 Y'all like history lessons, right? Y'all like reading about records that are broken. Well, let's listen to some records that the Baltimore Ravens broke. The least time spent trailing in the first 10 games of a season over the last 40 years. Let's look at these teams and how long or really how little they were trailing for and what their records are. The 1984 Dolphins, they only trailed for 14 minutes and 46 seconds through the first 10 games of the season. They started off 10-0. The 1998 Broncos, they only trailed for 27 minutes and seven seconds through the first 10 games of the season. They started off 10-0. The 1990 Giants, they only trailed for 43 minutes and 42 seconds through their first 10 games of the season. They started off 10-0. And the 2007 Patriots, they only trailed for 51 minutes and three seconds through the first 10 games of their season. They started off 10-0. But how about those Baltimore Ravens? How about those 2023 Baltimore Ravens? Well, they only trailed for 28 minutes and 46 seconds through their first 10 games of the season. What's their record? Seven and three. I've seen a lot of people saying that fans are overreacting to the Baltimore Ravens' loss. No, fans are not overreacting at all. The reason why fans are so upset is because they see this pattern with the Baltimore Ravens. They see what the Baltimore Ravens have done over and over and over and over and over. Because it seems to be the same thing. It just continues to happen. And this was one of our biggest fears heading into this game against the Browns. Was that the Browns, good opponent, good team. We know we blew them out last time. But again, context, they didn't have their starting quarterback and that makes a big difference as we know from personal experience. But in this game, the Baltimore Ravens with a lead, a big lead, a significant lead, a two possession lead and they just couldn't get it done. Anyway, getting into this game, because I'm here to share my post game thoughts about the Baltimore Ravens versus the Cleveland Browns game yesterday that we all watched, witnessed and we're like, oh boy, these Baltimore Ravens, when they, again, my biggest fear yesterday was that when the media, when everybody props them up, they prop them up, oh yeah, best team in the league. This team could beat anybody and they still can now. They can. But when the media just keep propping them up, everybody props them up, oh man, the Baltimore Ravens, best team in the league, best team in the AFC, best team in the NFL, da, da, da. It seems like they just, they don't know how to take the compliments. It seems like they get all like, oh, us, we the best team in the league, oh, why thank you, we appreciate, oh, it feels so nice. And then they fall flat. They fall, and they have done this for years and years and years and this is not an overreaction when people are upset. Now I do still feel like these Baltimore Ravens are a Super Bowl team, I really do, but they gotta get this stuff right. And it starts again with the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, nobody expected the Baltimore Ravens to go undefeated this season. Oh, I know I didn't, maybe some of y'all may have, but never expected the Baltimore Ravens to go undefeated this year. I think that's extremely unrealistic. We know how the NFL is, we know how the Baltimore Ravens are, so it just, that's too far fetched. But the self-inflicted wounds, the self-inflicted wounds continue. And it's not even just that, the Baltimore Ravens lost. I mean, you're never gonna find a way where, oh, man, well, I love that game, but we lost. I love how they played, but we lost, but we didn't love how they played and they lost. And you see so many different areas of where they needed to improve, but they lost. Let's start with Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson, in yesterday's game, was not a good game for Lamar Jackson. I mean, we're gonna get to his numbers in a little bit, but some of the things we saw from Lamar Jackson yesterday, now we know the offensive line yesterday, they weren't good, or they were not very good in pass protection at all. But Lamar Jackson, there were a lot of times when he would really just hold on to the ball for way too long. And you got to live to play another down. Now there was one play, oh my goodness, thank goodness it was a penalty. It was, I think it was in second half of the game where Lamar Jackson is looking, looking, looking, he had the scramble out of the pocket, cause it broke down. And at the last second, he just threw it up into the end zone. Browns picked it off. They picked it off and I said, oh man. But they called a defensive holding on, I think that's when Odell Beckham Jr. drew a defensive holding on somebody I believe in the end zone. And I was like, oh my