 Where has the unique Ngaque been? How does Steelers losing to the Washington football team impact the Ravens? Are you concerned at all for Lamar Jackson's development under this current coaching staff? These and many, many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. Don't get mad, it's just what it is. It's what it is. Yeah, we talkin' sport shot, I think gravin' me. You too, Tiki. YouTube team, Keep It Clean, what's goin' on, it's Ingraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to, based off of any NFL team, and we answer it in a video just like this. Now if you want an opportunity to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers, just send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com and we'll answer your question in a video just like this. 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Next question came from my guy Bert. He said, what's up Ingraven? Keep up the good analysis. Hey, appreciate it man. He said, isn't me that just noticed how quiet Ngaque is? I thought he was this stud. Am I missing something? He doesn't appear to be a mean, aggressive type of guy shaking my head. Well, Yannick and Ngaque, Yannick and Ngaque had to fix that. While he hasn't been showing up on the stats sheet, he has been getting pressure. So he's there, he just hasn't been finishing too much. Now he did get a sack and a force fumble in the Titans game and he's been getting very close. He's been getting close, but his thing, it didn't help him that the Ravens defense started getting really depleted. And I think somebody made a point, they made a good point. They were like, Yannick, I forgot who it was. Things are my guys showing, but I forgot who it was. They say, Yannick hasn't really been able to play with this full Ravens defense. He hasn't been able to play with a full healthy Ravens defense. No excuses though, no excuses at all. But as they start to get guys back and get healthier and get team keeping clean, then he should continue to do even better. And again, he is not good in run defense. Run defense is not, it's not his thing. It's a big yikes right there. He is more just a pass rushing specialist. So if they can put these opponents in more situations like that, where he could become more or be in his element as a pass rusher, then he'll continue to have success. But I think a lot of people get caught up in the numbers since he's not getting all these sacks and oh man, he must be sorry or something. No, that's not the case. Cause like I said, he's been getting pressure. So hopefully he can start finishing a little bit more and hopefully the Ravens as a whole can start finishing a lot more. He literally just sent it to me at 849 AM. I'm recording this at 849 AM. He said, do you think the Steelers losing opens up a spot for the Ravens? No, not at all. Them losing doesn't do anything for the Ravens whatsoever. Because I mean, the only thing he could possibly do, they are 11 and one. If they lost their next four and the Ravens, they won all of their games, then both of them would be 11 and five. But we know Steelers ain't losing the next four. I mean, it'd be something, but we know that ain't happening. So no, them losing doesn't do anything for the Ravens. Next question, also about the Steelers came from my boy, Harry A. He said, and Graven, hope all is well with you, man. Then that the Ravens take care of business on Tuesday, as I assume you'll be reading this days after the fact. Hopefully they will, but today is actually Tuesday. And it's like I said, it's 850 now. The last question came at 849. It's 850 now, AM. And the game will be on in about 11 hours. So, whew, that's game day. Anyway, he said, watching the Steelers lose to Washington was nothing short of spectacular. But immediately after the game, I realized something that I have since heard nobody else talk about, assuming that our Ravens are able to win out. And yes, I know that is a big if. We actually had a question from Subscribing Video that we put out today, about 20 minutes ago. And the title question was, can the Ravens run the table and win the rest of the games this season? But anyway, he said, let's assume this happens. With the Browns win against Tennessee last week, even with our potential head to head win against the Browns, they will likely end up with a higher seed than be more if we made the playoffs. This is because of their easy remaining schedule, where the only threat is Pittsburgh in week 17, who will sit their starters because they can afford to drop a game and still keep the one seed over KC due to specific tiebreakers. I checked the simulator, but wait. Hold up, I don't... Oh, okay, wait a minute. But with the unexpected Steelers lost Monday, they have no choice but to play their starters in week 17 to fight for that number one seed. Do you think this Steelers loss gives us a much better chance to pass Cleveland for a higher seed? How much do you think the Steelers loss impacts the Ravens? See now, when you put it like that, with that, their loss doesn't... I guess, you know what? I guess it does kind of help the Ravens possibly. It's not a guarantee though. It all depends on what Chiefs do for the rest of the season and what Steelers do for the rest of the season because those two are gonna be watching each other so closely. Because again, it's only one seed. I mean, well, it's obviously only one seed. It's only one bye week and Steelers won it, Chiefs won it. So they are fighting to get it. So they are gonna be going all out for the rest of the season and both of them. The pressure