 This whole Lamar Jackson situation with the Baltimore Ravens has been going on for a long time, really with no clear end in sight. And of course, with Jalen Hurts being paid, that's brought up even more conversations about the contract that Lamar Jackson was offered. Well, the contract that we know about that he was offered, one of the contracts. And it was some good money, especially when you compare it side by side with the Jalen Hurts deal. The Ravens, they were setting Lamar Jackson up nice, but apparently he wanted more. Apparently he wanted better. But when you really, really think about this whole thing, you really take a step back. It seems like it's a lot deeper than just money. And we're gonna discuss exactly why. But first, let's hear a word from our sponsor. It's April, so it's a new month. But even with it being a new month, there are two things that will always remain the same. For me, at least, I will never have a problem with paying for convenience or quality. 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Just subscribe to the channel. Leave a like on the video and hopefully you enjoy everything that you see on here. But somebody who apparently has not been enjoying everything that they've seen is Lamar Jackson because he hasn't quite enjoyed every single contract offer that the Ravens have entertained him with. That's why there hasn't been anything signed. But like we mentioned earlier, I think this goes far beyond money. I was talking to my guy CD the other day and he brought up a really, really good point that really, when you think about it, really aligns with everything that Mike Lombardi was saying that Lamar Jackson wanted and let's read it. He said, what if Lamar Jackson planned this perfectly? And he told the Ravens, give me 250 million fully guaranteed, cause we've been hearing the rumors that he wants more guaranteed money than the Sean Watson. So whether it's 250 fully guaranteed or 231 fully guaranteed, 232, whatever it may be, what if he told the Ravens, give me more fully guaranteed than the Sean Watson or get both DeAndre Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jr. and I'll take a normal deal. Because that's where the kicker was right there. Cause I know with Mike Lombardi, he said that Lamar Jackson told them, hey, get me DeAndre Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jr. and we'll talk. But my guy CD, he took it a step further. And when I thought about it, I was like, wow, that would make a lot of sense. And he said it'll enforce them to give him more help. And I was like, oh, that's a really, really good thought. Because with that, this could show like, obviously everybody been saying, oh, the Sean Watson deal, it's an outlier. It's an anomaly, it's not the norm. And Lamar Jackson and his camp, they could know that. They could know that. They could be like, oh, you know what? Yeah, that's an off the wall deal. But you know what, for the Ravens, Ravens, all right, you wanna talk, you want me to stay? I'm gonna take back some control now. I'm gonna use some of the power that I have now. If you really want me to stay, hey, we can talk, but this is what I need you to do for me. These are the demands I need you to meet. If you wanna really talk, go out and show me. Prove to me that you truly value me. Not just with money. Not just with money, because again, with the deal that the Ravens apparently offered him, it was not a bad deal, by any means. It wasn't a bad deal. And even if they sweetened the pot a little bit, add a couple more millions to it, like to top the Jalen Hertz deal, then okay, that'd be a nice deal, but maybe Lamar Jackson's like, no, I need something even more valuable than that. Cause again, it's not just about the money. We've talked about on here for years, how we don't feel like the Ravens valued Lamar like that. We don't feel like they fully trusted him all the way, that we don't feel like they had fully believed in him all the way. We've been saying that for a long time on here, just because of the way that they've constructed their teams, more so on offense, especially at the wide receiver position, but even with the offense, is the way that they construct them, the way that they build their offense, the way that they run their offense. It doesn't seem like they put their full trust in Lamar Jackson. And with all the questions that people will continue to have about Lamar Jackson, and all the questions that the media will continue to put out there about Lamar Jackson, it almost seemed like the Ravens, they still had their questions about Lamar Jackson as well. Obviously one of the things being Greg Roman and that offense, which early on, it was great. It was phenomenal. Shout out to Greg Roman and shout out to how they just, they shocked the world. But with Greg Roman, again, it's after two years, that's it. That's it. It maxes out and that happens wherever Greg Roman goes. In first two years, hey, it's great. Him as an introductory offensive coordinator to a young quarterback, oh yeah, amazing, perfect for that. Perfect for it. But after that, it fizzles out. And it just seemed like the Ravens, they moved on too late from Greg Roman. When do you ever hear, and like, correct me if I'm wrong, because I just don't ever remember this, but when do you ever hear a starting quarterback on an interview saying that defenses are calling out their plays? When do you ever hear that? And if that's not like one of the biggest indictments on your offensive coordinator, I really don't know what is. That seems like, it seemed like it back then and it's definitely still seems like it now, like that was almost like a public cry for help. Like, hey, Ravens, please, can y'all like do something about this? Please, I'm begging you. I'm telling Rich Eisen, hey, it seemed like these guys are calling out our plays. And that's the thing Lamar, he's never been one to throw anybody under the bus. But that time, he threw Jiro all