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Yeah I have a YouTube channel where I mostly discuss the Ravens, it is Jose Vardusko, I know it's a hard name to spell but it's actually not too hard if you actually look at it, it's spelled like it sounds. It has a Z instead of an S but anyway I'm starting to ramble as I usually do. But yeah usually the Ravens is my main topic but I've tried to start expanding to other topics and I think it's going pretty well. So yeah check that out, check me out on Twitter as well, it is at NF Podcasts Live and yeah just give me a follow man if you love the Ravens. Alright cool and thanks for coming on again too, now I wanted to ask you what made you start doing YouTube? Oh man so I think I started about three years ago maybe even longer now, it's been a while that I've been doing this. Originally I started my channel because I used to work at a warehouse, I used to work at a warehouse and I used to love just chopping it up with my coworkers about football and stuff about the NFL but it wasn't enough you know to me because I just love talking about football so much that I just felt like and especially with the Ravens I didn't really have any other Ravens fans that were working with me and none that I knew personally right so I couldn't really discuss the Ravens with anybody and I really wanted to so that's why pretty much I started my YouTube channel and yeah man we've just gone from there it's uh you know it's it's it's getting rolling a little bit so but yeah originally that's why I actually started my channel because I just wanted to share my thoughts on the Ravens really that's that's really how it started. Okay and now real quick before we get into it just some random questions what was your worst your least favorite part of this last football season? Huh okay um no fans no fans I think I think that was because someone told me I don't know if this is true or not uh someone told me that Lamar Jackson our quarterback obviously didn't he didn't feel the energy the same like in the games because there was no fans and I I could totally see that yeah I could totally see that being true uh it's just not the same you know football the passion you need to have the fans there it's a lot I would uh compare it to professional wrestling right without the fans it's just not the same that's that's why like ever since the whole virtual thing going on at WWE I just I can't watch it it's just I'm sorry it's unwatchable to me uh but but yeah man I probably know fans so I'm hoping that there is fans this season because man it's desperately needed it really is oh yeah yeah this is definitely gonna be fans this season because they started putting fans in toward the end of last season and a lot of teams have already said like hey we're gonna be packing them stadiums out so uh yeah because that was uh especially the first game of the season because that was the first time we had had that experience it was like super awkward man yeah like I think on uh Brown's their very first play was an interception uh where Kaleis Campbell tipped it and Marlon Humphrey caught the pick right but um usually at M&T Bank you would hear the crowd going crazy and stuff and you're just looking around like okay cool yeah and then it's like that's a good point that you made too about the fans is that uh and what you said what Lamar said is because um with us at home when you hear them fans going crazy if you're not at the game if you hear them fans going crazy you will start going even more crazy than you already might be so um it just yeah it wasn't the same this year and even when they like at least at M&T Bank Stadium I know dolphins they had a lot more people at M&T Bank they didn't have too many people so even when they did put the fans back in there just it still wasn't the same it was better but it wasn't the same definitely so I just want to say man huge thanks to my guy in Raven because there's a video somewhere like you have to dig deep for it but when I was like first starting out first starting out man like this was back when I was with my guy Andrew yeah shout out to him the Rams fan right that's right that's right and I asked in Raven I'm like I didn't even think he would reply to me I'm like amen would you want to come on real quick talk some talk some football and it was it was a mess like I had my camera dying and it was just so many problems man so but shout out to him Raven bro because he came through and I didn't think he would and yeah and he's been a great dude he really has so now man and keep it clean now I appreciate it and you were the one that actually said too because I remember um because that was back when I was working at my job and you were like man you're taking all these breaks what's gonna happen if uh if something happens at your job if you get like let go of something yeah if it happens it happens but yeah now I appreciate it man oh yeah of course so all right so we got some real good questions like we always do so let's go ahead and get into it let's do it let's get into it all right first question came from my guy nick brick he said which draft pick would you say you're higher on than most fans well for me um I know everybody loved that Bateman pick but I love love love that Bateman pick um because that was the that was literally the first receiver and I think actually the first player that I watched film on and as soon as I watched film on them I was like oh yeah please Ravens please make it happen I didn't think they were gonna make it happen so when they made it happen I I just went crazy man I was so happy man who was yours yeah I mean the Bateman pick was just definitely