Pundit Says Steelers Game Is Most Important Regular-Season Matchup of Lamar Jackson’s Career
The Ravens have to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers at house this Saturday to maintain their hopes of successful the AFC North alive, however the sport has significance past it being a battle for first place.
It’s a very powerful common season sport of Lamar Jackson’s profession, in keeping with Press Box’s Glenn Clark.
“Jackson is 1-4 in his profession in opposition to the Steelers,” Clark wrote. “He’s by no means performed nicely in a win within the rivalry. And whereas it is actually not particularly his fault that the Ravens misplaced the Week 11 matchup, the context is staggering. Jackson posted a quarterback ranking of 154.6 within the Week 15 win in opposition to the Giants. It was his eleventh sport of the season with a QB ranking within the triple digits. The Steelers held him to a 66.1 ranking, which wasn’t simply his lowest of the season, it was 15 factors decrease than his second lowest. It was the bottom ranking he had posted since … the earlier time he performed the Steelers.
“Jackson completely has to rewrite his historical past in opposition to the Steelers. Well, he no less than desperately wants to put in writing a brand new chapter in historical past in opposition to the Steelers. The total crew does, after all.”
To Clark’s level, Jackson is not the one participant on the crew who may use a win over the Steelers. The Ravens have misplaced eight of their previous 9 in opposition to their archrival.
“There are a lot of anomalies in there, certain, however [the Steelers’] Week 11 win wasn’t,” Clark wrote. “It had nothing to do with COVID or backup quarterbacks or receivers dropping footballs. It was the Pittsburgh Steelers getting the Ravens away from what the Ravens accomplish that nicely. It was what led to cornerback Marlon Humphrey saying ‘they’ve sort of had our quantity’ after the sport.
“It’s a cloud hanging over this group. Another loss to the Steelers could be crushing. A single win will not ship them a Super Bowl run. But it could raise a ten,000-pound weight off their collective shoulders.”
