 should a player who chose to opt out of this season still get a Super Bowl ring if his team wins. Who's someone who could end up replacing Earl Thomas as a free safety once he leaves that nobody is thinking about? What is the future of DeSean Elliott with the Ravens? Let's take a cautiously optimistic approach to the Raven season this year. These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. YouTube Team Keep It Clean What's going on? It's Ingraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. A series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer in the video just like this. Now if you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers, send me an email at teamkeepitclean at gmail.com. We'll answer your question in the video just like this. And if you want to send anything to Team Keep It Clean, the address for the PO box is down below in the description. And if you want to support the channel in a lot of different ways, all that information is down below in the description as well. I appreciate y'all. We've got a lot of questions to do. Let's do it. First question came from Tori and Freeman. Say what's up Ingraven? Hope you and the family and the rest of Team Keep It Clean are doing well. I was thinking of some subjects that I haven't heard much of. Number one, the quality of play. So every year in the NFL season, teams start hitting their strides around games 6-9. By this time, normally teams would have been together for rookie minicamp, OTAs, and now training camp. That chemistry that would be there isn't. Do you think that teams will start hitting their strides this year around the weeks 11-13? Also, I believe teams that didn't have much turnover in the front office, coaching spots, rosters, will have an advantage this season. Yeah, I've been saying that same exact thing, man, because like the Ravens, like Chiefs, like just a lot of teams that have a lot of the same coaching, a lot of the same players, a lot of the same just front office, period. But teams like the Browns, they have a high risk of struggling early on. Kind of throughout, but just early on definitely. Just teams with new coaching staffs, I think Giants, Panthers, they run that risk. It's not a guarantee now, but they do run the risk of just there being a little more sloppy plate than usual and people just not being on the same page or being as in sync as usual. So I mean, it's one of them things that we'll just see when we get there. It's not a guarantee at all, just because there's no preseason, no OTAs and all that, but the risk is much higher. And he said, number two, the future of our offense, last year we changed the game with that Russian attack and three-headed monster at the tight end position. With hers traded in the additions of Duvenay and Prochet, what do you see our offense heading towards? I'm thinking misdirection, screens, and perfect play actions. And he said, also the possibility of more dual running back formations for our offense in the future if they end up keeping all four running backs on the active roster. Oh, this is TA804. Okay, I didn't even know that. Oh, okay. Just sending from a different email. Okay, that's all good, man. With the offense, yeah, I just, I just envision the receivers get involved a lot more. I'm hoping and something that a lot of us have been hoping for would be that they would incorporate more screenplays. They did it a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny bit last year, but not that often. But they did a tiny bit. I wish they would do that more. And yeah, I can see them doing like misdirections. They did it. They did that a tiny, tiny bit last year. I remember Hollywood on one specifically, I think it was in a Patriots game, but just don't remember it too much. But yeah, man, you got to use your weapons. You got to use them in different ways and whatnot. And I think they could get creative. Don't want to get too pretty and unlike that, too fancy over the top or anything like that, but you can still get creative. Next question came from Raven Pride. He said, what's up with your boy Raven Pride? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe the Ravens are the only NFL franchise team to start from scratch within the past 20 years to not only win one, but two Super Bowls. Yeah, I mean, they really start from scratch, scratch. But I get what you're saying. One of the only new NFL franchises that ended up winning two Super Bowls, not just one, but two, but aren't they the only one that got started in the past 20 years? When did the, well, the Texans, they used to be the Oilers, so they're not a new team. They just changed your name. Hold up. Are Ravens the youngest franchise in the league? I feel like I'm missing somebody, man. I got to be missing somebody, right? I got to do some research on it. Next question came from my guy Logan in. He said, hope you're having a great day. Hey, I'm having a real good one. He said, I just wanted to hear your opinion on if Russell Wilson could potentially opt out due to his wife having a newborn son. Personally, I'm 50 50 on the matter. That would be 1000 percent up to him. It's obviously always a possibility. And by the time you see this video, his decision will have already been made because I'm recording this on August 5th. So it's Wednesday at Wednesday at 452 p.m. So if he's going to opt out, he has about 23 hours to do so if he's going to make that decision. So y'all are not going to see this video within the next 23 hours. So by the time you see it, he will have made his decision. But I mean, it's a choice that he does have to make. It is an option. It is a possibility and along with a lot of other players who may have new boom at Scourge has had a baby. So I mean, there's a lot of players that obviously have families, have