 YouTube team can be clean. I hope y'all are having a wonderful night. I just accidentally deleted 49 minutes worth of questions from subscribers that I worked on. And yeah, that was a little frustrating, but I'm like, oh, it is what it is. Anyway, sit down, relax. I feel like we're gonna be here for a long time because we got a lot to cover. So my apologies in it, well, I'm really not sorry. But something that I'm also not sorry about, I put it on record on Twitter. I put it on record on this bingles channel that I was on earlier today. Ravens21, bingles19, let's get it. Go shock the world, especially with all this craziness going on. So of course Lamar Jackson. He put out the tweet yesterday, talking about his injury, saying that he wished he could be out there with his guys, but he still got swelling in his knee and whatnot. Basically saying, hey, I'm not ready, my body ain't ready, I can't play. I wanna play, but I can't play. But then today, I'm not sure how it just started floating around today, but there was an interview that Sammy Watkins, well, not even an interview, but he was speaking in the locker room on Wednesday and this was put out today. Let's just listen to some of the stuff that he had to say. In this league, this is from Sammy Watkins now. In this league, everybody's pretty much banged up, hurt. I don't want to speak for him, Lamar Jackson and his situation and whatever he's going through with the contracts. I don't know what world he's in, but for me, you got a chance to do something special. We all know it, Lamar Jackson out there, this team is really freaking good and special things can happen. He can wield this team to a Super Bowl. I don't think he's thinking about it that way. So with that being said, Sammy Watkins basically saying, hey, Lamar, you got a chance here to do something really special and everybody in this league is hurt right now. So pretty much he's saying like, you ain't got no excuse to not be playing. I don't know what's going on with your contract and I'm hurt, you hurt, we all hurt, it's the end of the season, it's playoffs. So basically he's saying, hey, you got an opportunity that you missing right now. And it was funny because I saw somebody, I forgot who it was, but they were like, this is Sammy Watkins the one telling somebody to play through an injury really? The irony, it's Sammy Watkins. Now we know Sammy Watkins, he can play but he been hurt more times than most. But anyway, he also said, but he's got an opportunity to win the Super Bowl. I hope he hobbles back out there. This is coming from Sammy Watkins. Like again, everybody entitled to their own opinion, which is fine, that's great. But this is coming from Sammy Watkins. Like you throwing some big stone, you throwing boulders and your house has not even made a glass. I mean, the house has been made a paper. This is correct. Let's keep going. Put him out for the pass plays and don't run him at all. Now, Sammy, you've been in this offense for one year and about two games. And you mean, this is a Greg Roman offense and you talking about put him out there for pass plays and don't run him at all? Do you know who your offense is? Like you usually know better than anybody. You had Greg Roman in Buffalo. Like, come on now, baby. He said, put him out there for, put him out for the pass plays and don't run him at all. But you never know. That could be wrong. I'm being very selfish right now just to want him to be out on the field. But man, what a great thing it would be to see. Number eight, touch the field this Sunday and we go out there and blow them out. But that's full of ma and everybody else to figure out. Hope miraculously something happens. Somebody reach out to him, whether it's a coach or somebody and he decides to play. I'm sure you got his phone number. It's probably a Florida area. But anyway, but that's a question. If he's healthy or not, I don't know. I haven't been watching him. So pretty self-explanatory stuff there. Then he continues that I think the world is ready to see Lamar Jackson back on the field doing what he do best and get all the stipulations and contract stuff behind him. So Sammy is really thinking that this whole thing is contract related. That's what he's insinuating. I mean, he kept repeating the word contract and talked about the contract stuff. So he thinks it's contract related. This is coming from a player. It's a little different because it's not coming from a media member or anything like that. It's coming from a player directly on the team. And then he continued. He said, I pray somebody talks to him like, man, just sign the deal. You know what I mean? And he get out there and hopefully if he's healthy, he can just come play this Sunday. We all know that's up to Lamar and whatever goes on. Hopefully they get something done. The world wants to see Lamar be a Baltimore Raven for the rest of his life. So again, Sammy, putting it back to being on a contract. So anyway, he said, I'm blessed to play with him. But the world wants to watch Lamar Jackson. That's a phenom talent. A talent that you rarely come by. Things that he do on the field and things that you see. To be quite honest, when he's out there, he makes