 So after Sunday's win with the Ravens, not only beat one of the AFC's hottest team, they beat them boys down. Stephen A. Smith said, he still has questions about one Lamar Jackson. Let's hear it. What do I always say about the quarterback spot, Molly? It's about accuracy. It's about accuracy. And by the way, when it counts. So I took the liberty of doing my own research. Like Lervin and I went back into the archives and I looked at it. Lamar Jackson has played in four playoff games. Three of them, he's failed to reach 60% completionism with his passes. The last time we saw Lamar Jackson in the whole season, he overcame his maladies, first two years, 2018, 2019, by being Tennessee last year. With 70% of his passes through for 179 yards, obviously had a Russian touchdown. He did his thing in that game. Then he went up against Buffalo. He was held to three points, completed 58% of his passes. Lamar Jackson has been dominant in the regular season. Dominant. He's been that way since he took over as a starter. 35 wins. Like five passes, 35 wins, and then what we talk about five or six losses and 35 wins in the regular season. Lamar Jackson is spectacular. You get all of that in the regular season. But you see when you, when we start talking about you, when we use words like greatness or what have you, what solidifies that? Playmaker, Super Bowl champion, Hall of Famer. What solidifies that? It's what you do when it counts. Who seasons when it counts. Now we saw him perform against Kansas City. Second week of season or so. Second, third week of season. Big time performance. We saw what he did yesterday. Okay, we saw what he did on Monday Night Football and that comeback victory over the Indianapolis Colts. We saw all of that. But the reality is that he's phenomenal. We've seen all of that before. What we're waiting to see is that when you've got the Patrick Mahomes and the Josh Allen's of the world, potentially a Justin Herbert of the world or anybody else standing there as roadblocks to the ultimate glory you are unquestionably in pursuit of. When we're looking for that, where are you? Steven A., I got some words for you. Clean though, of course. Yeah, this feels like a dream. So YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's Aang Graven here with another video and boy, it's crazy because we have over the past couple of weeks alone have received more DMs about stuff that Steven A. Smith has said more than we ever have in the entirety of Lamar Jackson taken over at the starting quarterback for the Ravens. But it just seems as though with Steven A. Smith, we can already tell, especially with this most recent clip, we can tell that Lamar Jackson is never, never, ever going to be good enough for Steven A. Smith. He is never going to get the approval of one Steven A. Smith. And like I always say, if Lamar ain't your style, that's fine. If you would rather another quarterback, that's fine. There's no problem with that. But at the same time, even if something is not your style, you got to acknowledge when it's working, it's working. And if it's successful, then it's successful. So with Steven A. Smith's latest clip, we will call it, why are we, why are we talking about, why are we sort of moving the goalposts again? It's like Ravens, they go out and just straight destroy the charges. They had these charges wanting to move back to San Diego. That's how bad they beat them. But they demolish the charges. So instead of, oh man, these Ravens, they top team in the ASC and they literally are cause they five and one all by themselves. But instead of that, Steven A. Smith, after week six, after week six, there are 17 games to be played this season. But after week six, Steven A. Smith is looking around like, man, I don't have anything that I can say bad about these Ravens and more particularly Lamar Jackson in the regular season. So you know what? After week six, you know what? Let me advance 12 weeks in the future because let me advance to where we get to the playoffs and we're in the playoffs. All right. Oh, I got a banger now. Watch this. Lamar Jackson, I don't trust his accuracy. I still question his accuracy. And I question, he needs to prove himself in the playoffs. Now, does Lamar Jackson need to prove himself in the playoffs? Yes, he does, even though he, I mean, he has already, but we are, especially as Ravens fan, we want Lamar Jackson, we want Lamar Jackson to prove everything in the playoffs. And we want him and the Ravens to walk away victorious come February. But Steven A. Smith was also saying that Lamar Jackson that he needs to win and be accurate. He needs to do it when it counts because that's when all the greats do it. That's when all, he said, we could talk about Lamar Jackson being phenomenal and da da da da da, but yeah, he does that in a regular season. I need to see it in the playoffs. And it's crazy because when that's your go-to, if that's your, especially if that's your go-to at this point in the season, then you've already proven that you believe this guy is phenomenal. You've already proven it because if it's after week six and your biggest argument against the Lamar Jackson is, well, he's got to prove it in the playoffs. I need to see it in the playoffs. I need to see all this greatness come playoff time. If that's the conversation after week six, then Lamar has won you over, my friend. He's won you over. And I know that Steven A. Smith, we know he's a Steelers fan, which is fine. But as an analyst, as a professional analyst, and we know Steven A. Smith, he's one of the more popular analysts. As an analyst, despite what team you're a fan of, just call it how it is. Call it what it is. He ain't got to dance around it. We ain't got to tiptoe around it. We ain't got to beat around the bush. We ain't got to try to avoid it. Just say, man, Lamar, he, that dude is something serious. That