kids, have wives, have all that stuff, parents, brothers, sisters, all that. So it's something that they all got to think about. Is the potential risk? Is it worth it to them? That's just a decision that they got to make. So anybody's a possibility. Well, up until 4 p.m. on the deadline. Next question came from Tom L. He said, Hey, hope you and the family are doing fine. My question for today belongs to the top 100. Like you said, watching this year was real fun for us Ravens fans. But I must say that I miss one player I was sure about that. Mark Andrews will be part of the top 100. I was a little bit upset that he wasn't on the list because in my opinion, he would deserve it. What's your thoughts about it? Stay safe and keep up your good work and salute to all the Ravens fans from Austria. Appreciate it Tom. I agree. I was right there with you. I was right there with you. I thought that he I thought he was definitely going to be on the list. I thought for sure. Mark Andrews like, Yeah, he led the league. He led the league. He led tight ends in touchdown passes. He was the only tight end that got double digit touchdown passes. He did his thing this year. He was the I think the second highest rated tight end this year. And I mean, you ain't even got to look at all the numbers and stuff. If you just look at the film, you see Mark Andrews, he did his thing. But for him to be excluded, I was like, Wow, that's that was surprising. It was very surprising. But I don't know, maybe they want to make too many people jealous. Next question came from my guy, man, you will shout out to Mexico. He said, What's up in gravy and hope everything is well. Oh, and he said, shout out from Mexico. After hearing hardball about Lamar's opinion on a B, he sounded to me that he sees him as trouble off the field, but he sees the potential he has on the field. And then said that he will ask you to see about his status with the NFL. Do you think they may not pick up a B because of the off field issues? Or if they pick him up, do you think the hardball will have a problem with a B? Even so, the locker room will help help him keep a straight life during the season. He said, Stay safe and healthy. You are flagged for offensive P.I. on Carter for pushing them aside while the ball is in the air. With hardball, a B, I mean, if if if they end up bringing them on, then they all got to be on the same page. They all got to be on the same hardball, BDC, Bishati, Ozzy News. Everybody got to be on the same page. Everybody. It can't be no half and half. And I mean, Ravens don't do stuff like that. Anyway, you don't ever hear about these dudes being like, Oh, well, I like it. Oh, no, but I don't like him. And they end up getting that guy anyway. You never hear stuff like that because they all on the same page. So what they be, if they were going to bring them on, they all got to be on the same page and it couldn't be no, Oh, well, oh, you ain't feeling them. No, no. If they bring them on, then that means everybody's on board with it. And everybody feels like it could work. And that'll be that. But if they don't all feel that way together, then they won't bring them on. Next question came from to not shake. So you're engraving this your boy T from London. He said, hoping you and your family are good. Just want to say appreciate the content really helped me through this period of no football and all the craziness. I appreciate you even watching it. Thank you, man. He's all to your point about people opting out, making the roster spots less valuable. What do you think are the chances of finding a diamond in the rough? Maybe the Ravens give an opportunity to someone who is looking for that opportunity and we end up with someone on the actual roster. Keep up the work. My guy and PS, the vlogs with Carter are great. Appreciate it, man. Thank you. And they're more to come. I just, I just got to edit them. That's, that's the only that I got to edit them. Uh, the vlogs, editing them vlogs is, uh, they are, they are different kind of animal, but, um, anyway, but I do always enjoy, uh, watching them over again. I like looking back at those moments anyway. Um, yeah, this is definitely the roster spots. They, they definitely do, um, it does give, uh, just all teams chances to find diamonds in the rough because people who don't opt out. And again, the deadline is tomorrow. But I mean, today is, uh, today is August 5th. So the deadline is tomorrow again. By the time you see this video, the deadline will have already passed. Um, but for the people that, uh, that don't opt out, uh, it's going to be a lot of people that do get opportunities because of everybody that's deciding not to play. Uh, so this will be Ravens chance. Again, this actually increases the chances now because before with the, with the roster going from 90 to 80, it decreased a lot of people's chances of making a roster. But now with the opt out option and we'll see if any more Ravens decide to opt out because again, the time, the clock is ticking. It's going to be some more notable names that end up opting out, but, um, we only got one more day left from today, but, uh, it gives really all teams the chance to find more diamonds in the rough. Uh, since more people will have more opportunities, especially teams like the Patriots who have, I think they have the most opt out so far. Next question came from a boy, Ernest W. He said, my name is Nate 55 dog. My question is in reference to the opt out players. Oh, well. Timing. He said, first of all, family first, and I'm not knocking that choice, but let's just say if their teams win the super box, the super bowl, does the opt out player get a ring or some type of acknowledgement on being on the team, keep up the dialogue and great channel. Hey, appreciate that. Nate 55. That