 Baltimore Ravens, this offseason, a little less than a week ago, they parted ways with a former head of strength and conditioning coach, Mr. Steve Saunders. They decided they wanted to go in a different direction and they did just that. But a lot of people felt like it was just, it was too late. Like that's something that they should have done a long time ago. If we go back to 2020, we remember when it was said that Steve Saunders was the one that caused the big COVID outbreak. If y'all remember back in 2020, because that thing was, it was one of the craziest things we have ever seen. Obviously the whole year 2020 was one of the craziest years we've ever seen, but that because we literally lost the whole team due to COVID. And they said that it was because of Steve Saunders. Apparently I don't know if that's true or not. So we'll never know. But a lot of people felt like he should have been going back then. So 2020 came and went was just a weird year for everybody. Then 2021, very promising looking year. The roster was looking, looking kind of nice overall. It was like, all right, let's go. Then one guy gets hurt, then another guy gets hurt, then another guy gets hurt, then everybody, but we lose the whole team to injury. First of all, 2020, we lose the whole team to COVID. 2021, we lose the whole team to injury. So then 2022, last year, started off promising, but then guys just started dropping. Then there were some guys that came back, but they apparently weren't healthy. And this was something that happened the previous year as well. And there seems to be this reoccurring theme when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens and guys that's either coming back too early, they're not coming back the right way and stuff has just been an issue. My guy, David Najoku, I'm not David Najoku, excuse me, Sam Najoku. Sam Najoku sports on Twitter. He said it best the other day and I should have pulled up the tweet, but he talked about how the Ravens are obviously a well-respected organization. So many people say they top five organization in the NFL, okay, cool. But one of their biggest issues is they don't make the tough decisions fast enough. They move too slow. When it's time to change something, they do not do it fast enough. They don't do it with enough urgency and that is so true. The Ravens could have an issue. We could see the issue as fans. That's what I always talk about. You don't discredit what fans see. But fans could see the issue like, well, this is an issue. This is a problem. This is a real problem. And this problem is gonna continue to cause problems for a long time. So we wanna get rid of the problem. We wanna get rid of the source that's causing all this stuff. And Ravens will take their time. They'll be like, oh, no, we got it. The problems will still happen. They'll take their time some more. No, we got it. The problems will still happen. They'll take some time some more. And then they finally get rid of it. And we're like, that should have happened a long time ago. But anyway, Steve Saunders is not, he wasn't very popular. Well, he was popular in Baltimore, but not in a good way. And of course the survey from the NFLPA that talked about the different branches of the organizations that talked about the treatment of families, food, service and nutrition, the weight room, strength coaches, training room, training staff, locker room and team travel. And it had players grade each of those things. Their strength coaches got an F, not just an F, but an F minus. So they got worse than an F. How do you fail and get a minus on top of failing? But anyway, some former players, they chimed in and they talked about this. Now we know Matt Jude on a long time ago. Well, this, I think it was this last year, he called out Steve and he put that, I think it was under the Sean Elliott tweet. He put hashtag fire Steve in reference to Steve Saunders. But anyway, Carl Davis, y'all remember Carl Davis? I think he was a third round pick for the Ravens some years back. Anyway, he quote tweeted the list of, of course, the Ravens Grades that Cordell Woodland, shout out to Cordell, we gotta have him on sometime. But he tweeted out, he quote tweeted the list that Cordell put out about the Ravens Grades. And he said, I was definitely a victim of the strength coaches, two laberums and multiple peck strains. So he letting it be known like, hey, like, they got me. They messed me up. They like, no, they were no good. Bam Bradley, former linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. He said, five months post ACL, unsuccessfully doing the same leg workouts as people with healthy knees never sits right with me, ruined me. So these players letting it be known like, their careers were absolutely altered by Ravens strength and conditioning team. And then Quincy Arboja. I remember Quincy because, I remember we did videos on him because he showed promise, he's a good route runner, but it was the injuries. That was the only thing that held him back. It was the injuries. And I'll never forget, because I remember in his, in a retirement video that he posted on his Instagram, he