 What are some names and some different positions that the Ravens could possibly trade for before the deadline, which is tomorrow. This and much more on this special trade deadline edition of NFL Questions from Subbs. Yeah, this feels like a dream. So Team Keep It Clean, what's going on? It's Engraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subbs, the special trade deadline edition. What question from Subbs is a series where you can ask me any question and we answer it in a video just like this and if you want to be part of it, you send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com or for the Patrons. By the way, shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. You can send it directly on Patreon. I love y'all Team Keep It Clean, we got some great questions as we always do. Let's do it. First question came from my boy Chris. He said that Engraven hope all is well with you and the fam. I was just thinking DeSean Jackson has been given permission to seek a trade from the Rams and it also came out that if they can't find a trade partner by the deadline then they may just give him the axe. Anyway, do you think the Ravens take a crack at it? No, I don't. Seeing as though Sammy is still out, I'm just curious. I know you always give us your honest opinion. No, I don't think that they would give up draft picks or give up whatever to bring in a DeSean Jackson. Now, if he becomes a free agent, I mean, I even still think the chances are slim. Me personally, I wouldn't mind because it's another species, another deep threat. But I just, via trade, no, I don't see it happening at all. And I think it's just a very, very tiny, tiny chance even if he becomes a free agent that they even do with them. And I expect him to become a free agent because if teams know, like, all right, they, well, it killed what broke both ways, actually, because if teams know that a player is getting ready to become a free agent, if the team doesn't trade them, then they could just wait and sit back and be like, all right, we just wait till he gets cut. But if on the flip side, if teams know that that player is about to get cut, they could be like, ah, you know what, let's just, let's send them whatever so we can get them because that will give us the opportunity on him being a free agent because we will have him. We don't have to fight with other teams to acquire his services. So we'll see what happens with DeSean Jackson, but I don't think he'll be a Raven. This question came from my guy, Isaiah. He said, should the Ravens trade for Dearness Johnson? Browns are not ever going to trade Dearness Johnson to the Ravens. Um, no, like, no, it would be nice if he was, but it's not happening. We saw how he was like yesterday and that game were baking a little RPO, but it's not going to happen. And he said, or Alexander Madison, they both look like studs when they got their chance. Now Alexander Madison, I wasn't too familiar with him until last night because he had been the name that I had been hearing from some Ravens fans. But watching the game last night, I do see. OK, he got that look quick burst. He got hands out of the backfield. So I think he could be a good fit. But I and the Vikings getting ready to play the Ravens in less than a week. So him, him as well. No, I don't see it happening at all. Next question came from my guy, Ben G. He said, I ain't graven. I was wondering if you think we should trade for Mitchell Schwartz because with McCurry being out for around six weeks, that is usually how long it takes for a high ankle spring. Hope you and the family are great. Keep grinding with your content. Best Ravens channel out there. I don't know about that last part, but even with the first part, they don't have to trade for him. He's a free agent. He's a free agent. There's no trades involved. He's not on the team right now. So if they were to sign him, they could do that if they wanted to. But I've heard that maybe he might not really be that healthy. I'm not sure what his status is right now. So yeah, they don't even have to trade. Next question came from my guy, BB. He said, thanks for the channel, fam. No, thanks for all the great questions from subscribers, fam. I have noticed the inconsistency again, especially after this loss to the Bengals. When G-Roy had Bateman in the offensive sets, the Ravens were able to make big plays and be effective. We have seen this before. When something is working, G-Roy changes what he is doing. Try something else and it leaves everyone scratching their heads. I'm still convinced Roman will be going after this season and Ravens sign Eric B. and me as offensive coordinator. All right, with that, before we get into the rest of your question, because he's not done. I just I don't see that happening. Why would Eric B. and me go from being chiefs, offensive coordinator to being Ravens, offensive coordinator to make a lateral move from the chiefs to the Ravens? Like, I'm sure he could come in and do a phenomenal job. But why? Why? Next next position should be head coach for him. He shouldn't be worried. Oh, no, I'm going to go. You know what? I'm going to leave here and be an offensive coordinator. No, man. But anyway, also, Wink needs to rethink Blitzen so much against teams that can throw. I think everybody would agree with you on that. He just got to be. He got to be smarter. He got to be wiser about his decision with Blitzen. And he just, yeah, yeah. Ravens don't have markets, Peters and Avery. That's not the answer for this secondary. Well, right now, he's the biggest answer to the question. But anyway, he said, not throwing any stones and Anthony Avery, just not enough experience to be a complete DP. Well, how do you gain experience? How do you gain experience? It's like, all right, we're hiring. This job is hiring. You