 Sometimes in life there are times when you can try to pull out all the stops You can try to entice a person as hard as you can you can try to persuade them But if they have their mind set up and made it on something Then that's it. It's really nothing you can do and it seems as if that's what happened with Bobby Wagner And the Ravens It just seemed as if his heart was set on playing from LA since he's from over there getting to play the Seahawks Two times a year and we ain't really got to go through his whole situation Just how great of a situation it is But his heart was set so there was nothing the Ravens could do And we got the details of both deals tonight both the Rams deal and the Ravens deal And we knew that it was they were gonna be competitive deals I mean justina Anderson did say that the Ravens offered Bobby Wagner a competitive Offer so if you're gonna be competing with somebody Then it has to be right there for what they offer is whether it's close whether it's higher and close whether it's lower and close It's gonna be close to whatever the deal is that he ended up going with and we found out that it definitely was So first let's go over his deal with the Rams. So It says it's really a yeah It was announced as a five-year fifty million dollar deal with the possibility to get up to 65 mil with all the incentives But you know when they announce all of that getting those incentives is hard and a lot of teams They will take the that player out of the game at different times They will cut down that players playing time so that player doesn't reach those incentives So they don't have to pay him but hold another conversation for a whole another day anyway Bobby Wagner's deal with the Rams It's basically for the first two years. It's a two-year deal worth 17.5 mil base with a chance To make it 23.5 mil if he hits the incentives It hasn't been said what those incentives are But if he hits those incentives all of them then it's 23.5 million dollar deal over two years, but In the first year he gets 6.5 mil he gets 6.5 mil, but he gets 10 10 mil fully guaranteed But with the Ravens so I so the base of the deal the base of this deal is a 17.5 million dollar deal for two years and It's 10 mil fully guaranteed. That's the base now The base is the the minimum that the deal is worth Now I ain't trying to make any Ravens fans go through the pain again or whatnot But I know it's gonna hurt a little bit, but the Ravens they offered more than that for a base deal They offered a two-year 18 million dollar deal fully guaranteed So no if ands or buts no. Oh, well if you hit these incentives and then no no no no no no two years 18 mil fully guaranteed So they tried They tried now while the incentives they they kick it past the Ravens deal You know those incentives are gonna be crazy hard for him to reach now It's weird that he actually had some incentives to where if he hits them then he can opt out of the deal and become a free agent I've never heard of a deal constructed like that before but at the same time it's the ramp So, you know, they they they good with it. They are great with it And they always if they want somebody like we've seen time and time and time again If they want somebody they will find a way to get them, but for how this went down Not mad at the Ravens at all because they tried and they actually like really tried they didn't low ball Bobby Wagner They they didn't try them. They ain't try to okie-dug. No fully guaranteed And you may be one with it. What do you get this money from where this brand come from how they often fully guaranteed they oh We ain't got to talk about the cap because you know what the cap is, right? Oh, yeah, y'all know, you know But this lets me know a couple of things that one The Ravens are willing to to fork over some money They're willing to now. I Want to see if they're gonna be willing to do it on offense, but this lesson I mean Marcus Williams deal let us know That these may be some new Raven Maybe they may be changing their philosophy again It has to be proven on offense first, but this is the steps somewhat in the right direction So I'm not mad at that at all because again Bobby Wagner phenomenal player great player all-pro player He would have definitely been an upgrade for the Ravens and he would have helped make everybody's job that much easier But again, he didn't want to come here So everything that a lot of y'all were saying as far as feeling like Bobby Wagner use the Ravens as leverage He did He did for sure Everybody feeling like Bobby Wagner probably never even wanted to come to the Ravens He probably always wanted to go to the Rams, but just wanted to use the Raven so you can get a better contract from the Rams Yeah, he probably did man So and I don't play it's the business it's the business and In business People gonna do what they got to do so they can take