 Ravens versus Earl Thomas is finally over. I know this has been something that been going on for a super super long time man. This thing had felt like it had been going on for forever. Of course we know the Ravens. They signed Earl Thomas in 2019 to a four year deal worth like 55 mil like 35 or 33 mil guaranteed and I remember just I remember thinking back like I like the signing of Earl Thomas but I hated the deal. I hated it. I did not like it and I was just very scared because he was coming off of the two broken legs and two seasons in a row. I know he could play. I know when he played he could play and I felt like he was a good player for the Ravens. Again he did run his mouth from time to time and they're kind of backfired but overall he was a good player for the Ravens in my opinion. I know a lot of people they disagree with that but I think a lot of it is like based off of what happened off the field because they take that and they're like oh I didn't like what he did off the field so he wasn't a good player but I disagree. But anyway the Ravens we know Earl Thomas and Chuck Clark they got into their little ready to rumble, fight night, little box and match or whatever and the Ravens are like Earl Thomas you gotta go. You gotta go. Then you start hearing all these reports. Oh Earl Thomas he would show up late to practice just to get his car washed and stuff and that was just so funny how timely those reports were coming out based off of everything that happened. It's just such a coincidence that those reports started to come out when the Ravens seemed to want to get rid of and move on from one Earl Thomas. But anyway they did that they released him of a conduct detrimental to the team and of course him posting those practice clips that certainly didn't help anything at all either. But they had this grievance where they were trying to avoid this 10 mil bonus that they gave him. He was trying to keep it. They were trying to get it back and it was just this whole back and forth thing for years. Literally for years. And the Ravens initially with the 10 mil that was given to them on their salary cap I believe. Let me try to make sure I'm explaining this the right way. Now if they would have lost the grievance then they would just lose 10 mil on a future salary cap. Like if they would have lost it this year then they would have had to lose 10 mil in the salary cap space. Now if they would have won the grievance then nothing would happen. They would not gain any salary cap space because they had already gained that 10 mil in salary cap space before. They had already gained it. So they apparently have settled. Shout out to Brian McFarland. They settled with Earl Thomas and they settled for 1.5 mil. So that means there's 1.5 mil removed from their salary cap right now. So there's 1.5 mil that's been taken away from them with their salary cap. So the Earl Thomas versus the Ravens it is finally over. It's a wrap. It's done. So thank goodness for that because it's been a long time coming. So Earl Thomas moves on. The Ravens move on. And any fans that have been asking about it and wondering about it we can all finally move on. Now Ravens they did settle in with somebody else who they kind of fell out of their favor as well. And that's Mr. Chicago Bears. Derek Wolf. Get it? Chicago Bears. Anyway it's a little bad joke. Well Derek Wolf is somebody who the Ravens they ended up settling with him too. I want to say two weeks ago when they released him on a with an injury settlement but we were all waiting to hear the details of what that settlement would be because with the settlement whatever they paid him to settle whatever like the difference was then they that would be on their salary cap. But anyway so with Derek Wolf they did an injury settlement with him for 1.2 mil. So his salary this year he had a guaranteed salary of two mil that was guaranteed to him. But since they released him with the injury settlement then whatever they settled with the difference the Ravens would gain and then he would keep the rest. So they settled with him for 1.2 mil. So he got to keep 1.2 mil of the two mil salary I mean of the two mil guaranteed salary. But then the Ravens they save 800k in cap space because that was a difference. So they get 800,000 in cap space from the Derek Wolf part. So that gives them a Brian McFarland broken down he said that now they currently have 3.277.24 mil in cap space. So they got about 3.2 mil in cap space right now. So it's not really much to work with. He said himself he said that's enough to get their remaining three draft picks signed but not much else. I'm trying to think of who or the less of their draft picks that they need to sign. I can't think of it off the top of my head. But I know y'all will remember in the comment section. But he said they will still have to reach an extension or restructure to create space for future needed expenses. And he listed things like injury reserve, the physically unable to perform list, or the practice squad. So two people who could create a significant amount of cap space for the Ravens. Obviously they called it back Lamar Jackson. We know he's playing on his fifth year option right now. And that is about I think 23 mil, a little over 23 mil. But if they were able to come to a contract extension with Lamar Jackson, then I believe dude don't quote me on it. But I believe if they came with a contract extension with him, they could free up about 25 mil in cap space. Now we even got to talk about if he should, if he shouldn't, we didn't even got to get onto into all that. But if they came up with a contract extension with him, it would open up a lot of that cap space for the right here right now. Now another person, and I was just talking to my guy Jason about this this morning, Marcus Peters. Marcus Peters is another one where they could come to a contract extension with him. And that would open up a significant amount of cap space as well. So we'll see. We'll see. You just got a feeling that Ravens are not gonna be fine just walking around with a little like 3.2 mil in cap space. And of course, there's still cuts to be made. They got to get through training camp and whatnot. They got to get through all that stuff. But you got to feel like they're not just going to be wanting to walk around with just 3.2 mil in cap space. So I'm sure more moves are on the way. Whether it's an extension with somebody and it could be somebody else besides those top two guys with Lamar Jackson and Marcus Peters. It could be somebody else they could restructure a contract even though that's like a sort of last resort type of thing. I know they did that with Brandon Williams like 20 times. He got his contract restructured over and over and over and over but they got options. They got options because with the salary cap. We always say the cap is kept. It is ways to maneuver. It's ways to work around it. It's ways to get around it. It's really plenty of ways to really beat that salary cap man. So we'll see what the Ravens come up with in order to gain a little bit more bread because like they always talk about they like walking around with some loose change for rainy day as everybody should. So we'll see what happens. But congratulations Ravens on finally beating the Earl Thomas case. It's officially over and with Derek Wolf. It's nice that they had a nice peaceful resolution because you see the difference with the ugly resolution. It took like two years versus a peaceful resolution. It took like two weeks. Anyway team keeping clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and just like Derek Wolf and Earl Thomas both are. I'm out.