Zay Flowers is ready to fly higher after the ups and downs

If you ask Flowers about last year’s Chiefs game, he doesn’t shy away from questions. What about the 15-yard penalty Flowers received for unsportsmanlike conduct before his fumble? Flowers lost his temper because he took offense to the way former Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Snead made the tackle.

“He grabbed my leg and when I was trying to get up, he still had my leg,” Flowers said. “I wanted time to run out because the quarter was about to expire. I was in a weird position and I was like, ‘Why are you trying to hurt me? ‘ That’s when I pushed him and I saw the umpire running with the flag. I don’t think he was trying to hurt me, but that’s what I felt.”

“That’s over now. There’s no problem between me and Snead (now with the Tennessee Titans), there’s no problem between me and the Chiefs. I just want to win.”

The Ravens were without their top offensive players during the preseason, but Flowers, Jackson, Derrick Henry, Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely, Bateman and Agholor are ready for the trip to Kansas City to see how their offense fares against the defending Super Bowl champions’ stout defense.

There will be another Ravens-Chiefs game to talk about once the season starts on Thursday. Flowers is ready to play and looking for a different outcome, not just in terms of how the season starts, but also in terms of how it ends. If anything, he’s even more determined.

“I missed a lot of opportunities as a rookie that I’m going to take advantage of this year,” Flowers said. “Lamar is a free player and he wants us to play for free. We thought we were supposed to win that game last year, but we didn’t. But we’re back. This year, it’s time for us to get that ring for LJ.”