 As a Ravens fan, we're used to the process in the off season. It may start a little slow, then it may pick up just a tiny, tiny bit, but then it slows down a lot after that and it's a lot of the same old stuff. But this off season, this off season was far from the norm. It wasn't your typical Baltimore Ravens off season. And they did a lot of stuff where they went above and beyond more than they have in a really, really long time. But to talk about exactly what they did and to talk about exactly some of the reasons why they may have done it, I couldn't do it alone. I had to bring on a very, very special guest to help me out. And you know just what I mean You too, team, keep it clean You see my boy, he like, automated, automated Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Ravens? Team, keep it clean. Very, very special guest in the building. And before we get into the subject at hand, let me introduce you to the kid. 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Now, you said you were about five years in, right? Yeah. So was Eric DeCosta. And Eric DeCosta did this off season. He's done things quite differently than he's done the previous five years. And he's taken a much, much different approach, a much, much more aggressive approach. Now, I know you have been somebody that's been very adamant, been very outspoken when it's come to the Ravens approach at the wide receiver position and how it's been and how it's impacted the team over the years, especially recent years and how you feel like they should have always done more. How do you feel about this approach? How Eric DeCosta and them have handled things this off season at the wide receiver position? Man, listen, this approach that EDC just had, this off season, I don't even know how to explain it. I'm just like, I'm fulfilled. The moment we landed OBJ, I was like, okay, we getting somewhere. And I just had my fingers crossed for Zae Flowers or Jackson Smith and Jake, but I was like, one of those two, just give me one of those guys and you won't hear a peep out of me. So when we got Zae Flowers, I was like, oh yeah, like, I'm done and you can get whoever you want. I don't care what corner you get, I don't care what project you fit. I got my guys and that's what I'm ready to, I'm looking forward to that. So it's really cool though, because you kind of just see the gradual build. And I know that we gave them a lot of flack at the wide receiver position, but then also look at our tight end position and you know, they beefed that up the year before. So you beef up the tight ends and then you beef up the wide receiver room. It's just like Lamar really just has so many weapons and they're all different type of players. And I think that's what I love most. It's not like the same type of caliber of wide receiver or the same type of caliber of tight end. Every single person has a unique thing that they bring to the team. And I think that's what really separates us from the rest of the NFL. And I think that's what makes us the most excited. Now, what do you think prompted this change in the way that Eric, the cost to attack the position this year? Lamar's contract. That's the way I look at it. I'm just like, bro, like you have a superstar quarterback. And when I say superstar, I'm not just talking about, you know, some guy that's glorified in Baltimore. Like we're talking about a guy who has ties to Florida to pretty much like brought that bridge over. Cause I don't know where it transpired from, but Florida has a very big Ravens fan base. And you're one of them. So it's like, it's cool to see somebody, you know, connect that bridge. Cause it's like, oh, we have a quarterback from South Florida. How do you have that going on? You got kids and baseball players from other countries wearing his jersey. And it's like, yo, we really have something here. So just to have that caliber of a player when that's up in the air and you got to make sure he's satisfied. Oh, you got to, you got to, you know, overdo or step out of your comfort zone and do what you need to do in order to keep him happy. So that's how it was. Yeah, that's true. It's very important to keep Lamar Jackson happy, especially if you're going to be investing in Lamar Jackson, it's important to invest in him in more ways than one. And the Ravens definitely did that this off season. Now, of course we wish that this would have happened years ago and they tried some different things and whatnot. They took some different swings. They took some safe swings and some risky swings. Most safe swings as far as the first round picks like a Hollywood Brown or Rashad Bateman. And then there was some, some like, well, you know, I can't even really say risky swings, but there's been a Deshaun Jackson, there's Bryan, there's a Sammy Watkins, there's Seth Roberts, there's a really sneeze. So the Marcus Robinson, so solid guys, but yeah, you get it. But right now where the Ravens are sitting at, Rashad Bateman, Odell Beckham, Jr., Nelson Aguilar, Devon DuVernay, James Proshay, I think it's to be determined, we'll see what happens. Tyler Wallace, I think he's to be determined as well. Zay Flowers, do you feel like what the Ravens have right here, right now is enough to get the job done? In my