Ravens QB Lamar Jackson fires back at critics

 Welcome to 2026 guys! Can you believe it? I love Christmas and I love New Year's Day but I'm glad it's over. Now we can talk about the final week of the NFL regular season. Week 18 is going to bring some must watch matchups like Seahawks v 49ers, Panthers vs Bucs and the game I'm looking forward to the most, Ravens v Steelers. That game will decide the AFC North because the Ravens took care of business last week against the Packers and the Steelers choked errrr I mean let a 3-12 Browns team defeat them. I know, any given Sunday each team has the potential to defeat the other no matter the record. Most of the games are meaningless unless you're a gambler.

When the Ravens defeated the Packers last week they used their backup QB Tyler Huntley who played incredibly. However, the Ravens plan on using Lamar Jackson for the Steelers game. Lamar has had his share of injuries this season but it's his willingness to play for the Ravens that was being called into question.

A recent report claimed Ravens head coach John Harbaugh had grown tired of QB Lamar Jackson because he allegedly fell asleep in team meetings and developed a reputation for playing video games late into the night.

When asked if he wanted to stay with the Ravens Jackson said, "Absolutely, man...absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, I don't even know where that comes from."

Lamar also insisted he doesn't play video games late into the evening even during summer months. He also denied falling asleep in team meetings..."Do you think Harbaugh would let me fall asleep in his meeting? That's crazy. I'm right in the front. I don't know, man. It is what it is though."

When asked why he couldn't play against Green Bay Jackson said, "Someone probably thinks I'm a robot, but I'm a human being too. Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid that injury when it happened. I don't really care about the criticism. It's going to be that way, especially with how the season was going and stuff like that. When you're winning, there's no noise, but as soon as you lose, or things don't look right, all types of noise come out of nowhere, so it is what it is."

The Ravens are currently a -3.5 point favorite on the road against the Steelers. Lamar had a lot to say and I do believe him about the injuries I mean when you're injured there's nothing you can do but people don't usually come forward with an anonymous tip to lie on you. As far as not knowing where the news came from, obviously Ravens staff errrr I mean allegedly someone in the Ravens organization.

I'm just thankful for football, college and the pros otherwise...on the nights with no football I have to watch FBI Most Wanted which is my wife's new go to show, it's similar to Criminal Minds which I also barely watched. I'll write about what went down in the college football playoffs in my next blog...

December 2025 Year In Review

 In December NFLPA lawyer Heather McPhee sued the union for retaliation. The lawsuit alleges a former executive director and two current executives conspired to keep her from cooperating with a criminal investigation into union finances. In my first blog on this site I wrote about that former executive Lloyd Howell Jr who was fired for making it rain in strip clubs with the NFL's money errrr I mean officially he resigned due to his conduct...interesting that it's coming full circle.

ESPN released the most frustrated fan bases in MLB with the Minnesota Twins, NY Mets, and Pittsburgh Pirates taking the top three spots. You would think it would be Colorado Rockies fans who's team lost 119 games this season or the former Oakland Athletics fans...the ones that were left. They don't even have a team anymore they lost it to Las Vegas.

The Los Angeles Dodgers winning their second World Series cost them a pretty penny as in addition to their already bloated payroll, they just got hit with a record $169 million in luxury taxes. The MLB luxury tax occurs when a team exceeds the set threshold teams are able to spend on a 40 man roster per season.

Morgan Wallen quitting Saturday Night Live made headlines

The release of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and Avatar Fire and Ash had people returning to the movies

The Baltimore Ravens go into Green Bay without Lamar Jackson and get the win to keep their playoff hopes alive. Derrick Henry's 4 touchdowns may have helped...dude was unstoppable

Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers lose to the 3-12 Cleveland Browns in a game that would've clinched the division title for them...now they have to beat Baltimore next week...well at least the game is meaningful

Philadelphia Eagles offensive coach's house got egged after they lost to the Chicago Bears on Black Friday

Sydney Sweeney has great jeans...that was the ad for American Eagle that featured the Euphoria actress, the marketing campaign caused sales to skyrocket

Dubai Chocolate, Matcha, Bubble Tea, Cronuts, Starbucks olive oil coffee...these are just some of the items my wife demands and they were very popular in 2025...I just lost a bunch of weight when I discovered Persian donuts...my go to on my cheat day

If I say do you know Jess Glynne and her 2015 song Hold My Hand you'd probably say no but if you've watched TikTok this year you definitely do know...The song was infamously used in the Jet2 advertisements which soon began playing over random family vacation videos and pretty soon random fights and other nonsense...the song essentially became the background for chaos

Labubu dolls became the new tickle me Elmo in terms of people going crazy trying to get their hands on one. Rihanna and Dua Lipa were just some of the celebrities spotted with the dolls.

