 Whenever you're thinking about your current situation, a lot of times you can sort of reflect on something that could have happened that would have completely changed the outcome of whatever you're dealing with right now, both good or bad. And as fans of the Baltimore Ravens, we think about that a lot. One of the things that y'all know I think about and have thought about, especially with the Ravens at an O'Dell Beckham Junior, Drafton Zay Flowers getting Richard Bateman back, having Mark Andrews as a likely Devon Duvenay, and more, I think about, man, what if they really would have went in like this with wide receivers on Lamar's rookie contract? Even if they didn't do it his rookie year, even if they ain't doing it in 2019, but from 2020 and beyond, what if they really started going in back then? What if? What could have been? And it's something, when you think about those type of things, it can bring up great memories or it can bring up sad memories. But then this one right here, what if the Ravens didn't sign Lamar Jackson? That's one that a lot of us had thought about. That's one that a lot of us actually thought was gonna not happen, but it did. Came at the very last second at the final hour right before the draft, literally right before the draft, but what if it didn't happen? Well, John Hobo, he was on Sky Sports NFL and he briefly talked about what may have happened if the Ravens hadn't signed Lamar Jackson. Let's hear what he said. And shout out for Sarah Ellison for bringing this to my attention because I saw her write the quote down and then I watched the video from Sky Sports directly and I said, ooh, okay. And that brought up a lot of memories from this past off season. But anyway, let's get into it. Hobo said I was excited about Lamar Jackson signing because it was before the draft and I didn't have to worry about it. It was only like he agreed to his deal maybe four hours before the draft. So we were right up to crunch time there. And yeah, we all remember. We all remember. Ravens are a team, and I know it happens with a lot of other teams too, but we know for sure with Ravens, they are a team that will push every single right up to the deadline every time. Watch in a couple of weeks when it comes to roster cut downs cause they gotta go from 90 to 53. 90 men to 53 men, straight like that. They don't got no, it's not an increments, anything like that. No, it's straight from 90 to 53. Raven, you're gonna get everything in the last second. Sometimes we get it after four PM on whatever day that is that they gotta do the roster cut downs, but Raven's gonna do it at the last second. When it comes to getting contracts done, like, and I think one of the methods behind the Ravens madness and doing everything till the, at the very end. Now this whole Lamar Jackson contract situation might have been a little bit different, but I think what they do, and this is just my opinion, I don't know anything from anything that you all know, I'm an NFL outsider. No plugs, no sources, none of that. But with the Ravens, I think they exhaust all of their options. I think they really look at all of their options with a lot of different things. And they say, okay, well, what if this and that? Oh, well, what if that? Oh, well, what about this? And they, they pushed that all the way up into the deadline. They be like, all right, all right, let's get it. Let's make it happen, whatever it is. So anyway, that's how it was with Lamar Jackson's deal. Like I said, we would have taken a quarterback in the first round if he hadn't signed. You never know. We might have had to, thought we needed to. So to get that done was something that was really valuable. There was a lot of times when I thought that, that could end up being the case. Ravens would be starting over. And Bucky Brooks, I think it was Bucky Brooks who suggested that the Ravens, they don't pay Lamar Jackson. They just draft another quarterback. They run a Navy style type of offense and just do the whole thing all over again. And I remember when he said that, I was like, ooh, yeah, no, that's, no, no, no, no, no. Because Lamar Jackson, he's not your typical average quarterback. And his uniqueness is special. And for you to just insinuate that, oh, you could just find another Lamar Jackson in the draft just like that. Not to say people can't come in and be talented like Lamar Jackson is, be able to throw at a high level, and be able to run at a high level as well. Ooh, it's scary. But if you have that right there, why not take advantage of it? Why not use it? Why not try to maximize what you have already instead of opting for the unknown? And it was scary territory because it almost seemed like the Ravens were going to opt for the unknown. And not to say that a rookie couldn't come in and be successful, but it's a lot of unknown. Now