everybody play better. Just to have him in that huddle, I pray that somebody reach out to him or that he's really truly getting healthy and can play that he wake up Thursday and be like, all right, forget it. I'm playing. I think that would change the whole trajectory of our season. So Sammy Watkins with some very strong words right there. And again, this was on Wednesday. Lamar Jackson put out the tweet about himself on Thursday. And that whole like ordeal was just crazy in itself. I know there were a lot of people. There's been a lot of, there's just been a lot of discourse about the Ravens period, as y'all all know. But about the, what Ravens fans deserve. That's what I've been seeing a lot of conversation about. Like, oh, some people are saying, oh, the hardball don't owe y'all nothing. The hardball don't owe the fans anything like that. And then I've seen some people say, no, hardball actually does owe that to the fans. The fans are the one that show up. The fans are the one rooting his team on. So he does owe that to the fans. Cause again, this is not just about any random play. This is about the Ravens starting star, quarterback Lamar Jackson. And we just, we wanted some updates. We wanted something, but we just had been getting really vague stuff, really tip tone around stuff. And for me, I felt like hardball knew. Cause I'm like, hey, this is the head coach. This is the head coach of the team. He gotta know about this stuff. But apparently, according to Barstool Banks, there's a lot more to this story. And you know, what's interesting, Barstool Banks, an article that he wrote earlier this off season, it really kickstarted a lot of this stuff. It really, it really kickstarted a lot of the, just the thoughts, the rumors, the what it could be, the, there's stuff going on behind the scenes. I remember he said, there's stuff going on that'll make your head spin. I'll never forget it. But, and I remember we covered the article and it was just like, huh. And that seemed to be the beginning of what to me seems like the end for Lamar Jackson with the Baltimore Ravens. But again, we'll see when we see, but he did publish another article today. And here we go. Let's just, let's get into it. We'll cover it piece by piece. And I'm sure I'll leave the link to it so he can get his credit. Of course, Barstool Bank, shout out to him. But I'll put the link so he can get his credit so you can read the whole thing for yourself as well. So, he's speaking about Sammy Watkins. He said, what a monologue this is, especially from a guy who wasn't even on a team until 24 days ago. Granted, he was on the Ravens last year and has a rapport with Lamar from then, but still this is from the clouds and completely out of character from what is typically a tight lip locker room. But it's also telling which I'll get to. So, yes, a tight lip locker. Yes, that's what the Ravens normally are. Ravens ain't so tight-lipped anymore, as we all know. We know that. We've seen it. The Ravens, like, with the Ravens, you can always tell when things are getting out of control. You can always tell. But, and recently things have been getting out of control. But anyway, he said, it's more or less a plea for Lamar to come save the day, which is totally the scenario at hand. The team cannot go on a run without number eight. That's factual and his team knows it. But it's also dripping with skepticism that the injury is one that is truly keeping Lamar off the field. It may acknowledge a degree of mystery surrounding his health, but everything else in the series of quotes suggesting is suggesting he's making a business decision. So, yeah, that's what we said about the whole Sammy Watkins thing. Sammy Watkins is alluding to it being about the contract for Lamar Jackson. All right. So, and then Barstool Banks talked about how it's important to note that, despite these quotes being published on Friday morning, that Sammy said these things before on Wednesday, which was before Lamar broke his silence and described the nature of his injury. So, we did talk about that too. Yeah, this Sammy Watkins said all this stuff on Wednesday. So, it was before Lamar tweeted the whole thing. Could Lamar have tweeted that as sort of a response to what Sammy Watkins said? Who knows? Could he have tweeted it as a response to everything that Harbaugh's been saying? Who knows? We may never know. But anyway, he's had the fact that Sammy Sentiment even existed at all as a problem in itself, and I do believe it's sentiment shared by at least some in that room. Last week, I had heard at least one veteran was fed up and that apparently Lamar Jackson doesn't, and this is how the veteran felt. Apparently Lamar Jackson just doesn't want to play. So, again, this is coming from Barstool Banks. He said he got his sources. Now, with Barstool Banks, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt because I know some people would be like, oh, it's Barstool Banks, who is that? What is that? Every time Barstool Banks has said something, every time he has put something out, it's ended up being true. It's ended up being true. I remember there was the Marcus Peters trade. Every year, he gets to schedule super early. Super