care of their pockets Bobby Wagner his pockets are definitely a Taking care of So yeah, Ravens are trying so hopefully EDC is not like oh man, I lost that on another one. Come on man. You know what I'm done Hopefully he's not like that. I don't think he will be but hopefully he's not um So in other news Guess in somewhat brighter news or better news Um, Rashad Bateman Rashad Bateman is ditching the number 12 and he decided he is gonna go to number seven So shout out to anybody that bought a Bateman jersey I Feel for you. I'm sorry, but it is what it is Your 12 jersey is officially a throwback Something that Jonah Schaefer brought out and I was like, oh, yeah, that is true All the Ravens their first round picks They they all keep changing their numbers Patrick Queen went from first 48 to six Bateman now going from 12 to seven and of course Hollywood. He went from 15 to five so That's that that look that little seven. It's gonna look clean though. It's gonna look clean. I like it man Um But now we just need Lamar to change his number from eight To one if we get that jersey changed and that will be the best feeling in the world and Y'all know why? Well, if you know, you know, if you don't know he probably like why we changed his number to one If he changes his number to one Every single Ravens fan will be so happy. I promise you So hopefully next year he changes his number to one But again tomorrow liars luncheon y'all stay on a lookout for that. That should be a lot of fun Teams are starting to come back to their facility. They starting to do the start their off-seasons already. That's that's like crazy, man That's in this April. So Obviously ain't gonna be nothing too physical or anything like that Probably just meetings and stuff them checking on injured players seeing how they're doing rehab is doing and whatnot. I think Ravens starts in Maybe about a week in change. So maybe two. I forgot when it's just a little late on But they'll be coming up soon Shout out to Ravens former fullback. Oh man, I remember just I remember when the Ravens signed him as an undrafted Rookie free agent. I was just so hyped thinking about all the possibilities of what could have been This dude got some crazy speed got some physicality. Yeah, he was playing against a lot of smaller schools and whatnot But hey, if he wasn't doing it against the smaller schools, and that would have been a real bigger problem And I'm talking about Bronson Rick Steiner But he is tonight on WWE on a roll He's gonna be going up against Dolph Ziggler for the NXT championship. So this dude. Yeah, didn't quite work out with the Ravens But he said, you know, okay, I got my fallback option my fallback option gonna still be in sports entertainment But I would just go to WWE And it's been working out for him quite well every time I see his name pop up on my feet or something like that I'm like, oh, okay. There he goes, man There he goes and I just remember man. I remember when we signed him I was just thinking like oh man Let's do him in this offense with that speed that he got at the fullback position Then you got the possibility of having a Patrick Ricard line up in front of him and him line up behind Patrick Ricard And Patrick Ricard leads the way for him and Patrick Ricard knocked somebody over and him as a fullback But with good speed he can knock somebody over too, but with the ball in his hand Not just envision him catching passes out of the backfield maybe him catching some screens and what man, but When the Ravens cut him, I was like man, he never even really got a shot Never even really got a shot then didn't even get to play on one preseason get nothing They cut him well before the preseason. I was like But yeah, man. Anyway, team keeping clean appreciate y'all Love y'all and again shout out to the Ravens on this one because y'all know what I will gladly say if I don't like Something that red Ravens do y'all already know But this one not matter to me though for it because again, they they tried They tried because we know with contracts You can hear all these terms and this and that all this contract is worth six years 250 million you can hear that and oh, yes pretty as nice that that pretty's the contract up But what you always have to look for is the guaranteed money Because the guaranteed money is the money that you're gonna get no matter what and That's the most important thing So if you ever hear of a contract. Oh, and these are just examples. Oh, this contract is for five years 250 mil. Yeah, that is that sounds really nice, but always listen out for what the guaranteed money is And with the Ravens offer two years 18 mil fully guaranteed The guarantee is more than what the Rams offer Ravens like they really tried. They really tried to make this thing happen But just didn't work out in that favor and Bobby Wagner told them. Sorry guys, but I'm out