 Two team keep it clean. I know there was so much to take away from that season ending press conference that the Baltimore Ravens had a couple of hours ago which featured general manager Eric DeCosta and head coach John Hallbaugh. They said a lot, they said a whole lot in that presser. And my thing, all right, you said a lot, you talked a good game, but for me, seeing is believing. Now I'm interested to see how their actions follow every single word that they said. And even if you can accomplish everything that you talked about, at least getting most of it done. Because some of the things that they talked about and they highlighted in this press are things that we've been highlighting for years that the Ravens should have been on a long time ago. So now, hey, better late than never, but hopefully it's not too late. So one of the things that we about to talk about right now, John Hallbaugh, he was asked about the next offensive coordinator, who it could be and whatnot. And if Lamar Jackson would have any say so in who that offensive coordinator was. And Hallbaugh said that Lamar Jackson, he will have input. He certainly will have input on whoever the next offensive coordinator is. Now, hopefully that input is significant enough to where Lamar Jackson, however he feels, can sway the decision whether Lamar Jackson is for it, great, well, whether Lamar Jackson is against it. So hopefully his voice will certainly be heard amongst the Ravens front office when it comes to the next offensive coordinator because it is such a huge decision for the Baltimore Ravens. And it's a risk, it's a risk, but it's a risk that I don't mind them taking. I like them taking the risk. I like them putting themselves out there for their quarterback or hopefully for who I hope their quarterback ends up being for the foreseeable future because obviously nothing is set in stone right now. Now, the way that it's risky, say for instance, Lamar Jackson's like, hey, I want him to be my offensive coordinator. And the Ravens hired him as offensive coordinator, Lamar Jackson ends up re-signing, great, amazing. But then on the flip side, what if Lamar Jackson says, hey, I want him as my offensive coordinator. Ravens end up signing him as offensive coordinator, great, but Lamar Jackson doesn't re-sign with the Ravens. And what do you do? So that's one risk, but again, like I said, that's a risk that the Ravens should be willing to take if they really want to keep Lamar Jackson. Now, another thing with them allowing him to have input on this new offensive coordinator, whoever it ends up being, I think personally, this is just my personal opinion. I mean, everything I share on here pretty much a personal opinion, but I think this should have happened already. I really do. I think that this should have happened years ago. I think it should have happened, not even after the 2019 season now. That would be too early. Well, I think at the earliest, it should have happened after the 2020 season, but at the latest, it should have happened last year, last off season. That's why I think it should have went down. Because if you brought in somebody last year in Lamar's contract year, like, hey, what type of offense are you comfortable with the offense that we've been running? Do you still want to run that type of offense? Or do you want to go in a different direction? Hey, Lamar, we want to hear from you. Because what the Ravens are showing me right now, if Lamar truly has input on this offense, they're telling me that, hey, we want to invest in that guy. Because yeah, they've been talking about the contract for years. They've been talking about that. Obviously nothing has been done yet. Okay, cool. Like Eric DeCosta did say, it takes two. So it takes Eric DeCosta on his side, and obviously Lamar Jackson on his side to agree on a deal and move forward. But what they're telling me from this about him being able to have input is like, hey, we really want to invest in Lamar Jackson. So we want to invest in him with the contract, and we want to invest in him with the offense. Now, to take it up another notch, the Ravens also said, John Hopeall, he said that we want to completely like build up our wide receiver room. And I was like, yeah. Okay, and he even talked about how, yeah, we want Lamar Jackson to have more options. We want him to have more weapons. And I was like, huh. Oh, hold up now, Hopeall. Where you been that for the past couple years now? Where is all this coming from? But again, that's another indication that the Baltimore Ravens really want to invest in Lamar Jackson. Seeing is believing. So they still got to show action to back up all those words, but this is a good start. But those words let you know they want to invest in him. So my concern, my concern with this is how are they going to do this? What's going to be the chronological order of everything that happens? What I mean when I say that, what's going to happen first? Are