is on. The pressure is on. But I mean, worst case scenario for one of those two teams, oh, whoa, we got the two seed. But they gotta keep playing. They ain't got no bye week. Like if you don't get the number one seed, then you gotta keep playing for the rest of the year. You have no bye weeks, you have no breaks. So everybody, and that's everybody. That's why that one seed is just so majestic. It's just such a beautiful thing because there can only be one. So this definitely, it helps the Ravens in that possible last week game against the Browns. And I mean, bottom line, Ravens obviously they gotta take care of their own. And they've put themselves in this situation that they gotta worry about what happens with other teams. And I know some people was like, oh man, Ravens don't need any help. Yes, they do. Yes, they certainly do. Now they're gonna get help regardless because a lot of the teams that we need help from they end up playing each other. And we figured that it's not gonna be a bunch of ties in all those games. But, so Ravens are gonna get help. But it first starts with the Cowboys game. I am very nervous about this Cowboys game. I'm very nervous about the Browns game. The only game that I'm not nervous about for the Ravens is the Jaguars game and the Bengals game. Besides that, I'm nervous about every other game because we play the Cowboys who are still fighting for something. We play the Browns who are definitely fighting to keep something. And we also play the Giants who got new life and they are fighting for something. Jaguars, they want that number two pick. They really want the number one pick but Jets said, uh-uh, nope. We send in eight people on this blitz when the game is on the line. And then they fired Greg Williams because he did the, no, you just fired Greg Williams because Adam Gates, when it looked like he's trying to keep his job. But, so yeah, Steelers losing. That does help the Ravens a tiny, tiny bit because it does put more pressure on the Steelers to continue to play well and take care of the rest of their opponents. But the biggest thing that it really does for the Ravens is when they face the Browns. There's when the Steelers play the Browns on week 17. But I don't really think it does too much for them. I really don't. Chiefs could help now. Chiefs, if Chiefs could beat the Dolphins because they play them, that could help them. The Dolphins could just start losing, but we'll see. Next question came from a guy, Isaac. He said, ain't Raven, I pray everything is good with the family. I appreciate you, man. He said, I wanted to ask, do you think the Ravens need a new wide receiver coach to develop Ravens receivers? Because the wide receiver issue is very bad. And he said, thank you. And he said, also, do you think the Steelers are overrated? And he sent that actually before the Steelers in Washington football game. Now, real quick with the Steelers, I do not think they're overrated, but they were not some crazy dominant 11-0 team. They were 11-0 and not a 11-1. So they still have a great record, but they were not dominant. They were undefeated and they still got an amazing record, but they weren't out here just dominating every single team that they played anything like that. So while I don't think they were overrated, I do not think they were just some crazy powerhouse, anything like that. And as far as the wide receiver coach, I think that, I don't even think a wide receiver coach would do it. I really think the only thing that would really help the Ravens offensively just with everything would just be to not necessarily pull the plug on everything, but I think it would have to start from the top. I really do. I think it would have to start from the top because you can bring in all the coaches that you want. You can bring in all the offensive coordinators that you want, but as far as the head coach, your head coach has a certain type of mentality. He's not an offensive coach. He's not a defensive coach. Even though I know some people be like, oh, well, he coached the defensive backs with Philly. No, he did for a little bit, but he was a special teams guy. And we see that with the Ravens. The Ravens are John Harbaugh. They are John Harbaugh because again, you see they will be all these inconsistencies with offense and they always have been. Then you can see sometimes they will even be inconsistencies with the defense, but the one thing that never fails ever is special teams. Why? Because he's a special teams coach. So I, and this is not me saying, oh, fight Harbaugh, fight Harbaugh, fight Harbaugh, even though there's a lot of people that's like, fight Harbaugh, fight Harbaugh, fight Harbaugh. But that's what the team is gonna be. Their strength is gonna be special teams. That's always gonna be their strength. And there's gonna continue to be inconsistencies on offense and defense and whatnot until the Ravens, well, defense, if Wink is there, they're gonna hold it down. But until, as long as Harbaugh's still there, I don't really expect anything to really change. I don't think a wide receiver coach would do anything. I don't think a new offensive coordinator, I think our offensive coordinators can only do so much because he's still gotta answer to Harbaugh. Harbaugh makes the final decision, he makes the final call, he's the head coach. So I don't really think a wide receiver would do much. Next question came from my guy Marcel. He said, I think the problem of our offense is having our passing players no longer match our running plays. And two, our play calling is centered around Lamar Jackson running and not getting our wide receivers and tight ends open. When I think we should have done it the other way around using Lamar running as a bonus, making it harder for a defense to key in on him. Yeah, I see that too. They focus the offense around Lamar's athleticism instead of Lamar's arm. So, but at the same time, when you saw RG3 getting in and of course, when you have a first string and a second string and even a third string quarterback, you wanna have guys that are similar to each other because if one guy goes down, then you can still run your offense the same way. But I remember with RG3, before that game against the Steelers, I was thinking, okay, maybe they may change up the offense a little bit. Nope, it was the exact same. Then when Trace got in, I was thinking, oh, okay, I ain't even know what to expect with Trace. But it was the exact same. You could tell that Greg Roman was calling the plays and nothing changed. And not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it just, it is what it is at this point, man. But yeah, I do think that Lamar's running should be a bonus and yeah, you can throw any little design runs here and there, but it does seem like Raven's kind of rely on that. And we'll see what happens in this Cowboys game. I think somebody, I forgot who said it, man. But somebody was like, with Lamar, cause I know it's a lot of Raven's fans that were like, oh man, we don't think Lamar should play because he hasn't practiced this week. It ain't like the playbook is changing. It ain't like he gotta learn a new playbook or anything like that. It ain't like, cause I mean, we run the same plays, but a lot of people are like, oh, he hasn't practiced this week. He ain't played in a long time. He ain't been taking no hits. He ain't got that football contact in a long time. So he shouldn't play, he shouldn't start. And it hasn't been finalized that Lamar is starting, but he's expected to. But one person said that with Lamar, they actually feel like it's a good thing that he hasn't practiced with the team because Greg Roman and them, they're gonna have to call a lot of stuff on the fly. And they may not be doing just the same old, same old stuff. They may have to really mix it up. So hopefully that's the case, but we'll see, cause I sure ain't sleeping on the Cowboys, man. I sure ain't sleeping on the Cowboys. I know y'all gonna see this video after that game already happened. So hopefully, hopefully the Ravens take care of business. Oh my goodness, they better take care of business. Plus it's gonna be a long night. And plus, you know, Steelers fans, they waiting boy. Oh, them Steelers fans waiting because they lost to Washington last night. So they like, oh, these Ravens, oh, we hope they lose. So we'll see how it all goes. And he said, yeah, they should use Lamar's running as a bonus, making it harder for defenses to key in on them. I think this will help our passing game out a lot. It's not that we don't have the wide receivers and tight ends, it's more of how we've been using them. If you look at how KC uses their wide receivers and tight ends, they make it harder for you to bump them at the line. I love to hear your point on this. Okay. And he said, hope you and the fam doing good, bro. Appreciate it. Yeah, they, now I don't think, I don't think the Ravens have the best personnel, but they also don't make the most of them. They don't use them correctly. They don't use them how they should. They don't maximize them. And that's a big problem with the Ravens. They don't maximize the talent that they do have. They may not have the best of the best, but if you don't have the best of the best, then you make do with what you got and you maximize what you have. So, and again, this is the same thing I was saying earlier. You can get a new this, you can get a new that, you can get a new that, but as long as you have the same head coach, it's probably gonna be the same thing. It is. And I've been thinking about that recently a lot, because it's just his philosophy. That's how he runs things. That's how his show is and that's how it's gonna be. Because we've seen it year in, year out, time after time. This team is a reflection of its leader. It's ultimate leader. It's ultimate leader is not Lamar Jackson. It's ultimate leader is not Calais Campbell. It's ultimate leader is not any of the players. It's the head coach. So, with Kansas City, that's why I just love how they run their show over there. And I mean, they got the best quarterback in the game right now, Patrick Mahon. So that definitely helps a lot. But with them, they are so dangerous because they have so many valuable weapons and they use everybody. Everybody's a problem. Everybody's a threat. But then it's like, and this same thing happens in Madden too. I know if y'all play Madden and y'all be playing the Chiefs is frustrating because it's the same in real life. You could have everything covered up and you could be like, okay, let's go. We got everything covered. And then, oh, Mahon, you know what, I'm gonna take off. They don't design runs for him. And of course he's not the same athletically as Lamar Jackson, we know that. But it's like, you could have everything sold up, everything locked up. Then Mahon's a take off. And it's like, oh my goodness, we gotta deal with him too. So it's almost like it's this unfair advantage. But with the Ravens, they do so much that involves Lamar running. And you would expect that to an extent, but they do so much around it instead of using his arm. So it's