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Now, speaking of podcasts, on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers, we have some of y'all favorite Ravens podcasters. They do their show every week, twice a week, on both Mondays and Thursdays, and I have the privilege of hosting the Purple Rain podcast. Simply AS10 and Sudden Death. What's going on fellas? Welcome. What's going on? Thank you for having us. Ain't no problem man. Appreciate y'all coming on. We've been trying to get this coordinated for a while now, and it just so happened to be on a Tuesday afternoon that that's the time that worked out best for all of us. So, appreciate y'all. Let them know what y'all do, where they can find you. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, all that good stuff. For sure. I'm Simply AS10. I make highlight videos, and I got my podcast with my voice out in depth. You can find us the Purple Rain podcast. You can find me on YouTube at SimplyAS10 or on Twitter, SimplyAS10, but the L is the capital I. Like you said, the Purple Rain podcast, every Monday and Thursday we go live, we talk sports, we talk Ravens, we talk NFL football, but I am Sudden Death. You can find me on Twitter or Instagram at Sudden Death, that's S-U-T-T-O-N-D-E-F. I do a lot of different things. I don't have a highlight channel. I'm not as cool as SimplyAS10, at least not yet. I'm working on it, but we have a podcast together. I love it with all my heart. The Purple Rain podcast. If you like Ravens football, if you like sports talk, just you guys having a good mansion going back and forth. Make sure you go ahead and subscribe to the lesson. Thank you to Engraven Videos again for having us on. Ain't nothing, man. All the links to all of that stuff, just in case y'all get lazy. I know a lot of y'all can be lazy. It'll be down below in the description, so y'all check that out. But without further ado, we have some really good questions to get into from Team Keep It Clean, so let's do it. First question came from my guy, Big Cam. He said, I ain't graven. Just wanted to get your opinion on something. How would you feel if we signed Malik Hooker to play Free Safety and we moved the Sean Elliott to Strong Safety? I know you just simply put up a tweet reminding people of your highlight video of the Sean Elliott. I'm going to let you start off with this one. How would you feel if the Ravens signed Malik Hooker to play Free Safety and then they moved the Sean Elliott to the box? I am the biggest Sean Elliott fan you'll meet. I would love that. I feel we need to see him more in the box, laying that shoulder and just cracking people. I would love it. I love Chuck Clark, and we talked about this on the Purple Rain podcast. I believe he's so underrated and undervalued by Ravens fans that Greendot. Remember when Patrick Owasu had it? Our defense looked absolutely terrible. I would love the signing, but Chuck Clark has to be on the field all the time. So I want him to be a starter. I would love the signing of Malik Hooker, but we'll have to see where it all pans out. Definitely agree there. Now, what I agree with the most is I would love to see more of the Sean Elliott in the box. We saw all the hard hits he laid on, even just running backs, big bruising running backs, i.e. Derek Henry last season. You'd just love to see it, you know what I mean? Just that hustle, that pursuit. You can tell he would probably benefit from moving to Strong Safety. You know what I mean? Like just crashing down more often. You know, Wink could just have, Wink could do so many things. Wink could really do so many things having that flexibility with Deshaun Elliott. So I'm a big fan of that move. I really am. Next question came from my boy, Rodeo. He said, good morning, my guy. Hope you and the Mrs. and Carter are doing well and Purple Rain podcast. I appreciate your hard work and dedication as it makes many of our lives better during the season and the off season. Hit me out here. Uh oh, here we go. He said, we all scream to the top of our lungs that Lamar needs a number one wide receiver. We've heard the flock members say that they are fed up with Greg Roman and that he needs to go. But me, I'm on the other side for a reason that I don't think many people realize. As much as we scream, Lamar Jackson needs a number one. Giro does as well. See, we as fans only see what's on the field, but just as Lamar Jackson doesn't have his starter make spectacular catches and tough game changing plays, Giro doesn't have that guy either. Greg Roman cannot design a game plan around the number one receiver because we simply don't have one. Our game plan is centered around Lamar Jackson because he is clearly our best athlete. Not only does LJ not trust all his other receivers, but Giro probably doesn't trust him either. Imagine this, 2012, the 49ers went to the Super Bowl. They played our Ravens, LOL. Greg Roman was the offensive coordinator. His offense was Kaepernick. Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, Michael Crabtree, Ted Ginn Jr., Randy Moss, and Mario Manningham. I forgot he was on that team. Giro, as always, led San Fran to a great rushing season, as he always does. But this time around, he had a number one wide receiver. While Frank Gore had 1200 yards on the ground that year, Michael Crabtree had 85 receptions for 1100 yards. Ravens haven't had a wide receiver close to a thousand yards since LJ's been here. You see the proof is in the pudding. A number one wide receiver would not only help Lamar, but it would help the offense as a whole. And the mastermind, Greg Roman, he can open this thing up even more. While this is realistic, I don't know the possibility of it happening. But Lamar Jackson, J.K. Dobbins, Alan Robinson, Hollywood, and Andrews alone is better than what Giro had in 2012. I'm just saying, does Lamar need a number one? Absolutely. But Greg Roman and Hobbs are also playing the hands. They are dealt until the front office understands that the game has changed and you have to invest in both sides of the ball. Now, I'll start off with this one. I love it. I love how he put it. It reminds me of when we had Sarah Ellison on, because she was saying the same thing. That while a lot of people are clamoring for Lamar, needs better weapons, needs better this, better that. Giro, he also needs better weapons, needs better this and better that. But with Greg Roman, one of my biggest frustrations is not even that we don't have a number one wide receiver. Because that's not even a Greg Roman thing to me, in my opinion. That's a Ravens problem. This has been happening before Greg Roman, before Lamar Jackson. It's been happening for a while now. With the Ravens, they just get real cheap on offense. But my problem with Greg Roman is that it's the use of what we do have. And that's my biggest fear when it comes to them possibly adding that guy at receiver. Yeah, it would open things up in my opinion. But how would you use them? How would you use that number one receiver? Because with what you've been