 Woo, oh man, now you know this one. This one was tough. You know this had to be a really tough conversation with getting rid of Tay Tay, because he's been with the Ravens for four years. I remember his rookie year. He was number 36, I wanna say, but his rookie year. This guy was always around the ball, always picking up fumbles, getting to pick. He was always around the ball. And I'm like, all right, this guy, Tay Vaughn Young, okay. He's something. And I liked him. I loved this game and felt like, all right, this dude can play. And he's shown when he does play that he can play. But that was the biggest issue was that he just wasn't out there to play. He would not be out there to play. And it had been, it would be like, he would play one year. Like his rookie year, he played sophomore year. He got hurt for the season. Then he follow up, then play the following year. And then the year after that, he would get hurt for the season. And it's crazy because I had always heard, and I'm sure all of you all saw it too, to where there were a lot of Ravens, like not even reports, but a lot of Ravens, some reporters, some people that covered them. They felt like, oh, this could be a move that the Ravens could make if they released Tay Vaughn Young. And I was thinking, I could see them doing it, but I don't know. Yeah, they could save some cap space. And they got a limited amount of cap space. Even though I feel like the cap is cap, but they opened up a space by releasing Tay Vaughn Young. And now he's a free agent. He's gone. That's it. And he had just signed a contract extension a couple years back. But he got hurt, I think, both years. I mean, the first two years of that contract extension, he got hurt then this year. He ended up playing the majority of the year. He did miss a tiny bit of time, but nothing crazy and nothing that he would normally miss. But the Ravens, I guess they felt like, you know what? It's just the salary is not worth the risk, so to speak. Now, Tay Vaughn Young was primarily the Ravens slot corner. So obviously the draft hasn't happened yet. Free agency hasn't happened yet. I mean, teams are starting to make moves and whatnot. But now what are the Ravens going to do at slot corner? Well, you have Marlon Humphrey. He's played a lot of slot corner over the years. And he did that because of Tay Vaughn Young's absence. Because Tay Vaughn Young had been hurt a lot, so they would always kick Marlon to the inside. But now Tay Vaughn Young's gone, so what are you going to do? I know there was a lot of talk last year about the possibility of one Ardarius Washington, him playing some slot corner. But then he ended up, I think he broke his foot last year, and that ended his year prematurely. So we never really got to see anything from that. There's possibility of Brandon Stevens. Because, and that all depends on how free agency in the draft goes, what the Ravens do at the safety position. If they have him still being that safety, if they have him do a multitude of things with him playing some cornerback and some safety, we'll see. So Ravens, certainly, they're going to have their work cut out for them and finding that replacement for Tay Vaughn Young. They do obviously have some in-house options, but they're going to have some outhouse options, too. So we'll see exactly how they address it. Ravens, they, no lot of Ravens fans are always like, man, Ravens, like, wake up, when are you going to do something? But Ravens, they take their time. They take their time when they're doing all this like free agency and stuff and making moves to get a little even further under the cap and whatnot. They take their time with this stuff. And so this was no surprise. I'm sure there will still be more moves to come. I thought that they weren't going to start till like Thursday, but they decided, you know what? Nope, we're going to do it a day earlier. A day earlier. I said, okay, all right, Ravens. Well, and then with Alejandro Villanueva with him retiring and Tay Vaughn Young being released, they created about 11 and a half million in the cap space. And Jeff Zribick said that leaves them with about 18 mil headed into free agency. And then of course they got some other moves that they could make. There has been talk. It's like everything so far that is expected that the Ravens are going to do, they've done it. And it's just been these two moves, but everything that's been expected has happened so far. Everybody expected them to get rid of Alejandro, but he ended up retiring. They said, yeah, y'all not getting rid of me. I'm retiring. But a lot of people expected Tay Vaughn Young to be released as well. And now that's done. So with that being said, some other moves that a lot of people had on their charts was the possibility of one mile's bokeh being released. So we'll see what happens with that. Another one was Ben Powers. We'll see what happens with that. Another one was Marcus Peters. Getting a contract extension, and then reworking something with his deal. We'll see what happens with that. Because I think that one is one single move that can open up a huge amount. I think about 10 million cap space, but don't quote me on that, but I think it's about 10 million cap space that they can possibly open up. Obviously the biggest way that they can open up cap space is by Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens agreeing to a contract extension, but that's not happening. That's not gonna happen. At least not this off-season. Again, my opinion, I don't see