 With Michael Pierce not having been able to practice, does this put Gerald Willis in prime position to break out? What were the top 5 NFL fan bases by loyalty? For his age and position, what does Lamar Jackson need to do to show that he's a leader? These and much, much more on this episode of NFL Questions From Subscribers. YouTube, Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is engraving here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions From Subscribers, a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL Questions From Subscribers, just send me a DM on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, or if you don't have either one of the four, you can send me an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. We got plenty to answer so let's go ahead and jump straight into it. Next question came from my boy Ice, Ice Bryan. He said, with the reports coming out that Michael Pierce is out of shape, do you believe that Gerald Willis will break out this year? I felt like Gerald Willis was going to break out this year regardless of Michael Pierce. Before we even found out that Michael Pierce was doing overtime in the kitchen, I already felt like Gerald Willis was going to be a beast man. But I still think Michael Pierce is going to be fine. But Gerald Willis on his defensive line, he's going to get plenty of opportunity too just so they can keep that rotation even more fresh so that that means the guys can be that much more effective than they already will be. So I think regardless of Michael Pierce, Gerald Willis is still going to put in some nice work. Next question came from my boy Cody Helton. He said, I'm a Packers fan, but do you think your Ravens will have a more dynamic receiving core with the addition of rookie wide-out smiles Boykin and Marquise Brown? I definitely think so. Reason being because they are young and another big reason is because now the Ravens will have some people that can do some damage after the catch. That's not something that the Ravens had last year like really at all. The guys just catch the ball and they couldn't really make people miss. They didn't really have any like blaze and speed anything like that. They can make some plays now, but it just their playmaking was limited. That's the best way to explain it. Their playmaking was limited. But now with these young guys, these fast guys, these hungry guys, and not to say that guys last year weren't hungry, but with these younger guys, they'll have more ability to make something happen with their hands on the ball. So I'm excited for that. Next question came from my boy Quizi. He said, how many 1,000 yard receivers will we have? And he says, three. Hmm, OK. I'll say maybe like two. I'll say Mark Andrews, unless he's being like technical, when he means like wide receivers and not just pass catchers. But I would say, hmm, I think Willie Snead, like I said, would get like six to seven hundred, six, like 750. I think Marquise Brown, he could get it. If he's healthy week one, he could just start hitting the stride, man. I would say I would say two at the most. I don't think it'll be three. I would say two at the most. And I even feel like maybe two might be stretching it. But I would say two at the most. Next question came from my guy Skepta Goat. He said, what are the top five NFL fan bases by loyalty? I mean, which fans stick by their team no matter what? Sorry. But Ravens, don't make the list in my book. Oh, you do not need to apologize for that. Don't apologize for the truth. Please don't apologize for the truth. It's not necessary at all. I say Cowboys, Raiders, Steelers, Packers, and. Oh, he said Cowboys twice. So Cowboys, Raiders, Steelers, Packers. And then he put Cowboys again. But maybe he just in such a rush to put Cowboys because he just knew that they were one of the top ones. And honorable mentions, Browns, Eagles, Jets. But those first five, their fans are everywhere. Yeah, Cowboys fans are definitely everywhere if they mention twice on your top five list. It's all good though, man. Win or lose, annoying everybody. And I know I put the Cowboys fans on there twice. That's how annoying and omnipresent they are. See, oh, look at that. He did that on purpose. I thought he did it on accident. I hadn't even read the whole thing yet. He did that on purpose. I like that. He caught me. He caught me slipping. I thought I caught him slipping, but he caught me slipping. Wow, he got me good with that one. Top five NFL fan bases by Loyalty, Browns, Browns are up there. Browns definitely, I don't think Browns are an honorable mention. I think Browns are definitely up there because Browns, they been, it's been ugly for a long time. It's been ugly for a long time. But they fans, they still show out. I don't think, and of course, yeah, Cowboys are in there too. Steelers, definitely. And these are some fans, like Cowboys fans, Steelers fans and Jets fans too. Jets fans, those are fans that you can literally find anywhere in the world, or in the country. I don't know about the world, but in the country. And Giants fans too. You can find those guys everywhere. Cowboys, Steelers, Jets and Giants. You will find, if you go to any sports bar on any given Sunday, you will find, you will find a good amount of them too. Wherever you go, it does not matter. Doesn't matter, because they're everywhere. They're everywhere, but he said, based off of Loyalty, the fans that stick by their team no matter what, I would say definitely Browns. Eagles fans, they're wild. But Browns, Cowboys, yeah. Oh, Raiders, yeah, Raiders for sure too. Steelers, so