Ravens sub in Trey Hendrickson for $112 million after passing on Maxx Crosby

We can’t say it hasn’t been interesting, compelling or without drama. Just before the start of free agency, the Baltimore Ravens agreed to terms with Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Trey Hendrickson after nixing a massive deal with the Las Vegas Raiders to bring Maxx Crosby to Owings Mills. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss all of the fallout and the decisions and risk tolerance of Eric DeCosta.

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NFL Free Agency and Trey Hendrickson Signing

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones discuss the active NFL free agency period, highlighting the signing of Trey Hendrickson by the Baltimore Ravens.
• Luke Jones recalls the excitement and anticipation leading up to the signing, mentioning the failed physical of Max Crosby and the subsequent negotiations.
• The conversation touches on the historical context of failed physicals, referencing the Miami Dolphins’ missed opportunity to sign Drew Brees.
• Luke Jones emphasizes the importance of Trey Hendrickson’s physical, noting his age and recent surgery, and compares him to a healthy Max Crosby.

Comparing Trey Hendrickson and Max Crosby

• Luke Jones explains the differences between Trey Hendrickson and Max Crosby, noting that Hendrickson is not as versatile or elite against the run.
• The discussion includes the impact of Hendrickson’s core muscle surgery and the potential long-term implications for his performance.
• Luke Jones acknowledges the Ravens’ need to pivot quickly due to public perception and the league’s reaction to the situation.
• The conversation highlights the financial aspects of the deal, including Hendrickson’s reported salary expectations and the Ravens’ decision to keep their draft picks.

Impact on AFC North Rivalries and Team Dynamics

• Luke Jones discusses the AFC North rivalries, particularly the Bengals and Steelers, and how the signing of Trey Hendrickson adds to the intrigue.
• The conversation explores the historical context of players moving between division rivals and the potential impact on the Bengals’ defense.
• Luke Jones compares Hendrickson’s sack records to Elvis Dumerville’s, emphasizing the significance of his performance in recent seasons.
• The discussion includes the potential long-term implications for the Ravens’ defense and the importance of maintaining a strong pass rush.

Public Perception and Team Strategy

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones debate the public perception of the Ravens’ actions, questioning the team’s intentions and the validity of the physical concerns.
• The conversation touches on the importance of maintaining draft picks and the potential impact on the team’s long-term strategy.
• Luke Jones emphasizes the need for the Ravens to act quickly to address the situation and avoid being perceived as a weaker team.
• The discussion includes the potential fallout from the situation, including the impact on the Ravens’ reputation and the league’s reaction.

Future Implications and Team Building

• Luke Jones discusses the future implications of the signing, including the potential impact on the Ravens’ draft strategy and the importance of maintaining a strong roster.
• The conversation highlights the importance of player health and the potential long-term implications for Hendrickson’s performance.
• Luke Jones emphasizes the need for the Ravens to continue building a strong team, despite the challenges presented by the free agency period.
• The discussion includes the potential impact on the Ravens’ cap management and the importance of making informed decisions about player contracts.

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

• Nestor Aparicio and Luke Jones wrap up the discussion, summarizing the key points and the potential implications for the Ravens’ future.
• The conversation includes final thoughts on the importance of player health, the impact of the signing on the team’s performance, and the potential long-term implications for the Ravens’ strategy.
• Luke Jones emphasizes the need for the Ravens to continue making informed decisions and acting in the best interests of the team.
• The discussion concludes with a focus on the importance of maintaining a strong roster and the potential impact on the Ravens’ long-term success.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

NFL free agency, Trey Hendrickson, Max Crosby, Baltimore Ravens, physical exam, contract negotiations, AFC North rivalry, defensive player, core muscle surgery, draft picks, cap management, player health, team strategy, public perception.

