The Baltimore Ravens dominated the San Francisco 49ers by the final score of 33-19 in Week 16, moving their record to 12-3 on the year. There was plenty of disrespect thrown the team’s way by the national media before the contest, and the team seemed to use that as motivation.
Mike Florio was the main culprit, hurling insult after insult at Baltimore and crowning San Francisco as the victor before the game was played. Lamar Jackson heard what Florio had to say, and didn’t hold back in his post-game comments
🗣️ “We play ball. And we showed that.” pic.twitter.com/D1UEZOemF0
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) December 26, 2023
“We’re in the NFL. We play ball. Not to take away from that team, but you can’t just discredit us. We’re grown men. We have to feed our families. [Mike Florio] can have his opinion, but don’t just talk like that. That’s disrespectful. That’s very disrespectful. Not to take away from the 49ers at all, because they’re great all across the board, but we’re going to come to play as well. Our record [isn’t a] fluke. We play ball, and we showed that. He just needs to keep doing his job, but just don’t come off like that towards us. That’s disrespectful, like I said, because he isn’t putting the pads on. If he was putting the pads on, I feel like it would’ve been different for him. He wouldn’t say that. He’d be respectful. I say that to say this; we’re respectful to our opponents. Our opponents are respectful to us, but a guy who’s not even playing against us [and] just coming out and being disrespectful, I guess he wanted more views on his little channel. We’re going to leave it at that.”
