 You could sit up here and try to tell me that timing ain't everything if you want to but I ain't gonna believe you especially at today YouTube team keep it clean what's going on it's in Graven Hill with another video and in this video Darius Slade he just made what was a tough situation for a lot of Ravens fans where it's just like he confirmed it so that took a knife that was in a lot of Ravens fans stomach and just twisted it that much more it made it hurt the pain for them that much more because this is something that a lot of Ravens fans wanted to happen they really wanted this move to be real and a according to him as well not just the guy who was on Twitter that started the whole thing not just Jeff's Rebek who talked about it in his article but from Darius Slade himself he let it be known like hey this thing was real let's listen I ain't want to get out there but one thing I almost didn't know now almost I was almost this close a Baltimore Raven I was this close this close but you know I wanted to be eagle I stayed the eagle because I know me how we're gonna figure something out but the Baltimore Ravens was the first team that call and they awkward just what I wanted and I just said hey the Eagles do that I'm gonna stay evil so it was it was nice now man almost always was a Raven I was almost a different bird so he let it be known that he was almost another bird and that certainly would have been something Marlon Humphrey on one side Darius Slade on the other oh my that would have certainly been an upgrade for Marcus Peters not that Marcus Peters is bad by any means but Darius Slade it would have been nice nice little one-two combo and remember that day that Marlon Humphrey and Darius Slade they were all doing a little eyes emojis with each other and whatnot I guess it was real I guess it was real now we a lot of times we hear about Ravens being interested in players and whatnot and you know they're gonna do that due diligence on anybody but this again according to Darius Slade this went far beyond just interest because he said the money that the Ravens offered him that was exactly what he wanted it was exactly what he wanted and he said that hey if the if the Eagles would have given him the same thing then he will stay with Philly but had Eagles not given him that same thing see ya I'm calling the Baltimore but hey they ended up matching it so it was almost like the Ravens they they've been going through their own little non-exclusive franchise tender they little masterclass so to speak they've been going through the same thing but in a different way but anyway let's look at his contract to see what the Ravens offered him because from Philly he got a three year 42 million dollar deal three year 42 million dollar deal he got a signing bonus of 10.1 meal an average salary of 14 meal the total guarantees is 24.5 meal how much he got guaranteed that signing was 24.5 meal so yeah he got a nice nice little chunk of change nice little chunk of change and again it's a three year deal so that's what Ravens offer so again the Ravens they made it real so this just goes to show like something that we've been saying for the longest time too if there's a wheel there's a way Ravens I've been seeing through y'all man y'all y'all ain't fooling me with oh yeah we only got six seven million cap space that don't mean nothing well I mean it means a little bit of something but it don't mean nothing because if you really want to make something happen you can make it happen so again we talked about it earlier today since there was real interest real interest with their your slay the fact that they are looking at the Andre Hopkins Corlyn Sutton and oh oh they'll beckham jr. there is a real opportunity for them to land one of the three unless those three are smokes for you for somebody else they already signed Nelson Aguilera maybe they want to go another route with a sneaky guy that nobody else sees coming as a signing but I I don't know we'll see but it does give you like it gives you real hope but at the same time again it's all about effort now I wish I wish I know my god by all odds and shout out to my god by all odds and by all odds and because again and this is really for everybody I always appreciate when people if they disagree with something that we saying they come at it with a respectful point of view they come at it in a respectful manner because he had commented on the dare slave video and he said that it's almost like it's a narrative that the Ravens that they go harder for defensive players they do any and everything more for defensive players than they do for offensive players and he gave some examples he was like did they do anything and everything for Bobby Wagner and I said oh yeah they did because they actually offered more money then then the Rams did for Bobby Wagner but he turned them down but then he brought up Matt Jude on and Zadaria Smith and I said well when when they were at the end of their deals with the Baltimore Ravens for Matt Jude on they weren't sold on him all the way they placed the franchise tag on them and they're like okay now okay bye we can do we can get this somewhere else there was a Darius Smith when he was still with the Ravens we knew they weren't gonna pay him they weren't and but when I speak about the Ravens really going after it with defensive guys more than offensive guys a lot of times it's usually about