If The Ravens Wanted to Get a Deal Done With Lamar Jackson, It’d Be Done. It’s Tyler Huntley Time.

We have to have to talk about Tyler Huntley and Lamar Jackson.

Glimpse, I have been on the Huntley prepare for in excess of a 12 months. I’m not the conductor. On my Pac-12 Apostles Podcast I used to balk at how particular Utah enthusiasts claimed Huntley was as both equally a passer and a leader. But if I can hop on the practice just after it’s by now going, so can you. 

For the next preseason in a row, Tyler Huntley has revealed us that he has the probable to be a extremely fantastic quarterback in this league, and if it was any other condition of a backup flashing likely, I’d be the 1st to say the Baltimore Ravens need to cash in on the backup if there is a desperate more than enough staff to place with each other a offer for many picks.

But the Baltimore Ravens have hesitated far also long on making Lamar Jackson the future of the franchise. It is been over a calendar year considering that the Buffalo Costs committed to Josh Allen, and we’ve arrived at the position where by Kyler Murray, drafted a year immediately after Jackson, currently has his extension from the Arizona Cardinals. 

I like Lamar Jackson. You’d have to be silly not to. And whilst Tyler Huntley is no Lamar Jackson, at minimum not nevertheless, what do you assume sets the Ravens up for the future superior? Allowing Lamar Jackson hit the open up industry, or offloading him at a large premium, and investing a measly $60 million in excess of 3 seasons to lock up Huntley and surround him with the best expertise that income can acquire?

If you believe this is a ridiculous take, great. But really do not blame me for owning it. Blame the Baltimore Ravens front workplace, or Lamar Jackson’s determination to not be repped by an agent for generating a condition in which normally takes like this can have oxygen. 
Consider if the Cleveland Browns bought word that Lamar Jackson was out there through this very last offseason. You observed what they gave up for Deshaun Watson regardless of not staying guaranteed he’d at any time perform once more- what do you think they’d have supplied up for Lamar Jackson? The essential to the metropolis? A technology of unborn youngsters? A certification of forgiveness to the ghost of Art Modell?

You can’t inform me that it has not crossed Ravens GM Eric DeCosta’s brain that Huntley, who rushed for 300 yards in 7 game titles as a backup very last yr, and has done all but 3 of his passes in the 2022 preseason, is a decent fallback system if he can not get a deal completed with Jackson. 

You do not have to like my take to acknowledge that if the Ravens considered Lamar Jackson was definitely the dude in Baltimore, his deal would already be carried out.

Enable that sink in.