John Harbaugh sat down at 7:45 a.m. local time at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, with his quarterback presumably on the other side of the country, a gaggle of media crowding his table at the NFL owners meetings, and his Ravens facing as much uncertainty at the position as they have in a decade.
Three minutes later, Lamar Jackson hit send on his Twitter account, and turned the volume up to full blast.
The timing of Jackson’s missive, tweeted at 7:48 a.m., was about as much of an accident as the Ravens’ putting the franchise tag on their quarterback 20 days earlier. It was direct, and clearly meant to send a message, which, to me, was twofold, beyond just the news he broke that he asked for a trade on March 2, five days before Baltimore even put the tag on him.