early. And I know there's been other stuff that he broke too, but over the years that I've seen because I would see his name buzzing and a lot of stuff, like big, big Ravens type of news. Big stuff, but. So anyway, so apparently there's a veteran that's upset with Lamar's hand. They fed up. Who could that veteran be? I don't know. I don't know who it could be. If I had to guess, I'll probably say like Kalea's Campbell, Justin Euston, because I would say it was one of them because both of them would probably be like, man, I'm tired, man, I want to go home. I want to go home, but I'm out here trying to get a ring one last year. Lamar, I need you, man. But well, if it's Kalea's Campbell, I'm tired, I'm trying to go home. Lamar, I need you, man. But anyway, now he did say, he said, whether that's actually fact or just an impression guys have that's a huge problem for a guy that wants to be paid big money to leave a locker room for years to come. He also said, if you read my blog yesterday about Lamar's tweets, it's dripping with frustration that he let speculation run wild for weeks. Surely one could read that and wonder why I had little to say about the team, coaching staff, et cetera, and their roles in shutting down the speculation. That's because I believe the team has been largely left in the dark. There were rumors swirling a few weeks ago that Lamar had not been into the team facility to get treatment and rehab the injury. Most of that was fueled by the Baltimore Suns, Mike Preston, who casually slipped in a Q and A column on December 14th, the following quote. And we, of course, we remember this, we covered this quote with Mike Preston said, it's no secret to any of the coaches or top members of the front office that Jackson is a slacker and needs to have more due diligence in getting adequate rest, eating a healthy diet, being alert in meetings and workouts and getting proper rehabilitation instructions. So with Mike Preston, he put that out. And as we remember, like, I think a little less than a month later, he put out an article that was a complete 180, complete 180. So I know there were people like, I mean, we questioned it too. Like it was a little weird, it was a little weird. Like you literally said one thing and then you turn around and said the exact opposite. And a lot of people were like, hold up, that's fishy, man. Maybe he like, what did he wanna, does he have access? Does he have access to the media access with the Ravens and stuff? Or was he getting threatened to lose his press pass or something? I don't know if he has one or not, but it was just weird. It was just weird. And we know like with the Ravens, you can't just, especially with people with the press pass, you cannot just say anything. You can't, you cannot just say anything. You cannot just ask any questions. Your honesty has to be held in check if you wanna keep your press pass. And it's true. But anyway, let's continue. He said, now it should be acknowledged that Mike Preston is, this is his words, not mine. I'm just reading. He said, now it should be acknowledged that Mike Preston is the requisite clown in the media here. In Baltimore, he's basically skipped bailouts without a mic or a camera. Nobody takes him seriously. Again, those are his words, they are not mine. They're from the article. I am not saying that. Cause I ain't calling nobody a clown, goofy, none of that. No, that's the article. Just need to make sure that's crystal clear. He said, so while the quote did raise a few eyebrows with some, it was largely ignored and written off into put that quote further to rest. Preston flip flop two weeks later like a $4 sandal from Sonsations. Okay, okay, let's keep going. Oh, so then he put in the quote from the newer quote from Mike Preston about Lamar. He says, Ravenstar quarterback Lamar Jackson has regularly attended prescribing, habilitation and treatment procedures for his engineer and is on target to return within the four to six week recovery window as far as team trainers and physicians are concerned according to a league source. The source wouldn't make a prediction about when Jackson was stepped back on the playing field but said the quarterback has been perfect in his attendance and compliant with all rehab practices as he recovers from a knee sprain he suffered in the first quarter against the Denver Broncos on December 4th. Yes, that was where he flip flop, he completely turned it around, did a 180 on his original article. But let's continue. He said, but guess what? It pains me to say it, but the dude had it right the first time. So this is where things take a turn with Barstool Banks is actually saying like, wait a minute, what Mike Preston originally said about Lamar Jackson and him missing the rehab treatments and stuff. He's saying that that is actually true. But let's continue. He said, in classic town, see again, this is from the article, this is not from me. He said in classic town, just a fashion, he took the bait from whatever league source reached out and set the record straight two weeks later. Now he put league source in quotations and set the record straight in quotations as well. Basically saying like somebody told him write this