 First off, shout out to my guy, Demetri, for hooking me up with this Bateman jersey, the number seven too. And you know, a little authentic kind, cause they do all the sleeves like that. Now, when I'm going to be able to fit in this Bateman jersey, ah, it's gonna be a little bit. We working though. We working, we on the way, we working. So, I got you soon. But anyway, let's get into this episode of questions from subs. Why are you shocked? First question came from my boy, Julius B. He said, here we go again. Okay, yes. I was just upset as everyone else when we all found out that Lamar wasn't in the top 10. The hypocrisy. First, you say he deserves the same, if not a higher paid contract than Deshaun Watson, mega burger, with all these cheese guarantee contract, LOL. But thinking, but yet he's not in the ranks with him, shaking my head, I can't do it. That's not the, why are you shocked though? It's about Eric DeCosta not being ranked as a top 10 GM. Yo, of course he's not. My biggest concerns are Eric DeCosta in the front office and how they pay players, but that's above my understanding. I might be wrong, but engraving if Lamar didn't come along, John Hawbaugh would be gone. Imagine they don't let Lamar play in 2018 and John decides to keep Joe on the field. I love Joe, but one more losing season. Joe and John are gone. Yes, you are 1000, 2000% correct. Eric is getting ready to be a clean house if it wasn't for Lamar. Anyway, Marty maybe gets the job and lets Lamar start fresh in 2019. I don't even know if they would have hired Marty. I don't think they would have hired Marty as a head coach because Hawbaugh hired Marty. And I don't think that the Ravens would have been like, oh, we're gonna keep somebody who Hawbaugh brought on to be our next head coach. I just, I couldn't see them doing that. I think if they would have started over, they would have started over, over, but we'll never know. Anyway, he said Marty maybe gets the job and lets Lamar start fresh in 2019 with Marty as a head coach and Greg Roman as the OC. Marty didn't do so badly with the Eagles and Jalen Hertz, hypothetically, all of it. I say it to say that Lamar was Ozzie's last draft pick as GM. Well, no, he wasn't. He was his last first round pick, but not his last pick, but he was in the last draft class. But anyway, now tell me what has Eric Dacosta done? Exactly. So of course he's not in the top 10. Not saying that he won't be in the future, but he's no guru either, so don't be shocked. Oh, okay. He put that little twist on it. Ah, okay. Wow, okay, you threw me for a loop. I thought you were going one way, but you were going the whole another direction. I love the argument. I love it when people are arguing and when they don't know exactly what to say off the top of their head in order to rebuttal or reply to an argument, they say, hey, well, can you name me? Can you name me 10 better GMs? Can you name me 10 better GMs? It would ever it's a top 10 argument. That's what they always say, can you name me 10 better? But that's what I thought of because I didn't even know how to respond to this at first because it threw me for a loop. Because again, I thought that he was talking about something completely different. Eric Dacosta, should he be in the top 10 of general managers? Well, I think you got to think about responsibility. And the reason I say responsibility is because did Eric Dacosta draft this team that he has right now? Some of it, some, yeah, some, no. But the heaviest of the heavy hitters on this team, did he draft him? Olimar Jackson? No, he didn't draft him. Walden Humphrey? No, he didn't draft him. Ronnie Stanley? No, he didn't draft him. Pat Ricard? No, he didn't draft him. Mark Andrews? No, he didn't draft him. Gus Edwards? No, well, he wasn't even drafted, but then you think about it. Wait a minute, who are some of the other heavy hitters on this team? Kaleas Campbell? Marcus Peters? He just signed Marcus Williams, brought over or drafted Brandon Stevens. Devin Duvenay was his draft pick, Rashad Bateman. And we don't even, J.K. Dobbins, we don't even need to go down a whole list, but I did say responsibility. So in order for you to continue to have success with something that you've been handed and in part you've constructed yourself, you have to be responsible. Ozzie Newsom, in his last draft, he set the Ravens and Eric D'Costa up nice. Really nice. And for the most part, there have been some areas where it's been like, but for the most part, Eric D'Costa has been very responsible in assembling this roster. And again, there's some areas where he could do better, but there's some areas where he could do worse as well. It goes both ways. But he's done a pretty good job overall, when it's come to the roster. Now, at the wide receiver position, y'all know, still, let's see, we'll see. This is a big chance right here, Mr. D'Costa, for you to really go in, but again, he's had a lot of big chances over the years. And there's been a lot of misses too, 2020 was a miss. 2021, I think that was a hit, but then injuries kicked in. Now 2022, hey, let's see. Let's see, I was just talking to my uncle the other day and we were talking about the Ravens and we talking about the roster. And I'm like, I said, hey, they pretty good, but just the only thing that's missing for me is a wire, he said, don't wait up on it because it ain't happening. And I was like, okay, I said, we gonna see, we gonna see. But I just, I don't think they're done there yet. But so Eric D'Costa, is he a top 10? I would think so. I wouldn't put him number one. I wouldn't put him number two. Number three, I would really have to sit down and look at the GMs and look at the teams and whatnot, but Eric D'Costa, he's somewhere up there. I think he would be off the top of my head without really even thinking about so many other NFL teams. But I would think that he would definitely be top seven because he's continued to build a, not necessarily a Super Bowl winner, obviously not, but a winning team. And that's a lot to do when, especially if it's a team that's been known for winning, a lot, mostly regular season. I know it's a couple of Super Bowls there, but it's a hard act to follow. And for Eric D'Costa, still waiting on the playoff success, Super Bowls, of course, but he has continued to keep them in the thick of things. And while we do want more from the team, from him, from them, from everybody, that is a good start, especially when you follow in the footsteps of Ozzie Newsom. