 See, we have reached that point of the off season where teams, they gotta make some tough decisions. Teams have to either start releasing some players so they can get under the cap, which is still cap. They have to think about extending some players, restructuring some contracts, or even trading some players away because they have to figure out how they can go into this upcoming off season or going to the new league year under the cap and ready to attack and figure out ways to make their team better. But situations like these with Amari Cooper who is expected to be released by the Dallas Cowboys. It's not official yet, but one thing to think about even with that with him being expected to be released by the Cowboys. A lot of times you hear these reports where a player is expected to be released. This is and it can be a business move because it is a last resort by these teams when they put this information out there, it's a last resort by them to let other teams know like, hey, you wanna give us an offer, you wanna give us a draft pick or something, maybe player for player, you wanna give us something before we release this player? Let us know or else they're gonna be on the open market for anybody to sign them. And we've seen it happen time and time again where a player is either expected to be released or it's even announced that they're released. But then the team will backtrack and be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, they weren't actually released. We actually came to an agreement to trade that player to this team in exchange for a draft pick. We've seen it happen time and time again, but I think for this one, he'll actually be released because I don't see anybody taking on that contract, especially when they can offer one of their own in the next couple of days or whenever he is in the end up being released. Now, something to think about, when he is released, whenever that time comes, he doesn't have to wait for free agency to sign. He can sign right away immediately. Like he don't gotta sit around, oh, I gotta wait till the middle of March to sign a new, no, nobody has to wait. Amari Cooper is a veteran. He been around since 2015, that don't even make sense. It don't even seem like it because you look at his face, his dude looks so young. It's like, man, he's still a baby. He been around since 2015. That is crazy and he's been productive. Like let's look at some of his numbers. Since 2015, he had 72 catches for 1,000 yards, six touchdowns. Follow that up sophomore season, 83 catches for 1,100 yards and five touchdowns. Follow that up. 2017 with the Raiders, he had 48 catches, 7 touchdowns, 48 catches, 680 yards, 7 touchdowns, he only played in 14 games that year. But then in 2018, he had 75 catches for 1,000, five yards and seven touchdowns. Now 725 of those yards came with the Cowboys after the trade and 280 came with the Raiders before the trade. And then he was like, all right, y'all gave up a first round pick for me in 2018. Let me prove my worth. So 2019, he followed that up. 79 catches, 1189 yards, eight touchdowns, 2020, 92 yards, I mean 92 catches, 1,100 yards, five touchdowns. And then this year, just down here, he did miss a couple of games, but he put up 68 catches, 865 yards and eight touchdowns. So he is a very productive wide receiver. But the question is, should the Ravens, if and really when he's released by the Cowboys, should the Ravens sign one Amari? Now me, I wouldn't be mad at it at all. I wouldn't be, and he's from Florida too. So you know, like he gonna fit right in with the boys from the crib, but I wouldn't be mad at it at all. But I would just be concerned because with Amari Cooper, he would be coming into a situation where he knows that the passing game, it was taking steps to get there, but is it there yet? There's a lot of unknowns with the Ravens when it comes to the passing game. It's a lot of unknowns. And one thing that I often wonder about, and we'll have to wait and see till when the season starts to see if this actually happens. Now, while they were taking strides forward in the passing game last year, which we have to acknowledge. So shout out to Greg Roman, shout out to Lamar Jackson, shout out to the receivers, the Titans, all that. They were taking steps forward in the passing game last year, but were they only doing it because they were forced to? Due to the injuries at running back, because they didn't have a running game like that. Like the running game was Lamar Jackson, and that was it. Were they forced to take those steps in the passing game only because there was no J.K. Dobbins, there was no Gus Edwards, there wasn't even a Justice Hill? All those guys were out. So since they were out, did that make the Ravens be like, all right, we gotta throw that ball then. We can't run the ball, so we have to throw it. But now that you're gonna be getting those guys back and we would expect and hope that the offensive line is better. Will they still be a passing team? Not saying that they're gonna completely eliminate the running game, but will the passing game still take those strides forward? Will they do that? That's to be determined. I hope that it does. And it ain't like you gotta forget about the running game. The running game is definitely gonna be better than it was last year, no doubt about it. But what are they gonna do moving forward? So Amai Cooper could look at the situation and be like, no, that's not the team for me. Ravens could look at the situation and be like, no, that's not the receiver for us. He's gonna command a significant amount of money. And if we're gonna pay somebody a significant amount of money, then it's not gonna be a wide receiver, especially the one on the outside coming in. Oh no, because that would force them to really use him. It would force them. And not that that would be a bad thing that they would use them, cause it wouldn't. But they would have to change. Their philosophy would have to change on offense. The way that they run that offense would have to be different. Now I wouldn't be mad, cause that could open it up. That could open it up for the passing game too. I mean for the running game too. You'd like think, oh my goodness. Like, you think about that. Think about it. You come out with four receivers. Well, four