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Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings.

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On the eve of the NFL Draft.

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Eric Decassa has made another big

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move with an extension. Last year was the

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record setting deal with Lamar Jackson. This

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year, an extension with wide receiver Rashod

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Bateman, putting him under contract in Baltimore

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through the twenty twenty sixth season.

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I'm Ryan Minkhm here with Garrett Downing, and we're

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going to break down what this extension

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means, give you our reaction to it, and also

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what it means for the Ravens draft coming up

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this weekend. So Garrett, just first

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thoughts on the Bateman extension.

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Oh, look, well.

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There's a move that happens right before the draft.

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The initial reaction as whoa

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like I felt the same way last year when the Ravens signed

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Lamar Jackson to that long term deal. We're sitting

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here talking about which offensive tackles

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the Ravens may like, and that also now a Bateman dealge

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is done. And I think this one really was, you

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know, particularly kind of catches you off

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guard, just because this was not one

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that the Ravens had.

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Kind of said that.

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Erics Costa has said previously like, hey,

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we're working towards this. We all knew deals

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in the Yeah, like we all knew that one was

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there was a long process that led to that.

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That was a matter of when, not so much

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if correct. This was a matter of if

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correct totally.

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And so before this deal,

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you know, the fifth year option decision was

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looming for the Ravens and Rashad Bateman.

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It was May second, it was the deadline for

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that. So that's right around the corner. And

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I think and Tacosta was asked about

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that at the pre drave press conference, did not answer what

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the decision was on Bateman or a

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da fe O way, And so,

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yeah, I think we were all debating to the Ravens pick up that

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option, what's the implication of that? And

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so now they get this extension done. It

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extends him past that for one extra

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year. So they basically tack a year on past that fifth

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year option. And you

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know, this is a move the Ravens. Now have they

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go into this year in the next three years with

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their top two receivers in place and safe Flowers and Versad

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Bateman, and they're going to roll with those guys. The Ravens

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said previously that like Fell, Bateman

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was going to have a breakout season. Tacasta

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has spoken highly of him. John Harbaal has

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spoken highly of him and their belief that he

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can have a really good season, and then this

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extension is a testament to that belief.

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Right, we haven't seen what the numbers are,

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the reported numbers on are on what this

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extension are.

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I'm interested to see what that is.

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The fifth year option, according

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to over thecap dot com for

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shat Bateman, was going to be fourteen point three

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million dollars. So to

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me, this would this move would indicate that

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his cap number is going to be below that for

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twenty twenty five. Yeah, you

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know, you might get a pay increase for twenty twenty

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four. I don't know how it impacts twenty twenty

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four, but

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generally speaking, I think it's

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safe to say Rashad Bateman's first three years

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in Baltimore have not gone according to plan

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right right when they used the first round pick

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on him in twenty twenty one. This is not how

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what they either side envisioned, right,

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But now he gets a long runway to kind of realize

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that great potential that they saw on him when

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they made him a first round pick and that

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great potential exists. We've seen

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that in flashes. As everyone knows,

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injuries have really hampered this guy in

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his first three years, I mean really his first

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two. He had the Hurriyant surgery his first his

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rookie year, knocked out for the first six weeks

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in training camp and all that stuff, which

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really sets you back as a rookie, right trying

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to adjust to the league. And then he

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suffers a foot injury after six games,

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really before six games, he tried to play through it and

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couldn't, had foot surgery that derailed

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his sophomore season, much.

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Of it right, basically, it basically basically

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wiped out a sophomore out his second season exactly.

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Then he really had kind of a long road working

3:41

his way back from that. Even before last year, had troubles

3:44

in training camp, had to kind of hit the brakes

3:46

a little bit on his his comeback and

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was pretty candid that, yeah, he was going

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through some stuff early this past season. So

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the good news is that even

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though last year he still he didn't have

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big time production from a receiving

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standpoint, from a statistical standpoint, he

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was healthy. Yeah, right by the end of the year,

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and you saw him on an upward trajectory

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and you saw more flashes of that

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talent of what could be with Rashad

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Bateman. And now they have a contract

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in place where the Ravens are going to be able to

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see what he can be.

