 There ain't nothing like a good family function, right? Where the family all comes together, whether it's for a wedding, a cookout, a graduation party, or if family just felt like, hey, you know what? Come through, we all getting together. We gonna throw something on the grill and just chill. It's a great thing. But I know every family has it to where there's that one family member for every single family function. Where they'll be like, hey, I'ma be there, hey, I'ma see you soon, hey, you know I'm coming through, hey, you know I'm good for it. But then when it comes to the actual function and them showing up, they're not there. They're not there. And this can lead to a lot of disappointment. This can lead to a lot of frustration. It can lead to a lot of anger from the other family members because they're like, why did this family member not show up? What's going on with them? All the meanwhile, that family member, they may have a certain health issue that they got going on. They may be struggling financially. They may have something that they're dealing with that nobody knows about, but they haven't let it be known. So that's led the family members to speculate and come to their own conclusions as to why that family member just doesn't show up to the events. That family is Ravens fans and that family member is Ronnie Stanley. There's been so many Ravens fans that have been frustrated, upset, annoyed, all different types of emotions when it's come to Ronnie Stanley not showing up to play. Some fans have come to the conclusion, oh man, Ronnie Stanley's soft. Some fans have come to the conclusion, oh Ronnie Stanley, he don't want to be with the Ravens anymore. Some fans have come to the conclusion, oh man, he just trying to collect the check and then just chill. But Ronnie Stanley, for the very first time and I honestly don't even remember how long it's been. Ronnie Stanley, he spoke to the media, wow. And when I saw that, I was like, okay, Ronnie Stanley, let's go. And probably my favorite quote, cause I didn't get to watch it. It wasn't a live type of thing. It wasn't one of the ones they put on YouTube or on the Ravens app. But one of my favorite quotes that came out of there were Ronnie Stanley, him saying, I'm very close, you might see me this week. Now I know a lot of Ravens fans are gonna be like the family that we talked about early on in this video and they're gonna be like, ah, he ain't gonna show up. Oh, he ain't coming through. Ah yeah, we done heard this all before. But Ronnie Stanley, I appreciated that he sort of let this cat out of the bag when it's come to the speculation of just what's going on with Ronnie Stanley. One of the quotes he did say, I feel way different. I feel way better than what I was when I played that first game last year. I'm in a way better place. I'm very optimistic, very confident about me getting back to where I want to be. But this was the banger right here. There's something else I had to get done after that first game from last year, separate from my original surgery. That was a lower body major surgery. That's why the whole organization was taking this approach. So Ronnie Stanley is letting it be known like, hey, besides the whole ankle surgery, he said he had to go get a whole other surgery done and I just said, oh, okay. Well, now we know what was really going on. So apparently, because what I'm getting from this and y'all please let me know if I'm reading this the wrong way. But it sounds like Ronnie Stanley had two surgeries last year. Again, let me know if I'm reading it the wrong way though because I could be. But it sounds like he had two surgeries last year. But Ronnie Stanley, apparently, again, is close. And it was nice to actually hear it directly from him because yeah, Harbaugh's gonna get up there and he gonna say the stuff that Harbaugh says. And that's cool. He's a head coach. He been doing this for what, 14 years now. But it's nice, it's that much nicer when, okay, it's cool when we hear from Harbaugh and different players, but it's even better when we hear directly from those players too. So Ronnie Stanley speaking to the media saying he feels good at this and that. And then this is after, again, Harbaugh's been throwing it all on him. Hey, he'll be ready when he's ready, he'll be out there. Hey, he's looking like he's in the best shape of his life but it's up to him. It's on Ronnie Stanley. Harbaugh's been putting it on him this whole time. So now for Ronnie Stanley to speak up, it's like, okay, all right, let's go. Let's get it. He even mentioned that he feels like he could possibly even look better than he looked in 2019. So that would be nice. That would be great. Again, I got a temper expectations when it comes to Ronnie Stanley though. Reason I say that and have said that is because he hasn't played consistent football in like two years since the 2020 season. So I guess a year and a half or whatever, but he hasn't played consistent football in a long time. So with that being said, do you expect him to as soon as he gets on the field start blocking everybody and nobody's getting past him and what? I don't. I would love it. Oh, I would love it, but I don't expect it. I think it's gonna be one of those things that you just gotta get back into the groove. You gotta get back into it. And hey, for him, depending on the person, it may take a little bit longer, it may take a little bit shorter. It's like if you playing basketball, you ain't played basketball in like two years. Now when you play basketball two years ago, you were nice, but ooh, you ain't played in like two years. You've been dealing with your ankle getting a little swollen, your knees hurting, your back hurting. You're getting a little older. It happens. Maybe you put on a little pandemic wave. Hey, it happens. But anyway, when you finally get back out there on the court, you may be a little intimidated. You may be a little scared. You may be a little rusty. So you get that first shot off. And it's like, ooh, air ball. You get that second shot off. It's ooh, brick. You get that next shot off. Oh, let's go. I think I'm getting it, baby. Next three shots are all bricks. So then you start to get into more of a rhythm after that. Then you make one, you miss one. You make one, you make another one. You make another one, you miss one. You make another one, you make another one. But it took you a little time to get re-acclimated to the court, because it's been a little minute. And I think it could be the same way with Ronnie Stanley when he does come back. It's gonna take some time. Well, whenever his first