 so you two team keep it clean good morning uh happy tuesday or really whenever you're watching this because you could be watching this on another day but good morning man i hope all y'all are doing good uh woke up this morning it's an extra extra good move man um just grateful for we understand the circumstances everybody's circumstances are different but um we still gotta find ways to uh be grateful and to rejoice uh even though things are uh they they're pretty wild outside pretty wild around the world really man um but just try to find things to be happy about man um even though i know sometimes it can be tough but it is doable man but anyway um yesterday we uh the ravens they had i'm gonna be saying we like i'm part of ravens or something but yesterday the ravens they had a press conference that featured uh mark andrews and we talked about him yesterday now he said he wants to be the best tight end he said he wants to he said he's not there yet but he said he's uh been working on his blocking and um he's just really trying to improve his game and just take it to another level he talked about lamar jackson how lamar still the same guy even though he's an MVP and getting all this recognition and whatnot and he just talked about some of the other tight ends in the room and how they all just trying to get better but somebody else um that spoke yesterday was ronnie stanley and ronnie stanley it's so crazy sometimes um when you hear ronnie stanley because he's obviously this big huge massive guy but he's so soft-spoken he's so soft-spoken and just he talks so so so gently and uh and it's like oh you just sometimes you wouldn't expect that but um he obviously handled his business uh when he's on the field uh and he talked about that um he talked about just trying to continue to get better uh and he said last last year was obviously a really good year for him didn't give up a sec um only allowed i think six pressures or a year something like that there's some crazy low number um but he really and he's been doing it every year but he really established himself like oh wow okay let's do this real deal even though and it's not taking away anything from him because both both go hand in hand but i feel like both he makes lemar jackson better and lemar jackson makes him better and really the whole offensive line because of his how he can escape past rushes how he can escape people coming after so that kind of uh that that gives those guys a break because if they let somebody do and lemar makes a miss they're like oh yes it's not going on my stat sheet let's go even though it's still going this stat sheet has a pressure allowed but anyway ronnie stanley is still good and it'd be better to have a ronnie stanley than to not have a ronnie stanley um so he talked about the situation that is upon us with ronnie stanley and he has been one of the biggest names on the ravens that is time and what that time is is contract time and he talked about how his agent in the ravens they're still in contract talks they are still in contract talks so they are still trying to get something done and they have all year to do it they have all they they can come up with a deal at anytime uh during before the season starts they can come up with a deal anytime during the season they don't have any uh time limit because say for instance if he was on the franchise tag if they had franchised if his contract had had ran ran out and they franchise tagged them then they would have had until i think the deadline was like july 14 something like that and then after that you can't come to an agreement anymore like for instance yannick and godway if he does end up getting traded then he still can't come to a new deal with his new team he got to play on a franchise tag but ronnie stanley he's in the fifth year option of his deal he's in the fifth year of his deal so ravens have literally all year long and they have all off season well not all off season if they do end up franchise tagging him next year they'll have until whatever the franchise tag deadline will be to where they can come up with a new deal but they got they got a while they got time it's my point so but he said he said he's not worried about it he said he ain't worried about it right now um obviously hope something gets done but that's not on his mind but something that what he said was on his mind was opting out and sometimes i think about it like man um ravens didn't suffer any huge blows when it came to the opt outs that they had um teams like the patriots they suffered like the most and the biggest blows but the ravens they didn't really get hit too hard with the opt outs they just had the anthony thomas who i like i said i i didn't think he was gonna make the team that's again no offense to him anything like that and then there's andre smith who he might have made the team but he yeah he probably would have made the team just has a backup obviously but the ravens didn't suffer any huge blows to like any big time starters anything like that um so they came out pretty good they came out pretty clean to keep it clean but with that being said ronnie stanley said he's seriously considered opting out um and i um i didn't really think too much of it because i know i've heard some other players say that they considered opting out and whatnot but then uh barstool banks he had actually tweeted out that he heard through the great vine and whatnot that um ronnie stanley was actually seriously considering uh sitting out this season and he said that the ravens uh they had been looking at contingency plans so they had been looking at like backup options for okay if ronnie stanley is out what are we gonna do he said they had been looking at that um so that that certainly would have been