Browns, Cowboys, Raiders, Jets. And I put this, because I don't know why I put it like this, but Browns, Browns, Raiders, Steelers, Jets. And, oh yeah, Cowboys, Cowboys. So yeah, that would be my list. This was a fun question. Yeah, you got me pretty good on that one. I wasn't ready for that. Next question came from a guy, a young astronaut. He said, engraving, I got an out there question for you. All right, so let's take it to space. He said, I think one of the reasons why it is so hard to beat the Patriots is because they change how they play offense and defense every week, depending on who they play. And that can make it hard to prepare for them because of the limited time coaches will have to look at their tape. I think that, I feel like offensive coordinators or coaching staffs should prepare differently for each team every week and not just do the same thing. If the same thing is working, I understand that, but I think you should prepare a little bit differently every week for every team. But let's keep going. He said, because of how the Patriots are, because of how the Patriots are the powerhouse in the AFC and any team most likely has to play them to go to the Super Bowl or to win the Super Bowl. Wouldn't it make sense if you think you can win a Super Bowl to hire someone to scout them all year so you can have someone on your staff who knows both teams like the back of their hand? I'm not saying that person's gonna be able to tell you how to beat Tom Brady and the crew, but in a game of inches, doesn't it make sense to have every advantage? So my guy, young Ashton, I wants to have a year-long scout, specifically for the Patriots. But then, I mean, yeah, that would be taken away from all the other teams that you got a scout to week to week because if you have somebody dedicated to just checking on a Patriots, what if you don't even play them all year? And what if you don't even make it to the playoffs? Like, I feel like that would just be giving them too much attention. Now, we know that the Super Bowl has been running through them for like 50 years now, it seems. And the playoffs and all that good stuff. But if you dedicate one person, somebody on your staff, somebody on your scout team, somebody just to scout the Patriots to see what they do, to watch them. I feel like that would be taken away from your game plan each and every week for whatever team you're getting ready to go up against. So, I don't think they should do that. I think you should just try to look at film. When it's your time to play the Patriots, look at film. See what their weaknesses are. Look to see, and don't just look for their weaknesses in the games that they lost, but look for their weaknesses in the games that they won too. And really try to take advantage of everything. Everything. And also, see what they don't, and this will be part of their weaknesses, but see what they have trouble defending. See what they have trouble adjusting to. If you got to do a Uptempo offense, do that. If you got to slow it down, Uptempo works a lot better against the Patriots. We've seen that, especially with Flacco. So, now I wouldn't have a year-long scout on the Patriots, I wouldn't do that. Next question came from a guy, Spencer. He said, I don't know if you saw the latest video posted to Raven's website as of right now, and then this was a few days ago. He said, but during Media Day today in Baltimore, they filmed a video that will be played on the Jumbo Tron during games. Tyus Bowser was one of the Raven's players featured in the video that the media team put together. Do you see this as a sign that they are gaining confidence in Bowser and he will make the rest of this year, or this is a non-factor? Keep doing your thing, man, love the videos. They appreciate that, man. I think it's a non-factor because with any video that you record, with anything that you have to edit to put together, if you make a mistake on there, if something is in there that you don't want to be in there anymore, all you have to do pull up that video editing software, edit, cut, and delete. Just him being part of the video package that they plan on playing at M&T Bank, it doesn't mean that he's gonna make the team. He got a long way and a long road to make this team, but him being part of the video package for now, it definitely doesn't mean that he's gonna make it. So I wouldn't pay that, no mind. Next question on Facebook, I gotta stop doing this because it doesn't let me see the names how Instagram does. But anyway, the question was, should the player's names be engraved on the Lombardi Trophy like they are on the Stanley Cup in hockey? So should the football NFL players' names who win the Lombardi be engraved on the Lombardi like they are on the Stanley Cup? Now with the Lombardi I believe they get their own every year. But my guy Thomas, he was explaining to me the entire process of the Lombardi Trophy. He was breaking some stuff down for me as far as hockey and this is what he said. He said, you asked for a rundown on hockey in the stream yesterday and what he said is, he said as the resident hockey nut of Team Keep It Clean, I got you covered and it ties into the question that I sent you most recently. Game seven of the Stanley Cup finals was the night that he sent the email and he said, unlike the other major professional sports in which a new trophy is made and awarded each year, hockey has one Stanley Cup. The trophy is over 100 years old and I didn't know that. I had no idea about that. And he said in the team that wins it has their names engraved on it for all of time. At a certain