Ravens QB Lamar Jackson explains his dominance on Monday nights

Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun on Sep 18, 2025

Published in Football

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BALTIMORE — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson says that he doesn’t really pay attention to stats.

“I’m trying to win,” he said Thursday afternoon in Owings Mills.

Whether he notices them or not, the numbers continue to pile up, particularly on Monday nights.

For his career, Baltimore is 7-2 on “Monday Night Football” with Jackson at the helm. In those nine games, he has thrown 22 touchdown passes and zero interceptions — the longest MNF streak without a pick in league history — while completing 69% of his attempts for 1,949 yards with a 124.3 passer rating. He has also rushed for 644 yards and three scores.

So why is he so good on Monday night?

“Probably that extra rest day,” Jackson said. “Probably the extra rest day [and getting to watch] extra film. [You have extra time to] get a good feel for who we are playing against and go from there.”

The Ravens will play the Detroit Lions on Monday night at M&T Bank Stadium. It’s a rematch of their 2023 meeting, also in Baltimore, that the Ravens won in a rout, 38-6. It’s also, curiously, the Ravens’ first Monday night game at home since October 2021 when they beat the Indianapolis Colts, 31-25.

In that game, Jackson threw for a career-high 442 yards along with four touchdowns.

Since then, the Ravens have played four games on Monday night, all on the road, and won them all. That included two last season against the Los Angeles Chargers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

But even before the Ravens drafted Jackson in 2018, Baltimore proved a tough out for visitors under the lights. Under coach John Harbaugh, who was hired in 2008, the Ravens are 43-19 in prime-time games, the best record of any coach in that span.

Jackson of course has factored significantly in those contests in recent years.

The two-time NFL Most Valuable Player has also taken his overall play to another level this season.

Currently, Jackson is the NFL’s career leader in passer rating with a mark of 102.6, nudging ahead of Aaron Rodgers after the Ravens star’s Week 2 performance against the Cleveland Browns. Jackson completed 19 of 29 passes for 225 yards and four touchdowns to lead Baltimore to the 41-17 victory.

Jackson also became the first player to throw at least 45 touchdown passes with three or fewer interceptions over any 17-game period in league history. Next closest is seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, who threw 49 touchdown passes and five interceptions over 17 games between 2006 and 2007.

This season, Jackson also leads the league in touchdown passes (six) and passer rating (136.6). He also has zero interceptions.

“He’s a smart player,” Harbaugh said of Jackson having not thrown an interception. “He sees the field really well. I think he’s a disciplined player in the sense that he just doesn’t throw the ball blindly into areas. He wants to see what he’s got.

“He doesn’t get fooled too often. He’s not throwing it right into people too often. That’s tough. That happens all the time, but you don’t see it happen too often with Lamar.”