I care about the Sometimes we don't like when black athletes make a lot of money. I'm just saying that. If that doesn't apply to you, then good.
But for some people it applies to you. Alright so, I want to talk about Lamar Jackson. Because this is a gamble that Lamar Jackson is taking. And Jackson will not sign a contract that isn't Deshaun Watson's contract. It's basically what he is, that's the contract he wants. The Ravens know this, the NFL knows this. He will not sign a contract that isn't Deshaun Watson's contract. So we have a dilemma.
And it is a gamble. Which is why yesterday I said that I think there's a better chance that he doesn't play at all than he plays for either Baltimore or gets traded. Unless he decides at some point to come off of his contract stance because I don't believe anybody else is going to give him that contract. Was our conversation with Will Brunson.
919-860-5326, I'm going to take calls here in a second, I just want to read something. And then this is from somebody from 33rd team I believe on that football website that we've talked to some of their people before, actually Trey Wingo works with them and Trey will come on in a little bit more than an hour and a half. So Arthur Blank is the owner of the Falcons and he told a group of reporters at the owners meetings yesterday that the Lamar Jackson situation is different from the Deshaun Watson situation. Remember Deshaun Watson has the contract that Lamar Jackson wants.
Guaranteed money, 230 some odd million dollars, guaranteed, all guaranteed. And he said the Watson situation is different from Lamar and Blank mentioned that there's concern over Lamar's style and how long he would hold up and he brought up the amount of games that he has missed. Deshaun Watson had two ACL surgeries and went two years without playing all because. I can't for a lie come up with the reason why Deshaun Watson didn't play for two years.
Google. So this was my, I quote tweeted it and said this. The only reason Lamar Jackson hasn't been signed is because signed by Baltimore or pursued by every team, this is response A. The only reason Lamar Jackson hasn't been signed by Baltimore or pursued by every other team in need of a quarterback in the NFL is the contract. His contract demand is the only reason he hasn't been signed. Every other reason you hear from Arthur Blank, a reporter, a coach, another owner, is a cover for a that's it. Lamar Jackson is too talented and too young and too good to not be pursued. If the contract demand was just outrageous but normal, meaning, yes, I want a four hundred million dollar contract, but only one hundred and forty of it has to be guaranteed. He would have been signed yesterday.
Baltimore would have signed him already. And part C is C.A. because it's the only reason. And this should be simple for people.
But apparently it's not. And I don't understand why it isn't nine one nine eight six zero five three two six Hunter in Raleigh. How are you, Hunter? What's going on, man? How's it going? Going well.
What's up? I think Lamar is honestly going to get traded at some point. I mean, you listen yesterday where people like Morgan Spears, I mean, I think the Colts might be an option because unless you mercy says, well, don't want to go to the grab or take a chance on a person and then pay him maybe a two hundred million or a little bit less.
But I mean, he's not going to get the job, want some money. But then all these teams like the Panthers, the Colts. I mean, people with teams like that have to decide, oh, I want to take a chance on a player that has a style that gets you more hurt or I want to build it a draft and take a chance on a prompt that, you know, nothing to how he stands right now. Let's suspend the football logic here for a second.
All right. Why would the Colts trade for Lamar Jackson if they wouldn't also give him that contract? Because what they could do, what they could do would simply be to sign him to an offer sheet for that contract. Right now, there's nothing preventing the Colts from calling Lamar Jackson and saying five years, two hundred and fifty million dollars, all guaranteed.
What do you say? And Lamar Jackson would say, where do I sign? And we're done. So why would they wouldn't have to trade for him? Right. They could then owe the Ravens to first round draft picks. That's it. Right.
Why wouldn't they just do that? Because I don't even understand the concept of a trade here, because no team in the league is going to give him that contract. Well, I think other people don't like the idea of like, he's not the size like of a typical quarterback. You know, like, oh, it's like the same thing with Bryce Young this year.
Right. Hey, Bryce Young is smaller. He's durable. He's going to hold up. You know, his great quarterback, Levis Strout and Richardson, they all have six, three, six four height. That's what people think. Oh, they're going to be fine.
They're going to hold up. I think Lamar's six three. Lamar plays. He's like six three.
Yeah. He's on the side. And then people think, is he going to hold up when he runs? He's already had like a small knee injury.
He has had an injury. I mean, Tom Brady had an injury. I mean, Cam Newton, look, football is a dangerous sport. It's a dangerous sport. If you run, it's a dangerous sport. If you don't run, Cam Newton got hurt without running. Cam Newton took a lot of hits, but Cam Newton, Cam Newton's injuries happened in the pocket.