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Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We’ve been positively giving away the Maryland lottery scratch awesome. The Harlem Globetrotters. We’ve had an amazing week of crab cake tours leading up to opening day and March Madness and all that good stuff. But you know, Luke doesn’t circle a lot of days on the calendar, but Luke could circle 4pm on Wednesday, March 11, probably last NFL calendar year. And dude, you convinced me that all this was going to happen on Monday, maybe a little bit on Tuesday. It happened on Friday, and then failed the physical on Tuesday. We cannot say that we have not had an active NFL free agency period. And if you would have told me that at 9am on Wednesday morning that they would sign Trey Hendrickson and I never heard about Max Crosby, I probably would say risky, what they got to do, what they got to do

Luke Jones  01:00

pending a physical. I mean, it’s funny, you mentioned Tuesday. It was a really boring day two of the negotiating window around the league. I mean, you saw the activity Monday, Tuesday. I mean, I was sitting there 730 I think what it was about quarter of eight that the patch Pat Ricard to the Giants had been reported. So it’s like, okay, there’s something. And then obviously the league was turned on its head with the Raiders putting out a state. And you really did think it was fake. I mean, took you a while. I mean, I looked at it eight different times just to be sure, right? I mean, yes, these things happen, but not, not in this light. And you know, I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least acknowledge, especially when you look at what it ended up meaning to the history of the league, the Miami Dolphins were the team that tried to sign Drew Brees once upon a time, right? And they, they nixed, they nixed it over his shoulder, goes to the saints, becomes a Hall of Fame player, and to this day, Nick Saban still blames the doctors for failing the physical end. He was a coach of the dolphins at the time, which people kind of forget, and who knows what that would have meant for him in the NFL. But yeah, you just said it. It’s wild to think that if the Ravens never come to an agreement with the Raiders, and let’s say Crosby lands in Chicago, or with the Cowboys, although it’s sounding like the Cowboys doctor, you know, as we’re kind of hearing some of the details of this sounded like he had some reservations, and maybe that’s why the Cowboys weren’t willing to go to to first themselves, right? I mean, who knows, but if that none of that happens, and we’re just talking about the ravens, and maybe it wouldn’t have been Wednesday morning, maybe it would have been Monday morning. Been Monday morning, right, or Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning, if they just outright agree to Trey with Trey Hendrickson. Ravens fans are pumped, and around the league, everyone’s talking about and saying, Hey, Baltimore went out and solved their edge rusher problem. Now, couple things I want to point out. Trey Hendrickson is a couple years older. He is not the all around Morse force multiplier that a healthy Max Crosby is perceived to be, or at least was perceived to be, prior to Tuesday night. Hendrickson’s not an elite run defender in the way that Crosby is an every down player in the way you think about that. You know, not that Hendrickson is terrible against the run, but I just want to make just want to make make sure we’re saying this isn’t a one for one, even trade off in that way. However you’re you’re talking about someone who, in his last two healthy seasons, by the way, he’s coming off of a surgery as well a core muscle surgery. So again, pending a physical, I’m going to stress that until the contract is literally signed, and I’m asking him questions at a press conference here in the next couple days. But I think all things being equal, the Ravens could have done this. Could have turned out a lot worse than it did, right? And the one thing I will say, and I’ll push back on a lot of the conjecture, look the truth we don’t really know right now, right? And there’s still perception, and there’s subjectivity with physicals and looking at medicals and all of that, right? There are 32 different teams that have 32 different processes, the ravens, I think it’s very apparent they weren’t winning the court of public opinion, no matter what, they’re not winning from an optic standpoint, no matter what. So they had no choice but to pivot quickly here, whether they, whether you think they have pure intentions or not, you’re not going to fall on the sword and say, well, woe is us. We we’re going to worry about what everyone else thinks, even though, you know, even if they genuinely had every intention of of doing this right, they weren’t just going to sit on their hands. So acknowledging that and acknowledging that