 If you were to post a survey and ask Ravens fans, what was the Ravens biggest issue last year? Of course, you're going to get some different responses. But one of those responses that you're sure to get is a lot of people saying pass rush. The pass rush last year was nothing serious. The pass rush last year, it was a problem and not really for opposing quarterbacks Ravens pass rush. They really failed to consistently get back there. QBs did have a lot of time. Now when the secondary got upgraded, it did help a lot. But the pass rush still could have been a lot better. So Ravens this off season, they did some things that did sort of help out in the pass rush. Bringing in a Kaleas Campbell who can help set the edge and provide interior and exterior pressure. Also bringing Derek Wolfen who can provide some interior pressure and is really good against the run. But other than that, they really didn't do much to address the pass rush situation. Of course, they did put the franchise tag on Matt Judon who still hasn't signed it yet. And then we got Tyus Bowser who was in his contract year. So I'm sure that'll be some nice extra motivation for him to go off and depending on how much of a role he has. So with that being said, the draft came. The draft came and the draft went and they didn't draft any pass rushes. So a lot of people were thinking, oh, whoa, what was that all about? But of course we know that the draft is not the end all be all and we have had so many and heard so many success stories based off of undrafted rookie free agents. Because again, sometimes all you need is a chance. And that is what the Ravens provided this young man from Upper Marlboro. I didn't even know he was from Upper Marlboro. So he's from Maryland. So he ends up signing with the Baltimore Ravens who are about probably about 45 minutes from Upper Marlboro. So he ain't even got to go nowhere. He ain't even got to go nowhere. I love stories like this where because I'm somebody who loves the closer the job, the better. And that can make such a big difference. And I know a regular job for us regular people is not like for the football job. But still, if you convenience means the world, it means the world. If you got this super high paying job, making all this money, it can be cool. But if it's far, far away, you got to take like two hours to get there because I would say one hour. But for a South Florida people, one hour is a ways away. But for y'all up there, that's in Baltimore, DMV and all that one hour is like, oh man, that's nothing. Because I know traffic up there is insane. Right down here is nothing compared to traffic up there. But anyway, he's close. But convenience means everything. So for me, if I could have the convenience of not making all the money in the world, but being a lot closer and the travel time to my job is a lot closer, I would take that. But anyway, that's beside the point. He is from Upper Marlboro and he gets signed by a team. That's also in Maryland. But he is an undrafted free agent defensive lineman. So as always, oh, and he went to James Madison. My apologies. I didn't even mention the school that he went to. He went to James Madison. So again, smaller school. So the level of competition, not that it's worse, but it just doesn't get all that spotlight like some of the biggest schools would. Doesn't mean it's a bad player though. Because again, sometimes all somebody needs is an opportunity. That's all they need. So as we always do, the first thing we look at is the stats. And with this, it was kind of hard to find his stats because I was going to some different websites. I tried to Google it. I was looking all around and because some websites were saying that he only got three sacks this year. And I was like, what? When I was watching film, I saw him get way more than three sacks just based off of that alone. And I ain't watched film from every single game this past season. But I'm like, hold up, what's that about? Now I was looking and looking and looking and then I finally found something. I found a couple of things. One was a graphic. Now this graphic, it seems like it's inaccurate, but maybe it was talking about just his sacks for just the entire school year. I don't know what's going on with this graphic. It says it's from PFF and it said his overall grade was a 94.5. He got 97 pressures, 21 sacks, 15 hits and 61 hurries. But then I look at his stats from this year and it said he played in 16, no, they don't even play 16 games. Anyway, so he got 16.5 sacks this year. So as far as the stats, I was having a little trouble getting that. But anyway, see and then in another statistic is showing that, okay, so 16.5 sacks this year. That's what we're going to go with. This 21 sacks, I don't know where that came from. But anyway, so year by year, sorry for all that confusion, because I was confused because like I said, finding his stuff, it was kind of hard. But anyway, 2016, he