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Reason being because it would give you a receiver who's like that. So I feel like that would be a win for some of us who've been wanting another receiver who's like that, a proven guy who's like that. But at the same time, there's another part of Ravens fans who like, no, we don't want nobody. We wanna just roll with the guys that we got. And they would also give them that too. Because Odell Beckham Jr. is not gonna be available in September. He's not gonna be available in October. November, maybe late November, could be pushing it in December, we'll see. But signing Odell Beckham Jr., it would be signing him for the long haul part of the season, not the right here and right now. And some of the things that Mark Ross listed as reasons why the Ravens could benefit from signing one Odell Beckham Jr., he listed the receivers that the Ravens currently have in it. He said that is not going to be enough to get it done in the playoffs. Now, and he listed, he said, hey, Ravens starting receivers could possibly be Rashad Bateman, Devon Duvenay, and maybe even James Proce. And he talked about how we know what Mark Andrews can do, but then he said, yeah, that's not gonna be enough to get it done. Now, my only pushback with that is not that it won't be enough to get it done in the playoffs, but just simply we just don't know. There's a lack of experience there when it comes to the playoffs. So we don't know how they will perform in the playoffs. Now he listed Hollywood Brown. He talked about him and how they traded Hollywood Brown away. And he said, Hollywood Brown was a disappointment. You know, that's crazy because Hollywood Brown has been so far the best receiver and the most polished receiver that the Ravens have both drafted and developed. It's been him. And I know some people go, a lot of people say, oh, well, no, no, no, no, Tori Smith. Tori Smith is the best one. And I think, no, Hollywood was more polished than Tori Smith. Tori Smith was, go route, all right, that's it. But Hollywood had more of a routry than Tori Smith did. Now I know a lot of people are gonna bring up the drops and hey, that's fine. Tori Smith, he had his drops too. He made a lot of big plays for the Ravens. It's like, no, a lot of people forget the drops, but Tori Smith had his drops too. So, and even if you put Tori Smith, one Hollywood Brown, two, again, as receivers that Ravens both drafted and developed, you still gotta put some respect on his name, especially for the Ravens. And I know a lot of people may say, oh, well, we're Ravens with their drafted and developed while receivers, it's a very low bar. And it is, but still, it is what it is. And Hollywood has been, in my opinion, the best one that they've ever both drafted and developed. So saying that he was a disappointment, I don't know. But again, got to remember that with these analysts and experts and commentators and whatnot, they can't really dive into every single team, the details of every single team like that. So it's really not a big deal. But anyway, Mark Ross also talked about the lack of playmakers that Lamar Jackson has had through the years. He said, we've been talking about the Ravens needing to get Lamar Jackson more playmakers throughout the years. And this would be that. It would be getting him a significant playmaker. And it would be, because we know Odell Beckham, Jr., we know what he's capable of. And even if you've never watched any single Odell Beckham, Jr. game besides when he played the Ravens, if you've only watched Odell Beckham, Jr. vs. the Ravens, then you can see for yourself how much of a playmaker he is. Because we remember that game years ago when he was still with the Giants. And early on, Jimmy Smith, hey, Jimmy Smith was locking them up. Odell Beckham, Jr. wasn't doing nothing, nothing. But then Jimmy Smith, he did his best Jimmy Smith impersonation and he got hurt. Oh, he was so sad, man. Oh, I feel so bad for Jimmy Smith in his career because, man, he was nice, man. But of course, injuries just killed it, man. Killed it. But anyway, Jimmy Smith was locking them down, then he got hurt. Then Odell Beckham, Jr., he went off. He went off, even caught the game, went in touchdown, had a cornerback in safety, running into each other, had it looking foolish. And then, of course, there was last season. And it was against an injured, just a beat-up team. Last year when the Ravens played the Rams. And they went toe-to-toe with the Super Bowl champions. The Ravens did. Backups literally everywhere, but they went toe-to-toe with them. And Odell Beckham, Jr. just, he showed that clutch. He showed that veteran presence, that knowledge of the game, and just that playmaking ability. Because he's like that. When he's healthy, he's like that. Now, for me, with Odell Beckham, Jr., if the Ravens were to sign Odell Beckham, Jr., I'd be cool with it. But for me, I'd prefer, and I was just talking to one of my guys about this yesterday, I'd prefer the Ravens to get somebody who's ready right here right now so that impact can start right away. If they're gonna sign Odell Beckham, Jr., cool. But see, look, I mean, you could call me greedy, and that's fine. If you wanna call me unrealistic, that's fine. But let me take you through