This time last year, about a week apart, Lamar Jackson and Mike Elias remarked about the state of their respective organizations in an odd moment of affinity.
Jackson, the star quarterback for Baltimore’s perennial playoff contending football team, then off to an 0-2 start, said, “We got to find our mojo because that’s not us at all.” Just a few days later, Elias, the president of baseball operations at the heart of the Orioles’ rebuild, making sense of the twilight of a disappointing season, felt “The mojo that we’ve had, it just has drifted away from us.