Netflix officially announced that “Quarterback” will return for a third season on July 14, featuring a group of signal callers that includes Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, Cam Ward, and veteran QB Joe Flacco. While Daniels will likely attract plenty of attention following his breakout season with the Washington Commanders in 2024, Flacco may end up becoming the most entertaining storyline of the entire series.
Veteran QB Joe Flacco brings a different energy to Netflix’s Quarterback
Flacco is still somehow in the league in 2026, which just feels inherently funny. Not to discredit his skill, but most people players from his draft class are no longer in the league. Every offseason seems like everyone in the football world has already made the decision that the veteran QB was done forever, and three months later he’s back, chucking touchdown passes for a playoff team and looking vaguely irritated that we all counted him out again.
The veteran QB began 2025 with the Cleveland Browns before eventually signing with the Cincinnati Bengals when Joe Burrow went down later in the year. What started as what looked like an obvious stopgap at depth quickly transformed into one of the weirdest feel-good stories in the league.
While he only appeared in nine games with the Bengals, Flacco threw for 1,664 yards and 13 TDs to stabilize the team. Despite playing for nearly two decades, winning a Super Bowl and a Super Bowl MVP award, he made his first-ever Pro Bowl. Football logic stopped making sense years ago, it appears.
That unpredictability is also likely to make him a fan favorite in the Netflix series.
The age gap between QB’s will be interesting
Compared to the younger QBs showcased in Quarterback, Flacco does not seem like someone who would spend time worrying about the cameras, marketing possibilities, and building a social media following. The veteran QB seems like a man who, in merely trying to get through another NFL season, stumbled upon the ability to become the protagonist of the whole story. And truth be told, the narrative may be able to run on that.
Daniels represents the future of the NFL. Ward brings rookie expectations and pressure. Mayfield always has a natural personality and emotion built into his storylines. Veteran QB Flacco, meanwhile, offers something completely different. He represents longevity, chaos, and the bizarre reality that some quarterbacks simply refuse to disappear.
The renaissance of Flacco is forever enshrined on Netflix
This next season of Quarterback will likely give fans access to Flacco as he adapts to life in Cincinnati, the ins and outs of his home life, and all of the struggles that are inevitably part of embarking on yet another surprising phase of a career on a steep decline. That might make for the most genuine season of the show so far.
Flacco has reached a level that has transcended even backup quarterback status. The veteran QB is the automotive equivalent of that one pickup truck in your neighborhood that you’re convinced can’t run any longer, no matter what you put in the gas tank or how many miles it has. It might not be a beauty and you have no idea how that thing starts back up when you need it to, but it will be there every single time, ready to put in work.
That’s exactly what makes the career of the seasoned veteran QB Joe Flacco a very curious and interesting addition to the cast of Netflix’s Quarterback. Viewers know Flacco still can perform on the gridiron; this will give us a look at all of the circus that surrounds the bizarre late-career renaissance of Flacco, the return to relevance of which absolutely nobody saw coming.
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