 Before we talk about the Ravens dipping into this savings account I gotta say thank y'all because I just came to the realization like this morning It may be because this week makes it official But I want to say thank you all for helping us get through slow season Because we made it like it's over like it's officially over like this is the week that training camp begins And we know training camp is that real deal. It's not mini camp. It's not OTA. It's not voluntary No, no, no, no, no is training camp. So this is when the pads come on This is when they really implemented a lot of stuff with the plate. So we are Officially here. So thank you all because a lot of times when it was slow seat Well, really every time it's low season. Um It can feel like man We got to wait so long for football again It's gonna take forever and then last year for the Ravens It took a little extra long because they didn't make it to the playoffs But even even with that playoffs came in with Super Bowls in February Then it's like, okay free agency's in March and that's when it's all hyping what not the drafts in April That's like all hyping what not then after April it's like It's like oh and that's that's when they can be very very slow But I'll say it now and I said again this offseason was not slow at all At least for me it went by too fast. I actually wish it was slowed down a bit. But anyway Somebody who whose money They felt like they money slowed down a bit and I remember before like about a week ago I told y'all this was that same five dollar bill where I was ready to play big bank take little bank with the Ravens Now i'm eliminated Now i'm eliminated because the Ravens they had to dip into that savings account to pull out some bread Because they were like hey, we got like a less than a million dollars in cap space even though, you know The campus cap, but we got less than a million dollars in cap space. What do we do? All we stuck we haven't even signed all of our draft picks yet. We just got david a job left But what are we gonna do? Well, we can't be walking around here with with empty pockets We can't be walking around like engraving with empty pockets. So what what are we gonna do? So they say, you know what and and this was an marlin humphrey was an obvious candidate Some of the most obvious candidates and we talked about this in a previous video when we talked about their their money situation marlin humphrey Ronnie stanley mark andrews They as far as restructures Because those are guys that already signed big deal So they could do some little conversions here and there to open up some money with those guys Now, of course one of the other obvious ones is mr. Lamar. I don't know what his middle name is jackson And they could open up a lot of money if they came to a contract extension with one lamar I don't know what his middle name is jackson But We know the story with that like yeah, it it sounds easy. It sounds super easy, but it is not super easy But anyway, and again, no, he should not take less Said I gotta say that every chance that I get because I still see people talking about lamar jackson should take less money No, no, no, no, you wouldn't take less money at your job. Don't ask somebody else to take less money at theirs Simple as that. That's the easiest way to put it. But anyway Some another candidate is marcus peters Um, but anyway, that one of the candidates who we all talked about before who was an obvious candidate They did some restructuring. Let's read the report. It said it came from field yates, by the way The ravens have converted 8.965 million dollars of star corner back marlin humphries 10 million base salary into a signing bonus And they created 7.172 mil in salary cap space. Oh, the numbers get so detailed They get so detailed all of the point one three two five six seven eight nine ten all that stuff it gets so detailed I was like, uh So they created a little over seven million cap space. They had I think like 600 000 in caps or something like that So right now they should have about uh, eight mil Maybe a little less than eight mil in cap space. Um, so yeah That's that I've been seeing Uh, I've been seeing a lot of people like going twitter and stuff when who who who's it gonna be? Who they gonna bring in who the ravens are gonna sign? I don't think they'll end up signing somebody but it it's not necessarily something that's imminent Like all right, they they opened up this cap space just to sign somebody Just because of the timing. Um, I think most of what the timing this is a uh, stay ready So you ain't got to get ready type of thing um And I just I just think they want to be ready just in case because training camp they get physical Training hopefully not this training camp. Hopefully not this year but Stuff happens Training camp injuries can happen unfortunately, um so Because this is where it gets physical. This is where the tackling starts opening up. This is where again the pads come on So it's real now it's real now so with that, um Guys can go down Guys can go down um, and hopefully that doesn't happen to anybody not just on the ravens, but just in the nfl but You know, like that's a big hope and that's just something that's it's just bound to happen Someway somehow to somebody um So you got to be ready to bring somebody else in just in case Now, uh, I would also expect to start seeing reports about the ravens bringing in different guys for tryouts And this is something that they do A lot They do it And off season they do it in preseason. They do it during the regular season They do that type of stuff. They bring in guys for tryouts a lot Sometimes they'll decide. Hey, you know what? Let's sign this guy and a lot of times they'll decide Nope, it was just for a tryout. We just either wanted to see what kind of shape he was in just in case Or we wanted to help put his name back out there and get his name back out on the map Ravens do that a lot of times ravens are a team and of course other teams do it too But you know ravens like it's especially since we talk about ravens every day um ravens are definitely a team that's uh Put your boy on a type of team Obviously with john hardball a lot of the highest that he makes he puts his boys on um, they uh with um Remember like with krockett gilmore remember a couple years ago A couple years ago ravens had worked out krockett gilmore and a lot of us were like what we we heard that he Got a lot of weight to move up to offensive linemen. We already got tight ends We was all looking at each other crazy. Like what what's going on? But it was just so they could try to Put his name out there a little bit and they've they've done that with with several people over the years I mean, so it's nothing new, but that was just the most recent example I could remember but they've definitely done it afterwards too. Um, so yeah, man We'll see, uh, uh, I've all I've been seeing a lot of people talk about hulio Could this be uh them opening up some money for hulio jones now and wherever hulio goes like imagine imagine if it's like two three years ago and You talking to somebody and you like man hulio jones Oh, yeah, yeah He's gonna be a hall of famer whenever you decide to hang it up blah blah blah. He doesn't broke all these receivable records He's a monster in Atlanta two three years ago. So obviously before tennessee Obviously before now two three years ago If you told them a in a couple years hulio not even gonna be on a team hulio jones is not even gonna be on a team If you told somebody that they probably look at you like you were crazy Like who who's your joe? Yeah, he might be slowing down a little but hulio jones not gonna be on a team. Come on now and boom I did see my guy chris just joking He he when he saw the uh the report about the ravens converting Marlon Humphrey's money and opening up some cap space Uh, he put up a video a b at rolling loud. He said hey, it's time man It's time, you know, so that that I I appreciated that one and of course, we know a antonio brown is done in the nfl He hasn't officially retired, but I think Like the nfl they they are done with him. Um, I don't think they're gonna give him another shot At all anything possible, but I just I don't think they're gonna give another shot I don't think anybody thinks they're gonna give another shot Um, so yeah, man. So that's that anyway I love y'all again. Thank you Thank you for helping us get through the slow season um, even though is it There was really no slow season this off season because it was literally something all the time Uh, so this week it's training camp week again. Shout out to anybody that's gonna be going I think the first uh training camp for fans that they can attend is on wednesday So shout out to anybody that's going to that anybody that's going on thursday or friday Really whenever then the open practice is on is this saturday? So shout out to anybody that's going to be attending those things. Uh, they should be a lot of fun Uh, and it's it's an exciting time, man. It's an exciting time To be a ravens fan. This is such a uh, a pivotal season for the baltimore ravens I mean, and it's just exciting wondering and getting ready to actually see stuff put in motion Now we can finally we've had all the the speculation conversations about this guy that guy that guy that guy And now all the speculation that we've had about so many different players at so many different positions Now it's time to see if a lot of that stuff comes to fruition because now the competition really begins