 have somebody that you know and they have just this great talk game but that talk game they use it to appeal to whoever they're speaking to in the moment but it can change based off of who they're having a conversation with or who they're having a conversation about because they may say just anything that they think you want to hear in that moment but when it comes to them actually being real about their word they aren't and this kind of reminds me of Gregory, Gregory Roman the Ravens offensive coordinator and the reason I say that is because it just reminded me let's take you back to 2019 I remember a lot of Ravens fans that they were having a conversation and again this this wasn't a being a prisoner of the moment of the Ravens doing good or bad because they were 14 and 2 they were in the middle of a 12 game winning streak so a lot of Ravens fans were thinking oh man these Ravens come playoff time oh they not showing us everything now come playoff time oh just imagine because the Ravens they started sprinkling little things in here and there and we were thinking oh man are they saving plays for the playoffs or Greg Roman is this offense saving plays for the playoffs and the reason that a lot of us thought that was because we saw things like the Heisman package Lamar Jackson RG3 Mark Ingram all on the field at the same time and it was like whoa where that come from and then I remember in the Bills game it was right before halftime it was looking like all right Ravens just about the near the ball let's go to halftime but Ravens did a fake kneel and they they snapped it to Justice Hill and he took off got a nice little chunky y'all it's obviously didn't get a touchdown but still and when we saw stuff like that a lot of us would think it oh man this offense they've been crazy good doing this streak just imagine what they got stored up they ain't even showing us everything yet man and then the playoffs came in yeah we remember what happened but then on top of that we go back to last year this Ravens offense they start off very past happy there's some open lanes Lamar's not taking them they are just past happy Ravens team they force-feeding all of they running back say like you get a carry you get a carry you get a carry even though you're hot we're gonna cool you off buddy go give the carry to somebody else so at the beginning of the season the offense was just it was a question mark it had a lot of us scratching our head and then Greg Roman said hey we are going to forge a new identity forging a new identity let's get baby and then we were like okay he said we're gonna forge a new identity let's do it all right Ravens flock let's go what happened what where was that new identity because we sure didn't see it so that's why with this with this quote with him saying this that's like I just don't believe you Gregory and I'm not calling for him to get fired I'm not calling for him to get demoted like a lot of y'all a lot of y'all man he needs to go back to run game coordinator but I'm just saying I just I don't believe it based off of what we've seen in the past now of course we've had so many questions from subscribers y'all have been on it from jump I remember when we unfortunately first lost Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins a lot of y'all were on it y'all sent the question from subscriber talking about the Ravens using Devin Duvenay in the backfield using him like a scat back using him to just come out of the backfield and make some stuff happen we already knew he was a jet sweep king because Greg Roman has let us know that plenty of time based off of the use of Devin Duvenay even from last year but just to see him involved more I've been starting to call him Debo Duvenay to see if they could use him like the 49ers use Debo Samuels sort of like the Falcons use a Cordero Patterson he's obviously much different body type than Duvenay but you get the point to just use him in different ways he's been involved in offense a lot this year he's been out there wide received a lot and of course again the jet sweeps you know again jet sweep king give him his crown even though he already got it so y'all have been on that been on it but Greg Roman was asked about it today about using Devin Duvenay more out of the backfield and his response was we have a we have a ton of stuff sitting in the vault whether or not we choose to unlock the vault it's a long season I like to space things out I can't man I can't I hope that I can be proven all the way around I hope I can't I would love this I would love to I would love for people to come back and say oh engraving see you thought Greg Roman was lying you were wrong okay you think I'm gonna be mad at that but my expectations they already are tempered they're already set and they've already been lowered based off of things that we've seen in the past I know a lot of people they will get upset despite the Ravens being eight and three that we will continue to talk about the coordinating of these games they'd be like man what the why you guys complaining you're eight and three what's wrong with Greg Roman what's wrong with wink martindale mind what's going on mind why are you complaining and it's like whoa are you watching the games eight and three great and for the this team to have overcome everything to be eight and three is wonderful but the thing that we were complaining about even though it's just being real it's not complaining at all but the thing that we were bringing out and mentioning is patterns it's patterns stuff that we see on a repeated basis stuff that we see constantly and consistently that are problems and even though the Ravens have overcome these problems if the Ravens address these problems a lot earlier in games a lot earlier in the season then they may be sitting even prettier right now but again they have these problems and and we'll take the eight and three all day atop the afc will take that all day oh we love that we definitely appreciate that that's amazing but we still gotta see this team for who they are and they have problems now somebody talked to me they said oh we engraving well but every single team got problems yes of course that's why nobody's undefeated because they all have problems but with the Ravens problem since we focus about 98 percent on the Ravens that's why we call them out that much more that's why we address them that much more because we know if the Ravens continue those same problems if they don't clean up them problems then they're gonna get cleaned up right out of the playoffs asap and we just don't want that to happen but with Greg Roman with him saying that he got some stuff in the vault oh man i would love to see that vault and i would love to see it