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Massive news in Baltimore over the last 12 hours as the Ravens voided a trade for Maxx Crosby, restructured Lamar Jackson's contract, signed Trey Hendrickson, AND now keep their two first round picks. Former Raven Femi Ayanbadejo explains why all this is a good thing for the Ravens!
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00:00here's adam shepter's report of course trey hendrickson reached a four-year 112 million
00:04dollar contract uh it says since 2021 hendrickson ranked second in the nfl in pressure rate fourth
00:10in total sacks and fourth in sacks that result in fumbles 11 per espn research um still trying
00:16to get the details on the lamar stuff that came out from adidi kinkabuala um but again she said
00:22according to her and this is from a couple different outlets here uh that lamar has
00:28renegotiated his contract to create more cap room again from adidi kinkabuala it's not an extension
00:33to which femi you and i were talking about it you think it kind of makes sense for him
00:37i mean financially it definitely makes sense for him because next year uh he'll go into his final
00:42year of his deal and guess what that does it gives him all the power because his cap hit next
00:46year
00:46will be like 84 and a half million or something so i i get it i wish i you know
00:51selfishly i would
00:53have loved the extension to guarantee that he's going to be here another five years uh but from
00:58his perspective financially i understand it but look let's not get let's kind of get too carried
01:03away what's important is they cleared 37 38 million dollars in cap space obviously we just acquired
01:09uh trey hendrickson some of that money maybe you can get cheeto uh woozy a back um and maybe there's
01:14some other people in free agency that we can acquire now there's been definitely some cap space created
01:18some talks about the eagles being forced to make a trade one way or another with some of their
01:22players because they have a lot of guys that contracts are going to come up at the same time
01:26and they just can't afford all of them unless everybody wants to take a hometown discount i
01:29don't think that's happening i do have to say this because with all the news breaking it is a chance
01:34that
01:34one of our videos goes viral i'm wearing purple camo in honor of max crosby it was the top of
01:39the
01:39dundalk tuxedo if it wasn't going to be a jersey um this has just been a crazy day like you
01:44come in
01:45last night you were saying it trying to watch the wbc all of a sudden my phone's sitting next to
01:50me
01:51going off and i'm like what the hell is and then you start reading and you're the first reaction is
01:54all right what is this then you scroll and you're like wait a minute this guy's reporting it it's not
01:59a fake joe it wasn't it wasn't no three sports it was on three sports uh everybody that you would
02:05you know the the publications and the people that you trust everyone reporting it it's like oh my god
02:09i can't believe we're going to talk about this we get a couple hours of it in kind of you
02:13know
02:13pontificating back and forth and then all of a sudden trey hendrickson's now a raven that's official
02:18and lamar has reached yeah it was wild i was watching um i think it was the o's in houston
02:22they were down i think kobe mayo i think did he go four for four yesterday you know they took
02:26the
02:27lead and then all of a sudden they go back out there i look back they're losing i turn on
02:31the
02:31wbc game the the usa is losing and then the max crosby stuff hit and i was like wow dude
02:38what a
02:38trifecta of negativity kind of back to back to back that's kind of caught off guard you ever see the
02:42guy that closes his eyes he's got his legs spread and someone's just kicking him in the pills over
02:46and over again that's what i felt like that's literally what it felt like but you know this
02:49this is the interesting thing we didn't know for certain that we could close trey but we knew that
02:54there was a good possibility of it especially based on the fact that he was still available
02:58um and the idea of being able to get him get the lamar deal done and retain our first round
03:04draft picks
03:04i mean i think a lot of things have happened in in the it was it was destroyed um and
03:10now it's been
03:10rebuilt again so i i think we should all be really happy about where we are at this moment and
03:14as rob
03:15pointed out i know people like max crosby's it's easily it's easy to like this guy and and again
03:20somebody called in said he's every time he steps in the room he might be the coolest guy in every
03:24room
03:24um a lot to like about him but i trust the ravens and what they were doing i don't think
03:28there was
03:28any shadiness that went on people want to point that out and say this guy did this and he sucks
03:33at