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Yeah, absolutely, there will be no doubt about

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that.

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And I think the injuries that

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he had, like I think that you do

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need to like those

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are serious injuries, like you need to. I

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remember back in his rookie season, we

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do our pregame live show and Tory Smith

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is on that. He said he had a qure muscle surgery

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in his career and he just at the time,

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even before shot Baateman was back on the field, he would

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say, like that is an incredibly difficult surgery

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to come back from, Like I didn't feel right for a long

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time after that, and so Bateman

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missed the six games. But then even when you get back

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like that is it's not you're

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back in your one hundred percent and you're good to go, Like it is

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a long process. And then the list frank like

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that's a major injury. Jimmy

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Smith talked about it, Holly Brown talked about

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how it really altered his entire career. Like

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that is that's really a two year injury, and

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so it missed basically cost him his

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sophomore season. They came back last year. By the end

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of the year, he was healthy and I think looking more

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and more like the player who the Ravens expected

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when they drafted him by the end of the season.

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And like when you look at some of the advanced metrics

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on him, like he was getting open last year, and I

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think that, like, that's the potential you're

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talking about.

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I think that's the key, right, is that when

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you really look at it on film, you

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say, man, this guy like the

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he can be a very good productive

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receiver. The talent is there, the

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tools are there. We've seen it. It's just the

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ball hasn't come his way or whatnot.

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A lot of those instances, right, Like he

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was getting more separation according to Pro Football

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Focus than a lot of the top receivers

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in the NFL. He's like right on par with Tyreek

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Hill, you know, in terms of separation.

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Now, for whatever reason, it

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he just didn't get the ball a ton, right, whether

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he wasn't one of the first reads

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in the route progression or

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whatnot. You know, that

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is something that's going to change moving forward now. The Ravens

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also had Zay Flowers and Odell Beckham

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junior on the team last year, not you

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know, also including Mark Andrews Isa

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likely like they had those guys. Now

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with Odell Beckham not returning, Rashad

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Bateman's gonna get more of those looks his way. And

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if he keeps getting open at the rate

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at which he was getting open last year,

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he could have a very productive season

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in twenty twenty four. And then you're

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looking at it, it's like, all right, I'm really glad

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because you know, picking

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up that fifth year option at fourteen point three

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when you look at it on the surface right now, that's

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a tough pill to swallow.

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Yeah, based on the production that you've seen right now.

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But if Rashad Bateman has

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a very productive twenty twenty four

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and then you have him under contract for two more

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seasons beyond that at a reasonable number,

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okay, you know that that really works

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and this gives for Rashad it's

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like, all right, now you

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really have a lot you a have more guarantees

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up front, like your future is more certain by

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signing this extension. Right we

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again, we don't know the numbers, but anytime

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you're a player that gets an extension. The Ravens have drafted

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a lot of first round receivers and he's

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the first one to get an extension. Yeah, Hollywood

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Brown didn't get one, right, and other

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guys, right, Rashab Perryman didn't get

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one, and so like to get

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that security is good for Rashad Bateman.

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And now he knows he's with Lamar

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Jackson's two time MVP.

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He's in a system.

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He knows like he is in a place

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that should allow him to flourish

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and really realize that potential.

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Yeah, the other thing last year, like the overall

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production for him was limited, but that's

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also we talked about the injury

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piece. He worked his way back to full strength

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over the course of the season, But the Ravens

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added all these other pieces to further

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invest in the receiving corps last year because two

7:55

years ago they kind of went all in on

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Bateman going into that season and then he got hurt and

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was really in a bad spot that season.

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So then the focus coming out of that year was

8:05

obviously getting a deal done with Lamar Jackson and then

8:07

also putting more weapons around him.

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Well, they did that.

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They added Nelson Aguilar, of course, signed Odell

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Beckham junior. They drafted Zay Flowers

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in the first round, so they invested heavily in

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the receiver position. So you know,

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Bateman was his opportunities were

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more limited last year. Now

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going into this season, well,

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and.

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They knew he was coming off the foot.

