BALTIMORE — In the moments after the Baltimore Ravens’ what-just-happened 36-35 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night, the football world was fixated on a fourth-quarter conversation between coach John Harbaugh and quarterback Lamar Jackson before a critical fourth down. Harbaugh asked Jackson whether they should go for it, and Jackson said they should and then converted what was the victory-clinching play.
What shouldn’t go overlooked is how this upset victory became the loudest statement ever made by Jackson in the regular season.
In a span of 17 minutes, Jackson emphatically checked off two of the biggest remaining items on his NFL to-do list: prove he can beat Patrick Mahomes after losing the first three times, and show he can come back from a double-digit deficit.