 Is that saying that absence makes the heart grow founder? Well, for some Ravens fans with Lamar Jackson, that has been the case in his absence. Their heart has grown founder of Lamar and other Ravens fans. They just been like, you know what is what it is and that's what it's going to be. So in this first comment, not even really a question is comment, statement, claim, take whatever you want to call it from a Ravens fan. He has some powerful words directed at the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Before we get into it, I got to give a special shout out to the newest team, keeping clean patron, my guy, Emerson. Now we get into this first comment. It came from my guy, Kevin, who is a team keeping clean patron. So I appreciate you being one for about a month. So thank you for that. Now he said, this is what I'll say. I love Lamar. He got knocked out three years ago against Buffalo. Miss December, the last two seasons. At some point, you have to realize you're not bigger than the Ravens. We will be the Ravens with or without you. I love Lamar, but yeah. Y'all know what we always say. When people say that, you know what's going on. But anyway, I love Lamar, but no player can stop what we've built. We run the ball, play defense, and that's where the money goes. Period. Oh, I just let's just break it down. Let's get right into it piece by piece. So I love Lamar knocked out. He got knocked out the past three years or yeah, three years against Buffalo. Mr. Pass to December's. So why did he get knocked out? He offensive line was all offensive line issues. So many people love to do the whole Lamar, he runs so much so he's going to get hurt running. Nope, that wasn't what it was. And you didn't say that it was that, but I just had to address that. But it was all offensive line stuff. Buffalo, it was Pat McCary, wanting to play quarterback and acting like Lamar was a receiver, throwing a ball over his head. Twenty twenty one. It was offensive line, just letting Jock straight through. And then he got Lamar sort of twists his ankle a little bit. And then twenty twenty two, it was Oh, the I think it was a backup tight end like blocking a DN, just let him right pass. And he just walloped Lamar. So but anyway, he said, at some point, you have to realize you're not bigger than the Ravens. Well, Lamar Jackson with like six, three, six, two, six, three, like two, twenty, so that one man alone versus just fifty two other men on the roster. Yeah, he not bigger than them. And then you got like 16 on a practice squad. But I know you're not talking about literally talking about figuratively, which I get it, I just had to throw in a little dad joke. Just to loosen you up a little bit. Now, you're not you got to realize you're not bigger than the Ravens. If you went to ESPN, FS one NFL Network and any of these sports talk shows, do you think a segment do you think a segment that talked about the Baltimore Ravens would bring in more ratings or a segment that talked about Lamar Jackson? That's that's up to you that you only you could decide that you just let me know what you think. But but I think you are talking more figuratively. He's not bigger than the team. No one man is bigger than the team. And yeah, it's it's a team game. It's a team effort. It takes everybody. But at the same time, one man can change the trajectory of an entire franchise. And that's exactly what Lamar Jackson did. As we all know, as we all know, like you could say this and that and you could say whatever you want about them. But every not even just Ravens fan knows, but everybody knows Lamar Jackson changed the direction that the Baltimore Ravens were headed. And that's clear as day. Yeah, they in the playoffs, they got to be better. They got to be better. But he certainly changed everything about how the Ravens were operated. But anyway, he said he said, we will be the Ravens with or without you. You're right. Ain't no arguments there. They will be the Ravens without Lamar. They have been the Ravens without without Lamar Jackson. Only way they wouldn't be the Ravens with it would they be would be if they change your name. That would be it. But they certainly be the Ravens. They would they would have their same philosophy. Well, as long as hardballs in charge, they will have that same philosophy. I've been hoping that they would upgrade that philosophy a bit. But hey, it is what it is. But yes, that that part is true. And that I mean, whether good or bad, they will still be the Ravens. So you spot on about that. He said, I love Lamar, but no player can stop what we've built. We run the ball, play defense, and that's where the money goes. Period. Oh, I love that last part because it was so true. He said, that's where the money goes. Period. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. You see, Marcus Williams. Oh, that boy got his bread and he's been worth it. He had been great for the Ravens this year. Oh, man, I just imagine like if he wouldn't have got hurt with his wrist injury. Oh, man. You see, Roquan Smith, he just got paid. He been here since what week nine, I think. No, before week nine, because the trade deadline is week eight, but he got paid. So Ravens took care of him. You see, obviously, Marcus Peters, Marlon Humphrey. Um, they put the first round draft pick for Kyle Hamilton. They also did for Ty Linderbaum, too. But more so money. Let's talk money. Money, Kaleas, came here, making a significant amount of money. That's where a lot of the Ravens, their money goes on defense, on offense. Mark Andrews got paid. So that was nice. Tight end. Ronnie Stanley, he got paid. Who else? I think that's pretty much it. When it comes to like virus, evens and stuff, Ravens, we ain't got it. Oh, Hollywood, what? You buy it. You can get traded when we're going to go shopping there. Oh, Sammy Walker, one year, six million dollar deal, five million. Guarantee the markets, Robinson, a little one one year deal. Chief, I think it's something super low. It's been really sneeze. I mean, just I'm just thinking over the years. But like you said, we run the ball, play defense, and that's where the money goes, period. So, yeah, yeah, you you were right. I can't argue that last part at all. Next question came from another team keeping clean patron. My guy, LaKendrick, he'd been a patron for about a month. So I appreciate that. He said, what's up in the team keeping clean? This is no question per se. Just a rant. This is the night before the week 18 finale. Oh, oh, he said, I've come to the conclusion. Ravens got to pay up to keep Lamar. No if ands or buts. They shelved his career and potential the last couple of years by not providing for him adequately. They are the reason majority of why he is hurt. Yes, I'm putting it all on them. They bargain been him with the weapons placed around him. Wow, we're just literally talking about that. But anyway, he said he has proven his worth. No sense in trying to have him come back at this point. I say continue to have Lamar out of play the rest of the season, especially with the bargain offense they built for him. Oh, and he put built for him in quotation. Just so you know, it's not really built for him. It's built for them. Anyway, he said, and see where it lands for this year. In the playoffs or not, I don't want to see Lamar injure himself any more than he is already. Ravens just have to bite the bullet and pay up, let the philosophy they have going go. Say the heck with those picks and get that guy at wire receiver and value the position. Change coaching and start fresh next season. Oh, yeah, you know that ain't happening. But anyway, he said, yeah, we in, but no reason for Lamar is for the injury. Ravens just got to take what they can get out of the rest of the season without Lamar at this point. They might not have a choice. It's looking like they might not have a choice. Hopefully after this week, we can be talking about the Ravens going into next week in the playoffs too. But let's see, let's see. He said all these reports saying he might be trying to sit out because of contract. So if I'm him, I'd be like, well, all the reports of this bargain offense they have me behind wire receivers not taking anything from the unseasoned guys. They painted him in a negative light. I can't stand it. He's proven himself. I stand by, don't take the field today, backing up the Brinks truck with DHOP or some proven wire receiver driving him. I feel better now, LOL, that I got this off my chest in Graven State, bless big bro. I appreciate you, man. I'm glad you got to get it off your chest too, my friend. Yeah, I mean, again, Lamar, it seemed like he was endorsing the Jim Trotter comment when he was saying that it's not about the contract. It's really about the injury. But still, like, yeah, it's not looking like he's even gonna be out there. We were led to believe that this injury was a lot more minor from jump and it wasn't. So that's why I just, with all the fans, I remember so many saying, oh man, this reminds me of last year, from beginning. So many Ravens fans said that when Lamar first went out and Hobbs first talked about the injury, so many Ravens said, oh man, this reminds me of last season. This reminds me of last year. When Lamar, they said it was a week-to-week injury. They said, oh, it wasn't nothing crazy. He never played another snap again for the rest of the year. So it's eerily similar, hopefully though. This season, I mean, it already hasn't ended like last season because we missed the playoffs last year, made it this year. But hopefully they can just make some miracles happen. Next question came from another Team Keep It Clean patron, my god, King Terrence. He said, first off, how are you and the fam doing? We're doing really good. I appreciate that. He said, second, I was wondering, how would you feel if Lamar decided not to come back and play in the playoffs because of the contract situation? Me personally, wouldn't be mad at him. Thanks for the content, my god, keep up the work. This has been a topic of conversation. And again, like we just said, it seemed like Lamar was really endorsing what Jim Trotter said about the fact that it's