 so to get us started on this episode of questions from y'all we got to give a huge shout out to the two newest team keep it clean patrons uh one is milton w and the next one is izana appreciate y'all much love to team keep it clean thank you to all of y'all and and to show appreciation let's start off with the very first question from the newest team keep it clean patron uh izan he said good morning engraving hey good morning and when i'm recording this it actually is the morning time um but he said good morning i hope you're having a good day been watching your content ever since the titans lost in the playoffs okay thank you so appreciate it um i also wanted to say thanks for all the work you put in your content has become a part of my daily routine and i appreciate the community uh you and team keep it clean have created hey and that's that's important as far as um the the the community the family really not even community the family um and it's important to just for everybody to know that they're welcome for everybody to know that they can come through uh and for everybody just had fun just have a good time because that's all it's about again with this channel one of my uh first and biggest goals um that i wanted for the channel was for it to be a safe space and a place where everybody because we know that the world it comes with enough struggles and stresses and all that but i wanted this to be an opportunity to people for people to sort of get away from all that for a little bit talk about some football has some fun in the process so i appreciate it uh he said none of my question having looked at the roster as of august 30th um and i'm recording this on august 31st uh so a couple of things could change um but he said i believe the raven should incorporate a lot more for three fronts rather than three four and i also believe that they will uh now with um with mike mcdonnell um i believe that he ran uh multiple types of defense uh over at uh michigan so that could end up happening so you could be spot on he said um i think this is because in a base 34 front you need two outside linebackers and two middle linebackers we currently only have two guys that can play outside linebackers while five that can play middle linebacker and that that is definitely subject to change by the time you see this video it probably will have already changed because there is absolutely no way that they are going into the season with just a doffy away just in houston that's it i mean uh like my god cam he had reminded me of in a previous video they could also put malik here's an outside linebacker but there's no way that they're just going with the guys that they got on the team right now uh they're gonna make a move there for who we'll see um he said but if we switch to a base four three mike mcdonnell ran that at michigan see i should have kept reading um we can better the rotation at middle linebacker and let our pass rushers run forward to the quarterback instead of backwards like there's some db's uh this will also allow calleus gamble to kick back out to the edge where he was very productive back with the jacksonville jaguars lastly uh i have barely heard any news from the ravens first team d line since camp started and this has me thinking they could possibly switch it up and pull a surprise but i don't know really i don't really know what uh is going on right now and those are my thoughts on what front would best fit the roster have a good day and thanks for taking my question now you ain't got to thank me i thank you for supporting now um with uh what you mentioned as far as them doing a lot more four three and three four um for me and it's something that you brought out to you see you talked about how calleus gamble had a lot of success uh with that with the jacksonville jaguars and i think that's what it's about to me that's what it's about with offense with defense with everything uh just putting guys in the best position to where they can have success now you can't always cater to every single player's individual need at the same time um but collectively just coming to an agreement on all right this is where all these guys they can be the most useful that's where they can have the most production that's where they can do what they specialize in the most so hopefully ravens do that hopefully uh in your case which you're speaking specifically about the defense hopefully they do do that i think we all need to stop next question came from my guy outlaw and appreciate you for being a patron he said uh we can't really say what lamar contract will look like it starts with him we don't know if he started at a short contract to match up with the new tv deal or if he started with the ten year deal to the ravens if it comes to the franchise tag so be it with the tag he will be paid like his peers and not underpaid if he wins the superbowl on the tag he will get paid like joe did i hope when he signed his rookie deal he basically signed up for seven years including the franchise tag it's been five years no it's only been four years um and we need him to finish seasons or win the bowl uh who cares how much he makes if he wins it as long as the ravens don't screw up the cap behind his deal love lamar but ah there goes hey i told y'all whenever you hear that you know what's coming next he said uh love lamar but i have loved the ravens longer if he don't want to be here peace i'm pretty sure the ravens are not offering him something disrespectful knowing everyone is waiting to say lamar made a bad deal without an agent hashtag keep it clean uh your thoughts and thanks love the content appreciate it outlaw um when when you first signed your rookie contract especially your first round pick it's a four-year contract um and then it has the fifth year option so you write about that and then it has depending on how things go it has the possibility of reaching the franchise tag but again with the the fifth year option that is it's like with the fifth year option and with the franchise tag and even if it gets to the second franchise tag what are those fifth year options well and