 Even after Eric Dacosta and the Ravens acquired one Yannique and Gakwe, ADC said something that was very special to us Ravens fans and very just special to the Ravens period. He said that he was not done yet. He said he was not done trying to make this team the best team that they could possibly be this year. And when you hear some GM say something like that, you could just be like they just talking. But with what we've seen from Eric Dacosta, especially last year, we know that that statement holds a lot of weight. So apparently we saw Eric Dacosta try to strike again when it came to adding talent. Now the talent that he apparently tried to add or at least talked about, had some conversations about what the Vikings wasn't just Yannique. It was also Irv Smith, their tight end and Adam Thielen, their number one receiver and a true number one receiver. And if they could have acquired Adam Thielen as well, that would have been a nice pickup for them because he is a true number one wide receiver, a possession guy that has a decent amount of speed. He knows how to get open has some very, very good hands as an excellent route runner and he would automatically upgrade this Ravens wide receiver group. Of course, you add in Adam Thielen. You have this Brian, you have Hollywood, you still have Boykin and Snead. So then, of course, Duvenay, who's been getting more and more playing time every week. So that could have been a beautiful thing. And let's actually see what the article says. And real quick, it did come from Jason Lockham for. So usually I would say if something comes from Jason Lockham for take it with less than a grain of salt. But I got to give my man Jason Lockham for some credit based off of the last report that he had with the whole Earl Thomas thing and the council thing, because that apparently was all true. So Jason Lockham for them to give you a pass for getting that one right and putting us on a lot of information with that whole saga. So Jason Lockham for you, you rocking with us right now. But anyway, let's read what it said. Said when the Angakwe deal or when they did the Angakwe deal, they were talking about Adam Thielen. They were sniffing around on Earth Smith, their young tight end. Lockham Ford told the sports junkies Thursday. They couldn't come to any sort of agreement there on value. But I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they added a pass catching tight end or wide receiver. So we we know that that's the case that apparently that Ravens also offered. They offered something to acquire the Eagles, tight end Zach Erts. But one thing that this has brought to my attention, yet again, is a pattern that's going on. And it's a pattern that none of us like. But we got to talk about it because it seems to be a pattern because we always talk about on here how the Ravens, they invest heavy on defense. They spend all this cash on defense, give out all these fat contracts on defense. But on offense, it's always a whole nother story. It's a lot of cheap contracts, a lot of cheap deals, a sort of looking for the bargain players here and there on offense. But they don't really make that splash. Now, somebody in the comment section said in Graven, but wait, no, no, no. On offense, if you get that flashy play, if you get that big name play on offense, it's a bigger risk than if you were to get one on defense says who? And even if it is a bigger risk, Ravens certainly don't take it. They certainly don't take it. Now, one other pattern that I also see when it comes to this is that with the Ravens and their their attempts in trying to acquire big name offensive players. We hear a lot of, oh, it just came up short. Oh, they just didn't get the deal done. Oh, man, it just fell through. We just could not get it done. We couldn't make it happen. And we hear some of that on the defensive side, too. But it's a lot more frequent on offense. Because I mean, we heard about the Ravens offering a second round pick for unique earlier this season. But it it fell through. Then, of course, the whole Jadavian clowny thing fell through. It's like, oh, man. But then the Ravens, they circle back around and they say, oh, OK, hey, unique. Come on, we're going to try again. We're not giving up. And I'm not saying that the Ravens have given up on the offensive side of the ball, because obviously, if they were talking about adding another tight end with Irv Smith and adding another tight end with Zach Erz and adding another receiver with Adam Thielen, then they haven't given up on the offensive side of the ball. But far too often, we hear about all these offensive trades that didn't end up going down. And I'm not saying that because I feel like, oh, the Ravens just, man, they they need to give up the house for these offensive guys. The only one I would have given up the house for would be DeAndre Hopkins. You all know that the best receiving the league by far is not even close. It ain't Julio Jones or DeAndre Hopkins. But it just we hear this far too many times, man. We hear this far too many times and not taking away anything from EDC as a GM, because in his short time as the Ravens GM, he's done a phenomenal job. He's done an excellent job and he has always been trying to make moves week after week, no matter what's going down. Now, even even when the team has been winning, it will even last year. I think what are they going to the by week four and two? And they were still making moves. And this week, they went into the by week five and one and they still making moves. And I love that about Eric DeCosta. I absolutely love that about him. With him and Ozzy Newsom, there are a lot of similarities, but one of the biggest differences between the two has been the aggressiveness. It's been the aggression. Eric DeCosta is he's a bit more aggressive than Ozzy Newsom. And that's not a slight to Ozzy Newsom at all. Ozzy Newsom is obviously a very much accomplished GM for the Ravens, two Super Bowls and a short amount of time, too, in a very short amount of time. So shout out to Ozzy, man. And Ozzy obviously instilled so many different tactics, so many different methods in Eric DeCosta because he was the one that trained them. Eric