 back again with another Dez update and he said again today that he tested negative so this whole thing with Dez Brian continues to remain a mystery some people say again Jerry Jones made a call to the league and he said oh no I ain't dealing with Dez this game nope take them out other people feel like the Ravens it may be a sort of doghouse type of thing and there's some people think the Ravens are just proceeding on the side of caution because of the previous outbreak that they had and all three are reasonable ideas and they could all be true but the bottom line is that Dez status right now is super up in the air but something that I wanted to share with y'all that I know a lot of you guys on Twitter have seen already is Sarah Ellison's tweet that she tweeted actually today and let me read it word for word she said I'm curious if there's Brian is asymptomatic because if he is and if he really received back to back negative tests separated by 24 hours there may be a chance that he could be cleared for a return before the Browns game that's based on the current rules as I understand them so she also screenshot it a picture of the current rules so let's take a listen to what they are says asymptomatic players cannot return until ten days have passed since initial positive test or five days have passed since initial positive tests and two consecutive negative tests are completed separated by 24 hours within a five day period the return is approved by a team's physician after consulting with the ICS and the NFL's chief medical officer and I believe that's Alan seals I believe don't quote me on that though because y'all know I'll be getting a lot of stuff from anyway so he and he's been saying that he hasn't been feeling any type of way I mean besides getting drunk on that on that Tuesday night football game but besides then he said he ain't been feeling bad he ain't been feeling anything and he's been he's been giving us updates like we've been getting more updates straight from Dez more than anything so he ain't let it leak through any reporter he ain't let it leak through any website he ain't leak let it leak through any news anything like that there's Bryant has been dropping his information before anybody else did now let's look at the timeline because we played the Dallas Cowboys on December 8th and that was when that's the infamous dad's Bryant day that's when everything went down initially so if you take the 8th and that's when he initially was positive he got placed on the non-team keeping clean list well he hadn't got placed on it yet but that's when they say he was positive so Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday or unless unless it's five days starting on Tuesday see because with that oh wait a minute let me go back to her three cuz she said oh yeah five days have passed since the initial positive test so five days would have had to pass so yeah Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday so that would be five days and you know what when I was initially counting off the days I was thinking oh man well I guess he really can't come back for the Browns game because the Browns game is on Sunday but then it just clicked in my head the 5th day would be Sunday and the Browns game is on Monday so it is still possible that he may be able to return for this matchup against the Cleveland Browns and one of my guys JT shout out to my guy JT because he always be dropping gyms on me all the time he said a good point he said from a psychological standpoint it may end up being a good thing that there's Bryant didn't play versus the Cowboys and I know initially if a lot of people hit at what like what why would that be a good thing that there's Bryant didn't play against the Cowboys like this dude wanted revenge against the Cowboys this dude had that game circled on his calendar next to his glass of wine he was ready for that game that's that's probably the game he was looking forward to the most now of course I'm sure he probably was thinking the Super Bowl but I'm I think Super Bowl was even below that this dude wanted to go against the Cowboys and prove them wrong say hey y'all made a bad decision a bad decision but anyway he said that would have been a pressure valve release for him and he could have lost his edge after that game so and right when he said that I was like that's a good point and that's a big possibility because you know Dez was amped up for this game he was so hyped for this game and it's like when you looking forward to something for so long especially when you've been preparing for something you've been just it's been on your mind heavy it's been weighing on you for a long time when you finally get the opportunity to do it and you conquer it it's like yeah let's go all right I did it cool all right so well what's next what's next so you may not even be stunting anything else like that so and not not that that is a guarantee that's that that's how there's Brian would have felt because I'm sure with him being out of football for so long and not having seen the field in football for so long just him being back he's appreciating the moment appreciating every game appreciating every snap but it is a possibility that that could have happened because that was the moment that not only there's Brian but so many there's Brian fans so many Cowboys fans so many Ravens fans and just so many NFL fans it's the moment that a lot of them were waiting for but it got literally taken away like that and it got taken away like right before it was about to start right before it was really is literally getting ready to start it's about 15 20 minutes before it started and it got taken away so this really if if theirs wasn't humble before oh boy like this is like mmm and he's continued to get so many reminders of how the game can be taken away from him like we talked about in the previous video about there's Brian it against it when he's got signed to the Saints yeah I think he was getting ready to play the Cowboys and boom his Achilles toys Achilles and then of course we're just nobody giving him a look for years nobody gave him a look for years and you know oftentimes when when a player is out of the NFL for years it takes a lot for them to get back and enough times a lot of people don't even give them another chance like it's hard enough for players that sit out that sit out the NFL for one year alone but those players that have been out for multiple years oh it's 20 times harder because