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Bro, next question came from my guy, Bibi. He said, you would think all these former Ravens players would back Lamar and trash him. Respect is earned and people got to respect him and what he's done for this team and what he will continue doing for John City. Why the negative static? Yes, Lamar has things to work on and so did the players criticizing and critiquing him. All people have things to work on, but if it is introduced positively, a better result is usually the outcome. We appreciate Team Keep It Clean and the Louisville 502 hashtag Team Keep It Clean, hashtag positive. I appreciate that. That's a very, very, very good point that you make because somebody could have something that they need to work on and presentation can be everything. Now, not saying, oh, Lamar is definitely not a baby, so he ain't gotta be like, oh, well, we gotta say it nicely to him for him to work on it. No, no, no, but there's a big difference. Oh man, you need to work on your back shoulder, but those suck. They are terrible. Every time you try to do a back shoulder throw, you end up throwing it to the wrong person and it ends up being put in the worst position possible. You are terrible at back shoulder throws. And that's just a random thing. I didn't even say Lamar is, but that's just a random thing. That versus, you know what? Let's work more on your back shoulder throws. I think if we work more on those back shoulder throws, we just do a lot of repetition. Then that could really just take you to a whole another level and that would just put you in a different stratosphere almost. And I wanna really see you implement that more in your game, just to have that weapon in your arsenal and it would be okay. Some simple as that. And that's not even just with football. That's just in life and how you present things. So you will spot on. But again, you already know like with a lot of people, they, with their thoughts on Lamar, some people have had these thoughts before Lamar even touched the NFL football field. Some people have developed these thoughts as they watch Lamar be on the NFL football field. And I mean, people are gonna feel how they feel. Everything ain't for everybody like we always say. So, and yeah, it's, people got different ways of presenting things. They got different ways of expressing how they feel about Lamar Jackson, whether right or wrong, whether left or right, whether whatever. They got their different ways of presenting how they feel about Lamar Jackson. And some people they presented in a positive way. Some people in a negative way. Unfortunately, I know the two Ravens players you talking about Shannon Sharpe, he usually presents it in a pretty negative way. And then Bernard Pollard, of course, he presented a whole of it in a negative way from jump. Will Lamar be able to change their minds? I really don't think so. I think the Ravens, Lamar Jackson and Ravens could go out there winning the Super Bowl this year. And I guarantee you, Shannon Sharpe and Bernard Pollard, hey, congrats Lamar, da da da da da. But I guarantee you they will still find something to complain about when it came to Lamar Jackson and his game. Even if they won the Super Bowl because of and not in spite of. And that's what I'm talking about. They won the Super Bowl because of. And we know a lot of things the Ravens do all because of Lamar Jackson. But they won the Super Bowl because of him. I guarantee you that they will still find something. Next question came from my guy, Gareth. He said, ain't graven, how you family doing? Are we doing good? How would you feel if we went and got Robbie Anderson? I think it would be the best option for our offense. We'd love to hear your opinion on this. And I can shout out to all the team, keep it clean, keep being great, love you, bro. Hey, appreciate this, man. Now Robbie Anderson, I know that have been floating around, especially ever since Baker Mayfield got officially traded there, especially with all the Robbie Anderson have been saying before about Baker Mayfield. And he just, he did say, oh, I was just defending my quarterback. And so, okay, cool, cool, cool. But Robbie Anderson, I wouldn't be mad at it. I wouldn't be mad at it. I feel like it would give the Ravens a legitimate threat at the receiver position, somebody who's a deep threat. You know, he had a couple of little drops here and there. But I feel like it would give them another threat. Opposite Rashad Bateman, a serious threat. I just, and I know ever since Lamar, him and Lamar and Willie Snead, they were all working out down here in South Florida. A lot of people like, oh, man, imagine, imagine. I just, I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't, I know he's not on no crazy contract. I do think that the Carolina Panthers would be more than willing to trade him. And I just don't see Ravens doing it though. Next two questions came from my guy, Phil. He