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Did Lamar Jackson Expose the Lions?
Sports Illustrated
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10/23/2023
Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens demolished the Detroit Lions 38-6.
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The Ravens pumped the brakes on that Lions contender talk.
00:03
I'm Robert Lundberg here with Dakota London.
00:05
Dakota, Baltimore just totally destroys Detroit.
00:09
Did Lamar Jackson and company expose the Lions?
00:11
Exposed? I don't know if exposed is the right word because exposed comes with expectations.
00:17
I think that's the bigger issue is that the Lions fell into the land of expectations.
00:22
After the Eagles lost, after San Fran lost, everybody was looking at like,
00:25
"Oh, are the Lions now the best team in the NFC?"
00:27
And yeah, they're not.
00:29
And they got absolutely trashed.
00:32
And I feel like when you're playing like where nobody's expecting you to be that good,
00:38
or you're just like a sleeper team, everything was good for the Lions.
00:42
But as soon as people started expecting to perform at a high level, they showed their true colors.
00:47
Now, I don't think the Ravens are that much better than Detroit,
00:51
but it just shows when you're playing with expectations, it's just another level.
00:55
And that's why you got teams like Philly and San Fran that are the class of the NFC.
00:59
Because they play with expectations every week.
01:01
Well, Lamar Jackson is on another level.
01:04
Like when you look at the quarterbacks in this game,
01:06
there's a big gap between Lamar Jackson and Jared Goff, despite the fact that Goff has played well.
01:11
And in some ways, I think Lamar has become maybe the most underrated player in the league
01:15
in the sense that he's nitpicked all the time.
01:17
People question his contract.
01:19
When it comes to just pure individual impact on the field,
01:23
he's up there amongst the best players in the entire league, a former and maybe future MVP,
01:28
and absolutely a top five quarterback.
01:30
So I think the first thing it did was remind everybody who Lamar Jackson is,
01:34
and that the Ravens themselves are true contenders.
01:38
When it comes to the Lions front, I never totally bought into the hype.
01:41
They're a cute little team, as you mentioned,
01:43
but they hadn't really beaten anybody coming into this.
01:46
And their win over the Chiefs was the least impressive big win I've ever seen.
01:51
Shout out to to Kedarious Tony's drops in that one.
01:55
Yeah, I think the future for Detroit is promising.
02:00
But as you said about Lamar, Lamar's great.
02:03
I think he's elevated to the point where his success in a regular season means nothing.
02:07
It's more about what is he going to do in the postseason.
02:09
And that's a great place to be in, but it's good to always be reminded
02:13
of just how great he can be.
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