go to the interview and you're like, all right, here's my application. I send my application to the field, all that stuff. All right, hire me. Let's go. Let's get it. They say, wait a minute, but you don't have any experience. Why should we hire you if you don't have any experience? And trust me, I'm speaking from experience with that. That would be one of the most frustrating things ever when a job is hiring and you know, like you feel like you could do it. But they say, oh, no, you got to have experience. We want people that experience here. So how can I gain that experience if I don't get hired? How can I gain that experience if I don't get the opportunity? Same thing with Anthony Avery, you say that he's not experienced enough. How can he gain that experience except from what he's going through right now? All right, moving on. He said Raven should trade some picks for approving defensive back and a veteran offensive linemen. If Ravens ought to sustain any momentum, personnel is key. So for approving DB, this has been one that I've seen floating around a lot. A name that I know a lot of Ravens or some Ravens fans been floating around Xavier Howard because he's that Marcus Peters type of cornerback because he's going to get his interceptions in. He's going to get them in. And the Dolphins right now, they won in six, something like that. They won in something. But so you can expect like from teams that are not necessarily out of it, but they are doing really, really bad right now. Fire sale, a fire sale, like the Texans, you know, they willing to give up everybody. The Dolphins could be on that same boat. Just teams. Now, Jaguar is a tricky now. They a tricky one because they're down bad, but it doesn't seem like they're going to have a fire sale, but we'll see. But not like in deadlines, they spark action. Deadlines put pressure on teams and organizations to be like, all right, you know what, something that they might not have been thinking about before when the deadline comes, they were, oh, you know what, we'll think of or consider it now. And then they might be willing to do a little more than they were before. So but as far as offensive linemen, it would be nice to get a nice quality offensive linemen and upgraded offensive linemen. But if this player was really an upgrade at the offensive line, would he really be getting traded away? Now, this is where the team, the same thing I was talking about with the team. That's where that comes into play. If a team's bad and they have a good offensive line, many of them they may consider. They may be like, you know what, we'll come up. We come up off that guy because we we losing. Ain't nothing going on this season. Let's get a draft pick for him. All right, cool, whatever. So that's just something to think about for anybody that they may trade for, especially when it comes to an offensive linemen, really, really any player. But certainly with offensive linemen. Next question came from my guy, Greg, from BMO. He said, what's up in Graven? Tough loss, but still a long season in the Raven Superbowl 47 year. Unless my research was wrong. It was also week seven before the buy. Also having a buy on Halloween week. Ravens got blown out on the road by the Texans. I know a completely different situation and team, but still hopeful for this year. One bad loss doesn't define a season. It means the same if the game was within one score. It does. But the way that they got beat, it just they they exposed a lot of the Ravens issues. And hopefully that loss served as a wake up call for the Ravens to where it's like, all right, look, we we five and two. We just got a beat but beat and we we need to fix these issues. If we're going to have long term success this season, we got to fix these issues. We can't just skate by like we've been doing, especially last year. They did the same thing where they just didn't. And it was tough. It's tough because you got salary cap and you can only do so much with your roster. But they they tried to skate by last year and they got through for the most part. But then the issues got super exposed in the playoffs. You can't do that this year. So anyway, he said, anyway, my question is, could this loss to the Bengals? And oh, OK, I should have read the whole thing because I end up saying exactly what he was to end up saying, I said, could this loss to the Bengals? Encourage EDC to be more aggressive on a trade and not who. But which position would you not think they'll go after? But which position do you want to see to go after? Well, you had to make that so confusing. Like, you know, my brain already be messed up. But no, well, you had to make that so confusing. Why don't you just say which position should EDC go after? And he say also, oh, it helped you and your family have a good one this year. Go Ravens. All right. So which position? Me, I would say running back and my priority will be running back in offensive line. Now a like a crazy one. And this this may ruffle some feathers a bit, but it is what it is. It's all business, none personal. Maybe and you could say you could give somebody an opportunity, but a safety. Maybe a safety. And maybe like a safety that got range, like really got range that could make up for a lot of what the Ravens are lacking on the back end in the secondary. So that and then again, a lot is on wink too. So much is on wink, but it's just something to think about. But my priority would be offense. I think offense because I feel like with offense, again, it hasn't been play calling for me. It's been execution and offensive line. Like when Lamar has had time, oh, yeah, but he don't get time too often. So I would say offensive line and also running back as well. Those would be my top two. Next question came from my guy, Jared. He said two short and sweet