given already and how you've used that, it really hasn't been too good. So if they add something more, something better, are we still going to get the same results? Is that person, whoever that may be, are they going to be used to their full potential? Are you going to use them to their strengths? Are you going to play them to their strengths? So that's what I would be worried about. How y'all feel about it? What's the point of having soldiers if you're not going to use them? I think of that. So if we were to get that number one guy, he's going to win his targets. And we've talked about this before. Just to go over it real quick. Would you rather have a number one or get the other third tight end? Because you can see what G-Rod does with those three tight end sets and how great the offense looks. So I would love that number one receiver. I think it really would help out Greg Roman. But just knowing who the Ravens are, it's not going to happen. And with the news that came out today, we're not going to get that number one receiver in Italy. I'm recording this. So it's not going to happen, of course. Maybe the drafts. Hopefully, maybe the drafts. My thing about Greg Roman is, and I get the argument that the person is making. I get the argument that G-Rod, he needs a number one receiver as well. But the only issue that I have with that is, Greg Roman's passing attack has never been good. It's never been good. And I think Steve Smith, he highlighted it immediately following that Bill's loss after the season. Listen, Greg Roman, his offense, he's just not good at designing a passing offense. It's just not in his forte. It's not in his wheelhouse. He's very, very good. He's very special, very gifted and talented at designing run plays. We can see our run plays look immaculate most of the time. They do. But when it comes to passing, it just hasn't been there with the Ravens. It wasn't really there all the way with the 49ers and all the teams that he was with in between that time and between now. So, I think that just getting, and like you said, in Grieven, we invest a lot of money into our defense and not a whole lot into our offense. And the problem with that now is we have a special all-time generational phenomenal talent at quarterback. And we're still of the same school of thought that, hey, we can just invest most of the money in our defense and now that we have this all-star quarterback, we can just put it all on him. But that's not how it's going to work. The kid's 24. Lamar Jackson's 24 years old and he's accomplished so much already in his career. And he's getting ready to get paid. We just found out that contract talks just started between Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. Why not get him that number one receiver? It's something that is clearly missing. It's the missing piece. Last year, if you take it back to last year, after we lost to the Titans, Eric DeCosta said, okay, cool. That's not going to happen to us again. We're not going to let Derek Henry run all over us. And we formulated the monstars. We got Derek Wolf, we got Kaleas Campbell, and we already had Brandon Williams there. And we saw that proved dividends for us. That actually worked for us. So this year, we had the dead last passing attack in the league. Our offense did not take that step forward in passing. But we actually took a little step back as a whole offense passing. So it's like, what's missing? What's missing? That number one receiver, we saw a lot of drops even out of our best two receivers, Mark Andrews and Hollywood Brown. They led the team and drops. And that's, of course, because they get the most attempts and stuff like that. Passes thrown their way. But at the same time, we need a guy. And Pat McAfee said this on the show yesterday. Me and Alex were just talking about this on the Purple Rain podcast. You get a guy. You get a guy like they gave Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs. Like they gave DeAndre Hopkins to Kyler Murray. You give Lamar Jackson that guy. Just see what he can do. He's going to be able to, I guarantee it. I can almost guarantee it. You can see what he's doing with the weapons he has now. He gets the ball there, even in like high pressure situations. You can see him getting the ball to a Mark Andrews. You can see him getting the ball to Hollywood Brown. And a lot of times they would drop that pass. Especially Mark Andrews and Mark Andrews. He did it a lot in the playoffs. And you know, I love Mark Andrews. I really do. I really do. But, amen. Just to, in short, just to wrap it all up. I know I'm a little bit long-winded here. But we need that. Greg Roman needs it. But Lamar Jackson needs it a little bit more. Lamar Jackson is a special talent. He's here for us to get the most out of him. Because we know we're getting the most out of him running the ball. But to get the most out of him passing the ball, we have to get him those weapons. Why do we keep acting like he doesn't need these weapons? Like, oh, we can just run the ball and we can be fine. No, it's not going to happen. You're not going to want a Super Bowl that way. It's clear. It's obvious. You're just not. Greg Roman couldn't do it back in 2012. And he's not going to do it now. You know what I mean? So I feel like we definitely do need that number one receiver. More so for Lamar Jackson than Greg Roman. The hope is Keith Williams and T. Martin can play a very, very big and crucial role in the development of not only the receivers or whatever receivers we bring in or the receivers we have, but just Lamar Jackson as well. T. Martin having that experience as a quarterback. You know what I mean? I feel like those things could really mesh together. We just have to get him that number one receiver. Our next question came from my guy, visual sniper. He said, what's up, man? I hope you and your family are having a good day. Love the views and keep up the content. Do you think that the Ravens could bring in someone like a Shaq Barrett or a KJ Wright? Now me with Shaq Barrett, I don't see it happening. I think the Ravens would try to keep Yannick and Gackway over Shaq Barrett, over getting the Shaq Barrett. I don't even think they're going to keep Yannick and Gackway. But a KJ Wright, it'd be nice, but you got a young dog, man. Second year guy who showed a lot of potential in the times that you did get to see him. I know toward the end of the year you didn't get to see him too much, but Malik Harrison. Malik Harrison, that dude, he's going to be nice, man. I think the only thing missing from his game right now is opportunity. When he starts getting more and more opportunity, he's going to look better and better. You see Malik Harrison, he almost reminded me of like a secret weapon that the Ravens, they kept on the wraps and they were just saving him. And that's what they did because toward the end of the season, you didn't really see him then come playoff game against Derek Henry and them. Oh Malik, let's go. Come here. It's time. And they brought him out. So with him, I'm looking