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People always talk about how protected Herbert and Allen are by the media, but Lamar's rosters have been better almost every year of his career and he barely gets any blame for his chokes.

---2018 Ravens: #2 scoring defense, #1 total defense, #1 yards per play defense.

2018 Lamar in the playoffs vs LAC: 2 touchdowns, 2 turnovers, 48% completion%, 78.8 passer rating.

Lamar was a rookie, so you can't blame him too hard, but it still counts here, he was ass.

---2019 Ravens: #3 scoring defense, #4 total defense, #7 yards per play defense.

2019 Lamar in the playoffs vs TEN: 1 touchdown, 3 turnovers, 52.5% completion%, 63.2 passer rating.

Unanimous MVP and turns in such a pathetic performance as the #1 seed. Insane choke

---2022 Ravens*: #3 scoring defense, #11 total defense, #14 yards per play defense.

*Lamar did get injured after 12 games, which is part of why the defense slipped later in the season. He staged a contract holdout in the playoff game vs the Bengals where Snoop Huntley recorded better playoff stats than Lamar ever had. Lamar's selfish holdout wasted another defense.

---2023 Ravens: #1 scoring defense, #6 total defense, #1 yards per play defense.

2023 Lamar in the playoffs vs KC: 1 touchdown, 2 turnovers, 54.1% completion%, 75.5 passer rating.

His biggest choke yet, one of the best teams statistically of all time, may be the best to never win it and Lamar is the biggest reason why. That AFCCG was in Baltimore and featured the infamous "team meeting" interception.

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Lamar's offense average points scored in all of these losses with his top defenses: 12.0

For perspective:

-----Average points scored by offense in playoff losses-----

Stroud: 13.3

Lamar: 13.4

Herbert: 15.0

Manning: 15.2

Goff: 19.2

Hurts: 19.5

Burrow: 20.0

Mahomes: 21.5

Rodgers: 21.9

Dak: 22.8

Allen: 24.6

-----Average points allowed by defense in playoff losses-----

Lamar: 22.4

Burrow: 23.0

Stroud: 26.0

Herbert: 26.3

Manning: 27.1

Goff: 30.0

Dak: 30.8

Hurts: 31.0

Mahomes: 32.0

Rodgers: 33.2

Allen: 33.2

The Eagles have been one of the main teams borrowing from New Orleans' playbook of converting money into signing bonuses and then adding void years to make cap space. It works great until the unexpected happens (like having the most irreplaceable player on your roster suddenly retire out of nowhere). Now rent is due and now for all you people saying Jalen Hurts is elite and better than Dak, it's time for that to get put to the test because Jalen Hurts' contract is pure poison if he regresses at all.

I'm taking the Bucs 27-13 over the Cowboys.

Who ya got?