 You two team keep it clean. What's going on is the Blackstone Coast. Steve Austin here with another video. And in this video, we had to talk about something that has been asked for a little while now by a lot of Ravens fans. And that's if the Ravens should move on. If the Ravens should let go, if the Ravens should fire their defensive coordinator, Don Martindale. Now, first and foremost, do we think it's going to happen? No, not right now. In order for it to happen, it would just have to take a colossal breakdown where Ravens are literally just giving everything up. Sort of like that bingles game. It would probably have to take a couple of those. And even I just feel like with the relationship that he has, that Wink has with the coaching staff, with hardball and whatnot, I just feel like it would be so hard for them to make this move. And the same with Greg Roman. It's all the same stuff. And it's almost like a gift and a curse with how they have this strong, this family-oriented bond with the coaching staff and whatnot. That's a good thing. That's a beautiful thing. You love that, especially in a work environment. You love when your work family becomes family. But at the same time, when your work family becomes family, it can get in the way of business. And if you have a family member, AKA a co-worker that's making some bad decisions, it can really get in the way of business big time. And it can sort of hold the business back from the business succeeding a lot more and being a lot better than what it could be. But anyway, should the Ravens fire Wink, Martindale? Well, what brought a lot of people to this question, to this conclusion, to this statement? One of my guys, shout out to DTV, is because he brought this up so long ago, so long ago this season. And I remember when he first said it, he put it out there on Twitter, and this is one thing that I always say, never, never let anybody make you feel bad for your opinion on anything, whatever it might be. Because especially if your opinion differs from everybody else. Because just because your opinion is different from everybody else's, it doesn't mean it's wrong. It's just your opinion. And with his opinion, he brought this up so long ago. I feel like it was like maybe like two months ago. And he was wondering, he said, cause the scheme is just, it's not it. It's not it. And then, and a lot of people looked at him like it was crazy, a lot of people had all these crazy responses to him and whatnot. But I know right now, he's gotta be sitting back and laughing. And it is a legitimate question, because with Wink, and think about this too, cause I know last week, last week when we brought up the question, oh, should the Ravens fire Grave Roman? A lot of people thought, oh man, that's such an overreaction. You guys are overreacting just because the Ravens lost the game. It really wasn't. And now this right here, this question shows that again, that this is not a new question or anything like that. And this is not an overreaction because the Ravens won the game. They won the game yesterday against the Bears. But the thing in the Bears game is it's not, it didn't just happen in the Bears game. There's been patterns. There are patterns this year that we've been seeing over and over and over and over again. It's been repetitive madness, repetitive madness. And the reason I say that is because with the Ravens and their defense, their defense is depleted. They are hurt. You're missing Marcus Peters. That's huge. Now you're missing Deshaun Elliott. And in other games, you were missing different guys, but in this game against the Bears alone, you were missing Anthony Averett as well. You were missing Jimmy Smith too. Like those are some big names to your deal, especially Anthony Averett. Jimmy Smith, he ain't been playing so much. But Anthony Averett missing him was here. He's been starting a whole year corner for Marcus Peters. And so he was out. So it was on Marlon Humphrey and Chris Westry. Chris Westry was having a rough game. And the Ravens, they in wink, they continue to put him in bad positions. He continued to put him in bad positions. Now I know that the play that's been getting talked about so much has been the fourth and 11. And some people say, oh man, well, that's on Chris Westry because he bit, he bit too early. Well, no, actually him biting was because he didn't want to give up the first down. And if the receiver caught the ball at that first down marker, then the Bears didn't feel good territory. But anyway, he bit and that was rough. It was a little bit of a yikes. Cause again, he was struggling. And this was the most action that he had got all year. And he was struggling, but they gave up that touchdown. But the fact that he had been struggling this game, now he didn't make some good plays too now. He didn't make some good plays too. But the fact that he had been struggling and Wink still put him on an island with the game on the line. I respect that you got trust for your players. You obviously got big trust for your players. Maybe that slogan went a little too far. Coordinators got it too, but it's all good. But I respect that you got trust for your players. But at the same