questions. One, did Ravens miss the energy Mark Ingram brought to the team? I think so. I think so. They still got a lot of energy, but yet Mark Ingram energy was just different. He sent this before he was officially traded to the Saints. But the question and answer, they still stand. And he also said, did the Ravens make a mistake by keeping Ronnie Stanley and trading Orlando Brown Junior? Well, Ronnie Stanley is better than Orlando Brown Junior. It's possible that Orlando Brown with more and more experience, he could have end up just being better than he has been this season, especially because of the big switch and the big switch for Orlando Brown Junior wasn't from right tackle to left tackle. It was from a run heavy offense to a pass heavy offense. Orlando Brown Junior, though, I feel like he is the type of player that we're really missing on this offensive line that like my guy, Howard brought up a long time ago, that just big mauling guy that'll just knock somebody down, man. I feel like we just we're missing that. We're missing that that that power, that that strength, that just I'm about to knock you out, something like that from an offensive lineman. So, yeah, but overall, like in Ronnie Stanley, his injury history, he already had an injury history. He had an injury history. So this was no surprise to the Ravens. Didn't know it was going to end up being like this because he usually missed like a couple of games of season or whatnot. But did they make a mistake by keeping Ronnie and trading Orlando Brown player wise? No. But if you just strictly talking about the injuries, then that's that's up to you. Next question came from my guy, Mike. He said, hey, how are you in the fam? I've been a subscriber for a long time and it's my first time writing. Hey, appreciate you, man. He said, my question is out of all the years the Ravens have been in the league since 96, I believe I've found that the Ravens are a team that likes to be cheap when picking up players from free agency or trading. I feel like we end up regretting it and leaving a lot of good players out there and a lot of good opportunity with players out there when they leave for other teams and get signed by other teams. Instead of us taking advantage of it, or we wait until the players get old and they're tired of whatever team that they own and then the player decides to take a chance on us. It just it kills me to this day, especially when Jalen Ramsey was tired of the Jaguars and they were trying to shop him around and we didn't take advantage of it or try to trade for him or get him in any way. And I thought that at that time, our defense was hurting to me. That was not smart. Can you imagine him on one side and Marcus Peters on the other side on top of all the other weapons we have, which that was crazy. Now, no, no, with that, that would have been impossible because it would have been either or it wouldn't be. All right, we get Jalen Ramsey and we get markets. Oh, that would be nice. I'm all in Humphrey Jalen Ramsey and what that'd be nice. But that was impossible. That wasn't what was going down. Jalen Ramsey and it was said that they tried to trade like Hayden Hurston some picks to get Jalen Ramsey. But no, if they would have got Jalen Ramsey, then that would have been it. It wouldn't be him and Marcus Peters. So Marcus Peters was the backup plan, but it worked. Anyway, he said, why do you think that is that the Ravens are cheap and who do you think is responsible all the all the for all this? And do you think it is Steve doing it or Eric the cost or Ozzy still pulling the strings or John? I was wondering your thoughts be blessed. May God bless you and yours. Appreciate it. Mike is everybody is it's all of them for the reason that the Ravens are cheap. And where they're cheap at to me that the biggest cheapness is that wide receiver. That's that's where it's set for me. Wide receiver because they've they've got some defensive and you talked about you talked about signing free agents and trades being cheap. Both with both of those wide wide receiver, especially free agency. Trades. I don't feel that they're really cheap when it comes to trading for players. Of course, we win a big name that we love comes available. We want the Ravens to go get them. You like, all right, go get them. Now, with that Julio Jones, even though he been hurt a lot, see, it's it's tough because I know some people could say, oh, well, look at Julio. He's been missing all these games. He would have missed all the games for the Ravens, too. We don't know that and we'll never know that. But with Julio Jones, that was one right there where it was like, oh, hey, Julio. Hey, Julio Falcons, they coming up off of Julio. They got to get rid of him for salary cap reasons. So Julio ain't going to be there with your gun. Then Titans got him for like a second round, pick a song, something crazy, man. It was like, what, really? But I know Ravens that I'm sure they didn't want to take on all that salary cap or whatnot because Titans had to do some maneuvering to to get him under the salary cap. But it was like, like, why? Why not? But it's worked out so far for the Ravens. It's also worked out for the Titans, but even though they have really been like having him available. But yeah, free agency. I was definitely saying that's how they are. Why receiving Ravens that they just like to. Now with that, they take care of their own now. They take care of their own. But like what you saw Flacco, seen Ray Rice, Terrell Suggs, C-Mac, Lody Nott, Ray Louis, like they take care of their own. They do that. Um, then it's I mean, the list goes on. But when it comes to outsiders, maybe the Ravens are just maybe they're scared. I don't know. Maybe they just scared like, if we give this outsider too much money, then I was going