is a great question. Um, I, I, I don't even know. I have no clue because like, what do you say to that? Um, yeah, we won the super bowl. You weren't here though. You didn't make not one tackle. You didn't make not one play for us. And there ain't no offense to you. You chose to opt out, which is your decision, of course, but you weren't here for this. You don't even get a participation award because you didn't participate. And again, it's no knock to it. Wouldn't be an any knock to them. But they, I feel like if they opted out of the season, which I have no problem with whatsoever, but if they opt out the season, then they opt out of any failures or any success that their team has that year. So I don't think they should get a super bowl ring because they just simply weren't there. They weren't a part of it. Even if they were a part of the team the year before, the team just went through so much and da, da, da, da, da, but I don't think they should. Next question came from my boy Dylan. See, he said, good morning or afternoon in gravy to your family and team. Keep it clean. Whenever you're getting this, this is long and I apologize in advance. No need to. Oh, wow. This is pretty long. He said in the, in light of the Jamal Adams trade to the Seahawks, he got me thinking because a lot of people were hyping the pot, the potential and possibility of Adams to the Ravens, which would be arguably one of the greatest starting secondaries you could imagine, even though they have that right now without Jamal Adams. But anyway, he said, but like I said, it got me thinking in a couple of years down the line where all the time his contract comes to an end. And if we part ways with him, even though I love his experience and straight shooting personality, there's an outside the box replacement that maybe no one has thought of. I'm going to list some stats below and I'm going to lay them out in comparison for you. Player A is the greatest ballhawking safety to play the game in a deserved Hall of Famer without a shadow of a doubt that being Ed Reid. He is in this as a reference point, but these are his stats. Games play 174, Inception 64, Force Fumbles 11, Defensive Touchdowns 9. Player B is the current starting free safety of the Baltimore Ravens and arguably the closest thing to Ed Reid in terms of smarts and ability we have seen. And of course, that being Earl Thomas, his stats are as follows. Games played 140, Inception 30, Force Fumbles 12, Defensive Touchdowns 3. He played 140 games, really? And Ed Reid played 174? That's 34 more. Anyway, player C. I won't name yet. However, what I will say is that being a replacement for Earl Thomas, he is younger, he finds the ball, and like Reid and Thomas sees things that others don't. Here are his stats. Games played 77, Inception 27, Force Fumbles 5, Defensive Touchdowns 7. Games played 77, Inception 27. Hmm, I'm trying to think of who it is before I read it. Games played 77, Inception 27, Force Fumbles 5, Defensive Touchdowns 7. Younger, he finds the ball, and like Reid and Thomas sees things that others don't. So it's not Jamal Adams because he already talked about him. Hmm, not Harrison Smith. Who's some real smart safeties out there? Unless, no, there couldn't be no 77 games in college. So it gotta be somebody in the pros. Hmm, I don't know. I can't think of it. He said, oh, look at that. And he said, now before you read on, I want you to, if possible, try and guess who player C is. I'm really thinking. 27, Inception, 77 games, Force Fumbles 5, Defensive Touchdowns 7. And he said he's younger than Earl Thomas. So he's been in the league less than nine seasons. Wow, I am, oh, unless, unless he's talking about Marcus Peters, switching him to free safety. That would be the only person I could think of off the top of my head. But anyway, let's keep going. He said, before I reveal that, I understand that we have the likes of Deshaun Elliott, although injury prone, and we did draft Geno Stone as well, to also be a potential candidate, and we will see how he develops. But having a ballhawk is something we are so used to as Ravens fans. And if we have the ability to do so, we should have that type of figure for as long as we can. Player C is Marcus Peters. Yeah, got it. Yes, let's go. Okay, okay. I don't, oh man, I'm proud of that one, man. I'm proud of that one, man. He got me feeling myself for that one, man. Player C is Marcus Peters, and I know he is a cornerback, but ironically, his deal with Baltimore finishes up the same year as Lamar Jackson's fifth year option on his rookie deal. But although he isn't a big hitter, we can do something similar to that of when we got Rob Woodson into the side, originally a cornerback who he had as safety. It wouldn't cost us draft capital and transitioning to safety could change his worth of contract, making it more cost effective for us. I would like to get your thoughts on this, and I apologize about the length of the email. All for the best, the team keep it clean. Nah, this wasn't, I mean, it was long, but it wasn't like bad long or boring long, anything like that. So, oh man, that would be something, man. Jimmy Smith would be, I think he'd be a perfect candidate for it, for transitioning to safety. Marcus Peters, I never thought about that before, but he is a ball hog. He got a nose for tracking that ball, and when the time does come, when he does start losing a little bit of speed. Yeah, he is not the most physical. That would be one thing though, him being a safety and not really being too physical, even though as soon as he got paid, hey, that physicality doesn't show it up, man. He was like, hey, Raven's gonna give me the bag. Okay, I'm good, let's do it. Now I'm about to really start tackling some people. Except in the Pittsburgh game, he did have some little