The standoff made perfect sense in many respects. “I just felt like we were doing things the right way, and treating Lamar the right way and that it would work out one way or another.” “That’s what I felt good about the whole way,” Harbaugh said. Even though the result was in doubt, he said he never doubted the goodwill of both sides. He had said all along he wanted Jackson to remain the team’s centerpiece for years to come, reiterating his personal affection for the quarterback at every opportunity. He leaped off the machine, grabbed his glasses and raced to get a closer look. 8 jerseys and cheer for Jackson again.īrooks Sandler, a 30-year-old Baltimore native who works in the University of Pittsburgh athletic department, was running on a treadmill when he saw a Ravens alert pop up on a nearby television. Thursday turned into an impromptu holiday for those same Ravens loyalists who’d questioned whether they would ever pull on their No. When Jackson made his March 2 trade request public, fans prepared to break up with an athlete they had once feted as the next candidate to enter the Baltimore sports pantheon populated by the likes of Ray Lewis, Cal Ripken Jr., Brooks and Frank Robinson, and Johnny Unitas. The sea was stormy, to say the least, for a franchise that has always prided itself on stability. That same week, Bateman lashed out at DeCosta in a since-deleted tweet, saying: “How bout you play to your player’s strength and & stop pointing the finger at us and #8.
Jackson’s contract imbroglio was the chief source of dread, but the Ravens suffered an embarrassment when a survey released by the NFL Players Association awarded a grade of F-minus to the team’s strength and conditioning staff under recently departed coach Steve Saunders. (Andrew Ivins / Sun Sentinel )Ī pervasive gloom had settled over Baltimore football fans in the months after a season-ending playoff loss in Cincinnati, where the Ravens appeared on the verge of upsetting the Bengals until Jackson’s stand-in, Tyler Huntley, fumbled at the goal line. Boynton Beach quarterback Lamar Jackson is being courted by Louisville, West Virginia and Auburn.
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