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I think Sammy is just being a good teammate. He is essentially saying that with Lamar, they can win it all. Sure he banters for a bit, but all in all I think people will read what they want to in his quotes.

Oh boy, here we go... Sammy whatcha got to say? “In this league, everybody is pretty much banged up, hurt,” receiver Sammy Watkins told Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post on Wednesday. “I don’t want to speak for him and his situation and whatever he’s going through with the contracts. I don’t know what world he’s in. But for me, you got a chance to do something special. We all know with Lamar Jackson out there, this team is really freaking good, and special things can happen. He can will this team to a Super Bowl. I don’t think he’s thinking about it that way. . . .” That’s a very strong comment, one that questions Jackson’s overall commitment to winning playoff games right now, with his current teammates. “He’s got an opportunity to win a Super Bowl,” Watkins added. “I hope he hobbles back out there. . . . Put him out for the pass plays, and don’t run him at all. But you never know. That could be wrong. I’m being very selfish right now, just to want him to be out on the field. But, man, what a great thing it would be to see 8 touch the field this Sunday, and we go out there and blow them out. But that’s for Lamar and everybody else to figure out. Hope miraculously something happens, somebody reach out to him, whether it’s a coach or somebody, and he decides to play. But that’s a question if he’s healthy or he’s not. I don’t know. I haven’t been watching him.” Still, Watkins seems to believe that, if Jackson had his long-term contract, he’d be playing. “I think the world is ready to see Lamar back on the field, doing what he do best, and get all the stipulations and contract stuff behind him,” Watkins said. “I pray somebody talks to him like, ‘Man, just sign the deal.’ You know what I mean? And he get out there and hopefully, if . . . he’s healthy, he can just come play this Sunday. We all know that’s up to Lamar and whatever goes on. Hopefully, they get something done. The world wants to see Lamar be a Baltimore Raven for the rest of his life. . . . [T]he world wants to watch Lamar Jackson. That’s a phenom talent, a talent that you rarely come by. Things that he do on the field and things that you see, to be quite honest when he’s out there, he makes everybody play better, just to have him in that huddle. I pray that somebody reach out to him or that he’s really truly getting healthy and can play, that he wake up Thursday and be like, ‘All right, forget it. I’m playing.’ I think that would change the whole trajectory of our season.” Maybe Watkins is the only one on the team who thinks that. Or maybe he’s reflecting the mood of the locker room. Regardless, it’s probably a good idea for Watkins not to sit next to Jackson on the team plane to Cincinnati.... https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/13/sammy-watkins-hopes-lamar-jackson-decides-to-play/

I'll say what I said the last game; start Brown, better arm, maybe he learned something. Got nothing to lose, everything to gain

Hey now, who said anything about sex? You might be reading too much into my quote

I thought you might like that

If he needs surgery, we become the Niners with Jimmy G, want to trade but cant...

A perfect match, the mouth from NY, the wannabe mouth from Bmore... Who knows what happens, in the end we cheer for the Ravens, not only a player. It is a great organization, sure with some ugly pimples, but hey, Max had kids so everyone is attractive to someone

It is very strange VA. His knee got worse? Did Not improve? Did he use crutches? A brace? I get the team keeping this hush hush, what I don't get is Lamar coming out an tweeting that he is out for the game, right after his head coach says he is still day to day?! And, detailing his injury. It seems he is speaking to someone or trying to convince possible suiters that he is not loafing, not quitting on his team. Still having swelling can be a sign that other ligaments are injured, we are 6 weeks out! Most if not all people who have this injury are ready to roll this far out. Not to say he is lying, we all heal differently. But coming out like this may be the nail in the coffin for his time here.

Nicely done as my former coach used to say. Here is the contract break down NBC Sports: Inside the Roquan Smith deal. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/12/inside-the-roquan-smith-deal/

Houston, we have a problem. Why release a statement like that now? If the sprain is that bad, why is he jumping around on the sidelines? Have we ever had a player upstage a team like this before? This close to a playoff game? Answers, we must have answers, we want them now, we want them honest! We will take no prisoners!

A pcl tears the same way essentially. While Harbs did not rule Jackson out,this is very interesting. He ruled him self out on social media Quite odd

Yes but a tackle like that is unlikely to create a tear in the pcl. That comes from being hit in the side of the knee while the foot is planted. I am sure they did contrast with the mri to make certain

Yeah, remember he who shall not be named who agreed, in principle, to be defensive end for the Ravens this past summer, only to renig on the deal and sign with a crappy team for slightly more money? I doubt Smith is that type of person and unless we over rate the honor of the leaders of the Ravens, that this would happen with this deal. Great idea though, i forgot about rhe post June 1 possibility

He fell on his knee, it is not as if he was cutting, or if someone hit him on the side of the knee while it was planted. It is a simple injury if it is just a sprain. Since they did do the MRI and did not find a tear, it is just as simple as healing, boom done.