hiccups there, but in the Titans game, he showed up. But yeah, it's never anything I thought of before, but just that would be one thing that I'll be worried about would be the physicality, because usually when you get older, you don't really get more physical. You get smarter, but you don't really get more physical. So with Marcus Peters, as far as the ballhawking, that right there, I would be like, okay, Marcus Peters has a free safety. Marcus Peters having the ability to just roam around? Oh boy, that's like scary to think about, man, in a good way for whatever team he would be on. So that could be something. You could be on or something. That could, ah, but just the only thing that, like I said, the only thing that scares me is the vision, how he can see the field, all that, no problem, but just the physicality part, that I would be a little bit worried about. But everything else, hey, he may be able to do it, man. That is thinking super down the road in the future, but he may just be able to do it. Next question came from my guy, Nick V. He said, what's up in Graven? I got a quick question. Oh, speaking of safety, he said, what is the future of DeSean Elliott? Will he stay on the Ravens? Will he become a starter? Thanks for answering my questions that I appreciate it. Thank you, Nick. With DeSean Elliott, his future is very bleak, because there's just a lot of unknown, especially since he hasn't been able to finish a season yet, and that's big. Right now, I don't think the Ravens envision him as a starter. I don't even think he's necessarily a lock to make the team this year. I think it's more than likely he will make the team, but I don't think he's necessarily a full-blown lock. Because he's going to have to fight, man, and stay healthy. That's so big with DeSean Elliott, man. Because the potential is there, man. You see starter and ability when you look at DeSean Elliott, man. You're like, how do these dudes get this dude? What, like the fifth or sixth round, man? The starting potential is there. It's there, no doubt. The game is there. The hunger is there. The physicality is there. Everything is there, man. He just got to stay healthy. That's the biggest thing. Stay healthy, man. That's the big... And like I said, man, that's the biggest thing that I'm hoping for for both DeSean Elliott and Tavon Young this year, man, is that they stay healthy because that's been both of their biggest problems. But as far as DeSean Elliott, his future, I think if he stays healthy this year, I think he's definitely going to be on the field a significant amount of time, man. Because I think that Wink is going to want... He wants to use everybody. He wants to use everybody. And he will find different ways to put them in different positions so where they can be used and they can be effective. I'm sure he's going to have DeSean Elliott, have him blitzing, have him dropping back, have him doing a lot... Have him doing a lot of different things, moving around on defense. So, but as far as his future, future is just... It's too early to tell right now, man. It's too early to tell, man. But I'm hoping that in this immediate future that he just stays healthy. Next question came from Micah H. He's sitting in Graven. This will be the first question I've asked. I just wanted to talk about how much I appreciate your channel, all the vlogs and the question from subscriber videos, the madden content, all of it. You make great content that's holding me over until football comes around. He said, please, Lord, let there be a healthy way to have a season. We need it, LOL. Yes, we all open the same thing, man. Now that all ended, I appreciate it too. Thank you for watching the videos and just supporting the channel, man. I appreciate that, man. He said, now that all this fluff is out the way, I got a question for you. If the Ravens switched to visions, even across conferences, which division would pose the greatest challenge? If the Ravens switched to visions, which division would you want the Ravens to join? NFC East and the AFC South look mighty fine. Easy pickings, but the AFC West or NFC South gives us a challenge in iron sharpens iron. And that's biblical. Hey, you right? He said, would you even want the Ravens to switch to visions if travel was not considered? Thanks for answering the question and thanks for all you do. You appreciate it. Stay safe and I'll be watching your content. I appreciate that, Micah. Thank you. That's very interesting. Never got a question like this before. If the Ravens switched to visions, which one would pose the greatest challenge? NFC South was, well, Drew Brees, he generated a retire, so that could change things over there. Matt Ryan, he got a little bit left. Well, they got Teddy Bridge, water, too, with the Panthers. And they're on a buck, so Brady only got a couple years. So all of those, well, three out of those four teams are getting ready to go through some QB changes in the next, like, three years, within the next three to four years. They could all be going through some major QB changes. So that can, I mean, that can either keep you going or that can set you back. It all just depends. But AFC West, well, AFC West, it's just the Chiefs. Broncos could be on the cover, we'll see. I don't know about Drew Lock yet, man. Raiders, Raiders, and Chargers, man. So I just feel like it's the Chiefs right now over there. So they would obviously bring some very high-level competition. AFC East, they usually just all be a mess every year. They find more and more ways to be messy, all four teams. AFC East, with the Bills and the Jets and the Dolphins and the Patriots. I mean, we've been going against Bill Belichick. That'd be nice. But the rest is just, Dolphins coming up, then they got better coaching. Now, Dolphins doing