The Baltimore Ravens deserve what happened to them on Sunday night football by the Buffalo Bills. Once again the Ravens blow a 4th quarter lead because they think they have the game all wrapped up in a pretty bow. Zay Flowers was waving to the Bills Mafia. The announcers were saying he was saying hello because he did not play in the playoff loss versus the Bills last season when the Ravens were eliminated, due to injury. He was on his high horse showboating to the home team fans that this game was done and the Bills’ goose was cooked. He was waving like he won the Miss America pageant. Then after DeAndre Hopkins’ one hand grab touchdown, they proceeded to celebrate within reach of the visiting fans. Once again showboating as the Hopkins touchdown should have put the game on ice. Then Hopkins gets swatted in the helmet by a young Bills fan. Then the fan may have touched Lamar Jackson’s helmet as he came over to celebrate with his wide receiver after the amazing catch. Jackson then pushed the fan back into his seat forcefully. It’s not a very good look seeing your MVP quarterback shoving a fan.

Lamar Jackson is one of the best quarterbacks in the league. He’s a duel threat quarterback that can do damage throwing the football or running with it. In Sunday night’s game, he completed 14-19 passes for 209 passing yards with two touchdown passes. He took off 6 times for 70 yards and had one rushing touchdown. He is 70-25 as a starting quarterback. He has thrown 168 touchdown passes compared to only 49 interceptions. The Ravens are a good team every year and they are one of those teams with good odds to win the Superbowl. Jackson has won the MVP twice. In post-season, he is 3-5 all-time. The Ravens have had home field advantage throughout the post-season with Jackson. Once in 2019, as they were upset in the divisional round by the Tennessee Titans. Then in 2023 the visiting Buffalo Bills ended their playoff run in the divisional round. In 2024 they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship. Since 2022, the Ravens have lost six regular season games when they had a 4th quarter lead of 9 points or more. Six games. The last time the Ravens won the Superbowl was back in 2013. They have won two Superbowls, the first coming back in 2001. Back then they had Ray Lewis who was a leader for those two teams that won it all. Lewis was so determined he got away with two murders in Atlanta as a fan at a Superbowl. Or was it, did he try to help his posse by covering it up? You can believe either story. Lewis was dirty however he did the dirty job until the job was completed, unlike Jackson.

Why does Lamar Jackson let a guy like Zay Flowers do his own antics on the field? If you are a Ravens fan, do you remember when the antics of Flowers lost you the AFC Championship versus the Chiefs in 2024? Flowers was called for a very costly taunting penalty. Then he fumbled the football into the red zone by the goal line which became a touch back for the Chiefs instead of score for the Ravens. After the fumble he cut his hand slamming it on the bench. This does not bother Jackson sitting on the bench with his posse wearing a hooded shirt under his helmet on a fall night of 60 degrees. He plays home games in Baltimore and his record in cold games is dismal. You should shift the blame to the head coach John Harbaugh. He has a pair of Superbowl rings but has not brought the gauntlet down on the dirty Ravens. On Sunday, mistake after mistake in the 4th quarter brought the Bills back. Will they learn from them? No. Again six times since 2022, the Ravens blow 4th quarter leads. Why did the Ravens go for it 4th and 2 on Sunday night inside the 2 minute warning? Poor Lamar had cramps. The Ravens defense was not stopping the Bills at that point as they got the ball back and went down the field on them. This as Allen shredded their secondary and set up the game winning field goal.

The Ravens old kicker is suspended for the first ten games of the 2025 season for violating the NFL conduct policy. Justin Tucker is a Hall of Fame kicker but did his best impersonation of Deshaun Watson liking to whip it out on the massage tables. Many massage therapists across Maryland came out of the woodwork with sexual harassment claims of the Ravens kicker. Tucker is 35 years old & I don’t think anyone will sign him after he serves the 10 games. He will hang up the spikes. No team wants this kind of pub from a kicker. They have seen what Watson has become in Cleveland.

The Ravens will not win any more Superbowls with Lamar Jackson being Lamar Jackson. This guy’s stats are video game-like every Sunday. He’s not a leader. He does not have the killer instinct to put teams away like Patrick Mahomes. Would Michael Jordan shove a fan? No way Lamar. A true MVP goes beyond what’s on the outside of the field, court or ice. You can argue he was sticking up for DeAndre Hopkins. The veteran receiver was not in harm’s way with some young high school or early college punk. I do not condone what the Bills fan did. It’s stupid and he will be banned from every NFL stadium. The Ravens wear that purple and black uniform trying to be intimidating. The purple Raven coming from the great novelist Edgar Allen Poe, who was a Baltimore native and his famous poem is called the Raven. With Ray Lewis, the Ravens defense was the best in the league when they won. They only needed guys like Joe Flacco and Trent Dilfur at the QB position to hand the ball off and be game managers. Flacco did more with his arm than Dilfur. The Ravens have constructed this mega offense with Jackson and Derrick Henry. Henry had a late fumble in that Sunday game which helped the Bills win that game. Before that fumble, Henry was gashing the Bills defense with 18 carries, 169 rushing yards, and two touchdowns. The Ravens offense put up 40 points and lost the game. Back when the Ravens won it all last, they had a good offense, not like today’s, to go with that stellar defense. The Ravens defense is not very good the last two seasons. They were a pretty good unit when they made the AFC Championship versus the Chiefs. That game was lost by Lamar and his buddy Flowers with his antics. With lack of leadership and suspect defense, the Ravens are still going to be a top team in the league. They will not win or get to the Superbowl until something radically changes there. They have to clean up their cage if they want to knock off the AFC champs, the Chiefs.