Yea i disagree completely. This is just fan nonsense/insecurity. The old house money fallacy...Its why stupid people will bet on the Texans this weekend. Maybe Lamar is frustrated by previous seasons, but I doubt he is feeling much pressure. He is healthy and his game has continued to improve over the years. If anything he is coming in full of confidence. Theres no pressure on the organization either, we’re highly successful and have two relatively recent championships when your comparing them to a team like the Cowboys. John’s legacy as a great NFL coach is already cemented so he’s not sweating. Then you got studs like Ro, Hamilton, Linderbaum and Zay that weren’t even here for our past playoff failures. They couldn’t care less about scars from 2019.
Yeah this entire post is just complete bullshit. Wildly, wildly, wildly out of touch with reality.
I don't think John will get fired, nor will the organization make wholesale changes. But there would be very little positive to take from the season with a loss. The only positives will be that Lamar stayed healthy for a whole season, basically performed exactly how you'd expect him to perform a whole season, and you get maybe 1-2 coordinators better jobs. There won't be anything else to hang your hat on.
Lamar will be more expensive next year, many of the key players who have gotten you to this point won't be here next year, and there's a possibility that you'll have to learn new schemes/systems on one or both sides of the ball. And all of that is worth it IF you make it to at least the AFCG. It's a total waste of time to have the season you have and then lose at home in the divisional round to a clearly inferior opponent.
And I'm nowhere near the first person to write this either. The media, who isn't the fans, has been writing this for weeks now. And they're not wrong. The "bar" at this stage in the Ravens/Lamar relationship isn't "#1 seed and lose early in the playoffs". That's just not really that impressive at all. Quite frankly, it's closer to the minimum possible output than it is to the maximum.
Other teams have higher or lower standards based on how futile or successful they've been. They have to manage those, but they don't match what the Ravens current standard is.
