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So the question again is Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Is he overrated? Is he overrated? And that's a tough one because it has to be been getting a lot of hype. Yes. Have people always been talking about him ever since he joined the Ravens? Yes. Has this whole him and Joe Flacco both being on the field at the same time been blown up by the media and maybe a little out of proportion because they come up with their own narrative for the whole thing and Raven say it's one thing. But the media says it's another thing. Has that been blown up? Yes. But is Lamar Jackson overrated? We don't know yet. We don't know yet. And the reason that we don't know yet is because we haven't seen him play with the team yet. We haven't seen anything from him yet. We're still waiting to see that. So when we see Lamar Jackson, whatever that's going to be, which will probably first, maybe the first preseason game. Yeah, probably the first preseason game. Probably going to be him, RG three and Josh Woodrum. But when we finally do see Lamar Jackson, it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting. He definitely got a lot of hype to live up to because every the world is going to be watching, not just Ravens fans, but the world is going to be watching because his first game is most likely the Hall of Fame game. So the world watches that game because it's the first football game that you get back in forever. And it's going to be Ravens and Bears. So that should definitely be interesting. So with that being said, is Lamar Jackson overrated? Um, no, I don't think he's overrated. We just we don't know yet. Again, like I said, we talked about this before. I think with Lamar Jackson, the whole thing with him, it's more of just people being excited, man. People are excited. Ravens fans, especially even just football fans, man, like I even saw somebody the other day who's a Patriots fan. Patriots fans said, uh, what do you say? Oh, he said, I can't wait to see Lamar Jackson break the NFL. And when he said that meaning that Lamar Jackson is going to be like a human glitch, and the stuff that he's able to do, it's just going to blow the NFL. It's going to blow the roof off the NFL, sort of like how Michael Vic was, how he literally he changed the game. And he just became so hard to stop, but then injuries caught up to him. So hopefully it's not the same case with Lamar. I'm sure like he's getting he's getting lessons from RG3. He's getting lessons from Fleco. So he's getting lessons about both of them. But again, with Lamar Jackson, I think it's it's not overrating him, but it's just that people are just excited, man. We talked about this a lot of times before, man. People, we as Ravens fans and just a lot of football fans to Louisville fans or whether you're a fan of Louisville or not, a lot of people just excited to see this guy. But more so for Ravens fans, this guy, he he represents something that we haven't had on offense consistently in a long time. And that's possible excitement, man. We haven't had an exciting offense. Offense has been behind and this is actually a chance for offense to get ahead when you think about it. This is this is a chance for offense to actually get a like Lamar Jackson who got he's a dual threat ability. He got the dual threat ability where he can run, he can throw. So with him having that, we're just excited, man. That's we're just super excited. It's not that he's overrated. It's just that we just super excited to see what he can do. It's we're super excited to see what he can do. Um and that's all it is, man. Because I think a lot of people get get it confused with uh in somebody and and and excitement because nobody came in here and said, oh yeah, Lamar Jackson, he's going to be the star of day one. Nobody came in here and said, oh yeah, Lamar about to take that from Flacco day one. They definitely did say he's going to take it from Flacco. Couldn't wheel because that's Flacco's replacement. Everybody knows that. That's old news. Um but I don't think it's I don't think he's overrated. I just think we just we just super excited and that's it. No more, no less. We're just super, super, super, super excited because we want to see Lamar Jackson on the field. We're going to see this dude in action and we want to see what he ends up doing and how he ends up working out. Um because this because we just we've been lacking on the offensive side of the ball literally for the team's entire history. They've always been known for as a defensive team. Um and that's been their MO for forever for their history. Always been defense, defense, defense. Um and now we got a chance to actually have the offense possibly uh catch up to the defense. I gotta try to get some shade. It is hot. It is hot. It's like it's weird because in my car