article, like fix this. Anyway, he said, I strongly believe Lamar was not going to the facility for regular treatment and rehab in the first few weeks after the injury. And I've been told second hand, that that is true. And then he said, cause you know how a lot of people would automatically think that, oh man, you got told that about who said that? And he said, okay, second hand, so what? Why should you or I believe that? He said, because I know for a fact he did not come in regularly for treatment and rehab last year, while Watkins was also on a team mind you, either. Among other behaviors and incidents in recent years that are generally unprofessional. That's from a firm, trusted, more direct source who's no longer with the organization that has never wronged me before. Marcus Peters trade, Marshall Yonder retirement, annual schedule releases, all stuff I put out into the universe first, relying primarily on this source, sometimes after cross-checking with others. So he's saying that Lamar Jackson from last year, and Mike Preston, I think he said the same thing too, about last year. And I think some of them on the radio on 105.7, they said the same thing, I forgot exactly who, but it said that it happened last year that Lamar had mistreatments last year. So now Barstool Banks are saying, yeah, it happened last year, but he also heard that it happened this year as well, that Lamar mistreatments. Now I've seen discourse on that because of course, that had been a rumor that had been going around about a month, yeah, about a month ago, about a month and change ago it started. And then it picked up some buzz a couple weeks after it initially dropped. I've heard some people be like, hey, look, that's not good. That's not good that Lamar Jackson would be missing his rehab treatments. Like how bad does he really wanna be out there if he's missing his rehab treatments? And yeah, that would be very questionable. Like it's like, if you're hurt and you missing the rehab treatments to get better, hey, what's up with that? Even though Lamar Jackson, he did show the video, he reposted it from Isaiah Likley's thing, that he was there. I know that was just one day, but hey, we don't know. But if it was true, then that wouldn't be good for his knee. Now, another thing on the flip side, what I've seen a lot of people say as well, they say, hey, that Ravens medical staff, they can't be trusted. They ain't no good. Then they bring up Derrick Wolf and his wife and all the receipts that they got from everything that they went through with the Ravens medical staff. And Derrick Wolf put it out there. He said, man, that Ravens medical team, they are El Terrible. That means like terrible in Spanish. So again, it's been just a lot of back and forth. But anyway, excuse me. He also said, among many who cover the team, these transgressions aren't exactly a well-kept secret. If there's a Ravens reporter or blogger you follow and trust, there's a good chance that they have heard and know about these things to some degree. Most would just be holding to a higher level of journalism and have team access that they simply cannot put at risk by talking about things that they can't thoroughly substantiate. I'm not in that boat. So that's what I was talking about earlier, what it seemed like with Mike Preston, when he sort of backtracked on his original statement. Maybe, I don't know if he got threatened or something, like, hey, you want access to this team? I, you better fix it. And you better fix it fast, buddy. So I don't know, I have no clue. Continuing, he said, so why have I kept my mouth shut? So with him saying that, he's insinuating that he's been knowing something for a little while. He said, because I love this team and there's been zero benefit to me singing. 2019 was the funnest year of football I've ever watched or at least until, you know, we all fell in love with Lamar, myself included, not just as a football player, but as a personality. He didn't just play football and play it well. He had a blast doing it and so did I. It was infectious. I championed this guy all over the internet. It was so fun and I wanted that to continue forever. I still do and have been holding out hope and a small part of me still thinks that can happen again. Me spilling the beans would have endangered that. So he's saying that he been holding on to this stuff for a minute. And he's saying that if he would have put it out there to the public, like he's doing now that it could have possibly messed up maybe the chances of Lamar Jackson staying with the Baltimore Ravens, I would think more. So it could mess up the public perception of one Lamar Jackson to a lot of people, but continuing. He said, but the past two years have been so exhausting and I'm sick and tired of holding up this facade that the relationship between the team and Lamar is rosy. It's not. And I think we all could see that, especially over this past year, especially how things have been going with this injury. It's like crystal clear that there's something going on and there's been something going on for a little while. Most of us that we've been sitting at the end of the bar we haven't quite been able to put our fingers on it, but