teams are looking at you especially if you're older too like y'all remember y'all remember the big Percy Harvin come back y'all remember that because I just remembered about that a couple days ago because I was thinking about some different wide receivers and whatnot I was thinking about just this this season as a whole and I remember before the season started Percy Harvin he was trying to come back but Percy Harvin hasn't played the game in a long time he hasn't played the game in years and did he get signed by anybody no nothing I don't even think there was even a visit so when you're out the game for a while people move on they move on and they go forward without you and that fail does not wait for anybody doesn't matter how good how great you were how good how great you are I mean even look at Antonio Brown now he of course is getting another opportunity right now and he he'll even have another opportunity next year too because his whole case got pushed back to December 2021 so he's straight for a while but even though like when he got released from the Raiders then released from the Patriots he was out of football for the rest of the year did the Raiders stop everything that they were doing I say oh no no no Antonio Brown guess we can't do anything that no did the Patriots stop everything they were doing I say oh man no Antonio Brown guess we can't know and did the Steelers when they release him I mean well when they they traded or whatever did they stop everything they were doing I say oh man no Antonio no and this dude was one of the best receivers in the league if not I mean some people called him the best receiving the league and nothing stopped so the NFL goes on with or without you they it's a business and that business just keeps on trucking and you will get left behind quick so there's Brian he's more than aware of that he knows that situation he knows those circumstances so yeah I do still what my guy JT said is is still a very valid point still a very valid point he also went on to say if and when he comes back to the team hopefully that's sooner rather than later but he said if and when he comes back to the team he'll have to prove his point to the Cowboys through the Ravens remaining competition so yeah Cowboys he ain't gonna get to play them anymore this year he's not gonna get to do anything against the Cowboys now one thing that's very interesting and I know it's kind of jumping ahead and hopefully as Ravens fans we don't have to look to the future after week 17 hopefully we'll still be in the present meaning we'll still be playing but it's looking ahead a bit but it's fine with there's Brian one thing that I would pay attention to if he decides to continue to play after this year which I could see him doing I would think that he would definitely only be interested in teams that play the Cowboys I really do I whether it be Washington football team whether it would be the Eagles the Giants or just anybody who has Cowboys on this schedule because you know how important that was to me yeah he'll be another year older might be a tad bit slower but that's something that you know he still wants to do because it's one thing like you you could face again you could face off against all these other teams you could look good you could look great you could look like you still got something left but it just it wouldn't hit the same as if you were playing a Cowboys it wouldn't be the same and you know like if he walked in especially if it was a Cowboys stadium like playing a Cowboys that's that's good enough but if it was a Cowboys stadium too oh that would make it that much sweeter for him that much sweeter for him you know it would and then if he did get signed to a team that played the Cowboys you know NFL that there's is not the name that he used to be obviously but you know the NFL would at least think think about okay there's got he signed with that team because the schedule comes out far after free agency not a way after free agency but like a month after the initial wave of free agency because the free agency starts at March and the schedule usually comes out in April usually like the end of April the middle end of April so most of the big names they will have already signed with their teams and there's Brian hopefully if he still continues to play hopefully he'll be signed with a team by then but you got to think that the NFL depending on the other games and stuff but you got to think that if whatever team he signs to if they do play the Cowboys that the NFL will want to make that a primetime game whether late after no primetime game not even late afternoon on a Sunday not no 4 o'clock no a primetime game and probably a Thursday night football game and they didn't do that with the Ravens in the Cowboys because that game was already set before there's was even a thought of being on the Ravens that game was already set but I do really think that they they will consider that because I'd be nice little boost for ratings and it'd be fun to see like how will theirs do against his old team and of course you know they got them videos ready they'll probably recycle the videos from this year next year they gonna say oh no we ain't wasting this video nope and they'll just edit out all the Raven stuff if he's not a member the Ravens which is a good question some people have questioned that we'll with a Raven signed there's Brian after this year and my honest answer to that question is it's too early to tell even though it's very late in the season but it's too early to tell if the Ravens would hold on to him for another year if everything remained as is as it is right now I would say no and that's not anything against there's Brian it's not anything against the Ravens not anything against anybody but I just do not think that with there's Brian that for as much as he has contributed to the Ravens or as little as he has contributed to the Ravens so far I just do not think that he would be in their plans for the future I don't think that they were really making investment on there's Brian for the future and again that's not a bad thing it's not a good thing it's just a thing that's just what it is right now so we'll see we'll see how this whole thing ends up working out so anyway Team Keep It Clean I appreciate y'all I love y'all thank you for always listening and I hope you all are having a really good Friday make sure you check out the new Team Keep 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