forward to seeing his development. And that is a position that I do have confidence in the Ravens for developing. It is outside linebacker, just linebacker period. So I would say no to a KJ Wright and for those reasons, for Malik Harrison reasons and no to Shaq Barrett because of this. Yeah, I mean, I wanted Shaq Barrett at that Super Bowl. It's from Baltimore. It would make so much sense. But he just played himself out of his price range. There's no way we can give him that money. And if, you know, with the whole Jude on situation, if we're going to get Jude on that money, we're not going to give to Shaq Barrett. So with the KJ Wright, I know me and Sutton, we're probably the leaders of the LJ Forte fan club. LJ Forte, Patrick Queen and Malik Harrison, we have a high hopes for that, especially with Rex Rob Ryan coming in. I don't know if you watched the video of the interview. I have really high hopes. He's going to develop those guys. And linebacker position this year is going to be fun to watch. I think if we get that past coverage up, he'll be a top linebacker. Maybe that Devon White year two step we saw. Absolutely. And I'm of the same school of thought here, guys. Listen, Malik Harrison, Patrick Queen next year, as long as they can continue to develop chemistry, we've got to think they were both just rookies. As long as they can continue to develop chemistry with each other and just continue to get better on the football field, Alex said it himself, like if Patrick Queen can get better in coverage, just get his instincts a little bit better. Same thing, Malik Harrison. Those guys will be insane. You think about it right now. Our defensive line is pretty stout. We can stop the run pretty well on most occasions. Our secondary, as long as we're healthy and our secondary, we're pretty good there too. So imagine like the secondary in the defensive line being two pieces of bread. Then you have your peanut butter and jelly in the middle. That's Patrick Queen and Malik Harrison. The best part. If they can continue to get better, they're going to end up proving to be probably the best pieces of our defense, because they're going to be able to, and Patrick Queen, he can fly around the field. He can cover. When he starts to get that experience under his belt, his coverage will get a lot better. Malik Harrison is not afraid to tackle anybody. And I repeat, anybody. Derek Henry, cool. I will stand you up and I will put you down. He does not care. So that was in his rookie season. So I think coming into this year and then even next year, these guys are still so young. We're going to see, we're going to see all of what they can do. So absolutely, I don't, I don't think we should go for like a KJ Wright. Like my guy, Alex said, Shaq Berry, he played himself out of our price range. So yeah, I like what we got. You talking about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I'm over here hungry right now. The next question came from a guy, Brandon B. He said, they engraving in Purple Rain podcast. How have you and your family been? I haven't seen a question to you in a while now. Been busy with being an athlete for Special Olympics basketball. Hey, that's pretty cool. My season just ended. So not really anything else to do during this pandemic. I thought I would just send you an email on my thoughts of what the Raven should do during this off season. Here are my thoughts of how they should handle Orlando Brown, Junior, along with other free agency moves, whether via trade, free agency or the draft. All right. So he gave us two scenarios for Orlando Brown, Junior, two trade scenarios. Number one, the Ravenson Orlando Brown Junior to the Jaguars for DJ Shaq. I'm already on board. A second round pick and a third and a third round pick. Oh, that'd be a lot. So he get a receiver and a second and third round pick. I would be with that all day. Let's see the other scenario first though. He said the other Ravenson Orlando Brown Junior and a third round pick to the Vikings for Adam Thielen, a second round pick, a third round pick and a 2022 conditional second round pick that could become a first round pick depending on his performance. Me, I like the first move a lot better. What about y'all? I think me and my guys son, we're on the DJ Shaq train. It got brought up in the show one day and ever since then we've been on that. So I would, I would at 100%. I needed me some DJ Shaq and Baltimore. Yeah, man. Absolutely. Absolutely. I agree. DJ Shaq and Baltimore, we talked, like I said, we talked about it. He's a big body receiver. 6-4. 6-4. We know Lamar loves the tall receivers. If you literally look at the passer rating of the receivers when they're getting thrown the ball to by Lamar Jackson, the taller they are, the higher the passer rating. So, and you know, Mark Andrews is, I think the tallest in that receiving core as 6-5. I believe Miles Boykin is at 6-4. And Mark Andrews has the highest passer rating coming from Lamar Jackson. I think DJ Shaq, you put him in there. He's very versatile. He has short hands. You know what I mean? I think he's only getting better. He's only getting better. So I would definitely probably go with that Jags move. And a cheaper contract too, compared to my earlier. For right now, yeah. And some other moves he said, the Ravens to sign either sent to Austin Ryder or Corey Linsley. And I know there's been a lot of people who've been getting on this Corey Linsley train recently. His name been buzzing in the streets. Or the Ravens could sign outside linebacker Shaq Barrett. We talked about how we feel about that. Oh, he didn't even say or he said Ravens could sign outside linebacker Shaq Barrett and Bud Dupri. Whoa. You spent a big money, baby. And then, okay, we got a little bit cheaper, but still expensive here. Then the Ravens could sign Y receiver A.J. Green and Kenny Galladay. Okay. And then he said these free agent deals would either be one or two year deals. Okay, now I think, you know what? I think he meant to choose from those four options. So the Ravens sign either sent to Austin Ryder or Corey Linsley or they signed Shaq Barrett and Bud Dupri or A.J. Green and Kenny Galladay. So out of those three options, which one would y'all take? I would go the first one with the centers. The center? Okay. Yeah. That's a problem that we did not really get fixed all the way at all last season. And like I tell my guy Alex all the time, every place starts with the center. It does. And that's a very, very important position. So I would love to get somebody there. And then like you say, and I was watching one of your videos the other day, let's use what we have at receiver. I wouldn't mind that. You know, if we don't go out and get like a number one receiver, a big name free agent, who I want to see what dover they can do. I want to see what pro Shaq can do. I want to see what Hollywood does in his third year. And I want to see what Mark Andrews does to progress from the notion that, you know, he doesn't show up in big games. I want to see all those things