 So earlier today, we dropped the video on two Ravens signings, but it wasn't the one signing that everybody has been waiting on. We've been hearing different reports, different rumors from this guy, that guy in the third about everything that has been and really hasn't been going on with Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens when it's come to contract negotiations. But this morning, Hey, see this is why you got to be grateful for Ravens fans because they will ask not questions, but the questions. And this is why we are all so grateful for Jeff Zribick because he is the best in the business. Shout out to him. But anyway, this morning, Josh Rodriguez 87 on Twitter. He said, Hey, and he edit Jeff Zribick. And he said, not sure if you've ever answered this question, but do you think the Ravens are or should wait for deals with Hertz, Jalen Hertz, Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow to get done before Lamar Jackson? Assuming they get deals done this year before the draft. So that's a good question. It's a really good question because it's like, that's what a lot of people have been thinking. Like, oh man, the Ravens, they've been negotiating with Lamar Jackson. Lamar got his price. Ravens got their price, but they could potentially wait on the deals of Jalen Hertz on the deals of Justin Herbert on the deals of Joe Burrow, because you know, all three of those guys are going to get paid from their teams, but they could wait on those deals to really see exactly where the market is after that and then be like, all right, Lamar, we'll go here and Lamar could be like, all right, Ravens, we can go there. So he was asking if those contracts could dictate the negotiations between Lamar Jackson and Baltimore Ravens. Jeff Zribick answered. He said, I don't think they are waiting on that. The holdup is they simply haven't been able to bridge the gap between what he wants Lamar Jackson and what they're willing to pay. So Jeff Zribick acknowledging that there is a gap and obviously there's a gap because there hasn't been no contract yet. So there's got to be a gap. So that wasn't any monumental news, anything like that. And that's all stuff that we've heard before. But even if you hadn't heard that before, the fact that there is no contract and that means there's a gap because there hasn't been an agreement. So let's keep going because UTY, he quote tweeted Jeff's comment and he said, we become in a terrible franchise. Sad to say only team. And he put that in all caps. That's why I yelled it. Only team that disrespects our superstar quarterback shaking my head. And yes, a lot of Ravens fans have looked at this whole situation like, man, the Ravens are disrespecting Lamar Jackson because they just simply have not been able to get this thing done. It's been years. It's been years. But Jeff's reply was they've been more than willing to make him the second or third highest paid player in the NFL. And give him most up front. He's entitled to say no, but we're going to have to agree to disagree about that being disrespectful. So Jeff's rebate letting it be known like, hey, Ravens are willing to pay some serious money. They willing to throw Lamar some serious cash. Like, hey, Lamar, come on, Lamar, take it and look, look. And because he talked about Lamar being the second or third highest paid player in the league, that's pretty up there. But I wonder if Lamar is telling them, like, that's nice, but I want to be number one. Remember that Nellie song? What does it take to be number one? That's probably what Lamar got playing in his headphones every day. Every time he's getting ready to go to the contract negotiations, got a plan on, I don't know what kind of headphones to use. I don't know if he signed with with bowls or what. Anyway, that's precisely the point. So the Ravens are willing to make him the second or highest third up, excuse me, second or third highest paid player in the league. And that is significant because that that's a lot of money. But that part, the next part and give him most upfront. So what that screams to me is giving him a lot of cash flow early on in the deal that those upfront guarantees, those upfront salaries and whatnot, the money that you get, the signing bonus, the money that you get when that deal is first inked, that initial payout. Not it's not the entire thing at once, but that initial payout. Jeff Zribick is letting to be known at the Ravens. They like, hey, Lamar, here, here, we got you. But again, he said he's entitled to say no, but we're going to have to agree to disagree about that being disrespectful. So Jeff again, letting to be known Ravens are they showing them some money. But Lamar saying, hey, that's it's not enough yet. Not enough yet, baby. Now, let's go to the last part. This one came from logic. He said, he said, this is what makes me so curious. If this is true, what is the hold up on getting the deal done? I would love to be a fly on the wall with these talks, because he quote tweeted what Jeff talked about with Ravens being willing to make Lamar the second or third highest paid player in the league. So he said he just wants to hear it. He just wants to hear the negotiations. He just wants to listen to what Lamar saying, what the Ravens are saying, what everybody involved is saying, because obviously we are nothing. And we ain't never going to hear nothing until we get a resolution. And again, the only way, only way this can be resolved is with a contract extension or trade. A franchise tag does not resolve this that just prolongs it. Anyway, Jeff Zribick replied, he said, fully guaranteed. So again, the question from logic was, this is what makes me so curious. If this is true, what is the hold up on getting the deal done? Jeff Zribick said, fully guaranteed, they haven't been willing to do that. So Jeff Zribick, he obviously he's a