There are the moves the Baltimore Ravens have made this off season the big

addition by far Odell Beckham Jr. and the big transaction came last week with

the signing of Lamar Jackson. I spoke for about 25 minutes yesterday with GM Eric

to Costa. Here is a chunk of our conversation most of which focused on the

resigning of the 2019 NFL MVP. I will say this like Lamar you know is a good

agent from the standpoint of he asks the right questions he knows what he wants

in a lot of different ways. He's aware of different you know mechanisms and

you know issues with the contract language terms types of structures and

things like that. He's done his homework and with all of that stuff and he's a

very very smart guy savvy and he did a great job overall. This thing lingered

for months before it was finally done. What was it that broke the ice to get it

done last week? You know I think it was really just a patience thing you know

listening to each other you know I can't give you one specific thing I would

say that we've tried you know various structures and different things to get a

deal done. Lamar has had his own feelings and ideas and a lot of other things. We

thought it was important that Lamar have a chance to kind of see what his

market might be if he wanted to if he wanted to investigate that we thought that

was important for him. I think the communication piece I think that Lamar could

see from afar that we were trying to build the best team we could try to add

some weapons on offense around him to be the best offense we could be and that

in the end I think Lamar hopefully I think so realize that we were the best

place for him that we love him that are offered reflected that and that we were

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