 Kind of important game coming up this Sunday against him chiefs the Baltimore Ravens are hosting the AFC Championship For the very first time in franchise history So this is a big one and real quick if you want to look the part for the game If you want to help out on the road to Vegas with the Baltimore Ravens Go to harder city clothing and get your road to Vegas Hoodie and when you go there use Cody engraving and you get 20% off 20% off Not just but your whole order whatever you order 20% off the whole order So they really hook you all up now The Baltimore Ravens in this game We want the players to hook up the offense. We want the players to hook up the defense We want the players to hook up the special teams But who are those key players that are needed extra in order to stop those Kansas City Chiefs Well, I had a couple of people in mind But it'd be much better if I got the expertise of one of my good friends to come help out team keeping clean Let's get it the team keep it clean very very special guests in the building personal friend of mine My guy Jason from huddle it up Films make sure you check out all of his stuff down below in the description I will have his YouTube and his Twitter down below so you can follow him on both Jason my guy before we get into it Appreciate you coming on it's been a minute But everything that we talked about last time has come to fruition Especially with how you spoke about Lamar Jackson as a pest and him being one of the best I'd mean this this year has been great just to be a Ravens fan and see all their success but yes, there's been some some personal vindication over here because You know, I read the comments of the course everybody's respectful in them, but not everybody Agreed with me when I said that you're looking at a top five thrower of the football When you talk about off off platform arm angles hit in every area of the field And he was finally given a chance to do that and look at him now He's about to win his second MVP in two different systems and as the Ravens attack engraving It's it can beat you in so many different ways So we're getting it the entire Lamar Jackson experience and it should just be getting started And and that's something that I'm so glad about to we're getting the entire Lamar Jackson experience because in years Previous we've gotten a great experience different years and whatnot But it just felt like it wasn't the fourth thing It didn't feel like it was as good as it was supposed to be an as good as it should have been and we felt like there Was a lot more potential there and it's been nice to see this year with Todd Monk in that He's really been bringing the best out of Lamar Jackson and that really leads up to what we're gonna talk about today Whether it's Lamar Jackson whether it's some other people too both on offense and defense Who are the Ravens biggest X factors who are their most important players when it comes to stopping these Kansas City chiefs So we'll start off with a we'll start off with defense Who do you think are some of the Ravens biggest X factors on defense when it comes to stopping Patrick Mahomes? Travis Kells right autumn from the chiefs. Who do you think? Well, you know that it's not a it's a pretty obvious answer to me It is one of our best players and that's Kyle Hamilton. There we go I mean when you look at, you know, the chiefs they still go through Travis Kelsey when times get tough they're gonna go through Travis Kelsey and What did the Ravens have they have a top-end? Tight end eliminator in Kyle Hamilton now I still expect him to play a lot of zone defense because that's what they do and you want to keep eyes on Mahomes You know, Mahomes is not Lamar Jackson when it comes to running the ball But he has a knack of picking up first downs and being able to break your back with that so it's not like everybody's gonna be man-to-man all the time and Hamilton's following Kelsey, but man It's such an advantage for the Ravens to have somebody Instead of like the linebackers or we saw Chuck Clark in the past or anything we tried on Kelsey just would not work now We have this Unicorn of a player who can do it all and Kyle Hamilton. I have I have a thing I have a feeling that he's gonna see a lot of Travis Kelsey. Oh, yeah the other way around Yeah, yeah for sure and I'm another thing with him, too, you know chiefs. They love the whole misdirection Before the play they love Throwing passes at or even behind the line of scrimmage screen passes and whatnot and picking up a bunch of yak But that's something that's that's Kyle Hamilton specialty right there. I remember I'm watching the the Steelers game The last game of the season And thinking like man, even the the Dolphins game too where they will be throwing screen pass and stuff and picking up yours Oh, man, we missing Kyle Hamilton bad right now because he puts it into all of that Like if Kyle Hamilton is in the area and you throw a screen his way He he shuts that down quick and that's a big part of chiefs game It's so funny you mentioned this because both of us were on with Sarah and Bobby when they did their marathon And when I was on I did a little Kyle Hamilton film study And it wasn't just the screens because they were all over the place like you were saying you throw a little screen pass Kyle just covers ground so fast But also in that Dolphins game there's outside runs that they were getting us with early in the game Kyle's there, you know in the slot to shut those things down, too So he just has a neck anything around the line of scrimmage We saw the the Texans run that trick one of their trick plays last week where it was fake over here fake over there And we're gonna hit you in the middle and call almost had an interception. So actually on the channel I have the I Have that film study on Kyle Hamilton from a week ago But you can see exactly what you're talking about man anything near the line of scrimmage Kyle's just gonna blow up his blocker