 this has been a very crazy season to say the least it has been filled with a lot of ups and also a lot of downs and everything in between as well but on this special episode of NFL questions from subscribers Lamar Jackson what's going on with him well what is up with Lamar and why has he been in this funk that he's been in for so long will he get out of it can he adjust can he make changes can he play better well let's talk about this so youtube team keep it clean what's going on it's engraving here with another video and a very special episode of NFL questions from subs a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want and we answered in a video just like this if you want to be part of it you can send me an email to team keep it clean at gmail.com if you send it to the wrong email i'm not even putting it anymore no more chances for anybody you send it to the wrong email oops oh well but for the patrons for the patrons you don't have to send it via email you can send it directly 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happened to keith williams and t martin's making dividends in this receiving court it was there at the beginning of the season i don't even remember the last time pro shape caught a ball why are we not using our receivers we invested so much in if your name's not hollywood brown and mark andrew's forget the ball uh we throw like four screen passes a game to hollywood brown that go nowhere it has it where it hasn't worked can we go back to using hollywood as a deep threat i understand lamar hasn't played that great either since the buy but i'm still putting most of this on greg roman i haven't been one of the ones who wants him fired but after piss bird game i'm officially on the we need to fire greg roman right now all right so we start this thing off with marvin bringing it um this the play over the past couple weeks yeah some of the play calling it's been on greg roman but i feel like right now i feel like lamar is a bigger a bigger issue uh than greg roman um you you said it in the uh in your your message and your question you said if your name ain't mark andrew's or marquis brown then you're not getting the ball and that's what it's been with lamar especially over these past couple of weeks lamar has thrown six interceptions to mark andrew's in the past two games five of them counted the sixth one if you remember on the very last drive of the game very last drive of the game lamar snapped the ball through mink of his patrick jumped it it was intended for mark andrew's with mink of his patrick jumped it interception but they said oh no no no no false start oh boy saved it said oh they saved the game with that false start i don't even remember who it was on but regardless it was intended for mark andrew's the interception at the very very beginning of the game the ravens offense is doing something that we like whoa where have these guys been they had they've been doing something at the very beginning of that stealers game that we weren't used to them doing and that's moving the ball downfield early on in a game but then lamar lamar he the hero ball the superman ball to save the day ball he can't do that all the time now i ain't i ain't got no problem with i understand him trying it but i just you you gots to be sure like you gots to be sure i remember um him making a throw like that his first season starting starting from the beginning of the year in the miami game against the dolphins um i remember same same exact thing same exact scenario pressure comes in lamar evades this guy he evades that's guy he's on his back foot he's on his back foot and he throws it it miles boykin touchdown he's wide open it's like okay let's go lamar let's go loved it appreciated it was a great play but it's situational mink of his patrick was right there and when mink of his patrick saw that he was like what is this is this easy i mean i saw how it was in the browns game last week but it is this easy right into his arms right into his arms and you know i remember we remember the flacco days one of the our biggest gripes with flacco sometimes will be those throws off of his back foot we know we knew flacco had the arm we know lamar has the arm but the throws off of your back foot is especially in the traffic if you're gonna throw in a traffic okay you're gonna throw in the traffic you're gonna take some risks sometimes but if you're throwing the traffic off of your back foot lamar's decision making recently it's it's i don't know what's going on it's been bad his decision making has been bad cannot put this all on greg roman it is not all on greg roman this is low lamar has been he's been missing open guys he's been making bad reads and he now we know what mark andrews is capable of what mark andrews is it's either it's it's hot hot and cold hot and cold it gives it is very extreme with mark andrews mark andrews either makes these tough crazy catches and these big plays and it's like let's go or he drops some easy ones and the stealers game prime example of it but with mark andrews he he isn't the only person that's out there but sometimes lamar acts like he is now we know if you have somebody that you know this person y'all y'all done been through a lot together y'all close with each other y'all done been through so much that person you start to rely on that person and you feel like man if i'm in a pinch i could just hit this person up and be like look hey i'm going through this can you help me out with this hey can you come through for me one more time with this and they do it's the same thing right now with lamar and mark andrews lamar's in a pinch he's in a bind stuff going rough he looks for 89 but the problem with that is that he locks on an 89 and a lot of other people will be open but since he's so focused