 See, now for me, I feel like summer has officially started. The kids, they all out of school. The Ravens, they all out of mini camp and they won't be back for a little while, a little over a month. The heat is real outside. Even being in Florida, it's been a little more hot than normal. But I appreciate it, cause y'all know anything below 70 down here, hated, that's freezing. But anyway, something else that seemed to be freezing at some of the worst times last year, ended up being Ravens offense. But what were some of the different reasons that it actually stalled out? Well, we could go through quite a few of them, but something that's a really, really good question that a lot of us have brought up time to time and a lot of us have thought about on a lot of different occasions. When it comes to Ravens offense, we know that it goes through eight. Lamar Jackson is the Ravens offense. Everything happens through him, but can literally everything happening through him be a good and a bad thing too? Do the Ravens sometimes use Lamar Jackson just a much? Well, in order to help us find the answer to that question, I brought on a very, very, very special guest. And this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated, automated. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right in Raven? Right in Raven. So YouTube team keep it clean. A very, very special guest in the building. We've been trying to do this for a while and we finally got it going. My guy all 22, welcome to the channel. Appreciate having you on. And to just get right into it, why do you do what you do with the film breakdowns and the film study? What made you start doing that? Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. All of us that, you know, watch Ravens stuff on YouTube or try to do content stuff ourselves, you know, look at you and sip the towel and other guys as like the OGs, the originators of, you know, Ravens content on YouTube. So, you know, appreciate what you do and then bringing me on here. Let me speak with your audience. So thank you. First of all, the reason why I do it is, A, I've been blessed enough to be coached by great coaches in multiple sports and then gained appreciation for the tactics, the instruction and the, hopefully the ability to motivate people, you know, myself when I was coaching and I watched the Ravens. I just, I get into the games. I just been a Ravens fan for so long. I mean, I'll never forget in the playoffs the Super Bowl year when Bernard Power knocked out to running back Stephen Ridley for the Patriots. I literally jumped up, you know, I think I was like 36 years old. I jumped up and touched the ceiling, the ceiling was 10 feet. Man, I hadn't been, I hadn't touched 10 feet in a long time at that point in time. So like I'm just passionate about the Ravens, particularly defense. And I think that probably comes through in my videos. So I just, I just love, you know, trying to be involved and not coaching. I stopped coaching myself in 2019. And so really that's when my content, me trying to create content, I really had the opportunity to do so. And I probably create too much content at times, but I just, I just want to try to be a bridge for Ravens fans in terms of trying to understand things. And kind of like you and I talked about before, being, I learned from the community as well as hopefully them learning from me. Yeah, that makes sense too. And we appreciated everything that you do. Now you do have a YouTube channel, of course. Let everybody know where they can find you on YouTube and Twitter and anything else. All 22 films on YouTube. Apparently my underscores make it difficult to type in and then Twitter, Twitter, same handle. Actually, I think it's all 22 NFL cuts up and having, I wish somebody smarter than me on Twitter would help me figure out how to change the actual Twitter address designation. But all 22 films on YouTube, small YouTube channel mostly focused on Raven stuff. Occasionally I branch out and watch some other teams. You know, I'm going to try this year to do a little bit more AFC North stuff because we, you know, we play six games in the AFC North. So just those two. And I will have both of those down below in the description. So y'all make sure you subscribe to his YouTube channel and also follow him on Twitter. Now, oh yeah, for sure. This off season, the Ravens, they added a lot of depth to their offensive line. They have quite a bit of running backs right now as we head into training camp in a couple of weeks. They drafted two tight ends while still of course retaining their own as well. They brought back Patrick Ricard, their full back. They got rid of Hollywood, but they signed a plethora of undrafted rookie free agents at wide receivers. So they have done a significant amount of moves on the offense. But one of the biggest moves that's questioned right now is what's going to happen with Lamar Jackson. Now, we know, of course, Lamar Jackson, he's going to play for the Ravens this year. So on and so forth. We expect him to, I'm sure they will get done eventually. When that comes, when it happens, cool. But for Lamar Jackson, we know that he is the focal point of this