00:00it's friday the 13th no that's not good i didn't see any black cats but business today a lot of
00:07more ravens and more coming as the show continues because right now as we speak trey hendrickson
00:13being officially introduced at the castle so we'll have that later in the show but for now
00:17eric da costa on with fresh take last night ben and cordell a lot of good questions asked and
00:23as is typical when da costa speaks or really any gm any prominent coach figure in sports you got
00:30to read between the lines a little bit very rarely are they going to come out and say something
00:34you know juicy that grabs the headline at least da costa he's pretty good about being tight-lipped
00:39knowing what he wants to reveal and what he doesn't want to reveal but we'll do a lot of reading
00:44between
00:44the lines today we'll start with him individually because he's talking a lot about his team obviously
00:50some more follow-up on the debacle of a week with the crosby thing the hendrickson thing
00:55the lamar thing there's so much to this but for him as gm his job security started popping into my
01:03head
01:03really earlier this week as soon as i saw him trade two first round picks for a prominent pass rusher
01:11and
01:11change his stripes even though the trade didn't go through it he was a willingness they wanted it to
01:17happen he was doing something wildly different and outside the box compared to his tenure and the
01:23ravens really franchise history that was the first kind of alert to me that okay something why what's
01:31different this year that made you want to do that what's special about a max crosby that made you want
01:38to do that for him versus another player in years past and everything's different things change year to
01:43year but i ultimately come away thinking that sure he says he puts pressure on himself every year
01:50sure you know he says that we have super bowl aspirations every single year that's the ravens
01:55kind of mentality but i think this year's a little bit different based on how bad last year was and
02:01i'm
02:01speculating here but i think there is a little hot seat factor here i think there was a conversation
02:07with steve basciotti not on insider information this is just me fan speaking here that you move
02:14on from an 18 year head coach entire coaching staff gets turned upside down it's a new era for the
02:20franchise the cost is the only other constant from this last seven years it was hardball for all that
02:26time and everyone said well all the assistants changed but hardball's the constant well now the only
02:31constant left is to costa and all the roster moves he's made so i think naturally there was a
02:37conversation between him and basciotti not necessarily a hey get it done this year or you're
02:42fired but sort of uh i'm watching right there is a you're on notice type of thing it doesn't
02:49necessarily have to be an outwardly negative thing but it's just kind of a little kick in the rear end
02:55where the ravens have long been viewed as this uh franchise of stability loyalty saw it with 18 years
03:02for hardball you saw it with all those years with ozzy the costa was here with ozzy they groomed him
03:07to take over for him that's been the mo of this organization but things can change and they have
03:13changed here in the last year so with the costa where are you with the hot seat thing is it
03:18real
03:19should it be real um no i i don't i don't i don't think that you know i know basciotti
03:26a little bit
03:26i know eric okay you know i don't think and i know kind of how owners act you know i
03:35mean i've
03:35i've been fired um they don't they don't because if they come out and tell you you know you're on
03:46the
03:46hot seat why wouldn't they just replace you then you know i mean that that's the thing i mean
03:50because with harbs you know was there any thinking at all you think in basciotti's head when the season
03:59because when the season started they had the best roster you know i mean they were favorites for the
04:04super bowl all that stuff not even in his mind you know about harbs you know and then as you
04:11know
04:11kind of what went through and and it kind of played out throughout the year and everything that
04:19you know what change might be something they need and eight and nine and and it worked out good so
04:28eric on the hot seat i don't see that you know the only way that basciotti may like if all
04:35the moves
04:35that eric made this year or whatever stink and and they have a bad year and the coaches think and
04:41everything yeah then maybe you know i mean if it but i mean right now they're they're you know
04:47expected to be win the division and be a good team you know and expectations for the ravens are always
04:53high so if there's a losing season then who are we looking at because it seemed like during the year
05:04throughout fans are calling ripping who harbs harbs was the guy who you know
05:11the finger was pointed at and if it goes bad this year the only one to really point it at
05:17is there's only two you could point it at eric or lamar right you know so unless yeah it's we
05:25don't see
05:26it happening but if minter ended up being one of those coaches that's like wow this guy's completely
05:30out of his depth we don't see it but you know it first time coach it's a possibility yeah i
05:36i i just think that um um you know why did eric make that i mean that's what baffles me
05:44a little
05:44bit too um because basciotti has to okay that you know and then you got ozzy sitting there too who
05:53he's bouncing stuff off of and ozzy's never done that so what made i would love to because they didn't
06:01ask right what made him go break yeah ben asked yeah if he said why why this year what was
06:08different
