 In the NFL football world, there has been a lot of talk about Lamar Jackson missing voluntary OTAs. They are not a requirement. They are not mandatory. He does not have to be there. But there's been a lot of talk about him not being there. Now, I do understand that this is the first OTAs that Lamar Jackson has missed in the entirety of his career. So it does, it does bring attention to it. Brings a lot of attention to it. Lamar Jackson is in a contract year. So that brings a lot more attention to it. Lamar Jackson is a very private individual. So that brings even more attention to it. But that also brings a lot of narratives to it as well. Oh man, does Lamar Jackson really want to be with the Ravens? Oh man, is Lamar feeling in the team right now? Is he mad at them? Oh man, is Lamar Jackson holding out? Oh man, does Lamar really want to take his game to the next level? That all comes with the privacy. Because see, when people don't have that access, and we talked about this before, when they don't have that access to you, it frustrates them, especially people who are so used to having access to everybody. But when they don't have that access to you, and you're a very special individual, you're a very different individual, you're a very unique individual, they don't like that, they don't like it. So with Lamar Jackson, it's no different. So with him, he is expected to be back at mandatory mini camp when they have to be there next week. I want to say the first day is the 17th, but don't quote me on it. Anyway, John Hubbaugh, Ravens had a precedent today that featured John Hubbaugh, had Patrick Queen, had Zachary Orr, had Nick Boyle, had the tight ends coach, my apologies because I cannot remember his name on the top of my head right now. I just watched John Hubbaugh's part, I didn't see the others, y'all let me know if I missed something, I may watch it later, may not. But anyway, John Hubbaugh spoke specifically about Lamar Jackson because he was asked, hey, what's up with Lamar, when are you expecting to be back when you think he's gonna show up? And John Hubbaugh said the following, I expect him to be here at mandatory mini camp. I know he's working hard, Lamar Jackson's a hard worker, so I'm not worried about how hard he's working. You see that little tongue twister John Hubbaugh threw in there? I liked it though, shout out to John Hubbaugh. He must have been in battle right back in his day. I fully expect him to come back in great shape. That's what he talks about. I'm sure he's throwing, I'm sure he's doing a good job. And I'm sure John Hubbaugh himself on his burner Instagram account, you know he's following Lamar, you know he's following Lamar like Lamar got like a million something followers. He ain't keeping up with who's following, no, no, no. Hubbaugh's following, Hubbaugh sees all that stuff. You know he sees all them videos and stuff. He saw the video Lamar peeking through the little glass like that in the sauna and what he saw that stuff. Lamar Jackson working out of LA fitness and all that. He sees all of that stuff. You know he be watching. You know his people put him on, hey John, hey look at this, check that out. Okay, great job by Lamar. I wish he was here, but great job by Lamar. So I mean it's, now I do, like I said before, I understand some people's concern with Lamar Jackson not being there. Cause they're like, hey man, this is the time you get acclimated with your new weapons, your wide receivers, your new tight ends, and running backs coming back, and the new guys and new wide receivers that they added undirected free agency, and so on and so forth. Offensive lines, time for everybody to just jail. I get that part and I understand it. But at the same time, they are probably doing less work right now than we did, like when we had our little team keep it clean flag football thing a couple years back, I think 2019, they doing less contact than that. So with Lamar Jackson, he's not, it's not a big deal, it's still not a big deal right now. I understand where the levels of concern do come from. I get it, but right now it's still not a big deal. Now, where it could get tricky yet, but I don't expect it to get tricky there, but where it could get tricky yet, is when it's mandatory, and then he didn't show it. See, if that happened, then okay, it gets a little tricky. Would they find Lamar Jackson? That's where we, ooh, that's where we get really tricky. Because if they find Lamar Jackson, would they run that risk? Not saying that he's above the law, even though for him with the Ravens for everything that he done for the Ravens, he should definitely be above the law. But anyway, would they run the risk of finding their starting quarterback if he missed mandatory mini-camp? Just something to think about. Would they run the risk of creating a possible friction? I don't know. I don't know, but I also don't expect it to even reach that level. Cause I expect Lamar to be there. We all expect Lamar to be there. Lamar expects Lamar to be there. Lamar has even said that he is going to be there. And again, with Lamar Jackson, he is very smart. He knows the world is watching his every move, his every tweet, his every social media post because so many people are ready to criticize and analyze and debunk this and break down what this really means and whatnot. And we do a lot of that on here too. But so when he tweeted that, he couldn't wait to get back. I mean, he knows people are watching that. He knows people are on that. And then he also tweeted that, he gave a shout out to his personal QB coach, I think it was. So that kind of gave us an indication like, hey, Lamar is working on himself too, to be a better, faster. I mean, y'all seen the videos of him doing those little running drills. I'm like, man, do take it off. I mean, we knew he was fast already. Lamar Jackson, I'm still waiting for the moment because I don't feel like we've seen it yet. I'm still waiting for the moment where we get to see Lamar Jackson hit top speed on the football field. I don't think we've seen it yet. And unless y'all remind me of a game where you think we have, but I do not think we have yet. Remember all the games against the NFC East, where Lamar Jackson, the play where he scored against every NFC East team, what was that, two years ago? Remember that? And same play, every team, Eagles, commanders and whatever they were called back then, watching the football team, cowboys and giants. He scored against them, the same play, all four of them that touched it, but