Travis Kelce on his pregame exchange with Justin Tucker:
“If you wanna be a f***ing dick about it, you keep your helmet, and your football and your f***ing kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up. … Don’t paint me as the bad guy. He was poking the bear.”
via…
Travis Kelce told Justin Tucker he needed to move because their QB Patrick Mahomes had to warm up. So Kelce kicked his ball away and threw his helmet. 😂
#Dolphins
HC Mike McDaniel was really thoughtful (and funny) speaking on Lamar Jackson:
"I offered my skill set to be scout team quarterback to try to replicate him but it was not accepted. ... Outside of this game, I'm just happy for the player. Because what I recognize is…
In what world are there not *MULTIPLE* personal fouls called here on each team? Travis Kelce walks away unscathed as the instigator. Retaliation always kills.
#Ravens
Here’s 62 seconds of cold hard facts from
@Realrclark25
on Lamar Jackson:
“He’s not just only in the MVP conversation…he is setting a new quarterback market every time he steps on the field.” 8️⃣
Shannon Sharpe says Lamar Jackson is unquestionably the best story left in this year's NFL postseason:
"You tell me a better situation where somebody told you 'you can't be this', and here you are now on the cusp about to win your second MVP, an opportunity to go to the Super…
Roquan Smith on his outfit:
"When I was thinking about it this morning I was like 'hey, they are the Texans and they are the cowboys, but I got this hat on so I'm daddy."
Oh. My. God.
via
@Ravens
This week’s ridiculous Lamar Jackson arm angle has arrived. And he does so backpedaling across his body. With pressure in his face. Goodness gracious.
#Ravens
In response to ESPN's "Are Ravens Getting Money's Worth From Lamar?" debate (garbage) from earlier this week,
@ByKimberleyA
absolutely eviscerates her colleague Stephen A. Smith:
"That whole segment was trash, bro. ... Lamar Jackson is getting paid to win games. And let me tell…
The
#Ravens
paid Lamar Jackson to win football games.
He's a 48-18 career starter in Baltimore.
ESPN pays Stephen A. Smith to comb through game highlights/box scores and drive his debate program with garbage content such as this.
Exhibit A for why nontraditional media is…
Ray Lewis introduces Justin Tucker in honor of his epic 66-yard, record-breaking field goal in Detroit which takes home the NFL’s Moment of the Year.
#Ravens
#Ravens
QB Lamar Jackson joined Patrick Mahomes, Kurt Warner and Dan Marino on Sunday as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with 32 wins in their first 40 career starts.
LJ8 in elite company, yet again.
32-8.
MUST-WATCH: Colin Cowherd, who once infamously claimed that Lamar Jackson was just a more talented version of Tim Tebow, walked himself back on 8⃣ and things have officially come full-circle:
"It's amazing to me how fans defend clearly average quarterbacks like Daniel Jones and…
Dan Orlovsky says Lamar Jackson HAS to win a Super Bowl to change the narrative around him:
"Players that sound, look and play like Lamar Jackson were never supposed to win Super Bowls in the NFL. In people's eyes, they were never supposed to win Super Bowls in the NFL. ... I…
Today's
@FirstTake
debate:
"Must Lamar win Super Bowl to change playoff narrative?"
Stephen A. Smith says no, presents a flattering Lamar Jackson monologue and adds that a W would just be "icing on the cake."
A far cry from his "Are Ravens Getting Money's Worth From Lamar?"…
It's absolutely disgusting that multiple personal fouls weren't called there that should've offset one another. Travis Kelce getting superstar treatment.
Watch Justin Tucker go full Dad mode to ensure his son gets a photo with Lamar.
Easton's Pops is the greatest kicker in NFL history 😂
LJ8 is a superstar's superstar.
via
@Ravens
Productions
38-year-old
#Browns
QB Joe Flacco:
"I appreciate you guys having me, man. I feel like a 10-year-old kid out there."
