Why the Ravens Should Move On From Lamar Jackson Now

There's going to be a big decision to be made on what's going to go on with the Baltimore Ravens coming up in the next couple weeks here. What they're going to do at the quarterback position, obviously going into that Thursday matchup against the Jags, I don't even know who's going to play quarterback. The question I have moving forward with Baltimore is, what do you do with Lamar Jackson? Do you know in the last two years in games that he started, the Ravens are 9-9. And listen, here's the reality. Here's the reality of Lamar Jackson. He's hurt. He's inconsistent, and we're now starting to see a football player that's missing games. The guy in Buffalo runs the same style of offense. I don't think that guy's missed a game in seven years. He never misses football games. We're starting to see this more on a regular basis. And what's the one thing we're starting to see more evidence in his game? Lamar Jackson is running less. You're starting to take one of the tools out of the toolbox that's made this player one of the greatest athletes to ever play the quarterback position. So if you're the front office and you're Eric DeCosta, and you're the owner of the team, Steve Scotti, you're going to pay this guy $65 million on a contract extension? Why? You can't extend the guy. It's time to move on. You can't build an organization and a game plan around a player who's always hurt and is starting to run less. This is not Josh Allen. Josh Allen doesn't miss football games. Josh Allen doesn't have Zay Flowers on his football team. Zay Flowers, again, a fine receiver, one of the top receivers in all the NFL. Josh Allen doesn't have that. He's got a guy up there playing by the name of Tupac Shakur. There's nobody up there that he's throwing the football to, except for Dalton the tight end. If you're Baltimore, how many years are you going to go through the same exercise? Here's the reality. I know it was a wild injury. He hurts his hand. Year before that, we're talking about another injury. They're starting to come. More and more each and every single year. I don't know, if you're Baltimore, do you trade him? You got a brand new head football coach in there. And do you start thinking in the offseason about starting over at the quarterback position? How many people really believe that the Baltimore Ravens are going to win a Super Bowl with Lamar Jackson at the quarterback position? And then you're going to turn around and make him the highest paid player in the game? Look, he's a South Florida guy. He was talking about making that move a couple years ago. Maybe you trade him to Miami and you send him back home where he's from in South Florida. If you're Baltimore, you cannot extend him. You cannot give him a new three to four year contract with a guy who's aging and is always hurt and he's not running the ball as much as he used to. As I said earlier. The games that he's played in the last two years, he's nine and nine. We're not talking about a guy who's elevating. And here's the most important factor in this conversation. Guys, how's John Harbaugh doing in New York? He's in first place. You know that so-called relationship that went sideways in Baltimore? I don't know. People in Baltimore were blaming John Harbaugh. How's John Harbaugh doing with the New York Giants? They're in first place in the East. He's on his third quarterback. He's revamping that entire team. They're winning. They're probably going to win the NFC East. John Harbaugh was criticized in the handling of Lamar Jackson. There was also reports by a local reporter there that was saying he was falling asleep in meetings. He was late to practices. John Harbaugh now has gone up. Look what he did to Cam Scadaboo. Cam Scadaboo put the ball on the ground. He didn't get a snap the next week. The following week, Scadaboo goes for 120-plus yards, and they end up getting the victory. He was holding people accountable. I think they coddled that guy too much in Baltimore. You cannot extend Lamar Jackson. It is time to move on. Where are you going? Where are you going in the next three years? So let me give the guy more money than Patrick Mahomes, and that's going to be the future, a guy who's in and out of the lineup. And who has been in and out of the lineup the last couple years? Hey, man, so far, the argument in the divorce, John Harbaugh's winning that argument. Homie's in first place in the NFC East, and he's probably going to win it. And Lamar is going to be put on IR for the remainder of the year, and Baltimore's going nowhere.