Lamar Jackson
trying to get his contract from the Baltimore Ravens Jay Glazer
last night during the pregame portion of the Ravens
Cardinals. Preseason, game said that the Ravens of often Lamar
Jackson, more
than Kyler Murray.
The issue obviously is DeShaun Watson contract. He got 46
million, fully guaranteed for five years. 230 million fully
guaranteed for Watson. Murray's, got 46.1 on
a five-year extension.
Option two years tacked, onto it, it becomes a different
deal all together, so you could easily get Lamar Jackson 246
point to and say you're paying more than Kyler Murray. But
if it's not all guaranteed, its signing and you absorb
the 2022. Season at 23 million, I did the math last night,
it works out to something like 42 million a year
on a six-year deal
if you give him five years, forty six point two million
on top of the He still has left and so far he hasn't taken it.
And look as as Glazier said, it's an uphill battle and it is
it is
because Lamar Jackson
is representing himself. He's trying to get ready for the season
teams. Got the warning last week from the league if a guy
represents himself the only person you should talk to is
the player. No one else no family members. No
no agents. If he's representing himself it's just him. That
makes it even harder to get a deal done. I still think
they're not going to get it. Deal done
but there's 20 days left and maybe at some point. Lamar
Jackson recognizes I got to take the best offer. They give
me because I don't want to continue to carry this injury
risk. I just dead. That's where I look at it. I mean I just
wouldn't
have the, you know, plain and simple have the marbles to turn
it down. I mean, it's something that, you know, I heard weeks
ago that
he's been offered more guaranteed money
in the history of the sport other than DeShaun Watson.
And, and, of course that, you know, contract is weird to say
the least, okay? But That's where I just go. Wow, are you
going to really leave? You know, I don't know what
the exact number is
180. 190, 200 million guaranteed on the table with
the style of football that you do play. Lamar Jackson. I would
certainly be in your corner going. No, please don't. Let's
just take this. All right? And move on with life and like
you said, put the injury risk back onto the, the Baltimore
Ravens,
especially with the way you play, and you've already taken
some hits in your career, you know? So that's where I worry
about him. I We root for him that in the, you know, as far
as staying healthy and being the Lamar Jackson, Remember
come on, who's more
fun to watch, you know, on a Sunday or Monday night,
the Lamar Jackson running around doing crazy stuff. He's
awesome. So
the thing that's encouraging and I'm with you, I don't think
it gets done but, you know, just watching the game last
night, it sounds like it's not affecting
much. As far as his,
his practice habits, his concentration
as far as the football aspect. I mean, everybody's
So highly of them, the fact he's so focused and locked in
so that's a good thing but man, I just yes, I just wish he'd
take the money or at least get an age, and I know that
won't, he's locked in because this is contract year, so he
knows, yeah, he's ready. If they're not gonna give him what
he wants. There's only one way to get what he wants and that's
go out there and have his best season ever. The problem is
he could get injured along the way. There could be things that
he doesn't control. All it takes is one fluke it and there
goes that contract, the Ravens won't want to give it to you.
No one will want to give it to you if you're not healthy
enough to play. If there are questions about when you'll be
100% or anything close to it and even then who knows may
have to do a one-year deal and prove yourself, you get
yourself into the Jameis, Winston Vortex, where it's
short-term contract, short-term, contract, until you
finally, get a chance to prove yourself again,
that could be where Lamar Jackson is. If he ends up
suffering, a serious injury and I feel bad even saying it
I hate to be. Do you jinxed him? But we know we know
what the sport entails and we know that of all the guys out
there long Jackson is the quarterback who is at
the highest risk because the way
that he plays and I've had conversations been doing this
20 plus years. Now you talk to different Agents from time to
time about deals and you try to kind of gently say well why
don't you know, you maybe some are saying that many are saying
many are saying you could have gotten more than you did.
And there's a point where
you have to, you have to just put the sword down and you have
to say,
look what they're offering.
When you look at this offer do I want more? Can I get more?
But what I tell my son not to take this, and that's
the litmus test I've heard time and again.
Yeah. Yeah, you know what, I'd like to get more but if this
was offered to my son and I understood the risks of not
taking it,
I wouldn't be able to tell him to not take it. I'd have to
tell them to take it even though I think I can get him
more. I, I'd have to tell him to take this. Yeah, this is
generational life. Jing money. This is
the type of money where
your great grand kids are going to be,
you know, they're going to be good because of what you do, as
long as he doesn't buy too, many more gold chains. I mean,
which was hilarious last night.
