 Over the past five to ten NFL season something that has grown a lot has been the chatter of if certain players are doing offseason workouts with their teammates and It's been something even me myself I've been overly invested in it a little bit over the past couple of years and it has been something that has been just talked To talked about amongst a lot of people With the different NFL clubs that they support But with the Ravens and really with any NFL team bottom line Just because a player does or does not have an offseason workout and I'm not talking about the OTAs or the Training camp I'm not talking about the the workouts that the team facilitates, but their own private Workout that they initiate with their teammates just because a player or players do have those offseason workouts It does not mean that they're gonna have some amazing season It also doesn't mean if they do or do not do it. It doesn't mean that they won't have an amazing season It doesn't mean that they're gonna have a bad season But I think with us as fans one of the reasons that we get so invested in hearing or not hearing about these offseason Workouts is because I think the timing of them has a lot to do with everything because a lot of us are starting to get That itch for football again, and especially with everything going on right now We definitely have an even bigger itch for football than we did and we normally that we would in a regular offseason But in this case, I think it is because it occurs during the offseason Because it's in the offseason news is a little slow and we're just wondering us as fans were wondering because we're on the outside Looking in so we're wondering like man. What's this player doing? What's this player got going on? How are they doing are they keeping in shape? What are they doing with all this offseason time? How are they gonna get better? What's gonna be like what's gonna be like and compared from this year compared to last year? Are they gonna be a better player? Are they gonna be a worse player so many different things are going through our minds as fans and That leads us to wonder and sometimes we can make a bigger deal of something Than it really is and and that's been the case with some of these offseason workouts Now and and I think a big reason for that is social media social media has changed so much with just Everything not just sports not just the NFL, but just with life period But certainly with sports because it is both a gift and a curse because it makes Players it makes them more Accessible and again that can be a good thing because it's cool like oh you may tweet at your favorite player Oh, they tweeted me back. Wow. That's great. Or you may Say something about your favorite player and they may like it or retweet it or whatever So it allows you to interact with a lot of the players and it can be like wow that's really cool and that can make you an even bigger fan of them or At times you may interact with your player and you may not be so happy with that particular player and There are some fans that get really disrespectful with it, too And then yeah, that can be the curse part of it So social media has opened a lot of doors to fans interaction with players and This has also opened a lot of doors to what goes on in fans minds Depending on what players post or what they don't post Because and I've seen it myself with some Ravens fans. They see the videos Hollywood working out like crazy They see the videos of he doing all his running stuff doing his catching in the driveway and all that And he you see he's bigger and he's doing all this stuff with his foot It's like whoa, this dude's working out and then some I saw somebody say man What's Willie Snead doing? I haven't seen any videos of him working out. It's like Just because somebody doesn't put a video of them working Just because somebody doesn't put a video of them working out it doesn't mean that there's some big huge Slab and they just eat everything in sight And it doesn't mean that It doesn't mean that it just some people they'll put it on social media other people won't to eat your zone So it's not a big deal But us as fans like I said, we can get so invested and we can get so wrapped up in the whole off season Workout getting together with the teammates blah blah blah now even with that being said I will say now that It it certainly wouldn't hurt for players to get together with each other during the offseason and really trying to hone their Crab really trying to work on what they can improve on It certainly wouldn't hurt and at a time like that we're living in right now Oh boy, they they got a little extra time to work on stuff since some stuff is starting to slowly reopen And and the players they they can't go to any of their NFL facilities So why not get with your boys if you can if you got the time for it and if you feel like So it certainly wouldn't it wouldn't hurt It can only help because you could work on your chemistry work on your rapport Just getting to have a better feel for each other especially when you're on the football field and that is what one Lamar Jackson and Mark Ingram Along with the offensive skill players are gonna be doing Of course, um, Garrett down and he reported on it yesterday And and Mark Ingram was on good morning football He talked about it how he and him and Lamar they were gonna get with some of the other offensive skill players This during this offseason and just work on getting better together So when they talk about offensive skill players that includes running backs receivers tight ends any of those And even though offensive line is a skill When people talking about skill players, they're talking about really all the other guys except the offensive line But mainly like quarterbacks receivers usually that's in running backs. That's usually what it is So that was interesting, but I had to make sure like, okay Let me not get too hyped over it But let me also not be too calm over it too Because I like in it when I compare the situation of working out in the offseason Getting together with your teammates and stuff trying to get