my favorite of the draft I will say that uh but you know I'm gonna go against the grain here because my guy has been getting a lot of hate this draft pick oh and it's it's our other first round pick Mr. 00 as I call him Mr. Owe uh Odafe Owe aka Jason Owe right so so I'm not saying that I think he's gonna come in and immediately contribute that's not at all what I'm saying I do think that he's gonna take some time in the oven and a lot of Ravens fans don't like that they want if you if you're gonna draft an edge rusher he has to contribute instantly right that's what everybody wants and I totally get that but just think what could happen if this guy can actually develop bro if he can develop his pass rushing moves if he can develop a plan when he actually goes to rush the passer I mean just just from a pure athletic standpoint this guy is a freak he is an absolute monster right ran a 4 3 8 I believe uh so if we can actually develop him which I do tend to trust the Ravens when it comes to edge rushers now I know uh my guy pressure daddy aka uh Jalen Ferguson has yet to develop but if you guys watched my video from like two years ago I did not like Jalen Ferguson before the draft so I'll just put that out there but Owe if he can develop bro I think that he is going to be like just a double digit sack guy I do okay we'll have to see man but yeah I'll go with Owe just because everybody you know is it's pretty down on that pick okay and his other part of the question he said who do you think will have the most immediate impact I um I wouldn't go Bateman I wouldn't even go Owe Owe I mean I wouldn't um I would go uh Cleveland yeah I will go Cleveland offensive line uh and he's an interior offensive lineman and that's where Ravens uh struggled at the most and I think with them drafting him I think he'll be in the mix to be a starter I think he will end up getting a starting job but of course that all has to be determined um but I think with them drafting him that will have the biggest impact and the most immediate impact on the Ravens because before anybody even touches the field there's a big position change and that would be uh Bozeman moving over to center um and then that would allow him to be at his natural spot uh and hopefully the snaps can be on point and also another thing too speaking about the snaps and this even goes higher than the uh the center to quarterback exchange hopefully the Ravens can implement some more plays where Lamar Jackson is under center because that was a big thing last year with the bad snaps it's like okay if they're bad snaps if it's a windy game if it's a rainy game all right we'll have some plays ready will Lamar be under center yes like so it just um so I will go with uh with Cleveland so who would you think would have the most biggest impact the most immediate impact I definitely gonna have to agree for for definitely some reasons but I want to go back to what you said about going under center I don't understand that Patriots game is the probably the main example like what did the Patriots do with Cam Newton what did Bill Belichick do he said amen look the weather is terrible let's not go out and let's not snap the football out of the shotgun let's have Cam Newton go under center and that's pretty much how they won the game they just coach better than and we did let's be honest here uh yeah they have to implement plays under center more especially in these bad weather games so I absolutely agree with you but going back to the original point I have to agree with you as well I have to go Ben Cleveland and usually as we know under harps he doesn't like playing rookies uh instantly uh usually but I think that this might be one of the the few occasions that we actually see Ben Cleveland start taking snaps from day one because you saw how hype they were you heard all the news about how this was John Harbaugh's pick Ben Cleveland he wanted to trade up for the guy so I could definitely see Ben Cleveland coming in and being a day one starter so I absolutely agree with you okay cool cool oh and now uh he said who do you think will be the biggest surprise hmm interesting well man this is this is gonna take me a while to think about I have to go through I just I just did a draft grades video and I can't even think of the names right now um but go ahead if you want if you want to start yeah I would say ah man and it's tough because I I hope this doesn't end up happening I really do um but history would like sort of push us to almost expect it I would say Wade I believe it's Sean Wade um yeah and the reason I say that is because right now there's nothing that's going to be expected of him like he's obviously with the Ravens, Marcus Peters, Marlon Humphrey, Tavon Young, Jimmy Smith, Anthony Avid, he's weighed down in the pecking order but um one injury and he shoots up quickly uh and and with Tavon Young that's why I say I hope it doesn't happen um but with Tavon Young he has the history the injury history hopefully that can be behind him and they can just be done and away with but if that does happen I think that he would instead of them kicking Marlon in there like they have and and he's done all right there but he's not a slot corner it's not him yeah um but I think it could be Wade uh because and and the reason I say surprise when I say surprise I mean just somebody uh who I feel could come in and just have a and not just an immediate impact but an immediate positive impact because immediate impact could be a bad impact too but um with him uh if he gets that opportunity and wasn't he like didn't they say in 2019 I think he was the what the the defensive play of the year cornerback of the year