Former Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco honors Jacoby Jones

On the morning of July 14th, the Baltimore Ravens community received the heartbreaking news that Super Bowl 47 hero Jacoby Jones had tragically passed away at the age of 40.

Jones played nine NFL seasons with four different teams, but his 2012 playoff run made him a legend in Baltimore. The All-Pro returner scored three big touchdowns in that run, and without him the Ravens likely won't bring home their second Lombardi Trophy.

In the three months since Jones' death, figures from the Ravens and across the NFL have shared loving tributes in his honor, and they continue to come out today.

Recently, former Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, who played with Jones throughout the wide receiver's tenure in Baltimore, paid tribute to his former teammate on the “Greenlight Podcast with Chris Long.” Instead of focusing on Jones as a football player, Flacco paid tribute to Jones as a person.

“They talk about the guys hanging out in locker rooms,” Flacco said. “Like, you want this guy in your locker room. You want him on the practice field when you're out there going through those long, hard days because he'll cheer it up. I mean, just dancing and talking (crap). Always had a smile on his face.

Flacco and Jones made many big plays together, but perhaps none bigger than the Mile High Miracle. In the final minute of the 2012 Divisional Round game against the Denver Broncos, Flacco threw a 70-yard bomb to Jones to tie the game, and the Ravens would eventually win in overtime.

After that game, the Ravens knew they could win it all.

“That throw, that catch, that play, I've never been in such a good mood after an NFL game – never in my life – as I was after that game,” Flacco said. “It took a long time. I was sitting on the bus an hour and a half after the game and I was still yelling at people on the phone because we were just like that – there was so much energy in that locker room. It was probably something that sustained us for a few weeks after that.

“When we won that game, mentally it was kind of like, ‘We’re winning. We win the whole thing.' We went to New England the next week and I don't think we batted an eyelid. Obviously we've played those guys a few times in previous years and even this year to get that confidence, but there was something there that (the Broncos) “Winning that game cemented in our minds that We’re the team that wins (the Super Bowl).”

Flacco, who was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year with the Cleveland Browns and now plays for the Indianapolis Colts, previously attended Jones' funeral in New Orleans. The entire Ravens community is understandably still heartbroken over Jones' death, and Flacco is on their side.

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