on 89 because he knows what 89 can do he knows what 89 is capable of we all do but lamar will be focused on 89 and won't give other people an opportunity and those other people they could be in a position where they can they have a chance they got a shot but lamar won't even see them even on that interception on the interception of mark andrews right in the middle of the field coming in right across the middle of the field was hollywood another one of his favorite targets but lamar didn't didn't even see him didn't see him didn't look for him and again he was getting pressured but still still uh and of course we go back two weeks ago to the cleveland browns game four interceptions and literally every single one intended for mark andrews every single one every single one so it's like after the first one it's like okay whatever whatever and after the second one it's like oh okay whatever then the browns were probably like okay well okay these two were intended for mark andrews but and we know lamar loves this guy i don't know y'all let's let's just see how it plays out all right well watch mark andrews even if these other guys are on the rattle but watch mark andrews the third one boom mark andrews didn't like oh oh we honest something here we honest all right you know what every passing double mark andrews double because we know even if he's doubled lamar will still throw the ball his way double let's just double sit in the fourth one mark and now now that the fourth one was again that was just an amazing play by that safety a corner whatever he was from the that was just a fire play but still mark andrews i was talking to my guy jt early today he's talking about like how can ravens fix this how can they fix lamar right now because like i said i think he's broken right now he's broken he's broken right now and the ravens are sitting at 84 so they're still in a very good position in the afc and in the afc north of course but they gots to this this has got to be righted asap now i know most ravens fans are not expecting them to make any noise in the playoffs whatsoever a lot of ravens fans are like oh we're not even going to the playoffs i disagree with that part and again there's some ravens fans are like oh man they should just go ahead and cancel the season go ahead and just throw in the towel no no not at all i disagree with that wholeheartedly i'm never for tanking even if the team was doing bad because i feel like hey even though this team decimated by injuries decimated by decision making decimated by different things the eight and four so their biggest problems i feel like a lot of them are fixable a lot of them now with the offensive line that's the biggest issue that i feel like would be the toughest to fix i feel like that's like you're extremely limited on what you can do patrick mccary out for a couple of weeks so you just lost somebody else for a couple of weeks so i just um i'm not sure exactly what they're gonna do there but you have to counter that you have to you have to counter that and as bad as the offensive line has been this year there's still been opportunities to make place with the passing game but back to mark andrew's when i was talking to my guy jt it was like man maybe as a coach because you you could you could talk up lemar you could coach up lemar you could tell him hey this what you should do this what you shouldn't do but and this could be an addition addition by subtraction what you might have to do would be to take mark andrew's off the field so then and i'm not obviously not permanently obviously not throughout a whole game nothing like that and not for no crazy amount of time but you may have to in certain situations and but but that's that's what makes it so tricky because you know in those certain situations mark andrew's has been a go-to guy he's been a go-to guy for lemar and he's made a lot of plays over the years these two been together since their rookie years rookie years they've been in this thing together so it it will be very very tough for and this is your 54 56 million dollar man as well but like hardball anymore what you say there's no one man that's bigger than the team so there's gonna have to be times when addition by subtraction you may have to remove mark andrew's from the field take him off the field so that would force lemar to throw it to somebody else and to build that big trust with somebody else because again right now it's just been andrew's andrew's andrew's andrew's and again like we said earlier when you were when you can rely on somebody when things are going rough for you you're gonna you're gonna go to that person you because you trust them it's like oh i know they're gonna come through for me i know they are but teams they're plotting on that they're watching that so and i would i would love to see um out of all of lemar's interceptions this year i think it's like what 13 14 something like that i forget how many it is but i would like to see out of all lemar's interceptions this year how many were intended for mark andrew's i think it's 13 but we know at last i had the last two games five of them were so that's only what uh man math just messed up um that's uh eight eight left wow can't believe that took me so long but there's eight interceptions left uh and i would love to see how many of those were intended for mark andrew's but as far as lemar um he's got got to step it up because like we talked about earlier i do expect the ravens to be in the playoffs um and like i said i would rather than be in the playoffs than be okay you know what let's let's end the season all right malin huntry's out for the year you know what okay it's over no no no no because anything is possible and all you gotta do to is get in and try to make some noise i would much rather