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Lamar Jackson

Dom McRaven said:
At least for me, I no longer care about the regular season accolades. All I need for him is to stay healthy and get us to the playoffs. At which point, I want him to double down on using his strengths and make the critics squirm. I would love nothing more to watch them cry if Lamar won SB MVP while having pedestrian-at-best passing yards while rushing for like 90-100+. I promise you, I would not go to sleep that night before talking shit online at the haters.
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Same man, and he had every opportunity to do that against the Chiefs if he took off without hesitancy like we saw the week prior. Or if Stanley doesn’t get beat and holds up in max protect maybe we can hit a big play to Bateman, but I digress.

Overall I stayed grounded this year but when we killed the Lions and Seahawks, then killed the 49ers and Dolphins it was like ok, we’re the best team by far. Nothing will matter next year until the playoffs
 
drjohnnyfever said:
And sadly the only thing that's gonna shut haters up is a SB win. If we struggle next year, its gonna get louder and the pressure on him gets still greater. Anything less than dominating victories concluding with a SB win is going to perpetuate the narrative.
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That’s the problem. If Lamar can just get over the hump and win one Super Bowl the pressure is off and I think he could win multiple ones.
Right now the pressure on him made him play tight in the Championship game.
 
Bengal fans think the new script is showing that Burrow is the only that can beat Mahomes, I can definitely see the nfl using that script. But Burrow may lose one of his jump ball WRs
 
ravenslord said:
That’s the problem. If Lamar can just get over the hump and win one Super Bowl the pressure is off and I think he could win multiple ones.
Right now the pressure on him made him play tight in the Championship game.
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I swear it’s like me and breaking par on 18, I’ve done it on 9, but even then everytime I got close I would choke. Same with 18, I can be E after 16 and I’ll triple 17. This is Lamar in the playoffs. Once I finally did it on 9 it’s not a big deal when I am close to it again, if I can break through once on 18 I’ll be able to do it more. Until then, all Lamar can do is position himself with more opportunities to make playoff runs, this is why the prior 2 years sucked so much, he could have won a super bowl already who knows
 
ravenslord said:
That’s the problem. If Lamar can just get over the hump and win one Super Bowl the pressure is off and I think he could win multiple ones.
Right now the pressure on him made him play tight in the Championship game.
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Agree with this. Winning this year would have been huge. The confidence and experience can be a multiplier for players. And like you said the team could play freely this upcoming season with weoght off their shoulders. This team hasn't shown they respond well to pressure.
 
We need Lamar to be Lamar, he needs to stop letting the outside noise get to him. He's so determined to prove he can pass, he stops being what makes him Lamar. His absolute refusal to run for an easy first, or an easy 5-7 yards is not him. Seeing Mahomes without hesitation run for an easy first was frustrating when Lamar hesitated to do that.

It just wasn't the AFC Championship game, multiple times in the regular season Lamar had easy yards using his legs but refused. Then what would happen? He'd stand there and end up taking a sack and it would be a loss of yards instead. We probably won't know this but some people speculated Lamar audibled out of run plays in the AFC Championship game which was why we passed so much and got away from the run. I know we want him to have freedom to change the plays but if he's getting away from the run game... that's a problem.
 
JO_75 said:
We need Lamar to be Lamar, he needs to stop letting the outside noise get to him. He's so determined to prove he can pass, he stops being what makes him Lamar. His absolute refusal to run for an easy first, or an easy 5-7 yards is not him. Seeing Mahomes without hesitation run for an easy first was frustrating when Lamar hesitated to do that.

It just wasn't the AFC Championship game, multiple times in the regular season Lamar had easy yards using his legs but refused. Then what would happen? He'd stand there and end up taking a sack and it would be a loss of yards instead. We probably won't know this but some people speculated Lamar audibled out of run plays in the AFC Championship game which was why we passed so much and got away from the run. I know we want him to have freedom to change the plays but if he's getting away from the run game... that's a problem.
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Bateman is becoming another Perriman out there, seems like something bad always happens and he’s never on the same page as Lamar
 
OURavensFan said:
Bateman is becoming another Perriman out there, seems like something bad always happens and he’s never on the same page as Lamar
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And it appears it's only him with this issue which is concerning. He showed so much promise
 
JO_75 said:
We need Lamar to be Lamar, he needs to stop letting the outside noise get to him. He's so determined to prove he can pass, he stops being what makes him Lamar. His absolute refusal to run for an easy first, or an easy 5-7 yards is not him. Seeing Mahomes without hesitation run for an easy first was frustrating when Lamar hesitated to do that.

