 So team keep it clean. It's official. Lamar Jackson told the ravers, cut the check. And now without an agent, without an agent, Lamar Jackson is now the, we know it's gonna be temporary, but for now he is the highest paid player in NFL history without an agent, may I add. Anyway, this is great man. I'm happy for Lamar. I'm happy for the ravens. I'm happy for us ravens fans that just been waiting to see what was gonna be next with this whole situation. I'm glad it is officially done. It's literally been years, years into making. This process has been going on for a long time. There was a lot of people, oh he should have took a deal a long time ago. He should have signed that. He should have signed this. It's done now. He got his brand. And let's just look at, we don't have all the details yet. Not all of them, but looks like it's a deal worth up to $260 million worth up to, we know it's not fully guaranteed. It was worth up to $260 million. And he has 185 million in guaranteed money. Jalen Hurts, his guaranteed money was 179 mil. So he gets six mil more guaranteed than Jalen Hurts. So that would break that record. And then of course, his average per year, we know a guy who was kind of a legend for the Baltimore Ravens, I would think that guy being Ray Lewis. Lamar Jackson's average per year is $52 million. Dollars, $52 million. This is nice that it's done. And it's a five year deal by the way. This is such a beautiful thing. Eric DeCosta, ooh Eric DeCosta. Boy, I gotta give a big shout out to Eric DeCosta because I certainly had my doubts and we shared them a lot on here about, and we were just talking about it in the last video where the last video was about this deal almost being close to being done, but now it's officially done. But we certainly had our doubts about this thing being done. We had our doubts about this deal getting done. And we also had our doubts about just the way that the Ravens were moving. We had our doubts about the philosophy. We talked about how the Ravens, we just felt like they needed to really change their philosophy. The way that they moved on offense, the way that they moved in the front office, they really needed to update things. And it took them a while to get here and it seems like some stuff, we still gotta see it on the field. But it seems they moved on from Greg Roman and shout out to Greg Roman, by the way. Because let's not act like Greg Roman was this bad, terrible offensive coordinator. He did have his hiccups and mistakes. He didn't have his things that he struggled with. And I felt like the Ravens should have pivoted years ago, but we're here now. But they finally moved on from Greg Roman and now they brought in Todd Munkin. That's a big thing with the philosophy right there. Because with Todd Munkin, they didn't bring in somebody who was coming off of losing seasons, wherever he was at. And not saying that's just because somebody's coming off of losing season, they can't be successful, but they brought in somebody who was doing their thing where they were projecting up. The arrow was going up because he was coming off of two national championships. They said, oh, no, no, come, come be an offensive coordinator. They brought in a wide receiver coach who just came from winning the Super Bowl with wide receivers, because he was a wide receiver coach. So who better to bring in to help with that? And then they topped it off with the personnel with signing Odell Beckham, Jr., and paying him significant money. That's something the Ravens never do. And apparently we're still waiting on it. We're still waiting on it, but apparently they trying to get De'Andre Hopkins as well. That is to be determined, but they were also trying to get that quarterback and now they got him. Lamar is locked up. Let's hear what Lamar had to say when he checked in with everybody. You know, for the last few months, baby, it's been going on for years. It's about a flock going on. Let's go, baby. Let's go, let's go, let's get it. This is so beautiful, man. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing that it's real now, man. It's real. Now, the story came out yesterday, the day before yesterday, that the 49ers, they had checked in on Lamar, didn't say that it was anything serious, anything like that, but we had previously heard, what if he traded to the Dolphins? What if the commander swooped in? You know, they ain't got a quarterback. Earlier this offseason, it was the talk about the Falcons wearing talks heavy with the Baltimore Ravens on a trade for Lamar Jacks. And that was right before free agency started. Then there was rumor that the Colts, they may think about adding Lamar Jacks. There's a lot of rumors. They're the Patriots. The rumors about that too are so many different rumors that were going around. But now we ain't got to worry about none of that, none of it. But then something that wasn't a rumor, something that really shook a lot of us, the public trade request. And that public trade request, shout out to MySports Update for bringing this up. But that was literally one month ago from today. It was on March 27th, where Lamar dropped that tweet, dropped that threat of tweets. Well, he said, hey, on March 2nd, I requested to be traded for the Baltimore Ravens. They didn't value me. They didn't meet my value. And he just said everything. Thank you to the fans. Da, da, da, da, da. Gave us that whole thing. And I was like, oh, wow. That was crazy. I thought it was gonna be a wrap. I thought that was it. But literally, exactly one month later, on April 27th, he signs a long-term deal to remain with the