 Y'all saw that boy, Roquon Smith, wanna be traded from Chicago. Anyway, YouTube team keep it clean before we get into this episode of questions from subs. Gotta give a shout out to the newest team keep it clean, Patron. His name is Stanley. We appreciate you, Stanley. Shout out to you. And you know what? We just gonna start off with a question straight from Stanley. He said, thank you for all that you do. Your positivity has greatly impacted my life. I've been a follower for a long time and wanted to up my level of support. Your content is always 10 out of 10. Keep up the great work. Hey, I appreciate that a lot, Stanley. I don't agree. I definitely would not say it's 10 out of 10. But no, I seriously appreciate you though, man. Thank you for becoming a patron. He said, I like to know where your fandom as a Ravens fan originated from. What event or decision in your life sealed your love for the Ravens? Oh, that's always a fun question. I'm originally from Maryland. I originally from Maryland. And I was like kind of in the football when I was way younger. Just like a little bit, but nothing too crazy. But then my uncle, he had season tickets to the Ravens and they were like, hey, you wanna go to a football game? And I had never been before. I was like, okay, yeah, cool, whatever. And I was always also, when I was younger, big, big, big wrestling fan too. Love, WWF, WCW, ECW, all that good stuff. Now, not so much, I tune in every now and then, but not really no more. But anyway, so my uncle, they took me to a Ravens game and I watched these players come out and I watched the entrances and everybody was getting all hyped and jumping up and down. And it reminded me a lot of wrestling when they come out with all the pyro techniques and all that and the smoking, the music and all that. And then last, but obviously certain not least, Ray Lewis came out. Ray Lewis came out and he was doing, of course, the squirrel dance and everybody was going crazy. And I was like, oh, I just felt them vibes too. And then it was from that point on where I just started, I started paying attention to them a little more, started checking for the Ravens a little more and then just start really like developing, I guess, a love for the Ravens that much more. And then it just, it grew over time. And over time, they would take me to different football games and stuff. And I'd be like, okay, I will start following them more and just start really paying attention to them a lot more. And then over the years, it just grew, like watching them and a lot changed too. I feel like I have a deeper appreciation for a lot of the stuff that they do. A really deeper appreciation from football just from watching it as a fan and flipping that to actually covering everything that they do, not just on Sundays for 16, 17 weeks out of the year, but actually covering everything that they do in detail, like all the transactions, all the business moves, all the hiring, the firings, the personnel decisions, the coaching decisions, covering it from that perspective has made me just love football that much more. And I really appreciate the business side of it that much more because it is fun to pay attention to all that stuff. Of course, you wanna watch the final product on Sundays. All right, how does team looking, how they gonna be? What moves that they made this off season and coaching hires and personnel, hires, players, signings and all that, what moves that they made this off season will impact them every Sunday? That's cool and that's super fun, but it's also a lot of fun to just watch the process. That was a little fun question to start off with. Anyway, next question came from my boy, Marco, who's also a Patreon y'all familiar with his name. He said, ain't Draven, what's good? I was thinking, well, you surprised that the Ravens didn't sign a natural left tackle. Like Dwayne Brown, who is still available to back up Ronnie Stanley in electing to cross train a player who hasn't played in two seasons. Let me know your thoughts, take care and peace. No, it's no shocker. That's a really good question though. But with Ja'wan James, he was already on the roster. So since he was already on the roster, no comp picks, even though Ravens like this was not the year for them to get comp picks anyway, but they already had somebody who was on the roster. It's not like he's costing a crazy amount of money. He's familiar with the team, you already got them under contract. Everything is just easier that way. And then they like, oh, you know what? You know Ravens like, they like flip-flopping guys across the offensive line or whatnot. So yeah, it ain't really no surprise why they didn't sign a natural left tackle. I understand why you would want them to sign a natural left tackle because with Ronnie Stanley is a big question mark, but I understand though why. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. So team, keep it clean. Welcome to another episode of NFL questions from subs. I appreciate y'all always sending great fire questions. Thank you for being patient. We do send in your question. Special shout out to all the team, keep it clean patrons. If you want to become a team, keep it clean patron. You can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. And if you want to cool, if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine as well. I love y'all and you know what? Let's get into this next question from Tanja. Shout out to Tanja because she been rocking with team, keep it clean for a super, super, super long time. So she said, all the Ravens trying to play Lamar. Well, I certainly hope not, but let's see what you're talking about. She said, I am fuming right now. I was just watching the Ravens first week of training camp summary with Ryan Mink and his partner. Oh, so it must have been gear down. Shout out to gear, by the way. She said, they talked the same song and dance about the Ravens and Lamar might get the deal done before the season starts, but maybe not. Okay, so all that's true is, we won't know till we know. She said, then they proceed to talk about how much work Lamar has done in the off season. Okay, all right, cool, so far so good, no problems. But while firing me up, they talked about how he has worked on his passing and how good he is looking as a passer and how Lamar really bulked up to take the hits, then Ryan says, I see him going for more rushing yards this year, okay, well, okay, I see where you going with it now, man. I really hope that doesn't end up being the case. And not that, again, I don't want to put a number because you can't put a number on Lamar's rushing yards in my opinion. I'm not one of them people. Oh, Lamar should only have 500 rushing yards this year. Now you can't put a number on it because you never know what's gonna happen in the game. You never know if he looking to pass, pass, pass, and ain't nobody coming open, he takes off. Okay, cool, get it how you get it. But at the same time, I just feel like while we always talk about more emphasis should be put on the wide receivers in the passing game as it should, but in the running game, these running backs are there for a reason. I don't think Lamar should be the leading Russia every single year. But anyway, she says, so what is making me so mad is that I am starting to feel like this prestige organization called the Ravens is trying to play Lamar. The reason I say this, Lamar has improved his passing every season without them giving him a proven receiver because they want him to run. Lamar has a quarterback coach and they talk about how he has improved as a passer. But yet on the show, the three of them talk about Lamar running again. What are you paying the running backs for? It seems like they just wanna run him in the ground but don't wanna pay him his worth. Lamar showed he can pass the ball by default last season because they had no choice. So why are they going back to running him again? So with that, it's really one of them things we won't know till we know. I mean, based off of how the past four seasons have been, they got an allegiance to believe that he will be running the ball a lot and a lot of it will be by design. And not that it's always a bad thing because it's had gotten the Ravens a lot of success over the seasons because he just, besides passing, he presents another element of his game that's dangerous with running the ball. But yeah, as far as, you know, all the receiving talk, you already know how we feel about that. But yeah, we just, we want them to focus on using his legs less and his arm in the passing game that much more. Of course, again, like we said, he's still gonna have that element of the Lamar taking off. But you just, sometimes it feels like they just abuse it. They abuse it and a lot of the stuff it can be obvious sometimes. Anyway, she said they will never get past the division around because they refuse to be balanced on both sides of the ball. I wouldn't blame Lamar if he franchised tags and then moves on. Lamar is a generational talent that shows he has the drive to improve every year and the yearning to be great. And the Ravens are limiting his growth and don't want to pay him his value. If they don't pay Lamar, then I would rather see him go somewhere else that appreciates him and will build around him so he can get his Superbowl and show the world how special he is. She said, sorry, I was so mad. I forgot to say, how are you, my friend? Hey, no, you're good, it was completely fine. Yeah, man, I'm with you on that with the part where I just, because I've said it before, I just don't feel like they've maximized Lamar Jackson as a quarterback. I don't feel like they have. I feel like they've maximized him as a runner but not as a thrower. They have not provided him with the best of the best that they could have. They've gotten quantity, but it hasn't always been quality. And I think a lot of people, they get stuff confused because when we talk about stuff like that, they'll be like, oh, the Ravens, they drafted two receivers in the first round, Shaw Baby and Hollywood, hey, great job. Then they'll be like, oh, the Ravens, over the past couple of years, the Ravens drafted the most receivers than any other team in the league. What are you guys talking about they haven't provided for Lamar Jackson? But that's just quantity. It's quantity. Hey, you got two third round receivers, you got a fourth round receiver, you got a fifth round receiver too. And who am I missing? Am I missing somebody? But then you look at the signings. You look at the proven guys that they brought in and it's like old Seth Roberts, okay, yeah. I don't even know if he's on the team right now. Oh, there's Brian, some guy who hadn't played in years. Oh, okay, cool. Willie Snead, he's still going. He just got signed by the 49ers a couple of days ago. Who else? But the Ravens haven't gotten somebody like that, for Lamar Jackson. Shout out to Pookie, at least he even Pookie upset about how the Ravens have been doing Lamar Jackson. So Ravens, Pookie said, step it up. Next question came from a guy, Joshua B. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope you and your family are doing well, plus Pookie, L-O-L. Just want to say love the videos and all the information from you and Team Keep It Clean. Yeah, I don't provide any information, I just relay it. Team Keep It Clean, y'all be on providing information because y'all always again, present so many different viewpoints and perspectives on stuff going on. So I appreciate y'all. He said, I recently got hurt at football practice in the sideline for probably a month and some change and we'll probably miss the first three games of the season. Oh man, you a real Ravens fan then. If you got hurt, you gonna miss time. But now we hope you get better, man, for real. Your videos always are in escape for a little bit. So I just want to say thank you. Oh, now I appreciate that, man. My question is something no one is really talking about, mostly because of JK coming back on Monday in the Y-Receiver Group. Yeah, that is a popular conversation, especially over here. He said, but with no cold cap. Oh no, but with cold cap retiring and the impact he had on special teams, who do you think will replace him? Me, I was thinking Tony Jefferson because I predict him making a 53 man roster with Chuck, Marcus Williams, Kyle Hamilton and Gino Stone. Oh, okay. All right, man. I don't see him getting out there that much. He will be a waste to just be sitting on the sidelines the whole game. And I'm thinking for him to get on the field more will be through special teams. And I think he will take up that cold cap role. What do you think? Thanks for listening. I hope it wasn't too long. Oh, no, man. I can see that because like you said, he, I think his best way to get on the field, to get on the field more would be special teams, to just be out there for them to have a hitter on special teams. Somebody that ain't afraid to lay somebody out. And that's Tony Jefferson. And I remember just seeing him last year, it was crazy because last year to me, he looked better than, and I know it was a sample size, but he looked better than he did from when he was with the Ravens before. He looked younger. He looked quicker. He ain't like super fast at it, but he looked quicker, a lot quicker than me than he did before with the Ravens. And maybe it's a rejuvenated Tony Jefferson, but yeah, I could see him taking that sort of cold cap road where you drop back your safety. You also come in the box as a linebacker. That's Tony Jefferson all day. That's him all day. So yeah, I agree, it would be him. Shout out to my guy, Romeo, because he sent me a video that ESPN did about this. And my guy, Manuel, is talking about it as well. Said, O'Dell to the Ravens makes sense for both sides. What's up in Graven? Shout out from Mexico. I know what tie to hand about OBJ to Baltimore. Give OBJ this and that. And fictitious as it sounds, it makes sense. And here's why. Number one, he gets to recover and learn the playbook while watching his teammates do the routes during the games. And when he's back, he can put his spin on them since he would know how to get open and get meac. Number two, by that time, my wide receiver core has proved that without OBJ, they are threatened by themselves. Hope so. So having OBJ on the field puts much more pressure on opposing defenses to stop the Ravens offense. Number three, we'll run every team, but because Lamar is throwing it better than before, it will force Giro to call more passing plays than runs, even though the game dictates different stuff. Is he really throwing it better than before? Is he gonna just be getting more opportunity to throw it more? So anyway, it could be a mix of both, but we ain't even gonna get into that right now. Number four, O'Dell is coming off of an injury. And even if he wants money, teams all around him are thinking damaged goods on him for as much as he has an impact on the field. So a cheap deal for two years to prove he's still got it after his injury will be something he won't pass. You talking Ravens cheap or a different kind of cheap? Ravens cheap is different. Ravens cheap is like, cause they be trying to okey-dog some people. And Ravens like, they throw you a deal. And if you ain't got the right people on your side, you gonna get okey-dog, man. Ravens be getting over on some people for me. But anyway, he said, number five, J.K. Dobbins came back faster than expected, not only because of his will, but also because of our new medical staff to get our players healthier, faster, and in the right way. He could come over here and we could check him and say, do this and you'll be back even better. That sound like you talking about some dear endless break. Anyway, he said number six, sticking to the Browns twice when he's back, even though he won a Super Bowl, but nothing beats the taste of victory when you defeat the team that wasted your talent and time. Yeah, but he already defeated them last year. When him and the Rams, they won that Super Bowl and he was a big part of that, he already beat the Browns. That, enough say it, enough will say it. That was it. And then he said number seven, oh, they already has a ring and knows how to play in the big one in LaMarnie is that kind of helping his revenge tour. That's my favorite one that you said this whole, this whole email. That is my favorite one. By far. I love it. He said, hope you are well and let us know how good LaMarn's restaurant is. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on, oh yeah, you know, that is fire. It is fire. But yeah, man, that's, yeah, that the, about LaMarn, him O'Dill having that experience and no one had to win a, oh yeah, that was the one. He also said, hard balls manipulation. This is a different question, by the way. He said a few hours ago, I watched Elvis. If you haven't watched it, I recommend that you see it. I have no interest in watching that movie, you know? I have like negative interest in watching that movie. I just, I don't care for it at all. No offense to anybody that does, but I just have no interest in watching it. He said, anyway, after the movie, something came into my mind about the dynamic Elvis had with his representative and it reminded me of Harbys and LaMars. We all know LaMars saved Harbys career by Miles and even in 2019 put him as head coach of the year. Oh yeah, he didn't get that. But again, that year it was a group effort. So everybody played their part. So Harbys was a part of it. So anyway, he said, but like we said, after that, the passing game needs to evolve and LaMars was ready for it. Yes, COVID hit and could have impacted the practice and new passing plays, but all we saw was the same place 2019 and the predictability of G-Roll's offense in general. Hollywood Snead and even Steve Smith's senior pointed out that G-Roll has no passing concepts so much that I bet LaMars told DeCosta in private, change it or we won't win. Hence, T-Martin and Keith Williams were brought and that was more a DeCosta move than Harbys because let's be honest, Harbys knew about G-Roll's passing plays before LaMars drafted. Harbys knew that their wide receiver call was weak before the 2019 season. Yet LaMars said, I'll do what I can and he did. But it wasn't enough. LaMars wanted more and Harbys wasn't giving him the full offense he wanted in one steal. Harbys knows LaMars can throw it, but I worry that he might have told him, you're not throwing it good enough for us to call the plays you want. Well, LaMars went to a QB coach for the off season, came Super Sion, blew better and showed it in training camp to tell Harbys, I can throw it better than you told me I could. Now give me my plays with my voice. Oh, I like that. Has LaMars told Harbys, enough games. Let me play LaMars ball and not Harbys ball. Oh, wow. Wow. Whoa. Okay, this is, oh, you ain't playing with this one, boy. Oh, man, okay now. Wow, you gotta throw me off. But, hey, you never know, man. You really never know that it could be the case. Well, LaMars like, hey, let's like, come on, man. Get real, get real. Cause all this play, play stuff. No, man, let's be serious about it. I can do this. And he's continued to say for years, I can pass. I don't feel like running. I wanna throw the ball. I'd rather pass than run. And then we even see it in his game. We see it in his game. Like again, I bring it up so much because it happens so much. We be watching, we watching the Ravens play. They on offense, passing play. LaMars drops back, he's looking, looking. And he's screaming, LaMars take off, run, run, run. But no, he's still looking. He looking, he keep looking, looking downfield, looking for somebody to come open. And then he either, sometimes he'll throw it, sometimes he'll throw it away. Sometimes he'll try to take off and get some. Sometimes it'll get sacked. But we'll be screaming, LaMars take off and he won't take off. It's like, man, but we know like, he wants to pass the ball. He's a quarterback. And it's like for him to have been having to prove to people for years, not just in the NFL, but on a collegiate level too. On a high school level, having to prove to people for years like, hey, I'm a quarterback. So let me be that. It shouldn't, it should not still be happening. It should not still be happening. The same way, and we talk about it with wide receivers all the time, but we also need to talk about it with quarterbacks too. With wide receivers, I feel like with Ravens, there's so many wide receivers that we just, we never, we will never know what their true potential was because the Ravens never maximized them. And it seems that way too, with the quarterbacks. And I know they haven't had many franchise quarterbacks. So I get that. But with Joe, the most recent was with Mark Jackson and Joe Flacco. Yeah, Joe Flacco did win a Super Bowl, which was great. But I would have loved to have seen Joe Flacco with a lead talent at the wide receiving position consistently or more. They gave Manquan Bolton, and well, coincidence, but here they gave Manquan Bolton, he won a Super Bowl. Wow, how about that? That's crazy, man. That's what that, wow, wow. They gave him an old Steve Smith senior. He still got it. Well, he got it in the first year, the last two years. Ooh, yikes. But Derek Mason, another guy who was good, but passed his prime. So it's like they didn't even max out Flacco. They didn't consistently max out Flacco out. When they gave him the best receiving group he had, he won a Super Bowl. So that's what with Lamar, it's the same thing. They have not maxed Lamar out. They haven't. And oh, man, I would love to see them do that. Will they ever? I don't know, man. I really don't know, but let's just hope that the guys that they got can get it done. And we'll see what they do. We'll see what they do. But I love how you put this question, how you worded everything, because I can't say a spot on, because we don't know what kind of conversations they had behind closed doors. But I love your thinking on it. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Shout out to engraving.