 As Ravens fans, I feel like so much of us are medical doctors and we unfortunately have our PhDs, our pretty hurt degrees when it comes to assessing injuries on our team and other times really throughout the league because we've seen so many Ravens players go down due to being hurt. But this year, it has been a lot different because this year, as opposed to previous years, while the Baltimore Ravens have lost a lot of guys and they have unfortunately lost a lot of guys for the entire season. A lot of the guys that they lost at some point and different points of the season, they ended up coming back. And yesterday, we got some wonderful phenomenal news about some of the Baltimore Ravens key players that returned to practice for those Baltimore Ravens. And we're gonna talk about that in a little bit, but just to emphasize how important it was those guys and how great and significant it was with those guys returning, I couldn't do it on my own. I had to bring on a phenomenal guess that can help me determine just the value of these players that the Ravens got back. Team Keep It Clean, let's get into it. So Team Keep It Clean, very, very special guest, special coach in the building for this video today. We got Sip to Tally, Coach Evans. It's been a minute, been a minute since we had you on but better late than never. So welcome back to the channel. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day and literally like last minute too, cause I literally hit you up a couple of hours ago to see if you could come on and you say, yeah, you gave me the time and boom, we're not that out right now. So I appreciate you and I appreciate your time, coach. No problem, no problem. Like you said, better late than never and never late is better. But with that CPT time, I'm late forever but it's all good, man. So Team Keep It Clean, before we get into this, make sure you subscribe to his channel. The link is down below in the description. Subscribe to his channel. A lot of y'all are here already from his channel but subscribe to his channel. Y'all know Coach, you good people. Leave a like on all his videos. Hit them up, watch his videos on repeat. Show that love like I know y'all would do. Oh yeah, for sure, man. And the link to all his stuff, his YouTube channel, both his YouTube channels, the one for Ravens fans and also the one for the streets. For the streets, right. And also the link to his Twitter, it's all gonna be down below in the description. So we got yesterday, we got some really, really good news. Actually great news, actually it's wonderful news because Zay Flowers, he has had a huge impact on these Baltimore Ravens from, literally from jump. Like I remember when the Baltimore Ravens, when they first drafted Zay Flowers, I don't watch college football so I didn't know much about him. I didn't know he was from South Florida. So like, okay, he got my vote right there but when we had heard so much about him, I heard how shifty he was, how crazy he was after the catch. So we started seeing the joint practices. So the joint practices, no first, actually before the joint practices, when he was practicing against the Ravens, heard so much stuff about Zay Flowers. Oh man, he beaten all these cornerbacks. He's the best wide receiver on the field. I was thinking like, okay, like I know Ravens, they gonna hype up their own guys because that's their guy, that's their first round draft pick or whatever. Odell Beckham Jr. had just got there so I wouldn't think he would go that hard especially since he was recovering from injury. Rashad Bateman, he was probably doing his thing. No, maybe he was hurt that day. He was still hurt. Okay, that's what it was. So I was like, okay, was Zay Flowers being the best wide receiver on the field? Is it really saying that much? So I heard that but then we heard for the joint practices and we saw it too, we saw the video. And Zay Flowers was just, he was getting everybody. I'm like, man, okay, well, this is something. Then pre-season came along and he was still killing it then. I'm like, oh my goodness. And then I remember the first time we saw him, I think it was in the Washington game, whatever it was, it was against the Eagles, whoever it was against, he scored a touchdown. And I said, no, no, we don't need to see him no more. He need to be done till regular season. And then regular season came along and everything just continued for Zay Flowers. The man has been extremely consistent and everything, all the stuff that we had heard from Jump, he's shown it on a professional level in the regular season too. So with Zay Flowers returning to practice for the Baltimore Ravens, what type of impact? Because, I mean, it's obvious that he has a big impact on his team, but what specifically about Zay Flowers and going into this game against the Houston Texans, how can the Baltimore Ravens benefit from having him back? Well, I was gonna say one thing before I answer that question. Okay. Brent Coleman told a story way before even all that, that you just mentioned at the, whatever the all-star game was that Zay Flowers participated in. He said, because he went, you know, Brent got access to the stuff that we don't. He went and he said that the Ravens were over, Zay Flowers from the jump. They told him at that, I'm gonna say the Shrine Bowl, I think it was the Shrine Bowl. They told him at the Shrine Bowl, if you're there, we're picking. They had been on him from the jump and they just didn't think he was gonna be there, but luckily he was there and they saw something from the jump that, like you said, I didn't know you, I didn't know you from South Florida. I knew of him, you know, when I started doing the draft stuff, but I didn't know much about him until I heard that story. Then we picked him in, you know, my knowledge of him kind of picked up. But as far as him, his return, he's the