goodness, because at that point, like, and I know, I get it, Lamar wants to make a play every single play and I love that. Love that about him. But sometimes you just got to live to play another down. And you can't not necessarily force the issue, but yeah, sometimes you just can't force the issue, especially in a game like that. Cause had that not been a penalty, and I don't know if maybe he saw the penalty flag and he was like, oh, you know what, let's just go for it. But yeah, that was scary. But he did throw two interceptions out. The first interception in the pass intended for a shot of Bateman. Oh my goodness. And he's saying, he's saying that's on him. Now we know like Lamar Jackson, if he's thrown an interception before and it's on the player, then you'll see the way that he talks to the player. And you could tell that he'll be frustrated or what not. And he'll be telling the player, oh, you should have done this, you should have done that. But he said, oh, that's on me. Rashad Bateman looked like he just went on a go route. Rashad Bateman just, he hit it. But I think Lamar Jackson thought maybe Rashad Bateman was doing a comeback route or something like that. And Rashad Bateman, he went deep. Lamar Jackson, he threw it short. And easy interception for the Cleveland Browns. Super, super easy. The second interception was more so just a great play by number 54 on the Browns. Great play. Lamar Jackson was getting ready to throw the pat record. Lamar Jackson threw the pat record. Number 54, jumped in the passing lane, tipped it up. And what happened, I think it was Newsom that came down with it. And he came, pick six, pick six. And that just changed the game. And it is crazy because the Baltimore Ravens in this game, they started off hot. Started off hot. They jumped out toward a 17-3 lead. Then they, I think going in half, was it 24-9 going in half? No, no, no, I think it was 17-9 going in half there. But they jumped out to a 17-3 lead. So they were hot coming out of the first court. They were like, oh yeah, that's the most points the Ravens scored in the first quarter since 2019. And we don't remember that season and how that was going. And I was like, oh, okay. Ravens off to a nice start. Let's get it, baby. We got to keep it going though. Cause 17-3, like that's still a close game. That ain't no blowout. That's still a close game. And then second quarter, nothing, nothing. They didn't do a thing, nothing at all. And so, okay. Well, and things just stopped. They just stopped for the Baltimore Ravens and the Browns, the Browns continue to hang around all game yesterday. Ravens got, they had a 14 point lead, but obviously they squandered that and it disappeared pretty quickly. Yeah, Lamar Jackson 13 for 23, 223 yards. One touchdown and two interceptions. So yeah, it was just unfortunate, man. They did end up missing some point. No, Keaton Mitchell, he had a drop. But let's go, let's go to the running game now. Speaking of Keaton Mitchell. See, this is where coaching, they let me down big time because Keaton Mitchell, obviously, you know, his first carry went for like, what a 39 yard touchdown run. Huge run, crazy run. It was like, all right, there you go, Keaton Mitchell, let's get it, baby, come on, man. Let's go. Keaton Mitchell continuing to do Keaton Mitchell things. His dad was in the building over there, smiling, proud pops. I was like, okay, I feel you pops. I know how that feeling is. But second half, Ravens were like, Keaton Mitchell, for what? Why? What would be the point? What's the reason? Why would we use Keaton Mitchell in the second half of the game? He only exploded for that huge touchdown run in the first half. He only exploded for that huge screen pass that went crazy early on. Why would we use him in the second half of the game? What would be the reason? And they didn't, they didn't. Keaton Mitchell had three carries. One of them was a touchdown. One of them was the, because we keep Mitchell, they got him that touchdown. But then the problem, in my opinion, was that they tried to get too cute with Keaton Mitchell after that. Because they did the whole, the fake reverse, I think to either Gusta, to Duvenay, to somebody. They faked the, they faked the hand off to him. And then they ended up giving it to Keaton Mitchell. It was sloppy from the jump. And I felt like, especially in the second half, especially late in the second half, especially like in late third quarter for early fourth quarter, I'm like, I'm calling. Where is Keaton Mitchell at? Because just his presence alone, his presence alone would have changed stuff because the Browns, they saw what he did. They saw what he did to them, cause he did it to them. And they saw that, but the Ravens were like, you know what, we're not even gonna play the mental part of football. We're just