Mark. And Heather, are you if they hold their value? I don't
bother are your right ear is I just having fun. I really been
Mark Andrews with one that he bought. I mean, but yes,
I mean that's where it. Just whoo,
my stomach gets on the not thinking about it, it does.
So I hope, I hope Something. You know, he someone can
come to the realization,
his mother himself. Whatever hear
that. Okay. You know, maybe it's not the deal I want. And
maybe I didn't get every last dollar I wanted but still
what? Okay, you lost out on 25 million guaranteed. What, what
can't you not get with the
hundred ninety million that you're going to get plus?
Again, the rest of the contract you're going to, you know,
hopefully going to get all that money at some point.
Franchise quarterbacks. What we're seeing for the most part
these type of player they're seeing the full capacity of
the contracts
mean really I can't think of too many that are not right.
The league is set out, protect them but he plays a dangerous
style and it is very. If anybody doesn't it's him,
that's the problem. That is the problem and
and that's you know you don't need to guarantee franchise
quarterback contracts because
you're not going to if you're the team that recognizes, he's
a franchise quarterback you don't just suddenly Become not
a franchise quarterback. Once you have reached that level,
you're earning the money and it doesn't need to be guaranteed.
You're going to keep getting it. But for Lamar Jackson,
there's that
risk of an injury
that would dramatically affect his availability or his
is his performance.
And the Ravens possibly would want to move on. Do you think
like right? Yeah, I know they could your right and well
I mean I wonder sometimes like this Dak Prescott embolden them
like Dak Prescott says foot was pointing,
you know, South towards Mexico
and It was it's it's oh okay here here stole you know 45
million dollars or in 40 million dollars a year.
So that's that was a gruesome part two where he still got paid
and I don't know, you know, again I think Lamar Jackson
does not get quite the credit, he deserves for the thrower and
there's ability to make plays in the pocket. But yes, it
would certainly hurt his ability to escape and make
crazy plays that way.
Here's the reality though and this is where
a seasoned effective and competent agent.
Would be able to explain the differences. To Lamar Jackson
Dak Prescott was a fourth-round pick. Dak Prescott,
had finished his rookie contract. He had done one year
under the franchise tag and he had the Cowboys over a barrel
in year, two of the franchise tag because there's no way that
we're going to do it a third time. Yeah. That's so you're
to was it, you're getting a deal done or this guy's
becoming an unrestricted free agent next year. And if you
want to keep him, you're going to have to compete with
everyone else who may want him
in the Cowboys, didn't.
To do it. So they did a four-year 160 million dollar deal
and the way it's negotiated, I think, after this season, they
better start thinking about redoing it DeShaun Watson.
A once-in-a-generation
set of facts.
May be even more rare than that, where he's on a team
that's already paid him, he wants out, they want to move
him. You throw this off field stuff on top
of it. And then he's
kind of sort of, not really exonerated but it creates
a Rush of four teams to try to get him. And the first team, he
tells get the hell out of here
gets desperate and puts together a package that he
can't refuse. Yeah. Well, Lamar Jackson is never going to be in
that situation.
Those facts are never going to, especially all of the facts.
I mean, it's never going to happen again, but the idea that
Lamar Jackson is going to be in a spot where he's he's got four
teams at the table, he tells one get the hell out of here
and it reacts by saying let's give this
guy the best contract. But is that mayor to need money? Is
that what are, you know, because I know I know, not
fair, but it is. I know because he, I understand where you can
be like, well, hey, that's the market now, you know, you
talked to one of your Oleg Arc over there, he's screwed up
straight. I know that's where I'm a little. It's
that's the response that is. You having fun
right easier to articulate that? Yeah,
to say hey
we know how this works. Yeah. Watson ain't going to
the playoffs going on every year. Like I am. He didn't win
the I'll be like I did.
Yeah, I don't care how it came to be. Yeah, it is. Yes.
Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I know if the Browns
Are stupid. It doesn't matter if they were,
you know, drinking beer for the 12:00, Matthew, Berry show, it
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how it got there. Yeah,
it's there, that applies
that applies more broadly than football, game are actually
always changing and doesn't matter how it got there. It's
there. Yeah. Right like hey oh hey it's 120 million dollars
for somebody to announce a football game.
Twenty million dollars. That is
so crazy. Now there's a guy Makin 37 million. He doesn't
even announcing damn game yet, right? So at the yeah, I don't
know. See, exactly the reality is, that's where it is. And
they brightens and that's makes. And that's why. And
again, I'm not taking anything away from our Jackson, maybe he
can make that
argument on his own.
I could have never made that argument at 25 years old 26
years old, when my focus is football. Yeah, you need
somebody who can say to Steve Bisciotti Eric to cost to John
Harbaugh whoever.