offense. He's the engine of this offense. He is the everything of this offense. But a lot of times it can seem like he's a little too much. He used a little bit too much, used a little bit too unnecessarily and whatnot. So how do you feel about Lamar Jackson's use with the Baltimore Ravens offense? Well, like you said, I mean, he's definitely the focal point, the tip of the spear, you know, to use a military description. He's, he is our offense or he, in 2021, he was our offense. You know, even though we had Mark Andrews, Marquis Brown, Rashad Bateman, once he became healthy, we didn't see Gus or JK, you know, a single snap in 2021. And I had an impact. But, you know, even though he is the focal point, I still, in one of my messages to you, I still think there is at least two elements to his usage that I think is somewhat unfair. And I can cite specific examples occasionally. I think there is overuse at times. And I'll expand on that in a moment. I think there is also unnecessary use. And the, and the overuse in 2021, in some cases, I understand that we had to do that. The Colts game save us Lamar, you know, in other games, save us and he can do those things. And I have a movie reference that I have once set on my channel that hopefully will make sense. Simultaneous to that. And the third one, which maybe we'll get into this video, maybe not, is I think there's inappropriate use, which sounds like unnecessary, but I'll try to explain how it's slightly different. And I'm really referring to like goal line runs with our quarterback or third down runs. Now, when we have JK and Gus, and it's third and two, I'm just not sure that we need to run pistol option with Lamar Jackson. And is it effective? Yes, me personally in my coaching background, I was exposed to two really great option offensive coordinators. So I understand it, or at least I think I understand the option and it's a great concept. That's just how I feel. Having said that, I don't want Lamar Jackson doing that in 2022. And I didn't want him doing that in 2021. And I think there's some film evidence that shows overuse, unnecessary use and inappropriate use over the course of a season, sometimes can wear him down, even though he is Superman. Now, with the overuse, what are some examples of how you feel the Ravens may overuse one Lamar Jackson? Well, in order to kind of paint this scenario, I kind of have to talk about other quarterbacks a few times, all right? And so, first of all, you're talking to someone who believes that in 10 or 15 years, there will be more Lamar Jackson's in the league. And I don't mean super athletes like him that reach the level of athleticism that he has, because there's just not that many guys like that. But what I mean is more guys who can do all of the things Lamar can do, read the option out of the pistol, read the option out of the shotgun, throw the football well, escape and make plays. And then, if you've listened to my channel at all, you know, or any of your listeners have, you know, I contend that Lamar's a closer, that he gets better as the game goes on. He can handle the things that are given to him. So, I think in some of those cases, the people that are like that, you tend to overuse them. I'm gonna paint the scenario, and this does not come from a specific game. You can feel free to interrupt me if you need to. Oh, do your thing. So, first down, how many quarterbacks in the NFL will be asked to do things like this? First down, we run pistol option, and he's gotta read the D-end, decide whether to give it or keep it. And let's say on this play, he keeps it, runs around the edge for eight yards, great. Second down, maybe we go play action pass. Lamar's expected to do all the things that a quote typical quarterback would do in the NFL or college. You know, decide who's open, deliver the football accurately. Keep in mind, the play before, he just ran for eight yards. And yeah, he's Superman. You know, get it, he can do that. But now his heart rate's elevated. He's gotta make decisions after running the football in practice when they're practicing their throws. Lamar's practicing his throws. The quarterbacks are practicing their throws. They're not running the football for 10 or 12 yards in a drill and then having him throw. You understand what I'm saying? Yeah, you, wow, that's, you know, it's so crazy. I, you broke it down and explained it so, so simply. Let me shout out to simply AS10, by the way, but you broke it down and explained it so simply, but it was super effective. And I never thought about it like that before. Just the, wow. Yeah, I never thought of it like that before, but I appreciate the simple explanation. Like you mentioned, how he'll run for eight yards on first down, and then you have to pass the ball on second down or whatnot. And just the weighty responsibility and the added responsibility of having to do so many things. But yeah, go ahead. Wow, yeah, yeah, that just reminded me. And I have, as I said earlier, I've been exposed to two really high level option coaches. So they would have our quarterbacks practice those things. We're going to read the option two plays on, and you're going to run, you know, you're