Baltimore Ravens' Future: Should They Trade Lamar Jackson?

But at this point, I don't even know what direction they're going. Because, again, like I said, they're going to be a contender if Lamar was healthy, if everyone's healthy, and all the pieces were working. I mean, Zay Flowers was going off, and Lamar was playing well before he got hurt, but that's the case every year. Was this? I was just about to say. Like, you can't... It's like in the NBA, teams do this too. It's like, oh. One more year, we'll figure, it's like the Clippers, like, Bev, you know this, John, you know this, the Clippers, year in and year out, well, what if Kawhi was healthy this time, like, what if Paul George and him worked together this time, it's like year in and year out, they kept banking on that, and it never happened. At some point, and I think this, the Ravens are probably having this conversation, and if they're not, then they're not planning properly for the future. At some point, you have to sell that what-if to somebody else for two first-round picks. But do you think a team would give up two firsts? Absolutely. Yeah, he's a multiple-time MVP. This guy's a multiple-time MVP and when healthy. Win healthy, and you can sell that win to somebody else because you could go, hey, man, that's a freak injury. Throwing the ball, he just hit a helmet. You know what I mean? Sure. Other than that, Otherwise, other than that, he's been healthy. You can sell that. You can sell that to the Carter. You can sell that to Carolina, a team that may not want to reset. They may want to inject a true starter. You can sell that to the Jets. Like, there are organizations that you can sell that to, to two first-round picks. You don't, I mean, if the Colts don't have first-round picks, but there are teams that you can sell that conversation to because of Lamar Jackson's history and the accolades that he's accumulated in the NFL. But if I'm the Baltimore Ravens, at some point, it's just not working for me. John Harbaugh was no longer working for me. He's great in New York. He was great here for a while. But at some point... This isn't working for me. And I think that might be the conversation that they're having. Lamar's been great. He's got multiple MVPs. He's going to go up in the Ravens Hall of Fame or Ring of Honor, whatever they have there. But as of right now, for us, we're coming up like this too many times at the end of a season. And we just need to clean house at this point and start over. We gave this a run. He's been fantastic. But, you know, sometimes you got to sell that fantastic to somebody else before it burns you. I'll take it a step. I'll take it a step further. Injecting it to my veins is similar to Miami Dolphins because the Miami Dolphins actually have capital. They would love it. They would do it. And he actually was, remember, it was circling before if he was going to leave. He was going to pop it on the beach, ain't he? Let's talk about it. He's a Florida boy. Malik Willis swap? They just paid him. Come on. But even then, like, the Malik Willis swap will be a bridge to you to get to your next quarterback. You know you have those years where you bridge over. So you won't fall off production-wise with him because you still have a good wide receiver core. You still have necessarily a running back and a defense. Great picture. But that's a great picture for sure. But if you're looking at it, if you can get Miami to commit to that, That it would necessarily. Give Miami the juice that it needs to start rebuilding faster. Because right now, they're down in the dumps. If they get the juice to rebuild faster, you got Gordon down there, you have some young pieces you can put together, you can get Miami to resurge at a quick rate versus just trying to go through the draft and try to build it that way. So, go ahead. If you couple Miami with Lamar Jackson, people want to play for Lamar Jackson. And Miami needs a star. They can't seem to draft one. They've been down on their luck with quarterbacks since Marino. I think they would be head over heels and willing to give up two first-round picks and re-sign Lamar Jackson as a staple to say, all right, whoever our next coach is, We got this position locked up. If you want to come coach the great Lamar Jackson, again, if I'm the Miami Dolphins, I can package this and sell it to my fans. I can package this and sell it to other free agents. I can package this and sell it to the league to put us on TV four times a year. Like, I can package this if I'm Miami. If I'm Baltimore, we've seen this movie. It doesn't work. Yeah, and, you know, It's just, he's from Florida, too. I mean, I think that Dolphins thing makes sense. Like you said, John, he's from that area. They need a star. It kind of makes all the sense in the world. And, you know, Miami's attractive to anybody, like you said. Yes. Players are going to go there. I mean, people want to live there. Players want to go to warmer weather, especially play with him. So, again, I think they just have to start looking at it.