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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We have the

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Speaker 1: pleasure of being joined by ESPN's Jamison Hensley, the best

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Speaker 1: in the biz that cover in the Ravens. Jamison's been

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Speaker 1: doing it for a long time and seeing a lot

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Speaker 1: of things, and this is a little unique. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine Jamison with Mark Jackson. As always for our listeners

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Speaker 1: out there, you can follow Jamison's work on ESPN dot com. Jamison,

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll start there. Just are you surprised at

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Speaker 1: the news of the franchise tag and specifically the reported

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Speaker 1: non exclusive franchise tag? Yeah, Ryan, thank you for having

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Speaker 1: me on. I am surprised. And even though I was

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Speaker 1: told this was kind of how the Ravens were leaning

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Speaker 1: towards was the non exclusive tag, I still thought maybe

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Speaker 1: the risk outweighed kind of going with the non exclusive row.

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Speaker 1: But what this kind of tells me is that one,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens believe the off or they have for Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson is better than he will get because now he

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Speaker 1: can engage in contract talks with other teams. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: either feel like their their offer is better than what

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Speaker 1: he will get from other teams, or two they're willing

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Speaker 1: to match what offer another team to. I just because

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Speaker 1: in the non exclusive tag, the Raveins have five days

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Speaker 1: to match any offer or they get two first round picks.

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Speaker 1: Is compensation. I just find it hard to believe, and

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong about this. I just find hard to

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Speaker 1: believe that the Ravens would be willing to let Lamar

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Speaker 1: find that hard to believe. So that's why I think

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Speaker 1: one of two things. Either they feel like their contract

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Speaker 1: to be willing to match any offer that Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: gets from other teams right and then, and then trade

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Speaker 1: him for more than two first round picks, is what

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Speaker 1: you're saying exactly. That would be the thing where I again,

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Speaker 1: that's the gamble of the non exclusiveness, because you know,

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Speaker 1: if they don't offer, if they don't match, then you

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Speaker 1: give up a unanimous MVP for two first round picks.

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Speaker 1: And I mean ryan a year ago, the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: if the Ravens are looking for market value as far

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Speaker 1: as trade compensation, That's what I would look for, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And let's just back up real quick for listeners. So

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Speaker 1: you've probably heard this a million times by now, but

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Speaker 1: just to explain how this all works, the non exclusive

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Speaker 1: tag comes to the price tag of about thirty two

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Speaker 1: point five million dollars. As Jamison's talking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: any other team can sign Lamar Jackson to a contract sheet,

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Speaker 1: to an offer sheet. The Ravens have the opportunity to match.

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Speaker 1: If they don't, they get two first round picks. As

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Speaker 1: they're saying. Part of the reason that I thought that

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Speaker 1: it might go this route, Jamison, is because the exclusive

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Speaker 1: franchise tag was just so expensive at forty five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I thought it's gonna be hard for the Ravens to

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Speaker 1: be as competitive as they were last year. If Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson's cost him forty five million dollars against the cap,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if he rides that out, then you have

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Speaker 1: what does the team look like with Lamar Jackson at

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Speaker 1: forty five million dollars this year? So I always looked

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Speaker 1: It almost said to me they're gonna need to trade

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, right, Like, yeah, definitely. I mean because forty

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Speaker 1: five million. And I'm not very good at maths, so

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Speaker 1: I use the calculator for this, but it accounts for

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Speaker 1: twenty percent of your cap. And I mean Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: is is a great player, He's a fantastic player, but

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Speaker 1: if you devote twenty percent of your cap to one

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Speaker 1: I know you've talked about this on the lounge before,

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Speaker 1: but the Ravens only have five draft picks. That's that's

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Speaker 1: their fewest draft picks right now since nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be to add and trade back and

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Speaker 1: get more picks. But still, when you have that low

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Speaker 1: cap room as possible, right, And that's what you know

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Speaker 1: everybody's talked about. Well, you know, the Ravens haven't supplied

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Speaker 1: so that's why the exclusive tag I thought, if that

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Speaker 1: under their full control. But to me, the non exclusive

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Speaker 1: some analysts have said, well that's the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: end for Lamar Jackson in Baltimore. In my opinion, it

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Speaker 1: actually gives. I think there's a better chance of him

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Speaker 1: then he has to bring down, he has to come down,

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Speaker 1: and this was also as we know, the Ravens aren't

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Speaker 1: just looking at this year, they're looking ahead as well. Yep.

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Speaker 1: And if you put the franchise tag, let's just say

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Speaker 1: Jameson exactly. But that's one hundred and twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: did look calculator math. If you put the exclusive franchise tag, well,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson for two years, and compared to the non exclusive,

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Speaker 1: but there's the reports about and we don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: a way of saying, hey, Lamar, now you get to

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Speaker 1: this is not the end of that. Lamar Jackson's the

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Speaker 1: is Lamar Jackson still reaches a long term deal with

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Speaker 1: it's certainly more feasible for him to play this year

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Speaker 1: under the franchise tag. So a lot of things in

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Speaker 1: play here. When the tampering window opens, it's March thirteenth, actually,

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Speaker 1: as in March fifteenth earlier. Once the legal tampering period opens,

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Speaker 1: teams can contact Lamar Jackson and he might get a

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Speaker 1: lot of phone calls. We will have to see. It's

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Speaker 1: if you're wondering, as I'm sure you are. Is on vacation.

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Speaker 1: Of all days, of all days for Garrett to be

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Speaker 1: on vacation, he picks the franchise tag deadline. That's just

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Speaker 1: that's classic, classic Garrett. Anyway, I'm still holding it down.

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Speaker 1: Cliff also a vacation, but Jamison stepped in great pinch hitter.

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