you going to show Lamar like, hey, look, we invested in a wide receiver. We got this guy. We got that guy. We drafted this guy. We drafted that guy. We signed this guy. We brought him in. Are you going to show him first? And then as far as the offensive coordinator, because the offensive coordinator, I feel like that almost has to be the first domino that falls because that could really change everything. And even with whoever they get at offensive coordinator, I still feel like it's going to be really tough for them to bring in wide receivers, quality wide receivers that are free agents or even via trade too. Because I feel like they're either going to have to overpay. And I put that in quotation marks because, I mean, can you really put a price on great talent? But anyway, they will have to overpay. But then on top of that, they're really going to have to, throughout this entire year moving forward, especially if Lamar Jackson is here, they're going to really have to show to show the NFL that they're offense, that they can get receivers involved, that they care about the receivers. Like it's funny because if you go back a year in Hardball's presser, to believe it was a season ending one, he said, we're not begging for any receivers to come here. We're not doing that. But not that he necessarily changes tune, but it's definitely the script has been flipped. Because now before it was, oh yeah, we're not begging any receivers to come here. If you want to win, cool. But if not, hey, we're lying up against you. But now it's, hey, our offense is 75% intact. It's just that 25% that's not intact. And that 25% is a wide receiver room. So we're going to bring back some guys, but we're going to have a lot of new guys there too. I said, ooh. But then that made me wonder, like, why now? Where was this years ago? And then I thought, oh, wait a minute. They are saying all the right things now and it's contract time. So I just hope, my hope is that obviously I want Lamar Jackson to stay. I want the Ravens to re-sign Lamar Jackson to a long-term deal. But what I don't want to happen is the Ravens talk this good game. They talk a real good game. They end up re-signing Lamar Jackson to that long-term deal, which would be great. And then they'd be like, ah, we got him. We got him. Because that would be frustrating, but that would be business. That can happen in business, where people are negotiating. Then all of a sudden you're like, hmm, you know what? Stow out some incentives. Here, take that, here, take that. Hey, if you sign here, then we'll do this for you. If you sign that, we'll do that. For if you sign here, we got you with this. And then you sign there and then poof. Nothing. Nothing. So I just really hope Ravens deliver on all of this stuff for Lamar Jackson. And like we've been saying for years, this is stuff that they should have been delivered on. It's stuff that they should have been doing, stuff that they should have addressed a long time ago, years ago, literally years ago, but they hadn't. They didn't. And this is why I would always say that, hey, the Ravens, they showed us that they didn't really want to invest in Lamar like that. And we talked about it. We talked about that for years. Had the Ravens have shown us that they not invested in Lamar like that. We talked about it with the coaching staff, with how this offense that they've been running, they're not investing because that offense has just had such a lack of growth. We talked about that for years, man. Then we talked about the personnel, but how they, hey, they'll get like 50 tight ends. They'll get 60 running backs, but then they have like two, three receivers. And again, a lot of times it seems like with the Ravens, they only have receivers on the roster just because it's an NFL requirement. If they didn't have receivers on the roster, Ravens would just have, they have about 51 tight ends. 51 tight ends. But that's just something to watch out for, man. I just hope that, again, they deliver on all of this stuff that they're talking about. Lamar Jackson. He took to Twitter today, little after the Greg Roman announcement. And he quote-tweeted a tweet that was interesting, but nothing new. It was nothing new. So many people talked about how the Ravens, they revamped their offense, they rebuilt their offense all for Lamar Jackson, and that could not be further from the truth. The Ravens built their offense under Greg Roman for their philosophy, the philosophy that they had before Lamar Jackson, the philosophy that they have continued to have. And Greg Roman, the perfect offensive coordinator for that philosophy. We want to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, play good defense. That's the Ravens right there in the nutshell. But Lamar Jackson, the tweet that he quote-tweeted, it came from fball game playing Emory Hunt. He said, let me just get this out here before folks start wrongly discussing the Ravens search for