06:08about this year and he you know as expected cited the shortcomings of last year and particularly
06:14with pass rush they only had 30 sacks and that was like a franchise worse mark so he focused
06:20specifically on the results but that's i agree i mean that's the the genesis of my argument is that
06:26yeah it's results driven you're absolutely right harbaugh was the main guy to point the finger
06:32at last year for the fans but i think that there it wasn't like the costa went without there's quite
06:39a few people that called in that said well no i mean i'm i i blame the costa more than
06:43i blame
06:44harbaugh he built the team and that's where i think that it doesn't have to be this outward hey get
06:50it done
06:50this year or you're fired where i'm using the specific words hot seat but i think it is a
06:56conversation like look last offseason you did this that the other thing chose not to do abc over here
07:04and these were the results you know what is your plan for this offseason you know we got a lot
07:09more
07:09holes than we did a year ago i mean i think i think there was a conversation there just had
07:14to be
07:15like you can't separate you can't move on from the coach and then view the gm as completely independent
07:23you know not responsible in any connected way i just think it's a natural thing and it doesn't
07:30necessarily like i said it doesn't have to be this big negative dark cloud hanging over you i think it's
07:35just a kick in the rear end all right but you know like i mean eric you know took the
07:40blame or
07:41whatever but um what did like he had you know like who was gonna know that everybody on offense
07:54would take a step back and it's the same guys fair you know all those types things and i think
08:00a lot
08:00of the problems you know and i think a lot of the stuff what killed them i hate to say
08:06it but it was
08:07i mean and and here is the biggest reason why i say that no one is dafeo way yeah you
08:17know i mean
08:17you know you talk about you don't have any sacks all right and you got this guy who has no
08:23sacks for
08:24you then boom he goes out to jesse minter and he gets 10 and a half sacks to hell you
08:30know you know
08:31if i'm steve bishotti i'm like uh you know why uh why is this happening and then well i i
08:41think
08:41probably what would have upset me if i'd have been steve bishotti when i was talking to harbs
08:48and harbs said that he and i'm not sure he did but you heard that he wanted to bring all
08:53his coaches
08:54back and i got no problem bringing the offense coaches back um but bringing zach or back that was
09:01to me that's a game changer that ain't happening you know that would not happen and and uh even
09:09changing you know the whole defensive staff i mean he did it in uh new york he had a chance
09:14to bring
09:15any of those guys he brought denard wilson period right that was it on defense and then still claim
09:22that he'll be right about zach or in the long run but like you said doesn't trust him enough to
09:27have him now and and classic horrible todd munkin had a d coordinator job open too
09:34and you know he wouldn't he didn't even interview him no you know so i just think that uh that
09:43was
09:43that was a big problem a big problem and and i don't know why no one i don't know why
09:52like
09:53the offensive line took a step back see i if coach yeah yeah if it would have been
10:00you know like if everybody stayed and i was eric i would have said all right harbs let's uh
10:05let's get rid of the defensive coordinator you know and he can bring in some guys and i got to
10:11replace the old line coach too you know they took a step back somebody's got to take the blame for
10:16that he's got to go you know and that's that's what i would have done and here's the other thing
10:21you know eric or um no one that's different this year too is all right eric was second in charge
10:32you know to ozzy and harbs was here and then eric comes in you know and then happy that he's
10:42the boss
10:42and harbs kind of oversaw him my opinion you know i see what you're saying so like hierarchy
10:51yeah tenure yeah yeah maybe not as much as maybe as he has with the giants but probably had more
10:59clout than eric did just because you know he was here longer and everything and all right so now
11:06eric's got the juice he hired all these coaches so these coaches look to him kind of like he looked
11:14to harbs so to your point about the pressure then yes he would be the guy that if things went
11:23wrong
11:23that you'd have you'd be pointing the finger at and ultimately i mean look you can say all this
11:31stuff's unfair i mean you you've lived it oh yeah so i did and when you say i dealt with
11:36owners i
11:36i'll push back a little bit and say you know big difference between a bashotty and a dan snyder i
11:41i
11:42would hope i would certainly hope uh but you know it's even if it's unfair it's not right you know
11:48to
11:48say that he's on the hot seat i think it's just the reality of pro sports well oh yeah and
11:52for
11:52da costa in particular like you say okay who could have foreseen the regression across the board last
11:59year i agree with you but somebody's got to wear it and when it comes to a move like say
12:04the cooper
12:04rush thing which didn't end up being important because lamar got hurt and you actually needed your
12:09backup quarterback i don't know i mean did that cost you one of those games that if huntley was
12:14starting there that maybe they could have beat the rams if huntley started from the beginning i i
12:18don't know i don't think they were beating the rams well it was close it was like yeah but houston
12:24was a blowout nobody that that was they didn't even show up um but yeah the rams game was
12:29close anyway we're reliving history here
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