actually used one of the videos that we made talking about him. He used that in the video because we're talking about injuries. It's the same thing that it was the promise, but the injuries just holding him back. So shout out to Quincy for using that in his retirement videos. I appreciated that. But anyway, he said, definitely ruined my career. Three years season ending injuries in a row after being healthy my entire career prior. That's so sad, man. That's sad. To go out like that, like three years straight, like it's like, all right, if you've been, especially if you've been healthy your whole career, and then you just start getting these injuries. Like one year, you'll be okay. One year, a little fluky, whatever, okay, it happened. Then the second year, you can be like, oh, hold up now. Like, what's happening here? But then the third year too, oh, that's tough, man. But anyway, he continued. He said, a rookie year training camp I suffered the same knee injury Lamar had this year. I was forced to practice three days later because I was a bubble guy. They cared less about treating me. So look at that. He said he had the same knee injury that Lamar had this year, but he was forced to practice since he was on the bubble. He wasn't allowed to make the roster. Then he said year two, I went through a full week of off-season training with the team just for a surprise text. The day before rookie mini-camp saying, they wanted me to participate. 15 minutes into practice, I tear my quad completely off the bone. Everything went downhill from there. Let's just say it's never good when the training room and the strength coaches aren't on the same page. They didn't like each other and it showed. Huge disconnect between the two, which led to multiple injuries for a lot of guys. No hard feelings though. I still love Harbs and the organization as a whole. Haha, I like I put that last part. So he let it be known. And I appreciated him breaking it down. I appreciated him sharing his story when it came to that. Now we've of course also heard Derek Wolf's story. He let it be known. He was not a fan of that team, but something that Quincy said, which was pretty significant, talking about how they're not on the same page. That's scary. That's scary. If people that take care of these football players' health are not on the same page, oh, that's not a good look at all. That's not a good look at all. And then like you think about guys who have been really healthy their whole careers, especially before getting to the league. You think about Rashad Bateman, healthy. But now these past two years, he's missed time due to injury. Think about Lamar Jackson, who Quincy brought up been healthy, but these past two years, missed time due to injury. And we know things happen. We're not gonna act like, oh yeah, every single player on every single team is always gonna be healthy and every single injury can be avoided. No, uh-uh. But a lot of times guys will show patterns. People will show patterns. Whether it's through college, NFL, they'll show patterns. But Lamar didn't show no patterns in college. Rashad Bateman didn't show no patterns in college, but what was that about? See, with J.K. Dobbins, I would look at it differently because he had his injuries before. But guys like Lamar and Bateman and stuff, it's just concerning overall because you also think about like we mentioned before, the guys that come back early, when they come back too early and they're not ready yet. We've seen it with Ronnie Stanley. Like what led the Ravens medical staff to believe that Ronnie, like last year, Ronnie Stanley was ready. This year with J.K. Dobbins. Because initially, he looked his best when he first came back. Then he had to get a clean-up surgery and it was okay, boom. Then he okay, oh, there he goes, all right. Much better. But we've seen it a lot of times, where they just feel like guys come back too early. And this just, I know Quincy mentioned Lamar, so it just reminds me of the whole playoff game. Remember Vic, Michael Vic? Oh, Lamar put a brace on it. Put a brace on it. So many fans calling Lamar a coward, saying he quit on the team. Oh, he could have played through that, da-da-da-da-da. This is why a lot of stuff that we just don't know like that. We don't know. Like the whole, we don't know thing. It doesn't just apply to the contract situation. We don't know nothing about that. But a lot of the background when it comes to these injuries, there's a lot of stuff that we just don't know. And we don't even realize since we're not there in the training room, we're not there in the locker room. We're not there with the strength and conditioning staff. So I just thought that these were some significant announcements by these former Baltimore Ravens. Now, it would really be something if a current player called them out. Cause that would be, oof. Cause these former players are one thing. And what they saying, it obviously holds a lot of weight. But if somebody who was on the staff, on the team now, they called out, oh boy. They, I'm sure that won't happen cause players want their jobs and they don't want it to be out.