 if you ever have a situation that's troubling you that really just makes you all kinds of confused it feels so good when you reach that point in that situation where you get a moment of clarity and it's like oh okay i get it now that makes sense and that's what a lot of ravens fans were going through with a particular player who the ravens that nobody knew what the relationship was between them and the ravens they were away from the ravens and people started speculating this and that and you will see this player post a lot of stuff on instagram be like okay he's doing this but why he ain't with the team and i ain't talking about lamar jackson this is derrick wolf now derrick wolf had a very crazy situation especially last year some people felt like he delayed uh his surgery in order to keep all of his money and then this year some people felt like he did the same thing again now i can't speak on that because i don't know the particulars of his surgery i don't know the particulars of the timing on it and the contract and whatnot but i know it is a very weird situation and this offseason with derrick wolf has been a very weird situation because like we have not heard anything about him and his status with the ravens like nothing nothing we hear all these rumors and reports and then we come up with all speculations um y'all know me i just feel like derrick wolf probably won't be a raven this year but after his instagram post yesterday i feel like it'll be for different reasons now before i felt like with derrick wolf and the ravens i felt like he just he wasn't gonna be here now i know if they were to cut him or release him then they would lose some money and they would be it could be one of them things where they'd be like you know what no we're good off that we'll take the loss um the only way where they wouldn't really lose money would be is if they were to trade him but who's gonna trade for derrick wolf unless it could be some team where they just a couple of super low draft picks conditional draft picks and it would if the ravens were to trade derrick wolf i feel like they would trade him to a team just to get him off the team and they would take literally whatever my opinion though i'm not sure what the ravens are thinking but i just don't see derrick wolf an identity derrick wolf being a baltimore raven in 2022 um and beyond but now apparently he had his second hip surgery uh yesterday and he said it went good um but when he spoke he said he was he was half the drug so you know they drug yet when you have surgery and whatnot but he did say now i'm gonna try to live a normal life and that's the part that stuck with me because playing football being an nfl player professional football player that's not a normal life so that led me to believe okay now it seems like maybe derrick wolf he could be retiring and i remember when he was on a podcast months ago and jonah schaffer he had a report that said derrick wolf is considering retirement then derrick wolf came out and said no jonah jonah schaffer that's lies that's fake news da da da but with him saying what he said yesterday it does really seem like he could be leaning toward retirement especially just with how distant he's been from the ravens and just how it because we don't know we don't know what their communication has been we don't know but we literally nothing he's not been in baltimore he has not been uh at their facility at all so it's it's just been a very weird murky kind of situation now um with derrick wolf uh with his salary and shout out to uh bryan mcfallon because you know he always he always bringing the the cap news um i got brint he asked bryan mcfallon raven salary cap on twitter uh if wolf would happen to retire like some are speculating would there be any cap savings i'm sure it wouldn't be much and bryan mcfallon replied he said yes if wolf retired he'd forfeit his two million dollar salary so oh that's that's where it gets a little pretty tricky because if you retire that's two mil buy it's gone see ya now of course we know that he got money he doesn't have some nice contracts in the nfl um but still you got two mil sitting there it's probably real hard to walk away from that um but anyway if wolf retired he'd forfeit his two million dollar salary and since we are past june first the ravens would realize two million in cap savings this year but while carrying 1.8 mil in dead money on the cap in both 2022 and 2023 so that would spread out uh the dead cap hit uh for both this year and next year it was split it in half because with june first whatever dead money um you would uh accrue um on your current salary cap it'd be split in half after june first so this year there so i guess this year they would save like 200,000 uh because two mil minus that 1.8 in dead money it'd be like 200,000 but so it wouldn't be you know crazy savings or anything like that but one thing that i was thinking about um i i do wonder and i'm sure derrick wolf has had contact with the ravens i'm sure he hasn't been uh just completely in my a one scenario i wonder about is if derrick wolf if he's communicated with the ravens and been like look i i don't know what i'm gonna do this year i don't know if i'm gonna play this year or not i i just i don't know i'm getting ready to have my second hip surgery and i i don't know how it's gonna go this off season we've been saying the ravens motto should be stay ready so you ain't got to get ready jaylin furgusson is already on a team and he uh he did slim down so i haven't seen a picture i keep hearing from everybody he slimmed down so i don't know what he looks like now um but before jaylin furgusson to me he should have been a d-end not an outside linebacker but defensive end the ravens a couple weeks ago they brought back a familiar face uh in brand urban he used to play for the cowboy the thing he played for the bears for a little bit but they brought back Brent urban he is a defensive end last week they brought in jason pierre paul what position does he play defensive end so i think in my opinion i would think that the ravens have had contact with their wolf um and with his status being up in the air or maybe he could have told them hey i'm gonna retire i'm gonna retire but i think if he would have done it he might have done it already so that's that's why it's so tricky to me i just i really don't know but i think that he probably would have had communication with the ravens and let them know what's going on so the ravens are like all right cool appreciate the heads up but we are we gonna prepare just in case we're gonna have ourselves covered just in case we're gonna look at other options just in case and that'd be a small thing to do so that would make with this second hip surgery that he's having that would make the um the jason pierre paul visit make that much more sense see with the ravens um when we always say this their actions speak a whole lot louder than their words and a lot of times by the moves that they make and the moves that they don't make you can kind of tell the direction that they're going in and even if you can't tell it immediately eventually stuff will come to the light and it'll be like oh okay so that's why they did that oh that's why they brought this guy in for it oh that's why they signed this guy okay all right i get it now it makes sense well not everything makes sense but a lot of it does make sense and there'll be some moves where it'll be like uh but anyway somebody because you know people just people are unfortunately people and sometimes people take um their fandom to toxic levels and it's just never ever worth it and it's never ever that serious um so somebody there was a really toxic ravens fan uh who sent um their wolf's wife a message that she actually reposted um he said your husband is a bum who's stealing money from the ravens he should have gotten a surgery months ago but it's too busy hunting carrying a 300 pound bear on his back meanwhile needs hip surgery forget you and forget your husband and it's like really is it ever that serious it's it's not it's not it's it's really not um but yeah that that that hold the bear picture the the that that was a big bear um so that that's why again that picture and that and he was willing to put it out there because again with social media with social media people will show you what they want you to see and he was willing to put that picture out there so when this whole surgery thing popped up it had a lot of people thinking like whoa whoa huh what's happening so I just I just don't know it is so confusing but anyway uh his wife uh she chimed in and she said that his mother needs to wash his mouth um but she said I'll use this moment to address my husband's health uh Derek actually did have surgery months ago in January on his right hip but you must have been too busy being a troll elsewhere to see that status update we then had to wait until today per doctor's orders to have surgery on the left hip so he's having surgery on both hips with that see that that would make me think that he would lean towards retirement especially his comment it all goes back to his comment I just want to live a normal life I want to try to live a normal life it's like oh okay yeah it anyway she also said unfortunately NFL players and their families have to deal with uninformed weirdos like this all the time we announce what we can when we can for full transparency players aren't always allowed to divulge their status either either by the way but not in this case torn labrums are not something Derek can control or want it nor did he want to have double hip surgery in one year but that is the name of the game so shout out to his wife for um for just sharing that information which didn't have to um but just to provide that much much more of a moment of clarity uh to everybody who was wondering so with everything that's happened again it just makes this whole thing so like tricky man because it's like yeah he lived enough 300 pound bears that you would think he pushed back 300 pound offensive linemen too but again if you want to live a normal life if you say you want to live a normal life then that will lead me to believe that when it comes to Derek Wolf playing in the NFL that he'd want to be out