what is the franchise tag all of them are essentially proven deals and i'm glad you brought this to my attention because i didn't even think of the fifth year option as one but the the the fifth year option sort of serves as a all right we like you um and we want to keep you around another year uh so we can hopefully get the most out of you okay cool no problem um and then maybe we will even come to a contract extension with you so okay okay i get that and it allows teams to to just have more flexibility allows them to have buy some more time uh until they sign whatever that player is whoever that player is so what's the franchise take it's the same thing it's the same thing just a higher amount because it gives you that player for another year and you obviously haven't signed that player to long-term deal yet uh and it allows the team to buy some time until they can come up with a contract agreement or they'd be like you know what now uh we're straight calamari fifth year option no didn't happen josh allen fifth year option no didn't happen now let me know and there's plenty of the quarterbacks there we can go through all the quarterbacks we don't have to but the fifth year option with lemar jackson i know it takes two so you spot on about that ravens they got to come up with a deal lemar jackson he got to come up with a deal they both got agreed to it so write about that but from your wording it makes it sound like lemar jackson hasn't earned his contract and of course you could let me know if i'm wrong but from from your wording it makes it sound like lemar jackson still needs to earn this contract like he's not deserving of a contract and with that i would disagree next question and i'm gonna let y'all guess what day this question came on uh but it came from hotty and appreciate you being a patron instead my man engraving what's going on lemar has been going off on his twitter this past hour first responding to a fan's comment saying that the ravens did not offer him a 250 million dollar guaranteed contract then he likes a photo of himself in a dolphin's jersey i have a feeling his patience is running thin in a deal is not likely to have him before his deadline what do you think the organization is playing at here much love to you big bro lemar jackson patience running thin huh i mean at this point it could be i mean that they ain't come up with a deal yet and now as of today as of this morning of this recording just about a couple hours ago they restructured ronnie stanley's deal so with them restructuring ronnie stanley's deal um that could make it look like they already went to their last resort as far as getting some money for this season uh and one of the first resource would obviously be for uh lemar jackson to open up a lot of cap space because if he signed an extension that could open up a lot of cap space um but he ain't signed no extension so they went to ronnie stanley um and and brian mcfarland raven salary cap he reported that um that he he would think that that would be an indication that the ravens have given up on striking a deal with lemar this year i mean we'll see so we just we just got to hold our hope um but i'm sure for lemar um it would be frustrating uh because again i try to put myself in issues like man you've been working at a job uh you see a lot of peers that you know uh in the same position that either started around the same time as you or even something after you uh and they got paid you've accomplished a lot uh in a lot of cases you've accomplished some more than some other your peers who got paid um but you still haven't gotten paid yet next question came from one of the newer patrons uh m r.a.p. appreciate you today and graven just wanted to stop in and say thanks for being consistent uh that is so important in entrepreneurship hey i appreciate that thank you all he said now excuse me for josh ross i liked him so much that i had to become a patreon finally i've been watching you for at least a year now uh the last time i spoke up like this lemar jackson was entering the draft and i tweeted the jets to drafting the draft is when i became a ravens fan oh okay so you came in with the monster since 2018 cool cool cool now nonetheless this ross kid looks so instinctive and calculated uh it reminds me of luke keekley a tackle machine maybe even a ray someday oh that's now that's some high praise right there luke keekley and ray louis uh he said this is what we wanted patrick queen to be but he seems more like the second man in charge uh now if we could take a machine and combine josh ross his tackling and patrick queen to speed his athleticism uh just his burst put him together he had a perfect linebacker but anyway um he said ross is sort of ross is soda queen is mentos i think they will compliment each other very well now it all depends on um um how much uh if any playing time that he gets because he made the roster all right that's the first step cool that's great uh will he be active i know special teams is a big thing so it's likely that he'll be active because welch was active for a lot of games um welch also made the roster so we'll see what happens there there because i don't think they'll both be active on game there i think it's gonna either be one or the other but we'll see we won't know till we know um but as far as him complimenting queen that could end up happening slowly but surely because josh binds is not the ravens long-term answer i mean he's been there the answer for the past couple years but he's not the long-term answer um and the ravens they they they clearly need to to find out what's going to happen at inside linebacker over these next over this next season um this next season is huge for inside linebacker since patrick queen uh he is in his third year um so it's time to decide whether they're going to pick up the fifth year option or not so we'll see he said he looked like the best linebacker we have had in years oh wow oh that oh that's how i pray you really really like josh ross he said um his consistency and instincts are what sold me yeah the the instincts official and and yeah the