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You just couldn't put all your eggs in that basket when

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you know he's coming off They know how serious that surgery

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is too, right, and he's coming off that.

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So now there's more He's just going to have more

8:34

of an opportunity this year, like he will be he'll

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get more snaps, he'll get more targets, he'll

8:39

be a starting receiver, and Flowers are going

8:41

to be the starting receivers this year. Yeah, so like

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that's a big jump and I think that like that's

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an opportunity that he is looking for. The

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Ravens have felt like since

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they drafted him, this is a guy who can absolutely

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be a starting receiver, highly productive player, and

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they haven't like lost faith in that potential.

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They basically it's always just been question

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of can you stay healthy. Now they

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think he's.

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When he did, he played sixteen games last year,

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right, he fought through it early. To his credit,

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like he fought through it early in the year, and then

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he finished healthy, like healthy,

9:13

healthy right after he got through fighting through

9:15

that. So like he deserves credit for that. He proved

9:17

it that he can stay on the field. Yeah, No, that's

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not a guarantee of it moving

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forward. He's still got to do that. And you

9:24

know, looking at the videos of him in

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workouts this offseason, it looks like the dude's

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working hard, you know, and so like,

9:32

yeah, I think that they've always believed in the

9:34

Rashad Bateman's talent and last

9:36

season proved to them that this guy

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can do that take the steps necessary to stay on

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the field. And he's in a good place

9:43

physically. They've seen what, you

9:45

know, the separation that's he's getting and

9:47

all that stuff. Like the stars are aligning

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for the Rashad Bateman breakout and the Ravens are

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betting on that now.

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Yep, So how does this impact their draft strategy?

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We'll answer that question when we come back from this break.

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10:56

So we dropped our seven round mocks

10:59

early today and if

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you haven't listened to that full podcast. Go back and do

11:04

that. But this is an opportunity

11:06

to clown on you, Like, this is the opportunity

11:09

to clunt.

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I think Eric Decas is he was waiting.

11:12

He was waiting, so I put out my mock

11:14

and then he was like, yeah, I'm gonna blow that up.

11:15

Yeah.

11:16

So this is I mean, I think, really,

11:18

what it.

11:19

Is is until Thursday, it is not locked.

11:22

It's not locklow it was, So.

11:23

This is this is an unlocked this

11:25

is I've got the skeleton key. I

11:28

come in, unlock it, minker

11:30

with it one more time, and then lock

11:32

it back in.

11:33

Yeah. So you locked it in already, and you took

11:35

a Donnie Mitchell in the first round, a wide

11:37

receiver, first round wide receiver

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in your twenty twenty four mock.

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I think that once again. You

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know, it's not when you're fifteen

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years run in you're going to be wrong on your first

11:49

round pick.

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That's not true.

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I think I've gotten a first round pick. I

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got Jimmy Smith. It's been a while, okay,

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I think I might have gotten thirteen

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years ago. Sorry I said, you know, I hurst

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okay, so that wasn't that long ago.

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That was not that long ago. Okay, so there we can go, all

12:04

right, but even on it, it has been. It has

12:06

been even on dry

12:09

spell recently, it's been rough. So that's gonna

12:11

it looks like it's not looking

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good.

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Okay, it's not looking good for a

12:15

Donnie Mitchell and the Ravens. The chances of the

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meeting.

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Here's where I say, Donny Mitchell

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was really the eleventh hour pick.

12:23

Here we go.

12:25

I was at first I was all in on the America

12:28

Amarus Mims train. I

12:30

was all about that, and then it looks

12:32

like he's gonna go too soon, so I got out of that. It

12:35

feels like the tackles, there's gonna be a run on tackles.

12:37

So then I pivoted to mckinstrey

12:40

right the cornerback. How

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could I not says twenty first name kool

12:45

Aid mckinstree, the cornerback

12:47

from Alabama.

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That was really a direction I was going. And then eleventh

12:50

hour I was just like, you know what.

12:52

Let's go with the wide out BPA

12:55

and that's not gonna be the case I

12:58

got.

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This is where I have to uh.

