 somebody that you know that just keeps hitting your line they keep sending you texts they might send you DMs they might be hitting you up calling you and what not but you just you don't pick up and you don't respond to them because you just don't feel like it at that time so that person they consistent they remain consistent and they remain persistent and calling you texting you just really trying to say hey what's up let me know something but you just keep on eating them and then that same person it's like alright they keep ignoring me you know what I'm gonna start spreading some rumors about them I'm gonna start talking to some other people about them and letting those other people know like hey I've been trying I've been doing my part but this person just won't respond to me I don't know why and then that paints that negative light on you and that's what it seems to be between Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Raven shout out to my guy Ronald quote the Ravens on Twitter for bringing this to all of our attention that Mike Garofalo was on NFL Network this morning and he was speaking on the Lamar Jackson contract and he said the Ravens have been hitting Lamar Jackson up he said they've been sending them contracts the office been sending them deals but Lamar Jackson hasn't even been saying no hasn't even been like negotiating like alright no this is my counteroffinities they said Lamar Jackson has just not even been responding to it not even been responding to it and again some people thought that I was crazy when I said that I do not see a deal happening this offseason between the Ravens and Lamar Jackson but I also think that it is not crazy that you continue to hear these stories and all this stuff get put out about one Lamar Jackson the contract talks between him and the Baltimore Ravens it's not a coincidence at all it's business so many reporters and analysts they are making this a distraction when Lamar is not of course you know the Ravens they want to get a deal done why would the Ravens want to get a deal done because they can lock up Lamar for the foreseeable future and in the right here right now they can save a boatload of cap room so this can allow them to make even more moves than they would anticipate making because they could get a nice little chunk like 10 to 12 to 14 million of salary cap space relief if they can just extend one Lamar Jackson then they can put this all behind them but it's not happening right now and it doesn't seem like it's even gonna be close to happening now things could of course change but I don't see anything changing until the earliest 2023 but hey that's just me but with Lamar Jackson these reporters and media they're making it the distraction that Lamar Jackson is not so many times you hear about quarterbacks when it comes to them getting their deals they may hold out from their team they may say oh I'm not stepping on that field and this not even just quarterback just players in general when they want a new deal so many players they let it be known like hey I want to get paid I'm not playing until I get paid I'm holding out and if I don't get paid I'm not playing and then some of the other players even go the route of hey trade me get rid of me I'm out of here I don't want to be here no more you've seen plenty of it over time but Lamar Jackson is doing the exact opposite he hasn't said anything he hasn't said anything but he every time you see him on social media when it comes to something related to football he's just throwing the football just practicing trying to get better in the offseason that's it not talking about the contract not bringing up the contract even when he was on the shop the other day I was thinking I was watching the thing and all right what's he gonna say about the contract what's he gonna say about the contract talks with him in the Ravens and whatnot he talked about hardball how cool all boy is he talked about the Ravens the team he talked about him in Hollywood and what not he talked about how he wants to win he talked about how he likes to send the opposing teams fans home upset and he wanted to send Ravens fans home happy talked about want to be a billionaire talked about when the Super Bowl did not mention the contract not one time not one time then when I thought about it I was like ah you know what I'm mad at that because had he's mentioned that contract he would have given a lot of people exactly what they wanted and they would have taken that and twisted it now the Ravens it could be said that this could be the Ravens that could be leaking a lot of this stuff out to try to sort of put some pressure on Lamar Jackson to be like hey we know that you always hear the streets when they talking about you always hear people when they talking about you and you listen to that you hear all that stuff and so what we're gonna do we're gonna put a little pressure on Lamar Jackson really try to get him to sound whatever deal we offer him because you know that public perception it's not everything but it can be a lot and it can weigh on a lot of people and some people can look at the public perception be like oh man oh that's tough I don't like oh man what they saying about me and that could bother them then they can be like you know what let me just sign the deal let's just sign the deal all these people talking about oh I don't know what I'm doing cuz I don't got no agent all my mom she don't know what she's doing cuz she's not an agent oh man what are we you know what let's just all right let's just go ahead and get over with so we can move fast that that's real man it's real you may not want to think it is you may not want to believe it is but it is real teams will do this type of stuff and I'm not saying that the Ravens are doing it but I'm also not saying that they are not Eric DeCosta a