 especially the problem is when you call yourself an elite quarterback and you bring that conversation into the direction of why my number one criteria is particularly under pressure I'm not talking about scramble not in the pocket when you ain't got nothing in front of you and you zip in the past here and I'm not trying to say he can't open the pocket and he hasn't made good grows in the pocket what I'm saying is Lamar Jackson has yet to prove that he is an elite asset and if you are not an elite asset you are not an elite quarterback period I think that Lamar Jackson is a great phenomenal talent who's a good quarterback but when we say elite quarterback elite with the quarterback position cannot be attached to one another until you can throw that before accurately under the rest period I really thought we were done with all this crazy talk until the regular season actually started but I was wrong so YouTube team keep it clean what's going on is engraving here with another video and hey welcome back again welcome back in this time this episode features Steven A Smith and I really thought that after the whole Jeremy Fowler thing and he even tripled down on it a couple days ago with an article in ESPN but after the Jeremy Fowler thing I thought that we would at least be done until like maybe week two with a regular season or something like that and I know that's not that far away but I thought it all this would at least hold off until then but boy was I wrong and Steven A Smith so he said that Lamar Jackson is not an elite quarterback if somebody feels that way I got no problem with it that's fine everybody's entitled to their own opinion but my biggest thing I would like to know your why if you feel a certain way about Lamar Jackson or really any player I love to know your why I don't want to just hear you say oh this player is or is not an elite player and then just move on no let's find out why so in listening to Steven A Smith's why he said because Lamar Jackson is not an elite passer not an accurate passer but more specifically not an accurate passer under pressure and I thought that was very interesting because oh and then he added this too he said no no no I don't mean when he runs out of the pocket and then throws to his receiver no no no no I'm not talking about that because nobody's in your face but he is talking about people being in Lamar Jackson's face him being under pressure that makes him inaccurate so with that you let please if anybody knows I mean Tyler Hunley did it this past preseason but besides him let me know any quarterback that will consistently be on the mark if they consistently have pressure in their face it's like with Lamar Jackson again still the same thing remains people just do not want to give Lamar Jackson his credit they don't they don't they keep bending and changing and moving the goal post from left to right back to fourth and they keep changing the criteria in order to make Lamar Jackson not a not good player they keep changing the criteria first is he can't do this oh well he needs to do more of this oh no he can't do that well he needs to stop doing this oh he should do that everything continues to change and flip flop all the time now we've seen quarterbacks when they get the prep because he sounds like to me he's speaking about interior pressure when they get that pressure right up the middle that is the easiest way to just kill a quarterback the whole game interior pressure because no matter how fast the quarterback is no matter how athletic a quarterback is no matter how smart a quarterback is if they are continuously getting that pressure right up the middle they can't do anything about that they can't I don't care if it's Patrick Mahomes I don't care if it's Tom Brady I don't care if it's Lamar Jackson if they continue to get pressure right up the middle they're done they're done and it seems as if we are still going through the same cycle where we have to try to put Lamar Jackson in a box and if he doesn't fit this box that is a lot of people's criteria for a traditional quarterback then that makes him not elite well in my opinion what is an elite quarterback an elite quarterback is a quarterback that makes elite plays simple as that it's no crazy definition I don't go by oh you need to pass for at least five thousand passing yards you need to have at least this amount of touchdowns no it's a quarterback that actually no let me scratch that definition a quarterback that continues to make elite plays a quarterback that consistently makes elite plays and every elite is not the same it's not Aaron Rogers is he considered an elite quarterback why certainly he is Aaron Rogers is the Hail Mary king this dude he will throw it up and his receivers just happen to come down with it a lot of times on those Hail Marys but he has continued throughout his career he has continued to make a lot of plays and I know a lot of people's favorite Aaron Rogers plays are the ones where he may get pressure and he may have to scramble around a little bit to the right scramble around a little bit to the left and then he'll launch it touchdown because he makes these crazy throws and his receivers come downward and it's like oh man okay hey Rob we see you homie it's Tom Brady and elite quarterback well certainly I mean what seven rings we ain't even got to get into that he certainly is um now Lamar Jackson is he an elite quarterback again by my definition elite quarterbacks consistently make elite plays and well Lamar Jackson we've seen the elite plays come both from passing and running the football and in my opinion to define an elite player whether quarterback running back wide receiver whatever an elite player is somebody who the opposing team has to game plan for and has to game plan for that much more does that does that pertain to Lamar Jackson well I would certainly think so something that we talked about a few weeks back when the whole Jeremy Fowler thing came out is that it's a pattern that we notice that it's the the guys in the suits are usually the one that's saying oh Lamar he ain't that good at that he ain't that good at this he ain't that but it's the ones in the jerseys that continue to give him his credit and that's not a coincidence that that's the pattern we see it y'all see it I see it we all see it and we know it and it continues to remain the same now something that I was thinking about too again with with every elite is not the same would you consider Christian McCaffrey an elite running back well yeah a lot of people have Christian McCaffrey even in that top five when they talk about running backs despite the injury of course but why why is Christian McCaffrey and people's top five as a running back is he a good runner of the football oh yeah can he is he good at running in between the tackles that's not his specialty but what makes