my thought process. Because I know a name that's also been floating out there a lot recently has been Mr. Will Fuller. Oh, and that's a touchy subject right there. Will Fuller. We know Will Fuller is a baller. Big play, wide receiver. We already know what time it is with him, but he's also dealt with injuries. Odell Beckham, Jr., he is a baller, big time, playmaking, wide receiver, but he's also dealt with injuries. He's dealing with injury right now. So my thinking on the matter would be get both. It'd be get both. And the reason I say that, cause again, this week was a tough week for me. Reason being because I got that notification, DK Metcalf signing extension with the Seattle Seahawks. And I was just thinking, like no, DK Metcalf is not gonna sign an extension with the Seahawks because like, they don't even know what's going on with their quarterbacks. They don't know what's going on with their future. Why were you signing extension there? But Seattle said, hey, money talks. Let's give them the money. Let's show them the bread. I ain't mad at Seattle for doing that. Well, I was a little bit, but I'm like, okay, it's cool. So my DK Metcalf dream, even though I knew it was gonna forever be a dream, it was probably never gonna come to fruition and be a reality, but now it's officially closed to chapters, closed the doors, closed it's done. But I would just, my thought process with it is, I would love if the Ravens, they double dipped because it would be two proven guys. Both got injury issues. So you should expect, like, I'm not gonna be, I wouldn't be one of those people that'd be like, oh, well, you know what? Maybe a different scenario would change their injury history. No, I gotta be realistic about it. Two guys who have been pretty injury prone throughout their careers. So if you sign both of them, then their injuries could almost like cancel out each other. You get what I'm saying? Like, all right, one receivers missing time because of this, oh, but we still got the other one. Oh, the other receiver missing time because of that injury. Oh, nope, but now we got the other one back. So it will be getting like, it will be getting like one for the price of two. But then, if both of them end up being healthy, ooh. It's a bonus, it's a bonus. But now seriously, I just, I would like if they got both because it gives you somebody for right here right now and it gives you somebody for later on in the season just to make your firepower that much stronger. And again, it's not gonna take away much from the other guys that the Ravens already have. And again, another thing too, if the guys that the Ravens already have are like that, then there wouldn't be anything that they would need to worry about or that any fans would need to worry about. I know a lot of fans, they like to get on other fans who want the Ravens to bring in a receiver. They say, hey man, if the Ravens bring in a veteran wide receiver, it's gonna take away from the young guys playing time. Who makes the decision on playing time? Who's been making the decisions on playing time? Cause it's not us as fans. We don't make that decision. That ain't got nothing to do with us. That's the coaching staff. So all that frustration that some fans have towards other fans who want to bring in a veteran wide receiver, playmaking wide receiver, not an old wide receiver, not a washed up wide receiver. That ain't the type of veteran I'm talking about. The type of veteran I'm talking about is somebody who's been there, done that and is like that right now, who can ball right now. So a lot of, I think a lot of fans have their frustration and their anger is misplaced. It goes to the wrong place a lot of times. That's just my opinion though. But anyway, if the receivers that the Ravens currently have are really like that and putting in that work like that and really making strides, then they gonna play. They gonna play. But if they not, then whatever veteran Raven sign would step up and fill in that role. And again, with Will Fuller, he would bring just an element of speed that I know Rashad Bateman can move. He could certainly move. Devon Duvenay, he got some speed too. James Proshay, he looks faster than he did last year and he did say that, hey, I'm trying to work on my speed this year, trying to pick up a little more speed this year. So we saw it, especially in the open practice on Saturday. We did see it, he did look a little bit faster. That's a good thing. So you're on the right path. In Tyler Wallace, he got some decent speed too. But you had a Will Fuller to that. Oh yeah, that would make them that much more blazing. You had Odell Beckham, Jr. to that, even though he would be again, a more long-term type of guy. Long-term this season, I mean, he'll be in it for the long run. Not right here right now, but he'll be for later on, down the road. And you know what he can do. So I don't know, I wouldn't be mad at it. Again, Odell Beckham, Jr. by himself, I'd be cool with it, but I would just feel like the Ravens should do more. But again, when you think about it, Odell Beckham, Jr. by himself, it would give the Ravens sort of the best of both worlds to where again, the guys that they have right here right now, they can continue to prove themselves. They can hopefully shut a lot