Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco laughed at the notion that he holds a grudge against first-round draft pick Lamar Jackson.
"We welcomed Lamar here with open arms
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The two quarterbacks appeared amiable as they rotated snaps, along with Robert Griffin III, in workouts this week. Flacco was clearly the most polished of the three, zipping passes downfield with almost pinpoint accuracy.
Nonetheless, it is shaping up to be an important season for the veteran Flacco.
He has been assured that he will remain the starter in 2018 but also must consider how his future will be influenced by the presence of the rookie Jackson.
"Obviously, when you pick a quarterback, when you pick anybody in the first round, it means something," Flacco said. "I don't know what that means. I don't know exactly what it is. That's not my job to worry about what it is. My job is to keep my approach exactly what it's been the last 10 years and help my team win football games."
Flacco, 32 threw for 3
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Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome signed three free agent receivers 鈥?Michael Crabtree, John Brown and Willie Snead 鈥?to help improve the passing game. He also selected a pair of tight ends 鈥?Hayden Hurst and Mark Andrews 鈥?in the first three rounds of this year's draft.
The Ravens also took Jackson with the 32nd overall pick. He ran for 50 touchdowns and threw for 69 more during an impressive three-run at Louisville.
While Jackson needs more time to develop into effective passer, he is a dynamic athlete that could push for playing time, especially inside the red zone. Flacco, however, is not worried about Jackson taking snaps from him.
"Listen, I want to win football games," Flacco said. "Whatever's going to help us win. I'm probably going to maintain that myself under center is our best chance to win football games. But whatever helps us win football games, I'm game."
Ravens coach John Harbaugh has been impressed with Jackson over the recent offseason workouts.
"He is a very talented guy
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Harbaugh is not worried about having any type of quarterback controversy on his hands. He dismissed any potential friction between Flacco, Jackson and even Griffin.
"It was much ado about nothing," Harbaugh said. "I never thought it was anything and I know it's not anything."
As for Flacco, he is just concerned about getting the Ravens back on track and ending the postseason drought. He welcomes anyone ready to contribute to that goal.
"I'm worried about right now, myself getting these guys ready to win football games," Flacco said. "Nothing is ever promised to us. That's the reality."
Officials in an Indianapolis suburb that’s home to the Colts‘ summer training camp agreed to pay about $1.1 million over three years toward the NFL team’s hotel rental, according to records.
Contract documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star through a records request show Westfield officials committed to paying half of the hotel rental bill last year while publicly saying that no city incentives would be used to help lure the Colts. The team is leasing a 152-room Cambria Suites for roughly 30 days each summer to accommodate players, coaches and staff.
The Colts announced in September that they planned to move the team’s training camp to the suburb’s 400-acre Grand Park sports campus. The team’s contract to lease the campus said it would pay the city $653,000 over 10 years. The city was positioned to make an estimated $190
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Todd Burtron, chief of staff to Mayor Andy Cook, said the contract isn’t misleading and that technically city funds aren’t being used. Money from Hamilton County’s tourism bureau, Visit Hamilton County, will cover the cost, he said.
The tourism bureau gave the city a $313,000 grant to pay for locker rooms at the Grand Park facility, Burtron said. That money will instead be used to help fund the team’s hotel stay this year and city funds were used to cover the locker room expenses, he said.
The bureau was interested in helping pay for a long-term amenity that would be used by others beyond the Colts
http://www.bengalsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-preston-brown-jersey , said Visit Hamilton County President Brenda Myers. She said she doesn’t plan to audit or protest how the city used the grant. She also said the bureau hasn’t yet approved any money for Westfield in 2019 or 2020, but wouldn’t rule it out.
”I know the lockers are built because we saw them,” she said. ”As long as the project got done, then we feel like the goal was accomplished.”
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Information from: The Indianapolis Star, .
