Diante Lee

But man, I felt like this is one of those deals where...

You say yes and you hang up the phone and you just got to like clasp your hands, you know, and you're asking every higher power that you have ever talked to in your life to say, please come through for me.

Please make this the best deal that I've made in my life.

I think that that's kind of where I'm at with it.

What fifth-round pick are they going to trade away to get some starter?

I think I would have been a yes.

100%.

I do not want to look at Lamar Jackson when he's 34 years old, right?

And saying like, hey man, like now we're kind of at that point where we're going to wonder how much longer, how many more years you've got to play.

And we're all sitting at the table saying, man, we had a chance to really push it in and go take a chance around the time that you turn 30.

And we just didn't do it because we wanted to play the long game.

Who the hell is going to care about the long game?

when an opportunity to go win a championship could be on the line.

There's a power vacuum that exists in the AFC right now, right?

And I think that every time I tried to wriggle out of this yes that I would have given Baltimore, I thought like, would I rather have traded away the second round pick to go get a DJ Moore?

No, I think I'd rather have Max Crosby.

Would I rather trade it away a one and a two to go get an AJ Brown?

Okay, that's something really worth thinking about, but I still think I'd probably rather have Max Crosby for where this team is at.

And I think that I'm happy with that ultimately, right?

If I'm Eric DaCosta, you've got to just kind of make your peace and you've got to understand that, A, not only does this make Lamar Jackson and this offense's job easier in theory, because now when you get leads, I think that, A, between your defensive play calling head coach or defense,