The Juggernaut Index is our annual preseason ranking of NFL teams for fantasy purposes. Repeat: FANTASY PURPOSES. This isn't your standard power ranking. Here, we care only about yards and points, not wins and losses. Hopefully we can all agree that Joe Flacco has established himself as one of the NFL's best big-game quarterbacks. He was nearly flawless throughout last year's playoff run, averaging 285.0 yards per game and 9.0 per attempt, throwing 11 touchdown passes and no interceptions. Flacco was terrific in the postseason the year before, too, passing for 300-plus yards and two scores in the AFC title game at Foxborough. So if you've owned Flacco in a playoff fantasy league, you probably enjoyed the experience. In the regular season, however, he hasn't been much of an asset. Flacco has never passed for more than 25 TDs in any year, he's never averaged 240 yards per game, and he's never ranked among the top-16 per-game fantasy scorers at his position. He's becoming what Troy Aikman used to be — an outstanding real-life quarterback who doesn't pay the fantasy bills.
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