dude is real deal. You know what? I questioned his play style before. I questioned if it would work. I questioned if it would be sustainable. Remember that word? I questioned if this thing could last. I questioned if he would finally be figured out. I questioned if defenses would catch on to him. I questioned all this stuff throughout these years, but the Mark Jackson and these Ravens, they just keep on winning. And it's crazy because I remember, and again, it's not all fans that are like this. And it's not all fans of a particular fan base that are like this. But this reminds me back in 2019 and 2019 season, the Ravens were getting ready to play these undefeated Patriots. These Patriots, they were what, I forgot what it was, eight and old, nine and whatever that record was, they were undefeated. But a lot of us Ravens fans were like, they are undefeated, gotta give them that. But they haven't really played the best competition yet. They haven't played the best. Now it is still a Patriots, and you know how Patriots get down. They take care of business. But we were like, I don't know about that. So then the game came and the game went, Ravens rolled all over. They took care of business against them Patriots. And the Mark Jackson is undefeated against Tom Brady, by the way. But anyway, after that game, I remember in the live stream, I remember in the comments section of the post game thoughts video. And I just remember so many Patriots fans saying, you got us now, but do it when it counts. Do it when it counts. And it was like, I always feel like that's so cringy when people say that, do it when it counts. And they say that after a regular season game. Had they been having a conversation about, do it when it counts after a pre-season game, that would be one thing. Had they been saying, do it when it counts after a scrimmage, that would be another thing. But for somebody to say, do it when it counts. We need to see it when it counts after a regular season game, especially a regular season game against a conference opponent. Does that not count? Does that regular season game not go towards playoff seating, if both of those teams make the playoffs? Does that regular season game not mean anything? Or are we just throwing away regular season games now? So with Stephen A. Smith, with his words, it's like he's contradicting himself to the max. We need to see Lamar do this when it counts. Oh, my friends, it does count. Because had he not done it in regular season, then we wouldn't be having none of this post-season talk at all. Had the Ravens not been so successful under him in regular season games, then playoffs, he said it best. So artists, we need to see it when it counts talk. Again, that lets me know that he knows that Lamar Jackson and these Ravens are real deal. This lets me know that even though he said, oh, I still got some questions about Lamar Jackson. No, you don't. No, you don't. We know you don't. You know you don't. This is one of those things where these media guys, and I love how my guy, I forget his strong opinion sports. I love how he said it in one of his episodes on his YouTube channel. He said, media guys aren't football guys. And when he said, it's like oh, that was so fire. Because it's true. But in this case with Stephen A. Smith, I enjoy Stephen A. Smith. I know that he is a, just like Skip Bayless, that's why them two, they work so good together. They are almost professional trolls almost. And we know ESPN, when ESPN, when things a bit rough, they're like, all right, we gotta throw out some crazy, all right, Bart Scott, go do your thing. But anyway, with Stephen A. Smith, this seems as if this is one of those things where somebody just does not want to come out and say, hey, I was wrong. Hey, you know what? I thought, I originally thought this thing, but my fault, y'all, I was wrong. I really had this opinion formed in my mind that I really thought was fact, but turns out I was wrong. And it takes a real man to admit that about anything, not just about sports, but just in life period. It takes somebody with a lot of character, a lot of humility to admit, hey, I was wrong. I remember when we were watching the coach game on our live stream the other day, I kept telling people, it's not over, it's not over. It's Raven's gotta play better than perfect to get this thing, get this win, but it ain't over. A lot of people say, oh, this game's over. In grade, what you talking about? The game, it's over, it's a wrap. But then when the Ravens came back in one, a lot of people were like, hey, we were wrong. We thought it was over, I was wrong. And I really appreciated that because it takes, again, takes somebody with a lot of character to admit that they were wrong. Now me, I love being wrong about the Ravens in a good way because I picked the Ravens to lose against the Chargers. I didn't, again, y'all know, I thought their defense was not gonna be able to hold it down, but I was dead wrong. And I've admitted that several times and I got no shame in admitting it too because I love to be wrong about stuff like that. But these guys, they're a real deal. And the sooner that Stephen A. Smith admits that without trying to do these outlandish takes and trying to move the goalposts 12 weeks in advance, then I just don't get it. What's the point? What's the point? Why not just say, hey, look, you know what y'all? Yeah, they stay something serious. But a lot of people, they just don't wanna do that, especially when it comes to Lamar Jackson, because you know, some people have said some just wild stuff about him. But again, as we all know, I've been saying this since 2018, he is never going to be good enough for some people. I love y'all team, keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. And just like when it comes to realistic opinions about what Lamar Jackson and Stephen A. Smith has, I'm out.