 Ian Rappaport rap sheet. He was on the Pat McAfee show today And then he's a guest on there from time to time But he was on there to talk some Lamar Jackson. What is going on with Lamar Jackson? What's happening? Pat McAfee and his boys they were like man This thing is getting ugly between the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. What is going on and Ian Rappaport He said hold up now buddies. It's not getting ugly. Don't you ain't got to worry about that. He said that I don't think Lamar Jackson's absence is contract related He said that he believes the reason that Lamar Jackson has been out has continued to remain out is because of the injury the PCL injury said it's normally an injury that takes three weeks to get over but a Everybody's different. Everybody's body is different. Sometimes it can take longer. He said in Lamar Jackson's case It is taking longer He also talked about how he does not expect Lamar Jackson to play this week And I think we all came to that same conclusion yesterday When it was said that Lamar Jackson did not practice and then they followed that up today with him not practicing again So he's been out the past two practices So I don't think anybody should have expected him to play this week And I mean even on top of that, I don't even really think the starters are gonna play this week. We'll see but like this week The seating could change But not based off of the Ravens game alone Like they will need to either win or lose and then they need all these other scenarios to happen for them to move to like Five or six seed and I think there's even one scenario where they can move to the three seeds something but bottom line This game doesn't really mean much. It doesn't really mean much So with that being said and especially with them like really getting ready to just I guess sort of officially cancel The bills and bingles game then this game won't have any impact on really much of anything for the Ravens Order order bingles. So let's see what happens as far as starters or backups or whatever but Although Ian Rappaport did say that Lamar Jackson is not expected to play in this game He said that the Ravens are expecting Lamar Jackson back for the playoffs and Again, that's that's what a lot of people have thought even though a lot of people think that he may not even play in the playoffs There's still the back-and-forth between people the speculation on whether he's holding out or if he's truly just not ready yet So we we won't know till we know we won't know till we know But Rappaport did say he said the only way that Lamar Jackson is not playing in the playoffs Would be if he had a setback if he had a setback then that would be the way that he wouldn't be able to go Because that would mean there's something happen with his PCL injury Everything wasn't going as planned and he couldn't play So, I mean, we'll see We'll see what happens with that. It's just Yeah, we're just waiting it out man. We're just really waiting it out. I think so many Ravens fans are Passed this last this week 18 this last regular season game I think so many Ravens fans not even not even that they're not thinking about it But they are way past that and they just thinking playoffs. What's gonna happen? What's gonna go down is Lamar Jackson gonna be the quarterback is it gonna be Tyler Huntley? Is it gonna be Anthony Brown? And I mean even this week it could end up being Anthony Brown cuz Tyler Huntley in practice today He was limited yet again and just because you're limited that doesn't mean that you can't go but You being limited you not being a full participant That's not really a good thing So could it be Anthony Brown against the start against the Bengals whether the Ravens play starters or not? It could happen. So I guess we got to wait and see Marcus Peters was also limited but again I wouldn't expect his first game back to be in a meaningless game against the Bengals in week 18 playoff So okay yet, but just getting now They also said that Kaleas Campbell Ronnie Stanley they return as well. So that was good to Shawn Jackson, however He did not return Something else that Pat McAfee brought up was the Reports from you know the one from Mike Preston that talked about Lamar Jackson being a slacker and him And it being known to the coaches Just that Lamar Jackson his work ethic is not there and you know what I find interesting very interesting This is not the first time that we heard about all field stuff with Lamar Jackson This is not like even again remember the guy who did the report who was interviewing Lamar Jackson I heard you don't like the workout So this is not the first time this year that Lamar Jackson's work ethic has been questioned and there was another report too But I just I just find it so strange and coincidental that it's all coming out in this year because let me know if I'm wrong Please let me know if I'm wrong. I don't recall us ever hearing anything about that in his first year in His second year in his third year or even in his fourth year. I Don't recall any of that but again, let me know if I'm wrong because y'all know my memory be messed up y'all know I forget a lot of stuff and Hey, I ain't perfect. I ain't perfect. So yeah, I forget So if there's something that I didn't catch or I just can't recall right now, please Let me know but we do also know something that I won't ever forget Is that the NFL is a dirty game? It's a very very dirty dirty dirty dirty game But again, yeah, we'll see how everything ends up playing itself out. But anyway, I love y'all team. Keep it clean I appreciate y'all team keep it clean and Again, it's just it's a wait-and-see approach with Lamar Jackson the Baltimore Ravens Will he be back come play off time or will he still continue to remain out only time will tell love y'all