point, the older rings are removed from the top of the cup and put on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Too often you hear about NFL players of falling on hard times and selling their Super Bowl rings. Yes, Ravens have had a few too. I think it would be good for them and for their families to have their achievement recorded on the Lombardi Trophy so that their kids or grandkids could see it there many years later. They could engrave the names down to the rear or down the two rear thirds of the base of the trophy and put the trophies in display cases that can be viewed from all sides. NHL Hockey has the same scheduled format as NBA with 82 regular season games and four rounds of seven game series in the playoffs. That I didn't know either. There's an Eastern and Western Conference each broken down into two divisions. Seattle's expansion franchise will bring the total number of teams to 32 for the 2020 season. See, I didn't know that. Hockey is still more obscure in the United States in part because it's lack of elite level U.S. born players and lack of racial diversity. However, both of these things are changing as youth hockey has grown and continues to grow in the United States and it's hockey playing nations. Oh, there it goes. Hockey playing nations in North America and Europe become increasingly diverse. There are a couple of Asian American players right now with Suzuki looking like he will have a bright future in Vancouver. There's a surprisingly rich history of black hockey players too. I definitely didn't know that because any time that I looked at hockey, I didn't see no black on it at all. But he said, Granford had an incredible career as a goalie for Team Canada, most notably for the Edmonton Oilers team of the 80s where he played with fellow legends Wayne Gretzky. Okay, we all heard about him before. And Mike Madonna. Willie O'Ree was also inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame last year. He was the first black NHL player making his debut in 1958. And last year, both Las Vegas and Washington had black players skating in the finals. See, I had no idea, man. They're also the Southern brothers, P.K. and Malcolm P.K. Southern, who were actually on the cover of EA Sports NHL game a couple of years ago after being key players in Nashville's run to the finals. It's a great sport to watch. The action is non-stopping. There's a good bit of both skill and strength involved in the game. The players are tough as nails, both teams left in the finals, St. Louis and Boston, currently have defensive and skating with broken jaws. Wow. Hope you get a chance to check out the game. I'll try to find a good video about Stanley Cup trophy and DM it to you. So shout out to my guy, Thomas, man. Shout out to him, I appreciate that. It almost makes me think that this was him that sent the question from subscriber about should the Ravens, I mean not the Ravens, if the player's name should be engraved on the Lombardi trophies. I don't know if that's him on Facebook or not. But anyway, like I said, the name got cut off. But should they do that? Well, I like the rings. And I like the individual trophies because I feel like with the individual trophies, it's not like something that's passed down or hand me down. I feel like it's really personalized for you and for your team. And it's like, oh, and then of course with the Super Bowl rings and stuff, those are yours. Now the engraving, oh, shout out to the YouTube channel. But the engraving of the names on the trophy, I think that would be cool too. That would be cool because no matter if you lost your ring or not, then it would forever be set right there like, hey, you were part of this team. You were a real deal. And if you end up selling your ring, that could end up making the ring have even more value. If people know that your name is on there and then they see you with a real Super Bowl ring, it's like, oh, that is really you. Okay, you were part of that team. Okay, so I'm gonna give you an extra $1,000 for it. So we'll see, man. We're gonna see. But that would be cool if that happened. Have a little engraving on the Super Bowl trophy. But that's, that would be 53 names. And then there'd be other names that is coaching staff too. So that that engraving on the trophy, I don't know, where's it gonna fit? Like all those names. And then if it's so small to the fit all the names, how are you gonna be able to read them? But you know what NFL got the money to figure that out so I ain't even gonna worry about it. Next question came from a boy at T-Rock Stretch. He said, in football, let's use Lamar Jackson for example. How do you determine a leader and how can Lamar Jackson become a leader for his age and the position he plays? How is it possible? We definitely need him to be a leader, right? Mike Vic and RG3 seem to have it right away. And one more question. Do you think that the attendance at M&T Bank will be less because of certain star players playing elsewhere? So for the first question, how do you determine a leader and how can Lamar Jackson become a leader? I think Lamar Jackson's already a leader. He showed that last year and he got 21. He was 21, took over franchise at quarterback. A franchise that had Fleckle there for 11 years. 