This season has played out quite similarly to the way the 2019 season played out for the Baltimore Ravens with the team earning the top seed in the AFC and Lamar Jackson likely earning the league’s MVP Award. But Jackson hopes that the result in the playoffs is not the same.
Back in 2019, the Ravens looked to be legitimate Super Bowl contenders but suffered a stunning loss to the Tennessee Titans in the divisional round of the playoffs. But Lamar Jackson seems convinced that it’s different this year.
“2019 is over with,” Jackson said in his Wednesday press conference according to Pro Football Talk. “We’re always talking about it. I always find myself talking about it, but it’s different. That was just my first full season [starting] in the NFL and my second year in the league, at that. But it’s a different mindset, a different group of guys. I just feel like all around, we’re different.”
Now, as the team prepares for the playoffs, Jackson made it clear that they aren’t focusing on 2019.
“We just let that junk go. We have to let that go,” Jackson said. “[We have] different guys, like I said, [and this is] a different team. All around, just a different atmosphere. I feel like we’re just on a whole other level from then, because all we talk about is just the next team — not what the future may hold in a few weeks.”
We’ll have to see if the Ravens have a different result this year.