time, you need to trust your eyes and what you've been seeing throughout the game. And the game had been a big yikes for Chris Westry. We love Chris Westry. But we gotta call it what it is. He was struggling. He was struggling. So the fact that he's struggling, why would you put him in such a critical, crucial, crunch time situation? I ain't even think that all of them Kurds were gonna go like that to see all of that. Anyway, why would you put him in that situation? Why would you do that? Now, Heartball had a presser today. Well, at least when I'm recording this today, when you'll see it, it'll probably be tomorrow. But anyway, Heartball had a presser. And in his presser, they asked about the whole fourth and 11 call. And Heartball said that sometimes a quick death is the best. And what he meant when he said that, he was sort of defending the call, defending that Blitz call. And he was saying, well, if obviously if they would have stopped him, stopped the Bears, that would have been the best, that would have been a good scenario. But then he said, oh, but since we didn't stop them and they scored quickly, well, that's another good scenario because they don't bleed out and they don't drain out the clock. So we have a chance with the ball. Cause it was seeming like it was gonna be one of them games the way it is. The team that has the ball last in their hands, they were gonna win. And I was like, okay, cool explanation, but no, no. Yeah, it did work out. Tyler Huntley and the offense, they moved the ball downfield, end up getting the game winning touchdown, but it should not have come to that. And he even brought up the famous fourth and 12. He was like, oh, in the fourth and 12 game against the Bengals a couple of years ago, cause Andy Dalton, same quarterback against the Bengals a couple of years ago. He said, oh, fourth and 12. Remember that? He said, in that game, we played Tampa two and look what happened. Gave up a touchdown. So he was letting it be known that things happen. And it's not an end all be all if you had had help on the back end, but still, even with hardball saying that, which is, it is true. There's no given. And hardball did say that somebody was late. They had a late blitzer too. So somebody got after Andy Dalton, just a tad bit too slow. But regardless, I can't go for that one. I'm sorry. I can't. What am I apologizing for? I'm not sorry, but I can't go for that one because it's the situations. And again, this is not the first situation. I take you back to just not even back to the Bengals game. Just all year, all year, guys have been running wide open on Ravens defense every single game. We think about Albert Wilson again. Oh my goodness. In that Dolphins game, running free, like free, free. There was another receiver that broke for a free one too. I forgot who it was, but run, literally running free, free. Like, oh, no Ravens are gonna catch me because I'm running free. Like, man, we go to the Vikings game. Oh, goodness gracious. That game, what was that? Justin Jefferson, well, that was, I think that was more on Chuck Clark though. So, cause Chuck Clark, he came up a little too much. And Justin Jefferson, oh, you wanna go up there like that? Okay, I'm out. So I won't even put that one on Wink. And the Dalvin Cook, that was just a great play. So I don't even, I won't even put that on Wink. I even take out the Vikings game. But the Bengals game, your cornerbacks, you keep putting your cornerbacks on an island. Oh, boy, they were trying Anthony Averett early on in the game, but he was holding it down. They were trying him, he was holding it down, so he showed you, hey, I'm on my island, I'm on my Averett island, and they keep trying me, but I'm holding it down, coach. But then they were like, oh, you know what? Anthony Averett, no, no, no, no, no. Let's go over to that other Bama corner. Let's try Marlon Humphrey. Let's see what he's about this game. And Marlon Humphrey got dogged. And he was getting dogged all game, but the fact that you kept him on an island, you kept him on an island. See, this is the frustration for me personally. Well, it's not personal, of course, but this is my own frustration with Wink. Again, nothing personal, y'all already know that. But with Wink, it's been a problem all year long. You see guys struggling. You see guys struggling, but you continue to leave them on an island. You do not put them in positions to where they can succeed. Now, another thing with Patrick Queen, obviously recently he's been balling. The dude has been looking great. His confidence has been looking like it's way up, because it has been. And I told y'all, I was naive to this. I did not know that, I know he was like a one-year starter. He ain't been starting too long in the college ranks, but I did not know that he had never been the Mike Linebacker. He was always a Will. And the Mike Linebacker, it's just like a Batman and Robin thing. Mike is a Batman. Will is the Robin. But so the Raven's from Jump. Not that he couldn't handle it or anything like that, but from Jump, they had him playing sort of out of position. But even with that last year, I didn't even think he did too bad. There were some times where he just