11 years they knew who their starter was gonna be every single year. And then, boom, all of a sudden in the middle of the season, in a bye week, when Ravens were playing games, and they were playing games even after that. Hardball was playing games. I'm not gonna name my starter. It could be Fleckle, it could be Lamar, it could be RG3, it could be. There ain't nobody. Yeah, I remember all them games though. That was funny though. But anyway, he was a leader last year. Leaders, they take ownership. Leaders put the blame on themselves for the team. If the team has any faults, if the team is lacking in certain areas, leaders will take full responsibility of it. They don't single anybody out. They don't blame anybody else. They don't try to deflect the blame on anybody else. They take it all on themselves. And he showed that he was willing to answer any questions. He got better and better with the media as time went on because that was something that was big to, and then definitely seeing him this year too. Him just working out a lot with the different wide receivers this off season. He's already shown leadership qualities. So I don't think it's a question of if he's a leader or not. It's just, he's already answered that. So he is a leader. He has been leading ever since he stepped into the role, and he's continuing to grow even more as a leader. And for the other question, will there be less attendance at M&T Bank because of certain star players playing elsewhere? That could affect some people, but I don't think it'll affect them that much because I know, yeah, we ain't got an Eric Guero no more. We ain't got two Real Sugs no more, but we do have our Automax. We have a Ranger of free safety who should allow the defense to be that much more fast and a little bit more free too. So that could attract some people. And with Lamar actually him starting from jump this season, a lot is on him. While it has some fans like kind of fall back and whatnot, Lamar Jackson, that guy, give me flackle any day of the week over him. For a lot of other people, they like, oh, let's get it baby. Oh yeah, oh, I'm coming back to the stadium. Oh, I need to buy tickets to that game. And it has a lot more people hype too. So it's a little bit of both, but the stadium's still gonna be packed. It's still gonna be packed. And hopefully there won't be any different games where the fans leave early. If the Ravens are struggling, but I mean, you know how Ravens fans are, so it is what it is. Next question came from a boy, Ger. He said, with Clowney not signing his tag and expected to miss camp, do you think this is a chance for us to swoop in? Whether if it's now or next year. Now I don't think it's gonna happen now, but possibly next year if he becomes a free agent, he's anybody's game. So Ravens, I think they will have a big chance to get them because they'll have a lot more money. But right now, I think that the chances are extremely slim of the Ravens getting Clowney. Yeah, I just, I don't see it happening. I wouldn't mind if it did, but I just don't see it happening at all. Next question came from my guy, Ben Wagner. He said, will the Ravens be interested in trading for Jadavion Clowney? And would they be able to afford him in a multi-year deal? Would they be interested in trading for him? I think they would be to a certain extent, just depending on what the numbers would be, what they would have to give up. Or could they afford him on a multi-year deal? They could, but they would be super crunched with the numbers and it just wouldn't be wise. It wouldn't be wise and they would have to back load it. They would have to seriously back load it because you can't play, I mean, you can't pay, sorry I was reading and talking at the same time, you can't pay him all this big guaranteed money right here, right now because you ain't even gotten that much money. They got like, I think like 11 mil left in cap space, they still got a sign, Miles Boykin, he's the last draft pick to sign there. You know, they'd like to keep some money too, but they couldn't afford it, man. It would really just, next year they'd be able to afford it, but this year for him, you know, he's gonna be one, he's gonna want to be one of the highest paid defensive players in the league. So, nah, they ain't gonna be able to do that right now. Next question came from my guy Evie, AKA Ravenco 52. He said, for Raven Nation, from Buffalo, will the Ravens win the AFC North? Ooh, I really hope they do. Right now I don't see it, but anything is possible. I really hope, I think it all just depends on the offense. The defense, I feel like the defense is gonna be just fine, but it just really depends on the offense. If this offense can get going, I think they will be able to, man, because the offense is just gonna have so many unknowns, because I know a lot of people keep saying, oh, well, now with Mars, he's been figured out since the Chargers did their thing, they figured him out, the Browns helped too, now he can't do it anymore, but they figured out a limited offense. They figured out a limited offense, so now with the offense just being wide open and it being an actual real offense and not just something that's play-playing, just temporary, what would they have figured out now? Next question came from my guy on Facebook. I apologize because the name doesn't show when we've sent multiple messages to my apologies, but he said, what do you think is the best and worst case scenario, record-wise this year for the Ravens? Best case scenario would obviously be 16-0 for regular season and didn't go all the way to the Super Bowl. But I think the best case scenario realistically could be like 11-5, that would be really good if they actually did that, 11-5, that would actually be an improvement from last year. Worst case scenario, I think for them, could be like 7-9, yeah, 7-9, 8-8, 7-9 around there. But yeah, that's what I would say that the best and worst case