said, today, Bernard Paula was a guest on FS1. Colin Coward's show, explaining the Twitter beef argument he had with Lamar last night. With Colin said he agrees with Paula that he thinks Lamar's play style is to blame for the postseason record and not Greg Roman's offensive playbook, which I don't agree. But then they said, they would still pay him because he wins. What's your thoughts? I mean, if they're saying that, they feel like Lamar can't win in the postseason because of how he plays. But then they saying that they would still pay him. It sounds like they would just be thinking more so from the business point of view, business perspective and the money that Lamar brings in to the Baltimore Ravens, continuously having them in the playoffs and obviously having the regular season success to put them in the playoffs and everything that he just does for the team, financial wise and business wise. And that's the part that of course the Ravens, they certainly would have to think about because that's part of the business. So in that field, it is a business. You always gotta remember that. But it's just, to me, it's just a lot deeper than that. Lamar Jackson, you can win with Lamar Jackson, but this is why I just really echo, and I mean, we've been saying that on here for the longest too with Kishan Johnson. I just wanted to give him a big hug when I saw what he was saying about the Ravens the other day, when he talked about how the Ravens just have not surrounded Lamar Jackson yet with that significant guy at the wide receiver position. I was just like, man, who are you telling? So his playstyle is fine because his playstyle, it adds to the norm. Like, you could hand a ball off to your running backs, you could pass the ball, of course, you could do all that stuff, but then you have a quarterback that can do what he can do. It just adds so much more and it makes you, it should make you that much more unpredictable and it should make you that much more explosive. And it just can't be Lamar alone, though. They just gotta do more. And he also said, I follow chat sports on YouTube. When it comes to NFL and NBA, they explained that Seattle drafted a receiver in the draft where Tyler Lockett is 29 years old. Oh, I thought he was older than that. And there's only due free mail this season with the last three years of the contract not guaranteed. Oh, I didn't know that. Do you think a third round offer to Seattle would make sense to have a great number two wide receiver to stretch the field and take coverage off Bateman and Andrews? So Tyler Lockett. Wow. Well, he's only due three mail this season and the rest of the contract ain't guaranteed. Oh, now that would be up Ravens alley. I would rather them trade for the other Seattle wide receiver with Tyler Lockett. I know my guy Nitro, but he been talking about Tyler Lockett for the longest. I just, I would rather just a bigger guy. Cause I feel like Ravens already got something short receivers, but he is a veteran. He knows the game. He been around. He done had all the success and whatnot. Yeah, he could stretch the field. I would, man, I would rather, I would rather DK Metcalf if they got Tyler Lockett. I wouldn't be too mad. I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be mad. I'll just be like, oh, okay. Yeah, I feel like that will push them over the top. With Tyler Lockett, push them over the top. He can catch. And that boy can fly. We done seen him with Russell Wilson, man. If once Lamar got that connection with him, that'd be nice. I don't know, I'm sorry, but I don't know, man. Next question came from Eva. Shout out to Eva, cause she sent a Louisville flag that we got hanging up there a long time ago. So I appreciate you. Say hello, team. Keep it clean. It's been a while since I've asked a question. I hope all is well. Okay, okay. On to it. Yes, everything is great. But I appreciate you. Most analysts and fans want that flashy wide receiver. I've noticed it around the league as well. You can't win without a top wide receiver. I think a win is a win. It's impossible that Baltimore could win different. Andrews can catch deep and win 50-50s. You have Bateman and Wallace, Gus and JK. And of course, Baltimore's number one Lamar Jackson. My question, Elohel, finally, can Baltimore only win like the rest of the NFL with the true number one wide receiver? I think something different might work. 2019 didn't go so bad. Just saying. Baltimore has some fire weapons when you stop and look at it. Best of luck to Hollywood. Thank you for your time. Wishing love and blessings to you and yours and ails up. Ooh, appreciate you. So my question, can Baltimore only win like the rest of the NFL with a true number one wide receiver? I think something different might work. Well, what has something different won them recently? Nothing, nothing. I mean, they've gotten to the playoffs. They've had regular season success, but playoff time, you need those guys. You need those guys. And another reason why I advocate so much for the Ravens getting those guys is because, especially because Lamar Jackson is due to get paid. And to me, I just feel like the Ravens, they're not 100% sold on him. By the way that they construct the roster, by the coaching hires that they make, it just feels like they're not 100% sold on him in my opinion. So what better way to 100% be able to convince yourself that somebody is or is not that guy? Put them in position where there are absolutely no excuses whatsoever. Give them the best, put them in the best position to succeed. And he's already succeeded without them putting him in the best position to succeed. So just imagine how much his game in the Ravens game and that success could be elevated if