 You know, I always say that timing is everything. I was getting ready to sit down and record our post game thoughts from the game that we all watched last night, the playoff game between the Bengals and the Ravens. Of course, with the Bengals winning. But then, as I was getting ready to record, my wife said, hey, did you see what Lamar Jackson just posted? And I was like, no, I didn't see it. And she showed it to me. I said, ooh, okay, I said, post game thoughts is gonna wait just a little bit. So Lamar Jackson on his Instagram story, he posted, he reposted the following because he didn't write it, he reposted this. It says, when you have something good, you don't play with it. You don't take chances losing it. You don't neglect it. When you have something good, you pour into it. You appreciate it because when you take care of something good, that good thing takes care of you. So, hey, this may not even be about the Baltimore Ravens. This could be about a friend that Lamar Jackson has. This could be about his girl, him just showing appreciation for it. This could be about a family member or something, somebody that he's super close with, or super cool with, that he just got a lot of love for. Maybe that could be it. Or with the timing of, I don't know, maybe he was just scrolling on Instagram this morning and you know, when you see a good quote, you're like, man, I like that. You know, I wanna share with all my followers that I like that. Maybe that could get somebody else something positive to think about today. Maybe, or just maybe with the timing of it. I don't know. Maybe it is a message to the Baltimore Ravens. I don't know. Maybe it's just Lamar Jackson thinking out loud. I just, I really can't say, but it's interesting nonetheless. Lamar Jackson, as I always say, he's very smart. He knows everything that he does is being watched heavily. Heavily is being analyzed and criticized and all that good stuff heavily, especially with the timing of everything. Raven season is over. Lamar Jackson, he said before the season started, when him and Ravens were in negotiations, they were talking back and forth, da, da, da. But he said, hey, once week one rolls around, no more negotiating. I'm focusing on football. Week one rolled around and that was it. That was a wrap. But he did say, after the season, we could talk then, after the season, we would negotiate then, but during the season, there will be nothing, no negotiations whatsoever. And I mean, apparently there were none. Hadn't heard about anything. So now the season is done and you see a message like that. I don't know. But to me, it seems like it could be a message to the Baltimore Ravens. Because I mean, you see it, like it's what we've been talking about for so long on here. It's what a lot of y'all have brought up, different points that y'all have brought up, different points that we brought up, different things that you see like, and let's just read it one more time. When you have something good, well, yeah, yeah, got something very good. You don't play with it and you don't take chances losing it. You don't neglect it when you have something good. You pour into it, you appreciate it because when you take care of something good, the good things take care of you too. And it's just so much to take from that. The Ravens, when they truly, truly found out that they had something good, it was 2019, 2019. It started in 2018. There was some very special moments in 2018. Actually, yeah, it started in 2018. That's the way it began, but when they truly found out like, oh man, this guy, he's really special. Because in 2018, it was extremely restricted, the offense for LeMond. It was extremely restricted. You think it's run heavy now? Like back then, it was like 98% runs and 1% throws. And the other 1% was maybe punts or something. Maybe taking the knees, but it was run, run heavy back then. So it was super limited. But in 2019, they had a whole off season to really do some things, really game plan this thing and really take the league by storm and that's exactly what they did. So 2019 was just really, it was amazing as we all remember. Playoffs, not so much, but the regular season was and that was when you truly got to see like why we have somebody, we have something that is so special. We have a player that is so special. So like I always say, I don't even say, I mean, it has been five years, but Ravens didn't technically waste five years with Lamar Jackson. They wasted three. They wasted three. They wasted 2020, 2021 and 2022. The best that they did, excuse me, the best that they did was in 2021, in my opinion, that was the best offensive roster that they put together for one Lamar Jackson. Overall, well, offensive-wise, obviously with defense too, but certainly offensive-wise, that was the best one, but then even with that, it was like, man, the Sammy Watkins signing and we, you can go back to the video, we talked about this back then too. Like, all right, if you're gonna sign Sammy Watkins, cool. That can't be it though. That cannot be it. You can't put all your eggs into the Sammy Watkins basket because he led us, we know already, like we knew in, I mean, same person said, Lamar needed to just get out there and play. Sammy Watkins has a long injury history. He had a long injury history. And if somebody shows you who they are, then don't be surprised when they are who they are. Sammy Watkins, the Ravenstein Sammy Watkins, a one year, six million dollar deal with five million