Discussing Lamar Jackson's Playoff Struggles & Long-Term Future

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00:00and we start with the hot button conversation in Baltimore. The lack of success that a potential

00:06three-time NFL MVP winner in Lamar Jackson has had in the postseason. Here are the playoff resume

00:13and stats for Lamar. A three and five overall record, just one AFC championship game appearance,

00:2113 total touchdowns, 11 total turnovers. So Donnie, let's dive right in. Buy or sell

00:28Lamar Jackson will never win a Super Bowl. I'm selling that right now. As long as you

00:35are in the mix in the NFL on a year-to-year basis with chances to get home field advantage,

00:40I do think he's going to break through. Now granted, it's much harder sometimes. Maybe he

00:45used the best years of his career already. I still think he's in the middle of his prime

00:48and things just didn't work out. But we're at that level now where the questions are going to pop up

00:53because in the biggest moments, for some reason, as we point out, Baltimore just can't get over

00:57the hump. This team has been way too talented over the past five years to not only not win a

01:02Super Bowl, but at least make a Super Bowl and have an appearance from Lamar Jackson.

01:06But the one thing I do love about Lamar Jackson as the leader, it's very simple to say,

01:10get up there in your most frustrating moments, which typically come right after the game.

01:14Hey, man, Mark Gaines just didn't lose this game. We're here as a team. I love that guy.

01:18He's made a lot of big plays. I'll trust him more into the future. Maybe they are another player

01:23to a way where you can say maybe Zay Flowers would have made a difference in that game.

01:26Maybe if we had a more healthy secondary that could have had maybe matched up with that offense

01:31for the Buffalo Bills. I'm selling this because it's easy to say he's never going to win it

01:36because, number one, it's really hard to win a championship and even harder, it seems like,

01:42to make it through the AFC just to get to the championship game and to play in the Super Bowl

01:46and win it there. I still like Lamar Jackson as a quarterback. His team is talented. He'll

01:51make runs over the next couple of years. I'm going to sell that notion that he can't win a Super Bowl.