The Baltimore Ravens fell just shy of a trip to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon when they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game, and quarterback Lamar Jackson is not happy about it.
During his postgame press conference, Lamar Jackson made it very clear that the predominant emotion he felt after the game wasn’t frustration or sadness, but anger.
“I’m not frustrated at all,” Jackson said. “I’m angry about losing. We were a game away from the Super Bowl. We’ve been waiting all this time, all these moments for an opportunity like this, and we fell short, but I feel like our team is going to build. This offseason, we’re going to get right, get better, grind and try to be in this position again but on the other side of victory.”
Jackson made it clear that the rest of the locker room felt this way too, saying “we’re mad.” And for him, that anger comes from what felt like an uncharacteristically poor performance from the team’s offense.
“We got to this position,” Jackson said. “One game away from the Super Bowl — what I’ve been talking about and my team has been talking about all season — and we fell short. Like I said, the offense, we didn’t put [enough] on the board. We scored once. That’s not like us. We drove the ball down the field — that’s cool –—but we’ve got to put points on the board. I feel like my team is just angry. [We’re] not frustrated; we’re just angry, because we know how hard we worked to get here.”
Now, the Ravens will just have to set their sights on next year.