03:33this i i don't see any of that yeah i agree with you 100 i mean the bottom line is
03:38is that and i i keep
03:39talking about responsibility and being taking care with the assets that you have in the way that you
03:44deploy them and it does not benefit anybody in owings mills to float this idea of acquiring max and
03:53giving up first round draft picks um and then all of a sudden getting buyers remorse and saying oh
03:57well trey's still available i mean there was a good chance trade was still going to be available
04:00you know what i mean like none of these deals have been signed yet so i think it's all going
04:04to
04:04work out in the end um and obviously we have um a little bit more capital to play with and
04:08and we
04:09retain these first round draft picks so it it ended up working out in our favor yeah so again i
04:13i don't
04:13know what happens with max crosby moving forward uh if the story is true that the raiders intend on
04:19uh asking for two first round picks after the news and the rate i don't see how you get that
04:24from
04:24another team if one team questioned your medicals unless you go in and say oh my god they're so wrong
04:29on
04:29this uh i don't see a team giving you two first round picks now i mean and the bear and
04:33some of
04:34these teams already made signings so they can't afford if you ask me now i'm gonna say that he's
04:38gonna end up playing for the raiders this year that that's what i see unless post draft we see
04:43something and the ice the asking price comes down my analysis is that this is a degenerative knee
04:50issue it's not about this surgery it's about where his knee is going to be in three years and the
04:55likelihood he's going to need another one or that he's just a diminished player you know what i mean and
04:59once again you know i'm always going to be a player's player like but i'm just being honest about
05:03the potential here you know i had a a real bad it didn't start out bad but i had i
05:07needed
05:08micro fracture surgery i ended up getting a scope but my knee was never the same after that it's not
05:12the meniscus it's actually the knee the the cartilage right behind the patella uh which is
05:17actually a little bit more dangerous and micro fracture you hear that word that's almost like
05:21career threatening career ending type stuff but the knee is not something to play with you know all
05:25balance power moves uh your agility comes from the the big toe the ankle um and the knee and when
05:33you have problems and i've had issues with my knee and my foot i know exactly what can happen and
05:38so
05:38it's not something to play with when you're going to make a hundred million dollar commitment and give
05:41up first round draft picks i actually tip my cap to eric on this one it's probably the hardest thing
05:46in the world to do knowing the you know what storm he was going to have to deal with but
05:50to make the move
05:51make the decision and then to recoup the the picks and then to get trey hendrickson which to me he's
05:56just a step below max um he he is not the run defender but the overall pass rush i mean
06:03no player
06:04is going to mean as much uh to us as as a trey hendrickson um will in regard to addressing
06:11our
06:11biggest issue yeah so yeah i'm happy with it yeah i mean i'm looking at all the different things that
06:15that happened today in the different direction the ravens can go and i i think you know getting two
06:19first round picks back getting trey hendrickson i don't know that anything better could have
06:23happened after losing max crosby and again he would have been an absolute fan favorite here
06:28i still think there's some people disappointed i hope for his sake things get better but you're
06:32talking about these injuries like i don't know how many different ones you ever had turf toe
06:35yeah that was what that's i had my foot reconstructed because i had a turf toe injury you had it
06:39way
06:39worse than that it's miserable and i had it on a minor level where like you don't realize
06:43until you hurt something you don't realize how often you use that part of your body you could
06:48literally cut off your other four toes and if you have your big toe you'd be fine but if you
06:52cut
06:52off your big toe you're not going to be fine like everything you do from an athletic perspective
06:56athleticism is improvisation like you really don't know what you're going to do until you do it right
07:00and that's why you know if you're just a linear athlete where you're just running a 60 at 100 to
07:05200
07:05that's a little bit different but when it comes to being a football player a basketball player
07:10a soccer player i mean think about the things you have to do in a short space and you don't
07:15know
07:15you're going to do them until you do them your big toe is everything and then it goes to your
07:18ankle
07:19and then your knee
07:19and then your knee
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