or something like that so I know that a lot of people were mocked uh in mock drafts they had him in the first round so I mean that should tell you a lot right yeah man so that that would be my that's a great that's a great pick there Sean Wade because if you look at what he does well he sometimes they would put him like in the box especially when he was playing big nickel have him blitz out there and oh man he would fly off the edge there so if and you know what Wink loves to do right so if if we can implement him into some packages you're right I think Sean Wade could make an impact I'm gonna go against the grain as I tend to do um a pick that everybody absolutely hated everybody absolutely hated the Ravens fan base the NFL everybody said why did the Ravens draft this guy in the third round yeah that's right I'm referring to Brandon Stevens I said it in my video I believe we drafted a special teamer in the third round but what if he actually turns out to be like a great special teamer and and you know Harbaugh loves to get these guys playing time if they show out on special teams that's what he does so I don't know what if he makes an immediate impact on special teams Brandon Stevens not necessarily saying in the starting 22 but in uh in special teams what if Brandon Stevens comes in and makes an immediate impact I'm just saying like I tend to trust the Ravens a little bit on these types of picks uh so we'll see maybe he comes in and and actually does be the most impactful at least at first I don't know okay and the next part is question he said who do you think has the best chance of getting into the Ravens ring of honor wow um that that's a tough one yeah because oh that's a tough one uh based off of Ravens history because like I said I love the Rashad Bateman pick but I can't go with him based off of Ravens history hopefully that history starts changing with Hollywood and with Bateman and and Boykin and just everybody moving forward but um based off of their history I would have to go with oh with either oh oh oh oh it's so it's this question don't even feel right answering it yeah yeah um I it just doesn't even feel right answering me because I was gonna say away but then I was gonna also say um uh Cleveland because he's an offensive we gotta we gotta skip that one for now that just it don't even feel right that's all good I was I was actually gonna say Bateman if he can uh if he can get 1200 receiving yards because we haven't had a receiver hit 1200 yards since 1996 so you know so the next part he said uh do you see anyone who won't make the team in two seasons oof wow um uh Ben Mason oh yeah that and that that was a pick that like surprised me yeah the full backslash Titan I just I see him being on a practice squad if that if anything but um I almost think maybe even possibly this year I just because I know there's been some people like oh man we could imagine uh like Patrick Ricard and Ben Mason they the same type of player then I seen some people say oh well Patrick Ricard his contract's coming up so maybe they won't re-sign him and they just replacing for somebody cheaper with Ben Mason with C but I just I can't get so caught up in the um sort of the hype of having even though it's not really hype around it yeah uh because that that happened to me last year because boy I was for sure that Bronson Rick Steiner was going to make the roster I'm like oh man this is gonna be crazy he'll fit right in the offense oh yeah and then Raven said nope and they didn't even wait till cut down day they cut them way early yeah so um the whole Ravens fan base would love Bronson Rick Steiner and I'm like I didn't say too much about it because I'm like let's see if he even makes the team and lo and behold didn't even make it to cut date right yeah man um but yeah so I would go I guess I would go with uh with Mason um the the interesting thing is that he's listed as a tight end I'm sure you saw that that when they drafted him they said tight end Ben Mason uh so what I thought is that this is an insurance policy for Nick Boyle slash Pat Ricard that's how I saw the pic both yeah yeah right so we'll see we'll see if he does anything that makes sense all right next question came from my guy Rainmaker he said I ain't great even hope all as well with you and yours I want to be greedy for just a moment I live in Philly and I was reading where Zach Erts probably will be a June 1st cut any chance the Ravens go broke or go for broke in a different way instead of Julio Jones maybe go after Zach Erts he will be a lot cheaper option and we all know Lamar lovers tight ends it will be another way of giving Lamar more weapons and the more the merrier let that be a good problem for G-Roll to have as always stay safe and looking forward to hearing what you think oh that that's the name that uh I forgot about I forgot all about Zach Erts because we just haven't been hearing anything about him there was room with that he was gonna either get cut or traded and then everything just got quiet on him so if he was a post-June 1st cut I wouldn't be mad at all if the Ravens went after him because you already got Mark Andrews you of course have Nick Boyle and he um hopefully you have a fully healthy Nick Boyle when he comes back but um having Zach Erts that would just give you somebody else again like you said another weapon and that would force that would be a great problem for Lamar Jackson G-Roll and the Ravens to have where you almost have too many weapons even though you can never have too many weapons definitely so I mean if you asked me this like three months ago oh yeah definitely right but my thing is we have we just drafted two receivers