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A good friend of the lounge, one of the all

13:02

time friends of the lounge. Jim Kohler, our

13:05

VP of finance, stopped me today and made

13:07

fun. He said, you got to call out Ryan for

13:10

how he always gives you the name on

13:12

the mock, but then he names seven other guys and

13:14

then so just to give him the ability

13:16

to say, I told you so, I told you it's

13:19

I called it. And so that's why you're doing Swamanseea

13:22

and Patrick Paul.

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It's it's like what you're doing right now.

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You're like, I picked a Donny Mitchell, but I really wanted

13:26

MAM's. But I also want to cool in McKinstry.

13:29

So if if it's okay, if it's kool

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aid, I get credit.

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You don't get credit.

13:32

If it's cooling, I get partial credit. If it's Donny

13:35

Mitchell, you get credit. But here's so so with

13:37

this move, in all honesty, I

13:40

think that like I

13:42

would now be shocked if the Ravens, I'd

13:44

be very surprised if the Ravens take a wide receiver

13:46

in the first two rounds. I'm not just saying

13:48

round one. I'm also saying round too. The first two rounds

13:51

would really surprise you. If they end up taking a wide receiver.

13:54

I would probably agree

13:57

with that. Yeah, I would be surprised. I wouldn't

13:59

be shocked, but surprise for putting on the

14:01

levels here, I would be surprised

14:03

if they took one in the first year rounds.

14:05

Shocked in the first round. I would be shocked in the first.

14:06

Round, shocked first round, surprise, second

14:09

round, third round, third round.

14:11

It's I think you're back.

14:12

Yeah, that's where my guy, uh, you know, Brandon

14:15

Rice comes into the question.

14:16

Look, there you go.

14:17

In my mind, I sort of God, if you hit that, I

14:19

would be so salty.

14:20

But but but but I

14:23

think that the Ravens won't go receiver early.

14:25

You know, I think that.

14:26

I always look, I think it's

14:28

always curious when a deal gets done right on the eve

14:31

of the draft, Like what is there anything significant

14:33

to the timing or is this just when the deal got done,

14:35

Like, is there any is there any reason

14:38

that that, you know, the Ravens

14:40

announced it right before the draft, a day

14:42

before, or or is it just

14:44

this it just so happened that the

14:46

two sides agree to it on the day before the draft.

14:49

I don't know, But I always think

14:51

that, like DaCosta loves to play those those games

14:53

behind the scenes and he's a master at working

14:55

that kind of stuff, and so I don't know the full

14:57

implications of that, but I like I

14:59

wonder what the implications will be in terms of what

15:01

the message that sends to other teams and all that.

15:03

Well, in terms of the timing, the interesting thing is,

15:05

you know, Amanas Saint Brown just

15:08

earlier in the day before this is announced,

15:10

agreed to a four year, one hundred and twenty

15:12

million dollar extension. Yeah, receivers

15:15

get paid, right, and

15:18

so like the Ravens with Lamar Jackson's

15:20

contract and some of their other players who

15:22

are making a lot of money, like, it's

15:25

just hard to imagine them ever really

15:27

paying that kind of top dollar for

15:29

a receiver when they have when Lamar's

15:31

on his second contract.

15:32

It's really tough.

15:33

It's tough, right, you got to make big cuts

15:35

from defense and other positions where the Ravens

15:38

like to have a lot of talent and pay guys. They paid

15:40

Roquan, They've you know, Marcus Williams is paid.

15:43

Like, it's just tough. And

15:45

so if they feel like Rasha Bateman

15:47

talent wise, is every bit as good as Amanas

15:50

Saint Brown and some of these other guys talent

15:52

wise, like he's healthy. The production certainly

15:54

hasn't matched it to this point. But

15:57

like if they're like, look, we can get a really talented

15:59

guy and right now because

16:01

of his injuries, like it comes at a lower cost,

16:04

then that's an expensure

16:07

that makes sense, especially when you see what these

16:09

another example of Amara Saint Brown and

16:11

you know the guy from Philly

16:14

just got paid, Davonta Smith,

16:16

he just got paid. Like these guys

16:18

in that draft class are starting to get these extensions

16:20

and get paid, and the Ravens it's

16:23

kind of like based on production, it's

16:25

kind of a by low situation right now with

16:27

Rashad Batman. When you especially when you look at

16:29

these other contracts, Yeah, and look at

16:31

what are the Ravens going to be able to afford at the position

16:34

moving forward? It makes more sense when

16:36

you put all those puzzle pieces together from a timing

16:38

standpoint, I'm saying on these contract

16:40

extensions.

