{"id":18551,"date":"2021-01-06T04:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2021-01-06T04:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:36:46","slug":"lamar-jackson-is-determined-with-the-baltimore-ravens-winning-the-2021-nfl-super-bowl-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=18551","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson Is Determined With The Baltimore Ravens Winning the 2021 NFL Super Bowl CHAMPIONSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lamar Jackson Led Offense Has Compiled A List of the Ravens Records in 2020 Season<\/h1>\n

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If you were to go to Lamar Jackson’s house, you wouldn’t find his MVP trophy, nor his Heisman trophy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They’re in a closet, still bubble-wrapped in the luggage they were shipped in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“If we win a Super Bowl, I’ll put my stuff up. But I’m not putting stuff up right now,” Jackson said. “I’m focused on getting a bigger trophy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackson does have a championship ring \u2026 from when he was 11 years old. He got it after he won the Super Bowl as the star of the Northwest Broward Raiders of the South Florida Youth Football League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s one of, if not the<\/em>, best moments of my life,” Jackson said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackson is the youngest player to win the Heisman Trophy, the youngest quarterback to ever start an NFL playoff game, the youngest quarterback to start the Pro Bowl, the youngest quarterback to win NFL MVP and only second player to win it by unanimous vote. Oh, and he toppled Michael Vick’s single-season quarterback rushing record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But despite the piles of awards and records, Jackson hasn’t taken home many team honors, which doesn’t sit well for such a team guy. He’s been chasing that through high school, through college, and in the NFL.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No matter what Jackson does this season, no matter what jaw-dropping highlights he floods social media with or how many regular-season wins and awards he piles up, people will still be waiting to see what he does in the playoffs because that’s where Jackson’s off to an 0-2 start.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fixing that, and winning the Lombardi Trophy, is all<\/em> he cares about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s unceasing, it’s burning,” Ravens Quarterbacks Coach James Urban said of Jackson’s Super Bowl desires. “It’s short of an obsession, but it’s an obsession \u2013 if you get what I’m saying.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By South Florida standards, it was a cool November day at Dillard High School when the Northwest Broward Raiders took on the Fort Lauderdale Hurricanes in the 11U FYFL Super Bowl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The stands were packed to see if Jackson and his Raiders could knock off the undefeated, back-to-back champs. At the end of the regular season, the Hurricanes topped the Raiders, 12-0, and were riding a 40-something-game win streak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“That was the big game. That was the game everybody wanted to see,” said Ed “Bubba” Jones, the head coach of Jackson’s Raiders. “And we whupped ’em!”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The game didn’t start off so well, however. On the Raiders’ first offensive drive, Jackson marched them down the field to the 3-yard line. Jones called a spread formation quarterback draw up the middle \u2013 and Jackson fumbled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“After that, all the jitters went out and he threw two touchdowns. Kicked the extra points, too,” Jones said with a laugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I wish I could find this photo of me with him on the sideline. You can see the intensity when I’m giving him the play \u2013 the intensity in his eyes and the focus he has. You know that picture of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning shaking hands at midfield where they look at each other like, ‘I’m gonna kick your ass.’ That’s what Lamar looked like.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Raiders won, 14-6. Jackson still remembers the fumble (he actually recalls fumbling twice). He also remembers laying a massive hit on a Hurricane player, sending his helmet flying, but Jones said that was in the regular-season meeting. Most of all, Jackson remembers that winning feeling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was epic for us as little kids,” Jackson said. “Coach asked us if we wanted to go to Disney World or get a ring. We chose the rings.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What 11-year-old kid turns down Disney World? The rings cost around $200 each and Jackson and his teammates wore them like they were worth a million bucks. Like his other awards, it’s not on display now, but Jackson saw it when he was moving recently, so he knows he still has it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ravens wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown grew up playing in the same youth football league, but in a younger division. He and Jackson played each other once when Brown joined up with an older squad that didn’t have enough players. Brown was playing safety and says he picked Jackson off.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Everybody knew him. He was the only dude at 8 years old that threw the ball,” Brown said on \u201cThe Lounge\u201d podcast<\/a>. “Everybody was so scared of him running that he would throw it over your head so I just stayed back. They won the game though. Actually, there was a lightning delay, so we never finished!