couple weeks ago and it was the second time that he mentioned it he has said twice publicly like hey we are it's on Lamar Jackson he said it at the end of season press conference and he said it at the when he was at the combine he said we are going at Lamar Jackson's urgency we're going at his pace he said Lamar Jackson knows where to find me I know where to find him and he said that he's reached out he said they've had conversations now but he put everything publicly on Lamar Jackson he put the ball in Lamar Jackson's court hey mall Jackson wants to get this thing done that's when he'll get it done so he's publicly said all the quote-unquote right things to sort of push it on Lamar like see to tell everybody like hey look hey I'm doing what I gotta do but it's Lamar he's the one that don't want to do it he's the one that's hey it's on him but Lamar has just been quiet about it and see when you you know what agents agents obviously play a big role in contract negotiation negotiating excuse me they are the middleman they or the middle woman they can be sort of that liaison between the player and the team to bring it together and the player they can go play focus on that and agent they can focus on doing all the contract work and that's true that that that's a lot of the agent's job but another part of the agent's job is to sort of try to control the narrative or either push a narrative too and with that being said if you have no agent then there's no agent to counter this narrative for you that's being put out there to the public and there's no agent to push a certain narrative for you out to the public either but see the Ravens that their front office they they got people that could push some stuff out there they got reporters they got leaks they got information they they got all of that stuff where they could push it out there and be like hey all right we okay man he didn't get us back yet all right they hit up a reporter say hey this is what's going on they they leak information it happens all the time man it happens all the time some people really think that teams are just so innocent and that these teams and organizations are like oh no we're gonna do everything right by every single play no it's business man it ain't like that it's really not we wish it would be but it's just not like that so that's why I never get mad at a player for trying to get their bread well this Lamar anybody else but another thing too to keep in mind with Lamar Jackson the way that this thing is being done is being done so differently like there have been other players that haven't had agents of course some of the more notable recent ones are Richard Sherman Bobby Wagner even Orlando Brown Jr. they said that he's deciding if he wants to hire an agent or not but their deals that they've done Orlando Brown Jr. hasn't done his yet but as far as Richard Sherman he did his but he was a cornerback Bobby Wagner he did his he's a linebacker but Lamar Jackson there has never been a deal done at this level for a quarterback without an agent and one of the big reasons that so many people are talking negatively about this is because one is Lamar Jackson but another thing too is because if he strikes a deal with no agent game changing money market money resetting the market money at quarterback position it is going to change the game now not saying that all these agents gonna go out of business now cuz it not and I still expect more people to have agents than most but it's gonna show a lot of people like hold up I could keep like most of my money in house or really all of my money in house I don't got to hire an agent oh we can do this thing on our own like oh okay I've had somebody my family take care oh man well I could just hire a couple of lawyers for a couple hours so they can go over some stuff oh I don't got a oh they don't got to get that 3% or 6% whatever it is oh that's that's coming to me oh oh let's go so there been a lot of agents that have been talking and still a lot of media that's been talking to but a lot of agents have been talking like no Lamar Jackson his mom they don't know what they're doing they don't know how to get this thing done oh they're gonna mess it up so that has led a lot of fans to think the same thing that they're incapable of doing it and you see some people get really nasty about it too since it's really sad to see and it's a shame but people really think that again Lamar and his mom and his camp that they are incapable of getting this thing done but their their history for being their own agents and keeping everything in house so far it's going pretty well it's going quite fine so I would not put it past them to be able to get this thing done because they have they have the leverage they have all the leverage in the world because it's Ravens who need that caps Lamar don't need a cap space Lamar ain't that he ain't the Ravens cap person Lamar's a quarterback Raven's got to handle that cap space not him so Ravens of course they feeling all that pressure they really want to get this thing done so they can knock it out they want to get it done and then the following year I'm sure everybody has heard about oh the Ravens possibly franchise tagging Lamar they do that that's a lot of that's even more cap space all to Lamar all guarantee for that one year and while that wouldn't give him long-term stability for that one year that's a lot of money and then if you do it a following year too it's even more money on a cap not a cat will be going up but still that'll be a fat chunk of money on that salary cap that's not Lamar's problem that's Ravens problem but that's why you know that like they really want to do everything in their power to put that pressure on Lamar Jackson to get this thing done and get this thing done now but I still don't think it's happening love y'all we out