they elevated that roster. Next question came from my guy Jaden B. He said, I ain't Graven first time asking the question, but I've been following you for a while now. Thanks so much for the constant great content and updates. I appreciate it. Just had a quick question about a potential vet wide receiver signing that I haven't seen discussed much. How would you feel about signing Odell Beckham, Jr.? I'm aware he has a situation with his ACL and likely wouldn't play till the later part of the season, but hear me out. That makes him the perfect compromise between both sides of the wide receiver argument. Him being out for a while would allow our younger guys time to develop and grow and at the same time add a strong weapon for Lamar during the later part of the season and or playoffs. Where he did really well last year. Thanks for your time and sending the best wishes to you and yours, Jaden. That's a good question. And I've seen that discussed a little bit before because it does present an interesting situation what would be an interesting situation because it's like, man, do with the Raven sign, Odell Beckham, Jr. And he wouldn't even be ready at the beginning of the year. But then yeah, you let the young guys shine. You see what they about. Watch them grow and then boom. Later on in the season, closer to playoff time as long as you make the playoffs. Well, closer to playoff time, it's like, oh, oh, we got Odell sitting in the chamber just waiting. Oh, nice. But then you would have to hope that you have a healthy Odell Beckham, Jr. You would have to hope that Odell Beckham, Jr. stays healthy. I just, I would be worried if they relied on Odell Beckham, Jr. and Odell Beckham, Jr. alone to add to their wide receiver room. Yeah, he'd be a nice bonus, but then he had to stay healthy. He hasn't been staying healthy recently. When he's on the field, he makes an impact, but he just hasn't been staying healthy all the way. So do you go into the season? All right, we signed up, Odell Beckham, Jr. All right, we straight. We'll let the young boys eat. What happens if one of the young boys gets hurt? What happens if they miss time? Then what? Who do you turn to? Who do you rely on? But even without that, do you go in there? All right, Odell Beckham, Jr. Let's roll with him. We know he can't play till later on. All right, cool. We'll see how it goes. But then Odell Beckham, Jr. comes through. Maybe he doesn't come through. Who knows how he'll respond to the rehab and the surgery and all that. So far, so good. And we hope that he stays 100% healthy, not even for just this year, but throughout his entire career. But I feel like that's just, there's just so much unknown with that. If they signed Odell Beckham, Jr., cool, but Odell Beckham, Jr. could not be the end-all be-all. Next question came from our boy Aaron. He said, engraving, hope all is well with you and the family. With the Chiefs, getting set to release why receiver Josh Gordon. Do you think we should make a move on him? I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm all for DK Metcalf or Debo Samuel, but in your opinion, does a Josh Gordon bring the same value a DK Metcalf does? Shout out to Team Keep It Cleaning. I wish them, but the best for each and every one of you. Hey, appreciate that, man. Thank you. Josh Gordon, wow, man. Josh Gordon, he was like that before. I'm not sure how he is now. I know, like you mentioned, he was with the Chiefs, didn't really hear much. But you know, Chiefs are one of them teams, man. Because they did it with Levy on bail. They did it with Josh Gordon. They did it with Shady McCoy. Who else did they do it with? I forgot who else, but they're one of them teams that, they're like, hey, look, you may not be in your prime, but if you still got something, we're gonna find out. We're gonna take a chance on you. They do that with a lot of guys that are free agents that may have had a little history and just whatever. But anyway, I just don't know. It certainly couldn't hurt. It certainly couldn't hurt to give them a shot just to see. Cause if they could reach in, especially with T. Martin and Keith Williams and with him being able to play with Lamar. But if they could reach in and pull out that Josh Gordon potential that we've seen before in the past, like way in the past, not recently, but if they could go there and get it, then it could be something nice, man. It could be something serious, but his head would just had to be in the game. I know he had a lot of like stuff that he had dealt with over the years that had been going on with his family and stuff, which is tough, man. It's tough, but it would just all depend on which Josh Gordon they were getting. And the last question on this episode also came from my guy BB. He said, what's up fam? Have there been any updates on Gus? If the Ravens are to be a one with this running game, Gus needs to be involved. I know Ravens have picked up some artillery this off season, but J.K. and Gus are vital to this running game. Thanks again, fam. And like the Sean Watson should be when it comes to playing this season. I'm out. Hello, yeah. Yeah, with things been pretty quiet with Gus Edwards. We've seen him put little videos here and there. Not many though. You know, Gus ain't really a big talker like that on social media or nothing, man. So, I mean, training camp is literally around the corner. So that should answer a lot of all questions coming that time. But yeah, it's been pretty quiet. Haven't heard anything about it at all. So I guess we just gotta wait and see. You know just what I mean You too, team, keep it clean You see my boy, he like out of made it Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right? Gray Gray Gray Gray