BREAKING NEWS: GIANTS TRADE DANIEL FAALELE! | RAVENS FANS WERE RIGHT ABOUT JOHN HARBAUGH ALL ALONG!

And here goes even more proof that everything Baltimore Ravens fans thought about John Harbaugh, it was true. So, in breaking news, the New York Giants are trading former Baltimore Ravens starting guard for the past 2 years, Daniel Faalele, to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a late-round pick. But, the reason they're trading him is because former Baltimore Ravens starting offensive lineman Pat Mekari unfortunately suffered an injury. But, see, this is not the focus of what we got to talk about. The fact that John Harbaugh, who coveted Daniel Faalele, who loved Daniel Faalele, who basically told us let us Ravens fans know time after time after we saw struggle after struggle after struggle that Daniel Faalele was one of the best five offensive linemen to protect Lamar Jackson for the past 2 years, that that same John Harbaugh is actually trading Daniel Faalele away for a late-round pick swap. The The same John Harbaugh that when Daniel Faalele became a free agent, John Harbaugh took forever and 3 days to sign Daniel Faalele. I remember when the new league year started, we were all thinking, "Oh, John Harbaugh, he got Isaiah Likely, former Raven. He got Pat Ricard, former Raven. He got Jordan Stout, former Raven. He got Ar'Darius Washington, former Raven." So, he was getting a bunch of old guys. And that was expected because when a new coach goes somewhere, he's going to take some of his old talent with him. So, we were hurt by some of those moves, but there were no shockers. But, Daniel Faalele was still sitting out there in free agency for the longest. We were like, "Hold up. John Harbaugh told 2 years straight, 'Hey, Daniel Faalele is fine. Daniel Faalele is good. We don't need to make any changes on the offensive line. And we continue to sit there every week, especially in 2025.' We watched Lamar Jackson take so many hits." Now, it wasn't all Daniel Faalele's fault. It certainly wasn't because Andrew Vorhees he certainly played a part. Ronnie said, "Our whole offensive line." But, our guard play, it was some of the the worst in the league. The our guards struggled like crazy. And what's crazy is that with our offensive line, especially last year, they struggled from the very beginning of the season, the very first game. Lamar Jackson had been getting hit. And John Harbaugh said, "No, we're good." Didn't make any changes. And this is to your franchise quarterback. This is to the quarterback who you went to bat for verbally last season. The man had just came off a season where he threw for 41 touchdowns, only four interceptions, almost ran for 1,000 yards, too. This man went crazy the previous season. And then in 2025, he got off to such a hot start, but at the same time, he just kept getting hit. And we as Ravens fans were so frustrated with John Harbaugh because we were like, "Man, Lamar, week one, oh man, he took some big hits." We ended up losing that game, too, but he took some big hits. That's got to stop. That can't continue this season. So, week two rolled around, Ravens did all right, but then week three came and oh man, this man faced like think like 40-something pressures in one game from the Detroit Lions and he kept getting hit. And you would think going into a game, Lamar Jackson versus Jared Goff, who's going to get sacked more? Obvious answer is Jared Goff cuz Lamar Jackson, he could take off, he could make people wrong. Lamar Jackson got sacked more times in that Detroit Lions game in week three than Jared Goff did. And again, he faced an immense, intense amount of pressures. But what did John Harbaugh do? He didn't make a single change on the offensive line. He continued to tell us, "Hey, we got the best starting five out there." And then week four rolled around, Ravens were playing the Chiefs, and guess what happened? Lamar kept getting hit and then he ended up getting hurt to where he ended up missing games for not the rest of the season, but he's missed a chunk of games and he was never really healthy for the remainder of the year. But even guess guess what happened when Lamar Jackson came back into the starting lineup? You would think, oh man, all right, first couple of weeks he was getting hit, that's tough, but then week four he got taken out. All right, that'll make our head coach make a change, right? That'll make our that'll force our head coach John Harbaugh to be like, you know what? Look, our offensive line it it's not what we thought it would be and we could specifically see a lot of plays where Daniel Faalele was just it wasn't working out for him. But John Harbaugh stuck to his guns and we always say, hey, John Harbaugh when he's right, he's right, but with John Harbaugh in his eyes when he was wrong, he was still right. But he stuck to his guns, let the remaining offensive line stay out there and nothing changed. And Lamar Jackson he it just messed up the whole season for Lamar Jackson specifically, but also for the entire Baltimore Ravens. Uh John Harbaugh he was very stubborn when it came to a lot of decision-making with the Baltimore Ravens specifically with personnel. There will be times when he would just leave guys out there that in my opinion and now this like pretty much shows that it was a fact, but he would leave guys out there that probably weren't the best idea to be out there on the field. It wasn't truly one of the best players in their position on this Baltimore Ravens team and it happened with Daniel Faalele. And I can't even blame Daniel Faalele, that's the worst part. I can't blame Daniel Faalele. We cannot blame Daniel Faalele for him being out there because if you recall 2023, Lamar Jackson won the MVP. Won the MVP award, his second one, and then the Baltimore Ravens and John Harbaugh decided in the offseason of 2024, they're like, you know what? Hmm. Lamar Jackson, he just won a MVP. Uh we just came from having the number one defense, and John Harbaugh was like, you know what? Let's take some risks. Let let let let's let let let's gamble a bit. Here we go. All right. 