 And you don't curse or let people curse on your channel. That's swag. This channel is garbage. Wow, man, your videos are way too long. You're gonna be stuck at 4,000 subscribers forever. You're never gonna grow. See, when you do things your own way with your own style, that's a lot different from the way that other people do it. Then people who disagree with what you're doing or disagree with the way that you're doing it, they will try to convince both you and themselves that what you're doing is wrong. That's why when I looked at comments and replied to the article that we were getting ready to go over from one pro football talk, Mike Florio, I wasn't surprised. And I don't think you would be either. Lamar Jackson and his mom think that they hold all the cards, but what they don't realize is he's a serious injury away from losing the best chance he's ever going to have to securing a guaranteed mega deal. The Raven should be secretly delighted by this turn of events. No matter how desirous the media, brainwash fans and other no-nothings may be full of mar to be an elite quarterback, he simply isn't one. And everyone with a real bit of football knowledge knows it. He's merely a running back who happened to throw the ball at times and not well, may I add. The Raven should trade him, get a motherload of picks for him, save a bunch of money and be happy to see him run out of town. They didn't wanna overpay for a running back who hoist the ball well some of the time anyhow. He's a fool and will never get the contract he could if he had a professional agent. Why wouldn't Baltimore quietly trade him? Draft the quarterback in round one, then just use Huntley until the draft pick is ready. I mean, I'm loving this because it's Baltimore, but that is the no-brainer decision. If they pay him 30 mil per year, it's too much and he'll get hurt again. At this point, he is either insanely greedy, painfully naive, or just flat out stupid. If he is holding out for an even bigger deal down the road, somebody better teach him how to slide or run out of bounds. Nothing wrong with getting everything you can, but he likely has generational money on the table right now, which almost certainly goes away if he tears up a knee or shoulder. He will regret it for the rest of his life if he loses a couple of hundred million trying to get 10 or 20 more. And the last one we'll read, cut ties with this guy one way or another. And again, this was in response to an article that came out yesterday about Lamar Jackson, not looking to engage with the Ravens until after this season. And that's something that we've said for the longest. We've never expected a deal to be done this off season. We still don't expect a deal to be done this off season. And one of my main reasons for that was because if the Ravens signed Lamar Jackson right now, they're gonna base it off of what have you done for me lately last year. His numbers weren't pretty last year. Now, at the same time, Lamar can be like, hey, you see, look at what y'all got without me. Look at how many games y'all won without me. Y'all won one game without me last year, one. So if y'all wanna play that, we can play this. But if Lamar Jackson bets on himself, if he bets on himself, then all he gotta do is finish the season. And there's no way that his numbers are gonna be worse than what they were last year. Even though last year, he made some significant progress as a quarterback. And that's why the numbers, they don't tell the whole story. They really don't. But let's get into this article. The title of it was, When Will Lamar Jackson Engaged the Ravens in Contract Talks? And again, it's from Mike Florio, who he's not a big fan of Lamar Jackson. Not even necessarily because of the way Lamar Jackson plays, but more so the way that Lamar Jackson is playing off the field as far as not having an agent. Mike Florio is a former lawyer and he is somebody that supposedly has an end when it comes to the league. He's a reporter. And if Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent, just like Adam Schefter, just like so many other reporters have talked about, they have no end. They have no way of knowing what's going on with Lamar Jackson. So a lot of stuff that they say it can be pure speculation. Unless Lamar Jackson and his camp, they leak it out. Or the Baltimore Ravens in their camp, they leak something out. But let's read what he was talking about and we'll break everything down. It started off the curious Lamar Jackson contract situation reached the semi-boil this week with Onestee Bishadi lamenting the player's unwillingness to take the team's money and Jackson responding to speculation that he's hoping to engineer a path out of Baltimore. So of course, that's talk speaking about Steve Bishadi saying, hey, we ready to pay Lamar and then Lamar shutting down the whole rumors about him possibly wanting to leave the Ravens. Even though the only way that that gets shut down completely, the only way that that stops completely is once he signs the contract, which again, I don't think is gonna happen this off season. But anyway, let's keep going. It says through it all, neither Jackson nor anyone else suggested that he'll decide to engage the Ravens in contract talks. The team is ready, willing and able to pay him, but he won't even start the process of making offers or requesting them. At the start of the season, the story was that he was too focused on football. Yes, I remember that, because I remember before that Raiders games, I think they even mentioned it during the Raiders game, but it was about the contract talks with Lamar and the Ravens, but it was said back then that he was like, no, I just wanna play football, that's it. And then it says after the season, the story was that he was too focused on getting healthy. And then even with that, he was still focused on, yeah, getting healthy recovering from that bone bruise, but