from the receivers we already have. So center would be my choice. Thank you. Yeah, I got to go center too. I'm a big guy on the Tristan Cologne Castillo as well. I wish he got more opportunities, but he's on director free agent. So let's let him maybe get some pre-season games under his belt. See how he is. But if it was last year, I loved A.J. Green. I think that Bangalows tagged him and just wasted a year of his career. So I'm going to go the center option one. Okay. All right. And then last, he said the draft. The Ravens should draft either Rashad Bateman, Terrence Marshall Jr., I mean Terrence Marshall Jr., or Cadarius Tony with their first round pick. I heard Cadarius Tony got a lot of drop issues. And he said, which ones do you think are more realistic and which ones do you think are dreamers? See, I should have read the whole thing before he started answering the question. But we already answered the question anyway. He said, which ones do you agree with and which ones do you disagree with? I'd like to hear your thoughts and opinions on what the Ravens would do. Sorry, this email is quite long, making sure it covers everything. He said PS, I only wanted to do the first round of the NFL draft. Okay. I feel you on that. The dreamers would definitely be the Shag Bear and Bud Dupree. I don't even think Ravens will get either one. A.J. Green, that is very realistic. That's very Raven-like. And that's one that it just keeps you getting talked about so much. You almost feel like, oh, we're going to get a number 18 in the black and purple. And then with the center, Corey Linsley, Austin Ryder, I'm not sure what his market is right now, but Corey Linsley's market is going up. So if he hits the market, then I almost think that he may end up being too expensive for the Ravens. Oh, I do. It'd be nice to get him, but I almost feel like the Ray... But you know what? I know Sutton brought out a good point earlier about how the Ravens, they talked about the two years ago, after they got beat down by the Titans in a playoff game, they talked about how they needed to stop the run. They built the team for the Titans. Remember the Titans? They built their defensive line of monsters, Gakalaya's Campbell, Derek Wolff still had obviously Brandon Williams. And they fixed what was their biggest issue and what they did not want to have into them in the playoffs. And they got to get redemption in the playoffs using that formula. But now in the playoffs, what ended up biting them in the butt ended up being the center play. And it was bad. And it wasn't just in the playoffs. Throughout a lot of the second half of the season, it was just, it was rough. Matt Scorer, he just, he started throwing deep balls to Lamar Jackson. Then Pat McCurry, he kept up with the trend. I mean, he did go for a while, but then playoffs is like, oh man, where did this come from? So I could see them actually making a significant investment at the center position. Will it be Corey Linsley investment? I don't know. Could be that that center that the Texas has just cut. Cause you know, they love those cap cuts. They love them cap casualties because it doesn't count against the compic formula. So I would think that the Ravens would make a significant upgrade there with a veteran wide receiver, especially because they are in a win now mode. Our next question came from a guy at TMW. He said, I've been thinking about this one a little bit, but how does Julian Edelman sound for the Ravens? He is on the last year of his contract and could be a great security blanket for Lamar. What do you think about Edelman? This one for me is going to be a no, but I'll let y'all take it away. It's a no for me. Yeah. It's a resounding no for me. Listen man, Julian Edelman, he's the type of receiver, he's a very good receiver. I don't want to take anything away from him first and foremost, but he's the type of receiver that benefits from having a stellar passing attack and also a quarterback that can, you know, Tom Brady, get the ball out on time, get the ball out on point, just have the perfect chemistry and synergy. And I just feel like at this point in his career, him coming to Baltimore, he wouldn't fit in that offense. He's undersized, he's not going to block. You know, he's been banged up the past couple of seasons. Like it's just, it's not, no, not at all. Super Bowl MVP, Julian Edelman. And you know how much the Ravens love their blocking receivers. I mean, you see Harbaugh talk about it all the time. He wouldn't do it here. The next question came from a guy, Camden. And this is a little two-part question and they are exactly, well, not exactly, but they're about a month apart. His first question, and I think this question was filled with a lot of emotion and maybe some anger and whatnot because it came right after the playoff game against the Bills. He said, well, after this horrible playoff game by Lamar Jackson, I think we have to look another direction. He can't throw. What do you think? So let's move on to the next question. So, because Camden had some time to clear his head, clear his thoughts, sit down and really think about everything that he wrote. So he came back with this on a month later. He said, hey, team, keep it clean, love what you're doing, but we desperately need a wide receiver, a big physical guy for Lamar Jackson. And one guy stood out to me. His name is Tyrell Williams. He's a physical big guy who will go up and get it. What do you think? And he was just cut from the Raiders about a week ago. I believe he is very close to being healthy because he was banged up when he was there. Used to be that big play guy for the Chargers. So Tyrell Williams, that would be another Raven's move that I could see them doing something like that because, again, cap casualty doesn't count against the comic formula. Relatively young guy. What is he, 6364? But he can move. He can move. And like he did say, he goes up and gets it. So what would y'all feel about Tyrell Williams? Tyrell, I mean, I would like it. But at the same time, it's like, let's not overpay for a Tyrell Williams. I believe he was making about 11 million a year in Oakland. He was cut. I'm not sure exactly how much he would ask for from us, but I mean, I don't know. I'm kind of stuck on this one just to kind of like react to the first part of Camden's question saying that Lamar, he can't throw and we need to move on. I mean, of course, I get emotions are very high. My emotions are very high after that game as well. But you got to look at the other pieces that were missing on that offense at the time. And you know, Lamar Jackson, he didn't really have a lot of time to throw it all. Just like Patrick Mahomes in that Super Bowl we just watched. You know, didn't have a lot of time to throw. You could tell Lamar was feeling pressure even when pressure wasn't there. He was very jittery and things of that nature. And then you had guys dropping passes. You had J.K. Dobbins not converting that, you know, jeez. J.K. Dobbins, Mark Andrews dropped one. I think he dropped one