When asked on Sunday about the Baltimore Ravens rushing for 100 or more yards in 43 consecutive games, quarterback Lamar Jackson said that, in the moment that he crossed the 100-yard mark, tying a decades-old record, he admitted, “I’m not going to lie. I ain’t really care about the record”.
Now that he has it, though, and the Ravens now have the opportunity to break the record, held by the Pittsburgh Steelers teams of the 1970s, he seems more enthusiastic about its significance—and I would imagine a conversation or two with his head coach, who has been very enthusiastic about the record, may have played a role in it as well.