It was all just a big coincidence, really.
When Eugene Monroe tweeted his dissatisfaction over the Baltimore Ravens distancing themselves from his cause, of pushing the NFL to let players use marijuana as a painkiller instead of more dangerous drugs, it just happened that the Ravens had already planned to cut the tackle. The team simply figured out, in the middle of June, that Monroe had an injury history. And the Ravens must have realized, almost two months after drafting Ronnie Stanley, that Monroe wasn’t needed anymore. And then the Ravens just had to dump him by the artificial deadline of Wednesday, not waiting any longer on trade talks.