 Now we know football fans can be really rough, but Baltimore Ravens fans, Ravens fans are brutal. When they're frustrated with somebody, they do not hold back for nothing. And with Rashad Bateman right now, Ravens fans, a lot of them, not all of them, they have had this built up frustration because a lot of them feel like the Rashad Bateman hasn't been sort of living up to his status as a first round draft pick. He hasn't been living up to his status as the next thing for the Baltimore Ravens at wide receiver thus far. And we know that injuries sort of have derailed a lot of that and taken a lot of time away from Rashad Bateman. But two weeks ago, there was a lot of conversation amongst some Ravens fans about the possibility of trading one Rashad Bateman. And I refuted that. I said, no, no, no, you don't need to trade. You don't want to trade Rashad Bateman. Why would you do that? Why would you try to weaken the Ravens wide receiver core? But the game this past Sunday against the Steelers, oof, that really didn't help that argument that much because Rashad Bateman, along with the other receivers too, because they flowers, he had a rough game as well. And so did Nelson Aguilore. But a lot of the focus was put on Rashad Bateman because he dropped the touchdown pass. And Mark Andrews too, he dropped a couple passes as well. So everybody contributed. But Rashad Bateman has been the one that a lot of Ravens fans have been focusing on because again, like I said, it's been a built up thing. It's been an ongoing thing with a lot, not all, but a lot of Ravens fans when it comes to Rashad Bateman. And Ravens fans won't let them catch a break because they over there in London right now, they enjoying themselves, actually getting ready to go practice today. Actually when I'm recording this, they should start practicing in exactly one minute because it's 844 AM. So they're gonna be practicing in one minute. But with Rashad Bateman, he put up a picture of himself, just going shopping, just going shopping, doing a little retail therapy. And Ravens fans were getting on him bad. They were letting him have it like, oh, you don't need to be going shopping. You need to be working on your hands, man. And it's like, man, like with football players and fans, I know a lot of fans can put these football players in a box because fans, they're fans of their favorite football team. And when they see these players, they expect these players to be on the field and whatnot performing for their favorite football team. But when they put them in their box, what they can do, they make it like, all right, this player, they need to be focused on football 24-7. And that's all they need to be doing. If they see that favorite player playing a video game, they're like, oh no, he's not focused. If they see their favorite player going shopping and they see their favorite player just having some fun, a lot of them can be like, oh no, he's distracted. He's not gonna be good this Sunday. He needs to get back on the field, watch some film. He needs to be in practice. He needs to be doing all that. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up now. These football players, they got lives too. They got lives outside of their job as well. So even though the Shaw Baby and Company, they had a really rough game on Sunday, that does not stop their lives. It's not like, all right, since they had a bad game on Sunday, they need to eat, breathe, sleep, football 24-7. And that's the only thing that they can do. If they have any type of fun outside of that whatsoever, then they're doing it the wrong way. No, it shouldn't be like that at all. And like with Rashal Baby, I feel for him because, and he felt for himself because we remember the other day, like right after the game for a little bit, he had even deactivated his Twitter account because he knew how it was gonna be. He just knew. And Rashal Baby is obviously somebody who's very active on Twitter because if he wasn't active on Twitter, like that, then he would not have deactivated. But he is somebody who's on social media a lot, posting stories, posting tweets and all that. So he closed his thing right away. He said, oh no, I ain't trying to take this. And initially, he even, because he was feeling real bad, he initially even declined to talk to reporters for a little while. But then he did speak with James and Hensley and said, you can put this game on me. And then he obviously wants to have a bounce back game, which we hope he definitely does this Sunday in London. But we got to, I think we have to, as fans, just be better. And of course, yeah, we want Rashal Baby to be the best possible wide receiver that he can be. But when fans get frustrated, I think we just got to tone it down a bit. Know that the players, they still have lives. Like try to put yourselves, this is my biggest thing. My biggest thing with just anything. Try to put yourselves in their shoes. And I mean, I don't know what it's like to be on that level because like we always talk about football players, their job, their livelihoods, their careers are on public display 24-7. We know how much they make. We know their job performances. We know their job statistics. We know, get all the analytics and all that. We see if they have a great day at work. We see if they have a terrible day at work. We see that that's on display 24-7. We get informed if they lose their job. We get informed if they could be losing their job. We get informed if they get a new job. We learn about everything that there is to learn about with these football players' jobs. But try to put yourself in their shoes. If you were on public display and you had a really, really rough day at work, how would that make you feel? And then you got all these thousands and thousands, thousands of people coming at you saying, this, that, and a third about you and whatnot. And I know it's gonna be some people, I already know it's gonna be somebody in the comments saying, well, it shouldn't have signed up to be a football player than buddy. I already know it's gonna be somebody who says that. But even though, yeah, they signed up to be football players, you signed up to be a human and you're here. So it's okay to treat somebody with respect and still treat somebody with dignity, even though they had a rough day at the office. Like imagine if you had a rough day at the office and people just going at you constantly, thousands of people going at you, oh man, you suck, you're this, you're that. And the third, how would that make you feel? See, that's why it's so important to try to put yourself in their shoes. Again, whether you're frustrated with them or not, just think about what they could be going through. And you don't want to, and hey, Rashal Bateman deleting his Twitter temporarily, because I think he put it back like the same day. But he was doing that, I'm sure, for his own mental, because just seeing a lot of negative stuff over and over and over, that can mess with your mental big time. So I'm glad that he deactivated his Twitter for half a long he did, but it seemed like he's back now and he's in a better mental state. And hey, Rashal Bateman, if I looked at his bank account and said, oh God, I'm good, I'm straight. But hey, Rashal Bateman, the better you do, the better, even more straight your bank account will be. Because when you get that second and third contract in the future from whichever team, whether it's the Baltimore Ravens or not, man, yet that bank account, that money will increase. So go do your thing. We all had hoping for not just a bounce back game from Rashal Bateman, but what I'm hoping for with Rashal Bateman is just a bounce back big time. Because we've seen the flashes in previous games before. We've seen the potential in previous games before, but it's just a matter of putting it all together consistently. We know injuries have derailed a lot of what Rashal Bateman can do in this league. That's been the biggest thing, because it's there. But again, we just want to see it consistently. So hopefully Rashal Bateman, this can be the game where they bounce back. They can leave all their troubles and all the drops and all that. And not just Rashal Bateman, but everybody. They can leave all that bad stuff back in the States. And when they get back to the States, don't pick it up. Leave it in Pittsburgh. Don't bring it back to Baltimore. Don't bring it back any way that you're gonna be playing. Leave that in Pittsburgh and never go back there again. But hopefully they can all have a bounce back game. And specifically with Rashal Bateman, hopefully he can just really turn that corner. Hopefully we can just really see why the Baltimore Ravens drafted him in the first round a couple years back. And he can really start to show out. Because if he can do that, because again, he got it all. He got the hands of there. Again, this is a rough game. Rough game for him. The hands of there, the route running is there. The speed is there. He got a good side. He got it. It's there. But it's important that the Ravens, Rashal Bateman, they reach down inside of them and they get it out. Because potential is cool. Potential is great. Talking about potential, yeah, it's fun thinking about the what-ifs and what-could-bees. But we all wanna see, and I know including Rashal Bateman himself, he don't wanna just be about potential. He wanna be about what he and what it actually is.