Lamar Jackson has relived the moment he nearly broke his TV as the Baltimore Ravens lost their 2023 Wild Card matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals.
The 26-year-old, who recently inked a five-year extension with the Ravens worth a total $260million (£206.2m), missed the clash with Cincinnati having picked up a knee injury.
One-time NFL MVP Jackson described going to the bathroom when the Ravens were about to score only to hear the unfamiliar noise of Bengals fans cheering and not Baltimore, which nearly tipped him over the edge to the point where he wanted to break his TV.
"I almost broke my TV," Jackson said on the Ravens' The Lounge Podcast. "I was about to be one of those people. Yeah, I thought 'I gotta pay for that.'"
Baltimore went on to lose the contest 24-17 to the Bengals, who went on reach the NFL Conference Championship game against eventual Super Bowl winners, the Kansas City Chiefs.
The injury kept Jackson out for the remainder of the season. "That's what I told Adrian the trainer," Jackson continued. "I'm like, 'I don't think I'm ever gonna get hurt again.'
"He's like, 'You know that's part of the game,' I'm like, 'Bro, I'm not trying to hear that. That's not part of my game.' I don't get hurt, like that can't happen again because I just don't feel right. Just can't play football. Like I haven't ever had that happen."
Jackson has set himself an ambitious target ahead of the 2023/24 season, declaring that he wants to throw over 6,000 yards following the Ravens' acquisitions in the wide receiver department. However, Jackson has never surpassed 3,200 throwing yards. "I want to throw for like 6,000 yards with the weapons we have," Jackson said. "I'm not an individual award-type guy or a stat watcher. I just want to do that because no one has ever done it and I feel like we have the weapons to do it."
The Ravens signed Odell Beckham Jr and Nelson Agholor in free agency and then drafted Zay Flowers with the No22 overall pick, leaving Jackson excited.