opened up now one thing i know a lot of people they there's a lot of different conversations that can be had about this when it comes to saving plays for later on in the season so saving plays for potential playoffs um now one side is like hey you can't show your hand in the regular season you you just that's that will be foolish why would you show them everything that you're gonna do you can't put everything out on a table like that and i can understand that but i'm leaning on the other side a bit more there because i feel like hey not that you got to show everything but you don't you want to make it to the playoffs don't don't you want to be there and so if you want to make it to the playoffs hey you got to sprinkle some stuff in yeah you you really got it like this often and especially the the state of the offense that where they're at i feel like um it's just been a mix of a lot it's been a mix of Greg Roman being a problem it's been a mix of Lamar being a problem sometimes it's been a mix of the offensive line being a problem sometimes it's been a mix of just all those different things just happen sometimes it's the receiving sometimes it's just a lot it's not just one person to blame Lamar the other night a lot of bad throws Lamar sometimes stepping into sex Lamar not taking check downs offensive lines sometimes not blocking offensive line if they do block somebody it could end up being a holding call why receivers drop uh like it's it's it's crazy but running backs yeah so it's even though Devonte Freeman he's been doing this thing recently man really establishing himself really getting in a groove man so shout out to Devonte Freeman but they've they've all contributed to the Ravens offensive problems uh as a whole and but like i said we just we want them to do better but when you see all the different contributing factors you you have to put guys in the best position to have some success because success as a Ravens offense it just it hasn't been there they've passed a couple of games like that it hasn't been there consistently and we're not expecting this team to score every single offensive drive that would be ludicrous we wouldn't complain we would love that but that that should not be an expectation and it is not a realistic expectation they're not going to score every time they have the ball stuff happens in order for a football play to be successful so much has to go right it's much easier for a football play to go wrong than it is to go right because in basketball like one person could dribble down court shake a couple people drive to the basket oh lay up dunk whoever you may be or you hey put back dunk shout out to James Harden there but but for football like so many different people contribute to one play being executed the right way because one person can't do it all it's impossible because for the quarterback to make a pass the offensive line got a block the receiver got to run the right route the quarterback got to make the right throw then the receiver got to catch it so it's it's that back and forth first the um the responsibility is on the offensive line in the quarterback then it's on a receiver then it's on a quarterback to make the throw then it's on a receiver to catch it see that responsibility all that goes back and forth in just one play just one play so it is so tough that's why you want to make sure you're doing everything that you can as a coach or as a player to contribute positively to a play being successful now with Greg Roman I just I really hope that this isn't one of those things where because we've seen the offense struggling we don't want them to struggle and we want the offense to just gain some more confidence we want them to have that that that swagger we want to see them on a sideline smiling now we're not expecting them to blow out every single team with that that's mm-hmm those those I was gonna say those are the old days but yeah that's two yeah two years ago 2019 those were the old days this is regular Ravens football now so if whatever you're saving apparently even though I don't believe it bring it out bring it out because this offense like bring it out please and I would say like you don't have to be running all these trick plays like crazy but those plays that are a little more creative because you don't got to be cute but you can just get cute a little bit tiny bit don't be cute don't consistently be cute you don't have to consistently be a trick play offense no don't do that because you need to establish your regular offense too but it's okay to sprinkle some stuff in here and there just to spice things up just to give your team that much more momentum just throw some things in there it just reminds me of like how the Chiefs were maybe not so much this year but I mean this year that offense they've been doing a thing they've been throwing a lot more picks than normal but with the Kansas City Chiefs I know that they um their offense high-powered offense we all already know um but they a lot of times they will sprinkle in some some crazy stuff where you be like oh man how did what oh who's getting where's the ball oh wow but they would they will sprinkle that in there oh wow they're still running the normal offense but they would just change things up a little bit change the pace sometimes it would work sometimes it wouldn't but when it did work it would just give them that much more life give them that much more energy and just that much more dominance a lot of times over a lot of the teams that they were playing now that did the Chiefs stay cute no they just got cute real quick and it helped that's all I'm saying for the Ravens again don't stay cute just get cute a little bit a little bit so we'll see we'll see Gregory let's see if any of these new plays these plays that they got saved for the long run these plays that he could pull out of any second if they actually show up so and again with those plays it's not all on him now in order to in Hollywood set it himself he said it uh during I think training camp a preseason something like that he said it early on this year um that with the plays that they're running he said for he said for guys numbers to be called they got to show that they can execute that in practice they got to show that they can make it happen in practice because that's where it all starts so again it's up to Greg Roman to try to incorporate it and it's up to the players uh to be able to execute it so it like I said it just it takes so much for football play to to just come out right but this responsibility is on everybody team keeping clean I love y'all and I appreciate y'all oh boy we'll see if these plays if we see any of these oh goodness anyway we out love y'all y'all stay up me