unfortunate. Next question came from Dez. I don't know if this is Dez, Brian. Anyway, he said, hey, Raven hasn't been going. I've been watching the channel for about three years now. And today I would like to talk about Hollywood and Lamar. I appreciate that. Thank you for watching. He said, but first Hollywood, there's a lot of people saying he's a bust, which he is not. And anyway, I know a lot of people get caught up in a moment that, and of course the tweet, the tweet was what set the world on fire. But then seeing all these other receivers from his draft class do their thing. But Hollywood seems like he's been a little bit behind a lot of them. And it's been a full mix of reasons. But anyway, let's get to the question. He said, a lot of people saying he's a bust and comparing him to a lot of what wide receivers that were in his draft class, like AJ Brown and DK Metcalf. But if you look at who their quarterbacks are and see who Hollywood quarterback is, there's a huge difference. You have two good quarterbacks that have been in the NFL for a long time. Then you have Lamar, who is still developing in his young. But when I see Chargers rookie Herbert, he's out here balling, and he has more passing yards than Lamar. It's crazy, because this Herbert didn't even start the whole season. I get a little concerned about how the Ravens are developing him. Could this be a yikes, or shouldn't be as concerned about it? It is. I talked about this on the podcast, on the most recent episode of the Team Keeping Clean podcast. So y'all can check that out when you get a chance. But it can be a little worrisome about the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and how he'll develop under the Ravens, under this current staff, because they have not been the best at developing quarterbacks. Yeah, they did have Joe Fleco, but you saw how things were with him. Joe Fleco, it was always a rollercoaster. It was always up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. Just keep swimming, that's how it looks. But anyway, it was so much inconsistencies. There was so many inconsistencies. And they went through offensive coordinator, after offensive coordinator, after offensive coordinator, and it was the same stuff, same stuff. So then you bring in Lamar, and it's only been about two years, but with Lamar, so far it's been two offensive coordinators. Next year it'll be another one, but there's just, it's been sort of the same thing, where it's been the inconsistencies. And some games like he'll be on, and then other games he will be off, and it'll just be like, man, what's going on? What's going on? And even, of course, when you compared last season to this season, it's like, whoa. And you see that a lot of the offense has changed. They went from a lot of three tight end sets, and now they only kept two tight ends. And then just, it's just been the running has been inconsistent. Of course, the offensive line play dropped off with Marciana, but still. We still had a lot of guys that could have filled in that role, not be a Marciana, but could have been like, suffice for now, but it's like, and again, like we said earlier, it starts at the top with this, man. It starts at the top. So yeah, I am concerned about Lamar's long-term development under this current staff. I am concerned about it. So, and he said, also, do you think if Hollywood was on, oh, and that was another thing I talked about in the podcast that like if Lamar was on, I imagine Lamar, if he was drafted to a different team, like if he got drafted to the Browns or the Jets or something, how would Lamar be there? And I feel like if it was the Jets, he could only do so much. I feel like with the Browns, it all depends on the coaching staff. But then I said, but if he was on the Chiefs, I feel like, obviously, if they didn't have my home, but I feel like he would be light years ahead of where he is right now. Light years. Just because of they have an offensive-minded staff. They got to Andy Reid, they got to be into me, they got that. So he would be like, ooh, it would be scary, scary. But anyway, he said, also, do you think if Hollywood was on the Seahawks, Saints, Chiefs, Titans, Browns, Colts, et cetera, what'd he do good on those teams? Cause look at who their quarterbacks are. Now, when you mention those teams, it, quarterbacks, obviously got a lot to do with it, but I don't even think that'll be it. But Seahawks, Saints, Chiefs, yes, yes, yes. Titans, I think he'd be all right there. Browns, yeah, he could do some things there. Colts, maybe. Hopefully, Fila Rivers could hit him on some short passes because Fila Rivers ain't got the arm no more. But those teams are much more offensive-minded than the Ravens are. So Hollywood, he would definitely do his thing there, especially the Seahawks or the Saints, ooh, and Chiefs, ooh, them first three that you named alone. Ooh, that boy would be going off, man, off. Especially, I think that obviously the Chiefs would be the biggest one, where Hollywood would just, he would kill it, man. He was on the Chiefs, ooh, with DK McAv, somebody walk, it's Hollywood Brown, ooh, my good Travis Kelsey. It wouldn't be fair, man. Next question came from my boy, Anthony L. He said, Trace McSawley for the backup QB moving forward? For an offense that was moving in neutral, Trace came in and hit full acceleration. I don't know about full acceleration, now he did get that nice pass to Hollywood and whatnot. But let's not act like Trace Trace was all that. Like, oh man, he was amazing. No, it was a nice spark, though, it was a