 this is one of my favorite times of the NFL year because you start to hear all these stories about how this player and that player and that player are all linked to the Ravens that the Ravens are gonna consider signing them that the Ravens might be interested in signing this and that player all to just get to free agency and you see a lot of those links the players that the Ravens are linked to those links become broken but anyway another story that has been going around for about a week or so has been linking Saquon Barkley to the Baltimore Ravens Bleacher Report they talked about it of course baltimoreravens.com and their late for work article today they spoke about it as well and Saquon Barkley to the Ravens that be obviously be a nice pickup if he's healthy but i'm gonna give you a few reasons why it just does not make sense now y'all know me i'm all with the the fantasy gm the madden trades the signing this guy that guy in the third and i still feel like hey the cap is cap or we didn't forget baby and for any team if you really want somebody there are so many ways to make it happen but anyway we could talk about that another day but with Saquon Barkley specifically i'm gonna let you know why it just does not make sense for the Ravens first we're going to talk about money let's get that out of the way because that's that's actually the least reason for me uh that's that's the least reason of importance on this list uh with money he is it's the fifth year option time and that fifth year option is all guaranteed so for the Ravens you think they want to pick up a fifth year option for Saquon Barkley and they got a jk and they got a gust you think they want to pick up a fifth year option for Saquon no of course not but then speaking of money and speaking of capital how would you acquire one Saquon Barkley and after giants cut them and they sniffed around like okay cool shout out to the Ravens being like the rock you smell what the Ravens are cooking well we would see but if the giants were just trying to trade him oh no because i would think that if they were trying to come up come up off of Saquon Barkley then they would want at least a first or a second second at the least i don't think a third or anything after that that the giants would even be listening um so the Ravens in order to acquire one Saquon Barkley if if he's gonna remain on the contract that he's on with the giants then you would have to give up some significant draft capital so basically that's a no no for the Ravens because they they want all the draft capital they don't want to give it up they want to keep it uh but with Saquon Barkley if he was cut he would have a lot of suitors in Ravens could be one of those suitors but you know that it would be so easy for another team to outbid them but so okay we talked about the money part in the capital part that's out the window like i said that part is the the least important on my list of concerns why this move just does not make sense for the Ravens so this reason is important to me you have JK Dobbins you have Gus Edwards both of those running backs are coming off of significant season ending injuries if you were to add a Saquon Barkley to the mix he'd be nice and like my guy Yuri brought out a really good point Saquon Barkley has never had an offensive line like he could possibly have with the Ravens he's never been in a running game like he would have with the Ravens think about that like you obviously got Lamar Jackson who's a threat on any single play and then you add a Saquon Barkley next to him that would be beautiful but with Saquon Barkley just like our other two running backs or actually other three running backs with Justice Hill too he's coming off of a season ending significant injury so what i mean when i say that is that you have these guys who are expected to be back are expected to come back but you don't know how they're going to be when they get back and of course you want them and expect them and hope that they are even better than they were before you hope that their bodies are even stronger than they were before but you just don't know if they're going to be how they were before it wouldn't make sense for the Baltimore Ravens to add a high-priced running back to the mix who's in the same situation as the running backs that they already have in the mix it just it wouldn't be smart business we know Saquon Barkley is an amazing player we know everything that he's capable of but he was even injured last year and then came back last year and then got hurt again so you just you it would not be worth it to even run that risk in my opinion only because that risk has so much financial it's just so much financial risk in it and it just wouldn't be worth it now um the biggest reason in my opinion that Saquon Barkley it just would not be a good move if the Ravens did that um for Ravens we know that the Ravens they know how to run the ball we know these guys are capable of running the ball uh they run it with JK with Gus with Lamar uh with Devonte Freeman he was even looking better toward the end of the year Latavius Murray uh not Tyson Williams unfortunately but that's a whole other story but we know that they love and they know how to run that football they certainly do but our concern as Ravens fans and for Ravens front office should be and still is how much more can they advance in the passing game now throughout the beginning of the last season we saw a lot of advancements we saw so many we we saw this team moving forward through the air and we were like okay let's get it it did come with some growing pains here and there and they still got stuff to work on but we did see significant progress for the Baltimore Ravens in the passing game and that's something that we have been asking for for a while and we were starting to get it