Lamar Jackson Responds to Negative Betting Impact on Athletes

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00:00Here's Lamar. So I guess Lamar was getting some bad, nasty messages about people's parlays

00:09not hitting. Their slips weren't coming in. So Lamar has had enough of people who complain

00:15about their bets. Here we go.

00:16I saw you hit back on social media. Some of the critics, if you will, of people complaining

00:22about the ads and parlays and stuff. What prompted you to do that?

00:27You gotta understand, we're human too. We're seeing that. We're going in there. We're trying

00:32to win games. All our life we played football. We got to the highest level, the professional

00:37level to win games and not to help people's parlay. We're not betting on the games. We

00:44can't even bet on games and stuff like that. So we're not worried about that. And I don't

00:47believe we're going into games worried about stats either. We're worried about the W column,

00:51the win-loss column. We're not trying to lose. So we go out there and just try to do what

00:55teammates do. Try to help each other out. This guy might run someone else on the route

00:59to get this guy open. Just being team players. We don't dwell on parlays, but I see a lot

01:04of people like to make comments in our comment section or in our DMs. But then when we address

01:10them in our DM, they want to make it public. So it's like, it is what it is, man. We trying

01:15to win. We trying to win.

01:19He's great, isn't he? We need more of him on the show. He's great. These people, listen,

01:26let's face facts. The betting public is sick in the head. It really is the great disease.

01:33It really is. It's the greatest of all. It's way bigger than alcoholism, drug addiction,

01:37anything else. It's the greatest problem in the world. And people, they're death threats.

01:44They give death threats to college and high school football players. Like, are you kidding

01:48me? Like, and pro football. What kind of stones do you have to write a letter to some

01:54pro football player blaming him for your ticket not cashing? How much of a effing loser do

02:00you have to be in life? Honestly, you there's something wrong with you. You demented F.

02:06Honestly, you have got to be absolutely senile to like, go to that length to go to that extreme

02:14that you're writing letters, whatever, social media, tweeting, whatever the hell it is,

02:19axing, whatever, whatever they call it. I don't get involved. I got people like you

02:23send me letters. I don't. Do you think I seriously care what you think of me? Say to me what

02:29I say. You don't like what I say, what I do, what the way I look, my hair, my voice. You

02:34think I smoke five packs of cigarettes a day? You don't know. You don't know Shaq about

02:38me. You don't know anything. I don't smoke. You stupid morons. Like, I get all this abuse

02:43too. You think I sit around reading this stuff and like, I have time for this? I've

02:48been doing this 41 years. You think I sit around? If I would have bought into all that,

02:52I would have killed myself. I would have hung myself on a bridge 25 years ago if I cared

02:56what people thought of me. These players don't give a rat's ass what you think of them.