 With everything over there burning down with the Texans, should the Ravens take advantage and make a move for their premier past rusher J.J. Watt? Should the Ravens sign Muhammad Sunoo? Is Ronnie Stanley worth the massive contract that he's going to require? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. Two Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is saying Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. What this is is 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 an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Do not send it to any other emails. So far, well recently, like 99.9% of y'all have sent it to the correct email so I appreciate it so much. And recently there was only one person that sent it to the incorrect email. 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Bill O'Brien, he took over as the GM and the head coach and he had just been getting rid of guys and they don't have any first round or second round picks and they've obviously been losing. That's the biggest thing. You got the Sean Watson, who's there, who's amazing quarterback, but they took his best option away. They took the best player on the Texans team away and the team has just been bad. And some people have even said that they feel like with the Texans, they feel like with Bill O'Brien, he had been trying to destroy them internally on purpose. So he had been trying to destroy them internally, intentionally. And hopefully that's not the case because that would be extremely unfortunate. Extremely unfortunate. But with that being said, a lot of people have suggested that the Ravens make a move for 1JJY. And because they clearly lack in pass rush, they clearly lack with strength or they have strength up front. Just slow. With JJY, he could help provide some interior pressure with the team. He could help provide some pass rush and he would really give them a legitimate threat and he would help out guys like Judon, Bowser, Campbell. He could help out a lot and apparently it just, you could tell the mounted frustration when he speaks like the interview that he gave the other day when he was speaking to the media. And it was a big yikes. He was a real big yikes because with JJY, he was like, oh man, JJY, he's given all these one word answers. They asked him, so JJY, how do you feel about the disappointment? Well, JJY, can you elaborate on how you really felt about that? Can you really go into detail? I'm very, very disappointed. And I mean, those weren't the exact words he used, but I mean, you can look it up for yourself and see the exact words that he used because it's pretty much the same thing. But he is clearly not happy with the way that things have been. And with the Texans, it's like, man, you already down this much. You already down this low. It's not looking good. It's still early in the season there. You could go 12-4. You could win the next 12 games and you go 12-4, you could possibly win your division. But it's just, it's not looking like it right now. So with you being in need of draft capital, because you are low on draft capital, and with you just having a player who, he's not what he once was. We all know that. JJY is not the JJY of old. He's not that defensive player to the year JJY. His brother is better than him right now. Shout out to TJ, right from the Steelers. But could he be a good fit for the Ravens? I think he could certainly help. I think he could certainly help and he could help make their pass rush a bit better. And he could provide that ball rush because we know he got that strength. My concern with the JJY would be his stamina. Because when I've watched Texans games, obviously the Ravens in Texans game, and then there was another one that I was, oh, the Steelers in Texans game. It was crazy because like I would see throughout some game, like a lot toward the end of the games, when the Ravens were trying to close it out, and when the Steelers were trying to close it out, the game wasn't over yet. But they were in obvious running, they were in obvious running situations, I mean. And I was looking, I was looking, where's 99? And then they would do a camera shot on the sideline and he would be sitting right there and I would be like, well, what is, what's going on? Is it that he's up there in age and the stamina has gone down a lot, but he's just very tired? What's the situation with 99? And it would be like kind of confusing and concerning all at the same time because there had been like, there had been some teamkeeper clean that asked about JJY before, but I would just be like, when I saw that, I was like, that's a, that's kind of a big yikes. Wouldn't you want someone, somebody like JJY out there, especially if you know you got to stop the run? Isn't JJY pretty strong man? I mean, he looked like a Johnny Bravo, but playing football. But I mean, with JJY, I think he could certainly make this Ravens team better. I think he could certainly make them better on that defensive line. My biggest thing would be the injury history. JJY, of course, has a long injury history and his conditioning. Those would be my concerns. And also one of the biggest concerns would be what the Ravens would potentially give up for a possible rental. I'm not sure what year he is on his deal. I'm not sure what his salary is, but if you can take all that, I mean, salary ain't really a thing. Salary cap don't matter in NFL. Y'all already know that. I mean, again, you see what the Chiefs have been doing. You see what the Rams have been doing. Anyway, with JJY, if you take out salary, but you got to keep in injury concerns because you can't take those out. Unfortunately, this ain't mad when you can turn off injuries. My thing would be what would the Ravens have to give up in order to acquire one JJY. I think he would certainly make the team better. And this is a perfect situation for Ravens to take advantage of because if it's a fire sale, you would have to think it's a fire sale. If they were going to give away the best play on their team in the Andre Hopkins, then ain't nobody safe. There's nobody safe, especially when the GM and head coach, although one person, they got fired like nobody safe. Fire sale. Everything must go, except to Sean Wison. But if that's the case, then you could at least start making calls. But what would the Ravens have to give up? And first round pick, no. No, no, not at all. Second round pick for JJY, I wouldn't want to. Third round pick, OK. Third round pick, cool. Third and a fifth, cool. Third and a fourth, cool. Third and a sixth, cool. The famous