010 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions