And the All right, we welcome into the show from W-M-A-R in Baltimore to explain to us how the Baltimore Ravens will trade

Lamar Jackson to the Minnesota Vikings. My former Buffalo colleague and friend Sean

Steppner, what is going on Sean? How are you?

What's up Matt? Good to hear good to see you. Good to hear from you. Well go ahead. Tell us.

Tell us how no, okay. All right. So we have been discussing the universe where the Vikings land Lamar Jackson.

And when you're looking at different odds makers, some of them are pushing the Vikings toward the top.

But first, I think we need to set the stage a little bit on how in the world we got to a point where Lamar Jackson is being talked about joining other teams than the Baltimore Ravens.

So explain this to me how this went down

between the Ravens and Lamar to get to a point

where they don't have him under contract for a long period of time.

So in my opinion, it all factors into the Deshaun Watson bombshell contract, right?

I mean, I think that's where the road split.

I think that, I think things were well and good, you know, Lamar doesn't have an agent. It's two factors. Lamar doesn't have an agent and Deshawn Watson's contract. That's kind of, in my opinion, what it boils down to.

I think everything was well and good

between the Ravens and Lamar in negotiating his next contract to make him a raven for life.

I think when the Browns went out and gave to Sean that contract fully guaranteed.

It not only raised the eyebrows of every single other franchise

and owner who has to open up his or her checkbook in the future, but it also raised the eyebrows of

quarterbacks that were going to have their contracts come up and Lamar Jackson was front and center.

And you know, for the longest time, I mean, and still now I think I can see both sides of this situation, you know, on the Raven side, you know, they believe and a lot of other teams believe and we've seen this play out with how things have have been going these last few weeks, you know, they the owners think that Deshaun Watson's contract is the outlier, right?

Do you want to call it collusion?

Hard to prove.

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