Eric DeCosta fifth round picks, oh, even better. Six and a seventh, OK, cool. But just like when you try to trade a sixth and a seventh for somebody, a premier player, even somebody who was once a premier player. They ain't even got to be a premier player no more. You try to trade a sixth and a seventh. You know how Madden goes with that little tiny red bar. We are not interested in this trade. I'm sure the Texans may do the same thing. Or they may think about it, but I wouldn't mind a JJY as long as the compensation isn't anything crazy because of that long injury history. And what I've seen from the concerns that I've seen with his stamina, because that's scary. That's so scary. And hopefully his stamina wouldn't be a problem or concern, because hopefully the Ravens and that coaching game on offense could be a lot better. Remember those times? But for JJY, I would say, I would say go for it. But don't give away the farm. Don't sell the house. You ain't got to do all that. I would say, hey, offer them that famous fifth. Offer them a fifth, sixth, seventh for crying out loud. All three of those bad boys. And the worst they could say is, no, then, hey, you offer them a fourth. Offer them a fourth instead. But yeah, as long as the compensation wouldn't be anything too crazy, bring on JJY. Next question came from a boy, Theodore M. He said, bro, what's goody? This is Ken Wee from Jersey. He said, now, before I get into it, I hope you got a chance to check my music. It's doing great right now. Over 50,000 streams, and it's only been out for three weeks. God is good. And congrats on that. He said, anyway, bro, I figured out why they have to try to bring up a tight end. Remember they put Jacob Breeland on the reserve, non-football injury list, which will allow him to rehab and start practicing by week six. Oh, no, no, no. I think you're thinking of the physically unable to perform list. That would allow him to do that. But he wasn't placed on that. And I don't even think, do they even have a physically unable to perform? I don't even think they have that this year. Because this year has just been different. But no, he's done for the year. Like, his year is over. It's done. But he said Breeland was a beast at Oregon before getting injured. He may be the next weapon to tight end. I think Devin and James, Duvenay and Prochet, are about to ball once they're given a chance, starting with this Washington game. Well, we all had hoped that, but we saw it happen. But that will open up bigger plays for Hollywood. After that, LKC, Lamar is about to get on his MVP stuff again. Well, we were hoping that, Devinay and Prochet were going to get more involved. And Devinay did get a little bit more involved on offense. He was out there a little bit more on Prochet. I think he was out there for like one or maybe two plays. But I know Duvenay was out there. Duvenay, excuse me. I keep saying Devinay. Duvenay was out there for a little bit more. But we're just still waiting. Still waiting on both of them to get involved more. But yeah, as far as Jacob Breeland, yeah, he's done. Next question came from my boy David P. He said, hey, first time sending a question, but have definitely been riding with you a couple years now. He said, love the channel and keep up the amazing content. I was going to say, it'd be awesome to have some followers link up at the bar to watch the game when all this madness is done. But you're in Florida, LOL shaking my head. Hey, I mean, if you've been rocking with the channel for a couple years, you already know. It ain't nothing. We done flown up there for plenty of games before. And then of course, our own flag football game too. But who knows, man? We just, yeah, all this stuff. This definitely ain't going to be the season for it. But we just got to keep on waiting and watching. Anyway, he said, tough game we had against the Chiefs, but I want to get your thoughts on Lamar Jackson. Something I feel he lacks is pocket awareness. With time, he definitely surveyed the field and goes through his progressions. But with pressure, he seems to spin into the pressure, unlike someone like Russell Wilson that normally avoids it with ease. Sometimes I feel like they've beaten him with the UK pass where he's just determined to throw when he'd have a middle lane to run at any time. I saw moments where he'd hiked the ball and immediately look at the ends to see who was coming. Like he knew he wasn't going to be protected. I think you just answered your own question right there. But let's finish. Because while I was reading, I was thinking, but let's go ahead and finish. Because I think you already answered it. He said, do you feel Stanley is worth the massive, oh, he added a little bonus too. He said, do you think Stanley is worth the massive contract as he only has become elite when Lamar was there? The moments where everyone knows what passing is when I see him in Orlando get beat. As much as I love a stud wide receiver, I'm just not sure Roman would know what to do with them. And Ed Rush is, without a doubt, what we need. And you can't rely on blitzes for pressure. Any elite QB will destroy us on that. Sorry for the lame. LOL, take care and go raving. Ooh, this is a loaded one, but this is a really good one. With Lamar, he said, sometimes I feel like they've beaten him with the UK pass where he's just determined to throw when he'd have a middle lane to run at any time. I see that sometimes too. It looks like because especially I remember it happened in the, was it the first game or the Texans game? I think, I think it was the first game. It was like, they were in the red zone. It was like third and seven or third and something like that. And he had, if he would have ran, he had, it was open, wide open, like nobody was in front of him. And he would have gotten at least a first down, maybe a touchdown, but he threw it. He threw it to Hollywood in the end zone. And it was just a little too high for Hollywood. But I think that does have something to do with it. Just that narrative, it may be in their heads where he's like, man, let me show these people, man. And I can kind of understand it, but at the same time, it's like, just do you, man. Don't worry about nothing without anybody else saying, just do you. You know, you can throw the ball, we know that. But y'all are not a pass first team. We know that too. So they should run the ball. But Lamar, you just got to play his game, man. We're saying this since the beginning of his career, he's got to play his game. But to the next part, he said that he saw moments where Lamar will hike the ball and immediately look at the ends to see who was coming, like he knew he wasn't going to be protected. I think that's a big part of his game now too. I feel like the pass protection, I feel like he just doesn't trust it. I feel like he doesn't trust the offensive line to hold up because of how it's been since the first week. The offensive line has been rough. It has been rough from jump, from jump. It hasn't been all bad now. We ain't saying that, but it's been rough. It definitely needs some work. But again, hopefully it's because we ain't had no preseason, hopefully that's the reason. But it's, they got to get better. They have gots to get better. And it takes a village because part of it is the actual offensive line. Part of it is play calling too. Part of it is predictable play calling as well. Because if teams know what you're doing, then they know how to attack. But when you can catch them off guard and impose your wheel, then they won't really know what to do. So I think that's a big part of it as well. But I just don't think he trusts his guys. I don't think he trusts the offensive line like he used to. And as far as Ronnie Stanley, do I think he deserves? Wait a minute, did you say, do I think he deserves it? Oh, no, no, no, no. Because I was about to say, yeah, he definitely deserves it. But do you think he is worth the massive contract as he only became elite when Lamar Jackson was there? You definitely want to have a good left tackle to hold it down. You definitely want to have that. I, is he worth it? That massive, because that contract is going to be crazy. I don't know, man. I'm like, I'm torn. I'm really torn. I really, I felt like Marlon was worth it for sure. That was like no question for me. But with Stanley, I'm torn because you want to have a left tackle that can hold it down for sure. You want that, but you're going to be committing, that would be committing a lot of money to Ronnie Stanley a whole lot. And I just, I know Orlando Brown Jr. played it before. He played it this past week against Washington. And he did a good job. I mean, he's obviously comfortable there because he did it before. But anything is a possibility, man. Anything is a possibility because I could really see them because again, since nothing is finalized yet, I could see, I think it's possible that they could trade Stanley. I really do. I don't think it's likely, but at the same time, it's still possible. It is still possible. This season right now, he is obviously in a contract year, but this season is really like, this is almost like what it seems like is his final audition. And I know he of course could be franchise tagged. We know that. But it just seems like this season right now is his final audition, his final interview before is determined on whether he keeps that job or not. And what I mean when I say whether he keeps the job, whether they sign him to a long-term deal or not, because they could go through this year and be like, oh yeah, Stanley, let's go, let's get it, let's sign this extension. And apparently they have had talks about it, but obviously nothing finalized yet. Or if they feel otherwise, they could be like, okay, Stanley, they could franchise tag him, but then they could trade him off from that franchise. Anything is possible right now, man. Anything is possible and it just, it is just a, it's gonna be crazy, man. It's gonna be crazy. Oh, but I didn't even answer the question. Do I think he's worth it though? Do I think he's worth the massive contract? Wow, we're so many, we're so many, what's the word I'm looking for? With so many people coming up, do for deals, with some of those positions, you don't have other options. You don't have other things that you could work out where it could be like, okay, we can take this guy and move him over there and we'll be straight there, like a cornerback. You don't have a replacement for Marlon Humphrey. You could of course, draft somebody and that'll take some time, but you don't have that guy that's like right there right now. But with Ronnie Stanley, you do have somebody, you could kick to that left side and that could end up being your guy. I mean, so is he worth the massive contract? I would say yes and no, but I, man, this is tough. If I was the GM, I would probably end up, I would probably end up saving that money. As hard as it would be, it would be a tough decision. I'll probably end up using that money elsewhere though. I would probably kick Orlando Brown to the left side permanently and then maybe put Tyree Phillips, obviously in the future and then put Tyree Phillips back in tackle and draft some interior offensive linemen or McCarrey could end up being a guy once Matt Squirrel leaves. Like I said, I think Matt Squirrel's gonna leave and get his payday elsewhere. I mean, then all guards, then there would be the questions about the guards. Whether if Ben Powers is the guy, we got Breddison too, I think. So I would just have to see. Then there's of course the draft and all that for that. So that's probably what I would do. That'd be tough, but yeah, I think that could actually work and it's actually still a real possibility. Next question came from my boy, Josh Abrams. He said, hey, team keeping, cleaning, gravy. I got a quick short question, okay, here we go. With the production of the receiving portion, the Ravens go after Mohamed Sunoo. The 49ers just cut him with three games because it's showing me and they're all Ravens fans plus you that Lamar doesn't trust Miles Boykin. I think that, oh man, sorry. He said, I think that would take some pressure off of Hollywood giving him another catchable wide receive out there, except of Mark Andrews next to Hollywood. Like I said earlier, if they did, not cool. I would just, I would like to see them get a young boy's a shot. So Devon Duvenay, pro-share, I like to see them give more of a shot. Like for a receiver, I just feel like if they're gonna get somebody, and I mean, you in a position where you kind of, it's tight, so you just, you got limited options. But I mean, Mohamed Sunoo couldn't hurt. Like I said, it couldn't be worse than what the product of other receivers besides Hollywood and Andrews has been and it could help them out by him being a legitimate established wide receiver and people would actually be threatened by him. But somebody could possibly be threatened by Duvenay and he could take them, he could catch them by surprise. The same could happen with pro-share. So I think they'll start from the inside, they'll go from the inside out first. Next question came from my boy D Adams. He said, what's up my guy? Just a quick question for you. Oh, I just got to get some quick questions for you. He said, you're acronym for NFL is not for long. That's true. He said, so if the Ravens continue on the path we are as far as the coaching and not being on the same page and not making the necessary in-game adjustments so that we are not always so predictable on both sides of the ball and we for some reason don't end up at least in the ASC Championship this year. Could you see a change in the coaches that have come next season? Coordinators, yeah. Maybe, well, I think Greg Roman could end up getting a head coaching job because I do not think that hardball will fire. I do not think that they would do something. They will come up. I just, there's no way that hardball will fire. It's no way. It's no way that he would even let because he does not. And I don't remember whether Greg Roman was really an EDC move or a Hobbs move. But I just, I think he would come up with one of the things where if they were to let him go he would either get a head coaching job to a head coaching job somewhere or they would be like, oh, we have a mutual agreement to where we just decided to part ways. He's gonna go for different opportunities elsewhere. And hey, we're gonna have to find somebody to replace him there. So, and they do that thing. Oh, we wish Greg the best anyway. But I could see changes happening. I could see changes happening, but not a head coaching because I don't, the hardball ain't going away. And his next question, he said, also with contract extensions coming up for a lot of players this coming off season, could you see the Ravens put Lamar in a similar situation that they put Flacco in when it came to contract negotiations? Well, Lamar's situation being that he has to beat my homes and or bring a Super Bowl home before he can see the big bucks. That's not what it was with Flacco. With Flacco, they just had a disagreement on some, I think some guaranteed money, something like that. And it wasn't that much money either. So it's a completely different situation from Lamar and from Flacco. So I don't think that would happen. I just think they could stretch it out to Lamar's fifth year option. But as far as putting it on and be like, oh, you got to beat my homes before we give you a contract. No, that wouldn't be the case. I said, thanks for the time and like the head coach and GM off of the Texans. I'm out. This guy, man. Next question came from my guy, Manuel. He said, this is a double header. What's up in Graven and shout out from Mexico. I got a two-part question. First one after watching the Chiefs came, I saw what the Ravens don't have and EDC wants from his draft, playmakers. We lack playmakers on both sides of the ball. Lamar Jackson, Patrick Quinn, can't be our only playmakers on the team. Tacey has my homes. Hill, Harman, Watkins, Kelsie, Clay Edwards, Elias on the offense and on defense as well. Everyone is great, even the honey badger. Well, not everyone, but yeah, they got a lot of playmakers on there too. What do you think EDC or Hardball needs to do to actually wake the rest of the team up for them to become playmakers? That's right. We have the talent, but they are asleep at the wheel that they don't realize what they can become. They've been trying, I mean, Marlon Humphrey, playmaker right there, and Patrick Quinn, he been making some stuff happen. Kalaeus Campbell, he been making some plays as well. But outside of that, Marcus Peters, he did in the Texans game, but besides that, he been a little bit quiet, but that's a good thing that he's been quiet because that means that he ain't been getting absolutely torched except for in the Chiefs game. Ooh, that was rough. Oh, that was rough. Ooh, yikes. But anyway, yeah, we do have playmakers. They just, it's just a matter of making it happen, man. It's a matter of scheming, it's a matter of execution, it's a matter of a lot of things, and they just gotta get on the same page. And hopefully, again, the no pre-season, hopefully that just got them four games back, four games behind, but now they'll be all caught up and we can come out against the Bengals like it's week one. And they do pretty well in week one games. In his next question, he said, oh, and then on offense as far as playmakers. Lamar just gotta start connecting with Hollywood more. And as far as the running backs, they, I feel like they need to feature a back more so they can make more plays and they can get into a rhythm. When you get into that rhythm, you can make more plays. Mark Andrews, he of course, a playmaker, but then get somebody else to take pressure off of the playmakers that teams already know about. So those playmakers can have, excuse me, even more of an opportunity to be playmakers because if it's the same playmakers all the time and it's few of them on the Raven's offense, people key in on those playmakers and then those playmakers are not making plays. So Raven's gotta figure out how to make more playmakers on offense. And then he said, second one, with Team Keeper Clean asking a lot about Suggs and Wettle coming back to the team, I see why they want them back. Leadership instead of playmaking ability. Team Keeper Clean, let me ask you, do you think hardball and EDC will want them back because of leadership? I think they want to, but that would mean that our young players are no leaders and that would undermine their voice instead of raising it to make their teammates play better and remain focused on the game at hand. I know we all seem frustrated with the games when we are down multiple scores and no voice is heard to get up and keep fighting. But a leader among our young team has to stand up and kick their ties in order to come back and win the game like Ray Lewis did when he was our general for the Ravens. Stay safe and tell Carter to keep your studies up so he can outsmart us dead. He already been doing that. He got a little slick mouth for me. But anyway, do you think EDC and hardball want them back because of leadership, like guys like Suggs and Wettle? I think that, well, Suggs, it hasn't been heard that they want him back. I know there was, besides last year, there was a little reports in there, but it hasn't been heard that they want Wettle back. It was said that both of them would actually want to go back to the Ravens. Not the Ravens wanting them to go back or wanting them to come back. But if they did, so, I mean, so it's not undermining anybody. It's not undermining anybody because it's those