Look at how locked in the Cleveland locker room is when he speaks.
via
@Browns
J.J. Watt takes aim at NFL general managers on behalf of 8⃣:
"Everybody in this offseason went out of their way to say 'We don't want [Lamar Jackson]. We're not interested.' If your GM said that, fire him."
via
@ESPNNFL
/IG/
@PatMcAfeeShow
The
#Ravens
paid Lamar Jackson to win football games.
He's a 48-18 career starter in Baltimore.
ESPN pays Stephen A. Smith to comb through game highlights/box scores and drive his debate program with garbage content such as this.
Exhibit A for why nontraditional media is…
ESPN just teased “Ravens regretting big contract for Lamar?” as an upcoming
@FirstTake
debate this morning.
There’s overreaction Monday content, and then there’s garbage content like this.
How to ingratiate yourself with Baltimore: not only pull out the Park Heights Strut as your first
#Ravens
TD celebration, but NAIL the Park Heights Strut. Just as you’d expect OBJ would.
#Bills
OLB Von Miller spoke glowingly of Lamar Jackson and commented on the contract situation:
"Even though we gotta competition & even though I wanna win...I also have respect for the game and I know what's right. And it's only right for the guys to get it done over there."
Rex Ryan all-out torches Todd Monken:
"This is the stupidest game plan I've ever seen, and you know what Greg Roman? Every single person needs to apologize to you. Because you got blamed for everything about what was wrong in Baltimore, and it wasn't you."
via
@GetUpESPN
Rex Ryan torches Baltimore's WR coach for his method of catching rugby balls in practice:
"A rugby ball? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But somebody trying to be a guru. ... Hey genius, you catch a football."
#Ravens
had zero drops entering Week 5.
via
@GetUpESPN
Tom Brady and Lamar Jackson share a special moment on the Let's Go! podcast.
TB: "I feel that way watching you play, man. I don't think you're ever out of it. The ability to inspire your teammates by your action, by your words and your humility and your toughness and your…
Shannon Sharpe on Lamar Jackson:
"Shouldn't we ask Lamar what we ask of our other MVPs? Has Peyton Manning ever won a game in the playoffs in which the running game wasn't there? Of course. Because that's what those guys get paid for, and that's why we look at them as great."…
Marquise Brown's full response on why he wanted to move on from Baltimore.
Super fair. I don't see anything wrong with how he handled this.
#Ravens
via
@AZCardinals
Bill Belichick on how Lamar Jackson's answered all the questions that once surrounded him as an NFL QB:
"Wait 'til we see what his contract is...that'll answer 'em."
63 seconds of
#Steelers
HC Mike Tomlin GUSHING over Zay Flowers is worth your time:
"The interesting component of his calling card is the fearlessness in his play. He is fearless. He runs into dark places at full speed. ... Quite honestly, I've never seen him flinch." 🎯…
.
@FirstTake
went with the “Was Lamar’s performance concerning?” debate topic this morning and Dan Orlovsky didn’t mince words:
“We can’t constantly do this.”
#RavensFlock
Shannon Sharpe:
“Lamar Jackson has been up and down, and it’s been masked because they’re winning. Now that they didn’t win and you see what has happened, it’s hard for me to trust him.”
Dan Orlovsky was on an island getting ganged up on by Shannon & Stephen A throughout this entire segment, but this was his mic drop:
“I don’t look at turnovers as a black and white thing, Shannon. … For me, it’s always about context.”
A former player shouldn’t have to…
.
@FirstTake
went with the “Was Lamar’s performance concerning?” debate topic this morning and Dan Orlovsky didn’t mince words:
“We can’t constantly do this.”
#RavensFlock
Former NFL head coach Eric Mangini on Lamar Jackson:
"I love his completion percentage, I think it's fantastic. I don't love his nine touchdowns. ... In his MVP year, he had 36 touchdowns. ... The reason I'm coming around on Baltimore is what they're doing defensively, not what…
Here’s that late and low hit on Lamar Jackson that wasn’t called. Happens almost every week.