coming from a Huntley, actually. Yeah. And then there was another drop. I can't remember from who, but listen, man, Lamar Jackson, he'll be fine. Now Tyrell Williams. I'm not so opposed to that, but I would rather a DJ Shark, you know, I would rather somebody else. Tyrell Williams, he's probably like maybe fourth or fifth on my wide receiver. Let's go get that guy, Totem Pole. What about you, Alex? Yeah, he's 6'4", 205, 29 years old. Yeah. I mean, played one season with the Raiders. I pulled it up here pretty average. So the Ravens are going to sign them. It's a Raven sign. I can see that happening at this point. I wouldn't love it. I like it. And that makes sense. I just think that like just real quick, is he going to be a guy that that dominates the game? Is he going to be a number one receiver that he's going to come in? He's going to totally change the look of our offense. I don't really think so. And of course, a lot of the guys who are big name, quote unquote, big name free agents out there right now, they probably wouldn't do that either. My exceptions would probably be maybe a Mike Williams. If he could stay healthy, because I mean, I just like the way he plays. You talk about a 50-50 ball. He will get it. You know what I mean? And we've seen him, you know, close games before with Justin Herbert. Tyre Williams, like you said, he's 29. He's about to be 30. I would just rather have somebody just a little bit younger, like DJ Chark. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, that's just my school of thought on it. Next question came from a guy that I know y'all are familiar with, too. It's Moteus. He said, what's up in Raven? Don't expect to see this for a couple of weeks, as I know you have more questions than grains of sand and South Beach. So chances are this will likely have happened already. He sent this on February 12th, by the way. Today is March 2nd. He said, call me crazy, but do you think it's possible we can trade Orlando Brown Jr. for two first round picks and a big body wide receiver or three first round draft picks? I know your initial reaction is probably whoa. But I have some precedents for what I think is possible. Larry Tunzel. He was PFF ranked 75.4 and Orlando Brown Jr. his PFF ranking was 76.4. So it was higher than Larry Mutunzel. But Larry Mutunzel was traded for two first round picks and counts for 19 to 21 mil against the cap. With the cap expected to dip for the first time in infinity, the needle won for a top tier player who still cheap, just skyrocketed. That's a good point. For example, the Rams traded two first round picks to offload Jericho salary. There's a $5 million cap hit in between the two. I think it's possible to assume two firsts would be for the need for a top tier tackle who's been to a pro bowl on both sides. The other first is for the fact that he's still on a rookie contract. If not three firsts, I imagine the lowest will be two first round picks, 2021 and 2022 first round picks and then a third for this year. I really think it's possible and as every day carry EDC will hold people for ransom. I think this can definitely be done. As always, blessings to you and your fam. Enjoy your vacation, whoever you went to. Alright, so could y'all see Orlando Brown Jr. getting traded for not just two, but three first round picks? Wow, I don't see that. I could see maybe two, like maybe two. But I think for them to trade, I think it would have been easier had it not been put out in the public that the Ravens are letting him see good trade and that he wants to be traded. If it was something where somebody just like really wanted to take him from the Ravens and really wanted to entice the Ravens to get them to be like, oh man, it's a really good deal. We can't refuse it. Then I think the higher, there will be higher compensation. But the fact that everybody knows that, okay, the Ravens, they're willing to trade them. You just got to give them the right deal. Then I think that makes it less likely for them to get more. I still think they can get at least a first round pick and change, but two first round picks, even maybe three, I don't think so. Yeah, yeah, totally agree. The Ravens just don't have the leverage like that when it comes to Orlando Brown. Like you said, he's already made it public that he wants out. We're pretty much going to take what we can get, but it's going to be the best offer. I think that realistically, we can probably finesse a first. Then I feel like we can probably get maybe a second, even a first and a second is stretching it, obviously. Because like you said, again, the cap is at an all-time low right now. Teams are kind of penny pension. I don't feel like they're going to necessarily, depending on different teams' needs, I don't feel like they're going to overspend. When I say overspend, I mean like give up a whole bunch of draft picks. Basically, a whole bunch of cheap labor. Because if you give up draft picks, you're basically giving up cheap labor for somebody that you're going to have to pay very soon, soon and very soon. He wants to get paid like a left tackle. Left tackles, you got to pay that premium for. We all know that. Like I said, I don't think we have the leverage to get three first round picks, not alone two, but I feel like we can get, like you said, a first and some change. Yeah. I wanted a first DJ chart and a third from the Jaguars. And I got just flamed on Twitter even wanting that. I got told I don't know what value, or in a Brown's value that. I think it's worth a first round pick, honestly. I can't see why he's not. He did it on the left and the right. And if you're going to draft Trevor Lawrence, you got to protect him. And what better than having Linda Brown Jr. when it's blindside. So yeah, I mean, I think a first chart and a third. And you know, we'll give a fifth. You know, the Ravens love trading their fifth round picks. You know, EBC loves that. I think that can get it done. So I'm definitely expecting a first for when he is traded, when the day comes. Next question came from my boy Eric C. He said, hello, absolutely love the content, especially the way it's done with Clairs. I'm facing my comment with the fact that I want Lamar Jackson to succeed. Yet if the Ravens put him in a position to succeed, receivers, coaches, linemen, etc. and his passing game does not improve. So if the Ravens do everything that they possibly can and his passing game doesn't improve, then who gets the blame? Do they blame the coaches, the receivers, the linemen, or does Lamar Jackson own full culpability for the shortcomings of the passing game? Me personally, I hear all the praise and accolades for the new coaching hires yet. I see clearly that if Lamar continues to have bad results, fans will call for their jobs. Once again, keep up the excellent content. Thanks in advance for your time. I love this question. So if Lamar's passing game doesn't improve, who will get the blame? I'll let y'all start this one off. Honestly, I think at least from me, Lamar is going to get the blame. I have