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Both sides are making business decisions at the end of the day. It's their right. But, I can't take people seriously who think that the Ravens are all right and Jackson is all wrong. That's not how life works, and it's not how the NFL works.

Not really. I didn't enter that line of thinking into the discussion. I don't think that it matters. I could care less. If Jackson didn't travel for medical, personal or political reasons doesn't matter to me. We all should be wise enough to analyze both sides of the situation and understand that there's not necessarily a right or wrong, and do this without casting some type of negativity based upon either side.

Lamar Jackson's situation is like anything else. The devil would be in the details. To make grand, sweeping statements, and precluding yourself from this or that based upon what someone else is or isn't doing simply makes little sense. You look at your situation---your pocket book---your personnel---your philosophy---your goals---and you go from there. That goes for Jackson or anyone else.

No. They didn't. They absolutely did not. Teams that win championships don't necessarily have a cookie cutter approach believe it or not. Furthermore, neither Fox or Rivera built anything. They did not have that kind of authority. I prefer someone that thinks outside the box and situationally manages, just like I prefer a coach that situationally coaches. I'd argue that neither Fox or Rivera did that consistently enough (if at all). Hence, they were never my favorite guys.

Go find it then.

Yeah, those were my exact words. I didnt stutter, and you obviously don't understand nuance. Sure, you can learn things from different sources, but you have to make the decisions based on your own situation. That's the away it should be. Period.

Well that's the problem, you "don't believe," but you also don't know. I do know that plane flights affect inflamation and certain injuries in different ways.

That's not what I said. I stand by what I said.

No team owner or manager should be making decisions based on what another team is doing. As a fan, I certainly don't care what they're doing. As far as that goes, I'd be more apt to follow what the Steelers are and aren't doing than the Ravens, but I still believe that every manager should be looking at their own situation--completing their own puzzle.

Not traveling with the team with injury is a normal occurrence due to.medical reasons. Tua was in south Florida yesterday as well. Coaches coach, not the players. This has nothing to do with Jackson's leadership.

Ravens ownership and management is just as guilty, if not more so for the Ravens' predicament in my opinion. They're ultimately the ones pulling the purse strings and the ones that could not seem to get the quality of skill-position players around Jackson that would've allowed the team to move forward while Jackson was on his rookie contract. Now they're going to have to pay one way or another. I mean, sure, last night's game may have come down to a pretty crazy call to QB sneak it from one and a half yards out, but poo happens. They are not going to fire Harbaugh over that. They're just not.

I don't care what Watkins, Payton or anyone says; Jackson doesn't have to risk himself by playing through injury. At the end of the day, it would really be stupid for a player to risk his career for a franchise that is unwilling to give him the kind of financial generational security that he feels that he and his family are worth. Perhaps he may have played if he had that security, or perhaps not. We don't know. But I am not going to fault him for trying to protect himself, or if he believes that he couldn't give 100 percent. If his not playing in that situation alienates people that's their problem. They will still be talking poo if Jackson had gone out and looked bad or hurt himself worse by playing, and none of them would be trying to reach into their pockets to pay him what he will probably get on the market.

I've seen this quip before. It's stale and not amusing.

If you're going to hate on Jackson as a QB, at least get your facts straight.

Average passer ≠ 96.7 passer rating

For me, the problem is not Lamar's play, it's the possible pay. I don't understand why so many people don't appreciate Jackson. He has been a league MVP, is electric with his legs, and has a career passer rating of 96.7. Sure he's gotten banged up a bit in his career and has arguably relied on his running a bit much,but that's the Ravens offense, and it's not like he's had the best weapons in the world. Outside of Andrews, his weapons have been kind of blah.

In on every deal, as well we should be.

Sudfeld or Darnold...I'd say Darnold wins that.

We'll see. I think Johnson is as good as ours. I don't believe we'll spend that type of compensation on AR though. He's way too raw.

I don't believe that we will draft Anthony Richardson at nine. His development will take way too much time to spend that type of draft compensation, and as such I just can't see any sensible GM drafting him in the top 10 (or top 20, really).

Depends on who's there, and how you graded him. As for me, I think you have to go BPA, but with one caveat if you're in QB purgatory like we seem to be in: if it's close, I'd likely go with the QB, even if that's not my usual modus operandi. But, it would have to be close. As for this draft specifically, outside of the top 3, I just can't see us drafting a QB at nine.

Not really. It depends upon the circumstances.

Sure, we don't know if in fact that Lance will even be put on the block, but we do know what Shanahan has said about Lance, and we do know that he has consistently stated that he still believes in him.

Yeah, but that's not really what's going on in the case of the 49ers.

The Jags have a talented squad. Let's stop acting like they don't. I'm not saying that coaching hasn't made all the difference, but lastnight wasn't about the Jags having a bad squad, it was about Goldilocks making some extremely bad decisions during the first half that actually made the Chargers look better than they really are and the Jags look worse than they are. Pederson was the calming influence that stuck to the game plan and got Lawrence and his guys doing what he knew that they can do. Some of us actually thought that the Jags were the better team (or, at the very least, surging at the right time).