going to run because we can control that as coaches. We can give you a key breed for the quarterback. Meaning we can control that second play, have the DN crash down, you keep it, now you got to run around the edge. And then the third play is going to be a pass play. So you can create situations in practice, then simulate what you're going to ask that kid or that player, you know, to do during the game. Now Lamar's not a kid, he's 25 years old. He's still incredibly young, which is amazing. But in any case, in my scenario that I'm kind of presenting here, you know, maybe we get the first down because Lamar scrambles on that second down play. Maybe he delivers the football to someone, cool. How many times have we had situations where Lamar runs the ball, Lamar scrambles, and then like maybe the next play, we run another pistol read option. And I know that I'm kind of branching out into offensive philosophy and opening it up for us to talk about, you know, who calls our plays, how they call our plays. That's really not my point, to be honest with you. I don't know who is responsible for it, but in many situations Lamar's asked to do something that Tom Brady's never asked to do. That Russell Wilson or Russell Wilson used to run more, but he doesn't now he's a little older, but he was a great athlete. People forget that he played college baseball, professional baseball, excuse me. You know, so how many quarterbacks are asked to do all those things, run the ball by design, maybe scramble, maybe execute a typical pass play. And then on the third or fourth play in that sequence, go ahead and run another option play. And to me, that's overuse. And here's what I mean, I'm gonna cite an example a little later on, in my example of unnecessary use and they're kind of morphing together here. When we played Minnesota in week, was it week eight? I don't even remember. Nine, it was after we lost the Cincinnati, right? So it must have been week eight. We're playing another football game down in Florida four days later, four days later. And Lamar carried the ball 21 times against Minnesota. Now did we need him to save us? Yes, we did, you know, I know we did, but I'm talking about the level of thought that is required of the coach to be responsible for your greatest asset, which he is. He's the greatest asset we've ever had as an offensive player in the history of this organization. Yes. You know, you could mention Jamal Lewis because he ran for 2000. Certain people are gonna mention Joe Flacco, he won a Super Bowl, fine, but longevity of use, effectiveness as a player, positional rank in NFL. He's our best offensive asset ever. We knew we had a game four days after playing the Vikings. In my opinion, there were situations where we overused him in that Vikings game, even though we needed his impact because 96 hours later, if I did my math right, we were gonna play a game in Miami. And in my opinion, you risk injury, not just injury, excuse me, you risk losing your best asset by constantly running him. And I think we're gonna see less of it this year, to be honest with you and your Raven. I don't think we're gonna see games where he runs the ball 20 times, I don't. But I thought there was times where the usage in the game was overused, especially combined with the next game we were playing being 96 hours later and five states away, right? Yeah, and almost 96 degrees too. Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, wow, I love it. Not love him being overused, but love the explanation and the breakdown of all of that. So that's overuse. He can take it though, he can take it. My movie reference is kind of corny. Sorry if I interrupt you, I don't know if you're a movie guy. But my movie reference is the ending scene to the Dark Knight, the second Batman movie with Christian Vail. I fell asleep on the Dark Knight, I'm sorry. So everybody watching. That's all right. So the last scene is Commissioner Gordon's son asking him, why do we have to chase him? Batman's gonna take the responsibility for a murder that he did not commit. So Batman's running, the kid's asking, why do we have to chase him? He says, because he can take it. And to me, that's Lamar. Why do we have to overuse him? Because he can take it. He's a superhero, he can do it. Now, last year, the statistical impact shifted and turned in a negative way because of how poor the offensive line was and we had no running game threat, generally. That's not his fault. He can do everything that they would ask him to do even if it's overuse under normal situation. Having a below average, bottom five offensive line and bottom five or bottom 10 running back type threat back there is not normal situations. Yeah, yeah. Those rough last year, injuries are just, ooh, injuries are disgusting last year. So that's one of the biggest things we're hoping for this season. It's just a bill of health. So hopefully whatever changes the Ravens made as far as training and sometimes some stuff just happens. Because you can do everything the right way. You can do everything perfectly, but sometimes somebody might fall the wrong way. They might land on their leg the wrong way and stuff just unfortunately