 So YouTube team, keep it clean. What's going on? It's Angraven here with another video. And I know this is not the greatest news. It's not the worst, but it's just, it hurt a little bit. Reason being, because for me, while I was listening to the press conference today, I was cleaning out the microwave because I had just heated up some oxtail and rice in there. Shout out to my uncle, but I had just heated up some oxtail and rice in there and I had put it in there a little too long. You know, when you put it in there for a little bit too long, it goes pop! Catch you off guard. It starts sounding like you're shooting or something. So then I took it out and I had to clean up the debris, so to speak. So then while I'm cleaning it up, I hear John Hardball just nonchalantly say, oh yeah, by the way, Rashad Bateman, he's gonna be having surgery on his groin. And the way that he just said it, like it was nothing. And he was previously being asked about if Lamar with Jackson was gonna be playing in the pre-season game this Saturday. And he was like, oh, I'm not answering that. And they just then slipped it in there. Like, oh yeah, it's no big deal. And then he said, oh, he'll be back sometime in September. And I like that, oh, it's just, ah, that scared me a little bit. That scared me a little bit because now, now with that, that obviously it's not the same situation and they are not the same player, but that reminds me of the way that he did with Rashad Bateman. It's not on the same level, but it is a similar situation. And again, I'm not saying that Rashad Bateman and Rashad Bateman are the same. No, but the way that Hardball kind of set an expectation for Bateman's return to be at any week. And then it wasn't. Now with Bateman yesterday, he set an expectation. He did say, oh, it'll be a couple of weeks. It won't be months, it'll just be weeks. But then the very next day, so okay, he had surgery, he'll be back sometime in September. Now, that sometime could be, could be first game of the season. It could be, could be second game of the season. It could be early September. It could be late September. We just, we really don't know right now. And I know a lot of y'all chimed in. I talked to a lot of people with their personal history when it comes to groin injuries. I shared some text messages with some people. I saw a lot of y'all share stuff from the comment section, had some DMs with people as well. And they talked about it how with a groin injury, it is extremely hard to judge. It's hard to judge. It's hard to tell. It's hard to really say what's going on. One of my guys I talked to, he said that he's dealt with a groin injury and it happened when he was just, he was being worked out too much. He was going too hard. He was going way too hard. And then I even talked to one of my guys today. And he said that maybe he thinks that the Ravens may be pushing the guys just a little too much. I know there was somebody in the comment section that said, well, it may not even be that the Ravens are really pushing these guys too much. It could just because it's just so hot outside that he ain't no joke. And it's true, when it's hot, it's hot. Like y'all know, but whatever it is, this is just, it's a little alarming. It's a little, well, it's quite alarming because like, ooh, when you hear that S-word, when you hear that S-word surgery, and it just, it delays so much. Now, of course, the biggest thing that we want for Rashad Bateman is to come back and come back all the way. That was another thing that some people said. Some people said that maybe Rashad Bateman, with the injury that he was dealing with last week, maybe he wasn't fully recovered from that. And they may have rushed him back or brought him back a little too soon. So, I mean, whatever it is, now he's having surgery. So now he is going to be rectifying whatever the situation is with his groin. So hopefully after the surgery, hopefully it's a quick recovery. I'm not sure what the recovery time is. Well, it's obviously a couple of weeks if he's gonna be back sometime in September. So we'll see how that goes. Man, I know a lot of Ravens fans, they hurting right now from hearing that. Cause again, like I said, just talking, just talking about pre-season. Oh no, I'm not gonna say if Lamar is gonna play in the pre-season. We got a certain rotation we do for the starters and the backups. And we got it based off of guys age and how long they been in the league. And he was talking about it. Tay-Tay, Tay-Tay had a vet day off and Marlon Humphrey had a vet day off today. Marcus Pears and some other guys they had vet days off today. And again, John, I just was talking. He was just talking, oh yeah, everything good, everything good, oh yeah, Rashad Bateman he's getting ready to have surgery. He's gonna be out till sometime in September. And I was like, whoa. So, and again, like we talked about yesterday, hopefully again, it's, there is that small percent of fans that they can make everybody look bad when they go to these irrational statements and this irrational way of thinking. And when they make these crazy claims and crazy assumptions and say, oh Rashad Bateman, since this is happening he's a bust and he hasn't even taken one snap on the field. But they don't represent everybody. They don't represent the entire fan base. They don't represent all the Ravens flock. They don't. But again, the biggest thing we want for Rashad Bateman is for him to get better. Because, think about it, as painful as this might be right now, this is not the worst situation, this is not the end all be all. Because, to say for instance, he was ready to go, or ready to go week one. What if he came out there week one, then he made a couple of catches. It's like, all right, let's go Bateman. Then on one play he made a catch and went down to the ground and was just holding his groin. Ah, screaming. Then he's out for the season. What if that happened? And we don't want anything like that to happen. So I'm not, it's a little disappointing, but at the same time, when you think about the big scenario, this is a good thing that they're doing this now, rather than later, rather than pushing it off. Because it has happened. You know, players wanna play. Players want to play. NFL stands for not for long. And teams nowadays, they'll move on from a player faster than ever. Faster than ever. But, and I'm not saying that the Ravens will move on from Rashad Bateman. Cause I know some people try to take stuff. Well, anyway. But players, they try to be out on that field cause this is their job. This is what they've been training for. This is what they've been grinding for their entire lives to get to this point. So when it's taken away from them, for whatever reason, they wanna get back out there. So we have seen plenty of players in the past, they'll have injuries. And we're gonna continue to see that. Players may have an injury, but they be like, no, no, I'm playing through it. I'm playing through it. Whether it's a first round picked, a seventh round picked, undrafted guy to a new free agent that just got signed. They try to play through it because they know it's next man up. It's next man up. So you need to try to solidify your spot on the roster. And again, Rashad Bateman's spot is safe. But for a lot of other guys who go through the same thing, when they face an injury, they'll try to just put it off. No, I'm not doing surgery. No, I don't wanna sit out. No, I don't wanna rest. I gotta keep going. But for Rashad Bateman, it's a good thing that he's getting this situation dealt with so he can come back and be 100%. So team keep it clean, even though we all are hurting, we know. Trust me, I'm hurting a little bit too. But in the long run, we gotta think about the long run because I know a lot of times we get caught up in the short-term thinking. Like again, that's the difference between a microwave cooking your food in a microwave like I just did versus cooking it in the oven. The microwave is quick, it's fast. And that's how we operate a lot of time. We want it quick, we want it fast. But the food is always better on the stove or on the oven. It takes longer, but the quality is much better. I love y'all, team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. And just like Rashad Bateman is until sometime in September, when that will be, we'll see, but I'm out.