On the morning of July 14, 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 return man scored three huge touchdowns during that run, and without him the Ravens likely won’t take home their second Lombardi Trophy.

In the three months since Jones’ death, figures from the Ravens and the NFL as a whole have paid loving tributes in his honor, and they continue to appear.

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 the football player, Flacco mainly paid tribute to Jones the person.

“You talk about the type of guys that are in the locker rooms,” Flacco said. “Like, you want that guy in your locker room. You want him on the practice field when you’re going through those long, hard days because he’ll light it up. I mean, just dance and talk (crap). Always had a smile on his face. .(I) feel very lucky to be able to play with him.

Flacco and Jones have 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 ultimately win in overtime.

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

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

“There was something mentally that when we won that game, it was, ‘We’re winning. We’re winning the whole thing.’ We went to New England the next week and I don’t think we batted an eye. Obviously we had played those guys a few times in the years before and even that year to get that confidence, but there was something that ( the Broncos) Winning that game made us realize that we were the team that would win (the Super Bowl).

Flacco, who won 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’ passing, and Flacco is there with them.

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