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We still talk about those games, how he might have outrun somebody or hit somebody or threw a touchdown. We go at it and have memories about it all the time.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Winning a championship, even a youth football championship, is a big deal in South Florida, where the kids were watching film at before they were teenagers. Jackson’s personal throwing coach who he had worked out with ever summer since college, Joshua Harris, believes it’s where Jackson’s championship obsession began.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The little kids leagues are so competitive,” Harris said. “You have no bragging rights if you haven’t won a Super Bowl in whatever your league is. There’s a lot of great players down here, so what separates the greats are the ones who won.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jones remembers how people literally gasped when they saw 11-year-old Jackson run like a deer, then throw the ball 40 yards. By the time he was a senior at Boynton Beach High School, he was a household name in South Florida prep football circles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He was putting up gaudy statistics and Boynton Beach was averaging nearly 50 points per game when it met Hallendale High School for a battle of two unbeatens. It was Halloween Night in 2014 when Jackson and his teammates traveled 45 minutes south for the District 15-6A title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackson had dominated Hallendale one year earlier, knocking them out of state playoff contention with a 35-7 victory. A full scouting report on Jackson, who had transferred to Boynton Beach High after sitting out a year, hadn’t reached Hallendale’s coaches’ desks. Ill prepared, Jackson ran wild.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This time, Hallendale was ready and had a star quarterback of their own in Tyler Huntley (yes, that<\/em> Tyler Huntley who the Ravens signed as an undrafted rookie this year). The two quarterbacks went back and forth. Jackson ripped off a 51-yard touchdown run. Huntley threw a 52-yard touchdown. Down a couple touchdowns at halftime, Jackson took over in the third quarter, scoring on a 12-yard juking run, then a 70-yard touchdown throw.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“I remember Lamar just doing his thing, just running up the scoreboard,” Huntley said on \u201cThe Lounge\u201d podcast<\/a>. “In order for us to win the game, we had to keep going back-and-forth with him.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hallendale came back with a couple more touchdowns to take a 35-22 lead with just under four minutes to play, but Jackson wasn’t done. He answered with a 44-yard touchdown pass, then following a recovered onside kick, found his receiver with a 17-yard touchdown with 30 seconds left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Huntley got the last laugh, quickly driving Hallendale down the field to set up a 31-yard game-winning field goal with no time remaining. It was a crushing defeat, and one Jackson still thinks about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As fate would have it, the Ravens signed Huntley, who went on to star at Utah, as an undrafted free agent this offseason. As soon as the news was announced, Jackson tweeted at Huntley, “You owe me from that game I didn’t forget.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Hell yeah I still think about that game! Hell yeah,” Jackson said. “We still be talking about it. We talk about any loss I took. I definitely think about those losses more than the wins.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackson’s last high school game was a 49-6 loss to powerhouse Miami Central, which was going for its fourth state title in five years. Jackson was 3-of-9 passing for 36 yards, two interceptions and was sacked nine times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After the game, Central’s coach told the Miami Herald that “our game plan was to make sure he doesn’t beat us and make somebody else beat us.” Opponents have taken the same approach ever since.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When he was training Jackson during his college days, with Jackson becoming one of the nation’s hottest tickets, Harris noticed Jackson would still talk about his high school games with his friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I would be like, ‘Bro, what are you talking about!?’ I had to go back and watch that Hallendale game,” Harris said. “It still haunts him. He talks about it all the time.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harris’ 15-year-old son, Hezekiah, trained with Jackson and some Ravens players this offseason. Hezekiah has three years left at St. Thomas Aquinas High, so in red marker, he wrote win a state championship and drew three empty boxes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Lamar never won a state championship, so he said, ‘You’ve gotta win one for me,'” Hezekiah told Sports Illustrated<\/a>. “I told him, ‘I got you.’ I put the sign on my ceiling for when I lay down in my bed, and I can always see it, to remind me that’s the goal.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Louisville football had a storied program, but it hadn’t had a star like Jackson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackson lifted Louisville’s college football program to new heights, starting in 2015 when he was a true freshman starter. After losing his first three games, Jackson rattled off seven wins in the last nine games, including a Music City Bowl win over Texas A&M.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He became a Heisman Trophy contender as a sophomore with an early-season 63-20 thumping of then No. 2-ranked Florida State, in which he ran for four touchdowns and threw another. That propelled Louisville to No. 3 in the national rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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