There's just. At issue here, I appreciate your call, Hunter, I really do, because it brings us to this and it's impossible, impossible to separate football and injuries because they're so prevalent. Granted, it's the sport where you're surprised if you get out of a game and you don't have at least one injury that is significant, surprised. It's just the nature of the sport can't make it safe, zero chance of making it safe. All I've said this before, all the the gnashing of teeth over concussions in the NFL.
Was ludicrous to me. Simply take care of the players, like legitimately take care of every player who ever played in your league. After their careers are over, because that's really what you have, the issues, nine one nine eight six zero five three two six. Can't make that game safe.
Impossible to make it safe. But I'm going to talk about guaranteed contracts in a minute. Chris and Wilson, what's going on, Chris? Hey, we wanted to come in, Chris and Jacob here in Wilson.
Can you hear me? I got Chris and Jacob. We got two for one. I love it.
I love a bargain. All right. We really believe, you know, if you look at the stats of Deshaun Watson, it's four seasons with detection. He's thrown over 4000 almost every time and Lamar Jackson has only went over 3000 one time. He barely got over 3000 and he only has four games in a regular season where he's passed over 300 yards. So I don't understand, you know, how you could even compare, you know, the two as far as being able to pass, even though he can run at the end of the game, if you need somebody to go drop the ball, you know, on the clock, you're down for Lamar Jackson's probably not in the top 10 of people that you want to have the ball to be able to take it the distance of the field. Did the rushing do the rushing yards count the rushing yards?
They count. But then why don't we can't why don't why don't you count them? Because you can stack the players in the box and you won't be able to pass the ball. And then the next four to five years when he's not able to run as efficiently and run away from the defenses and he still is held with that high contract, then his his total overall skills are going to, you know, diminish. He won't even be in the top 20 as far as a quarterback if he's not able to outrun everybody. Well, first of all, I would question the intelligence of every defensive coordinator in the sport. The only defense against Lamar Jackson right now is him not playing.
So why wouldn't they do that at the beginning of every game? He seems to be moving the ball down the field, gaining a lot of yards, scoring a lot of touchdowns without the ability of throwing when he can't throw, obviously, we're kind of mocking that. But I, I failed to see why the rushing yards and the the danger of that, I failed to see why that doesn't count. Well, you don't fail to see the losses in the playoffs when you're planning to get highly efficient defenses.
You don't want one playoff. Yes. Oh, yes. I didn't call him the best quarterback in the league. That is also in many ways about the Ravens. Can you name a top quality receiver the Ravens have had other than Mark Andrews, the tight end? Oh, so collectively, it all plays hand in hand. What is all of Mark Jackson's fault? That's what I'm saying.
I have to have the right system. If you take Patrick Mahomes and put him on the Texans, he doesn't have the same career. You're right. So it is the team. It's the team right now. The Ravens are Lamar Jackson. Well, they're hand in hand.
They're both problematic. But if I was Lamar Jackson, it's a lose-lose situation for both sides, I believe. Well, I mean, it could be a lose situation for Lamar Jackson, simply because, as I said before, I think there's a greater chance he doesn't play. I don't think he'll play on the franchise tag. I don't think he'll ever sign that.
I really don't. And he won't be here. He won't be in the NFL as long as the Baltimore Ravens will, so he doesn't have the window that they have.
Every player then falls into every player falls into that category. Exactly. By the way, we never heard. We have to go. But we never heard from Jacob. Hey, how you doing, Adam? What's going on, man? Nice to nice to hear from Jacob. I know. I love this.
It's fun. Jacob just sits there. Jacob just sits there. Is it Charles? Chris. Chris. Chris, you hogged the phone call. Jacob just sits there and lets you have all the glory.
He's moral support. All right. Next time. Next time, Chris, we talk to Jacob. Jacob's a writer. He writes all this. All right.
Well, taking notes. Appreciate your time, guys. We'll talk again soon.
You too. All right. I'm going to go into my timeline for a couple of comments, and we'll take more phone calls.
919-860-5326. Just to reset, why hasn't Lamar Jackson been signed? Somebody says it's personal.
I say it isn't. So I'm looking at Deshaun Watson's playoff game log. He's won one playoff game.
He's won two. But it could be just that the Texans are bad as a franchise. Yeah. Could be that.