No, no, I don't think I know that you're trying to tell me
how this DeShaun Watson thing is once-in-a-generation. It
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, it happened.
Is the bar now. And if you want Lamar Jackson under contract,
you got to give him the same thing
plus a little bit. That's just how it works.
Sorry. Take it up with your your business partner. Jimmy
Haslem,
who decided to cross a boundary
that everyone else had refused to cross.
So I agree with you. I agree with you.
It's it shouldn't matter.
But it's hard without an agent
to make that point, as fervently, and convincingly
as Lamar Jackson, otherwise could, by the way, by the way,
You know I think sometimes when you're on live TV you can
misspeak you can say post-season start of pre-season
like I did earlier Curt Menefee last night on the fox pregame
with Sean Payton and Jay Glazer from director's chairs on the
on the sidelines of the
State Farm. Stadium
Menefee said that large accent gained 25 pounds, it's
offseason. It's like I about fell out of my chair 25 pounds.
He hasn't gained 25 pounds is more like 10 or 12.
I don't know if he just misspoke,
but it but it turned into a lie. I don't think he missed
Smoke. Because then Sean Payton reacted to it saying,
you know, mixing a salad. Sometimes, you get a little bit
too big. There's a point where you're too big as a quarterback
but there's a big difference between 25 and 10 or 12. Yeah,
he went to the weight room. He put on some lean muscle
mass. That's what he's trying to do, right?
It's not 25 pounds. I immediately texted someone who
would know it's like it is 24d, put on 25 pounds. No, he didn't
put on 25 pounds, well, 10 or 12 pounds. Yeah, I mean, I had
25 is enormous. Now, I will say in his little interview
on the sidelines.
You know who's the damn sideline reporter? Now they're
I'm blanking on his name. Used to be with ESPN, Tom Rinaldi.
Thank Tom Rinaldi. Let it go hit. He did
say to Lamar you put on 18 pounds
so that again I missed that one.
That's significant.
No and well Martin go you didn't correct them. It is
significant certainly you know but but again Lamar
is been that wiry skinny guy where I think he's naturally
ripped and whatever else and who knows what he The end of
the year last year when he was hurt and maybe couldn't work
out so maybe it's from there
as compared to maybe what might have been that the start of
the preseason last year.
But hey it's a guy that
you know, needs a little armor on them. Like we talked about
and as long as it's not affecting his speed and all of
that, then then you know, go for it. Certainly he's a freak
of nature. He's probably one of those guys that doesn't need to
work out or lift too much weights to put weight on.
But what I always do
worry about a little
is he Hey Lamar Jackson's body was intended to be you know
a certain size. Like you know I said here and I'm not trying to
a jerk but think about Zach Wilson. Oh he looks beefy, you
know, he looks great. Oh you know well we do a BP, got him,
he stuck his foot in the ground
with nobody touching him and his knee gave out. And those
are the things I worry about at times. When I hear guys always
trying to get too big well as the rest of his body, ready to
be that big when he's got to make these cuts on all that,
but I would bet you he gets more and more shape as we go
along here, but it certainly looks.
Vicar him and Trevor Lawrence are battling it out for
the thickest quarterback. Next, I've ever seen in history,
the Takeo Spikes award that, right? I mean, they're both
neck-and-neck,
unintended in the running to have the Takeo Spikes, gigantic
neck and you notice it recently with Lawrence and
I I noticed it in some of the pictures that I've seen
recently of Lamar Jackson. I mean, he's hit the weights,
he's put on weight. I worry about his ability to have
the same burst. Yeah, I hear, you know, there's a certain point
where and I know that
I remember, when remember,
What David Boston just like, oh, I remember it up and it's
like, dude,
did this guy eat David? Boston like, where's David Boston? You
know.
But but there was a thought that well, if it's all muscle,
you'll still have your speed and explosion. I'm,
I'm fairly confident. There's a point where it becomes
counterproductive. Yeah, I would agree with that too.
Yeah, that mean David Ralston was he was again another guy
that I had a little time with in Tampa. It was obsessive
he was obsessive about his body.
I mean you know no carbs working out
Everything. It was like a science experiment to a degree.
But yeah, was it absolutely the best for him
at wide receiver? I don't know about that. I don't know. And
hopefully, this is good for Lamar. I have a hard time
thinking that he won't shed a few of these pounds as we get
closer, and he's running around more,
and then, of course, is the season goes, you can't quite
lift the same way and do all that to where I bet you week
three. He's
78 pounds bigger than normal instead of maybe the 15 pounds
bigger than he is right now.