better, but as far as Jets and Bills, so for the biggest potential threat, yeah, NFC out. I said NFC out. NFC South, they could be one. Who else did you mention? You said, oh, you didn't mention nobody's proposing the greatest threat, but yeah, NFC South, I could see them as one. Maybe NFC East, because if we were just in all that mess, maybe they might try to influence like the Ravens and try to influence hardball to be messy too, man. But I would hope not, man. But so I'm going to go with NFC South. Yeah, oh, AFC South. AFC South could be one, depending on what the Colts do at quarterback in the future, because they got Phillip Rivers now. He's cool. But DeSean Watson, no, Jaguars. Garden of Men's Shoe. He ain't bad, then. People sleep on Garden of Men's Shoe, man. They really sleep on Garden of Men's Shoe. But DeSean Watson, Garden of Men's Shoe. Colts, Texans. Colts, Texans, Jaguars. Oh, and Titans. Okay, well, yeah. So there's a tough one. And they used to be with the Titans and the Jaguars, too. So they would just be visiting old buddies. And he said, if the Ravens did switch the visions, which one would you want the Ravens to join? I would, NFC East and South, looking mighty fine, easy pick and see. I wouldn't even want that, man. I know Ravens would have an easier way to play off of stuff. Even AFC East, I think, too, with the Patriots and Bills. And no, Bills are tough now. And Patriots, they don't be something, too. We're going to see how they work out. And Dolphins coming up as well. And the Jets, still Jets. But I would like if they joined the NFC South, even though they're not a Southern team, but you know what I'm talking about. I would like that, because I would want them to get some good competition. So maybe the AFC East, then. Maybe the AFC East or the NFC South, then. So, oh, and then he said, would you even want Baltimore to switch the visions? If travel wasn't considered? No, no. Oh, yeah, because you said the travel wasn't considered. If travel was considered, no, I still would, man. I love it up there, man. Well, that would still obviously be the home game or home team or whatever would still be up at M&T Bank. But just a way, if they get a chance to play more games in Florida, like play, if you don't play Tampa, you don't play Jacksonville and play Dolphins, that's cool. But other than that, no, I wouldn't want them to switch. Next question came from a boy, Jared B. He said, hope you and the family are doing well during this time. Wanted to ask you, because I've been feeling this a lot recently, do you think Jamal Adams is being overrated? No. He said, overrated does not mean bad and people are already naming him the best safety in the league. I truly believe Harrison Smith is the best safety because he's been doing it at a high level for a longer period of time. He's lined up at linebacker edge, cornerback as well as safety, and is always a game changer. Sound like Jamal Adams too. He said, people are constantly disrespecting him and he was the second highest grader safety last year, only to his partner in crime, Anthony Harris. I'm not saying Adam sucks, but I don't think he's the best safety in the NFL like everyone else does. If I gave a top five, I'd go Harrison Smith, Jamal Adams. Well, you put him at two. That's still pretty good. Even if he would have been at number five, that still would have been really good. And all of these guys are really good. Let me finish his list. He said, number one, Harrison Smith, number two, Jamal Adams, number three, Mingo Fitzpatrick, number four, Justin Simmons, number five, Derwin James. Yeah, man, all of those guys would definitely be worth the price you pay for them because these are all really, really good safeties. So I don't think he's overrated. I think the Seahawks, they gave up a lot for him now. They gave up a whole lot for him. But I don't think he's overrated. He's a great safety. And this is just his third year. He's going into his fourth year. So he ain't even hit his full stride yet, man. He ain't even hit his full prime yet, man. So no, I don't think he's overrated at all. Next question came from my boy Manuel. He said, what's up engraving? Hope everything is well. After hearing one of your question from subscribers about Hardball going for it on fourth downs, I understand why he's criticized the coaching for going for it too much times and then saying the analytics say go for it. But oh, that must have been Josh then. He said, but I feel many failed to realize what offensive caliber we had last year. No one could know what we were doing, what we were going to do in the fourth and short. And even if we failed it, it was because of poor execution or disguise. Now I'm not defending Hardball entirely. He still has some blame to take, but I hope he has learned and gets us that Super Bowl Le Mar promised us this year. Now for the actual question, do you see us going for more fourth and shorts this year or the same amount or the season Sam Cooke and Justin Tucker just sit on the bench for most of the games while Le Mar and the Ravens keep scoring touchdowns? Appreciate your time and call the number one draft, pick 2035 for the Ravens. I see them still being aggressive, man. I see them still going for a lot of fourth downs like they did last year. And I have no problem with most of them. They were somewhere I didn't like. Even they were somewhere, they even got it. And I was still like, ooh, I didn't like that decision, but I'm glad they got it. But I still see them remaining aggressive. I don't see that changing. And I don't want it to change. I just want them to be wisely aggressive. Next question came from a boy, Enonix. He said, oh, in Graven, oh, this came, this was a little while back when I wasn't feeling so good. But he's saying, Graven, sorry to hear that you aren't feeling well these days. Big shout out to Mrs. Engraven, Team Keep It Clean's co-NVP, GM of the home office, and I'm sure your number one fan. My wife is great, man. She is the best. She is really the best, man. Yeah, when I wasn't feeling good about maybe like a month ago, well, a little less than a month ago, I was just like tired. I was just like, I just felt so exhausted, man. But she helped out so much. She was great, man. So I appreciate her too much, man. She's a real deal, man. So I appreciate that. I'm going to show her this, too. Sure, she'll appreciate it as well, man. And you see, my question comes back to one of the many initial criticism of Lamar Jackson. This style is not sustainable. Oh, our favorite one. He said, I know long-time 10-year deals are rare in the NFL, and almost none I know have ever panned out. Do you think his style of QB play will hinder the Ravens' willingness to offer him a long-term deal five years or longer? Hope you feel better soon. Appreciate it. Oh, we are definitely way better than we were back then. Do I think his style of play will hinder the Ravens' willingness to offer him a long-term deal five years or longer? No, I don't think it'll do that. But I think when the time comes, they will have ran this, what's the word? They will have evaluated him enough to where they're like, okay, that's what he does. This is what he does. This is how he is. This is who he's going to be. Okay, let's ride with it. I think they would go more off of the... Of course, they would look at his style of play, but I think they would go off of the success as well, the success of the overall team. And if they feel like he can help them continue to be even more successful, or if he wouldn't, but I definitely... I don't think it's going to hinder him from getting a five-year deal longer. I don't see him signing on nothing longer than a five-year deal, because that 10-year patch... Oh, man, that thing was wild, man. But I don't see him signing anything like that. I really don't see anything. I ain't see patch him home signing anything like that. But no, I don't think it'll hinder the Ravens' willingness to offer him a long-term deal. I think if they're being successful, and I don't think he's going to be running for no 1200 yards every year. I mean, if he did, I wouldn't mind. But yeah, I don't think it's going to mess up his chances of getting a long-term deal, getting an extension with the Ravens, when that time does come. And the last question on this episode of NFL Questions From Subscribers came from my God, Josh Hoffman. I saved his for last because I knew it was going to be... I knew it was going to be long enough to take us out. So, his question. Say hello and grave in the team. Keep it clean. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm going to put a tiny bit of sooth, say your credibility on the line, which I feel I earned for being one of the people who predicted the Ravens' so well last season. All right, here we go. As a reminder, I started last off-season, saying 11-5, but one and done in the playoffs. Oh, yikes. Some optimistic people predicted that regular season better than I did, and some predicted disaster. But there weren't too many who were optimistic about the season, but not the post-season. There were even few of us who felt, even as the year progressed, that the playoffs would sink us right away, no matter how good we looked. I almost bought in, but I knew it wasn't a team of destiny because everything came too easy. That will never be the Ravens' way. Also, the Bills game was literally writing on the wall for me. I'm sure you remember how upset I was. Yes, I certainly do. Even with a win, because I remember Ravens, they just started getting two fans to that game. On offense, they started doing like this. Almost goofy stuff. And it was like, what are you doing? Why are you doing too much now? You're doing too much. And I remember him telling me, we were talking and he said that he felt like this may be a preview of the playoffs. But anyway, he said, now putting it on the line, failing to quit while I'm ahead, my predictions always follows. Oh, here we go. He said, we will have a season first off, though I'm getting less sure by the day. That looking past thing Lamar Jackson mentioned about the Titans game, well, we're all of us mostly doing that with the regular season. Wanting to see how next year's playoffs will go. And so are the Ravens. And so this will be a tough regular season that most people think. I think we're going to be the five through seven seed. Ooh. I actually think the adversity will be so bad. I'm tempted to say we missed the playoffs, but the roster is just too good for that. So we eek in. And we shouldn't be mad after seeing how poorly being the one seed worked out. And a lot of us ask not to have it again. Well, there is only one one seed. Oh, there's obviously always one one seed, but there's only one by week. So that can help. So like say, even if the Ravens get the two seeds, they will have that home field advantage, but they wouldn't have no buy. But anyway, he said, one reason is our division was an unexpected was unexpectedly weak last year. And the AFC North isn't that and won't be that again for a long time. We will be three and three in a division. In fact, we might win the division. But either way, it'll be via tiebreakers as we have the same record as another AFC North team, probably the Steelers. Lamar hasn't had to face Big Ben yet. That becomes a thing. Oh, yeah, that's he certainly hasn't. So that's going to be something I'm really interested to see how that goes. I'm really interested. And again, like we always say, quarterbacks don't face quarterbacks, but it's more fun saying it that way. But Big Ben is definitely much better