(Photo : Rob Carr/Getty Images) BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Quarterback Lamar Jackson (#8) of the Baltimore Ravens drops again to cross towards the Denver Broncos at M&T Bank Stadium on December 04, 2022, in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Baltimore Ravens need to empower their star quarterback Lamar Jackson within the upcoming 2023 NFL season.
The staff employed a brand new offensive coordinator earlier this 12 months, signing Todd Monken, who beforehand served the identical function on the faculty stage for the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
As a part of the veteran 57-year-old coach’s plans, he will likely be accepting enter from Jackson whereas formulating the staff’s offensive schemes, doubling down on a earlier assertion earlier this month the place he stated that it is very important empower a staff’s quarterback for him to play at his finest.
“The thing you like about Lamar is, he’s becoming more diligent. He wants to be great. He wants to be elite,” Monken beforehand stated, speaking about Jackson.
Jackson is delighted that Monken has been listening to him, saying that he has been sending him performs of stuff he is been seeing, and Monken has been placing them into follow, and they’re working.
Monken has earlier expertise within the NFL, serving because the huge receivers coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2007 to 2010 and holding the offensive coordinator publish for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2016 to 2018 and the Cleveland Browns in 2019.
Monken is already the third offensive coordinator that Jackson has had in his NFL profession since he was drafted by the Ravens within the first spherical of the 2018 NFL Draft with the thirty second total choose.
Marty Mornhinweg was the staff’s offensive coach throughout Jackson’s rookie 12 months, having served the staff since 2016. The Ravens launched him on the finish of the 2018 season.
Greg Roman has served as Baltmore’s offensive coordinator for the final 4 seasons, the place they skilled loads of success. During his first season in cost, the Ravens scored probably the most factors in whole across the league for the entire season with 531.
Roman stepped down from his duties after the Ravens’ elimination in the course of the 2022-23 NFL Playoffs within the wild-card spherical towards the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Ravens decide to Lamar Jackson as franchise quarterback
The Ravens have dedicated to the 26-year-old by giving a long-term deal in the course of the spring.
Jackson signed a five-year extension in Baltimore, valued at $260 million, with $185 million in assured cash. During the signing, it made him the highest-paid participant within the NFL when it comes to common yearly wage, which stands at $52 million yearly.
Los Angeles Chargers star quarterback Justin Herbert barely surpassed Jackson’s contract after signing a five-year extension price $262.5 million on the finish of July, equal to $52.5 million yearly.
Jackson is recurrently ranked as the most effective quarterbacks within the league, turning into simply the second unanimous league MVP in 2019. He is simply the fourth African-American quarterback to win the accolade.
The former Louisville Cardinals participant was additionally named a First Team All-Pro member and performed the Pro Bowl recreation throughout the identical 12 months, breaking a number of NFL information, together with probably the most single-season speeding yards by a quarterback and most single-season speeding makes an attempt by a quarterback.
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