Lamar Jackson Sends Message To Flag Football Players Amid 2028 Olympics Controversy

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Who will quarterback Team USA in Flag Football at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?

Well, it doesn’t appear reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson is throwing his name into the ring.

Amid an ongoing controversy involving national flag football team QB Darrell Doucette and three-time Super Bowl champ Patrick Mahomes, Jackson said he’s happy to let flag football players do their thing.

Lamar Jackson Says Flag Football Players Can Have Their Own Sport

“🤣I was just messing around let the flag players have their league,” Jackson tweeted. “But if they ever feel like us NFL players not that let me assemble the squad. 💣”

The comment came after a video surfaced of Jackson evading several kids while playing flag football in Germany.

Doucette previously hit out at NFL players who expressed interest in playing in the Olympics.

“I think it’s disrespectful that they just automatically assume that they’re able to just join the Olympic team because of the person that they are – they didn’t help grow this game to get to the Olympics. Give the guys who helped this game get to where it’s at their respect,” he told The Guardian. “We just don’t think they’re going to be able to walk on the field and make the Olympic team because of the name, right? They still have to go out there and compete.”

He later went on to claim that he’d be a better option for Team USA than Mahomes because of his flag football IQ.

“At the end of the day, I feel like I’m better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game,” Doucette stated. “I know, right now, he’s the best in the league. I know he’s more accurate. I know he has all these intangibles, but when it comes to flag football, I feel like I know more than him.”

Sure, bud. Whatever you said.

But if you Doucette deprives of being able to watch Jackson or Mahomes at the Olympics, there are going to be a lot of unhappy football fans.