guaranteed. I'm like, all right, cool, a little small deal, no problem. And he got hurt. He got hurt, he got hurt and he was hurt and he was hurt and he was hurt. He did make some plays now. He did certainly make some plays, but majority he was hurt. Even when he came back, you could tell he was still hurt. He was not like, he wasn't himself. But that was it. And then they dragged, they drafted Rashal Bateman, which was great. They still had Hollywood, which was nice. But I just felt like they should have done just a bit more. But that was the best that they did for Lamar Jackson in his career. And 2020, what was it, Willie Snead? I think that there's Brian at one point. Over the years, it's been Seth Roberts, Miles Boykin, James Proshay, Devin Duvenay. Who else we had? I feel like I'm missing somebody. I know I am. But it just, it's been, I mean, this year, the Marcus Robinson brought back Sammy Watkins again. Andy, well, he didn't really get to play with Andy Isabella, but they did sign Andy Isabella for a little bit, but who else? Yeah, it's just, it's been rough. It's been really rough. But he just, they haven't, the Broadway talks about pouring into something that you appreciate. Like they didn't pour into Lamar Jackson like they should have. They really didn't. Cause again, in 2020, 2021 and 2022, that's when they really should have been like, oh yeah, okay, this dude, he like, he literally just won a unanimous MVP. And I know there's a lot of people that just don't like continuing to hear about that. Cause that was in 2019, which I can understand, but that was when Raven should have really realized, oh, this dude, he just won a unanimous unanimous. Unanimous. That means everybody who voted, they were like, it is for sure Lamar Jackson. It's him. He's the MVP. He's the most valuable player in the NFL this year. Cause he certainly was. Certainly was. 36 touchdowns, only six interceptions, over a thousand Russian yards too. Like this literally was, he was literally doing everything. He was doing everything. And then it like, it makes you like really appreciate it that much more because you see what he was doing it with, especially when we look back, like man, he did that with that. Oh wow, that's crazy. That's something that's like real deal right there. So if he did that with them, why not upgrade them? Ravens didn't really do that. They say, you know what, you did all that with that? Okay, so if you could do all that with just that, then we ain't gotta go crazy for nothing. You gonna keep doing all that with that. We'll do a little changes here and there, but we ain't getting nothing crazy. We'll try for some guys, but you know, we ain't doing nothing crazy there. They didn't point to them. They didn't point to them. They did not truly invest in Lamar Jackson. And again, Ravens, I said this before, I said it a long time ago and I'm cute saying it, Ravens never fully believed in Lamar Jackson and they showed that. They showed that. See people, whenever people say, oh, Ravens, they don't, they the only team that took a chance on Lamar Jackson in a draft, he would have been drafted by somebody else. He would have been, he would have certainly been drafted by somebody else. But they didn't, and again, it seems like they just, they were like, all right, we'll try this Lamar Jackson thing out and we'll see, but we're not really expecting much. That's what it seems like happened because they tried it out. First year they had them doing all the sort of gimmicky plays and whatnot. Second year, that's when they did the offense and they took off and then they just, they never evolved past that enough. There was never enough growth. They just remained, the offense remained stagnant. It's like, all right, and I know 2019 is so hard to compare other offenses to that because like that was the cream of the crop there. They broke all these Russian records and whatnot. They went crazy with it, scored all these points. They were going wild, man. So I know when comparing stuff to 2019, so yeah, yeah, of course you're gonna fall lower than that, but still like, they just, the offense did not grow enough. It really did not grow enough. And with the offense not growing enough, there being such a lack of investment put into the offense, such a lack of investment put into your quarterback, Lamar Jackson, he can't grow enough. And that's what we always say too. Lamar, if he stays with the Baltimore Ravens, I would love it, but then at the same time, if they continue to do what they've been doing and operating how they've been operating, he will never reach his full potential. He won't. He'll never reach his full potential with this team if they could keep on doing the same things that they've been doing. He will never reach it. And that's sad because it's like, man, that's Lamar Jackson like this dude is something special. So we want him to reach his full potential. But if they keep doing the same old, same old, he just won't. He won't. Because they don't invest into the offense like that. I don't know, we hear, oh, Ravens, they drafted the most wide receivers over the past, I think five years or something like that. They have, technically, technically they have. You can't deny that. But what have they poured into those wide receivers? The scheme, as we all know, does not benefit the wide receivers. And get this, this is not a Greg Roman thing. This is not a Greg Roman thing. Because do you mean to tell me this whole receiver thing's been happening just