that than oh you know what uh let's just since we're not superbowl contender you know what uh since we don't look like a contender you know what oh forget the season no try still try don't give up the odds are definitely against the ravens for sure but i don't think that they should tank i don't think they should give up at all um but yeah lemar he's he got to get this thing right now um something else that needs to be done and coaching really has to get this through lemar's head throw the ball away you hear commentators say it all the time you hear it so much live to play another down live to fight another down when you force the ball and then you end up turning it over when you try to force the play you hold the ball forever forever no nothing's coming open you end up taking a sack you can end up fumbling the ball you lose field position like that and sometimes you you can lose the ball and you can lose because whenever you lose the ball whenever you turn the ball over you take away points from your team automatically because anything that was a possibility you take it away just like that immediately because you gave the ball to the other team so now your team the possibility of them scoring on whatever drive that was it's done and something that my guy can brought to my attention he was like man if the ravens uh if the ravens would have kicked the field goal on that first drive then we're not even talking about a two-point conversion at that point and i was like oh man i did not even think of that but who knows how the game would have played out but that's just something to think about the ravens at the least on that first drive the least well the least would obviously have been zero if Justin Tuggle to mr field goal but the least amount of points they could have scored if they scored would have been a field goal ravens lost this game by one but that's because they ended up going for two but they didn't even get an opportunity for three in the beginning of the game it's crazy it's a game of inches game of inches it's a game of points though too you got to score so coaching they they gots to get it through to lemar throw the ball it's okay to throw the ball away it's okay to take it in completion it's okay to throw the ball away you don't have to be a hero on every single play now i think this whole hero ball i think it comes from a good place with lemar jackson because you know that lemar he wants to do whatever he can possibly do for this team we've seen it in so many games and you can tell like you could tell by the way that lemar jackson runs you can tell when he's in that all right it's gotta be me you can tell when he's in that mode in the stealers game he was in that mode early you could you could always tell by the way that he runs always he was in that in that mode early this game and you can understand why the team decimated with injuries the team is just they they they limp in to the end of the regular season limping but lemar gots to realize if you keep turning the ball over like crazy if you put the team in bad positions they may be limping now but they're gonna be paralyzed come uh playoff time and they won't even make it to the playoffs as a matter of fact so he's got to do a better job with that throw the ball away it's okay yeah trust me at this point of the season especially with it with his touchdown interception ratio ain't none of us worried about that right now none of us saw but that brings me to something else that some people have brought up that they think lemar jackson he may be thinking about his contract he may be thinking about his bread he may be thinking about oh man i really got to show this team that i'm worth it and we know like lemar and his mom they could present it to edc and them like hey what would you do without me because we can all easily say and we everybody knows without lemar this team is not 84 they're not they are not but recently lemar has been a big issue now just because he's been playing bad recently does that mean that he's not worth a big deal oh of course not he is definitely worth that big deal because he is the ravens the raven they go through him everything goes through him everything does i was talking to one of my guys the other day and i was just like flabbergasted when he said it i thought he was just joking around at first but he wasn't he was like man i i i want a new uh i want a new coordinators maybe even a new coach and for all that i'm like okay i haven't heard plenty of people say that before then he said i want a new quarterback and i was like what excuse me and then again i thought he was trolling at first but then he named the quarterback he said uh desmond something i forgot what his name he plays for the uh the school that um that chris more went to the bear cats or the wild cat i think the bear cat something like that i forget Cincinnati yeah Cincinnati bear cats i think anyway but when he said that i was like whoa i was thinking like what hold up now like i know i know Lamar struggling right now yes but new quarterback no not at all let's fix this let's fix these issues let's let's let's correct these problems because they are things that are fixable and we saw some promise of the of the fixing in this game we saw the problems in this game too but we saw some promise with the fixing the check downs the check downs lamar jackson threw check downs to davante freeman to letavious murray was like yes there we go he and they resulted in great plays and we were like oh my goodness this this is great and it was weird seeing it but it was great seeing it so that needs to continue and obviously not every player is going to be a check down but every play also does not have to be a big play it doesn't it doesn't so coaches got to get in his ear they got to get in