looked a little bit lost, but it was a COVID season. He was a rookie. It's Raven's defense, where you got to do like a 50 million things. Oh, okay, cool. One thing, you know what, we'll wait for that. But anyway, so that's with Patrick Queen. But with him, like I said, he'd been balling over these past couple of weeks. But look, oh, that's what happens when he's put in the right position to succeed. See that immediate difference like that. Immediate difference like that. So that's, it's just so frustrating when you see it over and over and over and over. Chief's game. You, and no, no, let's go back to the Raiders game. My guy's kept the goal. He let it be known at that first drive. Derek Carr just missed him. But Henry Ruz is wide open, wide over, running down the field. And then we saw Darren Waller, like he was eating that game, eating. And then we go to the, and on the last drive of the game, I don't know what that, the overtime with Marlon Humphrey just stopped. I don't know what happened on that play. I don't even remember. But Zay Jones, he just, okay. Oh, y'all wanna leave me? Okay. And then Marlon Humphrey like, oh, you know what I'm done. Chief's game. We're not blitzing Patrick Mahomes nearly as, not nearly as we used to, which was a great pleasant surprise. But where's the, where'd the safety go? I remember that Marlon Humphrey touchdown that he gave up to Pringle. One on one. He just got doled. He just got, but was it Pringle? Was it the Marcus Roberts? I forgot who it was, but he just got doled. But in that game, you know what? I give Winkers credit on that one because minus Travis Kelsy, even though Malik Harrison just, they tried, they tried Malik Harrison on Travis Kelsy. He just, he couldn't hold him. And I can understand why. That's Travis Kelsy. That's one of the best, if not the best tight end in the game. So the fact that he couldn't hold him, I ain't got no problem with that. But even who do we play after that? The Lions game. Oh, the Lions game. First half, oh, we had him. Oh yeah, we were doing our thing in that first half. But second half, they adjusted and they kept hitting us with these screens, these passes behind the line of scrimmage that were going for big yards to DeAndre Swift and to, I want to say, Khalif Rehman. They're wide receiver who looks just like Willie Snead. They were getting us with it, getting us with it. Now in that game, I do give Wink credit too because he did hold the Lions down for the most part. And that was just a Hollywood game where he took all them points away from the Ravens. And then there's the Coles game. Oh gosh, the Coles game. That's big screenplay. I don't even remember what kind of defense we called in that game. But in that game, Anthony Averett was getting dogged. Dogged, he was getting demolished. It was his help. He was getting dogged. Really the whole defense, that game. That game, they were all over the place. And then finally the Ravens, the offense wasn't helping anything for the longest, but then they decided, oh, you know what? Oh, oh, we got a game tonight. All right, let's show up. But Averett was getting dogged in that game. You got to help these guys out. You guys too. Now the Broncos game, that one ended up good. That was a good one. The Chargers game, ooh, I was surprised by how that went, but that one, it ended up good. Despite the interceptions from Lamar, despite those, it still ended up good. So he did his thing in that one. Because again, it hasn't been all bad. But there's been enough bad to where it's like, how is this still happening? And one of the biggest reasons that is, that one of the biggest reasons it's so frustrating is because so many guys are out. One thing that I've seen a lot of people bring up recently, maybe having all these good players on defense sort of covered things up for Wink. That's what a lot of people are feeling like. Because he's had guys like, he's had Earl Thomas, he's obviously had Terrell Suggs, he's had, who else did he have? I mean, obviously, Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters, Chuck Clark, he's had like Matt Judon. He's had some nice players in there that may sort of blanket the scheme and how bad it can be. And then they can sort of make up for it at times. And when you have that, like, because I know there was somebody that brought up, oh, remember when he was a defensive coordinator for the Broncos, and they had like the 30th ranked defense, something like this, or maybe 32nd. I think maybe it was with 32nd, whatever it was. Like he didn't have all these star players then. And I think they were saying, oh, a lot of his star players were injured on that Broncos team. And now, all right, we're seeing it now too. But again, the injuries are not even my thing because no injuries suck, injuries are terrible. They take great players out of the game and they change everything, but adjust. You gotta adjust to it. You gotta change stuff. Now let's look, cause shout out to film study Ravens, cause you know, he brings out the numbers. Cause a lot of people talk about 4th and 11th, 4th and 11th, 4th and 11th. Cause context matters. But even though the context with that play alone, I don't like it. I