16:41

So in terms of the draft, you know, we

16:43

just I got a guy. Yeah, I don't know that it's going

16:45

to be a top I don't think it's going to be a

16:47

receiver in the first two rounds. But what other

16:50

implications are there for draft weekend.

16:52

Well, I have a guy, a

16:54

wide receiver like and it's not your guy Brendan

16:56

Rice Jalen McMillan out

16:58

of Washington. I think what makes sense in the third

17:00

round for the Ravens if if he

17:02

were to get to that Jan Polk Jalen McMillan.

17:05

Okay, another there is

17:07

also Jalen Polk.

17:08

I just want to make sure there was.

17:09

Yeah, two guys, both Washington receivers,

17:12

both Jalens. Yeah,

17:14

so spelled differently. Yeah.

17:17

I like Polk too, but I think he goes a little

17:19

bit earlier McMillan. I think would

17:21

be you know, I start to think about,

17:23

all right, what are potential Nelly

17:26

long term? You know, Nelson Aguilar's

17:28

under contract for another year. You

17:30

know, who could be a guy who maybe steps

17:32

in as that big slot you know,

17:34

because Rashad Baman's your ex he's

17:37

under contract through twenty twenty six. You

17:39

have Zay who moves all over, primarily

17:41

played outside, but that big slot. Guys

17:43

who run that slot fade Like, who

17:46

could that be? Jalen McMillan. Would

17:49

make some sense there?

17:50

Yeah, I think that. I just

17:52

think that honestly, this

17:54

this crosses

17:56

off the receiver position early in the draft, and now you're.

17:59

Look the type more. You know, everybody

18:01

was talking about the X Y. I know the Ravens are looking for

18:03

that X receiver that's big.

18:05

Yeah, exactly, he's big. I mean he's in terms

18:07

of it's not like he's a six foot one receiver.

18:09

I mean, if you want to get like another guy that's

18:12

not an X, smaller guy who's really interesting,

18:14

he like feels like a Ravens but a Raven

18:16

but to me is not an ex Malki Corley.

18:19

Like that guy, he would

18:22

be a third round option probably as well.

18:23

He'd probably be a third round option like a smaller

18:25

but muscled up like you know,

18:27

he's like a different version of a Flowers.

18:29

I think I think that when James

18:31

Ogden we had him on the podcast, he called him

18:34

like another version of Devin Duverney, like

18:36

a like a similar type of player.

18:38

So I think that the Ravens could go like that

18:40

mid round receiver option. Like I'm I'm not crossing

18:43

off receiver from them drafting a receiver

18:45

at all over the course of the draft weekend. I think it just pushes

18:47

it down the board and I think it makes it I

18:50

think we're looking at basically in that first

18:52

round, you're looking at tackle corner,

18:54

potentially pass rusher if they feel like there's

18:57

a pass rusher who's there. That really makes sense.

18:59

Yeah, But I think it's basically tackle a corner in the first

19:01

round, that's what you're looking at.

19:02

That would be the most probable and all

19:05

the latest. Yeah,

19:07

I mean those would be the ones.

19:08

Yeah, I just don't see.

19:09

I don't think tackle corner or edge. It

19:11

kind of narrows it down to that. I mean, defensive

19:14

tackle, like we've said, it would be a real surprise. So

19:17

yeah, I think tackle corner, edge, trade back.

19:20

Yeah, yeah, I mean.