most versatile receiver we got to me. He can play inside, he can play outside. He's the shiftiest receiver we got. He just, he brings so much to the table because if you put a bigger coin on him, he has the twitchiness to not be covered by that guy. But then he's fast enough and shifting up and runs good enough routes. And he's tough enough that if you got a smaller shiftier corner, he can beat those guys. And you put him in the backfield, do different stuff with him. He could also be your gadget guy. He's just, he's so versatile that you need him on the field to, not even to get him the ball, but you gotta know where he is because he can do so many things that opens up stuff for other people. That's such a good point too, about Zay Flows and his versatility. One of my favorite characteristics that you just mentioned about Zay Flows was his toughness, or is his toughness. We've seen it a lot of times throughout this season where Zay Flows, he don't shy away from contact and Zay Flows is not afraid to throw no block either. You don't care if he bigger than him or whatever. He might be the best blocker receiver we got. Might be, next to 16, next to, what's that? Tyler Wallace. Tyler Wallace, yeah. Oh. Because he, anytime we see a long run by the running back, all those long keeping mids and runs, you saw Zay Flows. You saw Zay Flows. I never thought about that before, man. That's a really good point. So having Zay Flows back is just, it's crucial, man. It's crucial and I'm glad that he got to get a good amount of rest, because the rest obviously paid off. Now I wonder, and it's something that we'll obviously never know, and I'm glad we don't have to find out about it, but I wonder, had the Baltimore Ravens had to play in a wild called weekend? Well, super wild called weekend, that's what they call it now. Would Zay Flows have played in the game, not if they had to play back then, but. That's a good question. That's a good question. Because with that calf, that calf is so, is so particular, because anytime I hear calf, I immediately think of Katie. Katie had the calf strain and he thought it was fine. And he said, well, I'm gonna go ahead and play this game. Bam, Achilles. So anytime I hear calf, I think Katie and I like, you don't play with that calf, but that can go from a two week thing to three, six to five. So, you know, I probably not, I would say no. I would say no if we played last week, because just was, well, no he didn't, because he didn't play versus Stiller did it. No, he didn't. So he probably could have played, he probably could have played last week, because he took that week off. So he probably should be close to a hundred, depending on what type of actual calf injury it is, because all I know is just calf. I don't know if like calf strain, like a brumbrews or whatever. I just know calf. So he probably could have played if we had had a game last week, because of already having that week off. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that we don't even have to, like we could think about it and think about all the hypotheticals and whatnot, but I'm glad that we ain't even gotta realistically think about if he had to play last week, since the Baltimore Ravens got their number one C. Now, speaking of number one, wonder Baltimore Ravens first round draft picks from a couple of years ago, he also returned to practice that being Adafi away. And Adafi away, man, he's been very, very tricky. He's had a very tricky career, because I feel like he was drafted based off of the potential. And obviously a lot of guys are drafted based off of potential about how the team feels like you could do what you can do for them over the long run. But with Adafi away, it just seemed like it was more of his athleticism that got him to be in the first round draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens, because he was not productive like that in college, in the States. Yeah. So that's, and then I know that that was a line for a lot of people. It was like, hold up, you're drafting a pass rusher with the number one, with the first round pick, but he hasn't had any sex. But again, sometimes numbers don't tell the whole story. Right, right. But they do tell a part of it. But with Adafi away this year, earlier this season, he had missed a chunk of time. And then when he came back, he came back in, I feel like he was just on the tail. We saw like a completely different Adafi away. Now, recently, I feel like he quieted down a little bit. Maybe I'm just missing something. Cause again, you know that the film much more than I do. But I feel like he got a little bit quiet, but he missed some time, but he returned to practice as well. So from Adafi away, what can he bring to this Baltimore Ravens defense? Now we haven't gotten a lot. And I'm like, like, I didn't like to pick a niche, but you know, the Adafi away or the first two seasons, to me it's not the Adafi away of 2023. Well, 2020, yeah, 2023. He looks like a totally different person. Now he only has, I think four and a half, maybe five sacks. But as far as the way he looks on the field, he doesn't look like that, that old, do he looks totally that he's like, he says that he was already decent against the run. But now he's getting to, he's beating the, the tackles in a, in a way where he wasn't before. Cause in the past, all he had was like that one move. Now you can see him put moves together. You see him trying to do the jump cross. You see him spinning off people. You see him trying to beat people with rush, with rush moves, speed to power. So getting with the defense of the Austin, I'm sorry, the offense outside linebacker's coach, Chuck, I've got a admiration for this guy that I didn't know who he was before he got here. But what he's done for Oway and some of those other guys, because Oway had one move. And now he has, he has the, a public