don't like it. And again, we talked about too with the 4th and whatever it was in 2018, LeBar's rookie year, when Baker made, when CJ Mosey got the pick, that one in division, he sent the house then. He didn't cover zero then. Everybody get a man and we blitz him. So yeah, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But guess what? He didn't have a bunch of injured people on the defense in that game. Sure didn't. And he had a pretty good defense back then. Really good defense back then. But anyway, film study Raven, he said on the five snaps leading to the 49 yard touchdown pass that put the Bears up 13-9, the Ravens rushed six men. But then the Bears passed it to the left for six yards. So that's when they rushed six. Then they rushed six men again and the Bears passed it to the right for four yards. Then he said they rushed eight men. There was an incompletion. They rushed six men. There was an incompletion. And then they rushed eight men. And it was a 49 yard touchdown. So they sent them. They were sending them. And there was some good and there was some bad and then there was some really bad. But then he said earlier in the game, they rushed, oh, there was a play in the fourth quarter where they rushed nine people. He said it resulted in an incompletion though. And then a play in the second quarter where they rushed seven people, it also resulted in an incompletion. Then a play in the first quarter where they rushed six people, it also resulted in an incompletion. And he said that they had a lot of success prior to giving up the touchdown, the famous fourth and 11. Well, yeah, the famous fourth and 11. So I still don't like it. I don't like it. And you know what? Justin Fields and Andy Dahl, they missed some too. They missed some guys too. So it could have been worse. It wasn't, which was great. And you know what? I don't like all the coulda, woulda, shoot and all that stuff. So the end result, they won. But the end result is gonna be, it's gonna be out of the playoffs quickly if they don't fix this. They like, and I'm not out here saying, oh, all right, you gotta go, bye. You gotta get out of here. No, but it has to be fixed. It has to be because you've been getting away with it. And it's great. Oh, getting away with it's great. And if we can get away with it always in the Super Bowl, great, awesome. But the competition is going way up. It's going way up, way up. You're playing the Browns twice. You're playing the Steelers twice. And I know some people say, oh, man, Browns are sorry now. This is a division game. Some people say, oh, Steelers, man, they ain't doing it. It's a division game. And y'all know how these division games go. Y'all know. So you're playing these two teams and you're playing the Bengals again who already whooped you. And they took advantage of you not giving your cornerbacks help. And it's like the worst part about the Bears game yesterday was that, again, it's been the same thing. If your cornerbacks, you're starting cornerbacks this year. If they've been needing help, you ain't been giving it to them. But if they've been needing help, you've been putting them on an island and they've been struggling. How could somebody who just got activated last week and they're starting for the first time in forever? Maybe, I think they first start ever. How could you keep putting him on an island? How could you do that? I don't get that, man. I don't understand that. I really don't. So this has to get fixed like ASAP. It gotta get fixed like yesterday, for real, because if it doesn't get fixed, I guess we'll start looking the next year. Like you're going against, again, Browns twice, Steelers twice, Bengals, you're going up against Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, you're going against Matt Stafford. Oh, like, if you don't fix this, you are going to be reminded very fast that of how much it needs to be fixed. You're gonna be reminded very fast. So this is, again, this is not an overreaction to one game. This has been happening throughout the season. Throughout the season. So it's not anything new. And we know Wink got that, and John Hubbell said it too. On that fourth, he said, he said, Wink stuck to the game plan. That's been one of my biggest problems this year too. One of my biggest problems. Offense, defense, definitely defense though. It's been one of my biggest problems this year with this team is that, all right, I know they have game plans. I know they create game plans. We know that they create game plans every single week for every team that they go against. But if it's not working, if you see somebody struggling, you gots to make adjustments. You got to make adjustments. You have to. If you don't make adjustments, people are gonna adjust to you. And if they adjust to you without you returning the favor, you're done. You're done. So hopefully they can get this thing fixed and get this thing right. Cause if they don't, oh, you get, oh, they get a big test next week with them Browns coming to town. Sunday Night Football, the world is watching. You under the lights. So they better be on point. Say you can't be clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Mm, mm, mm. We out.