Bottom line: 8 doesn’t receive consistent NFL QB treatment from officiating.
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez talking
#Ravens
x's and o's on offense is fascinating:
"It's basketball on grass. It's like a four-on-three fast break. And you're just outleveraged, you're outmatched, you're outnumbered, and they don't quit. That's a tough team in…
Roquan Smith on his Bills or Chiefs preference:
"I don't care who it is. It can be my little cousins, it can be grandparents or whatever. You roll that ball out there, they gotta get dealt with. They coming to The Bank."
Shades of 5⃣2⃣ every time he speaks.
via
@Ravens
Two minutes and 21 seconds of
@Realrclark25
executing another must-watch
#Ravens
rant:
"Just the evolution in one week, for me, makes me feel good. ... I feel like we're starting to grade Lamar Jackson in Baltimore performances the way we used to look at Floyd Mayweather's…
Sometimes it's as if Lamar Jackson forgets he's a former unanimous MVP and bona fide superstar. Not a more humble guy in pro sports 😂
"That's crazy...I'm known in London?"
via
@Ravens
Roquan Smith: "The pressure was on. Pressure either bursts pipes or makes diamonds, and we in the diamond-making business." 😈
#RavensFlock
via
@SNFonNBC
Brooks Robinson holds the record for most games (10) in which he drove in the only run in a 1-0 victory.
On the day of his passing, the
#Orioles
beat the Nationals tonight, 1-0.
That was for 5⃣
(H/T
@JetpackAlex
)
John Harbaugh's candidacy for NFL Coach of the Year is second to none.
◾️ 7-3 through 11 weeks (1st in AFC North)
◾️ Has had as many as 17 players on IR
◾️ Lost 6 starters to season-ending injuries
◾️ Orchestrated 4 wins by 3 points or less
◾️ 1 win with backup QB
Gutsy.
Lamar Jackson’s on pace to record 68 combined touchdowns through the air and on the ground.
Max Kellerman thinks 8️⃣ can literally redefine how we view that QB metric:
“If and when he gets to 60, that will be the first real iconic football statistic that everyone will know.”
Shannon Sharpe is literally willing to die on his Todd Monken vs. Greg Roman offense comparison sword.
"Lamar Jackson was supposed to spread it around. Even though they did have eight drops, Rex, all that could've been forgotten."
Respectfully, there's no way Unc is watching…
Marcus Peters: "We 'gon be alright, man. We ain't worried about all that stuff. Once we get our shit rolling, it's gonna be straight."
Between these team press conferences and
@marlon_humphrey
's IG lives, we need more of Juiceman on camera 😂
🎥
@Ravens
Shannon Sharpe on Lamar Jackson:
“We’ve got to judge Lamar just like we would a Aaron Rodgers, just like we would a Patrick Mahomes. Because that’s the level of greatness that he’s shown. … I’m not gonna judge him like I judge a Josh Allen. I’m not gonna judge him like I judge…
This clown show, cut from the same Dov Kleiman cloth, tweets an 8-sec video that conveniently omits Roquan Smith genuinely wishing Joe Burrow a speedy recovery and instead pushes a contextless clip that fits his postgame misery agenda.
Trash.
#Jets
head coach Robert Saleh on Joe Cool:
"He should be, in my opinion, he could start in this league. I believe that. ... Joe Flacco is a starting quarterback in this league. He's really, really talented."
What's up Ray. Shot in the dark here, but
@sgellison
and I would love to have you on our postgame show for a few min after this one finishes up. LMK if interested!
Vintage Terrell Suggs in 2012 after Skip Bayless criticized his play in Baltimore's divisional round win over Houston.
"My game is not determined on whether or not I get sacks. My game is determined on whether or not I win."
T-Sizzle is back at the Bank this weekend.
#Ravens
Ryan Clark on the
#Ravens
dominance:
“We had two teams that just visited Baltimore that were trying to show the world that they were ready to ascend to the top of the NFC, and they both went home bludgeoned. … If you combine the Seattle Seahawks & Detroit Lions and you made…
THREAD: When her husband died in a car accident, she trudged on with her eight-year-old son.
