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First Take

Hour 2: La-Marred Season?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith, Marcus Spears, Dan Orlovsky, and Joe Fortenbaugh discuss if the Ravens should cut ties with Lamar Jackson. Brian Windhorst joins the show to react to comments from Ja Morant about his competition in the western conference. This and more on the second hour of First Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Slack.com slash DHQ. Weeks left in the regular season, the playoff pictures shaped up nicely

0:33.0

Baltimore game on a first in the North and still without their starter in Lamar Jackson,

0:36.9

whose status is unclear as we head into the weekend in their last three games largely played

0:41.5

with out Lamar. At QB, the offense was responsible for 9.7 points per game, which is tied for the

0:47.2

worst in the league. So Lamar has now missed two games for the Ravens

0:51.4

a season and is not practiced recently. While Lamar's missed games in the past for various

0:55.7

reasons, there's only been one other time that's been longer than his current injury. And

0:59.9

that was last season when he missed the last four games due to a knee injury.

1:05.6

This isn't an aggressive question, but it's first take. So that's what we do.

1:13.8

Dan, should the Ravens consider cutting ties with Lamar?

1:19.3

So Molly, my heart says you're absolutely insane to think that, right? He's one of the

1:24.3

best players in the NFL. He's everything that city. He's great representative at city

1:29.9

organization. That's what my heart says. Yeah. My mind says, this is not a great situation

1:35.8

for him. This organization in the next six weeks are enormous. Here's the like, because

1:42.2

we know what this league is like with the reality, right? Yeah. He's missed seven out of his

1:46.7

last 22 games. So that's a real thing that they're going to have to sit there and talk

1:50.9

about, specifically with the contract in him. What a miss of like a two year window.

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