 If we look up the definition for the word memory, let's see what it says. The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Something remembered from the past, a recollection. So as we all know, growing up, going through life, you can have a lot of good things that you remember. Some fun times from your past, some exciting times from your past, some things that you just enjoyed so much. And then you can have bad ones too. And what the playoffs were for the Ravens for this past season, it was a bad memory. And again, the focal point of what their off season has been, has been remember the Titans. And the Ravens certainly remember those Titans because the Titans, they bring up a memory that will never ever be able to be erased. You might be able to push it down or push it to the back of your head or to the back of your mind, but it'll always be there because it's written in the history books. Nothing can change what happened this last playoff game. Nothing can change that. Even if the Ravens go on to beat the Titans, 50 to zero in a regular season this upcoming year. Even if they go to play them in the playoffs and they beat them 50 to zero this upcoming season. That would be a beautiful thing and that'll make us all very happy, but it still can't erase what happened because it's forever there. And Lamar Jackson, in an interview, his memory, he got to think about that Titans game and got to reflect on it. Let's see what he said. He said, we're taking it one game at a time, not peeking ahead. That's what happened in the playoffs and we ended up losing to the team people had us favored over. It's any given Sunday. You can't underestimate no team, no opponent and that's what we did. So I'm looking forward to this 2020 season playing the Browns first. Don't underestimate your opponents. They caught us by surprise. That's all it was. And they, I think it caught everybody by surprise. Well, not everybody. I know Skip Bayless picked the Ravens to lose because of that whole Titans and Ravens six seed versus one seed thing. But it was a game that just, it was full of a lot of ugly. But it wasn't all ugly, just mostly ugly. And it was just an anomaly of what the season had been. Ravens did not play their game. They were not true to themselves. Like a lot of things that were happening on that day or really on that night, it was just different. This is playoff football, Ravens home game. You know how they do at home. You know how they do at the crib. Place was hyped. Place was going crazy. Finally back in the playoffs. It's been forever. And we not only back in the playoffs, we got the number one seed too. But when I went up there to go to the game, I brought this jacket. I brought a hoodie to wear over it. I brought a jersey. You know them jerseys be hot. And I was ready to be bundled up, ready to be nice and warm for the playoff game cause I ain't going nowhere. If it goes to overtime, I'm gonna still be in there rocking and yelling and screaming and all that. But it was warm. I could have wore shorts to the playoff game. Everybody could have wore shorts to the playoff game. We could have wore shorts, leave shirts, cut off shirts. It could have been, you could have went there so comfortable. So that was kind of like, wow, this is weird. And I had this feeling like, hmm. I don't think we're gonna lose. I don't think we're gonna lose but at the same time it's like, er. They could, but I don't expect it. But at the same time it's like, er. No, they'll be all right though. They'll just prove me wrong. Well, not if not prove me wrong because I wasn't thinking that the Ravens are gonna lose but they'll just, they'll make this fear go away. They'll make this little uncomfortable feeling go away. But I get that uncomfortable feeling in a lot of games but playoff games for sure. But with the Ravens, they just, they didn't play that game. They didn't do it at all. And something else that Lamar Jackson said about this playoff game was that the Ravens beat themselves. Now, we definitely gotta give credit to the Titans because Titans, they played a major part in the Ravens losing that game. Titans beat the Ravens. There's no excuse because if it would have been a shoe on the other foot, then I wouldn't want to hear no excuse. Me being a Ravens fan, I was like, no, Titans just, they just yapping, no. So there's no excuses. Titans won and they beat the mess out of the Ravens in M&T Bank. But the Ravens, they certainly didn't do themselves any favors. The game that they played was not a game like they had been playing for the past 12 weeks. These dudes had won 12 games in a row and most of them in decisive fashion from running the ball. They ran, ran, ran, ran, ran, ran, ran, ran. But in this game, just nine times between Ingram and Gus, nine times. And we've talked about this over and over and over and over. So I know some of y'all tired of hearing about it but still, that's not gonna get it done. Now that we had a question from subscriber, now we could because we know Mark Ingram was hurt in that game, but we had a question from subscriber, somebody asked, they wondered if Gus was actually hurt too. And it was an undisclosed injury. And I said, well, if that was the case, I would hope that was the case for the reason why Gus only got like three carries. But anyway, but Ravens completely transformed that team that game. They said, running, what's that? Throw that out the window. We're just gonna pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. And they did not stay true to themselves. And again, Lamar Jackson said, he felt like we beat