ain't getting any sacks. Cool. 2017, he got one sack. That's cool. Okay. So there's improvement. There's 100% improvement. So then in 2018, he got 10 sacks. So that's, isn't that 1000% improvement? Because 100% improvement from one would have been two. But okay, but y'all let me know if I'm doing a math wrong. I feel like it's right, but y'all would know better. Anyway, and then so in this third year, he got 10 sacks. So then in last year, he got 16.5 sacks. So this dude just upped his game every single year. He just got better and better, more comfortable, more comfortable. And everything rolls up, man, everything. So that was a beautiful thing. So after all of that confusion, we're trying to look for his stats. And again, I'm telling y'all, it was tough. I don't know why it was so tough for him. It wasn't tough for anybody else, but for his, I don't know what the problem was. But anyway, one thing that a real quick little side note, one thing that actually works in his favor that his team was already wearing purple. So he's already used to purple. But anyway, and he had a, he had number seven. Who does? That's a nice number right there for past Russian college number seven. I like that. What? Um, so looking at the film, first thing that stood out to me about DACA, that guy is explosive. He is explosive. I know a lot of commentators and when they say it, it can sound kind of cheesy. But for him, it's true. That guy has a high motor. He has a high motor. He moves fast. He attacks fast. He gets after it fast. When I watched him, um, once, once he gets around that, uh, that tackle, that's it. If he gets past that tackle, that's it. He's getting to the quarterback. He, he provides some very quick pressure, fast pressure. That's something that the Ravens lacked big time last year, but he, he gets back there. If he get past that tackle, he's back there right away. Right away. It was like, oh, geez. Like explosive, man. Seriously. I don't know what he ran into 40. If I got a guess based off of what I saw on film, I'm going for him. I'm going for five. I'm going for five. And I know some people ain't, well, that's not really that fast, but he also is a defensive lineman. I'm going for five. Yeah, I'm going for five. But he just, he looked explosive regardless of what his 40 years, a lot of times that don't even matter half the time because football speed is different than 40 speed. But he just relentless pass Russia, man. And I watched him cause pressure on all these different quarterbacks and just make them uncomfortable. And he was back there because he just, he moves so quick, man. He moves so quick cause he would get around the offensive line and get around the tackle and then even, even coming out of his stance, man, just quick, quick, a swim of quick. I ain't seen no ball rush now. And that's something that we got to talk about too. This game is more so finesse to me. Again, this is all what I saw. His game is not, it didn't really seem like a, he was super powerful because I did see with when he went up against some stronger, bigger tackles, they were holding them up pretty good, man. So the ball rush, that, that wasn't his thing. But that swim of quick. All right. Now let me, don't, don't mess around and get a little pass rush now. Shout out to my guy, to my guy, JB Smoove and John Moore. Those two, they, they, they did some good pass rushes when we had a little flag football thing. And we would have had it this summer, but y'all know everything going on. So that's probably going to be canceled. It's not official yet, but we'll see how it goes. But shout out to them too. Those are the best pass rushes from, from the flag football thing. Oh my God. Thomas too. He did some good pass rushing too. But anyway, but yeah, he, he struggled when, when the offensive linemen, when they got the best of them, it just, it was just straight up strength, the strength versus strength. And they were stronger than him and they would hold them up. But when he got around them, that was it. That was it. When he used his quickness, that's a wrap. You're done. You're done. Because there's some guys that they may be able to get around the tackle real quick, but the tackle can recover. He'll be able to recover, but with a, with DACA, no, ain't no recovery time with that because he's, because he was just too fast. But yeah, again, he did struggle with some of those tackles. So as far as him doing that with the NFL, again, that could be a thing where he gets some NFL coaching and he can still use that speed there. But they just work on his upper body strength. They work on sort of his bull rush. He could definitely learn that from Jalen Ferguson. Hey you. Um, and like they, they could actually teach each other. Hey, Jalen, this, this is how you, this is how you, that's how you do that. And Jalen Ferguson be like, Hey, this is how you do that. You just put him back. But no, it's all good, but it's all love. But