or go around that blocker and he's gonna make first contact in a way That's that's very rare. Yeah, the man is special man I remember when the Baltimore Ravens first drafted him Of course, there was a lot of discourse about Kyle Hamilton. Should they have taken him? Should they not have and then even when he first started out things were a little bit shaky But as the season went along his rookie season He just got better and better and better and something that I talked about a lot on here is that last year They just used him as a straight-up weapon as a weapon. He wasn't just a safety He was like he was outside linebacking. He was a pass rusher. He was a slot corner back He was a he did so many different things last year, but my concern going into this year I was worried because I'm like, alright, they traded Chuck luck So I think they may put Kyle Hamilton in more of a traditional safety type role And they may take him away from what he did so well last year and just being a straight-up weapon But shout out to Mike McDonald. This is another reason why I really don't want the Baltimore Ravens to lose him He has continued the great development of Kyle Hamilton by not trying to fix what's not broken While he has placed some more traditional safety He has continued to do all those other things as well and done them at a high level too So it's just it's been a beautiful thing watching Kyle Hamilton continue to grow and literally in his second year Get all pro Man and you know what it brings me to like next year in the future years I think the Ravens would do themselves a service to make sure they have depth at strong safety and in the slot corner So when you play these games against the Chiefs or maybe next week You have a different set up a different or two weeks in this you have a different set up Maybe their their slot receiver is different and they're tight ends different where you can move Kyle Hamilton to wherever you need to do To take away their main weapon because he's that kind of player, right? He is super special now flipping into the offensive side of the ball Because we're stopping the Chiefs. It's not just about defense. Of course, that's a big part But you got to put up some points as well And we know we could obviously say oh who's Ravens biggest Ex factor we're going against the Chiefs It's Lamar Jackson on offense. Okay, cool. We get that but who besides Lamar Jackson on offense Do you think really has to have a great game in order for the Ravens to excel? Well, I think that really the beauty of this offense is that it's a balanced attack and it can be any anybody We're not reliant on having a say a number one receiver like like the bills do and then everybody else is kind of like Oh, well, we really don't have to worry about that like our approach it Why receivers is much like it is in pass rush where we don't have a mouse Garrett and then a bunch of new names We have a bunch of guys that it can they can hurt you same thing on offense Odell Bateman They can all make big catches a flowers likely Andrew So I'm gonna go with a running back on this the Chiefs weakness if they have one on defense It's a very good defense is their run defense. They were actually Much like the Ravens middle of the pack when it came to rush defense yards per carry allowed and up there In past defense so they have a very good secondary as you know, but they're vulnerable against the run So I'm looking at a guy called justice named Justice Hill for this game Dalvin cook who knows maybe he falls into that category as well But we've seen in Graven Gus has his role as the hammer as you're straight ahead power runner You know the poles and that just smashing people in the mouth for five to eight yards That's Gus Edwards but some of these outside runs and the Chiefs are inexperienced on the edge with George Carl off this I think only in the second Year, they don't have like that stud edge rusher that you see other teams Especially in the north that we go against so these zone runs these outside runs. I expect Lamar's legs That would be another X factor I feel like we've been hiding that or saving that for big games all season keep them healthy But when it's time to gash somebody and Lamar knows we want to add that third fourth dimension to our game So I would say Justice Hill keep eye out for him out in the backfield testing these Chiefs linebackers and Really stretching the defense and using his speed wouldn't surprise me to see Justice have like a 50-yard game, which is you know a much a much ball of his what an average is yeah Yeah, that's true because he had what do they say he had 80 yards in the game 80 or 88 yards I forgot what it was in the game last week and I did not know that that was a career high for him I had really always thought that he had definitely would have got that before especially being on these crazy Russian teams With the Baltimore Ravens, but I didn't I thought about it like oh well He was behind the JK Dobbins or Gus Edwards or Mark England whoever it might have been he was behind people So he didn't really get that many opportunities like that and now with Justice Hill I remember when the Baltimore Ravens they first resigned him this offseason to a two-year deal Lot of people were freaking out. A lot of people didn't like it at all. They were like, oh, what are we doing? Da-da-da, and I was thinking okay Well, this is quality depth But in this more so special teams too because Justice Hill is really good on special teams But little did we know just how the season would play out injuries to JK Dobbins bringing in Kenyan Drake Then letting go Kenyan Drake trying out Melvin Gordon a little bit here and there The unfortunate injury to Keith Mitchell Who knew that Justice Hill's role on this team would be so consistent and so impactful It's funny because it he looks as fast as he did the first year like as a rookie back in 2019 And I think you know, we haven't used him You know, he