receivers, cause Bateman, all right, Cooper, Hollywood and Mark Andrews. And then you got your offensive line. Of course you got LeMond, then next to him you got either J.K. Dobbins or Gus Edwards. Ooh, that's like, that would be beautiful. It would be beautiful. I would not be mad if the Raven signed him at all. But if the Raven signed him, that would let us know like, hey, okay, we really passing the ball. Because again, you got to think about it. We talked about this yesterday. Any receivers that they picked, and I know people are going to say, oh man, if you signed to Mark Cooper, what about Devon Duvenay? What about James Prochet? What about Miles Boykin? What about Tyler Wallace? What about those other guys? What about Benjamin Victor on the practice squad? What about all those other guys? If you're a wide receiver, selected by the Ravens in the draft and you were not picked in the first round, I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for each and every Ravens receiver not picked in the first round because the odds are stacked against you. They are automatically stacked against you. I mean, it's hard enough making it in the first round as is as a wide receiver in this league. But especially like, think about this, not even just based off of the Ravens and their draft selections after the first round at wide receiver, but based off of who they are. They are a run first team. They pride themselves on running the ball. Not on pass. They pride themselves on running the ball. So you got to think like, man, they already got Bateman. They already got Hollywood. So it's gonna be enough limited chances as if they got Mark Andrews. Oh man, then if they signed to Mark Cooper, even if they don't sign to Mark Cooper, whatever they do, because they, something's gonna happen at wide receiver for these Ravens. You tell them again, first three rounds, first three rounds Ravens are going to take a wide receiver. They going to. But anyway, you got to think like in the back of your mind, even in the front of your mind, as a receiver by the Ravens not selected in the first round, you got to think, oh man, I don't know how this gonna work out. I don't know what's gonna, I'm a grind, I'm a push, I'm gonna do everything. Because I see so many people saying, James crochet, James crochet, James crochet. And I feel you, oh, I'm with you all day. James crochet should be out there more, should be involved more. He got hands, yeah. But I don't expect it to happen. I don't. He's a what, fifth, sixth round pick. Ravens, they, oh yeah, James crochet, yeah, he's cool. They been whatever about him. They ain't like Miles Boykin, third round pick. Special teams, Devin Duvenay. He was a third round pick too. He been out there on the offense a lot more than the other guys, but he ain't really been a wide receiver. Been a gadget guy. That's our kick returner, that's our punt returner. That's our jet sweep king. Yeah, we throw him a couple of catches every now and then. Do we use him like they use him in college to what made him special? Nah, we ain't gonna do that. Should we use James crochet in college like what made him special? Nah, we ain't, should we use Tyler Wallace like what made him special? Nah, we ain't gonna do that. And I know you can't feature every single wide receiver, every game. You can't do that. I understand that. And I'm not saying that. I'm not expecting there to be five different wide receivers on a team that all go for over a thousand yards. No, that's not realistic. But when it comes to Ravens and these wide receivers that get drafted anywhere after the first round, it's bleak. So that they're not invested in them like that. But if you're bringing in the Mari Cooper, you didn't draft them, so we ain't draft, okay, cool. But for all those other guys, I don't really think you, I don't even really think their status would really even change with the Ravens because I don't feel like they even have a real status with the Ravens. And it's of course nothing against the players. That's just more so the team. That's the way that the team has been for the longest. It's been that way for such a long time. We went over the draft history yesterday that any receiver that they draft after the first round, it's not looking good. Tori Smith is the only one that made it out alive after the first round. Only one, nobody else did, nobody. Tori Smith went on, played for the Eagles, helped them win the Super Bowl. He was a part of that. He played for the 49ers of course before then and he did this thing over there a little bit, but that was it. And oh, he played for the Panthers too. So he played for three other teams. Oh, shout out to Tori Smith, man. Three other, like what Ravens receiver even played for one other team? Which one, that the Ravens drafted? Which Ravens receiver? Tandon Dawes, he signed with the Jaguars and the Brashaw Perryman. He was with the Browns and the Bucks. And I think the Jets too for a little bit. Oh, and the Lions I think too. But what wide receiver drafted after the first round played for another team? Again, Tandon Dawes for the Jaguars, but did he really even play for the Jaguars like that? Think about it. Many receivers don't make it out alive past the Ravens. They really don't. And that's because when they're with the Ravens, they're not alive. Ravens kill them off. So with Amari Cooper, again, I wouldn't mind. He's obviously a proven talent. He can make plays happen. And just thinking about that lineup again, you could have somebody for the deep pass. You could have somebody for the intermediate stuff to show us that you can have guys that can work all over the field. Again, Bateman, Hollywood, Amari Cooper, Mark Andrews. I don't expect the Ravens to sign him. I don't think they will. And he'll be able to get whatever the Ravens could offer him, they probably won't. But whatever they could offer him, he can get more elsewhere. He can get more somewhere else for sure. But yeah, so we'll see where he goes. It's gonna be interesting like it always is. I love the NFL off season. I love it. It's always so much fun. I love y'all too. I love y'all more than the NFL off season. Appreciate y'all. Y'all have a great day. And just like Amari Cooper is gonna be when it comes to being with the Cowboys very soon, we out.