his head and let him know like hey lamar you ain't got to do all that not every time but again like i said going back you know he he wants to be the hero because the team relies on him so much already they already rely on him so much as is but then with all the injuries i can understand like oh man all these people hurt it's so much more that's on me now it's it's so much more that's on my plate i i got to do it so that's why he tries to play hero ball but they got to let him know like no you you don't have to do that all the time you don't like james urban we saw james urban first drive of the game that's how we knew we knew that lamar was already in his own head because the first drive of the game and they i'm i'm sure they know you know what it's it's not ravens that are capturing the game it was cbs i believe because i was about to say i'm sure they regret it showing that but no it was cbs so i'm sure they love showing it but first drive of the game james urban was like to lamar he said he told him to breathe relax chill out he told him the first drive of the game he's telling you that so you know lamar was he could already tell lamar was pressing he could tell he's been his coach for what the past like three years i believe two three years so he knows lamar so you just the hero ball it gotta stop well at least he gotta slow down a lot we know there gonna be some plays with lamar he gotta do some crazy stuff because of the offensive line because of this and that but it's it's gotta slow down now as far as uh what my god martin was saying about g-roll um with with g because he said that he feels like g-roll should be fired with greg roman um there's been a lot of frustrations and again all the offense just as a whole has just it's not been good but but right now like again i think the bigger issue is lamar right now then g-roll now um one thing that the biggest thing that i think with g-roll in my opinion is with rishad and this is on lamar too we're not feeding him when he is out there and not that you gotta force him but you gotta see me like this guy he can make some stuff happen man he can get open um but i just i'm still not understanding why they taking them off the field i know some some people have been like oh well and it was a really good point it's oh well well sammy walkins is back remember when rishad first came back sammy walkins he was out i was like ah yes that's a great point that's a really really great point um but now sammy is obviously back and he's healthy again uh so that has taken away a lot of rishad's playing time um now one thing that my god jt said if if you really i mean this this will be something right here and we will probably never know if this ever happened well maybe we would if we saw how the offense went but uh a couple things number one uh with g-roll i he talked about a couple weeks ago how with the uptempo offense he said oh you don't you don't want to do that early on in the game he basically shut down uh the ravens running the uptempo offense early on in games i didn't like that i was like uh no i disagree even when mark andrews was asked about it he's like oh yeah i would i would like to run up to uptempo in the games i would like it but then he was like oh but but but greg roman is doing a great job so mark andrews was like hey i'm i'm not i ain't talking down on greg roman at all i need my targets even though i know i'm gonna get my targets regardless because limont always looking for me but mark andrews was like nope y'all ain't getting no drama out of me nope uh uh giro's doing a great job but if they ran that uptempo offense early on in the game oh boy it would do wonders for this team and you don't got to do it chip kelly style but just incorporate that uptempo offense earlier on to just wake them up wake them up because they they come out sleep every game but back to what my guy jt was saying he said maybe for us to really see who the problem is they should let limont call it call his own game let them call his own game and giro just sort of take a backseat let limont call his own game and then see what kind of personnel limont will want what kind of tempo limont will run how that would be now we know that's not gonna happen but well you never know but it's not gonna happen they ain't gonna do that but just something to think about and i know what giro giro got he got his history he got a long history again with the bills with the 49s and whatnot i did not know that he was actually an offensive line coach for the ravens back in like 0607 what really giro gregory um but that was a cool little find from yesterday so anyway bottom line whatever the issue is uh with lamar jackson um they have to get it fixed because it's all it's stuff that can be fixed the way that he's been seeing the field or the the way he hasn't been seeing a field that's that's new that's not lamar jackson he's been seeing the field good ever since his rookie since his rookie season you could see the way that this guy looked and went through his reads and the progressions and all that you could see that from his rookie season but he ain't doing that right now he is not doing that right now so something's gotta give me to where this gets fixed and it gets fixed fast you got a division game coming up against the browns you're playing the bingos again you're playing the stealers again you're playing the packers and you're playing the rams you have a tough end of the season schedule say let me give it a sunday though so there's that hope but anyway team keep it clean i love y'all i appreciate y'all shout out to Martin for this great question um and i just oof let's hope that these issues they end up getting corrected i love y'all i appreciate y'all and just like we want these issues with lamar jackson to be we out