game ends up being, whether it's this week against the Buffalo Bills and shout out to the people. My guy JT, he texts me. My guy, Garoon, he sent me a DM. They said, engraving, the game this week, this is the national CBS game. The national CBS game. Dolphins are playing tonight. Hey, go dolphins tonight. Go beat them bingles. But on Sunday at one PM, you ain't gotta pull up no live stream. You can watch the game on TV. And when I saw that, I said, yes, let's go. Oh man, such a relief. But if this is gonna be the game that Ronnie Stanley ends up playing in, you gotta temper expectations. I just want everybody to, or if it ends up being next week, if Ronnie Stanley be like, you know what, no, no, no, no. Bills, Bills are cool. That's gonna be a tough game. But I want to come back for the bright lights. I want to come back for Sunday night football against those bingles. I wonder if the Ravens gonna weigh all black next week. But we'll worry about that when we worry about it. But I would expect him very, very soon now. Very, very soon. Because this is the first time that he's practiced in four, two days in a row. And if he mess around, if he mess around on Friday, tomorrow, and ends up practicing a full practice again, ooh, okay, okay, Ronnie. All right, now, hey, we gonna see. So that was just nice to that Ronnie got to speak to the media. That was a beautiful thing. Now, looking at some of the injury report, just to go through that. Patrick McCary didn't practice. I didn't expect him to practice. I don't expect him to be back for another couple of weeks. Justin Houston, I didn't expect him to be playing this week. Again, we're growing injuries. They can be very tricky, but I've told y'all this already. I ain't expecting to play this week. Hey, that'd be great. If Justin Houston all of a sudden tomorrow, hey, he like, hey, he spray a little bit of deer antler spray on his groin, and they're like, hey, I'm good to go, baby, let's get it. But I just, I'm not expecting it, but we'll see. Now, JK Dobbins. He said something was going on with his chest yesterday. Maybe somebody dropped a little shoulder during practice or something. JK said, whoa, he said, whoa there, buddy, hold on, we teammates. It might have caught him off guard, but they said he practiced in four today. So that was nice. He practiced in buckets, Peters. He practiced in four. I think he had a vet day yesterday. James Proshay. James Proshay, he's back. So can he follow Rashad Bateman and Devon Duvenay and make some impact at wide receiver too? Hey, I would love it. We would love it. We would love it. Cause his 2022, the start of it, it's been a little bit shaky. Cause of course he only played a couple snaps week one. And then after that, he missed the last two games with injury. But for him practicing in four, that is a beautiful thing. You know, he probably felt that pressure too. He saw a rally way of getting caught up two weeks in a row. He said, wait a minute, baby. I gotta be the same receiver that follows my number. His number is number three, be the number three receiver. Anyway, so that was nice, man. It's that injury report is significant, but it seems to be getting a little bit smaller. Now, something that we talked about earlier this morning of our expectations, we talked about how we expected the Ravens to put Michael Pierce on injured reserve today. The Ravens put Michael Pierce on injured reserve today. So his season, unless there's some crazy surgery or some miracle with the healing, maybe he told the doctors, hey, get Ray Lewis on line one. Cause my biceps, I'm trying to get these things healed right away. So hit up my boy Ray Lewis. I remember how he did in 2012 on that Super Bowl run to come back a little early. Hey, I'm trying to be back too. But other than that, if that don't go down, then Michael Pierce season is over. Somebody in the comment section, they brought out a really good point. I forgot who it was, so my apologies. But he brought out such a great point that talked about how with players, he said, why do fans question if players are gonna go for surgery to heal something the right way or go through rehab to try to play through it and experience all kinds of pain? And he said, with the player, well, Michael Pierce is no surprise that he opted for rehab cause Michael Pierce, he got his money already. And I was like, well, yeah, that's a really good point. But I think it obviously all depends on the player, depends on the situation. And I think it really depends on the contract too. If it's a veteran player, like Michael Pierce Vincent signed to a three year deal. So he got his money, got some guarantees in there and whatnot, but he has the option to, all right, you play through the pain or you just get it completely corrected, but you're gonna miss the rest of the year. If I'm looking at, hey, you already got paid. So, okay, I wanna play, but I wanna get this thing right too, but I'm paid already. So, all right, I guess we'll just sit the rest of this year out. And not like you wanna sit the rest of the year out, but I can understand the decision. But if it's another player, say for instance, this player is like in a contract year, something like that. They got one year left on their deal. And whether they's trying to make the roster, they playing for that second contract, they just really going for it. And they have an injury, hey, you wanna rehab or you wanna just get the thing completely. You obviously want to get it completely fixed, but at the same time, you got that pressure. You got that added pressure from your contract or your contract situation. And they be like, no, I gotta play through this thing. I gotta play through it. Let me try to rehab, try to do that, because I don't wanna have to miss the rest of this year because next year's money is counting on this here right now. But for Michael Pierce, next year's money is not really counting on this right here right now. So he's straight. But again, I don't know what his thought process is. I don't know. But the comment they brought out a really good point and it just really made me think. But anyway, Michael Pierce done for the year. Ronnie Stanley, he could be starting his year. Very, very soon. Whether it's this week or next week, we'll see what happens. But anyway, it was nice to hear directly from him and hopefully he'll be back and he'll be better than ever soon enough. Again, I don't think it's gonna happen right away, but soon enough. Anyway, team keeping clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. And like Ronnie Stanley, won't be too much longer. We out.