 The expectation this entire offseason was that Justin Houston was gonna be back for the Baltimore Ravens So them signing him comes as no surprise But the way that it was done contrary to what they did just a few weeks ago That's a tiny bit of a shocker But when you find out that they only got what 3.2 million cap space they got to get a little creative But anyway, YouTube team keep it clean What's going on is engraving here with another video and in this video Justin Houston is officially back For the Baltimore Ravens Ravens are signing him to a one year Deal and with him being signed to a one-year deal that does alleviate some pressure off of the Ravens and offer some of their players They're past rushes specifically that are dealing with Achilles injuries One being Tyus Bowser who suffered his Achilles injury in week 18 in the last game of the year Against the Steelers. He suffered an Achilles injury and then of course David a job. Oh Who is dealing with his Achilles injury that he got in springtime doing workouts pre-draft So with Tyus Bowser, it's expected. I think that he's back by week one, but it's not a certainty So we always say Stay ready so you ain't got to get ready and this is the Ravens making sure they stay ready now What this deal does? it does Sort of create that that pathway for the Ravens to usher in a new generation of their past rushes Next year, it allows them to be full go on their young guys Next year because yeah, right now you got a Justin Houston But with it being a one-year deal, you got Tyus Bowser who can recover a job But who can recover another year for a daffy away Another year for Dalen Hayes in another year for anybody else who may step up as an outside linebacker slash defensive end slash edge guy slash past Russia slash But this year Justin Houston something that Jeff's re big mention is that the Ravens like How he worked with their young edge rushes So with this deal the Ravens are not just paying for a player They're paying for a coach as well. And although it is not It is not Justin Houston's job to coach the young past rushes at all He does not have to do it. It's not his obligation. It's not in his contract Well, maybe Raven might have put it in his contract, but it's not in his contract most likely The fact that he took the initiative and takes the initiative to teach the young guys That speaks a lot to his character and that allows them to have another character guy in the room in the building on the team and You need that You need that you need that veteran presence. You need those leaders You need guys that can be relied upon not just on the field But off the field too because people don't just deal with stuff on the field as we know People are going through all type of stuff off the field too and a coach They can teach you something and they could be telling you all the right things to do But sometimes some stuff just might not click It might not click So being able to be taught all that same stuff, but from an actual player Oh, yeah, that that can hit a lot different than when it's coming from a coach Anyway, Justin Houston just reading mention he did have four and a half sex for the Ravens last year In 15 games now one of the games I think he missed due to COVID and the other one. It might have also been COVID I don't even remember But so he didn't come out here and just all absolutely destroyed in sex and while sex are not overrated at all They are not Sex weren't everything that he did. He was also really good against the run Justin Houston did a very good job against the run and again This move just it gives you stay ready. So you ain't got to get ready It gives you that satisfaction knowing I alright, okay, we got some injured guys Okay, but week one's coming up and it's coming up faster than you know it man Today is July 7th Training camp getting ready to start in a couple of weeks and I think about three weeks two weeks and change So things will be moving before you know it and Ravens right now were very thin at pass rush Now something that I was getting into earlier the Ravens the way that they did this deal We don't know that the terms of the deal yet, but it is a one-year deal now the Ravens They did that crazy Unrestricted free agent tender that they placed on Justin Houston and I told y'all this was something I don't know if some of y'all I heard about it before but this was something that I had never ever heard of before ever an Unrestricted free agent tender I heard a restricted free agent tenders all day And we knew had a worked But we had never heard of unrestricted free agent tender and the way that it worked was that the Ravens boom They place a tender on it. So that means a you you say either sign with the Ravens If somebody else makes an offer you can sign with them, but the Ravens will get some type of compensation in a form of draft picks So he would either and he had the option to either sign with the Ravens By I think the date was like July 22nd It's like right when training camp starts or like a couple days before training camp starts And if he hadn't signed with anybody else by them by then excuse me, then he would just be a Raven Nobody offered him a deal that was more than what the Ravens were offering him on that tender Then he would just come back to the Ravens. So now I believe Since they're signing him to a one-year deal. I Wonder if they may have rescinded the tender Because again the tender was supposed to go back. It was supposed to go until like Again the end of July right before training camp But I wonder if he read if they rescinded the ten and they were like just like, you know what scratch that Let's just let's just do a deal. Let's just get this thing done because Time is a ticking Training camp is looming is getting closer and closer and we do not want to even get close to training camp and have that Uncertainty just looming over us like oh man. What are we gonna do a pass rush? I just don't know Oh, yeah, we got some of our guys, but so a lot of them are injured and significant guys injured I just we just don't know what we're gonna do You don't want to go into training camp with those thoughts. You don't want to go into training camp thinking that So it's best to make sure you are over prepared Rather than under Because it can make a very very big difference Another thing that I wonder about is if with the whole tender Because you know how if a tender is issued to a player like an exclusive rights free agent or restricted a free agent tender Those tenders they can go into effect when the player signs the tender. I Wonder if this is Justin Houston signing the tender. I don't think it is But I wonder if it is but I don't think it is well, whatever it is. It don't even matter Justin Houston's on a one-year deal back to the Ravens This does not mean that the Ravens should stop at The pass rush position This does not mean that they are done at the pass rush position. You do have some guys there again Justin Houston Bowser a doubt fair way I Was just talk Dailin Hayes. So you got some guys in there. So it's nice So we'll see We'll see but this is a good move. This is a solid move. This ain't like oh, man Yo, yeah Ravens going all the way now, but this move does help them. It does not hurt them whatsoever this move certainly does help and Even though it was expected to happen It's nice when your expectations are finally met Because you could be expecting one thing and then you get hit with a swerve in life and it's like oh boy Oh goodness, here we go But when you expect one thing and that's exactly what you get like if you go to a restaurant and you make it order You know what? I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to cheesecake factory And I'm ordering the chicken teriyaki with white rice and I'm gonna have a strawberry lemonade as my drink if Your waiter comes out and they bring you orange chicken with brown rice and a Diet Coke You're gonna be like wait a minute that that's not what I was expecting So that's gonna throw you off and it can kill your whole vibe Even if they come back with the right food after that But if you go there and you get exactly what you ordered and you get exactly what you expected Then it'll be like ah This is nice This is great and you know what's even better than when you expect something is when you get more than what you hope for The other day And we about to get out of here after this the other day I Needed to get a battery for a car need to get a battery So I had called up the dealership. I was like hey I need a battery and they told me they were like all right cool, and I was like hey Is it in warranty? They were like yeah, it's in warranty last time you got a battery was Lamar Jackson's MVP year They didn't say like that. They just said 2019 They're like it's in warranty, but you would pay have we pay have blah blah blah, and I was like all right How much they said okay? It'll be $140 plus tax. I'm sorry cool And that's for them to put in the battery to replace it all that good stuff blah blah So I was like all right cool took the car to the dealership They went dropped it off. They did everything replace the battery blah blah blah I came back to pick up the car from the dealership said how much? She said okay, it's gonna be $121 and I was like oh Okay, and that was after tax so I'm like oh, okay I like that because my expectation was set that I it's gonna be 140. All right, no problem cool That's fine, but then when I came to pay and it ended up being 121 and that was after tax after everything I was like oh wow my expectations were surpassed so it was even better So with Justin Houston This is these are our expectations being met But hopefully this year with the Ravens not even just as a as past Russia But with the Ravens as a whole our expectations with them as a team can be surpassed team keep it clean I love y'all. I appreciate y'all we out