gonna do something. If we're gonna go against what was working, and it's, why are you saving him for the Bengals game or something? That's the only thing I could possibly think of. But then I was thinking, is he hurt? We ain't hear no injuries. We ain't see him limping or anything like that. Is he hurting or something? Is his hamstring bothering? We heard nothing about it at all. So I'm like, why? And like thinking about it now is just so frustrating because why? Like, I don't know if it happened to y'all yesterday. After that Ravens game, I wasn't mad or nothing. Like that wasn't like, oh, I'm puffing. I'm gonna blow somebody's house down. No, but I didn't wanna watch no other games after that. Now it did not help that the other games that came on after were not very interesting. But I didn't wanna watch no football after that. I was like, football, I don't know, whatever. So I didn't watch any more games after that. I was just footballed out. Cause that game against the Browns is just like, it's just like really? No, really. That's probably the best reaction, really. But with Keaton Mitchell, they just stopped. And he's shown to you what he can do. And you didn't even try. Cause again, his presence alone would have helped Lamar Jackson out. It would have helped the Ravens out. It would have just helped him out a lot. Shout out to Odell Beckham Jr, though. Odell Beckham Jr, shout out to Lamar. That was a great throw, a great catch by Odell Beckham Jr. And the Yak too, of course. And he took it to the house. Did a bird flu and everything. Odell is well embraced in Baltimore for sure. But it just, it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough. Shaw Bateman, I thought this was gonna be a game where it was sort of a breakout game for Shaw Bateman this year. But it wasn't. It wasn't. Mark Andrews, he usually goes off against the Cleveland Browns. That's usually like his go-to team when he wanna rack up some stats. Two catches, 44 yards. Two. Dave Flowers, he was very involved, heavily involved. He actually, I didn't even realize that this was the record. He broke either tight or broke Tori Smith's record for most catches by a rookie, by Raven's wide receiver rookie. And that record is 50 catches. So Zay Flowers is either at 50 catches or he just passed 50 catches, one of the two. So shout out to Zay Flowers. But I know Lamar missed him on a deep pass. So that was unfortunate, because that would have been a touchdown. Oh man, it was right there. And I know where Lamar, I know he's been missing on some deep passes. My opinion, I think it's very important that the Baltimore Ravens still, they take the shots though. They keep taking the shots. Don't stop taking the shots. Don't stop. Now, if you got an offensive line that can't really block for nothing, then you may be limited on the deep shots that you can take. I think that's what's been the most frustrating part is that it's like an imperfect storm for the Baltimore Ravens. Because it's like Lamar, if he missed a deep shot, then offensive line as the game goes on, a lot of times they just start breaking down more and more and you don't even got time to really take deep shots like that. He'll wait. Y'all know what he'll wait. Sometimes him waiting, it'll be great. Sometimes him waiting, it won't be so great. Ronnie Stanley, speaking of offensive line, Ronnie Stanley has hurt. Some people saying he looked like he re-injured the same ankle or knee or whatnot. Who knows, we'll see. I'm sure we'll hear something later on today from John Hawbaugh and his post-game presser. Malin Humphrey. I'm hoping that it's just his hamstring, but I know what a lot of people are thinking is Achilles and we know Achilles would be season ending. So hopefully that's not the case. I think we'll know about that later today. And even if it's not later today, I think it will be later today because it usually is the very next day, but we will know early this week what their statuses are. Wow, and it's, oh, that would be very unfortunate for both of those two. But we'll see, we'll see. We ain't gonna trip yet because we don't know yet. I guess we'll go ahead and make that transition to defense. Defense started off the game, amazing. The, well, not necessarily run defense because run defense, literally all game, the runs up the middle, the Browns are eating them up every single time. And Jerome Ford had over 100 yards, Russian. Let's say he had Jerome Ford has 107 yards on 17 rushes, average 6.3 yards a carry. Running up the gut, every time they ran up the middle they would get it. And Ravens, they missed a lot of tackles too. There will be times where they had them hemmed up and he would break off, break off a couple of people, keep moving. And Ravens were missing tackles on against the Titans. I remember Dave and the Jokul had a