it happening this off-season. I just don't, not at all. I think the earliest that it could possibly happen is 2023, and I do stand by that. Things could obviously change from here to whenever, but as of right now, I don't think that's happening anytime soon. That's not even necessarily a bad thing, but it's just, I think that's on the back burner for now. So Ravens are gonna have to figure out how to work around them. They're gonna have to figure out how to really finagle this cap thing because you know it like, again, it's ways around it. I mean, a Raven player said it yesterday. Tony Jefferson, he said it yesterday. He said if a team wants a player, there are so many ways around the cap. He said it. So I know some people be like, oh man, were you talking about the cap as cap? You got a player in the NFL that said it. So it can be done. So Ravens could just be creative. They could be creative. But with Tay-Tay, man, oh, that's tough. I wonder where he's gonna go. I wonder like, what's next, man? Cause that's crazy, man. That's crazy, man. That's, now with Ravens, with them releasing Tay-Von Young, you gotta have a plan in place. And again, we talked about, yeah, they got Marlon Humphrey, you got Marcus Peters. Who's left though? They look to be trying to work on a deal with Chris Westry. We'll see. You're losing Anthony Avery. You're gonna lose Jimmy Smith. So those guys are gonna be gone. So who's next? You did sign Khalil Dorsey to a future reserve deal. And there was somebody else, not Khalil Dorsey, not Khalil Dorsey. Oh, Keevon Seymour. There we go, Keevon Seymour. They signed him to a future reserve deal. But it just makes you wonder, who are they looking at? What are they doing? Cause they, let's see, let's see. Cause you know them Ravens, man. They always up to something. They may not be what you think it is, or sometimes it is, but they always up to something. But they know firsthand how valuable cornerbacks are. It's funny because in this passing league, it's like they get it, but sometimes it doesn't seem like they get it. Cause they know how valuable cornerbacks are. It's a passing league. So they know they need to have as many cornerbacks as possible and as many quality cornerbacks as possible. So it's like, all right, Ravens always stacking up on corners, corners, corners, corners, corners. Love it. They need it. But then on the flip side, it feels like they don't appreciate the passing game as much. Even though, again, last year, they seem to be headed in the right direction. But I just wonder if that was only due to all the injuries along the offensive line and especially at the running back positions since they didn't have all their guys at running back. So they were like, okay, we can't run like we used to. So yeah, we gotta edit this thing out. So this year will hopefully let us know cause hopefully everybody stays, remains. Well, first off gets healthy, but stays and remains healthy as well. But yeah, man, shout out to Tay-Tay. Probably one of my favorite memories from Tay-Von Young wasn't even on the field. It was off the field. There was a Ravens fan who, his little brother, his little brother had died. So he had hit me up. He's like, hey, I don't know like how to get in touch with them. I don't know. He's like seeing if they, there was something that could be done. So I hit them up, hit the Ravens up. No plugs or none. I ain't plugged in with the Ravens, but I just went to their little community thing that they have, I forgot what it's called, but sent them an email, told them what the situation was and they, they ended up sending out something to the family. Cause Ravens, that is one thing, man. We get on here and we talk about front office, this coaching dad, players dad. We talk about all that stuff and that's cool, whatever. We all got our different opinions, but one thing you can never say, like Ravens are a very, very great organization when it comes to their fans. They really do a great job by their fans, a phenomenal job. But with that, so they did that, but then I ended up reaching out to Tay-Von Young and told them, hey, like, hey, there's a fan who little brother unfortunately passed and he just wanted to know if, if we send something out there, if he could sign it and send it back to him, he said, no problem, no problem. He did not have to respond. He did not have to do anything, no problem. So that was my favorite memory of Tay-Von Young with the Ravens. So shout out to him, looking forward to see where he, wherever he goes next, man. Cause you know, he ain't stopping. It ain't like, oh, he got a cup from the Ravens. All right, well I'm done. No, he is still of course gonna keep going and keep playing as expected. So I hope he does well. Wherever he ends up next, I hope he does well. And I wonder, now that I say it out loud, I wonder if Ravens could go throwback like they used to do. I don't really see them doing it much nowadays, but if they could go throwback like they used to do where they would release a player on whatever his current contract is, but then actually bring that player back at a reduced rate, at a reduced salary or whatnot. They did do that with L.J. Fort last year or was it the year before last? They did it with L.J. Fort, but they don't really do it too often nowadays. But hey, we'll see if that could be an option with Tay-Tay. So we'll see. Anyway, love y'all, appreciate y'all. And just like both Tay-Von Young and Alejandro Villanueva are when it comes to being with the Baltimore Ravens, I'm out.