he ain't even reached top speed then. He ain't reached top speed. The famous, oh, he is Houdini. The against the Bengals, 2019, with the Sprinter, Rooney or not, he ain't reached top speed because he was still cutting and then he did a little spin and right. He ain't reached top speed, man. So many times with Lamar Jackson, even runs where he takes off, man. I feel like he doesn't reach top speed because he does a lot of cutting. So he's making people miss. So I just, I really want to see him straight line speed, hit it, and full speed. I just feel like we haven't seen that yet. But oh, well, you know what? Maybe the Titans playoff game, maybe that one, the Titans playoff game where he ran that like, I think like a 50 yard touch and have a long it was. Maybe that one, I got to watch that one again. But anyway, Lamar Jackson has been doing the speed drills. We see Lamar Jackson getting on one knee, like he's about to propose and be like, nope, I'm actually throwing the football. And he threw it 50 yards downfield effortlessly. We see Lamar Jackson looking like he's getting ready to go join his former fullback in WWE, Bronson, Rick Steiner, because Lamar Jackson was looking all bigger. Hold up now, Lamar, you giving them too much. You giving them too much. But again, I do think, again, shout out to simply AS10 and Sutton, that from Purple Rain podcast. I do think that Lamar Jackson with all of the videos that we've seen of him, I do really believe that a lot of that was just to shut up a lot of the noise that people have been saying. To sort of try to get them to be like, calm down. Look, I'm working, just relax, chill, just vibe, man. It's okay. I feel like that's what a lot of these videos have been for. Because he hasn't been doing any interviews. He hasn't been talking about anything. He ain't seen him featured on no podcast, anything like that. He ain't been doing any of that stuff. Now if he wants to, you know Lamar, you're more than welcome here. You know that, you know that. But you haven't been seeing him do any of that stuff. But he's let you know through the videos and whatnot. Hey, I'm still here. I'm still here and I'm still working. So all of this will be fine. And I know when Sarah, Sarah Ellison, when she was on here the other week, she mentioned it when Lamar shows up, all of this will end up being forgotten about. And it will. It will. When Lamar Jackson walks through that door, I know everybody gonna go crazy. Because I know, hey, be honest. I know, because I do it too. Every time they show a video or the Ravens or LTAs, I know, I'm sure checking my phone to see if I see eight out there. I know y'all do the same thing. I know you do. And it's okay. It's okay. And we hoping like, oh, eight about to walk through that door or eight guns show up. But when he does, it will go crazy. Social media will go crazy for when he shows up. And you know the Ravens, they know they gonna edit a video real quick and be like, boom! They gonna put like the eight ball or something. Oh, he's back. He's in the building. It's coming. You know, it's on the way. But until then, we just gotta be patient. Just gotta be patient. Just gotta wait it out. Just gotta see how this thing ends up playing. Well, we know how it will. We expect that we know how to play out, but it's just a matter of it going down. That's it. That's it. So not no really worried about right now. Still too early to start the worrying phase, but I don't even think they gonna let it get to the worrying phase. So shout out to Tyler Huntley. Shout out to Brent Huntley. And shout out to the Oregon quarterback. I always forget his name. I feel so bad. But yeah, shout out to them. Because they gotta hold it down. While Lamar's out, they gotta hold it down. And I think, again, when we talked about this when Raven signed Brent Huntley, that this, you could tell this was their expectation. Actions, a lot of times, actions speak a lot louder than words do. And when they signed another quarterback, it's like, oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, y'all signed another court? Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Lamar, he gonna be out for a little while. So a lot of times the Ravens, not just the Ravens, but other teams too, but specifically with the Ravens, they will let us know what they're doing and what they're thinking without actually coming out and saying what they're doing and what they're thinking. Their actions and the way that they move, it'll tell us a lot about the team. One of the things that it seems like they're doing, this is why I do think that they are looking for that big body wide receiver. Whether it be free agency, a trade, I will see, I'm not counting on it, but DK, hey, DK ain't been showing up at his OTAs. DK is out of the field. It's like, hey, I would buy, I wouldn't be mad. Hey, if Ravens were to get DK, Metcalf, I'm all in. I'm all in. We might start actually talking that SB word on here. SB, super, we're gonna brand billik that thing and don't say it, don't talk about it. But anyway, it seems as if with the undrafted free agent guys that they brought in at wide receiver, they keep bringing in the 6-3, 6-4, 6-5. They bringing in these tall guys. So I wonder if that's an indication that, hey, Julio, come on down. I'd rather be DK than come on down, but I wonder if it's an indication of that. We'll see, we'll see. It's to be determined. But it's always important to look for those different signs that the team will give you as to how they move. I know this is kind of throwback, but it got something to do with the guy who we talking about. So I gotta bring it up like when the Ravens, remember when the Ravens, they tried to sign Colin Kaepernick, but then the whole Django thing, all that stuff went down. And then, but after that, they signed RG3. They didn't actually try to sign RG3. Initially, then RG3 was like, oh, no, I'm not ready. And then they came back to him like a year later. And they, hey, RG3, hey, what's up, man? And it's like, whoa, RG3 is nothing like Joe Fleckl. They are two completely different quarterbacks. But that was their indication that they were going in a different direction at the quarterback position. And then they ended up drafting Lamar Jackson, who is in his fifth year now. And we hope that this fifth year is the one. This is the year. This is the one where they bring it home. So hopefully this can be the year where Lamar Jackson, he delivers on that promise. You're gonna get a Super Bowl out of me. Believe that.