 So in Eric Dacosta's press conference the other day, there were a couple of things that I wanted him to speak on, which he did. Number one was Lamar Jackson's contract and the status of it. Number two was Hollywood Brown and his fifth year option. And number three was the status of John Harbaugh's contract extension, which he spoke very briefly on. Didn't really say too much about it, but he did touch on it a little bit. But another thing, a bonus that a lot of us got was from both him and John Harbaugh was when they both spoke of Marcus Peters. And this is one of the last things that I wanted to touch on that occurred in both press conferences. When Harbaugh spoke on Marcus Peters, he said that it's going to be nice to get two first round corners back. And we know that he wasn't speaking of Marlon Humphrey and Jimmy Smith because Jimmy Smith looks like he's headed out the door into retirement. So he was obviously talking about one Marcus Peters. And then with Eric DeCosta, he spoke about Marcus Peters in the way that he spoke about Steve Smith, senior and Quam Bolden and some other guys that have just came to the Ravens and you felt like these dudes should have been here from a long time ago. Kaleis Campbell is another one of those guys that he talks about like that. And that has been the case with Marcus Peters. He has been such a perfect fit, a perfect fit. Not only his game on the field, but his game off the field too. The way he talks, that attitude, that swagger, that confidence that he plays with and exhibits. He is just a perfect Raven. So I love when Eric DeCosta basically said, hey, Marcus Peters ain't going nowhere. Now, because this is where it gets really tricky and this is why a lot of Ravens fans, they were worried. They were a little bit scared about Marcus Peters status because it's not a good look when a cornerback is coming off of an ACL or Achilles injury, whatever it was. It's not a good look, especially when they have a big cap hit coming up. Huge cap hit. And the Ravens, I believe from cutting him, they could save $10 million on the cap. And you know Ravens cap space is always tight. So they're going to look for ways that they can save and they can maneuver that cap to where they can have more of it, but at the same time, keep some guys around. And Ravens will have a couple of different options on what they can do with Marcus Peters and the way they can do it with him. So one of those options is releasing Marcus Peters. Now when you release him, that would be a big risk because you could release him and you could do a handshake deal. Like, hey, we just releasing you so we can get some cap space back, but you'll be back. But if they do that, they better act quick. They better act real fast because there will be plenty of other people who will be requested Marcus Peters services if he ever even sniffed free agency. It would not take long. He has never gotten to be a free agent before. So this that would be huge because remember that it was the chiefs that drafted him. Then they traded him to the Rams. Then the Rams traded him to the Ravens. So he never got to be a free agent before. So you know, he would have people knocking at his door like crazy. But if the Ravens release him, they could do that. And then they could resign him for a cheaper deal or a deal that structured that really helps both parties out or really helps them out. But Marcus Peters, he going to be straight. Another thing that they could do, they could just give him an extension. They could give him an extension. They could stretch out that cap space over the next couple of years and lower his current cap hit because that would help them out a lot as well. So Marcus Peters, he is in pretty good shape when it comes to getting money from the Ravens. Now, one thing that I don't think that they can do, I really don't because this is where Marcus Peters has all the leverage in the world. I don't think they can accidentally take a pay cut. I don't because again, the same way with Lamar Jackson, you knew their value when they played. You knew their value when they were on the field. But their value being off the field, their value when they didn't play both Lamar Jackson and Marcus Peters, it shot up like crazy because you just saw how valuable those guys were when they weren't even playing and it made you miss them even more because of their impact on the game, their impact on the team. And then even Marcus Peters, like who knew that he was a defensive coordinator? Who knew? Now, I know one of my guys had brought out that Marcus Peters did a lot of the play calling when he did play. And a lot of telling like Marlon Humphrey what he needed to do, what he needed to be. A lot of telling the different corners where they needed to do and whatnot. And we saw that when he was over there calling plays on the sideline. I was like, okay, wow, that's probably the real reason why they were pushing Wink out the door because they said, oh, we got a defensive coordinator right here and Marcus Peters. But anyway, they can't ask him to take a pay cut. Well, they can. But if he decides he wants to decline that, okay. No problem. Now with Eric Dacosta and John Hobart within both acknowledging that Marcus Peters is going to be back and he ain't going nowhere. That's cool. And that's nice. But now let's see how the action follows because again, like we talked about, the way that they answered a lot of the questions, everything sounded nice. Everything sounded great. Everything splendid. Awesome. But now it's about the action because you could have a good talk game. You could have a great talk game as they both did. Both of those press conferences, they went pretty good. They went smoothly. They had all their answers ready. They knew it. They were like, boom, boom, boom. All right. What you got for me? But now it's about the actions. Now it's about the follow up. Now let's see how you handle that Marcus Peters situation because you clearly need him or you clearly need Marcus Peters. And Eric Dacosta, he even mentioned, hey, we want more turnovers. We want to be more disruptive as a defense. And it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's, that's Marcus Peters all day. And I saw some, some sell Ravens expected to be interested in JC Jackson. But that'd be nice. I would love it. And again, you can never have enough corners. We all know, and with Jimmy Smith leaving with Anthony Avery leaving with those guys being on the outskirts of the Ravens, they're going to need more secondary help. But I just, I don't envision them getting JC Jackson. I would love it, but I don't see it happening. But with Marcus Peters, he just, he brings so much to this team. He brings so much to the Ravens team. And it would be very hard to replace that. Because again, it's not just about the interceptions. It's about the swag. It's about the confidence. It's about the attitude. It's about his talk game. Like you think Eric Dacosta and John Hubbard got a mean talk game? Listen to Marcus Peters. Listen to him mic'd up. It might not be so team keeping clean though. And even in the pressers, when he would do the pressers for the Ravens, it was not so team keeping clean. This dude would be letting stuff fly left and right. I'm like, come on, MP juice. Like, we love you. We just keep it clean, man. But that's Marcus Peters in a nutshell. So we'll see exactly how the Ravens address this, his situation and his cap hit and his standings with the Ravens. Now, another thing that Eric Dacosta touched on in the press conference that I wanted to talk about briefly, because I really felt it on a whole other level. When he talked about the Ravens, the cap room, the limited cap room. And he, when he spoke about them just wanting to, they had a chance to pull the trigger on some trades. And again, we get frustrated when we, because we always hear about the almost trades. We always hear about them. And especially after the trade deadline, we always hear about the, oh, well Ravens almost made this one. Oh, they could have made that, but they didn't know. Oh, they almost, we always hear about that. But I did appreciate him addressing the why, at least for this year, why a lot of those trades didn't happen. And he said that he didn't want to mortgage the future. He said that he didn't want to have the possible dead cap money, the dead money on the cap, I mean, excuse me. He said he didn't want to do that. So that's why they ended up not going through with some of the deals that they could have made happen. And basically what Eric Dacosta was saying was like, man, we were broke. We were broke. We ain't got, we ain't have it. And boy, when he said that, I was like, oh, Eric Dacosta, I felt that one, man. Cause I surely have been there multiple times, a lot of times, to where it's like, dang, I just, I ain't got it. I ain't got no money. I'm broke. So when he said that one, I was like, oh, that one. Wrote back a lot of memories, man, but it's all about, that's life, man. It's a process, man. So I appreciated that. But anyway, these were the last couple of things that I just wanted to touch on when it came to the press conference. Obviously then picking up Hollywood's fifth year option and them saying that they're gonna keep Marcus Peters that he ain't going nowhere. So all right, Raven, you better deliver on that one now. So again, let's just see how they follow through with everything that they said they're gonna do. Cause we still watching and waiting. Team keep it clean. We out.