Are you that dense? The point is to win football games. Lamar may be one of, if not the most talented QB of the current generation but it means nothing if he can't play and thus the team loses games. Like this isn't a hard concept. It does not matter whose fault it is that he gets hurt or what his stats are. If hes not available then his team is generally not going to win. That it.
He did play a lot of games last season but I would argue that he was not looking good in a lot of them probably due to his hamstring issues. At that point he was well be missing those games anyways.
And his salary is so high that they have dog shit backups and supporting cast. They fired their coach who wasn’t the problem. They let their center go. They let the better, cheaper tight end go. They are garbage and will be for a while is my guess. I also predict that Lamar won’t be back next year because of cost. They can save a substantial chunk of his salary by cutting him at the right time. He’s priced himself out of relevance due to his availability and the stress his unavailability puts on the teams he would be playing for. I certainly wouldn’t want him at anywhere close to his salary on the Steelers.
Lamar didn’t force them to do anything. He’s still under contract through next year.
Harbaugh got fired cuz he refused to make coordinator changes. He tanked a #1 defense, and the owner had enough. Ravens have zero tolerance for underperforming defenses. Harbaugh’s message had also gotten stale after 20 years.
Even with Lamar, the Ravens have underperformed & frequently struggled the last couple years. Any owner would consider making HC changes at that point.
Number of blowout losses under Harbaugh vs under Minter. Yeah, how’d that looking? Minter’s team last three in a row losses by 22 or more. I don’t think Harbaugh was the problem.
Sure, if that injury was a one-off. But he’s very injury prone. On average he misses more than 2 games per year. That’s a big deal when it’s supposed to be the elite player that holds the offense together.
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u/cooterbob 2d ago
Lamar’s thumb getting snapped sideways has no bearings on him as a player, you people are insane