Ravens’ Lamar Jackson discusses opening 2024 season at Chiefs

Quarterback Lamar Jackson prompt throughout organized workforce actions final week that he had only in the near past gotten over the Baltimore Ravens’ 17-10 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the latest AFC Championship Sport.

As Josh Alper of Professional Soccer Discuss shared on Monday, Jackson additionally mentioned Baltimore opening the 2024 common season on the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Chiefs on Thursday, Sept. 5.

“I actually don’t care who we play,” Jackson defined. “It actually didn’t matter. On the finish of the day, our aim is to make it to the Tremendous Bowl.” 

Jackson earned the second regular-season Most Invaluable Participant Award of his profession whereas guiding the 2023 Ravens to a conference-best 13-4 file. Nonetheless, he fell to 2-4 as a playoff starter through the seven-point defeat towards the Chiefs. 

In line with Jamison Hensley of ESPN, Jackson’s offenses averaged 10.5 factors in these postseason losses.

“We misplaced to them within the playoffs,” Jackson added about Kansas Metropolis. “Simply us beating them within the common season doesn’t actually do something; it simply helps us maintain stacking up wins to hopefully make it to the playoffs if something to attempt to get in that very same place once more and hopefully achieve success. It actually doesn’t matter who we play [in the] first recreation; clearly, it’s the Chiefs, however I actually didn’t care.”

Jackson revealed that he and his teammates have “just a little chip on our shoulder” coming off the convention title contest. Per Hensley, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh insisted whereas talking with reporters that he is simply positive along with his gamers persevering with to speak about arising brief this previous winter. 

“I need them speaking about the whole lot,” Harbaugh stated. “What we’re speaking about is confronting the whole lot that has to do with us being the perfect we may be as a soccer workforce and as a person participant. So, if that is a part of the confrontation, ‘Let’s go, man. Let’s speak about it, and let’s get higher, and let’s discover a strategy to beat these guys.'”

As of Monday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Chiefs because the betting favorites at +300 odds to symbolize the AFC in Tremendous Bowl LIX. The Ravens have been second on the record at +475 odds.