They don't need necessarily title when you got a guy like Mark Andrews.

But what you do need is somebody that you could rely upon and catch passes in between between the numbers and and catch short yardage passes.

And what have you.

The reason why that's so important when it comes to Baltimore.

First of all, you got the second worst passing attack in the entire NFL.

You ranked 31st, but secondly, and more importantly, you've got relatively small, speedy receivers.

Okay?

And if somehow some way, you could neutralize them in the line of scrimmage, or you could prevent them on their fly patterns.

Nobody wants to go into the middle and catch footballs for the Baltimore Ravens.

You need somebody's willingness to do that, particularly when you've got somebody like a Lamar Jackson who has the ability to extend plays.

If he had, like, one or two seconds max, where it's Tom Brady or somebody like that, I would say, Hell, no, this is not a good situation because Dad's wasn't that kind of dude when he was younger and healthier.

So now that he comes off, it wasn't an A.

C.

L injury, if I remember correctly, was a Cielo wasn't Achilles.

I don't remember.

But the point.

It was Achilles injury and Achilles right?

What I'm saying is the fact that you're coming off of that.

We don't expect you to be what you used to be, but Lamar Jackson's ability to extend plays and you catching passes in short yardage situations.

I think that could be an asset to the Baltimore Ravens.

And that's why I say it's possible that he could have a decent impact.

Well, let me tip my cap to you, sir, because that's a great way of dressing this up, like you just gave the best argument you could for why this would matter at all.

That's not just the story, right, But the reality is Stephen A.

Smith.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

You're the one who's usually sitting here goes.

This won't make a damn difference than it won't like.

You want to say it will.

You could say what you said you could say something like, If he makes the team, that means he was the best option, right?

And so he has some marginal utility over whoever the replacement would have been.

Because when you say, does he help Lamar Jackson?

You mean, does he help him?

Compared to who else would have that roster spot?

I suppose if he's on the roster by some very marginal kind of margin, that he has helped them in that way and you're addressing it up about the like.

He's a 50 50 ball receiver, right?

Could be you could you could throw it to him and he is a good chance to somehow make the play on the ball.

And, okay, I guess is that exactly what they need?

Uh, they could use a dynamic receiver.

I know Antonio Brown came with a lot of baggage, especially for a young quarterback.

Maybe he's better off in Tampa or would have been in Seattle than in Baltimore.

And also I think a B would have had too much leverage on the Ravens because he had been too important to them.

But like that would have been an impact.

This is nothing.

This is a nice feel good story if Dez makes the team and that's it.

Well, sometimes the people that you play with help make you look better than you might actually be because you're not asked to do but so much.

And I think that's the point that I want you to grasp.

Remember, we don't even know if he's gonna make the team.

He's on the practice squad.

We understand he hasn't played in three years.

The last time he played, the same week Lamar was playing at Louisville.

There you go.

And so because of that reality, we don't know what the hell it is.

But what I'm saying is, if you got a guy in Lamar Jackson who's scaring the living daylights out of secondaries because of is inclusivity and his ability to run with the football, obviously your secondary is compromised.

You combine that with you being a big target.

Let's say, for example, I'm not saying this is gonna happen, but hypothetically speaking, what if Dez Bryant was gonna see some time at the tight end spot?

You understand you ain't looking.

Now everybody's looking for you to run downfield.

They're looking for you to catch passes at five years.

Excuse me.

Gronkowski could barely move after some of the injuries he sustained.

He was on stage after he retired from New England crying about you don't know what I was going through.

You don't know what it was like.

Health wise, etcetera.

What I'm saying to you is that if you've got a quarterback that knows how to run with the football in these that electrifying and the extends plays, you might find yourself open by accident.

Your throat, you're you're falling into the trap.

Like remember David Tyree with the helmet catch in the Super Bowl?

07 beat the undefeated Patriots.

He was such a hero in New York and I was doing Max Kellerman show on New York radio at the time.

We talk about Tyree all the time and and all that Tyree never caught.

Another pass for the Giants.

Like this is a ruthless talk about a meritocracy, but throwing the football fine.

But the NFL doesn't care what you did yesterday.

They want to know what you're gonna do on Sunday.

And I don't think at this point in his career, I think that Dez Bryant let me ask you a difference in this thing.

Let's end the segment by asking and just throwing out this, whether it's hypothetical, rhetorical, whatever word you want to use.

Antonio Brown was available.

Yeah, and they didn't pursue him.

Okay, But they pursue Dez Bryant.

What I'm saying is, we know Dez Bryant is no Antonio Brown, but there has to be something inside of you that's looking at what you need and saying, Excuse me, I kind of need this guy.

He could help us and his cousins on the team.

They could use another guy who could catch on the team.

And if he's the best option, because that Tyree thing works in his favor to, In other words, they ain't sentiment.

If he's on the team, it's because he earned it.

Wasn't expecting 1000 yard received this season or anything like that.

I'm just saying somebody that service and you know you could throw the football to every now and then.

E.

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