Don’t blame Taylor Swift. Don’t blame Pfizer. Don’t blame Travis Kelce, don’t blame the referees, don’t blame Roger Goodell.
Blame Lamar Jackson, Zay Flowers, the Baltimore Ravens, and racial idolatry commentators like Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin III who litter the sports media. They had Taylor Swift appear on the biggest stage on American television, Super Bowl LVIII.
Jackson, Flowers, the Ravens, Clark, Griffin and others led the Kansas City Chiefs to a 17-10 win in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday.
If you misjudge the real enemy and get caught up in the wrong motives, it’s no wonder you lose character, abandon your identity, and underperform.
Months of psychology allowing Swift’s inclusion in the current NFL season to exaggerate the pop star’s profile and influence, allowing him to inevitably focus his efforts on Joe Biden and Michelle Obama’s presidential bid. If you think it was a ploy, get angry at the right people now. .
Focus your anxiety and anger on the race pundits. They lured the Ravens into one of the biggest choke jobs in recent sports history. The best teams in the NFL played with a lack of composure, implementing a pass-heavy offensive scheme aimed at bringing glory to Jackson rather than defeating the Chiefs.
Jackson and the Ravens fell for the racial hoax. This ended Jackson’s biggest chance to reach the Super Bowl in his six-year career. Instead of giving the honor to Jackson, Sunday further cemented Patrick Mahomes as being in a league of his own among current quarterbacks.
Mahomes improved his playoff record to 14-3. Jackson finished with 2 wins and 4 losses.
It’s not Taylor Swift’s fault that the Chiefs made it to their fourth Super Bowl in the past six years. Don’t blame the referee either.
If the referees rigged the AFC Championship, they rigged it in the Ravens’ favor. A series of fake holding penalties late in the second quarter and early in the third allowed Baltimore to continue a game that was clearly one-sided everywhere but on the scoreboard. Kansas City was supposed to lead 28-7 midway through the third quarter. In fact, it was 17-7.
If anything, it seems like the NFL wanted Lamar Jackson to go to his first Super Bowl. Since draft day in 2018, Jackson has been a main character in the league’s diversity, equity and inclusion story. The NFL’s highest-paid black quarterback is said to be a victim of NFL-sanctioned white supremacy.
The story goes that Jackson was the last draft pick in the first round six years ago due to racial discrimination. It had nothing to do with his awkward pitching motion or his concerns about downfield accuracy or ability to play from the pocket. no. Racism explained why Jackson was selected No. 32.
It’s the same reason Tom Brady was chosen as the 199th player in 2000. Oh, wait a minute. Brady is white. Maybe college quarterbacks are hard to evaluate?
Story was it.
What I’m saying is that the NFL and its media surrogates were rooting for Jackson enthusiastically. It is possible that the host’s staff, which is mostly black, also supported Lamar. The NFL has emphasized “racial justice” ever since Colin Kaepernick began donning an Afro and kneeling during the national anthem to show his true Half-Rican American roots.
According to ESPN football analyst Ryan Clark, Jackson had a chance to become the first true black quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Doug Williams, Russell Wilson, and Patrick Mahomes aren’t actually eligible. They don’t (or didn’t) wear cornrows or big gold chains or speak in the dialect that represents their so-called culture.
Black media elites, unable to make any topic more provocative, interesting, insightful, or helpful than shouting “white supremacy,” have delegitimized Jackson and his black assistant coaches into justifying their own existence. It has been used as bait and ammunition to become
Narratives of racial victimization inevitably work against what is chosen as their symbol.
Why did the Ravens wet their beds? Why did the best team in football lose their cool and collapse? Why did they panic personality-wise, strategically, and emotionally? ?
Jackson and the Ravens were caught up in the false belief that Jackson’s victory on Sunday was a huge step for humanity. They put unnecessary pressure on themselves.
The most physical team in soccer ran the ball just 16 times Sunday. Jackson threw the ball 37 times. At least half of Jackson’s eight runs were scrambles on pass attempts.
Jackson, Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken, quarterback coach Tee Martin, assistant quarterback coach Kelly Dixon and backup quarterbacks Tyler Huntley and Josh Johnson all wanted to prove something. Lamar can throw. With Patrick Mahomes.
Lamar can’t do that. He’s not at Mahomes’ level as a passer. In the first half, when the game was decided, Jackson completed 5 out of 13 pass attempts. The Ravens wasted the first 30 minutes of the game.
By the second half, everyone on the Ravens was in a complete panic. The penalties and lack of emotional control were compounded. With defenders all around him, receiver Zay Flowers dove toward the end zone with the ball exposed. It is a collapse of fundamentals and a byproduct of despair. The Chiefs punched the ball loose. Jackson threw a horrible interception in triple coverage. Another panic attack.
The Ravens reminded me of Deontay Wilder before his second fight with Tyson Fury. The fight took place in Las Vegas. I attended the match with a group of friends. We were all rooting for Wilder in the American vs. British. Wilder entered the arena and ring to the tune of a racist rap song and was dressed like an African warrior. We all thought it was strange, disconcerting, and needlessly divisive. Wilder went into battle as if it were a Civil War reenactment, and he was Denzel Washington’s character in the movie Glory.
Fury, a white man, slammed the brakes of Wilder, a black man.
If you misjudge the real enemy and get caught up in the wrong motives, it’s no wonder you lose character, abandon your identity, and underperform.
For 100 years, black American identity has been synonymous with being a strong Christian. We have become out of character and underperforming because we have embraced politics and “racial justice” as a new religion and identity.
Lamar Jackson is just the latest victim of this pattern. Liberal feminist influencer Taylor Swift benefited from the Ravens’ failure. No surprises.