personal opinion, I do, but you know it, you know, the whole de-hop thing's still lingering. Like, I don't think we're gonna make the move. I don't think we're gonna make the move, but you know, it's just, it's there, you know, it's there for the taking, but the current guys that we do have, I do believe that it's enough because we just gotta keep in mind what Lamar Jackson was capable of doing with the guys that he had, you know, the Seth Roberts, the Miles Boykins, the Hollywood Browns. And you know, I liked Hollywood a lot. Like, I'm a big guy on Hollywood. So it's like, you kind of get your Hollywood and the Zay Flowers, but in a stockier form, more willing to take those tackles and just different type of things like that. So I just feel like the versatility, once again, of the White Receiver Room really benefits us a lot. Nelson Aguilar, he can contribute, he's a Super Bowl champion, but when you have a Odell Beckham Jr., you finally have like your true number one. Or, you know, Rashad Bateman, if you consider him the true number one, he still has to prove that, but I have a lot of faith in him. I like that pick as well. So I think just, it's the injury bug, man. If we can get past that injury bug, that will decide everything. But if we have a healthy Ravens team, there's no doubt in my mind that we can get it done. Man, you brought up DeAndre Hopkins. And I almost wish in the interview that he did the other day, I almost wish Brandon Marshall and them ain't even asked about nothing with Lamar Jackson and Ravens. I wish they wouldn't even brought that up because like, man, I was hoping, man, especially when we heard the report that Lamar Jackson asked for both of them, like both OBJ and DeAndre, I was like, all right, Lamar, hey, I'm right there with you. And then when it got like right before the draft and it was all these rumors about, oh yeah, DeAndre Hopkins and Ravens, they closed, they closed. So I was thinking, oh, this thing about to really go down, really? Right. But it didn't end up happening. And then when they drafted, they flowers, like for me, it was a bit of sweet thing because it was like, oh, okay. They drafted, they flowers. And then when I like did some more research on it, I'm like, okay, good pic. I like the pic. But at the same time, I think that had sort of officially ended the DeAndre Hopkins to the Ravens. Even though, I mean, oh yeah, that's probably ain't happening, but still a tiny, tiny chance. But You got to click off of that little bit of hook. We can tell ourselves we ain't going to get them, but if you got to save that little space, like hold on, but maybe something like that. It's sitting there in the reserve, but I'm going to chill. We going to see, but I'm going to chill. I expect him to go to the Buffalo Bills though. But again, that's just me. I think that that's where he ends up. But we'll see. But it's been really nice to, it's really nice going into a season and not having to have the conversations, not having to have the dialogue and the topic of conversations about why receive it for the Baltimore Ravens because it really feels good this year. It really feels like they got that handle. They got that taking care of. And it's crazy because it almost feels like not that there are too many mouths to feed, but like that's a good problem to have in my opinion. When you have a plethora of web, because just on why I receive it alone, like again, going down a list, Odell Beckham, Junior Rashad Bateman, Zay Flowers on top for your loan. It's like, oh, okay, we got something. But then you still got Devin Duvenay, you still got Nelson Aguilod too. And then we'll see who else makes it out the cut. But just why receive a loan. It's like, okay, Raven set up nice right now. But then, yeah, like you mentioned, they beefed up the tight end room. So we got, we still got one of the best tight ends in the game and Mark Andrews. So it's like, before we even get to tight end, it's like, oh, they, they, they might be set. But then you get to tight. It's like, oh man, you got Mark Andrews too. Isaiah likely coming too. And now with, with somebody else who, I've seen a lot of people ranting and raving about him. It's Charlie Collor. And they think that he could be special as well. So we'll see what goes down with that. But as far as something that you brought up before, Lamar Jackson being happy. How, how do you think Lamar Jackson's feeling right now? Going into this season. And to be honest with you, I feel like Lamar Jackson is aesthetic, but he trying to keep it on the low. He's trying to play the humble card. Like, oh yeah, you know, this is cool. You know, I got what I like. Nah, Lamar is excited because you look at the Rosses that we had before. And I'm not going to say like Lamar was completely helpless, but there could have been room for more help for him. Especially when it comes to the targets. You know, we had the whole wide receiver conversation. So it was like, now you're in a position, like you said, where you have so many mouths to feed. And that's a great problem to have. It's like, okay, like I got to feed Zay. I got to feed OBJ, but dang, Nelson right there. Oh, dang, you know, Doof is over here. I call him Diet Debo Samuel. So it's like, so you