2023, Mike Macdonald, they obviously don't retain him. He goes to the Seahawks, becomes a head coach. All right. They see see see John Harbaugh said, you know what? Zach Orr, he's never been a defensive coordinator before. He's never called plays before. That'll be our defensive coordinator. All right. This is going to work out. And you know, honestly, back then I thought it was going to work out because what I was hoping is that Zach Orr would take what he learned while Mike Macdonald was here, and he would implement it. He might put his own spin on it and whatnot, but he would take a lot of what worked with Mike Macdonald. Boy, was I wrong, but on a much bigger scale, boy, was John Harbaugh completely wrong. And that was a big risk, but the risk that has a lot more to do with our conversation right now was with Daniel Faalele, because in the off-season of 2024, Daniel Faalele, who was drafted as a developmental right tackle, he had never played guard before in his entire career. Daniel Faalele, the John Harbaugh decided, you know what? Again, Lamar Jackson just came off an MVP season. Let's try this guy, Daniel Faalele, out at right guard. They tried him out in the off-season, and I was thinking, oh, they they just had some different stuff in the off-season. You know how they do musical chairs at offensive line sometimes, see what some different guys can play. I was like, this is not going to stick. They ain't going to do this long-term. Boy, was I wrong yet again. So, after uh the Ravens got the number one seed the previous year, the number one defense, oh man, made it all the way to the AFC Championship, one game away from making it to the Super Bowl. He decided he wanted to play musical chairs at offensive line, try and experiment with Daniel Faalele at right guard. And now, look, with Lamar Jackson, the year that he had in 2024 was amazing. He should have won an MVP. But, one thing that a lot of times we forget, like the offensive line in 2024, they were not all that. Because if you go back and look, you could look at all 41 touchdowns. And now, it didn't It certainly didn't happen for all 41 touchdowns, but for a lot of those touchdowns, especially like the one to Isaiah Likely against the Bengals where Lamar Jackson and he dropped back, and he fumbled the ball initially, picked it up, and then all these defenses, they were right in his face. Uh and then there were so many other plays where Lamar Jackson, he had to run around. Well, that's because the offensive line wasn't providing him protection. And a lot of times, again, our guard play, it was rough. So, despite that, Lamar Jackson still made a lot of plays and still had that crazy ratio, 41 to four, which is insane. Should have won another MVP. But, anyway, Daniel Faalele was an experiment. So, the first year, obviously with Lamar Jackson, it worked out, but our offensive line play still wasn't that great. Then the following year, 2025, it just got way worse, but Daniel Faalele was a big part of that. A lot of times people ask me, do you Do I think John Harbaugh sabotaged Lamar Jackson? And sometimes I think like, man, like why would he truly sabotage Lamar? Why would he not want the best for Lamar? Why would he do things to his own franchise quarterback to prevent the Ravens that could contribute to preventing the Ravens from getting to a Super Bowl? Like, why would a head coach do that? Because if you're sabotaging your own quarterback, you're sabotaging yourself, too. So, I would think it just wouldn't make any sense. But, then you see stuff like this, trade like this, John Harbaugh moving on from Daniel Faalele like this, somebody whose back he's had for the past 2 years, and he sat up there and told us Ravens fans in our faces that everything was fine when we clearly saw that everything was not fine. For him to trade away Daniel Faalele for next to nothing. Some again, somebody who he put on a pedestal week after week after week. And it wasn't even just by the things that he said. We know that saying actions speak louder than words and John Harbaugh's actions when it came to Daniel Faalele specifically, they spoke a whole lot louder than anything he could ever say. Cuz we watched it over and over. We watched it week in week out. We saw it every single game just about. That Daniel Faalele, he was struggling big time at the position. But John Harbaugh still allowed him and still chose him, still selected him, hand-picked him to protect his franchise quarterback who we thought by his words he cared so much about. But you see by the actions of John Harbaugh he didn't. You see with John Harbaugh, um we can tell a lot like Ravens fans, so much of what John Harbaugh has done this off season alone Ravens fans are like, "Oh man, that's crazy." And and and it sucks because it just makes us think about the past eight years. And we were thinking about the past eight years in real time too before John Harbaugh even got fired but while he was with the team. Because the way that the Baltimore Ravens ran this team, the way that the Baltimore Ravens uh built up their roster John Harbaugh, it just seemed like over the years John Harbaugh was trying to prove himself and prove like, "Hey, we're going to do things my way." We're not going to go all in on this guy Lamar Jackson and you could tell by so many things the Baltimore Ravens did and did not do that they didn't truly believe in Lamar Jackson all the way. You could tell it it was obvious and it was sad and obvious all at the same time. I know a lot of eyes and fingers get pointed at Eric DeCosta as they should be. He deserves a lot of attention for what happened over the past 8 years, but the general manager normally goes to the beat of whoever his head coach is. So, that's why when when when this past off season before John Harbaugh got fired, I was saying, "Hey, John Harbaugh should be let go. Ravens should move on, but I didn't think they were going to. But, I was saying if the if they ever moved on, I would not mind seeing Eric DeCosta with a different head coach just to really see how he operates with that new head coach or seeing if he was a part of the problem, too. So, I can't we can put some blame on Eric DeCosta cuz he still is very, very responsible, but again, now we're seeing him with Jesse Minter, things seem to be going a bit differently. We obviously got to see in the regular season and playoffs and hopefully to the Super Bowl, but things seem to be different, but we'll continue to monitor that. So, Eric DeCosta is shatting his too. Eric DeCosta shatting let it be known basically telling Eric DeCosta like, "Look, hey, John Harbaugh's gone. I've been watching him closely. All eyes are on you now." Cuz he's giving grace to Jesse Minter, but he he let Eric DeCosta know that his seat ain't necessarily hot, but it is warming up. So, he better be on point. Um, but John Harbaugh like even when you think about Greg Roman, Greg Roman was Lamar Jackson as a starter. That was his first offensive coordinator. And Greg Roman, we always say he is a nice introductory offensive coordinator, but continuous offensive coordinator, no. That is not a good move, but that showed how much or how little John Harbaugh truly believed in Lamar Jackson and truly wanted Lamar Jackson to even grow because the amount of time that he held on to Greg Roman for it was way too long. And even then, we look at this off-season, it it took him a little while to hire Greg Roman, cuz I believe Greg Roman is actually on his staff. But, it took him a long time to hire Greg Roman. Greg Roman was out there. And John Harbaugh, he took his time. Sound familiar? Yeah, Daniel Faalele. Faalele was out there. John Harbaugh took his time. But, you see, with guys who us Ravens fans liked, guys who us Ravens fans thought were nice players, like an Isaiah Likely, oh, John Harbaugh scooped him up right away. Like a Patrick Ricard, oh, John Harbaugh signed him with the quickness. With Jordan Stout, oh, John Harbaugh said, oh, yeah, we got to get him ASAP. So, you see, this continues to prove that Ravens fans were right about John Harbaugh this whole time. And what sucks about it is such a sad truth. And with all the time that was invested into this team, all the time that John Harbaugh spent, even specifically in the Lamar Jackson era, it makes you think, man, what could have been, what should have been, and we just it's so many missed opportunities throughout the years. But, now it's a new era, and we're very happy about it. Uh I know when John Harbaugh first got signed by the Giants, so many Ravens fans were happy. A lot of Giants fans were happy. And Giants fans were happy. Ravens Giants fans were happy for two different reasons. Ravens fans, we were happy because we were like, woo, finally, we get a fresh start. Uh we get a new era, new mind in here. And John Harbaugh, it was cool, but yeah, it had been time to move on because we just kept falling short, kept crumbling at the worst times. Decisions that was so so much poor decision-making that was had, and it was it was just time. And Giants fans were like, look, we don't have so many three-and-four win seasons. We've been losing so much. Oh my goodness, Ravens fans over there complaining about about making the playoffs or complaining about barely missing the playoffs, complaining about always being in the thick of things. We miss that. We need that. So, their floor was a lot lower than Ravens floor, and our ceiling was obviously a lot higher than theirs. So, that's why both parties were happy about John Harbaugh going to New York. But, with Daniel Faalele, John Harbaugh is continuing to show that he is who he is. And with him actually getting rid of Daniel Faalele, somebody who again he he he played in our faces, man. John Harbaugh really played in Ravens fans faces. He really played in the franchise and the organizations faces with continuing to strut Daniel Faalele out there as a starter, even though he knew because if he truly valued Daniel Faalele like he did when he was with the Ravens, this trade doesn't happen. If you got a starter on the somebody who you truly value and somebody who you truly feel is a starter on your bench, oh, you're keeping him. Because just in case something happens, oh man, like what's going But, see, this offseason, Daniel Faalele was never a starter for the Giants. He never was. So, that should have let us know right then and there what John Harbaugh was thinking. But, this them trading Daniel Faalele, this takes the cake, man. It really really does. So, it's a sad story. It it really is. Um what John Harbaugh did to the Baltimore Ravens. Again, it wasn't all bad. Of course, we had some great memories, some great moments, and whatnot. But, uh when you look deeper into it, uh the moment should have been greater. Uh they should have had a lot more success. But, then the the biggest word that I can continue to think of, I can't get it out of my head, is sabotage.