ourselves. Now they certainly did lend a helping hand to the Titans and helping them get the victory because Ravens didn't play that game. Titans, they stuck to that game. Run a ball, run a ball, run a ball, play action. Play some good defense. Rinse and repeat, do it all over again. They did that. They did a very good job of it. But the biggest part about Lamar Jackson in this interview, he talked about peeking ahead. And we referenced the Pro Bowl with Lamar Jackson when he was speaking to Earl Thomas, when they were on the sidelines at the Pro Bowl and they talked about that exact same thing. They said, we gotta focus on every single game, like it's the Super Bowl. So when we do get to the playoffs in the Super Bowl, it'll be treated like any other game. We gotta be focused. We gotta treat every game like it's a big game. So when we get to the big game, it won't be overwhelming. When we get to the playoff game, it won't be overwhelming. And they talked about we got to do what got us there. We can't go away from what got us there. And that was the problem with the Ravens in the playoff game against the Titans. They went away from what got them there. But the peeking ahead, I could definitely see that. I could see them looking past the Titans. I think a lot of us were looking past the Titans because even though I did mention in the videos leading up to that playoff game, and I just felt like it's just meant to be. Ravens and Chiefs in the AFC Championship at M&T Bank, at the crib, third time's the charm. We finally gonna get these guys at home. But, and I knew we had to take care of business against the Titans, but I just felt like, I felt like the Ravens were gonna start off slow against the Titans and then end up just taking off. End up taking off, end up almost coasting. Playing their type of football that they had been playing. But they didn't do that. They didn't do that at all. So that just made us think like, whoa, who are these guys? What's coaching doing? What are these players doing? Like they had done everything that they hadn't been doing all year in that one game. You know what? We're gonna become a strictly passing team. They did that. You know what? We're gonna, our receivers are gonna drop everything that hits them in the hands. They did that. Lamar Jackson probably made his worst throw of the entire season in that game. It wasn't a throw that was too far. It wasn't a throw that was too short. It was a throw where he literally stared down the receiver and threw it directly to the Titans safety. Or was it the corner? I think it was a safety. Either way, he threw it to the Titans defensive back and he stared him down the entire play. The Titans defensive back just stood there. He stood there. Like he was the receiver and Lamar threw it straight to him. That was probably the worst throw of the entire season for him in my eyes. So there were so many anomalies because again, Lamar Jackson, even if you go back to his rookie year, Lamar Jackson, as long as he's been the Ravens starting quarterback, he's made some very, very good decisions for the most part. When he throws the ball, he makes some very good decisions. But in that Titans game, that was the worst throw. Now, he did have some other throws. He had some good throws. He had some bad throws. He had a little bit of everything. But one thing that he couldn't account for was the drops. Ravens did not struggle with drops consistently all year long. I know in the Seahawks game, Mark Andrews, he had his problems in that one, but over the entirety of the seasons, drops were not an issue for the Ravens. They really weren't. But in a playoff game, oh boy, you would think this was a bunch of practice squad players. And that's no offense to practice squad players, but that's just speaking to the level of play that we saw on the field. So Ravens certainly need to make sure they are extra focused this season. Ravens certainly need to make sure that they make sure that every opponent, they don't overlook anybody and they focus every single week because every single opponent presents a different challenge whether AFC opponent, NFC opponent, division opponent or not. Everybody presents something and they are going to look for ways to beat those Ravens. Everybody brings a different challenge. Everybody brings a different skill set. So Ravens need to make sure they focus. They have the team. They got the leaders. They got a coaching staff. But what they really need to do is not forget who they are. Play your game. Don't forget who you are. Because that would be one thing. It'd be one thing if in that playoff game, if the Ravens lost, but they stuck to who they were. That would be one thing. And I think a lot of us, we would have a much different feeling about last season. Then we would really be like, and not that we can't say Titans were the better team because they most certainly were because the team consists of players and coaches. And overall, we would feel like Ravens had the better team with players, but the coaching staff was out-coached in the Titans game. But it would have been a much better feeling, a much better takeaway, a much better heading into this 2020 season, a much better feeling of how last season went. It would have been, I mean, a loss will still be a loss, but at least we would have gone down swinging if the Ravens would have played their game. But they didn't. They didn't do it. They decided to be somebody who they weren't. So Ravens, just be yourselves. Be yourselves. Cause like my God TD fans talk said, that there is no better version of you than you. We out.