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NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson Opens Up About Chiefs QB Meeting | Pro Football Network
For Larson, the experience was unexpectedly enlightening. Speaking after the meeting, he admitted his perception of football players had changed completely after witnessing the sheer depth of preparation involved.
“Well, I think what I didn’t quite realise,” said Larson. “Just being a casual fan of football was how much work it actually is. Like, I just look at big buff football players and I’m like, oh, they just have a couple meetings during the week of practices and just lift.”
Instead, Larson found a culture built on structure, discipline, and hours of mental preparation.
“So that was really need to see and just, you know, how much effort goes into you’re prepping for a single game. You know, that was, like I said, that was just eye-opening and really cool scene. You need to see the culture and leadership that goes on there. And it makes sense why they’re so successful,” explained Larson.
Larson’s visit to the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback meeting offered him a profound new perspective on professional football. The immense mental preparation and strategic depth required particularly struck the NASCAR champion, dispelling his previous notion that the sport was solely about physical strength.
Roundtable Reactions: Ravens collapse vs. Chiefs | Baltimore Beatdown
It was clear early in Sunday’s matchup with the Chiefs that it wouldn’t end well for the Ravens. Both sides of the ball looked woefully unprepared for what should be a familiar Kansas City squad by now. All of the team’s best and highest-paid players were injured, underperforming, or both, including Lamar Jackson. The coaching staff had no answer for another Andy Reid-Steve Spagnuolo masterclass.
No team gets in their own way more than John Harbaugh’s Ravens. Far too many of their errors were self-inflicted, providing too many openings that Patrick Mahomes and Co. were not going to squander. And by the time Jackson left the game, it already felt like the rest of the team had given up.
Even more than the injuries, that might be the biggest problem facing the Ravens. Their early mistakes snowball and seem to infect the rest of the team. The offense and the defense play the opposite of complementary football, and individual bad plays turn into bad drives, which turn into bad quarters, etc.
— Nikhil Mehta
Can Ravens’ issues on both sides of the ball be fixed? | CBS Sports
These aren’t the Ravens we’ve come to know — the ones that went 25-9 with an NFL-best +360 point differential from 2023-24. They’re 1-3 for the first time since 2015, another injury-ravaged season that Baltimore finished 5-11. This was Jackson’s largest loss as a starter since 2021.
“The product that we’re putting on the field is not up to par with what the Ravens have been in the past and...