ever since Lamar's been here or just ever since Greg Roman has been here? No. The receiver thing has been an issue for the longest, for the longest. That's been a problem. It's not anything new. Lamar didn't bring this receiver issue here. Greg Roman didn't bring this receiver issue here. But they continue to have the same issues that they had before Greg Roman, that they had before Lamar Jackson at the receiver position. It hasn't changed. So what's really the root problem? What's the real issue? It's important that that gets figured out. I mean, we already know what it is, but it's not even that it has to get figured out, but will it be addressed? I don't think so, but we'll see. So that's what the whole Instagram thing could be about. That's part of it, what it could be about. But also, money, the money. So we talked about the investment into Lamar as the Ravens quarterback, which there's been a lack of, there's been a lack of with personnel, there's been a lack of coaching investment, there's just been a lack there in that part, him as a quarterback, but then on the financial side, that's where it gets just as ugly. Because, and apparently the Ravens tried. They tried. I forgot, what was the guaranteed money that apparently that they offered? Was it 130 or 160? I forgot what it was. But Lamar said, no, nope, no, no, no. Well, he obviously said no because they didn't agree to a deal. So whatever it was, he said, no, in, oh. The apparently, and I don't know what's true cause we haven't heard it directly from Lamar, but apparently like he said, oh, he wants all that guaranteed money or a lot of guaranteed money. The reports have been that he wants around there with the Sean Watson, that type of guaranteed money. And I can't blame him at all. I mean, actually all football players, their contract should be guaranteed cause it is the most violent sport out there. And it's not even close. So that's a whole nother subject though, for Lamar Jackson specifically. Him wanting a lot of guaranteed money. Some people afford, some people are not for it. And whatever your opinion is, that's fine. But like I can't blame him. For everything that he has asked to do on this team in this offense, why not try to get all the guaranteed money that you can possibly get. You're asked to be the leading passer. Obviously you're the quarterback. You're also asked to be the leading rusher. You're the quarterback. You're asked to be the leading rusher every single year. Every single year. You are asked to, all right, hey, we need you to throw the ball, throw the ball, get it to these receivers who are not the best quality, but hey, you better go out there and make it happen. Hey, all running game, go take off. Hey, you know, it's on you. Go get that first down. Go get them chunky yards. Go get them rushing yards. Go get them. It's on you. Go get it. I'm asking for guaranteed money too. You asking me to do all that every year? Yeah. All right, it's time for my raise. Yeah, I want it guaranteed. I want all that bread, man. Give it to me, please. And thank you. So, can't be mad at that. Well, I know some of y'all are like, oh, I don't, you don't deserve all that guaranteed money, buddy. So, but yeah, it's going to be a fight, man. It's going to be a fight. And like I said, with the Ravens, it's going to be a fight with them in the Marjacks. Now, I mean, it's negotiation, so it's back and forth. But with Ravens, we talked about it before too, they're going to use, which they should use because they're business. They're going to say, hey, you missed the end of this season. What was it, six, seven games? I forgot how many games it was this season that he missed. No, maybe it was like five, six. But anyway, they'd be like, you missed the end of this season in 2022. And then last year, you missed the last, like six games of last season too. So they're going to be like, why should we give you all that bread? For what? So you can miss the end of next season too. Why, why, why should we give you all of that Lamar? They're going to use it and they, it's business. That's business, that's negotiation. You got to try to find the weak spots in your opponent. Because they're opponents. We're negotiating, y'all are opponents because y'all trying to one up each other. They going to be like, look Lamar, look at this, this, that and Lamar going to be like, hey, look at this, this and that. They going to be going back and forth with that because that's what negotiations do. That's what you do. But it's going to be interesting to see how this thing turns out. And something else that we've continued to say too, the only time they will be a resolution. The only resolution that they can be is if Lamar signs a long-term deal with the Ravens or he gets traded somewhere. Franchise tag is not a resolution. That's the beginning, but will that be, will that be the beginning of the end or the beginning of the beginning, the beginning of a new beginning? We'll see, man, we'll see. But yeah, time is ticking now. Now, the decisions have to be made. I know the deadline for the franchise tag is coming up I know they got to apply it before free agency start. Free agency don't start till March. So they got like two months. So it's going to be interesting two months, man. But we will be there every step of the way to keep y'all updated. I would I love you all to keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. And like Lamar Jackson could be, might be, we'll see, maybe, I think so. We out.