to backfire. And they ate that cheapness almost backfire. I mean, when they weren't cheap at receiving the last time, it almost backfire when they signed Ryan Grant to that crazy thing. Oh, that was so nasty. I was like, ah, no personal offense to him. But I just didn't feel like he was the best fit. But when they signed him to that big deal, I was just like, whoa, like. What are you doing? And then they were like, oh, yeah, we we regret this. Hey, hey, fail his physical. Please fail his physical. All right. He got a toe injury. He can't pass the physical. All right. Get him out of here. You know, good. Then with Michael Brock is when they signed him to that deal. Ravens like, you know what? We regret this. Let's all right. Hey, send that fail physical. Do it. Run it, run it, run it. All right. Michael Brock is he got an injury, cancel the deal. It's off. So Ravens, I think that they just they may be a little worrisome. Like, ah, they don't want to regret it. I think that's what it is that you. I know you were saying that you feel like the Ravens regret their decisions where they don't sign these guys in free agency. But I feel like the Ravens, they almost don't want to regret signing somebody for this big deal and then it ends up not working. So I think that's why they take care of their own so much because when they take care of their own, it's like, all right, we groom this guy. We've seen this guy from the beginning because we drafted him and we brought him up and he's done his thing for us. So we know this player. We know the ends and outs of this player. We know what he's good at, what he's bad at, his strengths. We know this guy. So we can trust that when we sign him, we know what to expect. But if you go out and sign somebody else, we give him all that money. We just don't know. Next question came from Mackay. He said, I wonder if Stephen A. Smith is still thinking that burrow is better than Lamar. And he said, hashtag, don't catch the chickens before they hatch. Keep up the great work. Hey, what a game that was. What a game that was now lost in all of that. Well, I know not with Bengals fans, but Joe Burrow actually had a really good game. You look at the numbers. He had a good game that that interception was a bad one. That interception was a great play by that, the defensive line in the outside linebacker, whatever he was. It was a phenomenal play. But Joe Burrow, he's still the three touchdowns and only one pick. But yeah, I'm sure that it like if with the Bengals, that's that's how that's how we get talked about by the media. They'll say, oh, yeah, Joe Burrow, despite everything, he still had a good game. Now, if Lamar, say, for instance, Lamar, and it's true that he did have a good game there, but they lost. So the game wasn't good enough. But if that was Lamar and he had same stat line, same same type of play. They'll say, oh, there's all the money that he ain't know that he sucks. He's this, he that. But it is what this question came from a guy. Jay Lee said, I engraving her ball as well. I was just on Raven's YouTube page and saw their banner with Ronnie, Hollywood, Lamar, Tucker, Patrick, Queen and Manjus. It made me think about the faces of our offense and special teams in defense. The person you think of when you hear Raven's offense and special teams are Lamar Jackson and Justin Tucker, respectively. However, who do you see as the face of this defense? Realistically, I would say Patrick Queen, but he's been playing subpar this year. Yeah, I would say Marlon Humphrey. Marlon Humphrey or Kaleas Campbell and Marlon Humphrey, his season has been a little rough, been a little rough in Kaleas Campbell. He's been actually playing pretty good this year. But yeah, I would say either one of those two. Oh, man, speaking of Marlon Humphrey, next question came from a guy Lance. He said, hope everything is good with you. Let's get down to business. I know Humphrey is not your traditional corner in the NFL. How isn't he? What do you mean? Why you say that? I don't, I don't understand. But anyway, he said, do you think the Ravens paid him too much money? No, it's market value. Marlon Humphrey had been playing great. He had been playing phenomenal. He had been making so many plays for them. All the fourth fumbles, a couple of interceptions. He had never interceptions, really not his thing. But the fourth fumbles and just being able to do so much, playing good as an outside corner, playing good as a slot corner, because Tay Tay will go down with injury and Marlon was forced to be kicked inside. So, no, I don't think they paid him too much. All right, moving on. He said, and since he is not a traditional corner, do you believe they should use him more as safety next year after we get Marcus Peters back? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, not at all. Next question came from my guy, Franco. He said, hey, man, hope everything is good, which you haven't heard anything about Chris Westry in a minute. And the idea when he'll be coming back, when he comes back or second, there will be much better, I believe. He'll help. He'll certainly help. But again, I think the biggest thing, the biggest thing for me is will we put him in a position to succeed because you can have the best corners in the world, but you got you got to realize if they're struggling, if they need some help, something's going on. Now, Chris Westry, yes, he will help. I think you could that that will give you just just for those bigger body wide receivers because Jimmy Smith, you know, they they've been putting him on tight ends and whatnot. They've been using him sparingly, but this will give you more flexibility in your usage of your cornerbacks as well. So having him is definitely better than not having him. And yeah, like like you said, he will certainly help.