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The Baltimore Ravens, in a desperate ploy to salvage their season, UNLEASHED a weapon of mass destruction against the Green Bay Packers, but at what COST? Derrick Henry, a 30-year-old running back given an UNGODLY 36 carries, wasn’t just playing football—he was being SACRIFICED on the altar of a franchise’s desperation, a brutal indictment of the NFL’s grueling “next man up” culture that GRINDS players into dust.
HENRY was not a hero. He was a BAND-AID for a flawed team that lost its quarterback, a living testament to a broken system that values playoff hopes over human longevity. His 216 yards and FOUR touchdowns are not a triumph; they are a DISTURBING blueprint for how to exploit a superstar until he breaks.
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Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry (22) celebrates in the stands after scoring a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers during the second half of an NFL football game, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
Meanwhile, the Packers’ season COLLAPSED, their championship dreams CRUSHED because THEY were missing their star quarterback. This game wasn’t sport—it was a grim exhibition of INJURY ROULETTE, where the absence of a single player dictates fate and franchises are just one bad hit away from OBLIVION. Malik Willis’s valiant, injury-shortened effort for Green Bay only highlights the league’s BRUTAL hypocrisy, celebrating “next man up” while discarding the broken bodies left behind.
The Ravens’ 41-24 “victory” is a PYRPHIC one, bought with the brutalization of their best player and exposing a league that CHEWS up talent and spits it out for our weekend entertainment. This is the DARK REALITY the NFL doesn’t want you to see: the gladiator spectacle where today’s hero is tomorrow’s medical report.
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As Baltimore limps toward a fate-deciding showdown with Pittsburgh, ask yourself: at what point does a game become a crime scene, and the cheers become the soundtrack to an institutionalized slaughter?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