also being focused on football. And so many people tried to take that and twist it and turn it like it was a bad thing. But usually every other time you hear about contract talks, especially with a quarterback, especially with a quarterback, so many reporters try to say, oh man, those contract talks, they're so distracting. They're distracting the team. But Lamar, he says, no, I'm not worried about the contract talks. Y'all been talking about that more than I have. I don't wanna talk about a contract right now, I'm focused on playing football. So many people have taken that and twisted it to try to make that look like a negative. Anyway, I said per source with knowledge of the situation. So here go the sources and stuff. Says Lamar Jackson has told the Ravens that he's currently too focused on having his best possible year and that he doesn't want to do a deal until the 2022 season is over. And that just makes too much sense. It makes too much sense. Again, like we've said before, plenty of times, if Lamar signs the deal right now, yes, it will be for a lot of money, a significant amount of money, but it will be the lowest that the Baltimore Ravens can get him for, the lowest because he's coming off for season where the numbers weren't so pretty. And that will be what they will be basing it off of. They will bring up his injury. They will bring up his year, his numbers. And they will say, hey, let's get this deal done. But if he goes out there and finishes the season and gets back to playing the Lamar Jackson football that we all know and love, oh yeah, he's winning. He's winning. So again, it's no surprise that he wouldn't want to do a deal this year. Continuing, this meshes with Bishari's spitballing on the possibility that Jackson thinks he doesn't deserve a new deal until he wins the Super Bowl. Of course, not doing a deal that gives the Ravens a better cap situation in the short term could impede the efforts to put together a championship team, especially in 2023 when Jackson gets into the franchise tag years of his career. So you saw that little sneak, this is okay. That's where it's heading, fifth year option in 2022, which we are currently at, franchise tag in 2023. Now, this is where I got a little bit confused. I know my guy Adam mentioned this in one of his questions from subscribers about the salary cap. I mean, excuse me, the franchise tag. Cause I was sure that the franchise tag would be the top five salaries of the average of the top five salaries at whatever position that player is at. In this instance, the top five salaries average for quarterbacks. But anyway, it says if the salary cap increases by say 15% this year, the franchise tag for quarterbacks will be in the range of 34 million in 2023. If so, he'd get 40.8 million in 2024. Combine that with the 23 million he'll make this year and that's a three year payout of 97.8 million dollars. So that would be a steal for the Ravens. That would be a steal, paying him a little less than 100 million for the next three years. That would definitely be a steal for the Ravens. But anyway, it says given the current quarterback market, that's not a bad deal for Baltimore. The problem arrives in 2025 when his 2024 salary would jump by 44%, making a third tag highly unlikely. That's when he'd hit the open market. I didn't even know you could tag somebody three times. How many times did Kirk Cousins get tagged? Cause that boy was living off the tag. But anyway, let's continue with the article. It says for any other quarterback, 70 years to unrestricted free agency wouldn't be a bad thing, but Jackson plays a position with a unique physicality. Even if he were to suffer a Dak Prescott style broken ankle and recover from it, which Dak Prescott obviously did. Jackson's approach to the position puts him at risk of developing a critical mass of minor ailments that combine to cause him to lose that extra little bit that sets him apart. By not engaging the Ravens on talks, aimed at signing him to a long-term deal, he carries the full range of risk arising from potential injuries, acute and chronic that could keep him from being regarded come 2025 as someone who should get market value money. So we are going backwards. We're going backwards. A lot of times when, if somebody's arguing with you and they, you're winning the argument, the argument, the debate, conversation, whatever. A lot of times some people will keep, they'll keep some stuff in their back pocket and be like, boom, just in case I was losing this argument, this is what I had to pull out just in case. And that's what it seems to be with people using the injury thing with Lamar Jackson. What if he gets injured? Oh man, he's betting on himself. He could get hurt. And he could get hurt. Does he have an injury history? No. No, last year he did miss those, what, six, seven games with the bone bruise. But he does not have an injury history. He doesn't. He's had practices the way he's been sick and missed it. He's had a game where he's been sick and missed it. But as far as injury history, he does not have it. He does not have a bad shoulder. He doesn't have a bad ankle, bad knees, bad legs, or a bad arm, but he does not have an injury history. He's been taken out with a concussion and those could happen to literally anybody. He does not have a history of concussions, but he was taken out in a playoff game with a concussion and then when Jop got him in the backfield, on the throwing play, might I add, because a lot of people keep, they go back to that narrative. Oh Lamar, he's a running quarterback. He's got to get hurt, but even that in itself, Lamar Jackson, he's not a running quarterback. He's a quarterback that can run. He's a quarterback that can run. And if you ever, ever watch any Lamar Jackson game, his first instinct is always to, on a pass and play obviously, not those design QB runs, but his first instinct on a pass and play is to pass