Calvin Johnson Reveals The Real Reason Why Lamar & The Ravens Lost

RG3 and Calvin Johnson talk about the Ravens losing to the Chiefs, and how Lamar Jackson can grow from this experience.
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[checkdown]

Terrible play calling by the Ravens. They played against all of Lamar's strengths. Horrible game plan.

[Ultimatefightpick]

They lost because they ignored the run game

[delscott]

They lost because KC sent them into panic mode early. They lost faith in their defense and the OC start calling a game anticipating a shootout with KC.

[kylewojo]

I was just thinking the same thing the weeks prior. We have to stop resting the starters especially lamar. It never ends well and that was my concern when we started to get towards the playoffs. So glad rg3 brought that up

[pwnyg]

Calvin Johnson is the man. Great convo.

[jefferylord]

Why in the world would the best running team in the nfl not run the ball? Look at the all 22. A bunch of dbs on the field and monken has lamar passing 82% of the time????

[RobertSmith-gnhe]

Don’t ignore the run game and the Ravens would’ve been in the Super Bowl. How idiotic can the offensive coordinator be?

[stephennelson]

John harbuagh said today, we saw the run defense so we didn’t run the ball 🤯. Come on man that’s who we are, Gus had a few good run one for like 16 yards. They abandoned their identity, it hurt to watch. And I can just feel it even after the TD to zay, I was like ahhh I’m not feeling this there was no momentum.

[NiteMare]

Lamar melts under pressure like an ice cream sandwich 😂😂

[cde]

MADD facts, I said that same thing bout not sitting the starters, once you lose momentum, it’s gon.

[haywood]

This game was the epitome of patience is a virtue. True patience is understanding that time is THE uncontrollable. NOBODY has or ever will be able to slow it down or speed it up. It is understanding that you have the past, present, and future. You use the past advantageously by learning from it and plan/prepare for the future by controlling YOUR NOW, the present. Patience is essentially controlling NOW without harboring negativity from the past or projecting it onto the future. That being said, the Ravens did not operate with this competence. They operated from fear, doubt, anxiety and desperation, which all juxtapose patience by getting away from the moment and thus their identity... and in a 17-10 ball game. That tells me the coaches are not and were not ready for the moment and BAL needs to consider changes. They froze up in the moment and completely abandoned doing all the things that brought them there in the first place. Coaching matters. We even saw this with DET where Campbell let aggression turn into a personal matter and his decisions wiped away all the effort the players put forth. BAL staff made themselves, LJ, and the whole squad look bad

[mrnofoxgiven]

On point as always RG3. Great conversation, i think a few tweaks on O-line, some new blood and some contract restructures, we will be back, but this hurt, bad...

[raymondcoonts]

Baltimore native it still feels like my heart is ripped out from that loss

[Fift]

Teams don’t respect Lamar’s ability to stand in the pocket and throw the football .

[sano]

In my opinion the game was fixed. The NFL and Ravens ownership order the Raven's coach to trash their own winning game plan. Taylor Swift has raised the tv ratings on these games exponentially.

It's happened before the 2004 Super Bowl between the Raiders and the Bucs was another fixed game.

The 2016 World Cup game between Germany and Brazil was a FIFa fixed game. The word was the players were told that they were going to lose just before the match previous to the Qtr Finals against Germany. The players were so stunned that they quickly gave up 7 goals. Neymar faked a injury because he wanted nothing to do with a fixed game in Brasil.

[jurrisaddler]

Good video good analysis. I was shocked that Ravens didn’t win, but in this video some valid points were made.

[jameshurst]

Big respect for AG3, I did subscribe.

[tylerscott]

ENOUGH EXCUSES FOR LAMAR. For crying out loud, the dude only needed to put up 18 for a win. He had the league leading defense, league leading rushing attack, a seasoned pro SB winning HC, a bye week, home field advantage. He got the WR and OC he asked for in the off season, he got the bag he wanted and STILL CHOKED when it mattered. Yall refuse to criticize him. Stop it!!!

[benshihadeh]

That defense gave the Ravens every chance. If Lamar didn’t have an ego to want to be the hero, he would have told the OC, maybe we should lean on the run. This is on Lamar.

[kcDetroit]

Calvin the great! I remember running into him in Target when he played for my Lions 🦁