 Something I saw on Twitter today from Anthony Levine. I really, really appreciated it. He said, can you say something encouraging in five words or less? So I wanna try that on here. So team keep it clean. Can y'all say something in the comments section encouraging in five words or less? Of course, in addition to your comments about the video, but anyway, so the Ravens, it's been quite the off season for them. A lot of talk has been surrounding Lamar Jackson. Of course, he's been a talk of the town and more recently over the past couple of days, he's been the talk because he hasn't been in town. I've seen a lot of people saying this and that. Oh, Lamar Jackson, he's a diva. Lamar Jackson, does he really want it? Lamar Jackson, he's taken away from his teammates. Lamar Jackson, he's being selfish. Lamar Jackson, he doesn't wanna be with the Ravens anymore. Lamar Jackson, oh, he wants to get out. And it's been a lot of just back and forth about it. Some people are saying, hey, he needs to be at OTAs. He really wants to Super Bowl. He gotta work with these new receivers, work with these new teammates. He needs to be there. Other people are like, hey, yeah, we would love if he was there, but it's voluntary. Voluntary means you do not have to be there. And it's not a big deal if he's not there. And both sides have kind of been going back and forth. But the Ravens, they've been in the background watching all this stuff. And Harbaugh was like, hey, he can speak for himself on why he's not here. He can talk for himself. Now that part, it had me a little bit concerned because last time Harbaugh said that, he said that about the fullback, Ben Mason. Because y'all remember that? Remember when Raven, and of course, two different players, but still the same coach with the same response, he can say it for himself. They asked why Ben Mason wasn't back, why he wasn't, why he ain't get signed with the practice squad or what happened? And then Harbaugh was like, Ben Mason can talk for himself. But anyway, so let's see what happens with Lamar. I ain't tripping about it right now. And the Ravens, they are doing exactly what we said that they should do in every situation that's off season and that's stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. So they signed Brett Huntley. They have Tyler Huntley, but they also signed Brett Huntley. And if we all remember him, it's funny, timing is everything. Marlon Humphrey in Studio 44, when he was talking to Rashad Bateman. Rashad Bateman was telling him a model my game after, he said, oh, Delbeckum, Jr. He of course talked about Heinz, Walden, San Antonio Homes too, but he also mentioned Devonte Adams. You know, Devonte Adams plays for the pack. Well, he used to play for the Packers. Slipped up there for, they got traded to the Raiders. But Marlon Humphrey was talking about when he first played against Devonte Adams, he said Devonte Adams hit him with a nasty slam and he was gone. He was gone quick, fast and in a hurry. But Marlon was like, oh, I'm grateful that I had help on the inside to deal with that. But do you remember who the quarterback was in that game when they went against those Green Bay Packers? It was Huntley. It was Huntley. It was Brett Huntley. So he threw three picks in that game. One went to Marlon Humphrey. So he caught a pick in there. One went to Jimmy Smith and the third one. Ooh, I don't remember who that third one went to. But anyway, so Huntley's been helping the Ravens out for a little minute. So they just returned the favor. They're like, hey, come through homeboy. And what this is, this is, like I said, stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. Lamar Jackson, he's not there. But this to me, this gives me an indication that they do not expect Lamar Jackson to be there. That's where I start to get a little bit concerned, just a little bit. Cause obviously I am 1,000% sure. I don't know for a fact. But in my mind, I would believe that Lamar Jackson wouldn't just be like, oh, no, I'm not showing up and not give a reason why. So I'm sure the Ravens know exactly why Lamar Jackson is damn sure, again, Harbaugh and EDC and Beshadi and different teammates, they know why he's not there. But they not gonna be like, oh, Lamar's not there cause of this. Harbaugh says he gonna let Lamar speak on that. So again, that's why there's a little bit of concern just creeping up just a little bit. None crazy right now. But hopefully this ends up being one of those things where it's like, all right, okay, it wasn't no big deal. Cause that's usually what happens with stuff. With a lot of stuff surrounding Lamar Jackson, a lot can be made of a bunch of nothing. Cause we'll be thinking, oh man, could it be that? Could it be this? Could it be this? Could it be that? Could it be that? Then once it gets explained, whatever it ends up being, it's like, oh, okay, that's it. Oh, okay, cool, cool. All right, what we know? So hopefully this will be a lot of that same stuff. But this is just the Ravens prepping, just them not wanting to just have their only quarterbacks be Tyler Huntley and Anthony Brown, the undrafted rookie free agent from Oregon. So, cause if those