DeCosta set up under Ozzy Newsom and has been waiting for this opportunity. And he certainly made the most of this opportunity so far. So shout out to the both of them because they go hand in hand. But with Eric DeCosta, there has been this just how aggressive he is with really trying to upgrade the team, even though, because when it comes to winning, winning can cover up everything because and it's happened a lot on here. I've seen a lot of people when we've been talking about the past rush since week one, how big of a problem it was. Somebody's like, oh, no, the past rush was just fine. Then we play the Texans defeat. Then they go, oh, see, the past rush is just fine. We keep hitting the I mean the Sean Watson. Oh, man, the past rush is just fine. I kept saying, no, it's not. It's really not. It's really not. And then we play Patrick Mahonjan, yeah. And then people started seeing it a lot more. But winning can tend to cover up a lot of things. And people will they'll overlook errors with the team. They'll overlook issues with the team and they'll overlook problems with the team. But Eric DeCosta, despite the Ravens winning, he hasn't been overlooking anything. And we absolutely love that about him. But one thing that we can't overlook, despite him being such a good GM in a short amount of time, is the fact that they just simply haven't been able to get it done when it comes to the big time offensive players, especially at receiver, especially at receiver. Now, I know that they've been doing things a bit differently because we know under Ozzie Newsom, the Ravens, they they struggled at the drafting and development, more so development of wide receivers. So what they would do, especially since they have been in win now mode so much, they will go out and sign these older veteran wide receivers that were pretty much at the end of their careers. And again, sometimes it will work out. Sometimes it wouldn't, but that's how they would do. So they're younger guys, they never really got an opportunity to shine. They never really got an opportunity to play. They never consistently got that opportunity to be developed properly. So development has always been a point of the Ravens that needs to be fixed. So Eric DeCosta, he must have been he must have seen that. And he took that and was like, you know what? I'm going to do a lot of stuff that Ozzie Newsom did because he was obviously very successful. But I'm going to tweak some things here and there. So let's start off with our wide receivers, wide receivers. He ended up drafting Hollywood in the first round, drafting Miles Boykin in the third. It was like, OK, you know what? I'm a role with these young boys. I'm a role with the young boys and Willie Snead was obviously still there. He had Seth Roberts. So the wide receiver group was very, very young, very, very young. And they got by last year. But there were some moments where we were clearly lacking that number one guy like that guy at wide receiver. And it was looking like Hollywood, especially based off of last year that he could end up being that guy because last year he had a decent season and he was hurt the entire year. And then as the season went on, he looked more and more comfortable and better and better. And then when the big in the biggest game of the year in the playoff game, Hollywood shine the most. But now this year, teams are really focusing a lot more attention on Hollywood and sort of taking him not taking him out the game. But he would definitely benefit if we really had a number one guy on the squad. He would benefit a lot more. So we're just waiting because apparently, again, they tried to trade for Deandre Hopkins, but that didn't go through. And in the article, Jason Lockham Ford didn't say that the Ravens tried to acquire Adam Thielen, but he did say they had some conversations about him. So that means that there would be some interest in just seeing sniffing around, snooping around saying, hey, is he available? Well, what's the price? Because I know Jeff Zribick, he said it best the other day that Ravens, they keep the people who they want, the people who they're interested in, they keep that on the low. They keep it on the low. And like we talk about all the time on here when we hear a lot about these moves that were almost made, then it can be like, oh, man, that's frustrating. But at the same time, it does give you hope. Because it's like, oh, man, well, at least they're trying. So that's a good thing. But it's a lot of almost on the offensive side of the ball. But this does serve as a reminder that like Eric McCosta did say, the Ravens are not done yet. They're not done yet. And with them not being done yet, that bodes well for this team. But who will they end up getting? Who's going to be the move that they end up making? Now, and I think what Jason Lockham Ford said was pretty obvious that I would expect him to get a wide receive or a tight end. More so, I think they will aim at a wide receiver. And it doesn't have to be this prolific name. But I think they will try to get somebody that does have some good credibility to their name and to their game as well. And that could come in right away and contribute as the Ravens number one wide receiver. But who will that be? That's a good question. So anyway, team, keep it clean. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And let's let's hope that this pattern where the Ravens just haven't been able to seal the deal on offensive playmakers. Hopefully, this pattern can come to a halt and it can just stop. And I'm not saying that I expect every single deal that the Ravens try to make to go through, because I'm sure it's a lot more that we haven't heard about that haven't gone through. But we do definitely still see how everything is there's this imbalance, whether it's free agency, whether it's via trades. There's this imbalance to it. The defensive side, everything gets invested on defense, but on offense. We just haven't been able to get it done. So anyway, team, keep it clean. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And like Adam Thelan might be with the Vikings soon enough, maybe not to the Ravens, but somewhere else. I'm out.