It just wasn't the AFC Championship game, multiple times in the regular season Lamar had easy yards using his legs but refused. Then what would happen? He'd stand there and end up taking a sack and it would be a loss of yards instead. We probably won't know this but some people speculated Lamar audibled out of run plays in the AFC Championship game which was why we passed so much and got away from the run. I know we want him to have freedom to change the plays but if he's getting away from the run game... that's a problem.
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That bolded part is what I want to know more about too. But I doubt we will ever know.

What worries me is teams that don't bend to us like Pittsburgh twice this year, Cleveland, and even the Colts had some backbone and put up a fight. The Chefs definitely came into the AFC Championship with a giant chip on their shoulder and weren't going to be pushed around. We play poorly against such teams and that isn't unique to this season. The OFF disappears when given stiff competition. The whole game call looks off and lost when that happens.
 
drjohnnyfever said:
That bolded part is what I want to know more about too. But I doubt we will ever know.

What worries me is teams that don't bend to us like Pittsburgh twice this year, Cleveland, and even the Colts had some backbone and put up a fight. The Chefs definitely came into the AFC Championship with a giant chip on their shoulder and weren't going to be pushed around. We play poorly against such teams and that isn't unique to this season. The OFF disappears when given stiff competition. The whole game call looks off and lost when that happens.
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Seems in the last 5 or 6 years when faced with those situations some of our offensive players get the disease that is dreaded by sportsmen worldwide, titus assholeass. :-1:
 
OURavensFan said:
Bateman is becoming another Perriman out there, seems like something bad always happens and he’s never on the same page as Lamar
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Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get the Bateman and Perriman comparison at all. Him and Lamar need to be on the same page more but that probably comes with the them working out more during the offseason as that probably wasn't possible last year given that Bateman was recovering from a injury . It honestly didn't look at times that Lamar was on the same page with Odell Beckham either but the more he evolves as passer he probably will be more in sync with Bateman and others
 
OURavensFan said:
Espn segment had no one picking Lamar as next qb to win their first super bowl, everyone picked burrow and love
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Probably because Love is in a weak NFC (that I hope gets stronger) and Burrow is just the bitch golden boy
 
JAAM said:
Probably because Love is in a weak NFC (that I hope gets stronger) and Burrow is just the bitch golden boy
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Yea, I don’t understand why people act like he’s so great in the playoffs, he’s never had a 4TD game like Lamar has and he’s never played as well as Josh Allen has. He’s lucky Huntley gifted him that wild card game because the narrative is how he got to a championship game after the super bowl, everyone forgets how gifted that game was.
 
OURavensFan said:
Espn segment had no one picking Lamar as next qb to win their first super bowl, everyone picked burrow and love
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JAAM said:
Probably because Love is in a weak NFC (that I hope gets stronger) and Burrow is just the bitch golden boy
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I think we get it by now that the sports news organizations don't and won't respect Lamar until he wins it and will beat him up - deservedly so to some extent - until he does.

I hate Burrow and Dak. Mahommes gets respect, but he's a douchenozzle too. ;)
 
drjohnnyfever said:
I think we get it by now that the sports news organizations don't and won't respect Lamar until he wins it and will beat him up - deservedly so to some extent - until he does.

I hate Burrow and Dak. Mahommes gets respect, but he's a douchenozzle too. ;)
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Dunno about that, its sportswriters who vote for the MVP and hes won it twice. I think the criticism of Lamar in the post season is valid and it's reasonable for that to continue until he wins it all if he wants to be considered one of the greats. Not saying he cost us the game but he definitely didnt win it.
 
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