 Y'all know that saying that behind every joke, there's some truth to it. I wonder if those rules apply here cause I kinda sorta feel like they just might, but you too, team keeping clean. Happy Monday, what's up, baby? It's the start of a new week. And this week I just really, I think I just really wanna focus on being more grateful, being more appreciative this week and just really moving forward in life in general because we, like social media, social media can show you a lot of good stuff, show you a lot of fun stuff, it show you a lot of different things that people may be doing, but it can also show you a lot of bad stuff and it can expose a lot of bad situations that people may find themselves in. And it's unfortunate, but it does give you a reminder that people around the world, they're going through so much stuff and we may not even realize because we may be in our own little bubble or whatnot, but it's a lot of people that's going through a lot of stuff. So just be grateful. Be grateful for what you have, be grateful for who you have, be grateful for your situation, just be grateful in general. But anyway, Marlon Humphrey. Marlon Humphrey is somebody who is known for his outlandish takes on Twitter. And I know he, I didn't believe it when he said in a recent presser that, oh, during the football season, somebody has my phone. So somebody is, so somebody logged into my account. So that's not me tweeting that stuff. I tell them what to tweeting, all right, Marlon, I don't believe that at all. But even still, that would make both of y'all bad because you the one coming up with the bad stuff and then you telling them and then they decide, hey, you know what, I'm gonna tweet this for you. So they approve of it. So that's, that ain't no good. But anyway, because if Marlon told me some of the stuff that he be tweeting, I'd be like, hold up there, buddy. You ain't tweeting that, man, delete it. Like you not even saving that in old drafts, but something that he did tweet out last night was interesting. It was funny, but it was interesting when you like really think about it. He tweeted out some pictures of himself at the Pro Bowl and then Cosy Hopps, Roberto on Twitter, he asked Marlon Humphrey, did you do any recruiting Marlowe? Because we know Marlon Humphrey, hey, you know his famous saying in the off season, hashtag come to the Ravens. And I'm sure he might've been talking to some people, hey, come to the Ravens. Like, and the Pro Bowl is a place where you can do that. Like the players can, you know the players talk amongst each other. Look, and just to be real with you, teams are not supposed to talk amongst each other, but you know they don't go by all that, the trade deadline and the starter free agency. They don't do that. You know, they be breaking the rules. They just keep it on the low. But anyway, like remember Kaleas Campbell, remember the Pro Bowl and the 2019 season and with Lamar's all cool, Kaleas Campbell and stuff. What team was Kaleas Campbell and the Jaguars back then? But anyway, a couple of years later, boom. Couple of years later, boom, Kaleas Campbell ended up getting traded to the Ravens. And he talked about being at the Pro Bowl with some of the Ravens and like, oh, the vibe was good and whatnot. So it happens. But anyway, so Cozy Hopps asked Marlon Humphrey, did you do any recruiting Marlowe? And his response was funny. Because he said, every time I try, I met with, are y'all gonna pay Lamar? And you know, that's a real question. That is a real legitimate, great question. Because that's what everybody wants to know. Now of course, with Marlowe tweeting it, it seemed like he tweeted it in jest. It seemed like he tweeted it, oh, I'm just playing around. I'm just joking. But again, behind every joke, there's some truth to it. And I'm sure people ask that. Because the media wants to know. The fans want to know. The Ravens, the Ravens want to know. Lamar wants to know, hey, what's gonna happen with Lamar Jackson? And when you think about this angle of it, you think about this side of it, with the recruitment process with players. And obviously not just recruitment by Marlon Humphrey, but recruitment from the Baltimore Ravens themselves. Say for instance, they don't pay Lamar Jackson. They end up trading them for draft picks and da-da-da. Say for instance, that happens. How could that impact the recruitment process in Baltimore? How could that impact free agents in Baltimore? How could that impact guys that the Ravens want to sign and bring on to the team? How could it impact guys who are already on the team? That's just something that I think about from time to time. Not often enough, because we're not there yet, but it could weigh heavy. Think about free agency right now. Free agency, and by the time free agency rolls around, the Ravens will have either done one of three things. They will have either signed Lamar to a long-term deal, or they will either place the franchise tag on Lamar, or they will have either traded Lamar Jackson to another team. One of those three things will have happened by the time free agency starts on, I think, what March 14th, I want to say. So we'll know when we know. But I'm not expecting it to be the long-term deal. At that point, we'll see. Crazier things have happened, so we won't know till we know. But say for instance, Lamar Jackson is franchise tag. And then so free agents are looking at that like, oh, y'all franchise tag Lamar. And I know y'all been in this negotiation war for a while now. Is he going to stay? Is he going to go? Look, Ravens, I like y'all organization. I respect it. But I really ain't trying to sign there. Especially an offensive player. Even a defensive player, possibly. But I'm also an offensive guy. I ain't really trying to sign there. I don't know if Lamar's going to be there. And I don't even know who y'all called the bags by the beast. No, I'm good. I'm straight. Didn't even think about potential trade targets, especially trade targets who got a no-trade clause. So they can really dictate where they go, whoever that could be. But anyway, they could