players wanting to go back to the Ravens. Well, most so Eric Gwettel saying he would be open to returning to the Ravens. It hasn't been the Ravens saying, oh, he would be open to Eric Gwettel coming back. So I don't think it's anybody's leadership being undermined here. First question came from my guide, Jonathan. He said, engraving is Jonathan. I wish you well and pray you and your family are in good spirits and safe. Appreciate it, Johnny. He said, here it is straight. I've been a Ravens fan since 99. We've all seen the highs and the lows of this team and the Chiefs game was hardly their worst game. But to my point, the Ravens are at their best when they don't build a team to beat a singular opponent. You have to survey the league as a whole and build personnel accordingly. First to your division, then the conference and then the league. The Ravens are historically built regardless of the QB to pound you in the run, play press man coverage on the outside and rush the passer. Two of those three things they can do at an elite level. Wonder which two. The Ravens, as of late, have been so enamored by the Chiefs that they reached on Earl Thomas because the Chiefs had interests. They tried to build a track team similar to the Chiefs but it's not their MO to a degree. However, they do need another receiver. Example, Antonio Brown, simply because of his ability to separate his hands and he runs great routes. On top of that, he's a dog. He might get rabid at set times but a team full of dogs is a must. Which the Ravens historically have had. That's what made the defense an entire team great. The season is not lost and the Ravens are actually a better team than the Chiefs when they play their game and he put play their game in all caps and that's exactly how we feel. When the Ravens play their game, they can rock with anybody. And like I said before, with the Ravens, it would be so much more, not necessarily more, it would be a little more satisfying. It would be a better loss if the Ravens lost the game playing their style of football but it seems with the Chiefs, they just like, you know what? Who are we? We're not gonna do what we do anyway. He said, the Chiefs are built like the old Eagles team with McNabb, DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Macklin, LaShaw McCoy, et cetera. It's nothing new. The Ravens put too much mental space on the Chiefs instead of understanding what worked against Andy Reed and Philly, works against Andy Reed and KC. My home's just great but like every quarterback in the league, timing is everything and if you play press men on his receivers consistently, it'll work out more than not. And again, like you said, the mental part, man, the mental part, he said, let me get back, the Ravens put too much mental space on the Chiefs. Yes. I think they're again, that intimidation, there's an intimidation factor. There is this Chiefs are holier than Val factor with. I feel like the Ravens just feel like the Chiefs are like they're bigger than life or something. It's just the weirdest thing, man. But anyway, he said, lastly, Marcus Peters is not a zone corner. While he can play zone and bait, he was drafted for his press man skills. Just like Jimmy Smith and Marlon Humphrey. If the Ravens go back to Ravens football, they won't lose more than one more game. Thank you for your time in Graven and let's enjoy the journey this year. Sit and basically to sum all this up, play your game Ravens. Play your game, play your style of football because what? Nobody can be you better than you. Next question came from a boy, Nicholas Wallace. He said, what's up in Graven? Who do you think is the worst football team? The Atlanta Falcons with a fourth quarter lead or the Ravens when they get down? What are Ravens when they get down by one score and abandon their run game early? I know it sounds like on trolling, which I am kind of LOL, but the Ravens abandoning their run game when they're down one score in the first quarter just infuriates me. Best rushing team in NFL history doesn't even try running the ball after the first drive and running the ball worked in that drive too. Anyway, thank you for all that you're doing. Keep up the good work. We love the content. Appreciate it, Nick. Thank you. All right, here we go with them heavy hitters. Y'all know my boy, Enonic. He always brings it. Let's get it. He said, and Graven, what's good? Hope you are doing better than I am. This was after the Chiefs game, by the way. He said, I watched as much of the Chiefs game as I could before I had to turn away. Monday night, I learned four things. My homes will win more Super Bowls than Brady. Number two, the Ravens as they are now cannot beat KC or win a Super Bowl. Number three, Greg Roman will never leave because he won't fail enough to be fired and he won't be successful enough to get hired by anyone else. We are so lucky. That was sarcastic, by the way. And he said, number four, even after the Titans game, the Ravens can still disappoint. He said, got a quick game for you. You ain't either way, so no worries. Agree or disagree? All right, let's see. Number one, Lamar and Greg Roman's offense does not make proper use of our wide receiver talent. I think literally everybody in the world would agree with that one. Number two, Ravens are not using Miles Boykin correctly. With his speed, long stride, and height, I didn't say quickness. He should be used as more of a downfield threat. I agree with that, too. And also in the red zone, too. I would say throw some jump balls to him in the red zone. I mean, again, Mark Andrews is their red zone guy, but Miles Boykin couldn't, well, he could hurt. But it couldn't hurt to try, I guess. Number three, Agree or disagree? Lamar needs to have more confidence in his deep ball to someone other than Hollywood. Well, who's gonna get that separation? Who's it gonna be? It ain't really Snead, it ain't Boykin. I mean, we would hope it would be one of those guys, two, but in serduvenay. Number four, Snead should be featured more. He constantly attacks the ball when it comes his way and fights for yards after the catch. Yeah, I guess, but Lamar, with him, Lamar doesn't, he doesn't do those 50-50 balls too much. And Snead is not creating, it doesn't look like he's creating too much separation. Then maybe sometimes he doesn't get open, because, I mean, there are times when any receiver gets open. But it just, it just, he just gotta do it more, man. You gotta do it more. Really, all the receivers really gotta step it up in their own special way. So Snead should be featured more. I agree with that, I agree that every receiver should be featured more, besides Hollywood. Number five, because their strength isn't having good hands, duvenay and prochet need to get more targets. It would build confidence and rapport with Lamar. Yes, a thousand percent agree with that. Number six, the Ravens need to run the ball more. I think everybody would agree with that one too. And number seven, we need more screenplays. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, that would help out a lot. Help out a lot. Boy. And number eight, since Lamar won't throw to anybody not named Mar, bringing in a top flight wide receiver wouldn't help because Lamar won't see them. Maybe that could break it. Maybe that could break the trend of Lamar just throwing to the Mars. Mark Andrews, Marquise Brown, and sometimes even Mark Ingram. Maybe that would break the trend of that if we had a top receiver. So unless his name had more in it, then maybe not. But anyway, sorry for this question slash rant. I was so disappointed with the team performance, I must have started and stopped and edited this email about 10 times. Had to keep it clean. Hope we can win again this year. Like the Ravens win in the Super Bowl this season. Real quick shout out to any parents that's doing the homeschool thing. Because boy, it is, yikes. Anyway, next question came from a boy, Reese. He said, I ain't great much love to you down in Florida. I'm from Be More. I watched your videos for the last few months and become a big fan of the channel. And what you do also like the positive vibes and energy you always give and you're not afraid to keep it real and putting our team in this place. We messed up, LOL. May God continue to bless you and your family. Appreciate it, man. Thank you. He said, my question today is, with the 49ers just releasing Mohammed Sunoodi, do you think Ravens will pursue him to help out the young White House and help Lamar a little? And let's not forget, he does have a little playoff experience, so that would be good for the youngins coming at that time. I don't even know, man. I don't even know. Because while with the Ravens, it's like they already got enough issues at the wide receiver position. And I think it's more of a coaching problem because the coaching is not, I think it's a mix of coaching and execution because the coaching is not drawing up plays for these guys to get involved. Like, you don't see no special plays for my house, Boykin, to get it. Well, you did see one last week, but it was a big yikes. But you don't see no special plays for Boykin to get involved or whatnot. Snead, Duvenay, Proshay. You definitely see stuff for Hollywood, for sure. But I think with Lamar, a lot is on Lamar too, because I just don't think he trusts those other guys yet. More so with Boykin. With Snead, I think he got some good amount of trust for Snead, but Hollywood is obviously on another level. Mark Andrews is obviously on another level with trust. But bringing in a veteran receiver, it could give somebody who he would be able to have big trust in. Now you see what we did there. But anyway, so I don't think they will. I think what they would do first would be to give Duvenay a shot to see what he can do. I think they would keep tabs on Sunoo, like as a super adjusting case option, but I think they would check out Duvenay first to see what Duvenay can do. Because Mohammed Sunoo, he ain't stretching no defense. He'll give you a short-handed receiver now. But he ain't stretching no defense like that. He'll give you somebody you could use some trick plays on too, because he could, though. But he ain't stretching a field like that. So to have both Hollywood and Duvenay on a field at the same time, I mean, even if they didn't get Sunoo, you could put Hollywood in the slot. You could put Duvenay in the slot. You got options that you could do. But I mean, the hope was that they would do that with Boykin. But it seems like Boykin may end up getting less and less playing time as the season goes on. Next question came from a boy, Mike G. He said, why Ravens fans seem like Ravens giving up on the Ravens only after week four? No, I don't think it's that, well, there are some people that don't like that. And so, I mean, I can't speak for everybody, but for the majority that I've seen and interact with, nobody's giving up on a team. It's just that they know that the team is there a lot better than the product that they've been putting out there on the field for the past four weeks. They have, there's no disrespect to the Washington football team at all, but that game, it shouldn't have been that close. It shouldn't have been that close. And with the Chiefs game, it should have been closer. The Chiefs are a great team and Washington football team is a, they're an NFL team, so they got some great players on there. But, and even in the Texans game, like we just, it's not that anybody's giving up on a team, it's just that we've seen a lot of stuff and a lot of tendencies that aren't good signs right now. And with those tendencies showing themselves early, hopefully it's the fact that they just didn't have a preseason and that's why a lot of these things have been happening. Question came from a boy, Perfect One. He said, thanks for taking the time to build a great community. Oh, it ain't nothing, man. And appreciate you, appreciate you coming out to the flag football that we had. It was super fun. Appreciate your trash talking and all that. That's, that's my guy, man. Shout out to Perfect One. He said, my question is how, oh yeah, got to meet his family too at the, at the open practice too. So that was super cool, man. Or was it the game? It might have been, I forgot what it was. Anyway, shout out to you and shout out to your family. So he said, my question is, how would you feel if we replaced Hobbs with Kansas City offensive coordinator? I know this isn't realistic and it's gonna get some backlash, but hit me out. I appreciate what John and Hardball has done, but I feel like we need someone that is offensive minded to come in and help change our culture. I think John is a great guy, but he is not the guy for the job anymore. Always here, who could replace him as if he wasn't found out of nowhere? That part I agree with. That, that, because I, I, I hate, not hate, but I just, I don't like when people say that because people are like, if something was to happen to hard, like, what if, what if Hardball was to get fired? I mean, we know he's not going to, but what if he was to get fired? Then what is going to be, oh man, we