not about the contract. But if it was, if he was like, you know what, I'm not gonna play through this injury and because I'm not paid yet, that wouldn't even be a negotiation. That would just be like, look, I'm not paid, so why force myself out here? And I would just be like, okay, okay. As a fan, because I see a lot of fans, oh man, it's a PCL and he can play through that. He needs to get out there on the field, buddy. Get out there and play, man. I wanna see a lot of fans saying that stuff. But then when you think about the long term, yeah, you think about the long term. Think about it, if you were at your job and you were making like bare minimum, you were making bare minimum, but you're supposed to be paid up there with a lot of the top guys and you might be sick or something. You're sick, you're really sick. And your job is like, oh, you're making bare minimum, even though you're supposed to be paid with these top guys, you need to still come in. You need to still come in, even though you're sick, you're gonna force yourself to come in even though you're making a bare minimum. That's the best way I could put it for you. But yeah, that's that. So yeah, I would be better. I'll get the business out. Wow, next question came from my guy, Nick Brick, who's been a patron for two years. I appreciate you said playoffs. It's been a long season, but I'll be sad when it's over. So I'm gonna enjoy it no matter what. Exactly, I agree, 1,000%. I wanted to ask a quick question about good old G-Roll. Obviously last week, they were keeping the offense very vanilla and simple, no QB runs, double fake screen versus all the 45 fake jet sweeps. Between what we've seen in the pre-season, what we saw yesterday, I kinda like this offense better. It was rough at times, but they moved the ball well. Guys were getting open and they didn't make every single play look so difficult. With that being said, am I trippin' for one and Greg Roman to actually put plays back in the vault and just play this version of the offense with our best guys? I feel like with the offense last week against the Bengals, yeah, they were moving. They just, there were a lot of opportunity that they just straight up missed. There were drops and drops and drops. There were some bad throws by Anthony Brown. There was an interception. There was a drop that led to an interception. There was the lack of awareness on that fumble in the end zone. But I mean, Ronnie Stanley just got beat from jump. So it's tough. Like what can you really do? Could you try to push the ball downfield but you ain't got no time because your franchise left tackle just got dog from beginning. So, but overall, like, yeah, the offense, that's what I say. If I'm the Ravens, I want them to start Anthony Brown over Tyler Huntley for the playoff game. I know it's risky, but I mean, starting Tyler Huntley be risky. I know some people be like, oh well, Anthony Browner ain't got no experience. He doesn't. Tyler Huntley got about what a quarter, a quarter and a half, something like that, a playoff experience. I forgot what quarter Lamar got knocked out in the Buffalo game. I mean, yeah, I would just do it, man. And the thing about it, I feel like the Ravens offense last week against the Bengals, they didn't even put everything out. Well, they didn't even do everything that they could possibly do because they had a lot of guys sitting like J.K. Mark Andrews, Kevin Zyla. But then at the same time, Anthony Brown didn't run. I don't remember him running like taking off not once. If he did, I don't remember, but he wasn't, and if he did, it wasn't like that. Like this dude was not running the ball, like at all. He was not running. So if you can add, if you add that element to the offense, don't take off a little bit. And it's like, oh, okay, we got just another little wrinkle in here. I think it gives you a better opportunity against Sency. Next question came from my guy, Nova, who's been a patron for four months. I appreciate it, man. He said, I just saw the question from subscriber video that has someone blaming the owner, Steve Vashati, for this ineptitude. I had planned to write a novel, spoiler. I did the novel anyway. During blame to him, but he answered so well. I feel like I just need to double down as well as a cynical resolution to the Lamar situation. All right, here we go. Get a little more comfortable because I saw all the paragraphs in this one and it's gonna be a long way. Anyway, he said, so no matter who you blame for the Ravens' fault, the players Lamar, Roman McDonnell, Harbaugh, EDC, this all points back to Steve and why our team is so underwhelming. I'm convinced Steve has three pleasures, watching the 2000 Ravens highlights, saving money and losing close. As an owner, you have the checkbook which dictates so much, so the fact that you are okay with this mediocrity means you don't have any intentions of building a championship team. So yeah, like we talked about before, and I know a lot of people don't like hearing that but it's the truth. Owners, their biggest thing is to make money. That's it. Their