the way under there. He's like, hey, hello. But with the Ravens, they just, they moved on from Greg Roman a little too late. Couple years too late in my opinion. My guy Kev, I was talking to him a few weeks ago, he brought up a really good point about why he feels that they actually retained Jiro for so long and he talked about continuity, how the Ravens, they obviously value continuity and maybe they were like, you know what, we just, we wanna keep the same offensive coordinator, we don't wanna be rotating and flipping offensive coordinator because that's not how we do things. And it really isn't how they do things for the most part with their coaching staff, but at the same time, you can be loyal to a fault. And that's what it seemed like the Ravens were. And then with personnel, with personnel, as far as building an offense for Lamar Jackson, it's been rough, it's been rough. They've taken some swings, like with Hollywood, that one was working out, but Hollywood was like, no, this offense, no, this ain't it, this ain't the one. And he had been asking to be traded for a couple of years and Ravens finally granted him his wish with Rashad Bateman. He's looked the part so far. I think he's gonna be really good. And then once he just continue to get more opportunities, he'll be even better. But as far as when it comes to veteran wide receiver, because getting a young wide receiver is nice. And I love it. I love the Rashad Bateman pick. I love the Hollywood pick. I love it. And they've taken swings on other guys too and other rounds like Miles Boyk and Devon Duvenay, James Proshay, Tyler Wallace. But as far as the veterans, like to, because it's good to get a nice mix of both, both young and not old, but both young and seasoned, both young and experienced as far as the wide receiver. And because Mark Andrews obviously from him and Lamar Jackson's rookie year, they clicked. They clicked and the sky was a limit from there. And we've seen Mark Andrews reach the sky, literally. But as far as wide receiver, it's been tough there. There's been guys like Willie Snead, who was solid. Who's in the bad way of receiving? He was solid. There's been Sammy Watkins. There's been Thays Bryant. There's been Deshaun Jackson. The mysterious Andy Isabella, Seth Roberts. And it's obviously no offense to those guys, but if you're Lamar Jackson and you're looking around the league at your counterparts, you're looking at a Josh Allen. Wow, they got him, Stefan Diggs. What? You're looking at a tour. Oh man, they got him, Tariq Hill. Oh man, you're looking at Kyla Murray. Oh man, they got him, Deandre Hawkins. They got him, AJ Green. And with all of those teams, and we could continue to name more, but with all of those teams, the way that they did it, they would get these nice receivers, established guys, but then they would draft the young guy too. So they paired them really nice, but they would get top quality high end while receivers not leftovers, not leftovers. And with Lamar Jackson, he may be looking at the situation like, man, y'all just, I love, hey, I love the Ravens. I love the team, love the organization, love the fans, love all of that stuff. But the way that y'all have provided me with stuff, it just ain't been it. It ain't been it. And that's why it makes sense that this whole thing is probably deeper than money. So that would make the rumors that we heard make a lot more sense. Cause if, like, try to put yourself in his situation. And it's like, all right, if y'all are not gonna give me who I need, okay, then you gotta compensate me like crazy. You got to compensate me like crazy. And you may even think I'm crazy for wanting that compensation, that type of compensation. But it's either one or the other. You're gonna give me this guaranteed money or you're gonna guarantee me getting some guys that's really like that. And again, it makes sense. It makes sense because it puts their feet to the fire and it puts some pressure on them. It does put some pressure on them. And it is, hey, it's a risk too. So obviously a risk from Lamar's side if this is what's happening. But in life, you gotta take some risks, my friend. You gotta step out there. If you continue to let someone do it and not that the Ravens have done him nasty, well, at Y Receiver, it's been kinda nasty. But if you continue to allow somebody to do something that you don't like that they're doing, they're gonna keep doing it. They're gonna keep doing it. And if you don't stand up for yourself, if you don't speak up, they will continue to do the same thing that they've been doing. So this is why the whole, it just makes so much sense. Again, Ravens stepping out there like they did for Odell Beckham, Jr., like what? What Ravens were those? Who was that? Yeah, Odell Beckham, Jr., yeah, he's over 30 or whatnot. He had his injury issues and whatnot. And I've seen people pull up the list like, oh, it actually wasn't an overpay for Odell Beckham, Jr., when you compare him to all the receivers making around the same amount of money that he makes. But for the Ravens, it was. For them, it was. I mean, even for somebody else, because again, there's nobody gonna give him that, not all that. They were saying that the Jets often him like five mil getting guarantees. And then the rest will be incentives. Ravens said, oh, five mil, okay, we're gonna do three times that, literally three times that. That's not Raven like at all. So that's why it being deeper than money, it just makes so much sense. Because it seems like Lamar could be really just trying to change the Ravens philosophy. And that's something that we've clamored on here for years. Ravens need to change their philosophy. They need to get with the times. We talked about how I just, I don't feel like with the Ravens, even if, and I was scared. Going into this offseason, I was scared because I feel like it was not a loose, loose, but I feel like it was just scary territory because if the Ravens lost