Cardinals could not keep Lamar Jackson a long time

First, the good: Lamar Jackson has spent the first two quarters of today's game against the Cardinals, who were about to resume the game in Miami. The Ravens' first training in the match was a seven-game, 96-yard attack that ended with an easy touchdown, Mark Andrews.

This touch does not occur if a strong link between Jackson and Marquise "Hollywood" Brown had not been established throughout the ride. With three catches for 33 yards, Brown served as the perfect lure for the game that froze Arizona's defense and left Andrews as open as he was.

Three times later, Jackson was just as strong with a nine-game practice and 85 yards with another touchdown pass to another tight end, Hayden Hurst, to go up 17-6 – the final score at half-time.

After four training sessions, Jackson was 12 yards out of 16 for a total of 171 yards and two touchdowns, while scoring 64 yards rushing seven times. To make things even better, he tied his total of last season's (7) passes in just six quarters of action.

Now, the negative point: as impressive as its first appearances, they did not come without consistency problem. In his second training of the game, Jackson overturned his faithful opponent, Andrews, on a 4th and a 3rd to tip the ball down, a common problem that had plagued him for many years. There was also the catastrophic way to complete the final Baltimore training. The Ravens seemed to be in a position to be at least able to get another goal on Justin Tucker's foot before half-time. a turnover, the Ravens have not scored. This rough sequence was not entirely attributable to Jackson, but these three plays set the tone for Baltimore's quarterback and offense before the second half.

It was not much better for the second quarter in the third quarter. Communication with the sideline was not as clean as he needed to be, he started taking useless bags – on his own. admission– and knocked down receivers at key moments. For an occasional observer, it seemed that Jackson had returned to his struggling old self, which appeared more frequently last year. But fortunately for the Ravens, the Cardinals' defense has also begun to believe it and has treated Jackson less and less in the same way as the double threat QB, the closer to the point. Arizona's toughest game came on 3 and 11, after the Baltimore defense gave Jackson a new chance to redeem himself. Arizona seemed about to stop and give Kyler Murray his right-hand shot, a chance to win the match. Instead, it happened:

When the match finally ended in a Ravens 23-17 win, Jackson's highs and lows turned into an impressive score. He finished with 272 yards and two touchdowns in the air, and 120 yards on the ground in 16 carries. More than any other highlight – and Jackson has had some in this game – it's these final numbers that indicate what kind of greatness is within reach. Jackson is still a work in progress, but he was heading here for a tight game in which his tools were not always the most acute. Yet in the end, he left the field not only with a win, but with the understanding he was the best player on the field.