of people up, including myself, because I am so ready. If those Ravens receivers, they go out there and they ball and they do their thing week in, week out, I am so ready to be like, okay, well, hey, I'm glad it worked out. And I'm glad they proved any, not even doubts, but any just unknown thoughts that I had, I'm glad that they proved that wrong. I'm 2,000% ready to say that. If the Ravens don't go out and get anybody, if they roll what they got, hey, cool. All right, let's get it. Because again, again, I do not want people to get anything twisted. We are not rooting against the current wide receivers that the Ravens have. We want them to go out there and do their thing, but it's just a lot of unknown right there. It's a lot of unknown at the position. And that is the part that worries me, the unknown. And again, it could go one of two ways. It could go, all right, hey, NFL don't know about these receivers, they go out there and ball. Or it could be, hey, NFL don't know about these receivers, it didn't work out. So hopefully it's the first of those two. So we'll see, we'll see. I know there's been chatter about Odell Beckham, Jr. to the Rams or that, that chatter been happening for a long time. It's been happening for a really long time about him going back there. They got Allen Robinson, who they gave big money to. They signed Cooper Cup to that big deal. Van Jefferson, I think he's having surgery. He having surgery on Sunday, but I think they said he'll be back in like, I think six weeks? I forgot how long. But he could go back there. Obviously he had a good relationship with the team, with the coach. I did see some stuff on Twitter, but I don't know how real it was or not. It could have been somebody just trolling, but I did see some stuff about some coach fans talking about Odell Beckham, Jr. possibly going to the Colts. So hey, we'll see, but hey, but he's available. He's available right now. One last thing about Odell Beckham, Jr. to the Ravens, if they were to sign an Odell Beckham, Jr., they would have to do their roster manipulation. Manipulating, excuse me, manipulation. Either you leave the word. They would have to manipulate that, Ross. And you know the Ravens, the Ravens, if you study the Ravens, if you watch the Ravens, if you just pay attention to the Ravens, they teach you so much about the NFL. They teach you so much about the business of the NFL, different like loopholes you could find to get around this and get through that, and they teach you so much because they exhaust every single rule, well, all except when I think Julian Edelman was throwing touchdown passes in that playoff game. That was the time when they didn't quite really understand the rule book, like that. But anyway, besides that, they go through it, man. They go through that rule book and they like, all right, well, if we do this, oh, we can do this too. Oh, we can do that. All right, let's get it. But anyway, with the Ravens, Odell Beckham, Jr., say for instance, they signed Odell Beckham, Jr. He's not gonna be ready the first week, the second week, third week, fourth week, fifth week, sixth week. Now, what they could not do is put him on the PUP list because if they sign him and they put him on the physically unable to perform this at the start of the season, then he would miss the first six weeks at a minimum, and then he would have to, then at that point, he has to come back. He would either have to come back, but if he wasn't ready to come back and be put on the active roster, then he would have to go on end reserve and his season would be over. But for them, what would give them more flexibility with Odell Beckham, Jr., so he wouldn't have to take up a roster spot. It's like, because they could put him on a physically unable to perform this and then bring him back, but just keep him on the active roster, but not play him. What they could do to save that roster spot for when he's actually officially ready, they would have to, if they sign him, they would have to keep him on the active roster once the official active roster is set, like right before the season starts. And then after that, they will place him on end reserve so then they could bring him back whenever he was like officially ready. And he wouldn't be taking up a roster spot, so they could give that roster spot to somebody else. So just something to think about, and that's not only with Odell Beckham, Jr., that would be with any player that was injured long term, like a David Ajaubo with him. And we'll talk about that in another video, but with David Ajaubo, he's somebody that is gonna be some possible roster manipulation with. But we'll see how it all works out. Anyway, will the Ravens sign Odell Beckham, Jr.? If I had to give a percentage, well, what side I was leaning more towards yes or no, I would probably say no, but it's not the strongest no in the world. Again, reason being because he wouldn't be available right away. So with him not being available right away, that actually makes me feel like they could possibly sign, they will have a greater chance of signing him because he wouldn't be available right away. And they keep saying how committed they are to their wide receivers. So we'll see how it goes. Anyway, I love y'all, I appreciate y'all so much. We out.