plastic bag. He ain't got the brown paper bag of moves yet. He got a public plastic bag yet of moves right now. He ain't upgraded the brown paper bag, but at least he got something in it. But, and he was already decent versus the run, but having him out there gives more versatility to a defensive line that has already surprised me this year. They, they went well above and beyond my expectations. And I hope they continue to, to do that. But he's just an extra piece to that puzzle because Mike got him rolling and Chuck got him, you know, doing what they need to do in, in the past rush. And he was already a decent run stopper. And speaking about run stoppers, just to, to transition to somebody else that returned to practice as well. I owes Malik Harrison and Malik Harrison, his career has been, it's been interesting because I remember when the Baltimore Ravens first drafted him, I want to say in 2020, because I think he came out with Patrick Queen. He did. He was fourth round pick, I want to say, but whatever he was drafted at, yeah. I thought that, because I really envisioned that it was going to be him and Patrick Queen as the primary inside linebackers of the future for the Baltimore Ravens. And it obviously didn't work out like that, but Malik Harrison has definitely found himself a respectable role on this Baltimore Ravens defense and on special teams as well. But he was somebody else that was added to the list of guys that returned to practice. So with Malik Harrison, how do you feel like him being back on the field for the Ravens could help them out? Malik, Malik's role is interesting. Like you said, he, he was drafted as like a off ball linebacker kind of in what we thought, well, what we haven't wrote on, I think that's what we thought position wise, not play wise, position wise. That's what I thought we was going to get in Malik. But now he's pretty much transitioned to a first, second down outside linebacker. And I think he is the best edge setter on the team as far as, you know, in those run situations, you know, first and 10 or maybe some kind of second and short, maybe he does a good job of setting the edge and forcing stuff back to the inside, the Queen and Roque one. And, and if he's not the best one, I always may be the best one, but having him and away back, you can kind of set your, your defense and funnel stuff to the middle of the defense to those defensive tackles and to Queen and Roque one. Now, I didn't think Malik would have a role, especially once we got a Roque one, but he didn't find a niche and his niche is being that first down outside linebacker slash edge guy. And if we stop him on first down, use your Malik running off the field because he come to pass rushes. And if they get a first down, you see Malik come on back because he's out there for run down. So if, in order for him to stay, then he's going to have to develop some pass rush moves. Now he may have some, we just don't see him because he's not out there on passing downs, but he's a, he's a great edge setter. He's great versus the run. He does a good job of taking on blockers, like when they pulling pull, or when they pull or they send full back setting, his physicality, and we already knew he was physical from that Tennessee Titans game a couple of years ago. So his physicality plus learning that new position, he's done a great job of setting the edge. And I think it's going to be good to keep them behind the sticks. Yeah, that's true. And this is why I appreciate bringing on somebody like you who has extensive knowledge, especially when it comes to film study, because I would have never even thought about that, about him being out there primarily on a run defense and setting the edge and them sort of, like you mentioned, filtering everything to the middle. So that's a really, really good point. Now, we're going to go off track a little bit right here, but I know for you, for you, this will be right on track because there's this one player on the Baltimore Ravens. A lot of people, they just had not been a fan of him for a long time, but over the past year and a half, I think a lot of people's tune has changed on him, that being Patrick Queen. How do you feel about just the emergence of Patrick Queen, the success of Patrick Queen, all pro second team, Patrick Queen, because while it wasn't the first team, all pro, second team, all pro is still amazing because that is still some of the best of the, because again, every team got what 53 players on it, they still got practice squad guys and there's 32 teams in the league. That's a lot of people. I don't feel like doing the math right now, but that's a whole lot of players. And for you to be considered one of the best of the best, even if it's second team, that says a lot. And I know you are somebody who has said a lot about Patrick Queen. So how are you feeling about just his emergence and his success and what he's done, especially over the past two years with the Baltimore labels? I think this is my opportunity to say, I told you. I told you, I told you. And not you in particular, but just the masses, the masses. I always, whenever he does something good, I kind of go back to, I got a, I took a screenshot of, he did something and I was telling people to be quiet. That's my PQ thing. If you look at my Twitter, that's the little caption. A PQ stand, but I'm excited for the fellow man. I hate that he potentially may finish his career somewhere else because he's really priced himself out. Now, I knew he was pretty much gone, but to get that all pro, that means that boy couldn't break the bank. That couldn't break the bank. I think it was three on the first team. I think it was two on the second team. So that means he's one of the best five linebackers in the NFL. One of the best five. So like you were saying, second team is no slaps because that AP, all pro team