and I understand like it's you know you want to have more weapons available and I totally get it but we also have guys like Devon Dovernate that I want to see more snaps out of we have guys like James Prochet that I want to see more playing time and I know they're not the tight end position so but I want to see what these receivers got man I want to I don't want a Zach Erts to come in and for the Ravens to feel like oh but we have to feed Zach Erts because we're paying him X amount of dollars right so right now I'm not too high on the prospect of signing a Zach Erts if he's willing to come in for very cheap and yeah sure maybe but right now I want to see what we got from these wide receivers first uh I know like the whole narrative is that Lamar prefers as tight ends and all that I get that but we have to see what we got we do you know we have all these young guys that we we we got to give them some playing time all right last question on this episode a question from subscribers came from my guy great ice said hey engraven loved the recent content appreciated he said I was wondering what some realistic goals for the season should be of course I want to see us win the Super Bowl and I think we've got a roster capable of it but that's the highest bar imaginable in football what are some measuring stick goals that fans can determine that the Ravens had a successful year will love to hear your thoughts on the matter and this is a nice way to close this episode out I love this question um realistic goals for me for the Baltimore Ravens uh win wise um to obviously make the playoffs uh but to to to win in the playoffs not just win but win through the year too or not even win through the year you're still gonna run the ball but have success uh through the year and have consistent success through the year now if if we'd be an honest and being straight up I do not think the Ravens are going to make the Super Bowl this year I hope they do I really hope they do but my realistic expectations I expect them to make at least to the AFC championship game um but I think that will be progress that'll be progress because they've gotten better year after year obviously first year no playoff wins but they squeaked in then the next year they made it all the way in and got that number one seed then they got bounced out but then the following year they finally won their first playoff game and they had been down by 10 and came back and they won then in the bills game yeah that was a big yikes but um I just I think the way not just winning in the playoffs obviously that's the most important thing but the way that they win uh will be important as well uh and really just through the regular season too I don't think that they have to go from 32nd ranked passing offense to like top 15 anything like that I don't think they have to make no crazy jump like that because this when you think about it like this this team with the 32nd ranked pass offense obviously their Russian offense is number one but with that last ranked passing offense they lead the league in scoring the past two years so they're doing a lot right they can make some adjustments to make do some stuff even right her even though that's not even a word but um they they're not like it's not like this offense is just dead anything like that they just got to tweak some stuff here and there uh with the passing offense and that can take them because they're already on a high level but that can take them to another level but just I think one of the biggest ways that we can see their success will be in the consistency I think of the deep ball um and the lack of drops and I know drops are going to happen they happen to every team so I'm not expecting every receiver to catch every single ball that's thrown that way that'd be nice but I think the lack of crucial drops uh and I think I really want to see them play a lot better uh in different weather conditions like in the cold in the rain and whatnot uh but more so in those colder weather conditions in the playoffs so just and I just want to see the team uh when it comes to playing the cheese I think that would be a nice measuring stick too to see how they do against Kansas City because every time they play Kansas City just everything just seems to fall apart everything um we can match up with them but everything just seems to fall apart uh so those are some of the things that I will say just be be better prepared uh and preparation as far as coaching uh and from execution standpoint too especially in the playoffs because again not not in a cocky way or anything like that but I think we all expect the Ravens to get to the playoffs this year again I think that's expectation that's almost like it's almost like that's that's the floor yeah um but it's what what they do when they get there that that'll be the biggest measuring stick man because regular season is cool regular season is important you obviously got to win in regular season to get to the playoffs but once you get there we we just want to see consistency from this team and we want to see this team that goes through the regular season and has a lot of games where they absolutely steam roll over teams we want to see that in the playoffs we don't want to see these shy timid scared petrified Ravens walking to the playoffs and like oh my goodness should we should we score more points in this other team no we don't want to see that we want to see them Ravens come out ready and execute man so what what would be your your measuring stick for this season to determine that it was a success for the Ravens AFC championship straight up honestly barring any barring like a 2015 type in three