The Ravens' Bet on Lamar Jackson Is Paying Off
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Ravens rattled off their ninth straight win on Sunday, defeating the Bills 24-17 and moving to first overall in the AFC. In the process, Lamar Jackson became just the second quarterback in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, and the 22-year-old is seen by many as the leading candidate for league MVP. The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia joins us to talk about how the Ravens gambled on Jackson in the off-season by rearranging their offense to suit his incredible rushing skills, and to discuss whether the Ravens’ success with a dual-threat QB will become a blueprint for other teams in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | What could be the big Sunday in the NFL? |
| 0:09.8 | First in epic shootout in New Orleans where Niners quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo outdool drew |
| 0:14.6 | Breeze and the Saints in a 48-46 win. |
| 0:18.4 | Breeze carved up the NFL's top ranked passing defense for 349 yards and five touchdowns. |
| 0:25.2 | The Garoppolo who had 349 yards and four touchdowns of his own led a game winning drive that |
| 0:31.8 | ended in a Robbie Goldfield goal as time expired. |
| 0:41.8 | The Niners are now 11-2 and hold an important tiebreaker in the race for the top seed in |
| 0:46.6 | the NFC. |
| 0:48.1 | And in a rematch of last season's AFC title game, Pat Mahomes flexed his reigning MVP muscle |
| 0:54.2 | and the Chiefs defense came up huge in the final minutes of their 23-16 win over Tom |
| 0:58.8 | Brady and the Patriots. |
| 1:00.6 | New England had won 21 straight at home coming into the game. |
| 1:04.7 | With the win, the Chiefs, now 9-4, clinched the AFC West title for the fourth straight |
| 1:10.2 | season. |
| 1:11.2 | But our story today is about arguably the best player in the league right now. |
| 1:15.8 | Is Lamar the best quarterback in the NFL? |
| 1:19.1 | Yes, he's the MVP this season, he's the best. |
| 1:22.5 | Lamar Jackson has been lighting up the NFL all season as the Ravens have built up an |
| 1:26.8 | 11-2 record and rattled off nine straight wins, including a victory over the bills on Sunday. |
| 1:33.5 | He became just the second quarterback ever to run for a thousand yards at a season and |
| 1:38.4 | he'll almost certainly break Michael Vicks 13-year-old single-season rushing record for |
| 1:42.6 | quarter back soon. |
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