him an elite running back is when he has the ball in his hand and his his catching ability too him catching passes out of the backfield him lining up at wide receiver him doing so many different things for the team at his position but wait a minute what about Derek Henry is Derek Henry an elite running back well yeah he is he doesn't possess the same traits as Christian McCaffrey though and Christian McCaffrey's elite oh wait a minute that there can actually be two different kinds of elite yes there can be because they both make plays Derek Henry one on one oh yeah nine times out of ten I'm going with Derek Henry versus pretty much anybody one on one because it can get ugly does Derek Henry have the best speed in the world no he ain't burning nobody but he got the strongest stiff arm in the game so you see just with those two examples alone both elite players both are players that teams have to game plan for that much harder and they both are players that consistently make elite plays then thinking about wide receivers Jerry Rice would he be considered elite oh for sure was Jerry Rice the fastest right wide receiver that ever played the game no he wasn't now did Jerry Rice have good hands oh he certainly did probably use a little bit of stick them but he certainly had good hands he called everything but now think about this does catching everything because this is how you this is why you cannot put people in a box you can't when considering people elite does catching everything does having good hands make you an elite wide receiver does it now this is not a shot at him because he hasn't reached his full potential yet but Ravens own James Proshay this dude has amazing hands catches everything but would he be considered right now an elite wide receiver at this point in his career no but but wait a minute he has great hands Jerry Rice had great hands they have that in common doesn't that make them both elite no elite players they continue to make elite plays and again James Proshay hasn't been given much opportunity to do that yet so we'll see how that goes this year but Randy Moss how about him did he have the greatest hands in the world he actually didn't but he had a crazy amount of speed he would jump out the arena over like three four eight people at one time to catch the football and he made so many elite plays so again this elite talk with Lamar Jackson is he an elite quarterback yes he certainly is because teams they have to watch for him and right now I feel like with all this media talk hopefully hopefully it works to Ravens advantage because hopefully all these other teams listen hopefully the Raiders listen to Stephen A Smith and they like we ain't worried about Lamar we ain't gonna worry about him passing the ball we ain't gonna worry about none of that I mean you know they're not gonna listen to Stephen A Smith because the Raiders the players actually play they play the defensive coordinators they got to coordinate a game plan to really try to stop Lamar Jackson in his Ravens offense and you know every single week that teams got to go against Ravens and Lamar Jackson offense you know they got to put in some extra extra work you know they do whether you want to admit it or not whether you feel like Lamar is an elite quarterback or not you know you you know that teams have to put in extra work to try to stop Lamar Jackson but wait a minute but if he's not an elite quarterback but no he is you know he is I know he is we know he is and just like Jeremy Fowler said he said oh yeah this is gonna be the year that all these people figure out Lamar Jackson this is the year this is the one so many so many players players that I'm not gonna name they they remain nameless so that's when that happened you already knew whoever may have said that they don't believe it because if they truly said that and they truly believed themselves when they said that they put their name on it they put their name on it but you know what if a player said that that's actually playing Lamar Jackson in the Ravens over the next 17 weeks if that player actually said that and believed that hey put it out there but no you don't want to do that because you know you will be embarrassed there was a guy last year I forget his name and I think that he probably would love for us to to forget his name he was on a bingles and he talked about he tweeted about Lamar Jackson some some crazy some wild some negative type of stuff um or he tweeted about the Ravens just period and this guy was on the receptive end of a JK Dobbins stiff arm where JK Dobbins proceeded to run like I think over 60 yards for a touchdown on that play but that stiff arm that the guy received uh he he ignited that that touchdown run so whoever that bingles player was we appreciate you you know these players they can act like they don't see a lot of stuff on social media and whatnot but they see it they see it so in conclusion with Stephen A Smith he just talking he just talking and and I just I really do not feel like he had uh any valid points in his argument so we have to really stop trying to put everybody in the same box because it reminds me of kids and not even just kids but it reminds me of students with students they may be given a standardized test well all right take this test let's see if you pass and if you pass hey you get an a pass and gray you get a hundred whatever if you fail hey we need to think about why you're not getting this stuff what's wrong with you what's your problem so the students proceed to take the test some kids do great some kids do terrible and the other kids that just do all right they're right in the middle but just because some of them pass the test and some of them fail and some of them just barely get by does that mean that they all have the same learning ability does it mean that there's something that that doesn't mean that everything's right with the kids that got the hundreds and everything's wrong with the kids that failed no it doesn't different kids different people they have different learning styles not everybody learns stuff the same way does that make one person smarter than the next because they learn differently no it doesn't not at all you just have to find the best way to teach that person the best way to really get the most out of that person football in my opinion is the same exact way Lamar Jackson is not Tom Brady Tom Brady is not Aaron Rogers Aaron Rogers is not Lamar Jackson Lamar Jackson is not Patrick Mahomes we could do this all day but you get my point but all four of them and there more as well but i was just using those guys and as an example but all four of them are elite in their own ways they are not carbon copies of quarterbacks with each other but they all have one thing in common they are winners and they consistently make elite plays therefore they are all elite quarterbacks