better when I compare that to a real-life situation or not or a regular life situation I think about going to work There is absolutely nothing wrong with going to your job every single day You clock in you do the work you clock out. You're done with the work It's nothing wrong with that Nothing wrong with that at all. Why not because that's your job You are there to do a certain job and just to use nine to five for example You come in at nine You work from nine to whenever time lunch is take that 30 minutes or hour of lunch And then you clock back in get the work done five o'clock. You are out. You could say bye to the job I don't want to hear from y'all. Don't text me. Don't call me. I don't want to do it y'all. That's all the work I'm out And there wouldn't be nothing wrong with that because you will still be doing your job You're still doing your job But It's just a small difference with some people that want to get ahead They want to do a little bit more they want to move up a little faster And it's nothing wrong if you if you're content with where you're at That's fine. And even if you do come in nine or five and you just do what's required You still have opportunities to move up in the company or whatnot, but for the people that put in the extra work The people that want to go above and beyond Again, it doesn't Automatically mean just because you go above and beyond that. Oh, yeah, you're gonna be one of the best employees It doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that it's a guarantee But it does increase your chances a lot more For those people that do put in the extra work Those people that do put in the extra time the extra hours the extra effort the extra Because that extra Can make it can make your required It can make you not not even you're required that extra can make your regular work that much better Because when you put in that extra work the standard that you hold yourself to It can go up and up and up Because you will have put in so much work Well, it's like hold up if you had what used to be a regular day for you you could be like, what is this? I ain't getting undone today No, man, I let me let me do some more because this this ain't it right here So I don't knock it I don't knock it and again We like hearing stories like this as fans because it's like okay that player really is trying to get better at what they're doing Okay, that's swell Just that's a beautiful thing and it excites us as fans, but again we have to remember That just because a player does do it Doesn't mean that they're all of a sudden gonna be great and if a player doesn't do it It doesn't mean that oh man, they're gonna have such a bad year this year because they didn't do their off-season workouts with their other teammates It doesn't make them a bad teammate if they don't do the off-season workouts It doesn't make them selfish if they don't do the off-season workouts They don't because they don't have to do any of that It doesn't mean like I'm sure I hope they I hope they don't but it may be somebody Oh This player wasn't there at the off-season workouts with them. Does it mean that there's some beef? No, it doesn't mean it doesn't it doesn't mean that at all So I just wanted to make sure that we At least his team keeping clean We know that the off-season workouts are cool, but they're not a requirement But even with them not being a requirement the fact that they are getting done. It's a good thing And it helps but again, it's not the end all be all Just because somebody's not there doesn't mean that old Lamar mark. You must not like that. No, it doesn't mean that at all It doesn't mean like oh, I guess since they weren't in the off-season workouts They're not gonna be a part of this team. No, it doesn't mean that It doesn't mean that Could be scheduling issues could be personal issues could be that they just ain't fit like it So I just don't want us to read into this the off-season workouts too much Especially when the video start coming out and I know when the video start coming out We're gonna be looking to see who's there. We're gonna. Oh, okay. There goes that guy. Oh, there goes Hey, hold up. Where's what's her name? Why ain't there? I just don't want us to get overly consumed in that But it is a good thing that they're doing So That's cool Team keeping clean. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all Thank you for everybody that came through On the stream this morning because we had a lot of fun on the stream We did a live stream in the morning on questions from subscribers um Probably had like 240 people in there. It was a lot of fun And I was surprised man. I'm like, whoa, all y'all showed up this early in the morning It wasn't like crazy early in the morning. It's like They're like 11 1115 1130 something like that. We did it for like an hour and a half Wasn't a crazy long stream like they usually y'all know at night. We could go for a long time, but It wasn't even a super long stream But we had a lot of fun. So I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. I thank y'all for supporting man um Because again, like I always say it goes a super long way Y'all are very appreciated. I know I say it all the time and some of y'all might get tighter I don't want to stop saying that man. No, I'm gonna keep saying it because I I appreciate y'all um, I thank you for um Being willing to listen every day Like who wants to hear stuff about ravens every single day? Every single day who wants to hear stuff about ravens or even just football period every single day Who wants to talk about football every single day? What we do on here? So I appreciate y'all being willing to listen About football every single day. Thank you for sharing your opinions Whether you agree with what I say or you disagree with what I say. Thank you for always sharing your opinions respectfully Um, thank y'all for being respectful to each other. Thank you for just respecting what team. Keep it clean is I appreciate that a lot. So thank you Um, I appreciate y'all and I'ma go ahead and get on up out of here now. I love you team. Keep it clean We out