 It's always funny looking back right? It's always nice to sort of reflect on the what could have been and what may have been and all the possibilities but it's nice looking back at that knowing that the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson were able to come to a contract agreement on the deal worth up to 260 million dollars. But this report from Jeremy Fowler came out a few days back and it said that the Ravens they were considering drafting Will Leavis considering drafting Will Leavis had they not come to a contract agreement with Lamar Jackson and I know when I saw that initially I was like huh okay well I mean I get it not that I wanted this rotten banana eating mayonnaise in the coffee quarterback but I get the business it's business and you gotta stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. This is why we didn't trip when the Ravens had Anthony Richardson on like 50 visits when they met with him like 50 times because again stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. Obviously the the hope and the goal and what we all wanted the most well a lot of us I know there's some people out there that didn't want Lamar Jackson back but you gotta deal with it now but anyway the hope and the goal was that Lamar Jackson would be returning to the Baltimore Ravens. That's what so many of us at Hope for so many of us would just wanted to wanted it to see it happen and we're glad that it did but there was the possibility that it wouldn't happen and if you're the Baltimore Ravens this was such a pivotal offseason for the Ravens in so many different ways as we have all gone over as you all already know but there were so many different things that will happen in this offseason that moves that were made people that they moved on from people that they brought on it's just so much going on this offseason and still so much more to go but I understood it I understood the why behind it but I'm glad I'm glad that it didn't happen. Let's read what Jeremy Fowler had to say he said in the absence of Lamar Jackson deal by the start of the draft I believe after asking around that the Ravens would have considered quarterback Will Levitz with the 22nd overall pick finalizing a deal for Lamar Jackson before Thursday night was prudent for Baltimore which could implement the possibility of drafting a passer as leverage then Jeremy Fowler also said after the draft leverage would shift to Lamar Jackson potentially weakening the chance at a deal because Baltimore's QB options would be scarce unless they selected one on day one or two this is a move point after Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens agreed to terms on a five-year 260 million dollar extension a few hours before the draft kicked off had that not gone down the QB option could have been tempting and Levitz was the best option at 22 so we always talk about how timing is everything we always talk about how deadlines deadlines they spark action um two sides they could be talking about something for a long time as a racer Lamar have been talking about this for a long time two sides could be going back and forth in negotiations for a while two sides could be giving their offers and their counter offers to each other for a very very large amount of time but they could go nowhere they could be little progress and that's what we continue to hear for the longest between Lamar and the Ravens that they just hadn't been much progress um and they did keep so much stuff tight-lipped they didn't let a lot get out we heard rumors and reports and stories and read articles and heard this and that but the Ravens and Lamar they they pretty much kept everything on the low for the most part um but that's why it was no coincidence that while it wasn't an official deadline it was sort of an official deadline the NFL draft because you had some quarterbacks in there that were expected to go in the first round and Ravens they they didn't have their quarterback officially yeah they had them on a non-exclusive franchise tag but they didn't officially have that quarterback and the only guys they had on the roster were Tyler Huntley and Anthony Brown so that wouldn't be enough that that that wouldn't be enough um so you could understand why yeah this was a real possibility of them drafting a quarterback this year and whether it was Will Levison or not them drafting a quarterback was a real possibility especially if they did not have Lamar locked up um but again I'm glad glad that they got the deal done uh so all this yeah like like like Jerry Fallon said himself this is all the mood point it don't even matter uh it's just it's nice to reflect uh but it's nice to reflect knowing what happened knowing what actually did go down it's nice to look back and be like oh okay we dodge the bullet and hey we'll we'll see how Will Levison does because I believe what did get drafted by the Titans in the second round I think um but we'll see how he does we'll see how all these young rookie quarterbacks do Richardson Stroud Young all all of them I hope they all do well but I'm just glad that we got Lamar Jackson I'm glad that we're keeping Lamar Jackson because in in my opinion um Lamar Jackson gives these Baltimore Ravens the best chance here right here right now um with these other quarterbacks I'm sure they're talented sure they a disguise the limit form it really is and we're gonna see how each of them do in the NFL but with these other quarterbacks see there's so much unknown about what they can do in the league there's a lot of unknown with Lamar there's still some unknown about what he can do in this league but you have a lot that you do know already but the reason I say there's still some unknown is because we haven't seen Lamar's full potential yet we have not seen it and it's been something that y'all know I have said at continuous times that I just felt like with the Baltimore Ravens the way that they had moved and operated that we would never if Lamar stayed with the Ravens it's one thing that I fear that we would never see his true potential based on their philosophy based on how they did things based on how they ran the show but this offseason seems that they're going in a different direction seems that the philosophy is really shifting seems like it's really upgraded they said all right Greg Roman out Todd Munkin you in okay all right they the way that they've approached the wide receiver position it's like whoa whoa okay I like it and again not just with with the Odeo Beckham junior thing obviously because that was huge them going that way but even them continuing to go in the first round to get a receiver and the thing about this aim none of the first round receivers that Eric Dacosta have drafted none of them might have been bad Hollywood obviously wasn't bad Rashad Bateman ain't been bad so Zay Fly was hey I'm excited for him the the the wide receivers that Eric Dacosta has drafted in the first round have not been bad Hollywood he made his plays Rashad Bateman when he was out there he makes him plays too so with Zay Fly was I'm hoping to I'm hoping he follows suit hoping he follows suit and with him being a Florida Raven I'm pretty sure that he will but again shout out to Lamar shout out to Eric Dacosta for chilling this deal so we we don't have to even think about what life would have been like without Lamar Jackson because that would have been really sad to see him in another team's jersey but that I mean I expected it to happen um but I'm so glad to have been wrong about that so thank you team keep it clean like Lamar Jackson is not when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens and like he won't be anytime soon when it comes to being a Baltimore Raven I'm out I love y'all