couple long passes. Ravens just missing so many tackles. To Sean Watson, he would get loose. They would have him wrapped up in a backfield. They would be swiping at him. Sean Watson go, oh, y'all ain't touching me. Then go take off. And those killed the Ravens all game because they all came at the worst times, all of them. Especially at the very, very, very, very, very end of the game. So, I'm fortunate man. But on defense they started off hot. Because early in the game, I know some of y'all may have forgotten because it seemed like it was so long ago and so early into the game that it was like, did that really happen? It doesn't seem like it. Kyle Hamilton. Kyle Hamilton. He got that beautiful pick six on the second play of the game. Shout out to Kyle Hamilton. So it was like, oh, it's about to be one of these games. Okay. That's how you start off. Yeah, Ravens, let's go baby. But y'all know how to rest when, obviously. And they just, it's like the Sean Watson in the first half, his numbers were so bad. I think he was like six for 20 or something like that. Something crazy like that. Excuse me, but then in the second half, I don't think he had not one in completion. I don't think he had not one in completion, not one. And it ain't like he was just taking a bunch of dinking dunk passes. He was taking some shots. He didn't have not one in completion, I don't believe. And it's a whole second half of the game. How does that happen? Adjustments, adjustments. Sean Watson and Browns, they adjusted the Baltimore Ravens. They didn't, they didn't. And they could just never get stopped. Early on in the game, in the first half of the game, the Baltimore Ravens defense, they were bended, but they were not breaking. They only gave up nine points. I'm like, okay, cool. We've seen that a lot throughout this season. Sometimes with the Ravens, they'll give up some little plays here and there, but they'll hold the teams out of the end zone. And that's the most important thing. You keep them away from scoring points. Cause you could give up all the yards you want to. You can give up all the yards you want to, but if the team don't score from it, hey, and you got more points than them, obviously, they can have more yards. Like look at the Steelers. Look at the Steelers, they give up more yards than they get every game. But if they got more points, okay. Y'all can have yards. We got the points. That's how they feeling. But Baltimore Ravens, they just started breaking. They started breaking and it was unfortunate. So bad game. And it's crazy because we look at this game and what Ravens got, 30 points, I think. They scored 30 points, but again, oh, they scored 31, excuse me. But it's still like, again, say bad game from the offense, but they scored 31 points. Well, they scored 24 points because Kyle Hamilton, but game of interest, man. You know, Justin Tucker, he had the field goal blocked because Ben Cleveland, the guy like went right past him and blocked Justin Tucker field goal. So it's like, man, game of interest and the Ravens lost by two points. Game went in field goal. Had they made that field goal and everything else went the same, going into the end of the game, it would have been 34 to 30. Browns would have had to get a touchdown. So that would have been a lot more pressure on them. But yeah, we know how that went or how it didn't go. But enough from me. Like I know we could talk about this game all day and every day, but it's always nice to hear from an opponent how they felt about how the game went, how they felt about these Baltimore Ravens versus Cleveland Browns. And right now we're gonna do just that. What's up, engraving fans? Now look, I done calmed down from a live stream. I know I'm in enemy territory and I don't wanna troll you any further than I've already trolled you before. So I'm gonna tone it down a little bit because I gotta show the homie respect. But just talking about this game a little bit because engraving wanted me to drop a little breakdown of what I felt like I saw in this game. The Browns made a lot of mistakes. I felt like early in this game and I think the Ravens did a good job of capitalizing on top of them. And that was kind of the story of the game. In my opinion, I thought that the Browns really started out slow, real sluggish offensively. Deshaun was placing balls well, but they weren't being caught or maybe you weren't getting enough death on the sidelines. There's just little stuff like that that's kind of been an issue with the Browns and Deshaun Watson since he's been back here. And the defense, we know that that first drive, we struggled with them first drives for whatever reason, the Cleveland Browns too. But the second drive, you know, the run with Keaton Mitchell, kind of that kind of stuff was really affecting the Browns in a