On Thursday, Lamar Jackson spoke publicly for the first time since agreeing to his record-breaking contract, and the quarterback revealed his goal for the upcoming NFL season.
reached out to him after the Ravens used the non-exclusive franchise tag on him, but he was not interested in leaving Baltimore."I just really wanted to get something done here. I wanted to be here. I was like, ‘Man, OK, other teams cool, but I want to be a Raven.’ … I really wanted to get this done before anything, before my time up and branch off somewhere else. I really want to finish my career here and win a Super Bowl here.
"I wanna tell them that we making progress, but I don’t because I don’t want to spoil what’s going on. … I love the community so much. I tell everybody that’s like my third home because Florida, Louisville, then here. But I’m here for five years, so this my home home." "I think I told someone, like, ‘Man, I wanna throw for like 6,000 yards with the weapons we have,’" Jackson said."And I’m not an individual award type guy or a stat watcher. I just want to do that because no one’s ever done it, and I feel like we have the weapons to do it."
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