the ball. He looks downfield all the time, looking to pass the ball. So many Ravens fans get upset with him because he'll hold on to the ball for a long time. Because why? Not because he's looking for a Russian lane, but because he's trying to pass the ball. But the narrative about him being injured and him being a run first quarterback, you can always tell who doesn't watch the game. Now, for anybody that doesn't like his style of play, I don't care, I ain't got no problem with that. But I would rather much more engage with people that if they don't like the way Lamar Jackson plays or does things that they can give their take and actually having watched film and actually having watched games and whatnot, not just going based off, oh, what he said, she said, they said, but if they develop their own analysis of him based off of things that they watch and they've seen things that they do like or things that they don't like, those are the conversations that I love having that much more, not just, oh, he's run first quarterback because you can already tell from the first five words that somebody says about Lamar Jackson, you can tell if they actually know his game or they just going off for what a lot of people say. The first five words tell it all, every time it never fails, trust me. So next time you engage with somebody in a back and forth about Lamar Jackson, this Lamar Jackson that, listen to the first five words that they say and that will let you know everything that you need to know. But anyway, back to the article, the possibility of Jackson never engaging the Ravens at any point over the next three seasons carries an important presumption, one that may not come to fruition. What if the Ravens decide at some point, here goes another thing that a lot of people have been floating out there. But what if the Ravens decide at some point to move on? That they need certainty at the most important position in the game, that there's some other team that will perhaps try to trade for Lamar Jackson sooner or later or somewhere in between. It's uncertain how the Ravens will handle the situation because it's truly unprecedented, it certainly is. This is like, nothing like this has ever happened before. And I know a lot of people say, oh, Kirk Cousin, Kirk Cousin, Kirk Cousins, well, yeah, it is similar, but the biggest difference is Lamar doesn't have an agent, Kirk Cousins did. So a contract like this, this monumental four player, this phenomenal and no agent and a contract that could be this large, nothing like this has ever been done before. And since this is not traditional, this is why so many people, so many reporters, so many analysts, so many fans, they try to discredit Lamar, they try to say, oh, he's stupid, he don't know what he's doing, his mom don't know what he's doing, oh, no, they're dumb. It's just because they're not used to it. And when people do things that you're not used to, they'll try to discredit you. And again, they'll try to convince both you and themselves that what you're doing is wrong and what you're doing is not gonna work. But let's finish out this article. Says, although the Ravens do indeed benefit from potentially paying out on average, less than 33 million over the next three years at a time when the market is creeping toward 50 million and beyond, the greater objective at some point will become having a quarterback in place for years to come. Yes, it certainly should be, especially when the Ravens, they first had that with Flacco. Flacco was the Ravens' first franchise quarterback, not the first quarterback to play for their franchise. No, he was their first franchise quarterback. Flacco, you knew who your quarterback was gonna be at the start of the season every year for what, 11 years. You knew who it was gonna be. Flacco gave the Baltimore Ravens that, certainty at the quarterback position. Was he the best quarterback in the world? No, was he the worst? No, you knew what you were gonna get with Flacco and he was your franchise quarterback. Ravens have another franchise quarterback. And it just seems, it's kind of weird because it seems like they almost, they don't know what to do. As far as building around him, as far as how to put him and everybody else around him in the best situation to really win, not just winning the regular set, but really win. But we'll see how this off-season goes. Anyway, they thought they did and maybe they'll have Jackson for seven full seasons or maybe they'll decide after his fifth season as the Chiefs deal with Tyreek Hill, the Packers deal with Devonte Adams and the Seahawks deal with Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson definitely wasn't in his fifth season, but I guess he's speaking more along the trade. At the time has come to maximize the potential return on Jackson's contractual rights. So basically saying after the fifth season that the Ravens could possibly trade one Lamar Jackson. So very interesting article, very interesting replies and comments about the article. But again, no surprises as far as the comments, no surprises as far as Lamar Jackson not looking to talk with the Ravens until after this season. Cause that was always the expectation, at least over here it was. So the only way that that could possibly change, I just don't see a changer. Ravens could try to give Lamar Jackson a deal that he can't refuse. And for Lamar Jackson to even pick up the phone and for him to even engage with the Ravens, it has to be something that would just blow him away to where it was like, whoa, I, wow. To where even him and his camp that they were even surprised at what the Ravens that that's where it would have to start. You come out, you come with some minimal contract offer or some basic contract offer. No, not even gonna look at it. But if you start with something where it's like, whoa, oh my goodness, wow. Okay, our return of text. Team keeping clean, we out.