nice, and I think that with Ravens fans, especially that night against the Steelers, we were just waiting on something. We were just hoping for something, we were just sitting there waiting, and I think a lot of people, they made bigger of what Trace did on the field than what it was. He did his thing there, but he also, he almost didn't do his thing, too. And I know almost doesn't count, but he did come closer throwing two interceptions. And if the Steelers, if those cornerbacks, since those cornerbacks have the same hands as the Steelers wide receivers, that's why they ended up dropping them. But Trace, yeah, I do think he definitely, I mean, and the Ravens, they made it official when they put RG3 on Endure Reserve that Trace is the backup moving forward. So I would expect, I didn't expect RG3 to come back after this year anyway, but I think everything is pretty much set in stone now that they're gonna roll with Trace. And also, don't forget about Tyler Hully now, too. Don't forget about him, but I think they, it's pretty established that they're gonna roll with Lamar and Trace as their number one and number two quarterbacks. The last question on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers came from my boy, Richard L. He said, if and only if the Ravens don't make the Super Bowl this year, then is it time for the Ravens to stop with Roman's simple offense, put Lamar under center and develop him more traditionally where most of his runs are when the field opens up due to coverage or when he rolls out and has easy yards ahead of him. Wasn't Lamar pretty much in pro style offense in college and taking Snaps in under center? If so, seems like he was successful there. Excuse me, thank you. Yeah, I think if regardless if the Ravens, if they win or not, if they win the Super Bowl or not, then I think they should move on from Greg Roman. That the ship has sailed, it has run its course, but at the same time, like we talked about earlier, man, even if they move on from Greg Roman, I would still be concerned for most of the offensive whoever will come as an offensive coordinator with this staff because you still have the same head coach. And we've seen it. We haven't seen a bunch of different offensive coordinators with Lamar Jackson. We've only seen two. And I mean, we've seen really like one and a half because Marty was the offensive coordinator with Joe Flacco. Lamar was obviously under them too, but they had to change things in the middle of the season. So while that counts, it kind of doesn't count it, anyway. So Lamar's had Marty for half a season, had Greg Roman for a full two seasons, well as long as Greg Roman makes it through the rest of the season. But he will have had, there won't have been much change with that, but the head coach will be the same. And again, it's been the same complaints from the Ravens as his fans with the inconsistencies from the offense. Last year was just, I guess that was just an anomaly. Again, Greg Roman's first seasons, you know, that's when he goes out there and kills it, but it's just a concern, man. It's going to continue to be a concern. And yeah, like we talked about earlier, I do feel like they should let Lamar, well still you gotta let Lamar be Lamar, let him do his thing, but trust his arm. Let him do his thing with his arm. And like the previous question said too, I'm just concerned for his development under this staff. Very concerned for his development, man, because we've seen it. Obviously not with a quarterback like Lamar Jackson, but we've seen it. And it's just been a big yikes. So we just gotta obviously hold for the best. I don't know, man. Because I do feel like they, they should run some more traditional offenses and stuff, but you could still mix it in with some non-traditional stuff as well. You don't have to necessarily change, you don't have to change who Lamar is, but just use his arm more, stop relying so much on his legs. Use his arm, let that boy throw that ball, man. Let that boy throw that ball. Also, you could also run a ball too with your running backs and stuff, but it's just a lot of inconsistencies with these Ravens, man. Just a lot of inconsistencies with the Ravens. I mean, I think that has been their identity this year. I know Greg Roman said they want to forge a new identity. They didn't forge a new identity. They steal the same old Ravens and that is inconsistent this year. That's what it's been, inconsistent. So we'll see what happens. And it's like, what do you want? Me, I never want the Ravens to lose. I never want them to lose, but I know a concern for some people. I think it was my guy Harry that said it. He said that with the Ravens, my guy Harry Hollan, I think, he said with the Ravens, it's like they could win and get into the playoffs, but then at the same time, we probably wouldn't get a lot of the changes that we want to happen as far as the staff. So we may still be stuck in, and especially depending on what they do or what they don't do in the playoffs, we still may be stuck in at Limbo for at least another year if they get to the playoffs and they do the same stuff. So, but of course, I don't want them to lose, but I know some people like, man, they need to just tank the season so they can make changes that'll put more pressure on them to make changes. If they not tank the rest of the season, but if they lose or whatever, then if they don't get to the playoffs, then more changes will come. So, I don't even know, man, but it is what it is. Appreciate y'all. Woodass women fighting Ravens. Shout out to the Ravens.