Matt Spiegel

So when you have to spend that many picks on linebacker and receiver, and you're not really getting any long-term contributors that you can stack one core on top of another, that's how you end up just building a team that's good, even very, very good, but never...

going to actually win a championship.

And so my criticism of the Ravens is they're kind of a victim of their own process sometimes.

I understand they let Tyler Linderbaum, or they weren't going to match $27 million for Tyler Linderbaum.

I get it.

But they had an opportunity to extend Tyler Linderbaum a while ago when he wasn't going to be $27 million.

Maybe you should have done that.

And, you know, they're like, oh, we're not going to do a fifth year option for a center like that.

Number is egregious.

I don't know.

It's not twenty seven million.

So you probably could have done that and saved yourself the whole.

You probably could have retained Isaiah likely instead of retaining a much older Mark Andrews.

You didn't have to keep Marlon Humphrey.

You're keeping him because you want to.

You could use that money on Tariq Wolin.

So it's just the loyalty to the guys that they probably shouldn't retain while letting the guys go that they probably should retain.

And they just keep creating holes for themselves that they have to fill in the first round over and over and over again, rather than actually getting better and stacking talent on top of each other.

Thanks, Brett.

Thank you.