can't, we can't get another head coach and we can't possibly have any success under another head coach because John Hardball was the only coach in the world that could have success with this Ravens team. Whenever people say, oh, well, who will we go to if we didn't have Hardball? It doesn't, it doesn't make any sense. There are options. There are a lot of options out there and it'll just be up to them to have a good relationship with the GM and them to all work as a cohesive unit to keep this thing moving. So I just, I think to me when people say, oh, well, if we, while we get rid of Hardball, or if we got rid of Hardball, well, there ain't nobody else out there. Like that doesn't even, that doesn't make any sense. Cause yeah, they picked him up. He was a special teams coach and he coached defensive backs before too. But he was a special teams coach and ain't nobody, don't nobody be looking at special teams coaches like that, special teams coaches, they don't get that recognition like that. So Hardball came from, not necessarily the bottom, but he came from the bottom of positional coaches where they're some of the last to get those opportunities. But he came from being a special teams coach, he said, head coach and boom, look what happened. Yeah, he did have a pretty good team around them, but still. So like that, that just, that doesn't make any sense. Anyway, I don't think John is horrible, but he is not able to step in and help right the ship when we start sinking. He never seems to be able to make his offensive coordinator make adjustments as is evident by the years of Cam Cameron, Marty Morniwag and now Greg Roman sticking to the same script when it's proven to be failing. I know that Benamy has no track record as a head coach, but at least he knows how to run a successful offense. I think he will be able to provide our offenses with creativity that we have been lacking. Maybe then our defense could learn how to stop. He said maybe then our defense could learn how to stop a screenplay since they would have seen one rain properly in practice. Hey man, this is funny, man. I know Enonic is gonna love this one. My guy, Josh Hoffman, he's gonna love this one. And there's some other ones as well that I'll be seeing in the comments section too, but I mean, if that, I mean, again, we all know how about not getting fired. We know that. Again, he's Eric Dacosta's neighbor. So he ain't going nowhere. But if something was to happen, that certainly wouldn't be a move. That would certainly be a move that I wouldn't mind. Eric Benamy, and again, it would be another product of Andy Reid. Because hardball was a product of Andy Reid. And then Eric Benamy was also a product of Andy Reid. But Eric Benamy, he will have coached off a very high prolific offense, extremely successful offense. And he would be getting Lamar in what should be his prime years. So he would be able to sort of shift the offense and just make them, what's the word? I'm making them unpredictable. Because with the Chiefs, it's like, and I know Andy Reid has a big hand in it too. But with the Chiefs, it's like, you just don't know what's coming. And it could come from so many different places all at the same time. It's scary. It's scary. And you know they could all wait at any second they could pop for a big play. Ravens ain't, I mean, they could at any time, but the Chiefs are a way more explosive offense than the Ravens. And like you said, he doesn't have any head coaching experience, but hey, it's just like working a job, man. It's just like working a job. It can be frustrating for a lot of us where we've applied to different jobs and whatnot and the company will tell us, oh well, we like you, you're cool and everything. But you just don't have enough experience. So it's like, well, how do I get that experience? If y'all are not gonna give me the job? And a lot of times these companies will go with a safer option with people who have experience at that position. And that can work, but at the same time, you could be missing out on an opportunity. You could be missing out on giving somebody an opportunity who can make a real big difference. So, I mean, as is life, but if something were to happen to hardball, which again, we all know it won't, but that will certainly be a move that I would be down for. Next question came from my guy, Ivan. He said, our team did come away with a win today. Thank goodness, but it has been noticeable by other fan viewers that there's something just not right with our team. They appear to be off and have no fire. Is it any way coaching and game planning? Well, certainly, yes, for sure. And he said, nah, nah, AKA Ravens fan number eight. So, oh actually, no, I think this actually came from Angela. Oh, I think Ivan, I think that was an auto correct from engraving, but it's all good, no problem. So, this came from, yeah, nah, nah, AKA Ravens fan eight. So, certainly, it's a mix of both. Coaching, game planning, their players as well, just not stepping up. I think more so from the wide receiver ranks. We just need, as a pass catcher, somebody else gotta step up too, man. And then, as far as the game planning, it's been a little suspect, but again, we're gonna give them, not necessarily a pass, but we're gonna give them a pass because that's the first four games. We didn't have any pre-season. We'll chalk that up to being the pre-season for this year. They went three and one. Hey, with three and one, with some questionable coaching decisions, we'll take it, we'll take it. But they know what they need to work on. We know what they need to work on. We know what they need to improve on. They know what they need to improve on. So let's hope the Ravens do it. Next question came from my boy, Leonard. He said, the subject of this is, EDC deserves blame too. Let's see. What's up, Engraven Leonard here with another take. The Ravens coaching staff has been receiving lots of criticism, some deserve, but EDC has to get his fair share too. I know EDC is your boy. Everybody knows Engraven and EDC is tight. Probably text each other, LOL. EDC failed to address our needs. Interior offensive line and pass rushes. In the second and third round of the draft, he took a running back and a defensive tackle to positions of strength. Instead of our pressing needs, we were struggling with. Interior offensive line before Yonda retired, how could you not address that? Well, I think before I keep going, I think he actually did, but maybe it just didn't pan out so far. So yeah, that would still be on him, but that would be with Ben Powers. Because