to think about this objectively, as much as I want to think about it subjectively and just say I love Lamar, because I do. I do love Lamar Jackson. I think he is a phenomenal player, and I'm sure he's a great person as well, even though I don't know him personally. But if the Ravens surround him with everything that he possibly would need, we have the running backs, of course. We just got JK Dobbins, we have Gus Edwards as well. We don't know how long he'll be here. But we have really good running backs. We have receivers. If we go out and get a number one receiver on top of what we have in Mark Andrews and Hollywood Brown, and Lamar looks bad, because there's a difference between the mistakes that are made from Lamar and the mistakes that are made from the rest of the team, because you could see Lamar can throw the ball and he can get it to his receiver's hands, but if they drop it, that's not on Lamar. So it really just depends on what happens and how those plays play out, how the year plays out once we get that number one receiver. Once we get that help on the offensive line, that sort of thing. If he still can't, and another thing is too, I know I'm kind of trailing off right here, but another thing is too, if Lamar Jackson starts to develop and learn to read defenses and starts to learn how to get the ball out on time and stuff like that, I feel like we'll see a lot of progression in his game. If we don't see that sort of stuff, that's when you have to start looking at, Lamar is not the guy. If he's not getting the ball out on time, if he's not making the right decisions throwing the football, which a lot of the times he does, some of the times he doesn't, he's still a young quarterback. A lot of times he does though, if we see him make those mistakes, then it's like, okay, the blame's on Lamar. But if we see the rest of the offense, they're still dropping passes, their routes still look cheesy and just not well thought out at all, then it's like, it's not on Lamar. So it just depends on who's making those mistakes. Yeah, I gotta agree with you. I think as much as we need a receiver the line too. I think it was a play right before Lamar through that pick six against the Bills. I think it was Atari Phillips, I believe, and J. K. Dobbins missed a block. Both completely. Yep, he had Marquis Brown wide open and playoff Hollywood is a different breed. He's catching that ball as a touchdown. So I think, you know, I really want to get a receiver but we need to get that line just short up for pass protection because it's great run blocking but the pass blocking needs to improve by miles because at the quarterback, you can have the best receiver. You can have Jerry Rice out there but if your quarterback has one second to just look, he's not going to get it to him. So if he does get all the help he needs, I can see him making the next step and you can best believe that we would put the blame on Lamar National Media already has put the blame on Lamar. So you don't have to worry about that because it's already on them. Yeah, that's true and something that I've been saying too for the past like throughout this season is that I would love to see it to where Lamar Jackson has absolutely no excuses to where he has the coaching staff, they doing everything on their part the receivers, they doing everything on their part the offensive line, they doing everything on their part like just the front office too and of course Lamar Jackson but I would love to see it where he has absolutely no excuses and it's like, okay man, Ravens did everything that they possibly could for Lamar. They did the best that they like really did the best that they could for Lamar Jackson but he ain't take that next step. That's what I would love for it to be. Not that scenario but I would love to see the Ravens really go all in and really do the best that they can to provide for their young quarterback so until they do that, like there's blame to be put on both sides both Lamar Jackson and the Ravens side, the front office, the coaching staff and all that but I just, I want us to be able to get there to where we can look back and like oh yeah, Ravens really took care of this too. And speaking of Lamar, next question came from my boy Chris D. He said A. A. Big supporter here for the last two years. Appreciate it. He said hope you and the family are doing well and congratulations to your wife for the promotion. Thank you. My question, I hear so much noise about holding Lamar accountable for his play during games. Do you think the Ravens should let him take a page out of Peyton Manning's playbook and call his own plays? I believe this will keep him accountable. But also let the Ravens front office know if it was Greg Roman's play call in the whole time or if Lamar just wasn't executing. So for the book I just wrote LOL but just like Orlando Brown Jr. I'm out. Alright, so I love this question. So should the Ravens let Lamar Jackson call his own plays? Now I know Greg Roman did say that sometimes they do let him call his own audibles but the Ravens don't let him call his own plays. I would like that. I would like that if they gave him some more freedom. But it also depends on how much of the playbook he knows and remembers and recalls. Of course he'd be having the wristband on so he'd be looking at the plays on his wristband. But I would like that. I would like that because I feel like that would be part of them really trying to get the most out of Lamar just as a quarterback and the maturity of a quarterback. How about you? I love it. I definitely agree. I mean I think it would just it would show how much confidence they have in him because recently if I'm Lamar I'm like wow like I've been here I've done what I had to do I've won a playoff game and you're still not putting around me. Like I think there's definitely a little bit of like finding a lack of confidence around him so yeah let him call his plays. Not the whole game but give him a drive or two go out there and do your thing. Let's see what you can do and see what happens with it. Okay I like the way you put that. Yeah absolutely like you said not even the whole game but just like a driver too in certain situations where it's like okay we need to go down the field and score. Lamar we trust you we're gonna put the keys in your hands to go ahead and score. And you know I think like we were mentioning too the Ravens need to definitely develop more and just more sophisticated passing schemes. It also falls on Lamar Lamar needs to you know like you said in Graven he needs to learn he needs to know those different plays. You know how the kids always say oh he's in his bag you know what I mean. And by that they mean like he's in his bag of tricks. So if Lamar can develop a bag that's deep like a like you know and passing wise he can go out there and we've seen it. It was actually rumored and a lot of people don't know this. It was actually rumored I don't know if it was true or not but that Chargers game his first playoff game we were down by you know X