For all Lamar Jackson’s talent, the last Baltimore Ravens quarterback to line up in the Super Bowl was Joe Flacco.
The two-time MVP has changed the NFL since being drafted with the 32nd pick in 2018, but has just one AFC Championship game appearance to show for it — a 17-10 defeat to Patrick Mahomes‘ Kansas City Chiefs.
Jackson has been unfortunate to come up against Mahomes and Josh Allen‘s formidable Buffalo Bills, who won an 81-point thriller against the Ravens in Week 1.
But with Derrick Henry adding a dynamic presence in the backfield and star wideout Zay Flowers turning into a genuine star in Year 3, Baltimore look well equipped to mount a strong Super Bowl charge in 2025.
Listed at 5ft 9in and 182 pounds, the Boston College product is not a prototypical wideout, but uses his elusiveness to offer a dynamic threat.
Flowers excels off-script and is almost impossible to tie down for long when Jackson uses his speed to escape the pocket.
He sat down with talkSPORT’S Will Gavin ahead of the Monday Night Football showdown with the Detroit Lions and broke down his relationship with the dual-threat QB.
“My brothers knew Lamar for a long time, like they knew Lamar a long time ago and I finally got to meet him. Well, I didn’t really get to meet him on Instagram,” Flowers explained.
“He liked some of my pictures and stuff and I was like, ‘Nah, look at LJ. LJ just likes some of my stuff.’ I was probably like, I think I was in college my freshman year and they got these Twitter posts where I like tweeted Lamar Jackson should win the Heisman two years in a row.
“I voted for him and somebody pulled it back up but so far, man, we’ve just been building it and trying to get that connection and keep that connection going.”
Flowers and Jackson both hail from Florida and put in plenty of time during the offseason, but the connection on scrambles that is quickly becoming a trademark isn’t something that took hours to develop.
“Me and him do connect a lot because he move a lot and I move a lot like we don’t mind running and moving and making moves and trying to get open,” he added.
Jackson is arguably the best QB in the NFL right now and takes on the Detroit Lions in Week 3Getty GettyFlowers racked up over 1,000 yards last season and has become Jackson’s go-to pass catcher this year[/caption] The speedy wideout sat down with talkSPORT’s NFL expert Will Gavin to discuss his on and off-field connection with Lamar“I just think we both love the game of football. So it just it just match up like our energy on the field. It’s just we want to win.
“We work in the off season, but not typically like scramble drill and off plays. It’s usually just routes we running together or we live there, it’s never like off plays, that just come natural to us.”
DeAndre Hopkins arrives in free agency
After making a splash by adding Henry in free agency ahead of the 2024 — a move that paid off with a dominant campaign — the Ravens swooped for future Hall of Fame receiver DeAndre Hopkins in 2025.
Flowers isn’t wasting his opportunity to learn from one of the best ever to do it.
“Man, he just teach us stuff. We don’t know like, you know, I mean he been at 13 years He’s seen every corner back. He’s seen every corner back I face so far. He’s seen every corner back that’s not playing,” beamed the 25-year-old.
“He just got the experience of like just being able to go out and know what to do like off-rip like knowing the defense.
GettyHopkins has added another problem for opposing defenses[/caption]“No one’s gonna happen next telling me to stay ready telling bait to stay ready. Like he’s here to help the young guys to like he keep us in our head like keep us right. This y’all, but I’m just here to help y’all.
Rashod Bateman also features in a corps that has taken flak in the past for not matching some of the NFL’s elite offenses.
Flowers is trying to shut out the noise and focus on helping the team win.
“It’d be a lot of talk around the league saying Ravens, receiver room, this and that. So we won’t really listen to it, we brothers, man.
“We in there and we just hoping each other do good each game, Just trying to do our best, you know what mean? Like make something out of nothing, whatever we can do to help the team win, whatever we can do to help each other, that’s what we do.”
Despite dropping a game to the Bills, the Ravens are among the main competitors for the Vince Lombardi Trophy to many fans and analysts.
Ravens not focused on Super Bowl… yet
Flowers isn’t looking any further than the AFC North and trying to secure a postseason berth.
Asked if the Super Bowl was mentioned in the locker room, he insisted: “No, if I’m being honest, we ain’t really talking about it like that.
“We trying to finish the season. We trying to focus on what’s ahead of us. And then when we get there, when we get to the playoffs, we will worry about that.
“But right now, we just trying to secure that one seed and win our division.
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