than Mason Rudolph and the duck guy. I forget his name. Can't think of it right now. But anyway, oh, Hodges, Devin Hodges, I think something like that. Anyway, he said, maybe with a four seed, but we're not winning more than 11 games. A second reason is Yanda. Oh, he's been saying this a lot all season two. He said, I have seen a lot of film breakdowns and highlights where I watched that 2009 interior offensive line. And wow, I have seen a lot of past plays where scurra, later McCarrie and Boltzman double someone and still allow pressure while Yanda locked someone down at Hall of Fame level all by himself. Better hope someone steps up. All right. Yeah, that's a big part of the offensive line is right guard is certainly a question mark. Who that's going to be? Could it be one of the young guys? Could it be DJ Fluga? Could it be Ben Powers? Who's it going to be? Really the entire interior of the offensive line is a question mark because everything depends on when mass scurra is activated after physically unable to perform this. I'm sure that'll be any day now. I don't expect him to be on there for more than another week or two. At the longest, but we just got to wait and see. He said we would try to pass a lot more than last year. Really exasperating any offensive line weakness. Even to the point of forcing it. It won't be dreadful anything, but we won't have as efficient an offense as last year. There will be plenty of times where we struggle to put up points. The tweaking will take Lamar away from the offense. He was MVP in enforcing the change things. It'll make him look less comfortable and less developed. I really hope that's not the case. I really hope they don't try to change his game. I hope they keep his game the way it is. Still, getting some different people more involved than what, not giving some more people opportunities, but not changing who he is as a player. I think that's one of the worst things you could do is try to make somebody, especially a quarterback, especially a quarterback. But don't try to change him. Let him be him, let Lamar be Lamar. Oh, I hope they don't do that. Scary thinking about, but we'll see. He said, Hollywood will be better out. Excuse me, no one should be surprised that he's still in the Ravens wide receiver system and nothing will come easy. We will lose to the Chiefs on that account and some more games. At one point, we'll be five and five and people will start putting up charts of the Ravens being 20 and three during Lamar's tenure in the regular season before this year. And now there are more losses in half a season. Fans will be howling at the abandonment of the run game. Oh, I really hope that doesn't happen. Particularly the QB run game. Lamar has far fewer design runs. Worse yet, they come at painfully obvious times. Sound like you're just talking about playoff Ravens. Recent playoff Ravens, which anyway. He said, is it the coach's pride trying to prove what they did in the playoffs wasn't totally stupid? That's the question myself and others will be asking on question from subscribers and calling 1057 fan with. Is them trying to settle Lamar into a more sustainable offense? Or is it them trying to settle Lamar into a more sustainable offense? Are the Ravens trying to figure out what they have in Lamar, the passer? Mainstream media shows will ask these two questions a combined total of 2,345 times from September to November. None of it will be true, of course. The coaches trying to stay ahead of the curve will outsmart only themselves as usual. And it won't be till about mid-season. Things start shaping up and we find some balance on offense. Desperation will push them to it. Hollywood will keep getting better around mid-season. We will see the future version of him, which is a pretty dominant player. It's just not coming right away in 2020. The good news is we won't flop first game in the playoffs again. Lamar Jackson is a year older. Are the full ad- He said, full adults. Are the full adults like Halaia's Campbell McPhee and others? Will keep their heads on their shoulders and keep it business-like throughout. No team photos in the end zone will happen in the regular season. New pass, happy Lamar will smash at least two teams to bits in the playoffs as defenses leave open plenty of lanes to escape the pocket while covering downfield and he will scramble to rip off 15-30 yards every time they do it because he's smart and the game has slowed down for him. No playoff games with a lot to prove. When he sees five pass rushes and everyone else 10-plus yards downfield he's taken off the other way. Single coverages will become plentiful and defenses will get smoked. Will the coaching staff ultimately get in the way so badly that even this late starting juggernaut offense can be brought down in the AFC Championship game or Super Bowl? Ultimately, probably yes. Bad luck and bad play calling in the refs and the offense still being basically very young in the end will catch up. But I know you said this, if somehow one of those teams we take down in the playoffs is the Chiefs then we'll go all the way. I hope we see them first. We won't lose the first playoff game. I don't care who we get, it'll be a bloodbath. If we get to the Super Bowl the read option will come back with a vengeance because there's nothing left to save for later. No one left to outsmart to everyone's surprise except most Ravens fans. It'll be unstoppable in the big game. We will be wondering why we couldn't have had it earlier. What do you think? Is it nearly impossible for you to picture regular season of struggles like this? It is for me and yet I see it anyway. And if you can picture it, what does it look like to you? And of course I'd love to hear any thoughts you have in general about all of this. Thank you as always Josh