is the one they put in your contract. Like if you make this, you might get this bonus. You know, his incentives or whatnot. So for him to gradually become that has been great to see, especially for me because I was defending them before Roe even got here. I was like, just, just give it time. Cause people, what people don't know is he came to LSU as a running man. Oh, I ain't doing that. Then his last year, he wasn't even a starter that last year. He was behind the some backup linebacker that's in Cleveland right now. So he took over as the starter like game two. And then, which was his second year playing linebacker. And so when he got to Baltimore, that was his third or fourth year playing linebacker. Period, period. So it took him a minute to kind of, and he still ain't perfect. He had a lot better than he was when he got here. Now, some people will attribute Roekwon. That's the Roekwon. I had to push back on that. Roekwon does have some effect, but the kid was playing well before Roekwon got here. Was he at an all pro level? Probably not. Probably not. But he was playing some pretty darn good football before Roekwon got here. And then Roekwon got here and provided leadership for the entire defense and not just him, it took off. Yeah, it took off. And it's been, it's been really, really nice to see. I was pleasantly surprised this off season because I remember when they first traded for Roekwon Smith, I was like, oh yeah, Patrick Queen is gone. But my hope was that, all right, Patrick Queen got another year left on his deal. Hopefully they can ride this thing out even though I know Baltimore Ravens, they like trading people when they're in the last year to deal if they don't intend on resigning them because they want to get something rather than nothing. But I was hoping that they would make an exception for Patrick Queen because we've seen it in the past with guys like Hayden Hurst. They weren't going to resign him. They shipped him off Orlando Brown, Jr. They weren't going to resign him. They shipped him off Hollywood Brown. They weren't going to resign him. They shipped them off. So I was really hoping that it would not happen with Patrick Queen. And I'm so glad that they kept him. There's a very small chance. I don't think it's going to happen. Because like you mentioned, that all protests on there, that's like, you can't take that off. That's on his resume. And he's going to, just him and his agent, they're going to talk to the Costa and I just, because I think their priority is going to be resigning Madabique. I think they really want to keep Patrick Queen. But you can't, like, well, I mean, you could. I mean, you could. Is this tough? Right. Yeah, you can't disrespect him, man. You can't get, because the only way that he could, in my opinion, the only way that he could stay with the Baltimore Ravens is if he signs for a disrespectfully low deal. And I would hate to see him do that. I would hate to see anybody do that. I agree. But especially with everything that he's been through. Like, I remember, I love that video of Eric Dacasa telling him, like, hey, you made, was it the Pro Bowl, I think? Yeah, you made the Pro Bowl. And he broke down. Yeah. That was real right there, man. So just. I missed my opportunity to chat with PQ this year. I got a good friend of mine that's, he knows Derek Stingley's dad. So Derek Stingley put on this camp in Hawaii this summer. A bunch of NFL players went out there to train or whatever. And so this friend of mine, he was one of the coaches of that camp. And he knows about my channel and whatnot and how I feel about Patrick Queen that we've had in conversations. And so he facetimed me this summer. But because Hawaii is so far behind us, I was. I was. So I missed that opportunity to chat with him and whatnot. And you know, I was going to ask him to come on. Yeah, for sure, man. You know what? One thing that I've learned, because that's it, literally the same exact thing happened to me back in 2018 to where one of my guys, he worked at a hotel down here where the Baltimore Ravens were staying at. And he knew it was right when we drafted Lamar Jackson. Well, the year we drafted Lamar Jackson, he was working at a hotel where the Ravens were staying at that year for, I think, a pre-season game. Maybe they took on the Dolphins. Because, yeah, RG3 was hit at your ear. So he hit me up on FaceTime, literally the same exact thing. Hit me up on FaceTime. Lamar Jackson standing right next to him. But I always leave my phone on loud. But I was taking a nap. I was so tired. And I put my phone on silent. And I wake up. See FaceTime, Mrs. FaceTime called me. Well, OK, what he FaceTime me for? So I called him back and he told me. But one thing that I learned is that, even if you miss an opportunity initially, if it's meant to happen, it's going to happen. It's going to come back around again somehow, someway. And you're definitely going to get that opportunity again. So I will not be surprised when you do have Patrick Queen on your channel. So you could talk to all of them. Manifest. So yeah, I ain't going to be surprised when it does happen. Not if, but when it does go down. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That should be fun, man, because just being able to hear the players, it's fun hearing each other speak about the Baltimore Ravens and whatnot. But then getting that view and that just being able to hear the players speak about what they go through, everything that happens on the field. And even off the field, too, that's special as well. So coach, I appreciate you. This was real fun. This was a real show. Oh yeah, for sure. I appreciate your time. Appreciate your willingness to come on. And again, everybody that's watching team, keep it clean. Go show my guy love. I know a lot of y'all already do. 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