Lamar Jackson is adamant that the Ravens are solely focused on winning the Super Bowl and not on outside noise by the media. Baltimore has plenty to be proud of as they proved many prognosticators and pundits wrong about their chances against the 49ers. But, according to Jackson, they’re focused on the ultimate goal.
“It was just, ‘This team is … the Ravens; we don’t know about the Ravens.’ Now it’s, ‘Oh, they’re the No. 1 team.’ So, we’re not paying [any] mind to that. I feel like that’s bait — that’s clickbait. And like I said, we’re trying to make it to February, so we’re going to take it a game at a time,” he said in a quote obtained by ESPN.com Staff Writer Jamison Hensley.
His comments echo what he said in his postgame interview with Lisa Salters after the Christmas Day win. Regarding his MVP odds, he said, “I’m honored to be in the conversation. Um, I have one, uh, man. We just got to keep winning, keep doing what we need to do to get to February. That’s all.”
He also spoke about next week’s highly anticipated game against the Miami Dolphins and was consistent in his comments about focus, saying when Salters asked how it feels to clinch the AFC with a victory, “[It] just sounds like noise right now. You know, we have to play against those guys – a great team, the Dolphins. So, we have to be prepared for Sunday.”
He did, however, have choice words for Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk after Florio claimed that the 49ers would, “Kick the sh*t out the Ravens”.
“You can’t just discredit us. We grown men, we got to feed our families. He can have his opinion but just don’t be talking like that. That’s disrespectful. That’s very disrespectful,” he said in the postgame presser of the comments. “Not to take away from the 49ers at all, like they’re great all across the board, but we gone come to play as well. Our record not no fluke.
We play ball and we showed that. But he needs to keep doing his job and just don’t come off like that towards us. That’s disrespectful, like I said, cause he isn’t putting the pads on. If he were putting the pads on I feel he would’ve meant different for me. He wouldn’t say that. He would be respectful.
I say that we are respectful to our opponents. Our opponents are respectful to us. But the guy we’re not even playing against just come out being disrespectful to us. I guess he wanted more views on his little channel. We’re going to leave it at that.”
The Ravens look to continue to stay focused while also proving naysayers wrong with another heavyweight clash, this time against the Miami Dolphins, on Sunday at 1 PM EST.
