Give Lamar Jackson Every Dollar He Wants

Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens are having a strange staring contest as they negotiate a contract extension that should’ve been done long before the start of training camp yet here we are.

Lamar is entering the season as the 35th highest-paid QB in the NFL. He makes less money than Jordan Love and Kenny Pickett. The man has an MVP TROPHY and if he went out to dinner with Drew Lock, he’d have to ask Drew to cover the bill.

Sure, Jackson had an injury-plagued 2021 season. He played only 12 games and had 16 touchdowns to 13 interceptions. The worst year of his career. But he was also leading a Baltimore Ravens squad with historic injuries. Lamar was playing football with guys driving themselves across the country to their XFL games next year.

Lamar is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL but his play on the field is constantly downplayed. It’s as if people are waiting for him to scramble out of the pocket and get his leg snapped in half so they can say ‘see, I told you so’.

The modern NFL rules protect quarterbacks from any and all injury-inducing hits. You can’t hit them high and you can’t hit them low. You just cannot hit them and Lamar isn’t Cam Newton out here trying to run people over. His whole running game works because of his ability to avoid contact. I do not believe there is some inevitable career-altering injury coming.

Honestly, a lot of Lamar’s missed games are due to his own ignorance like his refusal to simply get vaccinated or his diet resulting in him having to sneak out of a game to use the toilet. If he takes medicine and daily vitamins and like, eats some spinach, there would be no discussion of injuries.

The Ravens are 37-12 in Lamar’s career. He makes them a perennial playoff team but has to beg for a big deal. Meanwhile, Deshaun Watson misses an entire season and will most likely miss another season because he is obsessed with tricking women into watching him cum on himself and Cleveland awarded him with the biggest contract in NFL history.

It’s insane how willing people are to proclaim Josh Allen as a Top 3 quarterback but Lamar—who is from the same draft class—is still treated like he has something to prove. Again, I have to remind people that Lamar has an MVP trophy.

ESPN just compiled a top 10 quarterback list based on votes from executives, coaches and players. Lamar Jackson is listed as an ‘honorable mention’ right above Derek Carr. Mind you, Derek Carr got paid and has significantly fewer MVP trophies than Jackson.

Dak Prescott is ranked 10th on this list. Dak Prescott is just Kirk Cousins with a PBA card in his windshield. Deshaun Watson is ranked 9th and voters know he is showing up late to practices this year because he and his lawyers are spending the morning begging his victims to just accept cash payments to go away.

I know there are Lamar doubters who believe his running game doesn’t translate in the postseason. But it’s odd that the playoffs only get brought up to bring Lamar down. Justin Herbert is ranked 7th on ESPN’s list. I’d compare his postseason stats with Lamar’s but Herbert has never even gotten there before. So Herbert gets to be a Top 7 QB based solely on regular-season success but Lamar Jackson is somehow penalized for it. Again, he has a fucking MVP trophy.

Here is what an NFL offensive line coach said about Lamar’s game:

“He’s actually gotten a lot better as a passer. But if you play that way [with a run-heavy attack] and it’s a close game and you’re down, it’s really hard to win, because you’re asked to do what you only minor in, not major in, and that’s passing the ball when they know you are gonna pass it.”

THIS terrible narrative that Lamar isn’t capable of coming back from large deficits because he relies on running too much makes no season. What other quarterback is evaluated by what they do when they are getting blown out? How is that a fair assessment of one’s talent?

It also makes no sense for this anonymous coach to bring in that narrative after a 2021 season in which Lamar finished 3rd in the NFL in 4th quarterback comebacks. The Ravens were only 7-5 with Lamar starting last season but they would’ve been 3-9 had Lamar not carried the team on his back with four 4th quarter comebacks.

Give Lamar Jackson all of the money he wants. There is truly no reason not to. The Los Angeles Rams are paying all of their starters a combined a bajillion dollars. The salary cap is fake. Pay Lamar or go sign Kyle Boller and run back those fantastic seasons.