I know a lot of Ravens fans were thinking, oh man, Anthony Richardson. Ravens probably really liked that guy because they had several visits with Anthony Richardson. I know a lot of Ravens fans were even like, they were getting upset. They were getting upset that the Ravens kept on bringing in Anthony Richardson, excuse me, they kept flying down to Florida to go check them out and whatnot. A lot of Ravens fans were getting heated like, and I'm thinking like, I mean, it's the business. It's the business. Do I want them to drive Anthony Richardson? No, I want them to sign Lamar, I want them to keep Lamar. But hey, I understand they are business too. Lamar got to handle his business, Ravens got to handle their business. If Lamar ain't signed, then Ravens as a franchise, they had to look at other options. I get that, everybody gets that, Lamar got that. So, and even the same with him, he wasn't signed. So he had to look at other options, talk to other teams and whatnot, see what their interest level was and whatnot, even though that whole thing was weird. Because you never see a bunch of teams just randomly coming out. Oh, we're not interested in Lamar Jackson. Oh, we're not interested in Lamar Jackson. Oh, we're gonna pass on Lamar Jackson. Oh, we're not interested in Lamar Jackson. Especially teams were really bad, Kota. I'll never forget how weird that was in Coincidental. Anyway, the fact that the Ravens have Lamar Jackson is a beautiful thing. Because it could have went so many different ways. And we'll see how the season goes. I expect as long as Lamar Jackson is healthy, as long as the Ravens are healthy, I expect them to have a lot of success this season. And I expect them to go further than they've ever gone as a unit under Lamar Jackson this year. I really do. Cause again, health, health is wealth. That is the only thing, right there, health. Another guy, like as far as we heard about all our visits with Anthony Richardson, but another guy who we heard that the Ravens were thinking about drafting was Will Leviss. Which was Will Leviss. And I saw somebody, they commented on the Sky Sports tweet and said, oh man, we would have been eating bananas with the pills on them. If we didn't resound Lamar Jackson, I was thinking, yeah. Yeah, and he was dipping them, oh rotten bananas, excuse me. Not just bananas with the pill, but rotten bananas with the pill on them. And what, put mayonnaise and the coffee and all that. And hey, to eat your zone, everybody got their things. Everybody got their things that they love. Everybody got their weird stuff that they love. Well, I can't call it weird because it's not, what's weird to me may not be weird to him. So everybody has what they love. So I can't knock it. It's not for me, but I can't knock it. That's his thing. But that would have been, or it could have been, could have been cause draft could go with so many different ways. But that could have been Baltimore Ravens quarterback of the future. Will Leviss. So then there was free agency. They could have gone that route. There was a possible trades. They could have gone that route, but I don't think they would have traded for anybody. But it's just nice to when we reflect back on that time, back on what could have been, it's nice to know that Ravens have Lamar Jackson. It's nice to know that they locked up Lamar Jackson. It's nice to know that Lamar Jackson, he ain't going anywhere. And we didn't forget he even got the little no trade clause in his contract. No agent. No agent. So if the Ravens want to trade him, they got to go through him. A lot of players, whether quarterback or not, they don't have no trade clauses. There's something that do, but a lot that don't. Team want to get rid of you. Team want to say bye to you. All right, bye, we trading you. Hey, we love you. Thanks for everything, but you're out of here. Ravens can't do that with Lamar. They can't do that. They got to go through him. He would have to approve it. So if they wanted to ever trade him, hopefully that we don't even have to get there. And I mean, I know we talking about that and the contract is fresh. So we ain't got to worry about that right now. And hopefully not ever. So we want these two to be together forever and for them to have a lot of success. So just nice, it's nice. I did appreciate hearing about this because it makes you appreciate what came of the situation even more than what could have been brought about had they not got it done. So nice little throwback Thursday, I guess. Well, whenever you're watching this could be Flashback Friday. It could be y'all get it. Anyway, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. I love that the Ravens got Lamar Jax and I appreciate that the Ravens got Lamar Jax. Y'all team keep it clean. 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