you can just tell something is up. You can tell something's been up. So I think so many people have noticed that over time. Anyway, continuing, he said, their relationship may not be contentious, but there's absolutely a disconnect and a distrust. So no big trust. He said that the disconnect has been clear every time John Harbaugh had stepped up to the podium the past month and been clueless as to how to even speak on the situation. Yes, thank you. Even though we sitting all the way on the end, so many of us, we've all seen that. And again, me, I've been like, there's no way that Harbaugh doesn't know about what's going on with Lamar Jack. That's his quarterback. That's his quarterback Lamar going to the team doctors. How could Harbaugh not know? It would not make any sense whatsoever if Harbaugh didn't know. But then Barstool Bank said, hint, that's because John Harbaugh has been clueless and the distrust is evident in the fact that the front office hasn't given him the contract that I think most would agree that he has rightfully earned. It's been this way for a while and the fan base deserves to know the truth. The organization has done an incredible, I mean incredible job holding water for him, which is more than understandable. It's been in their best interest to do so, whether that's to protect him as Raven's long-term quarterback or protecting him as a potential trade asset. I think it will be the latter, but we'll see how this off-season goes. We're approaching the real crossroads here and I have no idea what's gonna happen and I'm not so sure they do either. Lamar has always held his stuff, still does clearly. We've got teammates begging for him to get out on the football field. It's totally possible that his knee is truly messed up and there's no way he could play on Sunday and it's totally possible. It's not and he's choosing to protect his knee and his payday. That's his prerogative and I can respect it, even if I don't like it. So, saying that, hey, this thing could be either way. Could be that his knee is just really tough or he just, he don't wanna risk it cause he ain't getting the biscuit. So we'll see. He said, but I do feel comfortable saying that everything would be better off if he had come to the facility for treatment and rehab the past two years or at least sooner in the comeback process. Whether or not sooner treatment would have changed his status and got him out on the field for these massively important games, we'll never know. But the appearance of him not having done his part to get back onto the field is a problem in itself and that's my takeaway from what Sammy Watkins had to say. So, again, Barstool banks just to sum all of that up. He's saying that Lamar and the Ravens, there's a disconnect. Again, that's something that we all can tell clear as day. But he's also saying that Lamar, apparently didn't, for a little bit, was not going to the treatment. So he doubled down on that saying, hey, Mike Preston, Mike Preston might have backtracked but he wasn't backtracking. So if that's the case, it would be unfortunate. It really would. Cause like I said, if you got a problem, then you gotta get that problem fixed. You want to get that problem fixed as soon as possible. So, and apparently like he said, there's the veterans, there's a veteran, at least one veteran that's on a team that's fed up, fed up with this whole thing, with this whole ordeal. My conclusion on this whole thing, I just don't think it's gonna end good. I really don't. I don't think this relationship is gonna end good. It just, and again, with all these articles and stuff that just been getting dropped over and over and over, it just feel like it'll be best for both parties to just go their separate ways. If it is true that there's a lack of trust, trust is one of the hardest things to build up and one of the easiest things to break down. One of the easiest things to break down. And it takes so long to build it up and you can lose it like that. It can be broken like that. And if you're going to be committing a large amount of money to a player, and if this player is asking you to commit a large amount of money to them, but if Lamar don't trust the Ravens, if the Ravens don't trust Lamar, and I just don't see it happening. I don't see it happening. And again, I haven't seen it happening for a while, even before we even looked at this article, even before soul Sammy Watkins thing, it's been this way for a while for me. Cause I just, I don't see it. And I didn't see it before when Lamar asked for whatever he asked for and Ravens didn't meet his demands, then after this season, I don't see them being like, all right, we'll meet the demands now. I just, I don't see it happening. So I think it'll be best, I mean, best relationship-wise if both parties move on. I don't think it would be best for the Ravens, but I just, cause it's just, it seems to always be something, man. It seems to always be something, it's always something going on. And it just, but they already showed, like even without, well, I don't know if this stuff, if this stuff is true, I don't know how long a lot of it's been going on, but the Ravens, they already showed, like we don't believe