Practices are just different with Lamar Jackson. There’s a level of athleticism and excellence that can’t be duplicated, only emulated but without the same results. Lamar’s presence just elevates everything – the competition; the execution; the intensity; the opportunity.
He makes the offense better. He makes the defense better. And that’s why it’s so important for him to be at all practices, something that from this point forward you would expect from him. Yet until an extension morphs from a possibility to a reality, discussions about a new contract or the lack thereof will continue. And you have to wonder, now that the market has been set by Deshaun Watson, and the Ravens seem willing to pay market value, what is he waiting for?