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Around the Horn

Arthur Blank Speaks About Lamar

Around the Horn

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Bill Plaschke, Tim Cowlishaw, Martenzie Johnson, and Frank Isola join Clinton Yates to discuss their reactions to Arthur Blank’s comments about Lamar Jackson’s injury history, Patrick Mahomes not being in favor of teams playing multiple Thursday night games in on season, and Steve Kerr’s comments on Draymond after accruing his 17th tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Baltimore Ravens are what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.

0:09.4

And while today is Wednesday, if you're an NFL fan, your Thursdays might be getting a lot busier.

0:15.3

Kevin Durant is finally suiting up in the Valley of the Sun and there are some very recognizable

0:19.6

names that are soon to have a new prefix. Hall of Famer. Let's go around the horn.

0:30.0

I appreciate it. I got it in a little bit about it.

0:38.8

Lamar Jackson is absolutely representing himself. On Monday, he told the world that he had

0:44.7

requested a trade weeks ago and last night, he said the quiet part out loud, including quote,

0:50.4

let's get real. I'd rather have a 100% PCL then go out there and play horrible, forcing myself to

0:56.4

put my guys in a bad situation. Now, that's selfish to me, end quote. Falcons owner Arthur

1:01.8

Blank was straightforward yesterday saying he thought the Jackson was a straight-up injury risk.

1:07.1

Tim Kalishoff, do you believe in Lamar's durability long term?

1:12.6

No, not really. Not unless he's superhuman and different from every other running quarterback

1:17.2

in history and you can check the stats of Randall Cunningham or Michael Vick or Russell Wilson or any

1:22.0

of the quarterbacks who started out rushing for 700, 800, maybe even a thousand yards and look

1:27.5

at about around age 30, 31, what they're doing. And a lot of it's just decision making, but a lot

1:33.0

of it is health. And I think that's what Arthur Blank was talking about. And that's a concern

1:37.6

teams have. He's missed five games each of the last two years. How much money and in graphics,

1:43.0

can you invest in a guy who might start 11 or 12 games and then be let soon be less of a runner

1:49.3

than he is. Lamar Jackson took it the wrong way to me and answered as if his toughness had been

1:55.5

questioned. And nobody's questioning that at all. It's just the idea that five or six years from

2:01.3

now, he's not going to be the same player that he has been to this point. No, plus you.

2:06.3

Yeah, for good five or six years with for now Tim, what about right now? If Lamar Jackson went

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