So why didn't Jackson show up for the game? The Ravens quarterback has finally answered that question.
Jackson has been sharing a lot of information on Twitter over the past month -- including his secret trade request -- and one piece of information he also shared was why he didn't travel to Cincinnati.
According to Jackson, his injury got worse after he traveled to Pittsburgh for Baltimore's Week 17 game against the Steelers. Due to that fact, it was decided that Jackson wouldn't travel again until his knee could handle it.
"After I traveled to the Pittsburgh game my PCL got inflated so a few of us discussed it and I got the ok to stay so I could try in recover faster," Jackson wrote on Twitter after someone asked him specifically why he didn't travel to the playoff game.
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