have all these different mouths to feed and it's like, okay, like if somebody does happen to get hurt, knock on wood, you just got another replacement. It's really next man up. And it's a quality man that's stepping up. It's not just like you getting the bottom of the barrel and Ravens are going out here and getting somebody extremely past their prime. It's like, no, you have a young guy that's going to step in and be that next person up. So I think he's aesthetic to be honest with you, between the contract, being the highest paid player in NFL history, having a wide receiver room, having a tight end room, you still got your backfill, new offensive coordinator. There is no reason why Lamar should even be humble right now, I'll be talking about that. That's just me though. Now, something that you mentioned earlier, which I really liked, you talked about the receivers and the different skill sets that they bring to the table. That's a beautiful thing because that just makes it that much better. That gives you that many more options and different looks you can give to defenses. Now, speaking about looks that you're giving to defenses, how do you feel and what are you expecting from Ravens new offensive coordinator, Todd Munkin? To be honest with you, I expect to air it out this year. I really do expect to air it out. I think that obviously the run game will still be our bread and butter, but I think that in terms of actually drawing up great schemes that's going to get us a lot of passing yards, that's going to get us down the field, kind of speed those drives up, I should say, not really waiting down to the play clock, trying to play the whole clock management thing. We're not doing that, bro. We trying to put the points up like it's basketball, 24 second shot clock and we done it. So that's kind of where my mind is. I expect Todd to kind of just come with that type of intensity. And then on top of that, you look at the quarterbacks that Todd Munkin had in the past between like, what's dude's name? Jamis Winston. So you have a Jamis Winston who's throwing for a ridiculous amount of yards. And I'm looking like, hey, Jamis, he was airing it out. We have Lamar Jackson. I feel like he can do the exact same. So draw up some similar schemes and we'll see where we can go from there. But I do expect this to be Lamar Jackson's, like in terms of yardage, his best passing season. Yeah, I like that. Now, without putting you on the spot, but at the same time, put you on the spot. Let's get it. Record prediction, how good or bad do you think these Baltimore Ravens are going to be this year? I'm going to be completely honest with you. Since I am on the spot, I'm going to be completely honest. I haven't even looked at the schedule like that. But I'm going to just go off the top of my head and say at most four losses, at the most four losses, I plan to be at maybe 10 games this year because I am going to some away games. I plan on pulling up to the Jacksonville game too. OK, OK. We're going to see, but I'm going to say four losses because once again, the Baltimore Ravens under Lamar Jackson, we don't lose that much. We may lose when it matters, but we don't lose that much in the regular season. So I'm not seeing a real bad season in terms of losses. So whoever they bring in, whoever they have us, the underdog against, you know, stick with your eyes open. OK. That's how I look at it. All right. And now, how far do you think these Ravens could go? All right. So humbly speaking, humbly speaking. I do, man, I just think that the Ravens are always that underdog team. Like it doesn't matter what we do. It doesn't matter who we have. Regardless of what's taking place with the team, people always count us out. And I say like the way that the media cycle goes, it's you leave the Baltimore Ravens out of the top list. So whether it's the top teams at the AFC or top teams or whatever, they keep us off these lists. Then after a few weeks, it's, oh, the Ravens are, you know, they're running something. Then after that, it's, oh, Lamar Jackson should be in the MVP conversation. Then we get to the playoffs. Oh, we're banking on the Ravens and then things go left. It's like when you doubt us, that's when we're at our best. So the way I look at it is as long as we keep that underdog mentality, they can really take it all away. I mean, that's what we've been built on. Like the Ravens have never been that team that you expect to really show out. And then when the year comes, it's like, oh, nah, this team is for real. So I think they can go all the way. Now granted, the AFC is very hefty. Is it? Yeah. It's got an easy feat. So if you're in realistic, you do have the teams like the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills and all these other squads. But it's like, I really think that this is the team that can get it done. Once again, barring the injuries. Right. That's big. That's really been our Achilles heel. All right. So, Gary, A, appreciate you again for coming through. One more time before we get out of here. Let everybody know where they can find you at. Once again, you can find me at DA, K-I-D, G-O-W-I-E. And once again, that is DA, K-I-D, G-O-W-I-E. 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