The last time Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson played, he left the field in Baltimore while the Chiefs celebrated another trip to the Super Bowl.
That trip was the Chiefs’ fourth in the last five years, making them the top team in the AFC right now. Jackson and the Ravens will need to beat the Chiefs if they want to get Jackson to his first Super Bowl.
However, Jackson said on Sunday that he isn’t adding extra significance to Thursday night’s game in Kansas City.
“Any game I play in, I feel like it’s a revenge game,” Jackson said, via the team’s website. “I’m not just going to look at this game like a revenge game.
Anybody we play, no matter if we’ve beaten them or lost to them in previous years, I just want to win.”
Even though the playoff loss to the Chiefs adds some extra story to Thursday’s game, it is still just the first of 17 regular season games that the Ravens need to get through to have a chance to change the outcome of last season.
Jackson’s response shows this perspective, although it’s hard to believe that beating Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in their stadium wouldn’t feel a bit sweeter than other regular season wins.