No, Smith will be a free agent at seasons end. Now they might be able to designate him a June 1, but he has to sign before season end. Not sure, haven't been into the cap nor CBA in years

Or a disgruntled former player, who knows. Preston has done it, remember Stanley was soft, and done, how did that work out? Then Lamar was skipping rehab, wait, no he has been to ever one on the schedule, oops. You get my point papa, people see and hear, write what ever they want just to get hits & clicks.

Yep, a team conquest. Eric gets the glory but Mr Brown has to make the money work

See how easy it is Max, let the fans run around like chicken little, reading things into situations like a man dying of thirst in a desert, staring at a mirage.. The local "media" in a quest to fill voids in news stories play the fans cries for news, using their, the fan's, own words as inside scoops, as news... Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we beg to be deceived.

Sure he does, it was why they hired him, a so called cap expert

So it has been 38 days, as of today, that is just under 6 weeks, (5.4) since Lamar was injured. Jack Youngblood (my favorite all time NFL player) once played in the Super Bowl with a Crack in his fibula, a broken leg. Over the years, players have played important games with broken ribs, broken arms, hands, high ankle sprains, etc. A playoff game is an important game, yes? So if Lamar does not play, most sprains of his nature take a max of 6 weeks for the most severe sprains, one might assume, you know what happens when we do that, that it is more than the injury, yes? That him sitting out this game is his dissatisfaction with the 1)offense 2) contract situation. Do you think the Smith contract might have a negative affect on Lamar? The team would give Smith what he wanted, but not their most important offensive player? We might even look further and say, him missing this game, he can't do any more harm to the injury if he plays, that it spells, officially, the end of his time here? I mean, if he had players on his side before the injury, that now, most who are playing less than 100% in health, he might have lost most of them?

What, you mean a person can negotiate a contract while you play? Shocking

Not likely, MCL's are pretty simple if there was no tear. Rest & rehab + time. Depending in the sprain they can be 1-3 weeks to 4-6. Frankly, many, most players will play on the sprain if the game is important enough, especially if they are at their "window". Why it is taking so long for Lamar to be ready is a mystery. Frankly without a healthy Lamar, the Ravens are going to be blown out. But hey, two other teams are starting rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs. The Phins are a completely different team without Tua, who is still have concussion symptoms this far out, now that is a real problem, long term. Purdy in San Fran is the shocker, but the playoffs are a different animal, we shall see. In the big games for Iowa State he did not play very well... We got out post season present, Smith signed

That was an awesome read and helped pull the joy of that game from the desert that is my memory, what a game, what a playoff run

Gonna bump this in light of another thread about an article on this... I'll bump with this add. Did you watch my Dawgs last night? A master class of not playing down to your opponent, of playing up to your potential. Todd Monkton, the offensive coordinator for Georgia, called a perfect game. Yes, having the players to execute it helps, but there it is. One route combination I want to highlight is the touchdown pass to a wide open Ladd McConkey for gobs of yards. On the play, matching slots, with a runningback in an offset formation. They use heavy play action, then send the slot receiver on a deep cross in front of the safety to draw the safety. They then have Ladd go deep to the post with a slight fake to flag. At the same time they bring the back, off of play action to hold the backers, go straight out, Full speed up the sideline at, key, at the corner on the boundary side. This put the corner to that side in conflict, cover the back he sees streaking at him, or stay, as he should have, with McConkey. That hesitation allowed Ladd to sprint into the endzone, some 20 yards uncovered to make the easy catch. What we see mostly, is a back flaring on a wheel route, to the same side as a wide out, split out, on a comeback route to the same side. No body to run off the safety, no one to out the corner in conflict, no play action to hold the backers inside. In essence, no imagination, no help for the receivers to get open, the backs to exploit open yards, for the qb to take advantage.

Lots of very good corners coming out in the draft. The Ravens have a number of very good players who will or should turn out to be good safeties. Good depth on the defensive line, but also a few very good ones coming in the draft. Smith is a very cerebral linebacker, if you watch closely, you can see him point out the plays. More than that though, you can see other players start to do the same. We haven't seen that since Ray & Ed. He just makes the entire defense better. I would rather have seen them lock him up for 7 or even 10, but maybe he didn't want that long. Either way, no matter what happens with Lamar, Smith is here..