Baltimore Ravens. And I love this. I love this. It's done. It's done. The negotiation process has been a tedious one. But now, what Lamar Jackson and his camp have under their belt is experience. They have a lot of experience. And I know there's been a lot of back and forth. Oh, should Lamar get an agent? He needs an agent. He needs to get an agent. Da, da, da, da. And they are definitely pros to getting an agent, pros to having an agent. They're also cons as well. It's pros and cons with anything. But he did it. It's done now. They now have this under their belt. And no one can ever take this away from them. Lamar Jackson, without an agent, negotiated a deal to become the NFL's highest paid player in history. And again, we know that history is gonna change real soon with Joe Burrow, with Justin Herbert, we'll see. I don't know. But with Joe Burrow, it's definitely gonna change. Joe Burrow's gonna be getting paid after Lamar Jackson. He's gonna get paid more. So you just gotta wait on that now. But he did it. He did it. Boy, that's a lot of bread. That's a lot of cash. Lamar Jackson came into the league, was doubted, still doubted by some people. Well, there's been less doubts, but still doubted by some people. Doubted that people doubted that he could play quarterback on this level, on a professional level. And there was some time, like especially his rookie year, Ravens didn't really help because they just had him out there as a gadget player. Haven't come out there to read option and he would only run. They would not have him throw the ball like Harley at all. But then in 2019, that's when things really changed. And obviously you hear about it so much, but, and I know some people are tired of hearing about it, but I think the reason why it's spoken about so much the 2019 season is because it was historic, but it was like he won, not just an MVP of the league, but a unanimous MVP, but it was clear cut. There was no like, oh, well no, Lamar shouldn't get it. No, no, no, no, no. Everybody was on the same page. Lamar Jackson is the MVP. And for somebody who, he won an MVP obviously as a quarterback, but for somebody who was told, you should play wide receiver. You should play running back. You can't be a quarterback. You're not a quarterback. Somebody who was told all those things over and over and over to have went out there in the national football, to be playing football at the highest level that you can possibly play it at and be voted the most valuable player without a doubt. That's big. That's big. So when you hear it brought up in arguments, whether it's amongst fans, amongst friends, amongst analysts, amongst people in the media, amongst whoever, when you hear that brought up, I know some people like, oh, 2019 was so long ago and it was a little while ago. Don't get me wrong, but it's still extremely significant what was done and who he did it with. When you look at the team that was around Lamar Jackson, the offensive players is significant. It's extremely significant. What he's been able to do. The winning percentage is crazy. It don't make no sense. It's insane. But Lamar Jackson has been a great player, obviously. Been a phenomenal player. And I'm glad that the Baltimore Ravens are keeping that phenomenal player. I'm glad he ain't going nowhere, man. I'm glad. This is great, man. This is great. It just, it's great that it's finished. Now, moving forward from Lamar Jackson, especially if they get DeAndre Hopkins too. Oh, man. Something that we've been talking about on here for years. For the Ravens, we just want them to make Lamar Jackson's job easier. Make his job easier. Because you ask him to do so much. You ask him to do a lot. Top passer, obviously as he started quarterback, but top rusher every year. And hopefully in this new offense with Todd Monkin, he ain't gotta be that. Hopefully, that's cool. Ain't saying, oh, Lamar don't run. No, no, no, not saying that. But he ain't gotta be the lead in Russia. You gotta J.K. Dobbs. And hopefully he'll be healthy. Hopefully everybody be healthy, Lamar too. Because obviously Lamar missed some time over the past couple of years. But hopefully they can all be healthy, man. Everybody. That would be great. I know it's NFL's football, so injuries do happen. We get that. But if the Ravens could get a healthy squad, and keep a healthy squad the whole year, oh, man. I know not every single player's gonna be healthy. But majority, if majority of them could be healthy for the whole year, oh, the sky would be. Past the sky would be the limit, man. It really would, man. It really would. But now with an O'Dell Beckham, Jr., with a Rashad Bateman, with a Nelson Aguilar, with a Mark Andrews, with a Isaiah Lockley, with a J.K. Dobbins, with a Gus Edwards, with hopefully the Andre Hopkins. With Ronnie Stanley having completed the majority of this season, and now him going into his first offseason healthy, his first offseason a long time healthy. Oh, that's made such a big difference. Because we saw Ronnie still got it. Despite the injuries that he had before Ronnie still got it. They obviously gotta figure out what they're gonna do at Left Guard, whether it's Pat McCary, whether it's Ben Cleveland, whoever it's gonna be. Tyler Linderbaum had a good rookie season. He had some hiccups, whatever. He was a rookie. But overall, he was solid, man. Linderbaum did his thing. And then in the right guard, you still got Kevin Zayla. Then in the right tackle, you got Morgan Moses. I know Morgan Moses was up and down, but hopefully the second year with the Baltimore Ravens, it is gonna be a different