you were not going to win in any way, in how teams and agents around the league are going to perceive them for this, regardless of what the truth is. Then, yeah, you go out and you get Trey Hendrickson, and he. He, you know, by all accounts, was holding out for about 30 million per year, wasn’t getting those initial offers. That’s why he was one of the few star free agents who hadn’t agreed to terms with a team over the first couple days of the negotiating window. But he’s patient. I’m guessing he wasn’t expecting the max Crosby deal to fall through, and then Baltimore comes and and the other factor to this Nestor, which really makes it spicy. I mean, this is great. This is an awesome story from an AFC North rivalry standpoint, right? I mean, you think about the players in this division that have played for the ravens and the Steelers, or the Steelers and the Bengals, or the Bengals and the Ravens. I mean, this is as as hope high profile as it gets in that regard, right? This is spicy. I mean, things were pretty ugly with Trey Hendrickson and the Bengals over the last couple years trying to work that out. So you have that factor. And I’ll say this, yeah, he’s coming off of an injury, and again, pending a physical, although core muscle surgery is not perceived to be the the tricky ailment that a meniscus tear can be. But the Ravens franchise record for sacks in a season is Elvis schumerville at 17 back in 2014 Trey Hendrickson had 17 and a half sacks in both 2023 and 2024 so I’m going to ask you a question here. Do you think if, if the lines were straight, that the Bengals would want to keep him? Yeah, but they don’t want to pay. I mean, the Bengals are notoriously cheap, right? I mean, and even now, as they’re they’ve spent money on a quarterback and two star wide receivers. You kind of look at it from a cap management standpoint and say it’s why their their defense is so awful, and now it’s even worse without Trey Hendrickson in the picture. So yeah, all things being equal, I think they did look I’m going to acknowledge again, this is not max Crosby. Trey Hendrickson is not the player that a fully healthy Max Crosby is whether he’s going to be fully healthy or not moving forward. We’re going to judge that, and the Ravens will be judged on that, right? There’s no question about that same way with if Trey Hendrickson ends up, you know, kind of looking washed up in the next year or two, we never know it’s football. Guys get hurt. Guys get old. Guys have a lot of scar tissue, both physically and mentally, in terms of how this game works. So you never really know he’s a couple years older. That said he’s not 36 you know, he’s a year removed from being, I think, second in the league in Defensive Player of the Year voting. You know, he finished second in the voting in 2024 he’ll be 32 in early December, you know? I mean, it’s, I just made the natural comparison to Elvis doomerville, because doomerville has the Ravens single season sack record and how Hendrickson eclipsed that number and two years in a row. Now this kind of feels a little bit like that. I mean, at doomerville, trying to think how old doomerville was. I think doomerville might have been a year younger when he came to the ravens and and this feels kind of like that. And if you recall Elvis doomerville, there was the facts fiasco that led to that. So it’s kind of strange in that way, right? And we’re going to find out. But of all the alternatives of not being able to foresee that this was going to happen, and no matter what anyone’s opinion on it, whether the Ravens had completely good intentions, or whether you think they had buyer’s remorse, or whether they were doing something nefarious, or they saw, wait a second, Trey Hendrickson still out there. And we don’t have to give up, however anyone wants to feel about that. And I’m not going to sit here and convince anyone otherwise, other than just to say, you know, I’m not sure that this was some air brain screen scheme four years or four days ago that the Ravens hatched. You know what? I mean, like they wanted a healthy Max Crosby, there’s no doubt about that, regardless of what happened here over the last couple days. But that said, this works out pretty well, and Trey Hendrickson is a heck of a pass rusher. And yeah, they still have a whole lot of work to do, and the same concerns we expressed about the O line the last few days are still there, but they do have their first round pick each of the next two years now they with this signing, they will lose the Linder bomb third round comp pick. And, you know, let me at least point that out. But you know, again, you know some, some of the well, you know, if they just turn around and sign Hendrickson the optics, they weren’t going to win the optics regardless. So what you’re just going to sit out, sit on your hands, and fall on the sword and say, well, woe is us. You know, the

