 After the recent retirement of Marsha Yanda It's no fluke that the Ravens made a signing to bring in some competition at the position See we had to start it off a little dad joke there anyway YouTube Team keeping clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video the Ravens signed former Alabama Former first-round pick starter from four 14 games last year with the Seahawks six five three hundred forty pounder DJ Fluker DJ Fluker and The Seahawks recently cut him. They cut their center as well and I wouldn't call them clowns For cutting those two. Yeah, I try to throw in a little Jadaven clowny thing in it anyway But they became free agents in Ravens ended up pouncing and this is It's a good move for the Ravens. Why because now Before the competition it was you had been powers. You had Patrick McCurry You had the the draft picks Tyree Phillips What is it bread and sin? I feel like I said his last name wrong just now my apologies man, um, but You have those guys as your competition So with that being said Not saying it's bad competition, but they all lacked one thing at the right guard position and That is experience Experience Experience all of those guys They haven't played Any snaps at right guard yet and not to say that they couldn't And I mean they're on a pro level not just period in football on a pro level because it's two rookies and Two second second-year players, of course McCurry. He stepped in when Matt Skrull went down and he did an excellent job excellent excellent job And Ben Powers he well he did play some pro snaps in week 17, but that was it So everybody will be coming in with relatively the same body of work at the right guard position in the NFL So the Ravens said, you know what? We're gonna one up what a lot of people thought we would do Clothing team keep it clean and Eric the cost. I know you I know you part of team keep it clean I know it man. I know it. I know I know you all man Hey, I love you and I appreciate you. We all appreciate you man But one thing that I thought and a lot of other people did as well when Matt Not Matt when Mosha y'all in the first retire A lot of us were thinking huh is it could it be well the Ravens to have a little reunion Because it just it made sense And that was one with one Kalecheo simile Kalecheo simile, of course the Ravens drafted him He did really good for the Ravens helped him get to the Super Bowl was a big part of that He played guard he played tackle you could move him inside outside on offensive line. You could shift him around And he would do just fine but of course they the ending of Of that relationship. It wasn't so pretty And the whole thing with money, you know Ravens they Sometimes they tend to be cheap on the offensive side of the ball and they were back then and it he He just wasn't part of their future anymore. He said they low ball them blah blah blah and yeah, it didn't end so pretty So he went to the Raiders did all right there for a little while then that Ended up not working out then he went to the Jets and then they just had this whole Mess of a situation over his injury. So long story long he He wanted to get surgery to but the Jets they wanted him to play through his injury He said no, I want to get surgery. He got the surgery against the Jets wishes and they end up cutting So and that was last season. So I was thinking that hey, it just doesn't make sense He's he got a surgery last season so he should be more than recovered now and He could play he could feel that God spot Ravens are in win Super Bowl now mode So that that will bring in the veteran presence and it would also bring in some competition and now I would always say like I would expect the top candidate for the position in house to be one Ben Powis and You bring in Kalecheo similarly The worst-case scenarios or both scenarios is that okay Kalecheo similarly? He ends up performing better than Ben Powis. He ends up getting put in or Kalecheo Similarly ends up pushing Ben Powis and Ben Powis gets even better and he's in and then you got depth either way You got quality depth. So Eric DeCosta said engraving. I'm not with that thing. I'm not with that thing I'm not gonna bring in a guy who's been beat up. Who's been injured a lot. I'm not doing that I'm gonna one up it and I'm gonna bring in one DJ fluke So Eric, I mean a this why I'm not a GM. I'm a GM on Madden and I do pretty good on there But as far as the NFL, I'm gonna let you do your thing there but um this like I said, it's good. It's competition. It's competition and This shows that that the Ravens they are trying to get the best They're trying to get the best I know they're not done on offense yet. I don't even I don't think they're done in wide receiver yet But this they are really trying to beef up this offensive line Because for him to still have again Ben Powis, Makari and The guys that were drafted as well for Eric DeCosta and company to have all that But still make a signing like this Indefensible offense Indefensible offense Indefensible offense He is really trying to put together all these different pieces to this indefensible offense puzzle that he can To make this team that much better Because again, and I know they're not they're not I haven't seen any Ravens fans That are underestimating the loss of one Marsha yonder Think all Ravens fans they get it. That is one thing There's a lot of things that a lot of Ravens fans don't agree on with each other and that's fine That's part of being a fan. That's part of football. That's part of life You're not gonna agree with everything that every every decision that everybody else does You're not gonna agree with everything that every you're not gonna agree with everyone that everything that somebody thinks that you're not gonna It's just that's not that's life So and especially with the Ravens But with Marsha yonder, there was nobody disagreeing that it wasn't gonna be a big loss There was nobody who felt like oh, yeah, Marsha yonder easy to replace him. It won't be no big deal There was nobody that was like oh We'll be fine without Marsha yonder. He he was good But it would be okay and not that anybody was panicking with the with the loss of Marsha yonder Or it was not like anybody was thinking like oh no man Ravens are now they gonna everything was gonna go to trash because Marsha yonder is gone But everybody appreciated Marsha yonder and what he did the type of player that he was and the type of person that he was Did they know feeling in that gap feeling that whole That's real deal right there so This is good. I'm with this Of course, he got to pass the physical of course and that'll happen in due time and Then he'll join the Ravens to join the Ravens and We're gonna see what he's all about We're gonna see This made me just a little more excited for football season me because there's gonna be a football season too by the way It's gonna definitely be a football season Whether it gets delayed a little bit and of course I know the reports came out yesterday that the NFL was thinking about some different contingency plans And one of those was talking about delaying the season till like I think they said mid-October But yeah, there's gonna be a season I Know a lot of people were like a little scared and doubt or whatnot I'm not gonna understand why because everything going on but Yeah, they're gonna have one so this Ravens team man is This is something that makes sense And another thing too another reason why it makes sense and again It's there's no shot at the other offensive line There's no shot at the other guys that are in competition for that right guard spot but one another reason that this makes sense is because Because of the situation at hand Um Guys that have been through NFL offseason They are they're gonna have a big advantage over guys that have never been through an NFL offseason They're gonna have a big advantage over rookies They're gonna have a big advantage over second-year players they're gonna have a big advantage over the younger guys because Veteran players they've they've been through this not been through this that's going on But they've been through an NFL offseason. They know what they need to do They know what they don't need to do. They know that how to stay a shape and all that they know How to take care of themselves in the NFL offseason It does still bring us difficult circumstances and whatnot and challenges, but I Think it would be a little easier for them than it would be for rookie because this rookie coming into the NFL Coming into the NFL like this is like Okay, is this is this protocol so Bring in a veteran at the offensive line spot With the way that this season has been going or this offseason has been going Makes sense So anyway team keep it clean Appreciate y'all. I love y'all and I'm out