offense now, obviously. So things are gonna change, but this is beautiful that the continuity in a lot of areas on the team, because they have a lot of continuity, but they're gonna be getting a new offense. But you having continuity, you haven't been there with your brothers already. That helps, because y'all already got a rapport. Y'all already got chemistry. Y'all already know how each other are and whatnot. That helps so much. And now you get that continuity with your quarterback. And now in the off season, with you installing this new offense, now we ain't gotta worry about questions no more. Oh man, is Lamar gonna show up? Oh, is Lamar gonna be there? Oh, what's our quarterback situation gonna be? That's done. Odell Beckham, Jr. He took a big risk. I'm sure he talked to Lamar and he was probably thinking like, oh yeah, Lamar most likely coming back. He coming to the Ravens. I ain't coming over here just for no 15-mil guaranteed. Well, he probably would, cause that's 15-mil guaranteed. Like, I don't care who the quarterback is. You can be 15-mil guaranteed, like straight up guaranteed for one year. Oh, yeah, sign me up. But anyway, Odell Beckham, Jr. took a big risk coming to the Baltimore Ravens. But that risk is now officially paying off, cause he got his quarterback. And now DeAndre Hopkins could be there too. It's funny, I've seen some people say, man, once G-Row left, oh, these receivers automatically want to start coming to the Ravens now. I was like, hmm, I think it's obviously deeper than G-Row. Like we've said for years too, it's deeper than Greg Roman. Cause the receiver problem has been a problem for years before Greg Roman was even a thought of being a Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator. But this year, and this is whether you get DeAndre Hopkins or not, hopefully you get him. But this year is huge because this year can really shift people's perspective on the Baltimore Ravens offense. It can shift people's perspective on how this team uses, treats, and appreciates wide receivers. Because they matter, they matter like crazy. And it sucks that it took the Ravens five years with Lamar, over five years with Lamar. Well, really four and a half cause he ain't started his whole rookie year, but took the Ravens about four and a half years to realize how much they matter, how important they are, but better late than never. And this shift can really help the Baltimore Ravens just moving forward in general. It can really help in future years too. This is not just about this year. It's not just about this year. It's about the future as well. So Ravens, this is great. I love, we love it. We love it. Eric DeCasso again, amazing. Amazing that he got this done, that they got this done. I love it. I really do. We talked about how this, going into this off season, this was going to be Eric DeCasso's biggest off season ever as a GM. Biggest. The biggest issue, well the biggest task that he had to complete is now officially done. One of the other bigger tasks that he talked about, he talked about revamping a wide receiver room. You already got O'Dell, you got Nelson Aguilera too. You mess around and get the Andre Hopkins. Oh yeah, you completed that task. It will be completed. For sure. But this is good, man. This is good. I love it. So now what these Ravens need to do, because something else that we talked about on here for a long time that I felt like, and I said this so many times that I did not feel like the Ravens, like if I wanted Lamar to stay, I always wanted him to stay, but I was still scared and did not feel like the Ravens would ever bring the best out of Lamar Jackson because of their philosophy. We've seen a shift in philosophy for the approach to wide receiver, and that could still continue to change. They brought in Todd Monk, and so the shift could be on offense too, but again, seeing is believing. I talked to Coach yesterday, except to tell him. I was talking to him, called in on his live stream. And I asked him, I said, with or without the Andre Hopkins, what do you feel like Todd Monk brings to this offense? What do you feel like he brings? And Coach said adaptability, being able to change up what you do. If one thing ain't working, being able to switch to something else, just being adaptable, and that's so important. So important. Everything starts with coaching, but then it obviously trickles down to the players too, because the coach would call it a perfect play, but if the players don't execute, that's on them. So that's all the maw. That's on the offensive line. That's on the receivers, the tight ends, running backs, everybody. So this thing, it gotta go hand in hand. That's why when the off season starts, the off season workouts and all that, it's in my opinion, even if it's not mandatory, with it being a new offense, I think you're gonna wanna want everybody there. And obviously the Raven, I'm sure they want everybody in attendance. Not everybody shows up. Not everybody has to show up, but you're gonna want everybody in attendance, man. As much as many people as could be there as possible, because if you're installing something new, then it could take some time. It could be some adjustments, but man, we'll worry about that when we get there, even though that is literally around the corner, but this is great, man. This is great. So I'm happy that Lamar Jackson is staying with the Baltimore Ravens, and we ain't gotta worry about no more. We ain't gotta say it no more at the end of the videos officially. After today, now we no longer have to worry about Lamar Jackson being out. I love you.