I feel like Ben Powers is supposed to be the next man up. We haven't heard anything from him. We have literally heard nothing from Ben Powers. He played in the Week 17 game, but that was the last we've seen him. Like you wouldn't even know that he was still on the team. Cause we just, we haven't heard of, heard from. So maybe it just had, well obviously it hasn't worked out for him so far because a rookie, a rookie that was I believe a right tackle. He was either a left tackle or a right tackle, but a rookie who was a tackle, they chose to go with him at right guard over somebody that was on a team last year who was an interior offensive lineman. And then as far as the other parts of the interior, the offensive line, Matt Scorer, he of course was out, but it just, it doesn't seem like Matt Scorer is back to his normal self yet. It doesn't seem like he's all the way back there yet. So maybe again, no pre-season. Hopefully it's just the offensive line taking a little time to get into a groove. And as far as him not addressing pass rusher, he tried. Remember all the Judevian clowny stuff? I mean, we did enough videos breaking everything down on what they tried to do. And but Yannick and Godway too, remember Michael Brockers? I think they regretted giving him all that money though. They, they were like, oh, we're giving too much money. You know what, fail physical. Okay. Ryan Grant, part two. Ryan Grant, part two. You know Ravens with the fail physicals, man. They tried to get Adamic ensue. So they, they tried, they tried. They really tried, but nothing ended up working out. Adamic ensue ended up choosing the bucks. Judevian clowny, that whole mess didn't go through. The, the Jaguars, they were like, no. They said, we straight, the Vikings gave them a better offer. So they, they tried. They really tried, but it just, like I said, they failed. I mean, yeah, they failed. But anyway, he said, if EDC drafted an offensive lineman on pass Russia, instead of a running back in the second round, Gus Edwards will be getting reps. Mattabike can't get on the field cause we didn't need a defensive tackle. Those picks should have been edge, Russia and offensive linemen. Good players were available in the draft. Now with Mattabike, with him, I mean, you can't predict injury. And I think this could be this coming week against the bingles. I think that could be where he makes his debut. But he was somebody that could provide interior and exterior pressure. So we'll see if he plays this week. Today when I'm recording this is Wednesday, so they should be returning to the practice field. So we'll see if he's a full participant or if he's still limited. So that's something to keep in mind too. But anyway, he said, it should have been an edge, Russian offensive linemen. Good players were available in draft. EDC was too cheap to sign clowny but pay 16 mil to Jude on. Could have gotten a third round pick, third round comp pick for letting Jude on walk. Now that hindsight is 2020. But if all of us would have thought that, nobody could have predicted what happened with Judevian clowny. Nobody, nobody could have, if somebody would have said, oh man, Judevian clowny, he ain't gonna get signed to like a week or two before the season. I would have been like, nah, that's garbage, man. You don't know what you're talking about, man. You don't know what you're talking about. That dude is gonna be one of the first people signed in free agency. He is going to get a fat deal. He's gonna reset the market. So nobody could have predicted what happened with Judevian clowny. Cause he was set up to be a free agent. It was like, okay, he ain't got no franchise tags. He also can't do the franchise tag. But no, none of that happened. He didn't get anything. Couldn't come to an agreement with any team. He got off with some nice money now. But he just, he's like, no, no. So with Judevian, with the whole thing with Matt Jude on, I think the Ravens, they just, they obviously you can tell they won in clowny but they played it safe with Jude on. And I think they played it safe with him because they didn't want the patch rush position to get worse. They knew it was a struggle last year. They knew patch rush was rough last year but they didn't want to take a step back and make it even worse. So what do they do? Slap the franchise tag on Matt Jude on. Now with Matt Jude on, I think it could have been a possibility but since he didn't sign it, he had all the power. He didn't sign that thing until after the draft. If he was signed before the draft, I think it's a high chance that he could have been traded but he didn't sign until after the draft. So that was smart on his part. If he really wanted to remain with the Ravens it didn't want to just be traded to any team. So anyway, let's keep going. He said, we lose to the Chiefs because of Chris Jones, two sacks, two fours, fun with last game. He's the first round stud going against undrafted fifth and sixth round picks that make up our interior offensive line. You get what you pay for. We need blue chip players, especially given our scheme. Chris Jones beating double teams. Our center and guard can't handle this man. Two versus one, that's why the coaches changed the play calling versus the Chiefs. Titans have a stud defensive tackle, Jeffrey Simmons and Clowney builds defensive tackle at Oliver. This weekend's we'll continue to hurt this team versus the elite AFC teams. I blame EDC first and foremost, what are your thoughts? And back to the offensive lineup, I think it was just that they saw what they did last year and they knew that they were gonna have a lot of continuity from last year because they had all the same guys back except Marsha Yanda. But it has been rough on that offensive line. Again, Marsha Yanda was even more important than a lot of us thought he was. While I did see the offensive line taking a little bit of a step back, I didn't think it was gonna be like this. So it has been rough. But again, the interior hasn't been as strong as they once were. You ain't got Yanda no more. Skrull, again, like I said, he doesn't look like he's all the way back. Bozeman hasn't been bad. And then you got Stanley on the outside when he's healthy. Then you got Orlando Brown when he's healthy. And then you got Fluka. So you, hopefully it's just that they taking time to jail. And hopefully this doesn't continue to be a major issue moving forward. And he like the Ravens, like the Ravens. And you know just what I mean. You too, take it with clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right?