in Lamar Jackson. We're not committed to Lamar Jackson. We don't believe in him as our answer at the quarterback position. They've already shown that by the way that they've operated. They've already shown that. They've been, they've been told us, they've been telling us that for years. Look at what they put out there on the football field. They've been showing that for years. Look at the coaching staff, look at the personnel. Look at it, they've been showing it for years. And you see these players, like these other franchise quarterbacks, especially when it comes to getting the deals. Oh, that's taking care of, that gets taken care of quick. If they believe in that quarterback, they take care of that deal quick. Or if they believe in that quarterback, or they really want to make themselves believe in that quarterback, they surround that quarterback. We've seen it so many times, Ravens have told it. They don't believe in Lamar. But with all this extra stuff, with all this extra stuff, it just makes it more likely to me that the relationship is going to be severed this off season. My thinking is that it's going to come down to a tag and trade, a tag and trade. Where he goes, no clue, but I just don't see it happening. And from Lamar's end, if he not reporting to the medical to get his stuff checked from his end, is it that, hey, does he not trust the medical staff? Is there something going on there where it's like, I don't know about these guys. I don't know about them. Cause maybe, I don't know if he looked at Ronnie Stanley and he was like, oh, they clear Ronnie Stanley. Ronnie Stanley got clear to play last season. He played in one game and would look terrible in that Raiders game. Never played another snap again. Is it because Derek Wolfe? They were getting ready to let Derek Wolfe come back and play. He got designated to return from Endure Reserve and then never played again. Is it Nick Boyle? Is it Pat Ricard who came back last year too? And then he wasn't even fully healthy. I think he had knee problems as well. Is it, was it JK Dobbins from this year? JK Dobbins was clear to play. It's like, all right, he straight. And then, oh, well, nope. He gotta have a little cleanup surgery. Was it with Rashad Bateman last year or even this year? Especially this year. Rashad Bateman comes through, then he gets hurt. And it's like, oh, Rashad Bateman, he's in the walking booth. Oh, no, he's weak to weak. Day to day, Rashad Bateman, he'll be fine. Oh, well, then we hear a little bit later. Oh, Rashad Bateman elected to have season ending surgery. So you gotta look at this thing from both sides, from both sides. And I know it can be tough. It can be really tough because there can be people that's on one side or there can be people that's on the other side, but try to look at it from both sides. That's what we're trying to do right now. We're trying to look at this thing from both angles. So both sides, that's why I feel like with all this stuff on both opposite ends, just end it, man. Just end it. Just end it. As much as I would hate it, just end it. Because this whole, it's gonna be an ongoing thing. It's always gonna be something. It's always gonna be something. So I would say, let Lamar Jackson go fly. Let him go fly somewhere else. Let him go do his thing somewhere else. Because again, even before this article, they don't believe in him. You could tell by the offense, the personnel, the coaching staff, the players they put out, they don't believe in him like that. And I know some people, oh, what do you mean the Ravens don't believe in him? They traded back in the first round and picked them in with the 32nd pick. They were the only team that gave him an opportunity. Oh, I hate hearing that. Like Lamar Jackson wouldn't have got picked up by somebody else. He certainly wouldn't have got picked up, but he got picked up by the Ravens. But while they gave him an opportunity, they didn't let him fully blossom. They didn't even try to let him fully blossom. Even after he showed you that he was ready to blossom. So, I mean, I would have trust issues too. And I told y'all about that already. Like if I was working a job or something, and I proved to that job like, hey, look, I'm capable. I can get this thing done. I'm ready for a raise. I'm ready to have better coworkers around me. So I could bring them along too, let's get it. But if the company looked at me like, no, we straight, you can stay where you at. We just, you hold it down there. We like it, but you stay where you at. It's frustrating because I've been there before personally. I've been there. So I get it. I ain't been there on no multi-million dollar deal. Well, I'm way more than multi-million dollar deal, but I ain't been there in that financial status. But with the situation, I get it. I get it. And it's like I said, I checked out. I checked out, I checked out for a long time too. And I was just waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting till I got out. So we'll see, man. We'll see how this thing turns out. We'll see how this thing goes. But team keep it clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. And we'll just have to see what ends up happening next. We out.