 When every day that passes, we get that much closer to a resolution happening between the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. But what will that resolution be? There are an endless amount of possibilities and different directions that this thing could go in. And my mind alone, by myself, I'm not even capable of fathoming all the different possibilities and different situations that this could lead to. So that's why for this video, I had to bring on a very, very special guest to help us take a deep dive into it and to help us break it all down. But before we get into it, I got to ask this special guest a very important question. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Automated. So team keep it clean. Very, very special guest in the building. Got Rita, aka the NFL chick. Before we get into things, I got to ask you a question. Before we introduce you and everything that you got going on, how was the Palomar ice cream? It was really good. I mean, so I'm a person that likes all the components of payday bars, because that's what it was supposed to be after. So I like peanuts. I like caramel. You got me. I don't really care. Everything else just falls into place. But anything caramel I'm going to try. Chocolate, of course. So I oh, peanut butter. So I went into it thinking I would like it. I don't really eat ice cream like that at this big stage of my life. Because, you know, you get older, some stuff you can't tolerate. But I was willing to take a risk for this ice cream. And it was well worth the risk. I will say that it was really, really good. So it's funny because I don't I didn't at the place. It's called the Charmary and they have different locations here in Baltimore and in Maryland. And I didn't tag them because I didn't know that they were on social media. But I mean, I should have known, right? But I guess somebody told them about it because I saw that they had like seen it. So yes, I gave you all big up because it was good. And I hope you guys, if you like all those things or at least tolerate those things, I think you should check it out. It's really good. All right, so shout out to the Charmary. Next time we up in town, we're going to have to check them out. Yes. But now on to business. Well, before we get to the business, let's let the world know who you are, even though so many of them already know who you are. Because you'll be everywhere doing everything. But let everybody know who you are, what you do. And just the whole night. I mean, you know, I'm a guest. I've been a guest on here before. So, you know, I'm Rita, the NFL chick, a co-host at 1057, the fan here in Baltimore. And sometimes I do things on Peacock's brother from another. Whenever they call me, I say, hey, go ahead and put me on. So, yeah, I mean, that's those of the, oh, and I am an advocate to Twitter as well. So you can find me at the NFL chick. I do tweet a lot. So if that's, if it's going to be too much for you, please do not follow me. And that's, that's real though, because if you follow her, yeah, you got to see her tweeting. I mean, I'm just saying, I just want to, I'm being honest, I don't, I don't, that's, I understand it's a lot, you know. So if that's too much for you, it's too much engagement, completely understand, just don't do it. Just look peeking every now and again from afar. And so to get to it, you tasted the, the paleomar ice cream. And what a lot of people are wondering now is what's going to happen. All the Ravens going to pay Lamar. Well, they've of course been negotiating for a really, really long time. And we've continued to hear so many different reports from left, from right, up and down about what's happened, what hasn't happened, is guaranteed, is not guaranteed, all type of stuff. And the way that I've been looking at it is I, we won't know till we know what something's official, then I will see how it gets done. But the Ravens, of course, a little bit ago, they placed the non exclusive franchise tag on Lamar Jackson. How did you feel about them making that step and them choosing to do the non exclusive versus the exclusive franchise tag? I mean, so I understood why from a financial perspective, I understand the difference, right, because the Ravens were already going to be over the cap and they were going to have to downplay their cap. And so obviously we know that there's a $13 million difference. I didn't love the idea though because, you know, for one, if you don't find a suitor and he continues to want to negotiate then $13 million less than what you would have been getting. You know, had you gotten the exclusive tag. And another thing is that, you know, it puts the Ravens at risk or so I thought to losing Lamar if a team like the Falcons and I use the Falcons as an example because they had the second highest cap availability behind the Chicago bears with just over $66 million. If the Atlanta Falcons were to have put in an offer for him and it's front loaded very heavy, could be the same exact contract, right? But if the front load is heavy because they have the cap space, the Ravens wouldn't wouldn't be able to match it. I thought it was risky and low key arrogant. Because I said that I said if this works out for them, the Ravens clearly know something that we don't. And then shortly thereafter, we started seeing teams come out and saying, you know, they weren't going to be in the running. And they weren't going to be in the running. And don't get me wrong because at first it was full on C word for me. And I still do feel that way. But I have changed my stance a little bit on I do think there's some other elements that could be involved in that. And we had Jason Reed on our show yesterday, Glenn and myself from Anscape. And Jason Reed agreed that the C word because I don't want to say it because then you'll hey the lawsuits come I ain't got no money right. So I gotta make sure I ain't saying that word out loud. We believe that the C word exists. And not necessarily exclusive tomorrow to Lamar. But it was not a secret that after the Browns paid the Sean Watson the money that they paid the rest of the owners were livid about it is not a secret that they were not happy about it. So do I believe that they came to an agreement. I don't know how whether it was discussed, actually, or just, you know, a