it's it's hot outside but in my car it's hotter on the inside of the car than it is on the outside. Um so it's it's it's always funny man but it is what it is. Something tells me that Joe is going to be around a bit longer than everyone thinks. That could be the case too. That could be the case too. And if if he's performing well, I'm fine with that. If he's doing this thing, I'm fine with that. I'm fine. If he's out there killing it, I'm fine with that. But if we if we getting the same old Joe Fleco because again, I'm I'm not expecting anything different because I I've seen Joe Fleco for the past ten years. He's been the same guy. Again, he's been the same guy before and after the Super Bowl. Same guy. Same guy. Same guy. He put up about maybe like 20 touchdowns and uh put up about maybe 10, 11 interceptions. That's him. It's just his numbers ain't out to park anything. Uh and yes, the Ravens don't invest. They haven't invested in the uh offense but even when they did have better pieces around him on offense, the numbers were still the same. They were the same. They were the same when he had a Derrick Mason, when he had an Anquan Bolden, when he had a Tory Smith, when he had those guys, his numbers ain't changed much even with Steve Smith Sr. Steve Smith Sr. Oh that that season, his numbers went up a little bit but 27 touchdowns, 12 interceptions like that's that's Fleco man. He had a season way through 22 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He's been the same quarter but nothing changed with Fleco before or after and it's it's like his yeah his his uh weapons that he had were better because he didn't have the big deal yet so we got to have more money on offense or whatever a little bit more because they were still pretty cheap but we had reliable hands receivers Derrick Mason, Anquan Bolden guys like that but and Tory Smith would do his thing too and like I said we had guys, we had guys, we had guys but Fleco numbers were the same before and after no they weren't the best of the best at wide receiver. They were some of the best at running back because Fleco always had a nice running game uh when we had Ray Rice and Rob McLean, Willis McGahey um you know of course Justin Forte said um the running game has been nice man the the running game has been nice uh but he's always been the same guy so going into this year I want him to go ball out I want him to do his thing I want him to play like he's playing in the playoffs or something but I mean if he doesn't it won't be like a shock or anything um and it would just be the same frustration that a lot of Ravens fans have had uh for the longings it's like we know what he can do we know what he got the ability the ability to do but he just don't do it consistently and that's that so anyway uh we'll see how it goes gonna be an interesting season as it always is uh Fuji said it's gonna be some drama for sure between Fleco and Lamar I mean it already is I mean it it's it's not like that they not making it drama or anything the media made it more drama than they did but at the same time it's like uh this this dude's the first-round draft pick um he's a quarterback they drafted a quarterback in the first round they didn't sign him at a free agency they did with Robert Griffin but they didn't sign um oh since 2014 Fleco has 82 point I mean 2015 eight Fleco got 82.4 passer rating which ranks 31 among quarterbacks wow hey no problem unread no problem I don't think the notification went out for this video so youtube is still messing stuff up um so hopefully everybody will see you later on the notification definitely didn't go out for this video I am two hundred percent sure about that one um but anyway uh yeah with with Fleco same guy man but yeah there's there's definitely drama because like I said it Lamar Jackson first-round draft pick Lamar Jackson the first round draft pick um and it ain't like he's a first-round draft pick that they signed up for free agency like Robert Griffin this is somebody that they drafted as a quarterback to replace you so yeah they are cool and whatever uh Fleco knows the business he knows it because he was in the same situation he was a first-round draft pick drafted to replace um what Kyle Boller who was here when uh what the Kyle Boller I think was Kyle Boller and Troy Smith but Fleco was a quarterback who was supposed to be replacing them Boller got hurt Troy Smith uh he got time to light this and start losing all this well that was it and it was Fleco time Fleco guy he wasn't supposed to be a starter but he got thrown into the starting lineup and obviously this is pretty great history for Ravens for the most part um so yeah and that was that so shout out to Fleck shout out to uh Lamar is he overrated though now it's just that people are just super excited man we're just super excited for some excitement on all things