Yahoo Fantasy’s Matt Harmon and Ray Garvin dig into the 40-year old quarterback’s resurgence in Cincinnati and as a viable fantasy option. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

We’re not talking dynasty value, we’re not talking long-term success.

But here, in 2025, with this weaponry out here, even Noah Pant got in the end zone.

4 for 44.

Like, is Joe Flacco somebody that, if you need a pinch as a streaming quarterback, and I know the name isn’t gonna sound great.

Trevor Lawrence is on bye.

Joe Flacco, I mean, I, I almost would be like I’d rather start Joe Flacco.

Do you think this is sustainable for the Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Flacco in this offense to continue to push the ball downfield, get the ball to their primary offensive weapons, and more importantly, score points, Matt.

I kinda think so.

I do.

Week 8 matchup against a New York Jets defense that is, uh, could be without Sauce Gardner this week.

He suffered a concussion in the loss to the Carolina Panthers.

It’s a revenge game for Joe Flacco.

So, you got that added on to it too.

Joe Flacco is gonna have a fair bit of revenge games because he’s starting to do the Ryan Fitzpatrick late career stage where he’s just moving around the league.

But yeah, it’s not a bad spot at all because when you look at the Jets’ defense, the trend with that unit, Ray has been, yeah, the #1 is gonna get blotted out by Sauce Gardner.

We saw that last week where Tederro McMillan was completely kept silent, but the #2 receiver can go off.

And that’s exactly what happened with Xavier Laguette.

9 catches for 90 yards, easily his best game of the season.

Your boy, Ryan Flournoy was the other example of that a couple of weeks before when George Pickens, he had the one long touchdown, but otherwise didn’t get a lot of production.

And old Flournoy is popping off against the Jets’ 2nd and 3rd corner.

Now, if you don’t have Sauce, who, what the hell are you doing when you’re with Jamar Chase?

What are you doing with T Higgins?

And I didn’t, I didn’t catch this on Thursday.

I’ve seen it since, or maybe I caught it and I don’t think I talked about it on the solo recap show, and by the way, that feels like a bajillion years ago now at this point, it always does.

But, um, Flacco was, you know, They’re, they’re interviewing him after the game, the, Amazon Prime reporters and all that, and he’s kind of laughing, like, what are you talking to me for?

I just, I just get the ball to Jamar Chase and let him do his thing.

Like that is truly what he’s doing here.

He’s been in the shotgun on 80% of his dropbacks the last two weeks.

The only quarterbacks who are higher than that who have actually played, it’s the two Washington quarterbacks, it’s Michael Penix, that’s it.

Like he’s just, he’s in the gun and he’s just getting the ball out super fast to these receivers.

And I think that in certain matchups, because I want to come back to the defense that he played on Thursday night, but in certain matchups, I do think that there is some sustainability to this.

Getting the ball into Jamar Chase’s hands, even on a slant route is probably more valuable and has more fantasy upside than trying to launch the ball to third and fourth options on, on, on worst teams.