season right uh this team is has a good mix of veterans and young good players and you know that's nothing new for Ravens fans that's usually how we roll we usually have a good mix of veterans and young good players but this team I said it today man in one of my videos I said it's almost complete you know on paper at least we have the offensive line now with Villanueva on paper edge rusher I would like to see them sign maybe a Justin Houston or Ryan Kerrigan and if they do that to me the team is complete right I mean uh you know like I said barring any injuries but yeah I think AFC championship should absolutely be the expectation for this team because I understand you have teams like the Buffalo Bills right they're gonna be there the chiefs of course the Browns even I mean the Browns are they're looking really good uh they're gonna be there but we can beat all of those teams right we know we can beat all of these teams that's the craziest part I know for sure we could have beaten the Bills last season I don't care what anybody says we could have beaten the Bills in the playoff game but you know what happened there so AFC championship should be the floor and like you said the passing game what I want to see is I know that this has been said multiple times but creativity you see all these other quarterbacks these young quarterbacks they get easy passes like quick screens like creative play calling here you see Josh Allen has all these short quick passes gets the ball out quick you think Lamar is incapable of doing that you ask a lot of these media guys social media guys oh no Lamar can't do with Josh Allen yeah he can and Josh Allen does a lot of quick screens a lot of quick passes and then he goes deep now Josh Allen has probably a deeper better arm there than uh than Lamar does but he can definitely do a lot of these things that you see in these offenses I want Greg Roman to just watch I feel like he doesn't even watch NFL bro like he doesn't watch some of these play calls dude get creative that's all I want to see get easy cheap yardage for Lamar Jackson through the air just like all of these other young quarterbacks get and I think if they can do that for me all I'm asking I know we were the 32nd ranked passing attack last year I just want it to be at least 12 spots better that's it top 20 that's all I want that's all I want if you can do that and you still have the best running game in the NFL that's going to be a dangerous offense really dangerous offense so now would you be willing to sacrifice like you know Ravens had that number one Russian attack right now in order to jump to the top 20 would you be willing to sacrifice the running game I mean because it it would happen um but would you be willing to sacrifice going into uh going from number one Russian team to a 10 or maybe for 10 or 15 Russian yeah I would um I think 15 might be a little low but 10 I'd be fine with I'd be fine with that because yeah that means we have more dimensions on offense right and I've said this previously like this is this was my case against Greg Roman which I know a lot of people have made but with this personnel Lamar Jackson Gus Edwards JK Dobbins even will throw injustice hill in there why not you don't need this offensive running mastermind right you don't need that anybody could come in and honestly have a top 10 running game with just this personnel that's my belief that's my belief so that's why I didn't necessarily like the fact that we kept Greg Roman but you know what are you gonna do they they did it anyway so yeah man so if they sacrifice a little bit in the running game I'm totally fine with that as long as we get more creative and we're able to move the ball in different ways so we just don't get absolutely manhandled and embarrassed in the playoffs again yeah that's true too um and I know uh when we had a late round corner on about a month change ago he made a really really good point when it came to because somebody asked a question about uh receive I think was my guy Rodale asked the questions about how this 17 game schedule could possibly help the Ravens receivers finally get over a thousand yards and um well late round corner was saying he said that it's with the yards it just it wouldn't be as important he said he would rather take the receiver getting like seven eight hundred yards uh with maybe like eight or nine touchdowns than a thousand eleven hard eleven hundred yard receiver with like two or three touchdowns definitely um so so that goes uh back to that point of efficiency uh just Ravens just need to be efficient and I know that was kind of a weird question to to ask if the Raven if you'll be willing to sacrifice them be a number one in Russian uh for them to be top 20 and passing uh because I think that the biggest thing that we just wouldn't know depending on how things went would be uh the efficiency the scoring efficiency how many touchdowns were they getting because yards again Dak Prescott he would continue to be a league leader in passing yards Deshaun Watson of course last year league leader in passing yards but they were four and twelve I think yeah exactly so it just it's obviously not all about the numbers and we've got to look at all about the points not about the yards exactly exactly those are the biggest numbers that that matter because those numbers they tell uh of the biggest story than everything else absolutely and uh I actually watched that video with Michael uh aka late round corner and I saw the Hakeem Butler shade and I just want to say oh yeah what happened to Kelvin Harman ask him that next time you see oh yeah that was his favorite yeah but anyway that's all I want to say