Nestor Aparicio  09:40

question is whether we believe Hendrickson can play at all, let alone to a $30 million number, and whether what he does will have maybe the same impact as Mac look, if Max Crosby is injured, he’s got no impact. So that’s where they bet. And they also got to keep their draft picks. Let’s throw that into let’s throw that in. That’s a

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Luke Jones  09:59

huge part. This, sure. I mean, that’s a that’s a major part of the fallout here. There’s no doubt about that. But at the same time, you know, trading, that’s

Nestor Aparicio  10:07

a good part of the fallout, right? Like, honestly, for all the BS in around we’ve done the last five days around here on the max Crosby thing and the excitement and all that, if it had never happened, and they flew him in quietly over the weekend and poked and prodded and said, No, thank you. If that’s the way the agents and the raiders and the Ravens the smart way, the way you know when they sneak coaching candidates around, and you don’t even know they had them around, they private jet, you sneak him in. Somebody sees him at the airport, that’s fine. Let the rumors fly or Or, how about

Luke Jones  10:41

send your doctors to him out in California or in Vegas, and you can, you can do it that way. I mean, if you get a team’s permission, you can, yeah, that

Nestor Aparicio  10:49

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this was a sloppy ass thing for a guy in ERIC da Costa, who’s been involved in this for 30 years, and who was around when the Brock Marion thing happened, right? And was involved in the Brock, I’m just saying like this, if Tuesday morning we hadn’t heard anything over the weekend and Lamar restructures arena, whatever the Lamar purple plume of smoke would have been. Look Pat Ricard or Darius Washington, that the Linder bomb thing we’ve been back and forth with that was too much money. Okay, fine. Right player, right price. The process, all that stuff, the Henderson thing, in a, in a, in a small I was away the last five days, and none of this ever happened way i i guess i check off. It’s a lot of money, but there were talking about you my money. I mean, whether it’s wise or not, we’ll find out. But they swap one for the other, and they got a 14 pick out of this and then another pick next year. That’s not gonna help him on the field this year. So for me, I don’t know, I we’ve done so much about their integrity and how the league’s gonna feel about them and dealing. And Eric feels like he had this in his pocket the whole time, that when they were poking and prodding him, they were like, We don’t like him. We’ll get the other guy. I mean, that’s the way it worked out. They’re lucky he’s there. Other people weren’t there, right? Sure.

Luke Jones  12:06

I mean, what? You know, you can play this hypothetical game all you want. I mean, would the Ravens have still backed out of the of the max Crosby deal, if Trey Hendrickson had agreed to terms with the eagles on Tuesday evening? We don’t know, right? If they, if they felt a certain way about it, though, and they felt like he might have one good year left him in him, but his knees shot from a long term perspective, you know, I don’t know, right? I mean, again, there’s a lot of subjectivity that go into that goes into these physicals, 32 different medical teams, 32 different thresholds of risk in the same way that any, any common citizen with some financial resources can pay the play the stock market on down to the lowest risk investment that you’re going to make. These are stocks, right? I don’t say that to be dehumanizing, but these are commodities that you’re making bets on, investments you’re investing these are, these are values, right? That you’re looking for value. Players are value, drop picks are value, right? And they’re speculative. Now, you try to be as informed as you can be, but you don’t know what’s going to happen, right? I mean, you, you don’t Ronnie Stanley was a perfect example of that. The Ravens thought they were resigning Jonathan. They’re Jonathan Ogden part two, and the guy wrecks his ankle two days later. Now, credit to Ronnie Stanley for working his way back and becoming a pretty darn good player. Now it take, it took three or four years for him to get to that point, but that forever altered what his career trajectory was going to be. He might, we might. If that never happens, we might be talking about Ronnie Stanley being a Hall of Fame candidate, right? I mean, I don’t know, but you don’t know, and at the time, like

Nestor Aparicio  14:00

thing is a great example what they did, too, where it’s just sort of like, and this is where the real feeling, I mean, come on, dude, between you and me, you’d rather have Max Crosby, the player, and we talked about that for five days,

Luke Jones  14:14

no, 1,000% if he’s healthy, but, but If they have, if they had such significant doubts or or they can get the other guy and keep their draft picks. That’s the other part of this, right? Hypothetically, sure. I mean, that’s that would be in there, within their rights now,

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Nestor Aparicio  14:32

well, they’re now telling me and you, they’re more convinced Hendrickson is going to have three good years of tire on him than Crosby, and Crosby’s two years older and was a better player. So I I am years younger, yeah, yeah, younger, yeah, that’s what I meant.

Luke Jones  14:44

Yeah. I know what you meant. Like.

Nestor Aparicio  14:46

So in the scope of this, you know, they bought the model down. They didn’t buy the top shelf, they bought the next shelf down, and all of these shelves are damaged at this point, because all these guys have been through hell and been through surgery. We know about, and other ones we don’t know about. It’s a fascinating case study. But again, I know dicost it to be scheming and nefarious enough that on Tuesday, he could have been saying to Henderson’s agent, hang in. You know, we’re not official. We’re not official, though it’s official. You know how much we have to give you, how much we have to give you. And then he goes back to Steven, says, we get to keep our draft picks. Let’s just shop a shelf down. Let’s not get the $100 bottle of tequila. Let’s just get the $60 bottle of tequila and we’ll live another day. And get some limes and, you know, makes, get some ice, you know, get some agave nectar. You know, because there’s a lot of ways to go about building a roster. You want to talk about that all the time. The number one thing that has to happen is, whoever they give $30 million to, he’s gonna play well. And if you’re convinced either one of them can do it, Fair enough. Fair enough, right?