Lamar, wow, that would suck. But if they retain Lamar, but kept their same ways, we're never gonna see Lamar Jackson hit his peak. We never gonna see him at his best. It's always gonna be limited because of how you surround him and what you surround him with and the type of offense that they had, not just him and but the whole offense that they ran. It's just so limited. It's limited. So now they moved off from Greg Roman. They brought in Todd Monkham and he got experience, excuse me, in the NFL already. He's had some successful passing offenses, even got one of his former weapons that had a good year with him over there in Cleveland in Odell Beckham Jr. We know what he did over there in Tampa and he had some good weapons over there, Mike Evans, I mean, yeah, but then he's coming off of success. He's coming off of success, two straight national championships. And again, yeah, college is different from the pros. We get that, but he was coaching for Georgia. So, I mean, there ain't nothing but NFL players on there anyway. I haven't NFL, they come from there. So it seems like the Ravens are sort of pivoting. They're not, they didn't hire a guy who just got fired. They didn't hire a guy who's on the tail end of his coaching career. They actually hired somebody while the guy was hot, while he was hot or receive a coach they brought in from the Chiefs. Hello, the Chiefs just won a Super Bowl. They brought in somebody who was hot, not somebody who was on the downside of that note. This guy was hot. He just coached MVS, Juju Smith-Schuster, McCollough, he just coached him to the Super Bowl. So again, that's Ravens doing things that are much different. That again, show that this whole thing could go far beyond money. Cause it's deep, it's deep. And it just, it makes so much sense. So I think this is really Lamar just taking control, taking control and using his power, using the power that he does have. Cause you know, obviously Ravens got a lot of power too. But Lamar using the power that he does have to really try to make a change within the Baltimore Ravens organization to show him like, hey, do you truly value me? Do you truly respect me? Do you truly want the best out of me? Cause I want the best out of myself. And hey, Lamar ain't been perfect now. So don't get it twisted. Lamar ain't been perfect. Obviously with the games that he's missed, that's big. Cause your best availability, though your best ability is availability. So you gotta be there. So they need that from Lamar. They need them to come through. Now, what, what the money change there? Like at the end of the season, like you getting paid, like, okay, I'm ready. I'm getting paid. I'm suing up. We'll see. Well, hopefully we'll see. But, so again, it's gonna take compromise on both sides, but it seems like Lamar's compromise is, hey, what it could be, what it, again, what it seems like it could be. Yeah, we, we, we could talk. Again, like, like Mike Lombardi said, give me Deandre Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jr. and then we'll talk. And now with these, the rumor still surfacing about Deandre Hopkins as a possibility for the Ravens, hey, do it. Ravens should do it. They should go all out or really all in. Put it all out there. Put, push all the chips in and go for it. They should have done this before, especially at that position. That's been the one position where, again, if you, if you Lamar, it almost feel like a slap in the face. Think, like really think about it. All right, we, we in the middle of the season, Shaw Bateman, he seemed like he got rushed back too early because he got rushed back in that Tampa game. He played a couple of downs and that was it. And then that was, that was it for him for the year. And who else did they have last year? But either way, receive, receive was a struggling. Devin Duvenay, he got hurt a little bit. They bring in 35 year old DeSean Jackson, 35 year old DeSean Jackson. And not that he was bad, but, and I, and I know like slim pickings, but it's like, really? That's, that's what you get. And then they bring him, bring back Sammy Watkins going into the season. It was just Bateman, all right, cool. The Marcus Robinson was like, okay. But they should have went harder, man. They should have went a lot harder than they did at that position. Cause so many other positions is like, oh yeah. And I know some people like, oh, you can't have everything. You can't. That's true, but you can do better. You can do better. You can truly do better. So it's tough, man. But that's why I went, again, when you compare the situations, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson, it's different. It's different. Yes, Jalen Hurts is coming off the Super Bowl. Lamar Jackson has not sniffed the Super Bowl at all. We know that. So Jalen Hurts riding that, riding that wave, man. But again, Philly, they showed that A, Jalen Hurts is our guy. That's our guy. That's who we want to be our quarterback. We are gonna try to get the best out of him. So again, the combination, draft the young guy, great. Devonte Smith, bring in an established guy, AJ Brown and UC, instant immediate results right away. They haven't done that for Lamar like that. They really haven't. So I guess this could possibly be maybe Lamar just trying to get him one last chance. Like, A, I want to stay here. I want to be here. I love this team, because we all feel like he does love the Ravens. You know he loves the Ravens, of course he does. But it could be him giving them one last shot. Like, A, look, this is what I need you to do. If you could do this, cool. If not, might not be so cool. But just my opinion. So we'll see how this whole thing works itself out. And hopefully it does work itself out. But I love you all, Team Keeper Clean. I appreciate you all. Thank you for always listening. And like, hopefully Lamar Jackson won't be. And hopefully like the Ravens won't be when it comes to being in the DeAndre Hopkins sleepstakes. We out.