 So today was a significant day in this offseason because it was the official press conference for the Liars luncheon. And that is of course the Baltimore Ravens pre-draft presser where they answer a lot of questions about the roster, about the draft. In this particular presser they did both of those and answer questions about Rashal Bateman and Adafi Away's fifth year option, Andrew Voorhees with the potential that he has to start on the offensive line. And they covered a lot of different stuff that we are going to get into in just a few seconds. Before we do, make sure you subscribe and turn your notifications on and run them likes up on this video. I appreciate y'all coming through as always, but without further ado, Eric DeCosta and John Harbaugh, they had a whole lot to say and I had to take my notes for this one. So, Eric DeCosta said yesterday, he said from 9 to 6, so 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. So all day, a full work day, he said they had been looking at offensive linemen. They had really been doing their homework on there. He said that by the end of this week, they'll know, well, they'll know who they're going to draft at pick 30. So again, this is the last luncheon. So a lot of this talk that they do at this press conference is business is business. There may be some truths in there, but a lot of it is just putting certain stuff out there, giving certain responses, because they're not going to come out and say, oh, yeah, well, this is what we're going to do in the draft. And this is our plan for the draft. No, nobody's going to come out and say that because you got to strategize this thing. So with this first part, when he said that by the end of this week, they'll know who they're going to draft at pick 30. To me, that let me know like, hey, and Eric, as y'all know, he's always open for business, especially when it comes to getting even more draft picks. That let me know that one, they could know who they're going to pick at 30. But at the same time, he's like, hey, if y'all come with the right offer, if y'all come with the right trade offer, hey, I'll be willing to trade down, but we'll see what happens anyway. Hey, action. What do you think you are at outside linebacker as far as veterans, as far as the young guys, because you got some first or some excuse me, some second and third year players. And he said, we were excited to bring back Kyle Vanoy. And he said, it's great to have a veteran in the room. And he said, the younger guys, they got potential. And he's excited for them to reach their potential this year. And that is a big thing that the Baltimore Ravens do have right now. He described it perfectly potential. We haven't quite seen the potential from all the young guys. Some of it is due to opportunity. Some of it is due to injury. And some of it is due to, just hasn't clicked all the way yet. Opportunity, that would be Tavius Robinson. Tavius Robinson, he's just behind so many people on the Dept chart last year. So it was understood why he didn't get many opportunities. Injury, obviously, David Ajabo, hopefully he can stay healthy this year because when he's healthy, he's produced. And just for it, just not clicking all the way yet has been adopted away. And we're going to talk about him in a little bit. But anyway, it's nine picks, a number that you want to be at. How much value do you put on the fifth year option? Now, EDC said he likes the idea of having more picks and says that there is an advantage of having that extra year when it comes to players with the fifth year option. Now, he was asked about picking up Bateman and the way he's fifth year options. Like, what's going down with those? Because the deadline's coming up because it is coming up in, I want to say either, I'll forget when it's coming up, but within the next couple of months. But Eric Dacasa, he said that we're about a month away from making that decision. So soon, soon. But he said, we'll talk more about that after the draft. Now, it's hard to really gauge where he's going at with that because we remember with Hollywood. Remember with Hollywood Brown? They were like, oh yeah, we anticipate picking up Hollywood Brown's fifth year. I will never forget. They said that we anticipate picking up Hollywood Brown's fifth year option. Yeah, we anticipate doing that. Then boom, traded on draft night. So I don't know. This is something I just, I really don't know. I mean, for a lot of this stuff, we just don't know. We'll have to see it for when it happens. But for this, I don't know what to think. I really don't know what direction these Baltimore Ravens are going to go in with either of these two players' fifth year options because it's just, it's super hard to tell. But continuing, EDC said that this is his 20th year running the draft. That's a long time. And then when he said this, he said his first year was the Mark Clayton draft. And I was like, oh man, a lot of us are old. We are old. Because I remember Mark Clayton. But anyway, he said that Joe Ortiz had been with him for 19 of those years. Because somebody asked him like, oh, how is it without Joe Ortiz in the building? Now he's, of course, the GM of the Chargers. He said that he doesn't see, Ericka said he doesn't see a challenge with picking early versus picking late in the draft. And somebody asked, are any offensive linemen currently on the roster ready to step in