biggest thing is not to win championships, not to get Super Bowls. I mean, those are nice, obviously, but their biggest thing, if they're making money, they're happy and these owners are making a lot of money. And especially if you're franchise, even if you have a losing franchise, you're making money. But if you have a franchise like the Ravens who's winning, yeah, they won two Super Bowls a while back, but they've been competitive so they've been in a thicker thing, getting in prime time games, selling a bunch of merch and stuff like that, getting a lot of buzz around the league all the time, you're getting attention to the team, you're making money. You're making money. So we as fans, we want our team to win a Super Bowl all the time and be to go all out, but owners are like, hey, if we're making money, we're straight. And Bishadi said it himself. He was like, what do you say? Consistency is better than being great. He said something like really, really, really extremely close to that. And when he was talking about John Hardball, watch the episode of the Marlon Humphrey thing where he was interviewing Steve Bishadi. And he was talking about Hardball. So you can see exactly what he said. But anyway, he said, to bring it home, I'll just explain what Steve accepts within the team. EDC isn't Howie Roseman, but come on. You have big shoes to feel following Ozzie's footsteps, but the assumption is you learn from mistakes, not double down on them. Unlike Ozzie who has some hits in drafts and free agency, but couldn't get adequate receivers, EDC doesn't get wide receivers or any outstanding picks and the free agents have been okay or meh. But of course this won't change as long as you GM, as long as you're GM too. But of course this won't change as long as you GM to lose like Steve tolerates. Oh, as long as you GM to lose. Oh, wow, that's powerful. He said, next we have Hardball who is our accountability dodgeball champion. Hardball is a great coach, but when will some heat be put on his chair? In order for him to start coaching and let supervision of your coordinators. Now as head coach, you have the ability to intervene if a coordinator is having a bad day. So hearing these press conferences or you direct bling to your coordinators and give post-game reactions rather than in-game proactive changes is inexcusable. I absolutely love that part. I love that part. That's the same thing we talked about like a week or two weeks ago. Because yes, he does that a lot. Where they talk about, oh man, well, if we look back we probably should have done this. But it's like, hold up, y'all were in the game. Y'all were watching this happen and y'all didn't do it. But anyway, he said, but of course this won't change as long as you coach to lose close like Steve tolerates. For McDonald, I can't blame, I can't blast him as much as it's his first year but Roman has no lifelines. No way you're an offensive coordinator but only have success in your first season. All of the successful coordinators make schemes to compliment their stars but they can adjust as things happen. Meanwhile, Roman schemes to contradict his stars and McDonald doesn't close doors on games and adjust as much. But of course this won't change as long as you scheme to lose close like Steve tolerates. Yeah, cause not putting guys in positions who had the best success that they possibly can. We've seen it a lot. I think you got my point of view. But let's get to my other point. What would the Ravens do about Lamar? Let me know how probable you see this happening. Baltimore trades Lamar to Chicago for Justin Fields, Eddie Jackson in the 2023, third, fourth and 2024, first and third. You can adjust the draft capital but this is something I'd expect them to pull. Man. Initially when you say that, like initially it sounds crazy. Like trading Lamar for Justin Fields but then you mentioned a defensive player too but that's an Eddie Jackson of safety though, right? They already got Kyle Hamilton, Marcus William but it would be added more to the defense and you know the Ravens. But just the Lamar Jackson and Justin Fields part. Let's keep reading though. He said, Eddie Jackson will replace Chuck Clark. I get, oh, see I should have kept reading. He said, I get it, we have Hamilton and Williams but the Ravens like having safety depth and Eddie is definitely nice. This team opens the floodgates for defense so while this doesn't have much logic it's a move Baltimore would do. Fields works because it allows Roman to get his extension and justify Steve Payne-Rochwan and getting some 2012 MVP wide receivers and free agencies. Alas with Fields on the rookie deal it buys time for Steve to be downgrade on offense but hey, we have money left over to get us a lineback and free agency rather than address the holes we have. Oh man, this hurt my heart reading it because like I said, initially it sounds crazy but then when you really think about it then that's the part you mentioned it about Justin Fields being on his rookie deal and Justin Fields being a quarterback that could take off too. It's kind of