look at that situation. Ravens could put in an offer to the team. And they could be like, all right, look, we want to bring him on. We want to bring on that wire seeker. We want to trade for that wire receiver. Bring him on. Didn't have wire seeker with that no-trade clause. He like, who going to be throwing me the ball? I'm good. No, I'm straight, man. Y'all don't got that situation locked up. No thanks. So it could just, since the whole situation is in limbo, it could impact how free agents feel about coming to the Ravens. Then you could think about people even on the Ravens now. You know, like that locker room, a lot of people in that locker room after the season was over, they really went to bat for Lamar. Marlon Humphrey was definitely one of them. But they spoke highly of Lamar, Marlon Humphrey did, Kalaeus Campbell did, or J.K. Dobbins obviously did. We would have had Lamar, we would have won, baby! No offense to Snoop, of course. But yeah, they rock with Lamar in that locker room. So with that being said, how would that look if, and they all know that it's a business, but still, how would that look if the Ravens did not sign Lamar Jackson? How could that impact if they got rid of him? How could that impact just the vibe in the locker room? Because that would be one of the biggest shake-ups that the Ravens have had in that locker room in a long time, long time. Obviously biggest shake-up, Ray Lewis retiring. That was huge. But it was expected, because he let everybody know, hey, that's my last ride. He came back with a super shredder arm and said, hey, this is my last ride. Hey, look, that thing was kind of cool, though. And then he changed his face mask, too. He changed his helmet and all that. All right, Ray! Oh, that was crazy. Remember when he came out in the Colts game? Ooh, man, I remember I was crying so much. I was bawling when he came out of there to the discolored dance, first air read. He was pointing to the back like that. I said, oh, man, here you go. I'm getting chills right now. Just think about it. But anyway, that was a huge shake-up when Ray retired, but that was expected. He wasn't in limbo. And then when they didn't bring back air read and he went to the Texans, then the Texans cut them, then he went to the Jets, then air read was like, you know what, I'm out of here, man. Give me out of here. So that was a big shake-up, too, because it was like, man, air read. When they traded Anquan Bolden after the Sioux Bowl season, that was a big shake-up because it was like, man, when Tory Smith, when he didn't re-sign, they offered him, but their offer was lower than the 49ers offer, he went to the 49ers. That was a big shake-up, especially for me, because I remember being in Publix. I was in Publix. I was getting ready to get my wife some flowers and I forgot what else I was getting. Then the notification game on my phone, my eyes start getting watery. God, I love Tory Smith, man. Love Tory Smith. But anyway, so those were some big shake-ups over the years. And then of course, a couple years ago, well, man, four years ago now, when they officially traded Joe Flacco to the Broncos, they officially traded him. It was like, whoa, it's real. But we knew that that was on the way, though. Joe Flacco wasn't in limbo. When it was official that Joe Flacco wasn't in limbo, it wasn't even when Lamar took over as the starter. It wasn't even when Joe Flacco was healthy enough to come back and Lamar remained the starter, but it was the playoff game that cemented it. Like, all right, that is officially it with Joe Flacco because they didn't put him in the playoff game. They didn't put him in there. They could have, I'm glad that they didn't, but they didn't put him in that playoff game. And that was when it was like, oh yeah, they, it's officially done. That's a wrap. And then they traded him a couple months later. But this Lamar Jackson thing, if he was to be traded, that would shake up that entire locker room like crazy. So how would that impact them? In a big negative way, in my opinion, because that's Lamar, like that's, it's not just any old player. It's not just anybody, and it ain't no offense to anybody else who's in the locker room. But that's Lamar, who completely like changed everything about the Ravens, changed the trajectory that this team was headed, changed how people looked at them, changed their approach to some stuff, just changed the entire vibe in that locker room. Cause I remember watching Ravens games and they were just like, the vibe was just so off. They didn't have no life to them. It was like, what is going on? It seemed like they were just showing up just to show up and you know, let's just get it over with. That's what it seemed like in 2018 and all, that's what it seemed like. It seemed like they were just going through the motions almost. Lamar comes in, boom, injection of life, energy. So if something would have happened and they traded him, I think that would take a lot of energy out that locker room a whole lot. And it's a real possibility. It is a real possibility that that happens, but that can impact so many guys. That can impact so many guys on them deciding whether they want to re-sign with the Ravens or not. They could end up just yet impacting if they want to stay. They could end up being like, you know what? I want out. I want to be traded. And then on top of that, I think that it could make the Ravens have to spend even more money on especially offensive players, depending on how things go, because they can be like, oh, Lamar ain't gonna be there? No, I'm sure I don't want to go there. So Ravens may have to offer them even more just to entice them to come to the Ravens. But we'll see. We'll see. Like I said, we won't know till we know, but I just thought that was very interesting from Marlon Humphrey about Lamar Jackson. Because again, behind every joke, there's some truth to it. And there will definitely be plenty of people asking it. There will continue to be plenty of people that ask the same question that we all want to know, are the Ravens gonna pay Lamar? Or is he going to be out?