amount of points we were down by a lot it was lots of a little they just started letting him call the plays and that's when we started marching back you know and you can see that so you know I really do think that Lamar Jackson calling the plays will be beneficial for our offense because at the end of the day you want Lamar Jackson to feel as comfortable as possible with the plays that we're running you know especially the passing plays because as much as we love Lamar Jackson we know that he is a much better runner than he is a passion we know that we do know that. So as long as you can get him comfortable passing the football you don't want to put him in situations where it's like third and eight and Greg Roman dials up a play that Lamar Jackson does not think will work you know that's not good for it's not good for our offense that's not good for Lamar so I definitely agree with um my guy Alex let Lamar give him a little bit more freedom give him a little bit more freedom you know he's going into his third year and what his only only his third season yeah third season starting like a full season right so yeah yeah he's getting more comfortable just give him the freedom man give him the keys. Last question on this episode of NFL questions from subscribers came from my boy Jonathan D and he said a engraving thank you for always keeping us updated with all NFL news and as always keep up the great work with what you do now after taking a long look at the Ravens cap situation and potential free agents what would you think or if it's even possible that the Ravens made these moves would it make sense scheme and cap wise for the Ravens as well how would you feel if they were to happen. Alright so starting off with free agency said uh Antonio Brown Ravens picked up Antonio Brown and free agents he said he can come in and be the guy and help the wide receiver room. Me I wouldn't be mad at that um I would much prefer they go after somebody younger but Antonio Brown ain't like Antonio Brown is this old banged up beat up receiver anything like that no Antonio Brown you still got it and he would definitely uh help that wide receiver I was down for getting Antonio Brown last year but Ravens of course weren't but now he's a Super Bowl champ uh so with that one I would be down for but I would rather them go other directions first but I would not feel yeah like you said I would rather see them go in different directions first before Antonio Brown Antonio Brown we know he's a great receiver um probably top 10 in the last decade uh so I mean yeah it would be cool to have him on our offense but at the end of the day I feel like with the way that our offense is designed right now of course we're a run first team right Antonio Brown is not going to get the amount of targets that I know that he wants and I get that Hollywood is his cousin and they would be playing on the same team that would be cool but if I recall correctly um Antonio Brown was definitely in a lot of trouble like this time like this time last year right you know he was in a lot of deep stuff and you know deep as the kids would say he was going around just being all wild and crazy and I don't I don't think that that would be a good veteran presence for our locker room because if we remember just last week we had a lot of people from our team who got a case of the twitter fingers you know and they took the twitter and they said a bunch of things and I don't know if Antonio Brown coming into that locker room would necessarily hope that as much it would might you know it might hurt it you know I think I feel like Antonio Brown with Tom Brady really he knows he knows Antonio Brown's like you know he knows he wants to win he knows he has passion for the game and Tom Brady's the goat so it's like anybody can get uh well Tom Brady can pretty much get anybody to act right so to say you know I'd be like listen we're gonna play football on this team but on the Ravens I just don't see that working out I just don't see it working out man and I feel like it would be a little bit too expensive as well so yeah it's a no for me as much as I would love AB I can't see it happening and just right here he played in eight games with a buck in years last year he had 62 targets he played 16 games with the Ravens I don't even think he's getting that he was sharing the room with Mike Evans Gronk Chris Godwin he still got 62 targets he's gonna win his targets and it's not gonna be here and I think he needs to be with Brady you know just keep a clean clean record you know Brady's a great mentor to him so hopefully he'll stay with him but I don't see him coming to Baltimore yeah man I just feel like if it's like third and four and Greg Roman he dials up a run play where Antonio Brown has to block on the outside and we don't convert that third down Antonio Brown's gonna be mad he's gonna be very mad and you know I just don't think it'll be good in the long run you know what is something that you mentioned earlier it's kind of funny but it would maybe kind of scary too if there were some situations like that where there was third and five and the offense called up a plate that just it didn't involve him whatsoever he didn't get opportunities to make the conversion or he might not have even been on the field if Hollywood who's under contract for years with the Ravens if he was willing to call out Greg Roman and he's only a third-year player I mean second-year player second-year player it's even younger just thinking about Antonio Brown he we saw there's Brian we saw Willie Snead I think about Antonio Brown and just his history I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem calling out Greg Roman either oh no issues no heartbeat it would be a lot more because it's Antonio Brown thankfully the guys who caught him out weren't as big compared to Antonio Brown so it didn't really get recognized by the national media but imagine if it's AB doing it that's true that's true but I'll still be down for him to come alright next, Trey Burton tight end to come in and be that third-string receiving tight end it'll be cool if that feels healthy and it feels for the right price how about y'all how old is Trey Burton let's see right now maybe I don't know if I'm going to get to it first or sudden Trey Burton in 29 yep he's not old I know he's being banged up a little bit but like I said if for the right price feels cheap nothing crazy he can stretch the field but not sounding to anything crazy nothing crazy definitely don't want to overpay didn't we just re-sign Eric Tomlinson we're holding on to him yeah it would be nice I would rather see his draft a guy that's just my thinking I feel like we can definitely draft tight ends we can't really draft receivers all that well but tight ends we hear with it with tight ends so I'd rather do tight ends exactly I mean if in Joku gets cut by the Browns I'd be all over that I'd love to do next up Desmond King he said with Tavon Young recovering in his history he could come in and be that slot guy I remember when who