Could be the team. Texans are not a quarterback stat. Say that out. Every football fan in the world, please, if you are listening, say that out loud. Understand it. Don't fall back. Oh, quarterback can't win.
No. It's not about the quarterback. It's about the team. Quarterbacks help.
Great quarterback gives you a better chance. But it's about your team. All right.
919-860-5326. Let me just read this real quick. We'll go back to phone calls in a second. Remember, this is basically, this is about Lamar Jackson refusing to play for a contract that isn't Deshaun Watson's contract, which was roughly $235 million over five years. It's like $46 million a year, which is the cap in. So treaticus, whatever.
Help me understand. If it's true, he turned down a three-year, $133 million deal guaranteed, why? If players want guaranteed deals, then they have to give on length of contracts. But besides, most of those old deals would get restructured for cap, he gets flexibility too. All of that is logical. I have no problem with that line of thinking. Kirk Cousins played several years ago on a three-year deal worth $90 million roughly.
It's like 89-something. Guaranteed. Okay. Except that's not Deshaun Watson's contract. Why are we arguing things that don't matter here? It's like trying to solve for X, and the only thing in the equation is a Y. Well, there's no X.
How do I do that? Deshaun Watson's contract is the starting point for Lamar. Whether he's wrong or not is irrelevant to the conversation for now. That's what he says he wants. And because the Browns gave it, have already crossed the Rubicon, that's what he wants. The question is, is he going to get it? And until he is convinced that he will not get it, that's what he is asking for. It's really not complicated.
We don't have to make it more complex than that. 919-860-5326. Paul and Durham, what's up? Hi, how y'all doing, man?
Good morning. First of all, huge fan of the show. Thank you.
Huge fan of the show. And I think, to go back to what the two gentlemen, I believe, Jacob and Chris, Paul, Yeah. Well, Jacob didn't really have anything to say, so.
It's alright. Well, he was a ghostwriter, so I didn't say it. So to play back to their point, Lamar Jackson has never really had a receiving cord. He has had receivers. Marquise Brown, he hurts, but he's never had a cord. Deshaun Jackson has had, excuse me, Deshaun Watson has had actual receiving cords. First thing first, he's had de-hoc, Danny Willfuler the fourth started coming in. He saw him playing. Yep. I can't remember that.
No, no, you're right, you're right. Hollywood Brown is a second wide receiver on a great team. He has had a great tight end. Mark Andrews is a great tight end, a super tight end.
So he has had that, but he has not had that. They've basically built their team around a running game and have ignored the wide receiver position. That's the fault of their, I guess, their offense. But if he would be a better passer, they would have more options if they had better receivers.
But unfortunately, the Ravens didn't do a good enough job of taking advantage when Lamar Jackson was making no money to also get all of all of those pieces. Anything else? I want to grab somebody before the top of the hour. Is that cool? I agree.
And just to pull off that. Yes? Did we lose Paul? Uh-oh.
He may have dropped. We lost Paul. All right. Paul, we'll talk again. Let me get to Chris in Goldsboro.
Chris, what's going on? Yeah. On that Lamar Jackson thing.
Yeah. The way I see it, why nobody wants him is, it's like Madden. I beat most people at Madden just by selling out on defense for the pass. Because nobody wants to run. And fans don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. They don't like watching the game. The average fan I would say doesn't care about people running the ball. They want to see passes.
You know? I watch more football probably than the average fan. So I like to see running the ball and defense play.
But most teams don't want that to sell that. Deshaun Watson was exciting. That's why he got paid so much. He was exciting. Lamar Jackson's not excited?
Lamar Jackson, to me he is. But the average fan, they don't care to see the run so much. Oh man, I disagree. You know what I'm saying?
I just, I could not agree with that less. I think that everything Lamar Jackson does is exciting, whether he's running or throwing. And he's a good thrower, that's what I don't understand.
He's a really good thrower. He's not accurate. Not deep. Ah, that's it. That's also incorrect.
But that's, that's fine. We have, that's, I think, I think you're trying to convince yourself of that. I mean, look, y'all have all said that he hasn't had a receiving call.
He hasn't. Okay, um, Tom Brady had several years where his best receiver was Wes Welker, who played in Miami and didn't do nothing. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, sometimes the quarterback makes the receiving call. Yeah. Okay, if, I'll just say this, if Tom Brady is the bar, every quarterback sucks. We're done. If that's the bar, every quarterback sucks. I don't even understand that.
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