consistency too because he kept doing it like every game uh he said along with his short tackling ability uh what do you think about the potential of him starting mid-season on defense yeah it could happen it could happen it obviously starts with special teams uh but if you get opportunities on defense he would just have to make the most of it next question came from another patron shout out to my guy raven he said ain't graven i got a question for you uh do you think we are going to go far in the playoffs if we make it there i do i think we will make it there but how far can we go hey as as far as the ravens take them in this it's on everybody um it takes a lot uh it takes a lot of stuff just going right for you health uh play calling uh execution just everybody doing their job and then some so if they can get that done they can go as far as they want to next question came from the andre uh and appreciate you being a patron you said ain't graven how are you in the family doing hope all is well yeah everything is really good all you said should we go after there you're slating he will be a huge addition for us and gives us another big body possession wide receiver see what there is slating i was watching some stuff on him a few days ago and i see that he he ain't afraid to go up and get it uh he got some he got some good speed um but he uh he's a smooth route runner not a crisp route runner not like a cutoff cut on a dime type of route runner but he's smooth with it um so i mean i wouldn't be mad at that and then somebody else to for the yak the yak the yak has been something ravens have been missing so if they were to add him to i ain't gonna complain i ain't gonna complain it off they would they want to add another quality wide receiver okay cool but then i think hmm i wonder who the odd man out would be next questions came from my god feel um and he said as and again this is a recording this on august 31st at 10 13 a.m so practice hasn't happened yet but for the past two days anyway he said as we already know ronnie stanley passed his physical and got taken off the puff list but on august 29th they reported on ravens.com that stanley still has not stepped on the field yet and hasn't practiced once yet um hardball had no answer for this and only wanted to talk about the rest of the team so if you ask me i don't see stanley start on week one probably comes off the sideline as a substitute to work his way back if he doesn't start uh one game this season i think edc should try to trade him or do a buyout for the remainder of his contract he couldn't trade he couldn't trade i mean he could trade him but the dead money especially with the restructure that that happened early this morning it would just be a crazy amount of dead money like i think before the restructure his dead money in 2023 would be like 29 mil and that was before the restructure so i think with the restructure would be like 35 mil because restructure was for a little over 6.3 mil so they they wouldn't they just wouldn't be able to do it he also said with the ravens interest uh the ravens uh interest in signing kenyon drake uh does this mean they will release mike davis or trade justice here i think it would mean that jk dobbins will end up going on ire um because i think it would mean that he might just not be all the way ready yet uh but that by the time you see this video we will have the answer to that uh he said this past tuesday on a pat macrophy show they showed the new NFL footballs amazon prime created the ball is thinner and longer than the duke football and travels through the air like rockets saying there are rumors in a video from amazon prime on youtube saying these balls will be used for thursday night football comes september 16th which amazon prime network took over they showed youtube videos russia wilson and herbert throwing them like darts and the video mat staff are throwing them from one end zone to the other end zone you need to go take a look at these things i'm telling you there'll be a lot more throwing on thursday night football this season can they do that can they like use different footballs for thursday night football like that that would be so weird man and i have seen the ball it's like yeah it's like longest it's it's yeah it's weird that would that would be crazy because i mean uh that would be that'd be crazy if that happened um but i guess we we just got to wait and see and the last patron that sent in the question for this episode came from my guy mar and a shout out to mar he said i don't understand why this front office hasn't already paid lemar the moment he walked through those doors you should have given him whatever he was asking for so what if he wants a fully guaranteed contract my thing is you're going to pay lemar a 100 on that contract either way because if it's a five to six year contract you already know you're going to keep them all six of those years anyway why not just go ahead and give him the fully guaranteed deal also i don't think this team is very good without lemar jackson there is in my opinion no other quarterback in this league that can carry this roster week in and week out like lemar ravens better pay lemar soon because as we saw with the browns desperate teams will give lemar whatever he wants and what a way to go out because they sure will you you already know that they will um so yeah ravens just hopefully they get on it sooner rather than later right now it's looking like i don't know what it's looking like right now they got some time that clock is ticking though uh september 11th is right around the corner and lemar said once week one rolls around then all them talks talks gonna get cut off so ravens just hey it i mean obviously the whatever deals they offered him wasn't good enough because if it was good enough then we would hear a lemar jackson a sign of contract dissension with the baltimore ravens but since we haven't heard that yet well yeah this feels like a dream that's what i mean youtube team keep it clean you see my boy he like automated automated well that's my homie ain't that right in graven right in graven