are the only two guys that are throwing the ball to these receivers, it's like, you don't want their arms to get tired, they still, this ain't even training camp. This is the first step in this whole thing. This is OTAs. So Ravens and NFL got a long time to go. So you don't want these dudes' arms to get worn out at OTAs. Like if they needed an extra arm, like they could have signed me. They could have signed me and they could have saved a little bit of money that they used for Huntley. And I know it ain't gonna be done much, but I could have done it. Do I text Lamar? Hey, whatever you got going on, just relax, I got it from here. And I mess around, I mess around and maybe you had to take that starting job from Lamar. But anyway, so yeah, this is them just prepping for that. But yeah, it does make me feel like the Ravens may expect Lamar Jackson to be away for a while. How long is that while? Is it a week? Is it two weeks? I don't even know. None of us know. None of us know anything. But this move, it says that Lamar ain't here right now. So okay, we got to deal with who is here right now and we got to actually ask somebody so the people who are here right now, they don't get worn out. Doesn't mean that Lamar Jackson wants to be traded. No, doesn't mean that Lamar Jackson doesn't want to be there. No, of course, we did the video a couple of days ago talking about what Lamar said. Hey, I can't wait to get back. I can't wait to get back. And yeah, a lot of people can't wait for him to get back either. Now I do think it would benefit Lamar being at OTAs. I do think it would benefit him because, and even though you're not installing all the game plans and all that, you ain't doing nothing crazy in OTAs. You're doing a lot of pitching, catch, a lot of tossing the ball around, going through basic, basic, basic, basic, basic stuff. But I did love, I love, love, love, love, love, how Marlon Humphrey put it yesterday, because he said it's best to be practicing with the guys who you're gonna be playing with all year. Now, while I do think it would benefit Lamar to be there because he got new guys and this is another opportunity just for you to get acclimated with them. Him not being there, I like how my guy, Jimmy Dean put it in the spaces yesterday. He said it best. He said, does this, does him missing two days so far? Probably gonna be more, but does him missing these two days of OTAs have a negative impact on him in week one going against the Jets? If the answer is yes, okay, but if the answer is no, it's not a big deal. And right now, it's not a big deal. Now, say again, Marlon Humphrey again says, I'm good, now he said if this was training camp, ooh, okay, that'd be a whole another story right there. This is training camp, that would be different, but it's not training camp. It's not, it's not training camp. This is OTAs, voluntary OTAs, not mandatory OTAs, not, hey, you need to be here, OTAs is voluntary. You can be here if you like, you can choose to be here if you want. If you're not here though, it's okay. And I know a lot of people's argument in this whole thing is, oh, well, look at these other guys, they're not at OTAs. Marcus Williams not there, Galeas Campbell not there, all these other guys not there. It's a little different though, when it's a quarterback in a situation that the Ravens are in with Lamar Jackson. Cause I like how Jeff Zribick described it, just as it being kind of a little bit awkward, just a little bit, because the Ravens say publicly, hey, we want to pay Lamar. And they've also said publicly, hey, Lamar doesn't want to do the contract thing right now. So, okay, he just want to focus on football. Okay, cool. I understand that. We've been saying the same thing even before the Ravens said that. Cause had he signed the deal now, the money, I mean, the money will be there, but it wouldn't be the most money that he could possibly get. And he goes out there, finishes this season and stays healthy, does his thing, get back to Lamar Jackson, especially with having this revamp, rebuilt offensive line, then his money going to be much better than it would be. His future money would be much better than it would be if he signed in a past already. So betting on himself, I love it. I love it. So yeah, man, we'll see how this whole thing ends up working itself out. And all we can do is wait. That's all we can do. Sit back, relax, enjoy the show, wait for Lamar to show up at OTAs. And well, whenever he does show up, whenever he does show up, but I know that's when he does show up, I know a lot of Ravens fans. They going to be going crazy. They going to be throwing celebrations. They going to be throwing some food on the grill. Oh, Lamar showed up. All right, let's go grill some steak. All right, Lamar showed up. Hey, throw that asparagus on. You know what, not even steak. Let's grill some lamb. Ooh, lamb is just so, oh, it's so good. Steak is good too now. But lamb, lamb like, it takes it to another, especially the flavor and if you make it the right. Anyway, let's do it. So team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And just like Lamar Jackson when it comes to being at OTAs, I'm out.