outside guys it's more so about outside guys but even with those guys back to the Darius Smith when he was a Raven we knew like a when his contract was coming up no they were like no we're done and I think the Ravens looked at it like a he was well him Matt Jude on with the fifth round picker things the Darius Smith think he was a fifth round pick too they're probably looking at it like oh we can get another one of those they were fifth round picks we can get another one we'll be fine but then remember last year last year when they tried to sign last off season when they tried to sign to Darius Smith they tried to get them they tried to get them but the Darius Smith was like no and maybe he was just using the Ravens to boost up his stock to somebody else but it turned out that the Ravens offer that they offered him was better than the offer that he got to go to the Vikings so it's like so right we'll be out here trying but and I know that there's been times when they've actually on offense they've actually offered more money to a player than other teams it happened with T. Y. Hilton and it happened with with Juju Smith Schuster so they are sometimes when that happens it's rare it's very rare but it has happened but we wish that energy we wish that effort would the emphasis was just turned up on it a lot more like the way that they'll do for defensive play oh yeah he mentioned Yannick and Gagway too he was like did they do it any and everything to get Yannick and Gagway and I say yes they did because when it when he was on the Jaguars they were interested in him then obviously didn't work out then he went to the Vikings they inquired about him early on and the the talks fell apart because they were they were looking they were actually looking at Adam feeling too they're looking at Adam feeling and Yannick and Gagway on the Vikings but guess what happened it fell apart I wonder why but then they circle back around they circle back around and they ended up getting who Yannick and Gagway so when they really want somebody especially defensive player hey they're gonna do any and everything to get them any and everything if they really really want somebody now another example of that is um Justin Houston because remember a couple years ago when Justin Houston was getting ready to be a free AO he was a free agent Ravens were interested in him the coach were interested in him and they both really wanted him he ended up going to the coach did his thing over there Ravens like oh man we missed out what happened a couple years later they circle back around and they got him hey Justin come here baby you coming about some more so again but he did bring up the Jalen Ramsey he brought up that when when Jalen Ramsey was a rookie uh well before he was a rookie when he went during the draft he brought up how um the Ravens they they didn't do any and everything for him and they didn't the Cowboys I think one of the first and a third Ravens only want to give up a first and a fourth and that was that but you know how Raven they love that draft they they they don't want to be giving up no draft picks boy yeah I'll tell you but they them draft picks or something but anyway um I think you get where we're coming from the the effort the effort is real when it's a defensive guy oh yeah Ravens ain't playing they ain't playing no games no games at all but when a lot of times when it's an offensive guy it's like I don't know about that one maybe next time so I mean that's and and something that we had brought out a lot um really over the past couple years just philosophy is is that's a big part of the Ravens philosophy obviously their their bread and butter uh over the majority of their tenor as a football team as a franchise it's been defense it's been defense but um I think it's been it's been a long time that they they do for an upgrade they do for a change they do for a shift and not to say that you would neglect defense at all no we don't want them to neglect defense but we just want to see that the assets really poured into the offense I would love if they poured into the offense more than they poured into the defense and again this is not saying that you got to have a bad defense nobody's saying that but if they will really do their thing uh on offense oh Roquan Smith forgot about him Ravens were interested in Roquan Smith before the season even started remember they were interested in him before the season even started this was in an article in the uh in the athletic I don't think it was just Rebix article I think it was somebody else's but I forgot who but either way they wanted Roquan Smith before the season began he said Eric the cops even called checked on him and everything but the bass gym was like no no thanks so time went about tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock boom what happened they circle back around and they got him Roquan Smith is another example again the Ravens with with defense they be doing it they be doing it but on offense it's yeah it's a little different a little different so anyway team keeping clean I love y'all I appreciate y'all shout out to dare your slave for for confirming because again this was not even just double down or triple that this was he quadrupled down on this thing so that's how we we know that it's real but much love to y'all shout out to y'all I love you and I hope everything is great for y'all we out you