but if you add a Saquon Barclay to a JK Dobbins and to a Gus Edwards they're not going to just be like alright Saquon you get two carries alright JK you get three alright Gus you get four no they they are really going to force feed Saquon Barclay they they're going to because they would have acquired him and have given up a significant amount of salary cap or draft capital whatever to get him so he ain't going to just be sitting on a sideline but then again you still got your other two running backs too and if you remember if i take you back to 2020 if i take you back to the 2020 season the beginning of it well we had a Mark Engel had a Gus Edwards we had a JK Dobbins i remember me personally and i'm sure a lot of y'all went through the same thing too we'd be watching the games alright Gus doing this thing alright Gus let's go okay Gus Edwards yeah he breaking tackles running over people okay yeah keep feeding Gus Gus the Buzz then you see Mark Engel come on the field it's like hold up now we love Mark Engel we do but why did they take Gus Edwards off the field why did they take the hot hand off the field now we found out in the long time that that was probably a business move by the Ravens with Gus Edwards so they could keep him for cheap but we could talk about that another time but with JK Dobbins this rookie rookie running back it's like alright oh JK oh man this dude got a 20 y'all run oh 15 y'all run whoa look at how he kept his balance who if that ain't Ray Rice i don't know who it is let's go JK and then Ravens be like no JK get off the field let's bring on Mark Engel and this is not to take a shot at Mark Engel so don't take it like that but my point is that since the Ravens did have three capable running backs even though the other two were hot they still had one that they were paying the most money to and they continued to force feed him out there when he really shouldn't have been JK had been hot they took him off from Mark Ingram Gus had been hot they took him off from Mark Ingram if Saquon is in on the Ravens he is going to be on that field a lot and not that him being on the field is a bad thing but they would try to feed everybody and try to keep everybody happy since you have so many mouths to feed at running back and you know they're running team so i feel like that could have a negative impact on the passing game i really do now if this was flipped in my opinion because you know Saquon Barkley is that dude at running back he's not just another guy if this was flipped though and it was a wide receiver and the Ravens would get that guy at wide receiver oh i would love it i would love if they did that because you have two first round picks right now you got Hollywood and Rashad Bateman but if you get somebody who is that guy at wide receiver and this is not a shot at Devin Duvenay or James Proshay or Tyler Wallace at Miles Boykin it's not a shot at them but the Ravens they're not invested in those guys like that and you know it you know they're not since all of those guys were third round picks or later they're not invested in them like that but with Rashad and Hollywood they invested in them so they are going to get their opportunities but now if the Ravens were in this predicament and there was somebody who is that guy at wide receiver and was really like that at wide receiver oh yeah Ravens linked to them oh yeah yeah bring them on for sure hold let's get it because that would be something to advance the Ravens passing game and that's been the Ravens biggest issue for the longest the passing game we know with the running back we feel like all right JK is healthy Gus is healthy for offensive line is straight that's the first and foremost thing for offensive line is good even decent all right running game gonna be straight but especially if we get them boys back healthy and then whoever else they add to the mix whether they keep Devonte Freeman they draft somebody they actually decided to use Tyson Williams whatever they ended up doing we know the running game is gonna be straight but again biggest concern for me is the passing game that's what it is it's the passing game and if if you can spoil Lamar Jackson with riches in the passing game first offensive line obviously got to be right but to have Hollywood and Rashad Bateman and Mark Andrews and then you get somebody else to the mix like that's that dude again somebody that they would really be invested in like that I would be all for it but that's not who this link is about this link is about Saquon Barkley and them adding the running back to the mix so no this is uh it's one of those things that doesn't need to happen it's probably not gonna happen like 9.99999999 times out of 10 this move is not gonna go down but it's always fun to talk about right it is so we'll see uh when is free agency start I think like on March 18 something like that I got to look up the exact date to see but it's coming up February going by fast man this month flew by like crazy um question from subscribers we got a lot we are so backed up on question from subscribers so if you haven't seen your question please be patient please please it takes time it's just like it really does takes time please be patient we have a so many emails and we keep getting more it takes a lot of time so please bear with me please but anyway I love y'all I appreciate y'all I love Saquon Barkley too and I I wouldn't mind to be on but again it's just it's it's a lot deeper than just oh yeah he's nice running back he'd be nice behind this Ravens offensive line and on this off it's a lot deeper than that for me like I said especially when it comes to the passing game so anyway appreciate y'all y'all stay up hope everything is going good for y'all uh and like Saquon Barkley might be when it comes to being with the giant sooner or later I'm out