number one Ravens guy. He has cleared up something that we have heard from other people. We've heard from different reporters. We've heard on NFL. Now we heard on ESPN. We heard here and then everywhere. But I know I said to myself, like, we heard it, but from a lot of people, but we really heard it from nobody on the inside. But Jeff Zribick, you know, Jeff Zribick, he he don't play about his stuff, man. He don't play about his reporting when it comes to the Ravens or really period. He don't play about his reporting at all. But he obviously covers the Ravens been doing it for a very long time. So Jeff Zribick is confirming it. He confirms it right here, what it is. So Lamar wants a fully guaranteed deal. Well, about trying to get that brand, baby. Anyway, reading it again, fully guaranteed, they haven't been willing to do that. So with him confirming that, but him also confirming that last part, that's something that we all we all do. That was that was the case. We knew the Ravens don't want to give nobody no fully guaranteed deal. We know that. And then, like my guy, Nitro, when we had him on that day, he brought out a really good point. He talked about how the the Browns and then I know a lot of people have brought up this point, too. The Browns messed everything up. They messed everything up. But he feels like they had like a little bonus incentive to do the Deshaun Watson deal the way that they did it just to mess up with the Ravens, just to mess the Ravens up with Lamar. I mean, excuse me, because against the Browns, especially, I mean, against really a lot of them, except the Steelers. They really played it much against the Steelers, but against the Browns, especially Lamar has been a thorn in their side. And I mean, the Ravens have just been a thorn in the Browns side for a while, especially with Lamar. So it's like, man, if if you can't beat them, then try to get him to join somebody else. And in a fell, it's a nasty business. It's a very nasty business and people and teams and franchises, they are all trying to one up each other. But within the division, that's your first goal. Your first goal of the season is to win your division. So how can you help yourself win a division? Well, by taking your opponents out and not just on the football field. So with the Browns, given Deshaun Watson, a fully guaranteed contract, fully guaranteed that puts pressure on the Ravens. It puts pressure on Lamar to try to get that for himself, especially because Browns, Browns know like everybody knew. And I still question it to this day. But now saying stuff like this out loud, it makes it make more sense because I question it from when it happened. And then even to this day, like, how could you give somebody with all those allegations and all that? How could you give that person a fully guaranteed contract? But the Browns did it. But now when you really think about it, like they knew that the impact that this would have on the NFL. And yeah, Russell Wilson and Kyle Murray, they got their contracts after Deshaun Watson, but not Lamar Jackson. And Russell Wilson is older. Kyle Murray is about the same age. I don't know how old or younger he is than Lamar. But Lamar is obviously not more accomplished than Russell Wilson. But Russell Wilson is older, guy. He got a couple more years and he'll be out of here. Well, unless you just decide to play forever like Brady. But Kyle Murray, he's cool, but he ain't accomplished as much as Lamar. So the Browns can look at that and like, we know that Lamar, he's going to want this money. He's going to see this and he's going to want this money because of the way that the market works is next man up. Next man up. And they usually top the previous guy, but the Browns probably knew. They're like, oh, yeah, Lamar going for the guarantee. Let's do it. But we know Bishari. We know he ain't going to want to pay nobody fully guaranteed. I know Lamar Jackson. I don't know. So what the Browns are doing or what they did is helping get Lamar off the Ravens. Will it help enough? Won't know till we know. Won't know till we know. But again, it does put a lot, a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure on both sides, Lamar and the Ravens. And now like who? Because I just I don't see the Ravens budget on a fully guaranteed deal. I don't I don't see the budget on wanting to give him a fully guaranteed deal. And Lamar, if he ain't budged this long, he may not budge on getting a fully guaranteed deal. So now we just got to wait. I mean, we've been waiting, but we just just got to wait. With the franchise tag, they could go that route. I don't think that this report it gives anybody any more hope that the Ravens will get this deal done with Lamar Jackson. I think if anything, it creates less hope in people that the deal will get done. But I mean, things can change. Things can happen. People can cave, whether it's one side or another, people can. What's the word I'm looking for in negotiations when you are not settled, but I cannot think of the word right now where you sort of like give in compromise. There we go, compromise. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Because I was thinking we're going to get off the video. We're going to finish recording and then boom. I knew it was going to come to me then, but people can compromise. Again, whether from the Raven side or whether from Lamar Jackson side. But we just got to wait it out and see. So again, shout out to Jeff's Rebic. He thank you for providing us with the update. Thank you for always providing us with updates, but especially about this one. So like a lot of us are hoping he won't be like a lot of us are wishing that it doesn't happen. But just like a real possibility, it does just like Lamar Jackson could be when it comes to being with the Baltimore Ravens. If things go south with the contract negotiations. I'm out.