happens. So hopefully none of that this year. So you talk about the overuse, but what about the unnecessary use? So the example I created, even though it was a scenario and in terms of those three or four downs in a row, it's not far-fetched, right? I mean, we do this. Not anymore. And my comparison for Lamar all the time, and I know there's basketball fans who love and hate this guy, but I compare him to LeBron because LeBron is his own system. And I think as you mentioned earlier in your kind of intro, Lamar can be his own system, but I don't think we have to do that to him. Because there's a cumulative use of a player and I don't agree with some of the things we do first and second quarter. I don't wanna see our great quarterback running the football on a first and 10 on our own 35-yard line in the first or second quarter. I just don't see the point. Now, and I will say that about the first quarter of an individual game, but I also mean that in terms of the season. I think that we need to be strategic about when we are asking him to do some of those superhuman things, not just running the football, but some of the sprint out stuff, which we don't do sprint out enough. But there needs to be times where we give him a run pass option in terms of running to the edge. And I think that most of those situations should be later in the game or in crucial situations. And so unnecessary to me means if it's not in a big moment, and if we don't have other guys who are scoring, who are, I'm using a basketball offense again. If LeBron is the only guy on his team scoring, I understand as a coach calling every play for him. But in situations where other guys are scoring consistently, we don't need LeBron or Lamar to make every play. And I have a specific situation here, and this is not a scenario that I made up. And again, it's from the Vikings game. Now we won the game, Lamar played great. I think he did throw two picks, right? Two picks, mm-hmm. But the second one was like that great play by Anthony Barr, so I mean, what are you gonna do? So he had a great game, statistical numbers, three TDs, 266 yards, random ball 21 times, so like 385 total yards or something like that, if I did my math right, three, six. But one of the plays angered me watching it live. It was mid-fourth quarter, and this to me really made me upset from a long-term plan. Like if we were doing this to a kid, because primarily I coached high school and youth football, I would hope that a parent would come up to me and be like, hey, why did you do this to my child? So halfway through the fourth quarter, I think we're tied 24-all with the Vikings. Of course, we had to come back. We just stopped them on a three and out. Lamar's done everything. Running, if you look at the play-by-play to this point, he's been our offense all day. So I understand that, because the people who are listening, as we go through this example, they might say, well, we had to do that because we didn't have JK, we didn't have Gus. But just listen to the play-by-play, all right? Our ninth drive of the game. Lamar hits Marquis Brown for 22 yards. Devonta Freeman runs for eight yards. Levyon Bell runs for seven yards. Levyon Bell again for eight, and then Levyon Bell for five. We're winning every single block across the board at the point of attack and away from the point of attack. Similar to the Chargers game and the Chiefs game, and you can tell me what your perception of those games is, I thought we wore those defenses down. Yeah, and I think, especially in the Chargers game, I think Chiefs game, yeah, in the long run, they wore them down, but in the Chargers game, I think the defense, just how they just kept stopping the Chargers over and over, and giving the Ravens the ball back, that helped so much, and that helped just the Ravens offense just keep pushing and keep putting it on them. And the Ravens offense, that was probably the most complete game of last year, but all three phases just helped each other out big time. But yeah, go ahead. Absolutely, great game, great game. So we have four runs in a row after Lamar opened the drive with hitting Marquis Brown. Four runs in a row, like 28, 29 yards, so a little over seven yards a carry. We're winning every single block. As a coach, you can see that, just so people know, like coaches are watching, they've got, was it Surface Pros that the NFL uses? Yeah, Microsoft, yeah. Right, so they got the end zone, they got the end zone angle, they got the tight end zone angle, they got the sideline angle. You know, the coaches on the sideline are watching it live, don't get me wrong, but there's guys who are assigned to watch it. They know the play, because they hear it, they might not be able to speak, but they have a earpiece that they can hear at a play call, so they know what the play call is, and who should be doing what. You can see that we're winning every single block. So we get a first and 10 on the Vikings' 11-yard line, four minutes left, we just ran the ball down their throat, four plays in a row. Hopefully you don't remember this sequence, all right? So what do you think we ran next? What do you think the next play is we ran? I'm gonna go... Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm gonna go... I'm gonna go read out and play with them more. Close, kind of. We went, we had just gone 22 personnel, so two tight ends, two running backs, right? So we're cars on the field, four plays in a row, smash, mouth them. Whether you or anyone listening likes that style of play or not, that doesn't matter. It doesn't. You do what's working, right? You do whatever's working. If it's 11 personnel and throwing the ball every play, great, do it. If it's 22 personnel and running the ball, great, do it. We were busting them up, wearing them down. We went empty, and we run a QB draw with a screen option to the right with Lamar, out of empty. Now, Lamar's a winner. He's a competitor. So what do you expect him to do when there's two options on the play? One of them is throw a screen over there, or keep it, or keep the, he's gonna keep it. That's who he is. And I get fired up because it's like, we're beating them everywhere at the point of attack. We didn't have to do that. And that's why I say it's unnecessary. Now, it was a great run. He got down to the one yard line, right? But he had to spin off a defender at like the three, and then during his, not his spin move, but like a twirl and spin, like kind of half in the air, a second defender hits him, he almost fumbled. So Lamar fumbles that football if he does, you know? It's like, okay, that's Lamar's fault. Yeah, kind of, but kind of not. Don't call it a stupid play when we're winning at the point of attack. And to me, if I'm Lamar's cousin, or he doesn't have an agent, but someone who's close to him, that would be my concern. If you were to go at the macro, or I can never figure out what it is, macro or micro level, in terms of his usage. And if there was a complaint, that would be it. There's times where we didn't need to do that with him because we're winning, doing other things. Other guys are producing. I know that Freeman and Bell did not have great seasons, but in that moment on that drive, we were really beating the Vikings game down. And I already kind of, you know, went into my second part of my point, which was that we were playing in Miami four days later. Now look at that play call with that in mind. See, that's some, for me, something that I brought up on here a lot is like with the Ravens, especially recently. And recently, obviously, Greg Roman has been the offensive coordinator. There's been a lot of times when he will just, he'll get out of the flow of the game. Yes, what's working? Yeah, because yeah, something could be working. They could be successful at it, having all this success with it. But then he'll be like, oh, you know what? Yeah, let's do something else. And it's just, it can be, like you mentioned, it can be really frustrating to watch as a fan. But hopefully this is totally different. Totally, I mean, if something is working and we're up by, let's say we're up by 20 points and we betray what's working, okay, understood. But we're in a tie game with the team that, you know, I'm sorry, it's not a super talented team. They have some talented receivers, the Vikings do, but there was something wrong with that team the last two years in terms of defensively. They got bullied and we were bullying them at that point in the game. Again, ninth drive of the game and we're at home. It's not like we bullied them all game. I'm not trying to offer that we did. We did not. Lamar was our offense, but at that point, we're bullying them and it was not needed. I was pretty upset, you know, in that moment. I'm still upset months later, you know, I am. Let me read off some numbers. You know, for that game, Freeman was 13 carries for 79 yards, good game. Bell was 11 carries for 48 yards. Now, you know, did we need Lamar performance to win? Absolutely. But I'm talking about that specific situation. So hopefully the people listening can focus in on just that situation. We did not need Lamar to run the football in that moment. We have other guys who can do stuff. Now, so I like to use basketball analogies. Is it okay if I use one? Of course. By the way, what's the score to game? That's a good question. I don't even know right now. Let me check. It is ESPN would ever load. It is... Oh, oh, yikes. Oh, it's 54 to 39. Golden State is up. Maybe they're gonna close them out. So that's for 15 points, I think? Yeah, 15 points. Good for them, good story. Yeah, we'll see how it ends up, but go ahead. So my basketball analogy here would be, you know, let's say you're the Celtics and Jalen Brown is just taking Clay Thompson one-on-one repeatedly. Like let's say three possessions in a row. And I'm gonna use the specific number because it was four run plays in a row previously with Freeman and Bell prior to that empty quarterback draw run with Lamar. And then on the fourth possession, let's say the Warriors switch. Did they know that Jalen Brown's been taking Clay Thompson? So let's say they switch. And what would you do on the fourth possession? You'd probably give the ball to whoever Clay Thompson's guarding now and let him try to work on him or you'd run a pick and roll to try to get Clay Thompson to switch on