Lamar Jackson still does not have
his long-term contract. Yesterday, he dipped into
Twitter to respond to some Twitter users on a variety of
points. Here's one.
The first, the first comment Lamar Jackson is a league MVP
still hasn't broken. The bank Ravens are on the hot seat,
give that man, the 250 million guaranteed
before you write a check,
your ass, can't cash
response, he wants more than that. They've already offered
that. Here comes Lamar No, they didn't
love them. Are Lamar, I mean, it's great. I like this
part 2. Yeah, as much as I love Lamar fully guaranteed deal, is
just bad business, just because a horrible franchise,
the Cleveland Browns did horrible business
giving Watson. That contract doesn't mean other teams should
follow honestly, I'm hoping Lamar gets a 10-year, half
billion dollar deal response. You don't have Lamont's a great
response, you don't love them.
And the best one was this because and this exchange
continue, there's so many tweets try to pick Proof.
But the user Hitman 1600 making the point.
Hey, look, sometimes these guys grow up in a place and they
want to play for that team. And the point was made, you know,
maybe maybe Lamar grew up in South Florida wants to play for
the Dolphins. His response, I grew up in Dallas fan but
Dolphins were
S no doubt he did not say I'm a raven for life.
I grew up in Dallas fan
Dolphins were second. So
then there also was eventually a
picture of Lamar wearing
the Dolphins uniform the Photoshop skills.
Endless on social media,
there it is.
Hey, I've, I've
looked they to get this done to, they don't, I know that
that really is not Steve Danse my Mike Florio, you know, they
guess is done and they don't, they're either gonna
get it done and they won't. But here we are
two weeks away. 12 days away from week one, when the Ravens
played the Jets,
he is applied a week 1 deadline and I know it's not a real
deadline but at some point you got to focus on the season
at some point they got a three-day break coming up. Up
after the cuts and then they get back and they start
practicing getting ready for Week 1. Lamar Jackson, is he
going to have less time than
ever
once they come back from their three-day break and start
focusing on getting ready for week one. So
and if it does not happen this year,
It may never happen.
There's a chance he never saw as a long-term deal with
the Baltimore Ravens and he ends up in a different uniform. As soon
as next year. Yeah, it's
definitely a possibility
again. It's still crazy where we're at in this situation
and you know to play off what you said there. I would think
that
if this doesn't get done by that three-day break, I would
think that three-day break needs to be the time where, you
know, they break some bread and try to figure out the contract
here. They got to
Figure it out. I mean I hope like
you know Lamar doesn't leave town or something like that.
I hope he stays there and tries to figure this out. I want
Lamar to get his money. I do. I'm a Lamar Jackson fan,
he's a hell of a player. He deserves it, you know,
as we know there is a, it's weird here. It's weird.
We know he was offered more guaranteed money than Kyler Murray,
what she should be.
He's better than the Kyla Murray's been better than Kyle
and Marie. He's LED his team to the playoffs, you know, every
year except her last year, where he got hurt at the end of
the year.
Won an MVP. All right, but I think what we are finding out
here a little bit is
the DeShaun Watson contract is an issue. It's an issue
and it should be and it's not his psyche. We talked about
this last week, right? It's not his fault that it's an issue.
I'm sorry, you
dumb owner and Cleveland
paid, you know, quarterback in trouble. So, I pooping money.
So he's going well, complaints to. I've done just I've just
done a lot done all this.
I've done all this and more than two Sean Watson, so
I should get that. And that's the problem here. He didn't set
the market,
you know, dumb owner and Cleveland Ed. I'm sorry, I'm
just having fun here. I don't mean that literally, but I know
what I mean. Yeah, but it's fun. And, and look,
here's the reality, and I think this is part of the deeper push
and pull. That's going on. Once is an accident twice as a trend
wise man. Once said that pretty much every week on
ESPN Sunday, NFL Countdown. On prime-time, whatever is want to
Chris Berman's,
go to lines. So you've got the DeShaun Watson deal,
five years, fully guaranteed, 230 million,
Is it an aberration or is it the start of something that's
going to continue? Well, here's the calamari deal. That isn't
230 million fully guaranteed and one of the issues is
does the owner have
the cash available
to put the amount of money in escrow that is required by this
stupid outdated funding rule? That was put in place to
protect players. But now is used against them because
owners don't want to put. And some of them can't put that
much cash in an account
to ensure that it's there. Because the idea was
hey, some of these teams may become insolvent back in.