Hoffman. So what a way to take us out of questions from subscribers. And that actually gets us officially caught up on all the emails that we had for questions from subscribers. I know I probably should not have said that but it is what it is. I don't see them starting that bad, like a five and five or anything like that. Or even getting the seed as low as a five to seven seed. I could see like three to four, not five to seven. I mean, if it happens as long as they get in, that's the biggest thing, man. I mean, we don't want to be like barely getting in a playoffs and stuff, even though that does make the end of the season a little more fun. I mean, a little more stressful. Because no, you know what? It doesn't make it more fun because it was very fun last year and we had been in a playoffs like for a long time. But we were just hoping they could lock up that number one seed and they did that and it was still a lot of fun. But they, with Hollywood, I don't think it'll take Hollywood too long. I don't think he's going to be out there. Oh man, like this guy can't be stopped. But I think he's definitely going to take a big jump since he'll be all the way healthy this year. And him and Lamar already got good chemistry. And especially with this offseason, the way that it's been, a lot of teams haven't been able to work on their chemistry, but Lamar and Hollywood, they've been headed since last year. So that's a good thing. And I just, coaching does scare me sometimes when you think about it. I think a lot of Ravens fans are like the Ravens fans who, I don't want to say the ones who really know football, but a lot of Ravens fans have really been paying attention. Especially the past two years, I think when it comes to playoff time, I mean, it's already scary enough if you don't think about how the last two playoff appearances have been, but it's going to be really scary like thinking about playoffs. And they obviously got to get there first, but we all expect them to get there. It's not a guarantee, but we expect them to get there. But it's going to be really scary thinking about that. Like, oh, it's playoff time. Like, oh, please don't let it happen. Again. And like I've been saying too, they have gotten one game farther every year. So that's been a real good thing. They keep getting closer and closer. You stress on me. I got me thinking about it now. But I just, I want them, the biggest thing that I took from you, just everything that I don't want them to do is try to change them all. Like I said, when we were reading that part of it, I don't want them to try to change his game. And I could see them doing that because we've seen before in the past where they've let outside noise get in. And it was frustrating. We saw Lamar's rookie year, and they had obviously been listening to everything all the last offseason, because that's why they came out of that Dolphins game. And they just, whew, they said, hey, watch this. But I just, I want them to be them, to not forget about the run game. While the past game does evolve, I just don't want them to forget about the run game, and especially in the playoffs. I don't want them to force anything as far as, I just don't want them to force anything. It can be a little worrisome. But like I said, especially had the last two years went, and then especially just what we heard, the lack of accountability from leadership. That's a big thing. And we don't want that to be an issue moving forward. But Ray, you got to get it right, man. They got to get it right. So hopefully this year they do. Just the biggest thing I worry about is coaching. That's the biggest thing I worry about, man. As far as players and execution, yeah, they're going to have some hiccups here, but I expect them overall to do a pretty good job. We got a really good team. It's a really good team. Like a really good team. Like if you were playing Madden or something, and you had this team, it'd be like, whoa. Like I'm stacked. I'm stacked. And they could, they could end up getting even better if they make some a few different additions here and there. We'll see. But if you had the team, you'd be like, okay, I'm working with something right here, man. I'm certainly working with something right here. And it's the coaching is my biggest worry, man. It's coaching, crunch time coaching, man. Because it's crazy because we had Dean Pease and his biggest problem was crunch time coaching. That was the biggest problem. Like overall, again, I always say, he was not a bad defensive coordinator. But when it came to crunch time, he just made really bad decisions. And then we see the path, oh, Dean Pease is going now, okay. Wink is in there. Oh, great. Wink, do your thing. He did a great job of it. But then in the playoffs, the decisions that are made on offense have just been bad. It's been bad, really bad. It's been very frustrating too. And it's just a lot of head scratches, man. A whole lot of head scratches. And that's one of the biggest things I hope for this season. Just no head scratches. If you're going to do your head scratches, I always say coaching, two to three games every year, they lose. And I mean, it happens. That's okay. It is what it is. And while it's not a big deal, it's a big deal if it happens at the wrong times. If you're going to lose in the regular season, okay, get it out your system. Do your bad coaching in the regular season, get it out your system. But don't bring the bad coaching to the playoffs. Nobody needs that. Nobody wants that. Oh, nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. So let's see how the season goes. It is scary to think about. But these guys should do it. They got all the reason in the world to finish and finish the right way. But it's up to every single level of that team to complete the job.