Jalen Brown so you can keep doing what's working, right? Yeah, you don't wanna fix what's not broken. Exactly, why go away from it? And we are kind of branching off into the Gregoroman issue and I don't mean to sidetrack this video, you know? Toward that. And maybe this basketball analogy doesn't work, but on that fifth possession, or fourth or fifth possession, whichever one the next one will be, does it make any sense to not go at Clay Thompson or to not try to recreate that same matchup? At the professional level, your margin for error is so small. Even with a generational player like Lamar, your margin for error is so small, you've gotta find whatever advantages and matchup edges that you have and go to them. And that would be the part that would be concerning to me as a Lamar fan. I was a Lamar fan before we drafted him, you know? Yeah, and was one of those people who was like, once we got, because we drafted Hayden Hurst first, I believe, right? Right. And was like, well, we not getting him now and then we back in and we grab him again, but we grab another first round pick. I feel like there's times we gotta identify who Lamar is as a coach. And I don't mean to say save him from himself, but don't put him in the situation where he's gonna try to dive into the end zone. And oh, by the way, Levy-Anne Bell scored on the next play. And the gap for him to run through was like five foot wide. All right. So my illustration works for unnecessary use here. And I'm not a fan of those situations where Gregorumman goes away from what's working, especially when what he chooses to do is run the ball with our quarterback, who I think we gotta get away from that. As much as possible. I agree. And Lamar, yeah, he is just, he's everything. He is the end all be all when it comes to Raven's offense. And it's a great thing, but at the same time, you want them to put it in somebody else's hands sometimes and just to have somebody else be that guy for them. And of course, I know superstars, they make plays. Your playmakers make plays. So you want them to do that, but you just want other people making plays besides Lamar too. When you have immediate evidence right in front of your face that other guys are making plays, like if I was up here conjecturing, like my first example was conjecture. It was a scenario that I made up. If I was up here, you know, not providing a specific example, this is a specific example where other guys are making plays. And oh, by the way, the next four runs that we had in that game totaled like 33 yards. I'm talking about like the 10th possession and the 11th. So we continued to run the ball against them. You know, it's not like they fixed it on the next possession and we couldn't run. And, you know, I don't care if it's run or pass, whatever's working, continue to do it. And I'm not saying that strategically, we should always try to limit Lamar's exposure, but I do not like when coaches don't have awareness of who they're coaching. And Lamar's always gonna try to make a play, like you said. And when other people are available to make plays, like I hope Rashad Bateman gets 120 targets this year so we can see him making plays and Lamar doesn't have to. Love it, love it. And then yeah, that would be the expectation too, especially with Hollywood, with him having been traded. And he got a lot of targets last year. They weren't necessarily quality targets because I know the number 146 gets tossed around. I know he got 146 targets, but some of them came from Lamar, some came from Huntley, some came from Josh Johnson. And not every throw from every quarterback was on point on target. But with Rashad Bateman, and I know we kind of getting sidetracked, but that's fine. Every one of these videos that I do is sidetracked. But with Rashad Bateman, him having a bigger catch radius. I think that'll help Lamar Jackson out a lot. Cause like with Hollywood, you gotta put it like right on the money for Hollywood to get it. But with Rashad Bateman, he gives you some more leeway. And I think, no doubt. And I think too like, you know, I don't know the basketball comparison here for Hollywood Brown. I'm not gonna try to make one off the cuff because I don't want it to be, I don't want it to be disrespectful or wrong headed. But for Bateman, Bateman reminds me to like six, two, six, three combo guard who's like, who's too big. I'm not talking about NBA. I'm talking about like street ball who's too big for your point guard to guard. He's too strong. And then when you put like a small forward a six, six, six, seven guy on him, he's too quick for him. To me, Bateman is a guy who has an answer for every prototype DB who guards him. He can out quick some, he can out quick the bigger, slower guys. He can overpower the smaller guys who are speedy. That's what I see in him. Now, whether that NFL projection is gonna work completely, I don't know, but that's kind of what I see to make a basketball reference. Marquis Brown is not, is not going to win against certain DBs by three or four yards or certain guys that he's just not gonna be as open against. I think Bateman's catch radius is bigger, number one, like you said. And I think he's got a