a new offensive coordinator. Lamar Jackson ran a pro-style offense in college at Louisville under Bobby Petrino. And Lamar Jackson quote-tweeted that and said, thank you. Thank you. And a lot of us were saying thank you to that same tweet because we talked about that too. We talked about that. This system, again, it wasn't for Lamar. It was for the Ravens. And they use Lamar in that system. And he's done a pretty good job in that system. Ravens have got a lot of wins, so credit the system and credit Lamar, great job working together. But they just been such a lack of growth. That's why with whoever the next offensive coordinator is gonna be, as long as Lamar Jackson continues to be the quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, this is such a huge decision because the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, if he does really have input, they need to choose the best man for the job. Not a buddy, not a friend, not a family, no, none of that. They need to choose the best man for the job. You need to choose somebody who will not only bring out the best in Lamar Jackson, somebody who's really gonna challenge Lamar Jackson, really take him to a whole other level because the potential has just been sitting right there for years, it's been sitting there, but the Ravens haven't even tapped the potential, ain't even come close to tapping the potential. So you need somebody that's gonna challenge him to really bring it out of him, but on top of that, you need somebody who is going to challenge the talent and use, use the talent that the Ravens have at different positions and use guys for what they specialize in. They have to, cause Ravens have done such a bad job of doing that for years. They don't capitalize on guys' talents, on their playmaking abilities, on what they do well. They gotta get better at that. The situational play calling is of the essence. It's of the essence, cause that's been an issue for years as well. The accountability, that's a whole another topic though. So we talk about that another time, but Ravens certainly gotta do a better job. And Lamar, Lamar was definitely busy on Twitter today with the news, Lamar translator. Shout out to him. He said on a serious note, Greg is probably the best run coordinator in maybe NFL history. He's got the stats to back it up. The offense reached the ceiling and it was time for a move. Thank you for everything you did in Baltimore, including coordinating the best team rushing season ever. And yeah, shout out to Greg Roman. So I know so many people, they dump on Greg Roman. It's easy to dump on Greg Roman, but you gotta give him his credit as well. He had his issues, but he certainly had his good things as well. So shout out to Greg Roman, but Lamar Jackson, he liked that tweet. And then he liked this one from RG3, where it said, Greg Roman may be of the greatest run game tacticians I have ever been around at the NFL level. Running backs and tight ends love his system because they eat. Wide receivers absolutely hate it. That's why free agent wide receivers didn't want to go to or stay in Baltimore. It was never about Lamar Jackson. Wow. So RG3 said that Lamar Jackson liked that one too. That is partially true. That's not the whole truth though. That's part of it though. But the wide receiver thing with the Baltimore Ravens that's been going on way before Greg Roman was there. That's been happening. It's been happening. Even when Flacco was here, there was a receiver that he didn't put himself on the record. He said, leave me anonymous. He said that their scheme, he said their passing scheme is to just throw the ball up and hope for a passing offense. That's before Lamar was even a thought on the Baltimore Ravens. And we've seen the receivers that have come in and not come to the Baltimore Ravens. So, yeah man. But anyway, this is a step in the right direction for the Ravens when it comes to Lamar, when it comes to them keeping Lamar because you're giving him more power. And if you really wanna keep somebody and you really wanna show somebody that you value them, show them that you value their opinion. You value what they think on things. You value, they say you value what they want and you value their values. And obviously Lamar Jackson, his one of his values seems to be that he wants to run a better offense. Obviously he wanna get paid. Like he want a valuable contract. Oh yeah, I mean, we all wanna get paid for our work. But I just really want the Ravens to show him, even though they should have been showed him. But I really want them to show him that they value him. And I just hope that it's not just so he can sign and then they be like, you know what, about that. No, follow through. It's my biggest thing. We'll talk more about the presser tomorrow. We actually already did the video covering the presser, but we'll drop that tomorrow morning for you. So I appreciate y'all team. Keep it clean. I love y'all and we out.