Luke Jones  15:51

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Yeah, well, and look, Trey Hendrickson has to pass the physical himself. If there’s something that comes up there and they have, you know that they have their doubts, and they wonder if he’s going to be anything close to the player he was a couple years ago. Then, hypothetically, this could happen again, I suppose. I mean, that would be, you know, kind of a one in a million of Back to Back instances of that. But you know, for what they’re going to pay him, which, you know, the max value of the deal is up to $30 million per year. You know, it’s, you know, right around, you know, 29 or whatever, what four years, one, 112, I guess it was, but, or 28 but you kind of look at at the top of market for edge rushers, Nestor Micah Parsons, 46.5 per year. Aidan Hutchinson, 45 watt, 41 the Neil Hunter, 40.1 so this puts him around 10th. You know, this puts Trey Hendrickson about 10th in average annual value. So I would say, based on what he did in 23 and 24 also acknowledging he is 31 years old, that sounds about right to me, assuming, and again, pending a physical, we’re going to continue to say that, my goodness, we’re going to say that pretty deliberately, pretty intentionally for quite a while Orioles or rave it’s given both teams histories in that regard. But you know, assuming that part checks out, that sounds about right to me. And like I said, He is not the force multiplier all around Terrell Suggs comparison kind of guy where you’re talking Elite Edge rusher, but also elite against the run, like Trey Hendrickson is not an elite run defender. He’s not. That’s something that, yeah, I want to say he’s poor at it, but that’s not, that’s not his strength, let me, let me put it that way. So you are getting a different commodity, but yeah, depending on, regardless of the truth, regardless of the optics, regardless of public opinion, which they were not going to win. I think that’s evident when you hear the reaction around the league. They needed to pivot, and they needed to pivot quickly, and even if, even if their intentions were completely ethical and pure as it pertains to max Crosby, you can’t worry about optics, right? You can’t sit there and say, well, well, we’re gonna, we can’t, you know, we can’t have teams thinking that we did this just to sign trade, because then, then what? So you’re just gonna deliberately sit on your hands and be a worse football team for it. They had to act quickly here, whether, no matter how anyone feels about it. And again, when you look at it, rewind to a week ago. If you just knew what happened today, didn’t even know what happened on Tuesday night, if you knew what happened Wednesday morning with this agreement, and assuming it goes through, you would have said, Hey, Trey Hendrickson, that’s spicy. That helps the pass rush. And, oh yeah, he played for the Bengals. That makes it fun from a WWE sports entertainment standpoint, even. So he’s gonna go sack Roro. That’s fun. I mean, my goodness, it’s a lot easier. I will say, I’ll say this much. And I was always less moved about this part of it. A lot of people talking about, well, the Ravens lost nine players, yada yada yada, who? Who were they realistically going to bring back and right, right there, here, this. This proves the point that it wasn’t about $30 million being spent because they went, they turned around and they gave a very comparable, not exact, but comparable, deal to Trey Hendrickson, except, okay, they keep their first round picks and we’ll see what they do with 14, right? There’ll be a lot of scrutiny on who they pick there. There’ll be scrutiny on who they pick next year. They’ll obviously be scrutiny on what Trey Hendrickson looks like. And absolutely there will be all kinds of attention on what happens with Max Crosby, whether he’s playing for the Raiders, or whether another team ends up ponying up, whatever the new asking price would be. And it sounds like the Raiders are trying to hold firm on two first round picks. They’re sure as heck not getting two first round picks from anybody at this point that. That that ship is long sailed, regardless of how this turns. Well, that’s part of the debt the

Nestor Aparicio  20:05

goods, part of what’s going on that’s devalued him. That’s why they were probably so pissed with that message they put out on Tuesday.

Luke Jones  20:13

Of course, I and I, and by the way, even if the Ravens had complete integrity going through the physical process, I would still fully expect the Raiders to be ticked off about that, in the same way that if it is the exact opposite, and the Ravens were on the other end of that, that they would be furious, even if the other team’s concerns were completely legitimate, right? And and here’s, you know, while everyone’s throwing conspiracy theories out there. And you know, we all feel the way we’re going to feel about it, and your opinion might be different from mine compared to the listener right now. But what’s not to say that the Ravens heard from the Raiders the account of the surgery and how he was doing and how it was looking and all of that. And then once they lay eyes on it themselves, and they run their own imaging and all that. What’s not to say the Ravens aren’t privately saying, Man, the you know, like, are we going to sit here and say that, that the Oakland slash Las Vegas Raiders have been a model franchise. So what’s not to like, you can turn it around and say that the Raiders very much undersold, and I’m not saying that that happened, but we can play this game all day, right? You play it