second and third option that Marquis Brown didn't have. Okay. All right. So in closing, what would be your solution to fixing these issues as far as the overuse and the unnecessary use of Lamar Jackson? Well, this is gonna be a low bar for a NFL coach, for real. I mean, we kind of already said it, I think I said it three times, you know, do what works, do what is working in that moment. Now, we had a lot of slow starts last year, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, you were right, we had a lot. And so there are times where we're trying to find what is working. The best coaches that I've ever been blessed to be around are gonna generally find something to come out with that's gonna work in the first or second possession. And even now, I do remember the Miami game, we kicked the field goal to go up three-nothing, then we missed the field goal in the second possession. So we were at least moving the ball, I believe. Then things fell apart, right? Everything. I would say do what works or what is working, number one. And here's the part that is a low bar, if you ask me. Like, someone on the staff needs to be monitoring how much we're using him. And I know coaches don't care about stats, but if we get to the half-time and Lamar has 12 carries, that's not a long-term formula for him or for the Ravens. I'm not saying that running quarterbacks can't win. We've won a lot of games with Lamar, but he's not a running quarterback. He's a quarterback who can run. And there's a difference there, if you ask me. Yeah, yeah, a huge difference. All right, so let's hope that the Ravens and his offense, they get these issues correct because it could just mean the longevity, not only for Lamar, but really for the entire season. And just taking them a lot farther than they've been getting recently. And it's all about adjustments. And Greg Roman said it himself, he said as an offense, we have to adjust. Evolve and adapt. So let's hope that they stick to that. So I'll go ahead. My bad, my bad, Ingrid. No, you're good. I think on some level, they got to get away from the pistol option. I mean, for real. Because it, I will tell you, as a person who has coached defensive forward, obviously nowhere near that level, you are somewhat limited with the pistol option. And there's some schematic things that I'm talking about that I won't digress into here. But there's certain things that make, that it's more difficult for us to do because we're in the pistol option. I'll give you one example. Play action with a bootleg off of it to the other side. People talk about, I have heard people in videos, not yours obviously, but other videos or social media make comments like Lamar's ball skills on play action fakes are terrible. No, they're not. It's because he's in the pistol and his back isn't turned to the defense when he's making that ball fake like Brian Tannehill's is or Aaron Rogers is when he's under center. When your back is turned to the defense, you can hide the football easier because your body is in between the linebackers that are watching and the football. When you're in the pistol, you're only turning your body a little bit. Your body's not as turned. So Lamar running a bootleg is not nearly as effective out of the pistol option. What I'm saying is to try to summarize, there are certain plays, think of it like an umbrella. The pistol option, if you ask me, is an umbrella that's only one third of the way open. It's not very wide. And there are certain things under center and a typical shotgun that we can do that if you ask me has a wider umbrella and gives us more options, more things to do more plays to run against the defense so we won't be so predictable. Yeah, that makes sense. And I wonder, like I know Greg Roman, he spoke specifically about this going into last season that they were gonna be running a lot more plays under center. And I always wondered why they didn't. I think they were like maybe like a total of like, maybe five, maybe. Yes, not many. But yeah, it wasn't anything crazy. But I wonder if with the offensive line, the shape that they were in, if that's part of the reason why they didn't. Yeah, definitely. Is what it is. Again, hopefully we'll have health and the offensive play calling will put not only Lamar, but other guys in position to succeed. Make us less predictable, absolutely. Yes, for sure. So all 22 appreciate you coming on, appreciate you joining the channel. Again, let everybody know where they can find you at again on the YouTube and on Twitter. YouTube is all 22 films. And then Twitter is all 22 NFL cuts. And it's, I got underscores in between them. So it's gonna be difficult for me to spell out without losing people's attention. Man, I appreciate you having me on. It's always fun to talk Raven's football. For sure. Talk about previous games and then project on to the future. You know, especially coming out of this mini camp here, but I think everybody should be excited because it sounds like there was a lot of positive stuff going on. So I really appreciate the opportunity. Yeah, for sure. As a team, keep it clean, make sure you follow him on Twitter, subscribe to his YouTube channel, and we out.