scenarios are. And he also asked, do you look at this year as a rebuild year with all the change this off-season or is the playoffs and winning record a real possibility? Before I did, before the off-season really started, I was looking into this year as, oh yeah, these dudes, they getting ready to rebuild. They not, this is where a lot of players gonna be let go, won't be re-signed, maybe some trades or whatever, but the Ravens are gonna be looking to rebuild, get young, and then I will compete maybe next year or the year after next or whatnot, but this coming season, I was like, nah. But then they went and signed in Mark Ingram, and they signed in Earl Thomas. I think they signed in both on the same day. And I was like, hold up, wait a minute. Then they went, they got Seth Roberts, they got Michael Floyd, and I was, for those I was like, okay. But then they got a Pernel McPhee, they got a Shane Ray, and they got these dudes in back-to-back days. I'm like, hold up, what's going on here? And they tried to get a Brandon Marshall. They tried to get, or they brought in John Bostic for a workout, but they, basically what I'm saying is that the moves that they made, it showed me like, hey, they not looking to rebuild. They trying to compete like right here, right now. So what I thought was going to be a rebuilding season, Ravens completely shut that down, and they were like, no, we're playing for the here and the now, and we trying to win right now. Next comment had come from my guy, Priage. I was doing a stream, and he was in the stream, so shout out to you, appreciate you being in there. But he had asked the question, like, he was like, man, I wonder when the Ravens gonna get the point return situation figured out. Who's gonna be our point returner? And I was like, in the stream, I was like, did you forget about Cyrus Jones? Like, once he got on, he did really good. He did really good. Well, then he had explained himself. He's like, I knew about Cyrus, but I was speaking about a point returner because it's been an issue since Jacoby Jones, which it has been, just special teams period. Well, return man has been, period. He said, I've been a fan since the beginning. I was an old Browns fan that went with Art Mordell, so I know. So yeah, he been watching him for a minute. But I said, I was like, okay, I got you. And I said, you mean just finding that consistent point returner? He was like, yes, sir. And he said, I knew you would know what I meant if I could explain it. Love what you do and team keep it clean. So I appreciate that, man. Thank you. Thank you. So the point returner, yeah. I mean, with Cyrus Jones, he did this thing last year. He did a really good job at point return last year. I loved him at point return because he looked so comfortable and he was explosive. And that's exactly what we need. And he didn't fumble. I think he fumbled like in one, did he fumble in that Bucks game? I think he fumbled one time, but that was it. We recovered it though. But he just looked comfortable back there. We tried, Gnarrion Grant, Gnarrion Grant looked comfortable back there too, but he fumbled a couple of times and John Harbaugh was like, you know what? You're not Alex Collins or you're not a player that I really like. So I'm gonna make you fumbling issues the reason that we get rid of you. So they cut him. Then they put Tim White back there. Tim White was back there and he just was not explosive at all. He just did not look comfortable. He just looked so timid and scared and they noticed that and they said, okay, yeah, you're gone. Then along came Cyrus Jones and oh boy, it was just beautiful. It was beautiful from that point on. But now Cyrus Jones is in fear in danger of not even making the team. So we got so many cornerbacks like to keep a cornerback that just plays special teams and doesn't even get in on the games on defense. That would be a stretch and I don't see them doing that. But I mean, we'll see. I know they did do it last year obviously with Cyrus Jones but he thinks it's gonna be a lot tougher this year, man because after the draft and just getting through everything. Like we got like 67 cornerbacks on the team right now. So it's gonna be tough for him to make it. It's gonna be real tough for him to make it. So he better do some standout. He better do some standout practices and have an amazing preseason. Next question came from a boy LV Super Gamer. He said, if the Ravens make it to the playoffs again do you think this time they'll go a lot farther? I think so. A lot farther, I don't know about all that but farther, I think they should be able to because now LeMond Company will have another year of experience on this belt. They can hopefully take what they learned from last year's game, last year's playoff game and last year's just season period and build off of that. We'll be like, okay, we were here before, we had some success but let's be ready. Let's have some playing Bs in action. So I think with them having some more playing Bs in action and some just more options as far as offense is concerned then that should allow them to really take stuff to the next level. If they do reach it to that next level that'd be in the playoffs. Team keeping clean. This is a great video. Team keeping clean. Team keeping clean. The man in the green and always keeping the heart in line. Team keeping clean. You already know. Team keeping clean. You keep it clean. Hey, Raven, stop playing with my boy. Team keeping clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Automated. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving? Right engraving.