right now? Because that's been a question that a lot of us have been wondering. Because you got guys like Daniel Phile, Lele, you got Pat McCurry, you got Ben Cleveland, you got some other guys too. But Hobbs answered this one. Hobbs stepped in. And he gave one of them hardball answers. He said, absolutely. The best player is the player who plays the best. Lele John Hobbs over here giving us one line is giving us them quotes. But he said those guys are going to be competing with whoever comes in here. Now back to his one line, the best player is the player who plays the best. What he was saying, because he broke that down, which I appreciated. He said it's not always about the best player, but it's about the one who's playing the best. I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory. But still, I did appreciate him going a bit of extra mouth to explain exactly what he was saying. So basically, you could have somebody who may be expected to be, it could be a veteran. And this veteran is expected to be a starter at whatever position it might be. But then you may have a rookie or second year guy, young guy come in, and they may be playing better than that veteran is playing. So John Hobbs basically saying like, oh, no. Then the second year guy, they're better. They're the better player than the guy who's expected to be the better player. But anyway, continuing. He said, they were asked, where is Andrew Voorhees at right now? As far as his status, like, what's going on with him? Eric DeCosta said that he sees potential for him to be a starter at guard. And he went through the whole story about how he drafted Andrew Voorhees. He said, I did it for y'all. Those of y'all that covered the team and stuff, he said, because y'all thought y'all were done for the day. Y'all thought that we had signed off. Y'all thought it was a wrap. But I was watching and I said, you know what? Let me give them some more work. So he jumped back in the draft and made a trade with Andrew Berry from the Browns. And he said, usually we don't do many indivision trades like that, but Andrew Berry was more than happy to do it. And I was happy to do it. And we made it happen. And they went and drafted Andrew Voorhees. And he talked about how had he not been hurt, then he would have been drafted a lot higher. And I know all of y'all more than aware of that already. So let's see. We'll see. Time is ticking. EDC also said the draft is the best way to build your team, especially from a financial standpoint. And he said last year they had tremendous depth. Yes, they certainly did. And he said, now the challenge is doing that again and a lot of the young guys really stepping up to help feel those depth roles. And then of course possibly some starters too. He said they love to add a talented corner at some point in the draft, whether it's in the first, second or third round. Now this question I didn't really appreciate because this has been a question that a lot of us as Ravens fans have wondered at different times throughout the tenure of the Baltimore Ravens, especially under Lamar Jackson. But really a lot of other times too, but certainly since Eric Dacosta, he's been the general manager since 2019. There have been a lot of times where we've questioned are the Baltimore Ravens really this? What is that? Well, the question was with you being one game away from the Super Bowl last year, are the Baltimore Ravens really all in as far as 2024? And that all in question, I love it because actions speak louder than words because Eric Dacosta said if you're not all in, then you're all out. Another one line, a shout out to him. He said we're all in every year and that's what we all expect, coaches, staff, the players, the fans. He said that's what we expect. And there have been times under this current regime, under his regime as GM where it hasn't really felt like they were all in. Last year, it certainly felt like they were all in. 2021, that felt like they were all in too but everybody got hurt, so they were all out. But this year, and I've said it before, feel like Eric Dacosta, there's no room for error. There's no room for mistakes when it comes to building the roster this year because you have some significant holes on the roster. We'll see how he patches those holes up, but it's gonna be fun. Eric Dacosta, he talked about this too because a lot of regular fans have been frustrated about how the regime's been moving this off season. They said it's very, very slow, like what's going on. Eric Dacosta said that he said they're in the same place right now, roster-wise, that they were around this time last year. And he said a lot of the guys on the roster, were guys that from last year, a lot of the guys ended up getting signed in August. So he said they ain't tripping right now, basically. And he said the destination is September, not May. And that's a good point. I gotta do a little bit of fact checking to see if that's accurate. Because obviously he did get Jadaven Clowney late in the off season, got Ronald Darby late in the off season, got Kyle Vanoy after the season had already started. They were a couple of weeks into the season. So yeah, I mean, for enough guys, they did get signed later on. So yeah, basically just, that's a message to everybody from Eric Dacosta saying, chill out, relax. Even though I know us as Ravens fans, we don't chill out and we don't relax at all. But