thing like, hey, I ain't going, I'm not going to be the one to be next. And then people was like, neither am I, neither am I. I don't know. But somehow some way, I think the rest of the owners were like, hey, I'm not getting involved in fully guarantee contracts. I'm not going to do that. So I don't think that this is about Lamar specifically. I think that, you know, they're the owners are banding together in terms of trying to figure out the guarantee situation. But Jason Reed also brought up some other things one in which I do agree with. I don't think that owners or GMs want to do the dirty work for the Ravens, because if they feel like the Ravens want to match the offer, then to them it could absolutely be a waste of time and they don't have time to waste. If they're looking for a quarterback. So that's possible. Jason Reed also mentioned the fact that maybe because the offense that Lamar was in, they tailored it around his skill set. And so maybe it's very possible that GMs and owners that don't necessarily want to do that. Now I don't know if I agree with that. I think that the title is, is you'll take the risk and you'll do what you want to do. You want to argue about the injury situation. Okay, maybe right because it's been at the end of two seasons in a row, but I don't thoroughly believe that it's because you would have to scrap whatever office that you're in because we act like Lamar didn't play in a pro style offense ever before. And to me, that is an excuse. The other things, okay, maybe, but I do think that the biggest thing is the C word and that they are saying we're not going to continue the trend of fully or very, very close to fully guarantee contracts. Yeah, yeah, it does seem like that could be going down. Somebody brought up a really good point and subscribe on here. And he talked about how safe instance with them doing the non the non exclusive franchise tag. Safe instance to another team. They signed Lamar to an office sheet. And it's fully guaranteed. And the Ravens they like they match it. They could be like Ravens could be like oh well we wanted to keep our quarterback. But yeah, we didn't want to do the fully guaranteed but we really had no choice because we really want to keep our guys so this is on that team this now. Yeah, so it's that the whole non exclusive I was when they first when it came out that they placed a non exclusive franchise tag on them. I was thinking right away. Oh yeah, that's a wrap. He's gone. They know more Lamar with the Ravens anymore. But the longer that this thing has gone on and it really hasn't even been that long hasn't even been a full week yet. But the longer that this thing has gone on. And then of course with the reports like literally immediately after like it was like, teams wasn't even trying to hide it. When we talk about that alleged see where they weren't even trying to hide it like oh no we're not interested. We ain't going to pursue him. We're not going to be in and running for Lamar. Literally right after Ravens announced that they placed the non exclusive franchise tag on them. All these teams just start dropping out of Lamar sweepstakes or whatnot. Look, no, no, I don't mean to interrupt you but the one team that really couldn't afford them then decided to come back and say well we're in the free eight we're going to be in the market for any quarterback and that includes Lamar Jackson and that was the Vegas Raiders. And then they turned around a side son Jimmy Garoppolo, which honestly works best for them because that's what they can afford. Let's be clear. They don't have no money. They basically can't fire their coach because they don't have no money. But you tried to use the Raiders who everybody knew didn't have any money to say hey can you go out there and say that you'll go here and act like you're going for Lamar. Everybody knows y'all don't have it. And also you could have found somebody else alive out there and made it believable. The Raiders. The whole thing is, it was just fishy. It was just fishy from the jump. So I mean the way that it's looking, we won't know like I said we won't know till we know until March 15th, 4pm Eastern time. That's when they can start talking. Teams can start talking. Lamar can start talking to them. Now, something that's also come up and I've seen you speak about it before. Shout out to your Twitter. Lamar can't talk to anybody till March 15th. But had he had an agent then he would have been able to speak to people starting today. Today, March 13th. Which we all know they started at the combine but that's not what it was. How do you think him not having an agent? Do you think that impacts anything? How do you think that that affects just anything overall? I have been a proponent of him having an agent from the beginning of time. I have not changed my stance on this. I do not change my stance on this. Agents to me find ways to get things done in a way that incentivizes the player. Obviously the more the player get it incentivizes the agent. So of course they're going to try to maximize what they can get out of the ownership because they want that increases their pay. In addition to that, nowadays, all of the a lot of these agencies are one stop shop agencies. And even if they don't have marketing people in their agency, they have people that they deal with directly from a contractual perspective that they have business relationships with. So for me, I've always felt that Lamar should be on every TV on every commercial during NFL games. I had to sit there and watch Baker Mayfield do progressive commercials. I feel like at one point, Baker may feel have more progressive commercials than he did wins at one point until that like 2020 season came. And so for me, it's not just about the Ravens contract, although yes, I think that a contract would have been done had he had one. But it to me, it's about maximizing his likeness maximum. The things that we talk about in college football are the things to me that applies for Lamar because he doesn't have an agent. And I understand, you know, we want to do this fight the power thing. And I understand that y'all want to see him lie and say Roquan Smith didn't have an agent. Well, you didn't lie. But what I want you to understand is that Roquan Smith had a person come in and negotiate a person