traded for him tight ends tight ends oh that's okay but it was something crazy low it was like a fifth it was something crazy low yeah like a fifth Desmond King I would love him yes he could come in and be the slot guy but I do not see the Ravens investing that money into yet another secondary player because they Ravens they definitely paying for that secondary Marcus Peters Marlin Humphrey Chuck Clark got his extension a couple years ago Tavon Young Jimmy Smith is cheap obviously and then even Marshall rookie deal fourth round pick rookie deal so super cheap and then still paying for Earl Thomas right now we'll see what happens with that whole grievance but the Ravens they paying for that secondary but I don't see them investing a super big chunk of change into an additional player for the secondary so I think they continue to since they got Jimmy for cheap and still got MP who can play both play on the outside I still think they will continue using Marlin Humphrey in a slot I think they are going to save on history or pieces of which hopefully it doesn't hopefully he can be healthy stay healthy and stay on the field but no I don't think Desmond King will be one that would be happening I wish I would I mean Tavon Young is one of my favorite Ravens when healthy he is a playmaker can we just play with another full which is healthy using out of him that's all I'm asking for because he's going to get you three touchdowns defensively QB Precious I can't speak much on him or I can't really speak anything about him because I haven't watched his place not a name that I'm familiar with so I can't really say and he also listed Marcus Golden who used to play for the Giants but then he got traded to the Cardinals I believe say five sacks 20 QB Precious with Ravens not bringing back in Gakue or Judon these two will give the same production just at a lower cost. I think for defensive end outside linebacker I do think yeah Judon and then Gakue are gone and Bowser maybe maybe coming back but I can see him being going too but I think they go on the route of Pernel McPhee G-Hard Ward and of course Matt Abique he's an interior exterior guy but the draft I think they look for guys that can bring pressure through the middle. So I mean yeah man I definitely think that we go young at the position if you watch Eric DeCosta's interview following the season he said that this year out of pretty much like all years like quarterbacks were getting the ball out very very fast you know so going younger at the position and naturally makes sense you know it's cheaper you know sometimes those guys are even just more explosive because they are younger you know just coming out of college those fresh legs and everything so I definitely think we go younger and we drafted that position or like you said we go with our G-Hard Ward and everybody else that we have on that line so yeah yeah hashtag free hatty you know I think he definitely deserves a full 16 games yep they're the crowd celebration there we go. And now he listed some free agents that the Ravens could resign so keeping their own guys you mentioned Tyus Bowser we just talked about he did mention G-Hard Ward we just talked about him too and also Derek Wolf that's another one too I would be I wouldn't be mad if they kept on three of these guys and he said for depth in the front seven and of course stopping the run. Alright so we just talked about that now for restructuring to gain some cap space but push the deals push a lot of money on the deals back a bit and these have been two names that a lot of people have been talking about as possible restructures and that would be a Brandon Williams and a Marcus Peters. Real quick with the restructuring I am not a big fan of I would say this should be a last last last resort if you just know that there's somebody that you're trying to get or somebody that you're trying to sign in you just absolutely have no other way to get the cap space then I'd say do it but this can really mess you up in the future when you keep pushing all this money back you're like okay I'll deal with it later on down the road but yeah for me that would be a last resort type of thing what about y'all. Yeah I agree with you the whole restructuring thing I don't want to like you said just you can bite us in the butt you don't know who's gonna be available somebody can get cut and you really want to get them it's like oh I have no cap space and I see Brandon Williams Dan getting brought up a lot I think we got to do whatever we can to keep him because he's so underrated like just he's such a crucial part of that defense and you see when he's out the defense looks high school comical like just we get ran all over yeah job Eric Henry against me and I think it was like week nine or something when he so yeah I mean I'm down for each time on those guys especially Derek Wolf I would I need him back in black and purple next year. Marcus Peters too Marcus Peters too I mean like I think he's leading in interceptions in the last like what three seasons three or four seasons yeah yeah so I mean he's a huge playmaker he's sealed the game against the Titans who knows what could have happened in that game if had he not made that interceptions like he's he's definitely an unsung hero when it comes to the Ravens I know everybody you know preaches the praises of Marlon Humphrey and as they should but not Marlon Humphrey but Marcus Peters he makes those plays man he makes those plays so I would definitely want to see us re-sign him definitely bring him back yeah so now as far as a trade oh whoa okay that one threw me off he said Orlando Brown and Chuck Clark and a fourth and fifth round pick to the Colts from a leak hooker and a second round pick I don't like anything about that trade if that was the trade then I would just say keep Orlando Brown Junior we got robbed yeah that's very rare yeah yeah I wouldn't even mess with that and he said well he also said through the draft with the free agent acquisitions and re-signings and trades going through and as well as all positions being accounted for except offensive line rounds one two pick from the Colts another round two pick we're a third round pick and a fifth round pick all on a pro ready offensive line so he's saying built through the draft so what do you think do you see one or even all these moves being realistic I yeah yeah we as you heard we wouldn't say all of them realistic some of them know which move would you like to see happen and for me I think all of these moves will work and help the Ravens once again thank you for the great content and keep it up appreciated Jonathan so yeah a lot of them were realistic the ones early on but then I think I'm toward the very end you start getting a little excited uh he had your GM head on he ain't want to take it off and he said you know what Orlando Brown Chuck Lock fourth and fifth round pick from League Hook in the second that was the only one that's the only one I would tell you to take that GM head off for but the rest they do seem pretty realistic