John Harbaugh opens Ravens camp with defense of Lamar Jackson

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh capped his team's first practice of training camp Sunday with an impassioned defense of quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Asked about the criticism directed at the reigning NFL's reigning Most Valuable Player for not reaching the Super Bowl, Harbaugh delivered a stirring 2-minute, 43-second response.

"There's a lot of great things said about Lamar, but there's a lot of stuff that's said that you just got to scratch your head about and kind of wonder, 'What's that person even thinking?'" Harbaugh said Sunday. "But we take it personally."

In February, at the age of 27, Jackson became the youngest two-time NFL…