sad man. I don't think it will happen but it's not as far fetched as initially you would think. Anyway, he said for Chicago the new coaching staff may not have seen enough to like Fields and with all that cap room they can afford Lamar. With the number one pick they could trade to an NFC South team for extra picks and players since they're thirsty for a good quarterback given Lamar some additional personnel to work with maybe even wire receiver. He's not used to having wire receivers and the defense that won't do him any favors all familiar things. Oof, boy Nova ain't playing man. In Chicago would have no major quarterback contender in the division once Rogers leaves. I mean, even with Rogers it's been rough this year but anyway, while I don't believe they would do this trade the uncertainty we know this shows this is some type of move they would consider. Why? Because losing closest was Steve tolerates and he will find out that one owner won't do another one wheel. He will come out saying they were close to getting Lamar what he asked for but they couldn't agree on guaranteed money. Meanwhile, about seven other owners won't care about any of that and are waiting for Lamar to be available so they can recruit him. We shall see though. Thank you for all you do. I wish you and the other members well this year. Oh man, yeah that was powerful man. I am, and like I said, initially when I first started reading Justin Fields for Lamar, well that sounds crazy but then when you break it down and really think about it and think about how the Ravens have operated it don't sound so far fetched. Yeah this feels like a dream and you know just what I mean You two team keep it clean You see my boy, he like automated Well that's my homie, ain't that right in Ravens? Team keep it clean, welcome to another episode of questions from cells where you can ask any question you want to and we answer in a video like this. If you want to be a part of it for the team keep it clean patrons you can send your question directly on Patreon. For everybody else if you want to be a part of it you can send an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com. Don't send it anywhere else. They say if you send it anywhere else your question will be, it won't be. That's it, it just won't be. You won't see it, it won't see the light of day. But anyway, next question came from another team keeping clean patron, my guy Plex. He said, the grass isn't always purpler on the other side. You made a good point during the live stream. Someone in the chat mentioned how we could have drafted some player. I can't remember who and you basically said there's no guarantee that they will be the same player. Oh yeah, we in this live stream we were talking about Stefan Diggs and Cooper Cup. And I think maybe somebody might have brought up Justin Jefferson too but it was mainly about Stefan Diggs and Cooper Cup and I was saying like, yeah, those guys are who they are. They're nice, excellent wide receivers, great wide receivers. But if the Ravens would have drafted them they would not be nice. They wouldn't. They would not have been nice because that's just how the Ravens are. They don't bring the most out of wide receivers like that. But anyway, he said that's something that I think about all the time. Being drafted to the right team, that's so important. That's so important, man. And it can change everything about your career in a good way or a bad way. He said being in the right system and being surrounded by coaches that can develop players is extremely important. Man, yeah, 1,000%. It's easy to say we could have drafted Amonra, St. Brown, over Brandon Stevens. Would Amonra still be the sun god who he had been eclipsed by the system? He said fans say we should have taken DK or AJ over Hollywood. DK would have been Miles Perryman for us. Hold up, don't do my guys like that. AJ would have been good, but he would have wanted to... But we wouldn't have wanted to pay him and he would have been traded. Yeah, I don't think he would have been as good as he was with Tennessee, but I think he would have been straight though. I think he would have been straight. The same thing that happened to him in Tennessee. At receiver, I see no positive outcomes with players we could have taken. Yeah, that's very, very powerful right there. But it's true. It's all about being at the right place right time. Our next question came from another team, keeping clean, Patreon. My guy, Mario, has been in Patreon for four months, so I appreciate it. Now, his first question came on January 6th. This was from the Steelers game, I believe. He said, hey fam, just wanted to check in with you and let you know I went to the game and it was amazing, bro, but something I noticed when players get traded or end up leaving the program, the media team is usually on board and they know what's going on. At the game, not once did they show their MVP quarterback on the jumbo try-in, but they kept showing Kalleus Campbell. He said also, well, I mean, they had the little card that they made after, what was that game that