 We we can continue to go back and forth on whether you think the two-point conversion was a good call or not It wasn't but we could talk about that later. But anyway, this this is something that Really like caught my attention out of nowhere. Initially. I hadn't even seen it But shout out to my guy time to fly my guy He hit me up on Twitter in a DM and he says does this mean anything in your opinion? So the tweet that he sent me was that from Ian rapper port with said Ravens first round wide receiver Shaw Bateman has new representation Signing with Andre Olderman a 1 a 1 Murph of athletes first to be his agents. So Rashad Bateman got a new agent and Initially when I first read that I wrote him back right away. I said no and then I read it again and I said, I hope not and then I read it again and Then that's when it really started concerning me Because you know how we always talk about how timing is everything. It's absolutely everything The timing of this is very suspect Because Rashad Bateman, he's a rookie first round draft picked by the Baltimore Ravens We love his game. Yeah, he's had some hiccups over the past couple of weeks Like yesterday he had a drop and he had a false start then the week before that he had a drop that led to an interception I mean, who knows by the way things were going if he wouldn't even touch the ball. It might have been an exception anyway But Rashad Bateman when we've seen him with the ball in his hands He makes stuff happen. He's the chain mover. He is the first-down king And a lot of times they've been a lot of times when Rashad Bateman has been wide open wide open But Lamar hasn't even seen him Hasn't even seen him hasn't even looked this way So the the timing of Rashad Bateman getting new Representation is scares me. It really does and I'm not trying to get on here and scare y'all about the Ravens first round draft pick I'm just keeping it real with y'all how I feel about it because we we've seen it and I keep telling people I keep saying it over and over and over. It's so crazy to me How when this guy we drafted Rashad Bateman in the first round at pick? What was it pick 27? Whatever the pick was they drafted Rashad Bateman and then he got hurt So he was out what the first I want to say four or five weeks of the regular season So he was out for a while. So when he finally came back I was thinking all right Rashad Bateman. He's a rookie He's a rookie wide receiver and this Ravens. Oh He his first game back. He probably gonna play like maybe nine to ten snaps something super small It's not gonna be he's not gonna get a lot of work. He's not why would he he's just coming back from injury They're not gonna just throw him out there like that In fact the previous week before he came back it was said that the Ravens were thinking about Putting him in that game, but they were like, you know what? No, no, no, we'll just wait another week So you could tell that the Ravens were gonna be extra cautious with Rashad Bateman in his play time. Nope Couldn't have been more wrong and I wasn't mad that I was wrong But I was just so shocked but shocked in a good way that the Ravens played Rashad Bateman so much Coming to coming off of his injury. I was just like surprised I was like wow this guy was out on the field his first game that he played who's out on the field so much Then the following game he was out there a lot again, and I was like whoa like Rashad Bateman like when you watch him in college you watch film on him in college Great route runner great hands got deceptive speed. He's not this burn away. Oh, he gonna break But he got some good speed, but the biggest he knows how to get open He knows how to get open and the yak the yak with Rashad Bateman is a beautiful thing So his first couple of games he was getting all this action I was like all right go Bateman go Bateman go go Bateman go Bateman go, but then the Ravens For some reason they started saying no Bateman no Bateman no no Bateman no Bateman no Because his play time has taken these drastic drops his involvement has taken these drastic drops and I'm wondering like what is going on Dolphins game was the first and biggest example from jump Ravens offense struggling Can't move the ball for nothing of course we all that's when that's when so many people learned about cover zero from that week But the Ravens offense was dead no life couldn't move the ball ugly to see it was ugly to watch on TV Even ugly in person. I know a lot of y'all went to that game. Whoo fun game. No atmosphere was great. It was a good time But anyway It was ugly But Rashad Bateman was struggling in the passing game. So usually when you struggle in the passing game You you try to fix that by getting the ball to your wide receivers, right? But you got number 12 on the sideline. Is he hurt? No Is what is he exhausted or something? No, you got him on the sideline though And then all of a sudden at the very end of the game when the game is not necessarily all the way out of reach But it's pretty much over. That's when you want to get him involved in the game And you saw what he did So then The following week. Well, I can't really count that week because it was Tyler Huntley Against the Bears So won't count that one But then the Browns game in the Browns game in the first half. Oh, you see him out there then the second half It's like hold up. Is Rashad Bateman even still on the team? Is he there? He was absent. He was not on the field and it was like what what? This this couldn't be the doghouse. Could it not over that that that tip pick Not over him possibly running the wrong route It couldn't it couldn't be the doghouse. Could it no, no, there's no way, right? right No so then the following week just yesterday Ravens play the Steelers and Rashad Bateman He's like it's spotty. His play time is like spotty and it's like what Where is Bateman? And what why is there this just this lack of involvement with Rashad Bateman? This guy was your first round pick for a reason you clearly saw that you had another knee that wide receiver you drafted him high for a reason What's going on? So that's why we always say timing is everything that the usage of Rashad Bateman continues to decrease in the decreases drastically his involvement continues to decrease in the decreases drastically so this Him getting the new agent him getting new representation That scares me and that scares me in a big way Because it would not be unheard of It wouldn't for him to request a trade next this offseason It wouldn't be We've seen it in the NFL because and again, I hope that Obviously hope that I'm wrong we still got five games left to to play and Hopefully things could turn around But we've seen it before to where guys they just not happy and they try to get out of a situation quick And we've seen guys who have been drafted in the first round get traded from the teams to follow me We've seen that it's not like that's just something. Oh, that never happens. No, it happens It happens teams are willing to move on from players faster now more than ever and Players yeah, they all about the team, but we got to take care of themselves, too Now I'm not saying that oh, he's getting ready to request a trade this offseason, but it's just very scary looking It is very scary looking for sure like again the timing you were obviously with whatever agency you were with When you got drafted you've been with what with whatever agent you was with Throughout the process and throughout this first year, but all of a sudden now you're getting new representation Well, maybe the previous reputation representation. Maybe they okie-dokie. Maybe they did something dirty Maybe they did something where he was like, oh, no, that that's funny business. I ain't messing with that and hope hopefully Not hoping that he was wrong by anybody, but hopefully that's what the case is. Hopefully that's what the case Oh, I hope that's what the case is Because it's scary. It's scary to think about So I just hope it's nothing where he's like man this coaching staff like This is not what I came here to do I'm supposed to be like helping I'm supposed to be involved I'm supposed to be a part of the offense and I'm not and Not even that he would have to be on no, you know cocky way, but I'm I was a first-round draft pick and When can I show what I got? they started to but When am I gonna get a chance to show What I can do But again, hopefully Hopefully that's not what it is so Hopefully And I know with a lot of Ravens fans they done said oh, we done lost all hope So hopefully it's not a word that a lot of Ravens fans have been using recently even before yesterday's game but Hopefully when we read that about him getting a new agent Hopefully It's not him trying to say I'm out