negative way. But, but, but I think this is, in my opinion, the birth of the Browns as a true AFC North team. I know when we talk about AFC North football, the Browns don't usually fit that description for the last few years. Well, since coming back and since the formation of this division, when we talk about tough, hard-nosed, smart football, that's what most of the teams in the AFC North have been, but the Browns have never given you that. But this was a resilient, tough game that the Browns gave you. And I think at the end, they just out-physicaled a ball tomorrow. They were able to get what they wanted in the run game. They were able to get what they wanted through the air. They were able to get the clean pockets that they needed with Deshaun Watson. And if not, they were able to run the ball cleanly with Deshaun. And I think that ended up making the difference in this ball game for the Cleveland Browns. I don't know, and great even, you can let me know if Roquan Smith played on those last two drives. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but let me know. I didn't see him make much of an impact in the last two drives. But I think Jerome Ford really did a good job of being physical. That push pile at the end of the game really told the story of the game to me was that this Browns team was just willing to get a little bit more physical than Baltimore was willing to. And I think another series in this game kind of told the story of it, right? There was that part, there was that part of the game where James Prochet dropped that punt and gave the Ravens a ball, I believe, at the 11 or at the 10-yard line. And despite the fact that the Ravens got that ball at the 10, I believe it took like 12 plays for the Ravens to score in three penalties, all defensive holding on the Cleveland Browns in order to refresh those sets of downs in order for the Ravens to score the touchdown and end up putting them up at 31. And I thought that that was a really good stand by this defense, their ability to kind of just stand in there and try to make something happen against this Baltimore team in a very bad circumstance where they felt like they forced Baltimore off the field and then you get a muff punt. But Baltimore eventually scored in that at the like 12 plays. And then importantly, that's when Deshaun Watson kind of went vintage to Deshaun Watson, went right down the field there to score because the Cleveland Browns, they needed to score in two minutes or less in order to keep that game close. It wasn't just enough that they scored. They needed to score quickly. And they came down the field and they scored and they came close to getting this game tied up. And then on the next drive, Lamarthos picked six to tie this game up. And then all of a sudden next thing, you know, momentum is in the Cleveland Browns direction. So just a game of perseverance and effort by the Cleveland Browns. And I think despite the fact that they had multiple times to take themselves out this game, I think the Cleveland Browns did a good job of forcing their way back into this game by just being the more physical team in the second half and just being more willing to be out there making plays. So that's my kind of recap of it and Graven, thank you for having me on. Appreciate y'all. And if somebody in chat can tell me, man, where was Roco on Smith on the last two drives? Amen. I'm just wondering, I'm just wondering. CJ used to show up in the moments, but I ain't know where Roco on was. Hey, Graven, let me know, man, if I'm tripping. I'm just playing with y'all, but y'all have a great day, man. So shout out to my guy Quincy Carrier. You already know who he is. He is the best Cleveland Browns content creator out there doing it. And one of the best just overall content creators doing it. And congratulations to his Browns on beating the Ravens in Baltimore too. I was hoping that I could pull out a broom and do the sleep, do a nice little sleep, but that will not be happening at least today for these Cleveland Browns. Now the Baltimore Ravens move on to another team in Ohio and that's the Cincinnati Bengals. And I'm hoping that we can pull out the broom for them very, very soon. But anyway, we will keep you updated when we hear about Marlon Humphrey and Ronnie Stanley and keep you updated on the events going on at the Cleveland Browns. Excuse me, no, gotta move on from Cleveland Brown at the Cincinnati Bengals game, especially shout out to everybody that will be attending the Punchline podcast tailgate that we'll be at and everybody else that we'll just end up seeing at the game too. And throughout Ravens, walking, all that stuff, you know how it goes, you know how it goes. We're gonna have a good time. So I'm looking forward to it. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. We out.