they won on the 24th? Who do they play? Was it the Falcons? And Lamar wasn't on there, but I know some people were like, oh, well, he didn't play, so that's why he wasn't on the card. Okay, cool. Some people are like, oh, y'all are looking too into it. And we ain't seen the Lamar Steel play since. But then we'll see what happens this off-season. But yeah, there has been a lot of subliminal stuff. It's been a lot of subliminal stuff with the Ravens, with the media. I mean, y'all saw Roquan's presser yesterday. I said, ooh, ooh, ooh, Roquan, they paid you so they got you talking, huh? They ain't got you talking, but I was like, whoa. But anyway, this is still also from January 6th. He said, also, how isn't Lamar up for the do-it-all award that the Ravens are having us vote for? I don't know how you don't class him as someone who does it all. We are horrible without him. This thing has gotten ugly and I'm tired of hearing the media say that the Ravens are a class company when they are obviously showing otherwise. Harbour has been throwing subliminal in the media and I would love to have Sean Payton as our new head coach to elevate Lamar. Michael Vick talked about how Andy Reed elevated his career. I think it's time for an offensive minded guru. Let me know what you think about that. Oh, well, yeah, with Sean Payton, it'd be cool, but Ravens aren't giving up draft picks to get a coach. Ravens would never do that. How much they love draft picks? They would never. Now, this next question is from January 11th. He said, man, I hope all is well, my guy. What do you think about the Ravens teaming up? Lamar with an offensive guru like Eric Biennemy or Sean Payton or even Sean McVate. So with the two showings, you got to trade draft picks to get either one of them. Eric Biennemy, I would not be mad at that at all. He said, with this bingles game coming up, I feel like if Lamar was paid, he would play, but it will still be hard for him to thrive in an offense that is run first. We need to open up the passing game because it also allows Lamar to not use his legs as much. Preserve the man for the future with the structure of the offense and start investing more into that offensive line. Preserve him for the future. Yes. You see how they did Lamar? You see how they did Tyler Huntley? Like literally like running this man into the defense, like literally right into the defense. Over and over and over and over and over. Coincidence that his throwing arm is hurting now? You tell me. But anyway, oh, and the last thing, I think it's funny that bingles are mad about Uncle Rowe. I play college football and that's all psychological warfare. Things like knocking the ball out of the player's hands when the player's overrolled over into the next game and gives you a defense, bully energy, believe it or not. That's what we need. Let me know what you think, man. LOL, I'm out now, brother. Appreciate you, Mike. And hey, yeah, that's right. That's, I was telling somebody, I was having a conversation with somebody. I forgot who it was, but I was telling them like, man, like the Ravens are already in the bingles heads right now. They're in their heads right now. Say, oh yeah, Ravens played dirty. Yeah, we got something for that. And da da da da da da. I was like, okay, what? Yeah, Ravens are, if that's what they were trying to get, they got it. Next question came from another Team Kibbit Clean patron, my guy, Lord Valley. He said, what's up? Playoffs is here. Looking at the last game highlights, yeah, we had four turnovers, but we heard ourselves on defense and it's the little mistakes that hurt us bad. It's true, it's true them turnovers. So first round we made JB look like Eli Manning that's given 11 yards sack on second and eight. Next we have Hearst looking like Jamar on third and three catch. Fast forward, Kyle Hamilton came in too fast and missed the eight yard sack on the 50, on third and 10 over pursuing, resulted in a 20 yard pass to Boyd in it in the mix and touchdown. Next we had the Hilton interception ending in a chase touchdown, Marcell on Worley. Next we go fail the fourth down on bingles 26 yard line. Could have been three, 17. Then the fumble touchdown. We get the fumble turnover in the eight, Roman called three passes and no run. So now we could have had 17, but it's 10, 24 in the third quarter. And then your boy sent me fumble. So yeah, I'm not worried about Sunday night going for a strong win, even without Lamar. Yeah, you brought up some, yeah, I mean, you brought up all the highlights, but or really the low lights for the Ravens. The turnovers just killed him straight up. He's the only thing I realized in game one is the Roman has a lot of rollout plays for Lamar, which kept the defense stagnant, eating clock with dump offs on an injury and injured Dobbins. And remember there was no Roquan in that night game. So I expect a huge game from him with that honey bun in the bank. So Huntley a brown, we can get it done. Brown. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Got him made it. Wood at Raven. Right at Raven. Shout out to Raven.