19:21

According to all the reports of the media

19:24

buzz from Daniel Jeremiah and others, it's like everybody's

19:26

looking to trade up to get a tackle. And

19:29

hey, maybe the Ravens are one of those teams that

19:31

are looking to trade up and get their guy at tackle

19:33

because the need is so obvious. Maybe,

19:36

right, and Washington's

19:38

going to look to move up into the back end of

19:40

the first round, I bet and take a tackle. There's

19:43

a bunch of teams that are looking to

19:45

get there. You know, the Cowboys, the Packers

19:47

are all in on the offensive

19:49

lineman game. They could be at center

19:51

or tackle. There's just a

19:53

lot of teams and so if

19:56

those guys come flying off the board, that pushes

19:58

players at other positions. That and maybe

20:00

it's corner. Like I said, kool Aid's my pick.

20:03

Kol Aid McKinstry is my guy. So I'm sticking

20:05

with my pick.

20:06

Well, I think that if a corner gets pushed,

20:08

I think kool Aid would like I would

20:10

have no qualms about that. I also think that Nate Wiggins

20:13

from Clemson, we have not talked about him

20:15

much at all. I think that there's potential

20:17

that he's there, and if he is, I

20:19

actually think that he could he might

20:21

be the more likely pick over kool Aid in my mind.

20:24

Interesting, I think kool Aid to me

20:26

feels like more of a raven.

20:28

Than you guys.

20:29

A corner from Alabama, right, Well, he's a.

20:30

Corner from Alabama and he's a little bit bigger. Wiggins

20:33

is pretty lean. He's pretty

20:35

lean. I mean, Yeah, there's a lot

20:37

of talk about Emmanuel Forbes in the Ravens.

20:39

Last year.

20:39

Forbes had a lot of that was based off

20:42

his ball production. He had a lot of picks. Yeah,

20:45

but you know, Forbes had

20:47

a tough rookie season. Now whatever

20:49

made it would have been different in Baltimore, But

20:53

I don't know. Wiggins looks is pretty lean for me.

20:55

So yeah, it's gonna be Wiggins.

20:58

Now, yes, just keep missing, you

21:00

mess what I do. Yeah,

21:02

so it'll I think it's Look,

21:05

this is exciting. It's it's an exciting

21:07

way to kick off draft weekend. And

21:10

we're gonna be covering everything over the course

21:12

of the next few days and all the different moves

21:14

that get made, and I can't

21:17

wait to see how this thing plays out the cost

21:19

of kickings office and fireworks once again.

21:21

Of course. Well I saw him. I was in line,

21:23

I was getting some soup. I was getting a little

21:25

of the uh chicken tortilla, okay,

21:28

right, soup, and incomes Eric right,

21:30

strolling through, passed to get his lunch.

21:33

Hey Eric, hey, you know, I said, I bet

21:35

you're bet, you're excited. Bet you're ready

21:37

for this thing to get kicked off. And he's he

21:40

said, got a little more business.

21:41

Before then I

21:44

got there. I didn't even know it. I

21:46

didn't even know it.

21:47

I was like, all right, he was working on a draft

21:49

day trade something like that, you know, moving up

21:51

whatever, working out those trade scenarios.

21:54

No, it was a little different business. Yeah, he

21:57

hinted at it. He hinted at it. I didn't ask the journalism

22:00

what it won.

22:01

I know. I don't think he would have given you much.

22:02

I don't think so.

22:03

No. I think he just saw my mock

22:05

and he was like, well, I got a clown. Make it again.

22:08

That's what I do. Yeah, he

22:10

does love clown and reporters. So last year was the

22:12

whole Ravens aren't going to make a trade. Yeah,

22:15

he like knows that. He does love

22:17

clowning.

22:17

And there's nobody he loves to clown more than you.

22:19

Oh, that's for sure. At the top of the list.

22:21

Well, we'll have that as one of the top

22:23

questions when we get to kass On Podcasts

22:26

after the draft, So I'll

22:28

mark that one down. So thank you so much for listening,

22:30

and again make sure you check out the live episode

22:32

of the podcast Thursday night, seven

22:34

thirty pm. You can watch that on our app,

22:37

our website, and our YouTube channel as well. Thank

22:39

you so much for listening, and stay tuned

22:41

for a busy weekend ahead of us