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Not that simple. Those draft trade value charts are just baselines. The real value is determined in real time. Even if you get some capital back, you'd basically have one pick in the top 80. Not ideal on a team with a lot of holes. I think if you went back and look at a lot of historical first...

At minimum, you'd have to give up pick 45 to get up that high. Likely more. Pretty much eliminates the possibility of significantly upgrading the Oline via the draft in year 1,

I wouldn't think they'd be shopping in the $16M comp for Oline space at the moment. And if you're trading for him, you'd have to a pay a top of the market extension certainly.

It wouldn't matter if a report or doctor denied it. If a doctor did a press conference today and said "he will never play football again", he still collects his $22M. His injury status has nothing to do with the $ he's going to make this year. His injury status only impacts his long-term...

I mean in this case, his perspective wouldn't be different. And I'd argue he would actually be more cautious than a normal person, because a) he has the ability to mediate the pain at a better level than a normal person would and b) he gets paid the same amount whether he recovers quickly or...

Without knowing the injury, if it's a neck injury, I'd probably wait years to get surgery. Or refuse to get it at all.

Obviously not a lot of reporting on his injury specifics, but my guess is it's one of those "rehab vs surgery" injuries where you don't really know what the proper choice is until after you've seen the results.

I'm fine with all of these discussions, but again, pretty much all reasonable discussions about trading Bateman start in 2027. You basically can't trade him prior to June 1st unless you're willing to take on $5.5M more in cap hits. His cap hit increases from the current $6.1M to $11.6M if you...

Yup. And maybe that's a product of lack of mental toughness. How many guys on the team came from winning cultures?

Nope, but that's true of all 32 teams. Ravens ain't the only team of players lining up to get surgeries done in January/February.

And I'm taking him at his word. Either he's telling the truth, or he's lying. Plus there's the whole "I'm basically in a contract year and its more convenient for me now to take shots at coaches who aren't here anymore, even though I've had the platform and ability to do it for several years but...

So a couple issues: 1. He was complaining about late-season injuries. The issue there is, compared to the rest of the league, the Ravens didn't have a lot of late-season injuries. By NFL standards, they were amongst the healthiest in the league. Early-season injuries were an issue. 2. When it...

Probably a combination of both. Then you have to figure out does "better targeted work" equate to taking pads off and not hitting each other? Working on techniques we've struggled with, such as open field tackling, is going to be hard to achieve without physical contact. The timeframe of late...

And I'm saying that, optically, bitching about 14 practices over four months is, uh, not ideal from a "sympathize with my problems" situation. Especially when you're a team that's accomplished nothing. Less work is rarely the solution to that problem.

That's great. The problem is the players don't want that either. Lobbied for, and got, a lot of restrictions in recent CBAs over the rigorous nature of training camps. Training camps are 21-28 days. For the first 6 days of that, there's no pads and no footballs. Note this is after several...

I think if you're going to put this out publicly, you better be able to draw a reconciliation line back from 3 padded practices in a 6 week period to "excessively hard practices that cause injuries". Brutal sales pitch. I can guarantee the overwhelming majority of NFL fans assumed that they're...

So other former players have weighed in on this, but the overall sentiment is that Flowers = gaping wide pussy for complaining about this. The ONLY thing that would make John look bad in this case, is if the Ravens were violating league rules. According to the CBA, which Flowers union reps...

Well and keep in mind that, in this example, you've effectively given him a 2 year extension @ $60M, fully guaranteed. While that looks fantastic from an AAV perspective, there's only six WRs with $60M+ in guarantees at signing. If you were to sign him to a standard like 4 year extension this...

Problem is the cap hits. You're talking basically $60M over two years. On a long-term extension, they wouldn't be nearly that high over the same period. Plus, if Lamar doesn't sign an extension, and decides to play out '27, I'm not sure the Ravens can even afford the 5th year option alone to...

I mean as a FA, I think his APY is same or higher. Players of his caliber pretty much never make it to FA at the position he plays. As nice as the APY looks, his gtd $ at signing still lags a ton behind Jefferson and is behind Chase, and is more in-line with what Lamb got in '24. From a % gtd...