60, 70 s etcetera. Nobody's going broke. Now,
there's so much TV money coming through every year. They're
always going to be able to pay these guys. You don't need to
put the money in escrow but that's the pushback
that's the counter
to it. So
it's kind of like the third game of a three-game series
here. This is the rubber match does. Lamar Jackson get
Baltimore to do? What Cleveland did?
Or will it be two in a row
without a fully guaranteed deal?
Then you have a stronger argument. I meant
that the DeShaun Watson deal was an aberration.
I still think, Russell, Wilson's, next deal will be
fully guaranteed frankly and maybe others, maybe Joe Burrows
as well. Although, I don't know that Mike Brown has the cash to
put it all in escrow, but, but that's the key and it's clearly
one of the
big messages from his tweet.
He wants a fully guaranteed deal.
Jay, Glazer said that a week. Or so ago, we've talked about it
he wants and he should he should.
I don't care how dumb the Browns were they have crossed a river?
That cannot be Crossed. And now Steve, Bisciotti
has to decide do I want to swim in that River?
Or do I want to risk? Not having Lamar Jackson? In all
comes down to this, the end of the day.
Lamar Jackson wants a fully guaranteed deal. Okay, fine.
The Ravens just say we're not going to do it. Here's the best
we're going to do. And we talked about this is more
broken Smith. We've talked about it with Lamar Jackson
at some point, you get their best offer on the table and you
got to make the decision. The grown-up adult decision. Do
I play for 23 million
with? No guarantee Beyond this year?
And who knows what's going to happen in 2023?
Or do I take the best offer? They're willing to pay me so
hopefully they put their best offer on the table at some
point. He can make that assessment but there's
a chance, his assessment is
Roll the dice, I'll bet on myself.
I'll bet guys are wired to bet on themselves because they
always think they're going to win that bet. I know, I know,
it's just it's
gosh, it's a risky bet. And again, I don't know what
they're offering, but we know it's somewhere in between
the Watson money in the Cuyler Marie money. And that's just
gosh if it's 190 million. 200 million guaranteed.
Wow. I wonder if he'd take the Watson deal, just plain and
simple right off the if they just had five years to 30
guaranteed, would he take it or does he want even?
A little bit more than that. I don't know either there,
but I'd be interested to know
and I also want to go. There's there's a lot of things here
where I also want to go. Wait, if you're offering
195 million guaranteed or 100 night, like I don't know than
damn just go to 230, just go to 2:30 and let's get it done with.
And you got your guy for the next five years. You not to
worry about it. So there's a lot, this is crazy. It's crazy
that we're talking about this, all I know is I do worry about
Lamar he plays a more dangerous style of football.
Then we know just about any other quarterback in the game
does and that's where I do want him to protect himself.
Watson was at 45 million
from scratch. Murray got two forty, five point one. New
money. When you look at it,
you factor in the two years left, it's not really 45
million its signing, but he can say, he's making more than
DeShaun Watson at 45 one, even though the guarantee is far
less, and he really isn't. So you get to Lamar 2:45 to and
every dollar is fully guaranteed. I would think you
get that done,
if you're willing to do it, they may not be willing to do
it, but I'm going to try something here before we go to
break. Yeah,
I'm going to try your magic. Okay. Now my hands aren't as
big as yours. But here's what I'm going to do and let's see
if it works. Okay? Okay, yeah, I'm going to apply my hand.
Nothing up my sleeve.
I'm going to take my hand. I'm going to apply it to
the microphone
and I'm going to say
Lamar Jackson.
The time has come for you to recognize that you are not
suited to negotiate. This contract, without a qualified
and certified
nflpa agent. Lamar Jackson. I am calling upon you
to finally admit
that. You need an agent
and to finally, hire an agent. All right, we'll see if that
works.
See if it works
like Chris Simms mad or Trapster day, you'll see if it
works for you.
Grab the microphone and speak it into being Lamar, Jackson,
commence, the process of hiring
an
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