NY Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns proposed to his girlfriend Jordyn Woods on Christmas Day

Someone in Arkansas has $1.8 billion reasons to be thankful as one person won a huge Powerball jackpot on Christmas Eve! I like when a group of blue collar hard working people win and not some already rich stockbroker in Florida...

As I am writing this news is breaking about boxer Anthony Joshua who was involved in a fatal car accident where two people have died in Nigeria, he is reportedly injured...

Obviously so much more occured in 2025 but I just wrote about what I found to be the most interesting things that happened...I have some surprises in store for this blog coming soon...Happy New Year! 

 

 

 

 

November 2025 Year In Review

 The infamous Epstein Files has really been a topic for years but in November more detailed files were released. Jeffrey Epstein was the scum of the earth and he ran in a lot of celebrity circles which is why so many prominent people have pictures with him, some are photographed a lot more than others but at some point all of his 'associates' had to have know what dude was up to and if they didn't that doesn't excuse hanging out with a known child sex trafficker.

The Dodgers forced a game 7 in the World Series by holding off the Blue Jays 3-1 in game 6...

The latest as of November, in the D4vd singer case involving the body of 15 year old Celeste Rivas-Hernandez was that the singer had been named a suspect along with one other person...lab results were still pending which was causing the delays in actual charges being brought.

Senator Mark Kelly was facing a Pentagon investigation for encouraging military members to refuse illegal orders...

Rapper Cardi B was in Foxborough for a Patriots game supporting WR Stefon Diggs who she's dating...She was spotted in owner Robert Kraft's suite

The Dodgers win game 7 and repeat as World Series Champions!

Washington's QB Jayden Daniels dislocates his elbow in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks

The NY Jets trade Sauce Gardner to the Colts pretty much throwing in the towel on the season errr I mean getting ready to rebuild I guess

The death of 18 year old Anna Kepner on a Carnival Cruise made the headlines and her stepbrother was initially a person of interest...no arrest have been made but her death has been ruled a homicide and the investigation is ongoing...

James Harden of the Clippers found the fountain of youth as dude was averaging 35 points per game

Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns was on fire scoring at least 30 points in 6 of the first 11 games on the season...

Remember Prince Harry went to Canada for events marking the end of WW1 and ended up apologizing for wearing a LA Dodgers hat at a World Series game against the Blue Jays...Canada is a British Commonwealth nation where his father King Charles III is the head of state oops! Harry then put on a Blue Jays hat...all is forgiven dude, I think LeBron wearing a Yankees hat was worse.

 Former NFL star Antonio Brown was arrested in Dubai on an attempted murder warrant out of Miami...has anyone fallen further faster than this guy? Well besides Diddy?

The NY Jets got the second win of the year against Cleveland...NY got a touchdown on a punt return and another touchdown on a kickoff return...that's terrible even for the Browns

Rapper Akon was arrested for failure to appear in court for a suspended license...this is all from September when he had a run in with cops while being stranded in his Cybertruck...dude just needed a charging station but it all went downhill...

NY Giants fired head coach Brian Daboll...

The Miami Dolphins get an upset win against the Buffalo Bills and Miami's head coach Mike McDaniels trolls Bills fans in pictures that surfaced only to blame the pictures on A.I. 

Bill Belichick was considered for the vacant head coaching position on the NY Giants but he wasn't focused on that, he was focused on Wake Forest who defeated his Tar Heels 28-12...

The first part of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things premiered on Netflix

Browns QB Shadeur Sanders gets his first career start on the road vs the Raiders

Finally, Dallas Cowboys players CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens missed a 10 p.m. curfew so they were benched for the first series against the Las Vegas Raiders. Lamb told reporters that he and Pickens were at Red Rock Casino just having dinner and drinks...he denied throwing up outside the casino which was mentioned on social media...Pickens would be benched again for missing the team bus...come on guys you're not only athletes...you're supposed to be professional athletes.