Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Why don't we start with The Ravens.

Hey, Raven fan, Bemore, how you living? Have you called the fire department

yet? Because where there is smoke, there is generally fire and it looks like your damn house is

a blaze. Seriously the hell is going on there, Raven's fan, believe me your

players want to know the same thing. They've got the same question.

Now generally when I think about button up franchises in the NFL, franchises that you want to emulate,

the Ravens are one of those franchises because of their

stability, their consistency, their sustained competitiveness, you know franchises like

The Ravens, Chiefs, Steelers, Niners, these are the types of teams that come to mind.

Or at least it used to be like that because whatever it is that's going on in Beamore right now is the exact opposite of buttoned up and

stability.

I mean obviously you've got that back and forth between Lamar Jackson and the team regarding his contract.

I mean I'm obviously not there for it.

I'm not privy to those discussions, but from the outside looking in, no one on either side is saying anything of any

substance which leads me to believe that there is nothing of substance taking

place in the way of negotiations.

And now they're on the clock.

And they're running out of the time in the sense,

like Eric Takasta, their gym would say, no no we're not we're actually not running

at a time but they are running out of time and I'll tell you why they're running out of

time in the sense that if they don't get a deal done

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