we did get the message. Now, he was also asked, where does the patience and that philosophy come from? Like, how you so patient as far as waiting till later on to sign different guys and whatnot? How did you get so patient? And Eric Dacosta said, I'm not a patient person at all. But he did say he learned it from Ozzie Newsom who was very patient. And he said that the Baltimore Ravens, I gotta learn to pounce when an opportunity presents itself for the franchise to get better. And it's funny, somebody also asked a question about, they were like, oh, well, last year, you made the announcement of Lamar Jackson's contract on draft day. But does this off season and going into the draft, does it feel like a lot lighter for you as far as like the status of everything right now? And Harbaugh was like, hey, well, we got two weeks. It could still make another big announcement. Something could happen. So I said, I'll see you Harbaugh. Don't tease us like that. Don't troll us like that. Even though Eric Dacosta, hey, he pretty much said the same thing because I think it was Jeff's rebuke. He asked, do you anticipate any moves being made over the next couple of weeks that could impact your prominent needs heading into the draft? And ADC said, you just never know. If the phone rings, maybe there's a move to be made. But he said that Kyle Vernoi was one of the last things on his checklist trying to get that done. I don't know that we'll do a lot over the next couple of weeks besides the draft board. Sliest luncheon. So, hey, there's gonna be lies in here. There's gonna be some truths in here and it's up to you to decide what you believe. But based on that, I think they ain't done yet. Shout out to Marcus Peters. But I can see them making, I'm gonna say, draft is in a couple of weeks. So we'll just like the 28th, something like that. I'm gonna go, ooh. I'm gonna go they make at least two more moves. You know what? I'm going big. Well, I mean, for this office, he's been really slow. So this really wouldn't really be big. But I'm gonna go, they make three more moves. They make at least three more moves, three more transactions, whether it's two signings in a trade, three signings. I'd say they making three more moves. Ooh, that sounds crazy saying that out loud. But y'all know I'm crazy. So that's what I'm rolling with. Three more moves. You heard it first here. It's there, it's documented in this video and it ain't going nowhere. Now, the last question. Well, last question that I took notes on. This was a good question too. And I think it came from my guy, Cordell Woodland. Shout out to him. He said, is the plan to develop Malik Cunningham as a quarterback or like, what's the plan with him? And Harb said that that remains to be seen because he's developmental as both a quarterback and as a wide receiver. That's interesting. I know that he's very raw right now, but those are two very different positions. Those are two completely different positions. And for me, I don't know what Malik Cunningham wants as a player. They obviously brought Josh Johnson back to be the backup quarterback and Malik Cunningham is there right now. There's some players that just, hey, whatever I got to do to get on the field, I'm willing to do it. There are other players that, I'm sure every player has that mindset, but then at the same time there could be a player that, hey, if you want to be a quarterback, if I want to be a quarterback, I'm going to be a quarterback. I can't play in all the positions. So I don't know what Malik Cunningham is or what he wants to do. So I can't speak for him, but I would hope that if he wants to be a quarterback, if he wants to continue to play the quarterback position and develop there, I would hope that the Baltimore Ravens would go that route. So, because when you start flip-flopping, then it just, it goes downhill quick. And I mean, recently the more, the quarterbacks that we've seen go from quarterback to receiver, the guy who was on the Texans. And I think he went to Ohio State. I cannot remember his name. I know that, I know y'all going to come through. I know y'all going to come through. He played quarterback at Ohio State, I believe, yeah. And he went to the Texans, he played quarterback for them. There was also, I can't not remember, none of these guys' names right now. There was also a quarterback on the Raiders. He started off as a quarterback, and then he switched to receiver. I cannot remember his name right now either. It's frustrating, but I know y'all got me. And I love y'all for that. There was also a quarterback, this wasn't recently anything, really none of these guys are recently, but there was also a quarterback on the Baltimore, Ravens. Kenan Reynolds from Navy, I believe. I think he went to Navy, but he was a quarterback in college, then they tried to transfer into wide receiver and it just, it didn't work out. So, with Malik Cunningham, I just hope that he gets to play whatever position that he wants to play. But yeah, this Lies Luncheon had some significant updates that we got, and we got to get them directly from the Baltimore Ravens, and it's always nice when we can hear directly from them. But what did you take out of this Lies Luncheon? What information did you gather from it? What do you think is the truth? What do you think is a lie? And what do you expect? Let me know in the comments section. Thank you, be clean.