that literally just does not have the title of agent but is can absolutely do everything else that the agents do. The difference is he's not registered under the NFLPA. I had to say that I had to get that out because that's very disingenuous of our fan base to continue to say that because he had someone do his work for him. He did not go into the office with EDC and do it himself. Okay, so even if Lamar did something like that, where this person is short of agent, maybe lesser fees, potentially because he's not listed as an agent. I take that because it also opens the door for so many other opportunities for him. You know, we talked about we heard about the shoe deal that potentially fell through or whatever, whether or not that's true or not, Lamar absolutely should have been on Nike's radar. And do you know how fantastic that commercial would have been between him and Michael Vic had something come about. This is a guy that I just feel like has always had to work so hard. And I just want him to get all of the money, all whether it's from the Ravens or whoever the football team, but outside the organization. When you hear guys like Rob Gronkowski saying that they don't even use their money that they get from the team, they live off of their endorsements. That's what I want for Lamar Jackson because he deserves that unanimous MVP deserves every single dime that should come his way. And I think having an agent would have maximized his money in that way. Yeah, and with Lamar yeah I agree that he does definitely deserves all the bread and all the endorsement deals and whatnot and we'll see how that goes in the future. As far as him not having an agent because he has a big opportunity here, him and his camp to really be trendsetters as far as not going the not going the the typical route as an NFL player. But I'm sure you can attest to it. I can too for the couple of times that I met him like there's some football players that you meet. They so friendly man they they not nice they're not likeable people. Some can be a little arrogant and whatnot and that's that's can be just people in general, but Lamar's not like that. I only met him a couple of times but neither time he was on the cocky thing and obviously he's super popular and down here like him being from down here, he's super popular too. But he was never on that he was always like the same Lamar that we will see at the presses well those that see the presses from afar know you be at the presses a lot of times but the same Lamar that we will see at the presses. So this super calm humble guy joking around. That's exactly how it would be when you actually meet him super nice guy and whatnot so when you have somebody and they just they so happen to play for your favorite team. And then you met them. It's like you you you root for them more and you root for their success that much more so hopefully it happens with Lamar Jackson. What do you think is going to go down as far as Lamar Jackson and the Ravens or Lamar Jackson and possibly somebody else the whole office sheet thing. What do you think is going to be next for Lamar Jackson. This is the part that is very interesting because it, I feel like we have no pulse on any scenario right like we can come up with a ton of them, but the actual pulse of like where you think this could go. I mean, I would like to be optimistic that the Ravens either if someone if someone does you know put the offer and the Ravens match it and he stays or they find a way to negotiate and get a deal done. That to me is the most ideal it frees up some a cap space so you can get some wide receivers and some other players. And, you know, obviously Lamar gets his money, but there is a very, very, there's a scenario out there that what Lamar says, you know, don't sign the offer sheet if a team offers because I don't want to I'm not going to play here anymore, or there's a possibility of him saying, I'm just going to ride this out again, y'all can tag me again if y'all want to and then I think that there's a 20% increase if he does if he gets tagged next year. So, you know, it's very possible that he continues to try to play this out into his way until he plays his way into free agency and that's not beneficial for the Ravens obviously because they have a cap that they have to go by. But it just I have no idea how any of this can be it really all determines to me I think on if someone offers. And I feel like that that should happen sooner more than later because you have the draft coming up right and people really want to kind of get some things settled. In terms of that now obviously we know that if a team puts in an offer sheet after the draft, that means they won't be their picks until 24 and 25 but I don't know who's willing to wait that long to figure out their quarterback situation, unless you feel like you're just looking down the road. But ultimately, I really would like to see this get resolved because if it's not going to work and the Ravens need a quarterback, what are they going to do about it? I think they haven't even is he a restrictive free agent I believe. Yes. You've got to worry about your backup quarterback situation in addition to your quarterback situation and having so many uncertainties going into the draft can't bode well for franchise. So, I wish I knew how this was going to go. I'm going to be hopeful that it means that the Ravens and Lamar will find a way to get it done, even if it's a short term deal and then it allows him to go into the market after like three years, right? Maybe. But I just really hope that they find a way to get this resolved sooner than later so then the Ravens can try to give him some extra pieces they need to move forward in the playoffs. Yeah, that would be really nice, especially when you talk about moving forward in the playoffs, they could do a little more than that. Yeah, we'll see how things go. But Rita, appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much for for making time for us. And what we know is a very busy but productive schedule and efficient schedule. So thank you one more time before we get out of here and let everybody know what they can find yet. I'm at the NFL check on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and I did very well. 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