 These Baltimore Ravens choices for their decision that they're gonna have to make on Lamar Jackson this offseason They became a whole lot clearer YouTube team keep it clean What's going on is engraving here with another video and this is probably going to be one of the hardest videos that I will ever Have to make because the detail and the numbers and breakdowns and all that I'm I really want to try to make this as clear as I possibly can for everybody So we can all have a full understanding of the possibilities that lie ahead When it comes to Lamar in the Baltimore Ravens, so y'all please bear with me And if there's anything that I said or miss spoke on feel free to let me know because I make mistakes plenty of them Probably more than anybody But we'll try to make it as clear as possible before we get into it though I gotta give a special shout out to all of y'all. 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So anyway Lamar Jackson we know Lamar Jackson is a pending free agent now We know Lamar Jackson ain't gonna sniff free agency But the Baltimore Ravens they have some decisions to make when it comes to Lamar Jackson One of those decisions that they could make is offering him a long-term deal and coming to agreement with him on a long-term deal And that would be the hope that they can get it done But in my opinion, I don't think it's gonna be something that ends up happening before a lot of other dominoes fall into place Things that we've talked about already like the offensive coordinator thing That's gonna be important. What the Ravens do in free agency is also gonna be important how they move and then a very pivotal point in this offseason, I think is the draft because If they're gonna trade Lamar Jackson I think they would do it before the draft because they're gonna want to get something right here right now They're not gonna wait till next year to get draft picks for Lamar if they trade them They're gonna want it this year. So if that's gonna happen, it's gonna happen before Draft time, but if Lamar Jackson is still here After the draft and that'll increase that'll increase the likelihood that he remains with the Ravens It won't be a short thing, but it'll increase the likelihood that he does stay But I think before Lamar Jackson signs anything. I think he's gonna want to see how the Ravens move but With how the Ravens move that can be dictated by a lot of what happens with the NFL but the NFL today According to Tom Palacero the NFL informed teams today that the 2023 salary cap will be a record 224.8 million dollars per club So the salary cap is a little over 224 mil. So now that's that's clear So now every team knows what they have to work with they know how they can move and operate and maneuver and finagle and do this They know now the Ravens the cap space that they have according to Brian McFarland Raven salary cap Y'all know him. He is on point with all that salary cap stuff I don't know how he does it, but he does it, but he said that the Ravens with that number This will leave the Ravens with 27.8 mil in cap space So they have a little under 28 mil in cap space moving forward. That's what they're pending free agents That's what the guys that they signed to the future reserve deals. That's with everything everybody who's on the books That's including Roquan Smith his escalators I think Devin Duvenay is escalated matter BK and maybe some other guys too But that is what the Ravens have right here. Well, not right here right now, but the start of the league year That's what they started with unless they make some other moves, but that's the number that they're starting with now This is where May get a little confusing, but I'm gonna try to make it as clear as I possibly can So again, my apologies in advance if it is confusing, but I'm trying my best so Brian McFarland he tweeted out that for There's a couple of different franchise tags that the Ravens could apply to Lamar Jackson There's three different franchise tags. One is the exclusive tag One is the non-exclusive tag and one is the transition tag So we are going to talk about all three of them So we'll talk about the non-exclusive tag first the number the salary cap number for the non-exclusive tag Would be thirty two point four one six meal. So a little less than thirty two point five meal That will be the cap hit that the Ravens would have to take that will be the number that Lamar would take If it was a non-exclusive tag now Let's look at exactly what the non-exclusive tag is in this I'm referencing a CBS article that they put out Breaking everything down so it says the non-exclusive tag allows a player to negotiate with other NFL teams But if he signs an offer sheet with another club His team has five days to match the offer if the offer is not matched His team will receive two first-round picks as compensation from the signing team So that was pretty self-explanatory say for instance just to use it as an example say for instance the more that if the Ravens give him the non-exclusive tag and The dolphins just it's just an example, but if the dolphins sign Lamar to an offer sheet and they sign them to Just for example 250 meal deal fully guaranteed The Ravens would have five days to match that offer The 250 meal fully guaranteed and if they don't then Lamar Jackson will become a dolphin But the Ravens they will receive compensation in the form of two first-round picks from the dolphins So that was that's how the non-exclusive tag works now For the exclusive tag The exclusive tag is the average of the top five QB cap numbers as of right before the draft and that should be around 45 meal so With the exclusive tag the exclusive franchise tag it's about 45 meal But a player cannot negotiate with other teams with the exclusive franchise tag So there's no negotiations with the exclusive franchise tag. You either take it or you leave it That's it. The team has the control in that one. It can't know other teams in a fear. They can still trade you now With every tag you could still be traded or you could be moved or whatever But with the exclusive tag you can't talk to nobody well legally at least because you know tamper and be going on but anyway So that's that one And again, that one is around 45 meal now There's another tag there's a transition tag and you know what my apologies cuz I did not see how much that one would be but That one is pretty irrelevant because you know Ravens ain't gonna use it and let's listen to why the transition tag Is based on the average of the top 10 salaries at a player's position using the same Methodology as non-exclusive franchise tag calculations, but the teams have the same writer refusal as with the franchise tags But they do not receive any draft choice compensation for declining to match an office sheet. So Basically with the transition tag Another team could offer will use Miami again for an example. They could offer Lamar Jackson a deal But if the Ravens don't match it Okay, they don't match it Lamar will move on to Miami But the Ravens will not receive anything in return. No draft picks. No compensation. No nothing So that franchise tag is not gonna be applied like at all You know, it ain't gonna be applied at all. So we ain't even really got to worry about breaking that one down But still you know how it works now. So again, we got the non-exclusive franchise tag That's where Lamar and they could talk with other teams other teams to sign them to an office sheet and whatnot And if he signs and the Ravens matched and the Ravens keep them But if he signs the offer sheet and the Ravens don't match whatever he got offered Then he will go to that other team and the Ravens will get to first-round picks. That's the non-exclusive tag the exclusive tag He can't negotiate with anybody and then the transition tag He can negotiate and if he goes to another team if Ravens don't match the offer then they wouldn't receive anything But now what the Ravens are gonna do. It's not clear to us I mean, I'm sure they got their different plans in place, but Everything is a lot more clear now because they know what the the salary cap is gonna be and They know how much salary cap space they have even though the cap is kept But and then they know the amount of all the different franchise tags and what they entail So I really hope that we explain this clearly to everybody my apologies if this confused you even more But I just really wanted the information to be out there so people could understand All the possibilities and what everything means so when you hear like cuz I know when when you hear like franchise tag Or you hear non-exclusive tag or transition tag or or Exclusive tag it can be confusing. I know it's confusing for me It's definitely confusing for me So looking at all this this helped me understand it a lot more so hopefully the same thing happened to y'all But anyway team keep it clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and just like I hope Lamar Jackson isn't with everything