um, he, something else that I saw, very interesting. Um, and it wasn't a good thing and anyway, let's just get into it. Something else that I saw was when the plays wouldn't, the plays wouldn't be over yet. But the play, if the play wasn't right in front of him, if the play wasn't right next to him, then I would see him just sort of just stand in there. And the play didn't even have to be super far on the other side of the field. But they would, it would seem like he just, if the play wasn't right there in front of him, if he wasn't a part of it, then he would just, it would almost seem like he was removed from it. Like he like sort of took himself out of it. Like he just, he didn't just keep going after it. And I feel like, cause we've seen it so many times, we've seen how crazy some plays can be and always say it ain't over till it's over. And that, that's, that's what it was. There was, um, sometimes there was just a lack of playing through the whistle. Cause there'll be times where he would just stop and these plays, they will still be going on, whether it's a running play, whether it's a passing play. And it just seemed like, oh, if, if he felt like he wasn't right there by the play, then he, he just, he would just stand there and I'd be like, oh, okay. Um, but those would be my, my only two knocks on them, uh, just that. And maybe that, that could be more of a mental thing where maybe he just feels like, okay, this play is a certain distance away from me or it's, it's not that close to me. So you know what, I'm, I'm just, there ain't no point. But again, when it was some of these plays, they would, they would keep going to where, if he would have still been running after the ball carrier, if he would have still been trying to get to the QB or whatnot, if he would have still been trying to attack to where the ball was at, then he could have still been a part of the play. Cause they, again, they were still going. And again, those are one of those things where you just never know. You never know how a player's going to go. That's why they always say play through the whistle. Don't stop until you hear that whistle. And of course I know some people, they don't want to waste, waste energy and so to speak, shout out there all the time. But they don't want to waste energy. But at the same time, I just, that's one thing that I was like, eww. But yeah, my, my only two knocks on them is just the, the ball rush. And I mean, again, you, you, you work with some NFL coaches, trainers. They'll work on that with you. But they also going to try to capitalize on your strength now. They definitely going to try to capitalize on your strength. So with him, with him I'm telling you, quick, quick. Watch him now, watch him. And again, don't, don't just watch highlights. You will see him quick, quick. Just watch the games, man. Watch the, cause he got that explosiveness, man. Um, and I was like, wow, okay, geez. Like I was, I was like really, really, really impressed with that. Like a lot, if you couldn't tell. But, um, his, he, he got some competition, obviously. Um, but as a, as a pass rusher, like you, you got a, you got an opportunity. You have an opportunity. You really do. Because again, that's where Ravens lacked that. That's where they lacked that. Pass rush. Come in again, you at the crib. So you ain't got to go travel nowhere. You at the crib. You from upper Marlboro, but I mean, he's a defensive lineman. Again, they got rid of Chris Wormley. They, they did. He does got some competition. They drafted more interior defense, like Madibuque. I said his name right. I'm confident that I said it right. I know y'all correct me if I mess it up. But, um, again, Kaleas Campbell, he's not a guy that's going to be there for the long term. He's on it, telling to his career, Derek Wolf. He's on a one year deal. He probably get extended because he's going to have a good year. But, um, Matt Jude on that's still up in the air. Uh, but he's an outside linebacker. I think, um, that is a defensive lineman. But still you had, you have a way on this team. You really do. You can impress and, and be explosive. Man, you can do some damage. So I'm going to be rooting for this guy, man. I'm really rooting for him, man, because I want to see him on his NFL level. I want to, I want to see him with a chance to play with the big boys now, because this is real deal. This is, this is the cream of the crop. Is that the same cream of the crop? I don't even know. Sometimes I just be saying stuff. But yeah, this is real deal. So hopefully it'll all work out for me, especially because he'll have that convenience being right at the crib. So we just got to wait and see. Anyway, team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Dacker, we are rooting for you, especially since you could be a hometown hero. We appreciate you. Appreciate y'all. Team keep it clean. Y'all be good. Y'all be easy. Y'all be safe and I'll be out.