When her son’s high school grades weren’t up to par, she forced him to sit out his soph football season. (via
@Ravens
)
After Alejandro Villanueva's holding penalty negated a 39-yard burst from Lamar Jackson,
#Bengals
DE Trey Hendrickson made sure he saw the video board replay.
According to
@NFLOfficiating
, this is textbook taunting... that went unpenalized.
#Ravens
Michael Irvin on Lamar Jackson:
"He matured into the golden quarterback that is going to challenge that dynasty they have in Kansas City RIGHT NOW."
#Ravens
via
@undisputed
Hard not to feel giddy for
@Patrickqueen_
and it's clear how much this means to him.
Ray Lewis expectations from the moment he was drafted in 2020. Roquan gets paid big money his first year in Baltimore. Team drafts his potential replacement in April. Fifth-year option declined…
If Lamar Jackson and the Ravens advance past Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, 8⃣ will have beaten these quarterbacks in head-to-head matchups in the same season:
- CJ Stroud x2
- Jared Goff
- Justin Herbert
- Matthew Stafford
- Trevor Lawrence
- Brock Purdy
- Tua Tagovailoa…
This is a completely different
#Ravens
team the second half. Todd Monken and Lamar Jackson adjusted to Houston's relentless blitzing strategy and made 'em pay.
Closing time.
This was articulated really well by Colin Cowherd:
"I don't think less of the Detroit Lions today: they got Lamar'd. ... What I do think is that Lamar Jackson is now No. 2 in the league, behind Patrick Mahomes, in terms of how do you prepare for a player. ... And here's the…
Robert Griffin III:
“They have a home run hitter at the running back spot in Keaton Mitchell. … Lamar Jackson had one touchdown the past two weeks. The
#Ravens
scored 68 points. … This team is scaring everyone in the National Football League.” 👀
.
@MadDogUnleashed
torches John Angelos:
“This idiot Angelos, who’s never won a damn thing. … The idea that I got John Angelos who has done absolutely diddly in his career as an owner…and this guy is gonna demote Kevin Brown? That’s a disgrace.”
#Orioles
Michael Irvin walks himself back after that freezing cold Week 1 take on Lamar Jackson:
“These last couple games he’s started running everywhere basically saying, ‘Michael, shut yo black butt up.’ I said ‘okay I’ma be quiet because he’s absolutely right.’”
😂😂😂
Scott Van Pelt to
#Orioles
skipper Brandon Hyde:
“You haven’t seen nothing yet. That place is gonna be on fire this weekend. And hopefully deep into October. Give ‘em hell.”
Postseason baseball in Baltimore ⏳
Today's
@FirstTake
debate:
"Must Lamar win Super Bowl to change playoff narrative?"
Stephen A. Smith says no, presents a flattering Lamar Jackson monologue and adds that a W would just be "icing on the cake."
A far cry from his "Are Ravens Getting Money's Worth From Lamar?"…
Roquan Smith cooked Germaine Pratt in response to his postgame tweet:
"We could have said that last year when Lamar wasn't out there. It's about are you in the excuse-making business or are you in the result-making business, & I'm more so in the result-making business. ...…
Bradley Bozeman should be remembered in Baltimore as one of the classiest players to ever suit up as a Raven and a rock-solid, versatile offensive lineman.
#Ravens
The
#Ravens
just turned the lights off on Miami:
▪️ 56 points
▪️ 493 total yards
▪️ Utter domination
John Harbaugh & co. held onto their 2021 Vic Fangio receipts and absolutely torched his defense today.
.
@PatMcAfeeShow
on M&T Bank Stadium:
"Baltimore is the most underrated environment in the entire NFL. It's a blue-collar, shit-talking town."
#RavensFlock
Shannon Sharpe weighs in on Todd Monken:
“I see the same offense that everybody was tired of seeing over the last four years. I see no exoticness to this offense.”
#Ravens