Dan Orlovsky felt ‘M-V-P’ chants supporting Lamar Jackson were directed at him

Were the fans in Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium taunting Dan Orlovsky with their chants in support of Lamar Jackson on Saturday night? Orlovsky seemed to think so.

Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens opened the second half of Saturday’s regular-season finale in impressive fashion, scoring on a 70-yard drive that lasted just over four minutes. The drive ended on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Jackson to Rashod Bateman, putting the Ravens up 21-3 on the Cleveland Browns. It was Jackson’s second touchdown pass of the game.

And as the teams lined up for the ensuing kickoff, ESPN/ABC play-by-play man Chris Fowler took note of what the fans were chanting.

“It’s an 18-point margin here,” Fowler said. “And the M-V-P chants very much echoing through the stadium.”

Orlovsky, who has supported the MVP candidacy of Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, felt the chants were aimed at him.

“I feel they’re very much so directed at the booth right now,” he said.

Across sports, “M-V-P” chants are fairly common in the home stadium of any candidate in the final weeks of the season. So, Orlovsky may have been giving himself a little too much credit there. But if they were, in fact, directed at him, that’s a lot of influence.

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