something in barstool banks i'm not sure if a lot of y'all familiar with him but he recently well i mean it's been offseason so it ain't really been too much to talk about but um when he tweets out something about the ravens he's pretty spot on everything that i've ever seen him tweet about the ravens that's like a scoop or inside of news or something like that he's been spot on the most recent thing he tweeted obviously but well before the ronnie stanley thing the most recent thing he tweeted before that uh was about the raven schedule he tweeted out the raven schedule hours before it was officially dropped uh when all these leaks were coming out and stuff some people had a right some people had it wrong but he tweeted out the raven schedule and it was spot on spot on prime time games uh all of that stuff spot on preseason when we did have a preseason but everything was on point another thing another story that he broke was the uh the marcus peters trade he talked about it before anybody else talked about it and obviously we got marcus peters so um he's spot on with this stuff man but so with that whole ronnie stanley that would have certainly been something man that would have certainly been something and uh again we we obviously don't have to think about this too much but it's always interesting to uh think about what the possibilities could have been because if the ravens didn't have ronnie stanley this year and he opted out then what would they have done at left tackle you could have had one of the young guys you could have got somebody via trade you could have tried for your agency but you would have had to figure that out but depending on how things went uh i think that could have actually made the ravens end up feeling like oh okay you know what well ronnie stanley thank you but we're gonna move on and i think when he did come back next year i think that could have led the ravens to actually trade him and acquire some compensation because with ronnie stanley if i don't expect it to happen but if he was to be traded no if if they were to uh put him up like on the trade block or whatever sorry i've been playing mad and i was playing it all night last night but um if they were to uh trade him people would they would get plenty of offers right away right away plenty of offers and they will get some good offers too like and there would be no hesitation it wouldn't be no trend williams type of thing but that's that situation was just ugly period but it wouldn't be that type of thing so they would be able to trade him and it yeah they they would get first round picks maybe even multiple first round picks but they would get multiple high picks because ronnie stanley is nice but that's also the reason why you got to feel like they're gonna come to some type of agreement something and it's probably gonna take a little minute now it's probably gonna take a little minute because of just the situation and again the possibility of next year's salary cap makes this whole thing that much harder with the possibility of it dropping down by about 25 mil again it's not guaranteed it just all depends on how revenue does with the nfl this year but with ronnie stanley um i i know they they they say they in contract talks right now they say they've been in contract talks they've been communication and whatnot but i don't know man i don't know i feel like the ravens are like 1000 they want to keep ronnie stanley and they all in on ronnie stanley and they like hey we want him to be a raven we want to get this done because again lamar jackson with the ronnie stanley is a is much better than a lamar jackson without a ronnie stanley well i mean we haven't seen it yet but you you you want to like when you have homegrown talent and like when your homegrown talent is really talented you want to do what you can to keep them and i know you can't keep everybody and that's the same thing we've been saying for so so long because it's true and it's unfortunate because that's just the part of the business where just things can get a little ugly but you you you really want to try to keep that especially that homegrown talent man you really do because it's special it's special and ravens as we know with their homegrown talent man they can be something serious i mean we obviously look at the air reeds and the ray luisas um the ray rices before everything obviously uh jamal luis for long enough um the tide heaps the pitas uh i mean it's it's plenty more we could go down the list on man see pernell mcfee he was like man the grass really ain't green on other side at pernell mcfee uh he ended up going to the uh bears and the residents he was like oh no it's uh i need to go back to the ball but um and it's it's plenty more guys too but it's specifically a left tackle obviously jonathan ogden man he did his thing and after jonathan ogden um they left tackle has been they really haven't had that premier guy at left tackle they haven't had that guy consistently hold it down at left tackle they've tried different guys and whatnot and some have lasted a couple years and whatnot but they really haven't had that guy and ronnie stanley for them can be that guy so let's see what happens with him and the ravens man because it's a very it's tricky man it's tricky if it was so cut and dry if it was so black and white then this thing would have been done by now but it's so many different factors that go into the decision making when it comes to contract decisions it's wild man but whatever wild happens whatever comes next will keep y'all updated so team keep it clean i love y'all so much and man i i appreciate y'all like crazy man seriously um thank y'all for being you thank you for rocking with us and i see y'all later on i appreciate y'all and we out