 Now, I know that not everybody has access to Twitter or even Instagram or just social media in general. So a lot of times when these videos become a bit viral or even just viral within a certain sports community, then some of you may not see or be able to hear them. But one video that went sort of viral, especially within the Ravens community or just really NFL community in general came from one ESPN's Mike Greenberg. And he was speaking about Lamar Jackson and just really addressing a lot of not even critics about Lamar Jackson, but it sound like, and I don't like to use the word too much, but it sound like he was just addressing the Lamar Jackson haters. And you know what? I didn't even need to throw up the air quotes when I said that because that's what a lot of people can do. Because what a lot of people tend to say about Lamar Jackson is, I mean, they state the obvious, O and two, O and two in the playoffs, O and two, yeah, won all these regular season games. Yeah, he's been successful as Ravens starting quarterback and lifted the team up. But a playoffs is O and two, what y'all going to do about that? But and a lot of people, they tend to use that to sort of try to kill any noise about anything else that he's ever accomplished. But before we go on a tangent, as you know, we can, let's listen to exactly what he had to say. Here we go. You know what I'm getting a little tired of hearing about all the things Lamar Jackson hasn't done. Before we get to those, let me mention a few that he has. Since he became Baltimore's starter in week 11 of his rookie year, he is the winningest quarterback in the NFL. He's thrown more touchdowns than Tom Brady, fewer picks than Patrick Mahomes, and he is rushed for more yards than Saquon Barkley on 52 fewer carries. Oh. In the span of one month last year, he beat Russell Wilson, Tom Brady and Sean Watsay by an average of 22 points per game. And I know he's lost two playoff games. You want to make that the be all end all. Well, fine. Let's talk about a quarterback who started his career, O for his first three playoff games, despite his team being favored in two of them. He completed less than 50% of his passes in those games, and the third one, his team lost 41-nothing to the Jets. That quarterback was Peyton Manning. He turned out okay. By the way, he was 26 when he lost that game. Lamar Jackson is 23. And for what it's worth, Lamar was sacked seven times in his first playoff game, and he had four balls dropped in his second. I think it was more. But that's not the point. What I think is going on here is a case of a lot of people not believing what their eyes are seeing, mostly because he is making them look bad. The whole league passed on this guy. The mid-evaluators told him to play a different position. Then he went out and he was the unanimous MVP in his second year. He made a lot of decision makers look even worse than the linebackers who fall down trying to tackle him. So the moral of this story, my friends, is simple. There's nothing so terrible about having been wrong about Lamar Jackson. Most people were. The real mistake is failing to admit it now. And that's what so many people have done. We've been talking about this way before Mike Greenberg said any of this. Y'all know that, man. We've been talking about this for a long time that one of the things that people, one of the reasons that people hold on to these. Oh, but well, it's not sustainable. It's not going to last long. He's going to get hurt. They hold on to these things and they try to sort of move the goalposts back and forth with them. When it comes to Lamar Jackson, it's because a lot of people don't want to admit when they're wrong. They don't want to. Now, for me, when it came to Lamar Jackson, I didn't have any worries about him. But I didn't know that his second season was going to be that great. Not that good, that great. And yes, of course, again, the playoffs. That's what a lot of people hang their head on. Or doing a playoffs. And that means a lot because you obviously want your regular season success to continue and trickle on over to the playoffs because, hey, that's where it counts the most. Now, did you hear that? Not that's where it counts because that's what a lot of people say. But that's where it counts the most because in order to reach the playoffs, you must be successful in the regular season. If you are not successful in the regular season, then we all know how your story ends. It ends a few chapters early. Then we'll now 14 other teams. But before when they had the playoffs, like it should have stayed before 12 other teams, but it's all good. So again, with Lamar Jackson, I I just expect him to continue to to keep proving people wrong. And I mean, I expect people to continue to not want to admit that they were wrong. Now, is Lamar Jackson a perfect quarterback? No, of course not. He got plenty of stuff he got to work on. Plenty. But is he good? Has he done his thing, especially last year? Oh, I certainly. Has he proven what a lot of people has he done? What a lot of people said he couldn't do? Certainly. For sure. People said that he was figured out. People said that he can't play quarterback like Greenbergs. And people say he should play a different position. People saying a lot of stuff and a lot of stuff. A lot of that stuff has already been proven wrong. But hey, people still going to have their reservations for whatever reason. And that's fine. I would never knock anybody for having an opinion ever. But if what your opinion is, well, some people feel is fact. If it's already been shut down, a lot of people don't like changing the tone. Or they like trying to, they like finding a different tune for their tone. They like finding a different pitch for their tone. Like I said, oh, that dude, he can't play quarterback. No, he can't play quarterback. And then when he goes and plays quarterback and wins the MVP as a quarterback and has one of the craziest years ever as a quarterback, it's not going to last. He's going to get hurt. Oh, man, that's no, that's just, that's just Vic. That's just Vic 2.0. That was going to be another RG3. Oh, he's going to take too many hits. It's always something instead of people just acknowledging like, oh. Wow, he he did pretty good. Now, of course, like I always say, consistency is everything. Consistency is absolutely everything. And with Lamar Jackson, I mean, how do you follow that up? How do you follow what you just did up? Not the playoff part, but how did, how did, well, even the playoff part? Because even with the playoffs, regardless of, y'all know how I feel about coaching in the playoffs. But even regardless of that, if you just watch Lamar Jackson specifically overall from year one to year two, there was a significant jump for him. Now, obviously the Ravens were unsuccessful in the playoffs, both times, but him individually. And yes, some of it was on him. Some of the reason they were unsuccessful was on him. But a lot of reason that they were successful was on him as well. And again, a lot of people what sticks with a lot of people in their mind and their heads in their thought process is the negative. A lot of times the negative can outweigh the positive. The negative can be more stronger than the positive. And people, a lot of people remember so much more about the negative than they remember about the good. And that's just the way that a lot of people think. And that's just, again, part of our imperfections as human beings. But the negative that happened with Lamar Jackson, obviously the biggest thing is the playoffs. That certainly doesn't discredit all the positive that he's done and all the positive that he and this Ravens team have accomplished with him as a starting quarterback. So I look forward to him continuing to make a lot of people eat their words. I look forward to him just continuing to just cancel a lot of the doubters, man. And just really make them shut up. So we'll see how this next season goes, man. We excited as ever for it. I just, I just straight up can't wait, man. Teamkeeper clean. Love y'all. Mike Greenberg. Hey, we appreciate you, big homie. Keep doing what you're doing. We out.