hasn't come close to 20 carries Even when he had the whole game to himself against Pittsburgh a couple of years ago So he's fresh and I think that the mental part of the game has gotten better for Justice like any other player You know, the more you see it the more you execute runs the better your vision is So he fits a lot of what Todd Munkin wants to do and there are certain runs that Gus is the man on Straight ahead plow and there's other runs where Justice Hill is the better option when that outside Stretching the ad and give you some explosiveness and he's made some big plays Out of the backfield in the passing game, too That's true. That's true. And it's nice to see that Justice Hill just his game has expanded so much and like you talked about him getting that experience It's made a big difference in everything and something else that you mentioned too that I'm I really appreciate about the Baltimore Ravens This year is they have so many different ways to get it like you talked about it's not just a certain number one Receiver if you go by yards and I'm sure the number one receiver you go by yards and targets It'll be Zay flowers But at the same time if you watch the games like it's it's different because it is so many different ways that the Ravens can attack you And now with the possibility nothing official yet as of this recording But with the possibility an expectation I would say of them adding Mark Andrews to the mix this week That's just yet another weapon that you got to worry about so Baltimore Ravens really set themselves up Nice this year. They have a lot of nice Quality depth depth has been the name of the game this year because they suffered a lot of injuries But they've been able to get through it. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this chiefs game goes This is huge as we know This is historic first time the Baltimore Ravens are hosting a FC championship game at the crib It's going to be crazy there. So shout out to anybody that's going I just know the vibes up there in Baltimore and just all the surrounding cities are crazy right now because everybody's like Hey, this this is real deal and it couldn't have been a better More formidable opponent with it being the chiefs before we get out of here. How you feeling about this game? I feel good. Look man. I feel like You know, I stopped worrying about the matchup somewhere after the Miami game and you know You know me personally, you know, I'm honored to be a friend of yours and you know I dig into the matchups and I'm trying to find strengths and weaknesses and man We can't let this happen to us and we've really got to attack this and that and I'm looking at this For the first time in my Ravens fandom original fan, you know from Baltimore. I got a little age on me I I really don't care what the other team does. I really don't care what they have in 2023 the Ravens have the better roster and And you know, just look at our Defenders defenders in the back end when you talk about Hamilton and Gino stone Marcus Williams the way brain of Stevens and Darby is played Even if Marlowe is not back. Malette makes plays. It's like we're gonna the chiefs are gonna have a hard time getting open on us The chiefs are gonna have a hard time running the ball on us The chiefs are gonna have a hard time stopping the run The chiefs are gonna have a hard time dealing with Lamar Jackson who is gonna make his plays So it's just like after we beat San Francisco like that and beat Miami like that This is a strange feeling as a Ravens fan being the big dog So I just feel like if we do what what we need to do in Graven Man, this is our game to win or to lose, you know, and I mean, I'm just hoping that the guys come through and You know when a bigger or larger big picture a note, you know I I feel like you kind of always felt like it was gonna come down to Kansas City We're gonna have to go through on one way or the other and I feel like that this could be like this for the next How however many years, you know what I mean? We're probably gonna have to go through either Allen or burrow and then eventually go through moms to get where we want So legacy game and legacy game for Lamar I'm trying to take it one day at a time one game at a time But just think about this. No moms has two MVPs and two Super Bowls if I'm not mistaken, right? So Let's fast-forward to if things go well what we're talking about this time next year year from now Right now right now. It's been my homes and everybody else, you know Who's the best quarterback in the NFL Patrick my homes? No argument, you know what I mean? Hey, it's our rate It's the Ravens time in Graven in this city can feel it. It's purple everywhere. I had a male lady I went out and talked to her and she's talking to me about Raven asked me about the Ravens I'm like, this is this is wild man. This is wild I know she she never asked me about before she knows I'm into the Ravens So it's that kind of time here in Baltimore. Man, it's gonna be a beautiful Sunday So I want to thank you too for having me on and talking some ball on the camera on the camera Oh, yeah for sure man, cuz we we talk all the time. We this is just like a normal conversation for us Yeah, so I appreciate you coming on. I appreciate you coming through I appreciate you setting up the time and and us making it happen finally is it's been a long time It's been too long should have been done. It's a long time ago, but glad we were able to make it happen Yeah, if you want if you want to see in Graven and my me do a podcast Comment down below and tell this man, you know, we need a weekly show about fatherhood and all that other stuff They don't want to hear from me no more they they hit for me enough already all day every day, man But I'm appreciate you team. Keep it clean Make sure you check him out on his YouTube channel the links to that and his Twitter are all down below in the Description go show him that love like I know y'all will