Nestor Aparicio  21:25

when Max Crosby comes back and plays it, I mean, it’s going to play out on the field, which is why it makes more fun, because we could sit here and yell about it all day, then they’re going to play 17 football games next year. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, we’re going to and we’re going to play with the 14th draft pick, whoever that is, right? Might be the new center, right? Or whatever they’re trying to

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Luke Jones  21:41

do, yeah. I mean, they still need a center. I mean, it sounds like the Raiders are gonna honor the as I said to you previously, they, they were in a position where, with Crosby’s deal, you can, you can flip that into a bonus and lower his cap number, even if they had that issue. So that’s why it was so attractive, right? You that that contract was very malleable the way it was constructed. So we’re going to find out. The biggest shame of it all, Nestor is the ravens and the Raiders don’t play this year because, man, you talk about something that you know, not talking about a division or a playoff matchup. Man, that would have been spicy, right? But alas, they don’t play each other this year and but, man, gonna be a lot of eyes on this. This is one of those you know very well. This is one of those stories that will have an oral history written about it five years from now, or when Max Crosby’s getting ready to go in the Hall of Fame, potentially, right? Oh, by the

Nestor Aparicio  22:36

way, they screwed Tom Brady, too. That makes it even a little bit more delicious, right? Like, there’s a, there’s a part of that that Brady’s

Luke Jones  22:41

involved in this. Yeah, I mean, that’s why I’m kind of sitting here saying, like, look, Brady would cheat. Would he to take the air out of I’m not. I’m not gonna sit here and bet my mortgage on that the Ravens like that. There’s nothing about this that isn’t questionable about them, right? I’m not gonna sit here and and not, at least ask questions and have some skepticism, healthy skepticism. At the same time, I’m also not going to look at the Raiders as like, why do they deserve 100% benefit of the doubt? I don’t know. Right? I mean, that it might have been something where something was said and the Ravens kind of had an assumption and and when they saw it themselves and their doctor saw it themselves. It’s like, well, that’s not really, that’s not how they described it to us. I don’t know. Point is, whatever the truth is, they were always losing from an optic standpoint, they were always going to lose this from a court of public opinion standpoint. So with that in mind, yeah, you’re going to go sign Trey Hendrickson, because you’re not just going to sit on your hands and deliberately try to keep yourself as a lesser football team just to make other people happy. I mean that like that, that part of the argument was dumb.

Nestor Aparicio  23:50

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Here’s Luke Jones. He is monitoring all things, and if the next thing that happens, if Trey Hendrickson fails the physical, you’ll get the wstex on the on the tech services, all brought to you by cold roofing, gorian energy. Bill Cole came out with me at missones in Perry Hall. We had such a great day, and Nicole Missoni was out there. Terry Cook, my buddy, it still came out. I had Greg Landry out, who did my documentary and who has Towson transfers. We did some old memories. So opening day around the corner, but we’re trying to get through this, the free agency, the tampering, the poking, the prodding, and all of that. Smoke signals on Lamar, are we ever will there? You think they’ll ever be a well,

Luke Jones  24:28

it’s going to come down to this if, if it’s a contract extension, they’re going to announce it. Because, boy, more than ever, they need some good news. And you know, hendrickson’s Good news, like, like, let’s not undersell that part of it. Like, I said, I mean, that’s still really good football player. They’re signing pending a physical. I’m just gonna we’re gonna do it forever, but with Lamar, one way or the other, they need cap space, especially now with the Hendrickson deal coming on the books, presumably. So there will either be a grand announcement, and I assume a press conference at some point. In time, or it’ll be quiet, and then it’ll be reported that they did a simple restructure, which, let’s be clear, does not disqualify the possibility of a contract extension, but it certainly begs the question, when that will happen, how that will happen, how easily that can happen. Because, as we said the last couple months now, if both sides really wanted an extension, much easier to do that off of an existing contract than talking about where they were three years ago. So we’ll find out, and if we get, you know, something substantial and concrete on it, well, we’ll send out a wnst text alert regarding Lamar Jackson’s contract.

Nestor Aparicio  25:39

He is Luke Jones. I am Nestor. We are W NST am 1570 to Baltimore. We stole your football player Cincinnati. What are you going to do about it now? It’s more fun. We play them twice a year back from where it’s Baltimore. Positive.