 So team keep it clean first and foremost, I gotta say I really appreciate y'all because everybody in the comment section who said happy anniversary, anybody who's in a DM saying happy anniversary, I appreciate y'all like crazy. Today is our official 11 year anniversary. So I love y'all, I love my wife, I love my family. And I just appreciate y'all being part of this family. Y'all have been here through a lot of the years of us, of our marriage and just of our lives in general. So I really, really appreciate y'all like crazy. I appreciate y'all putting up with all my dad jokes. I know Carter, he gotta put up with a lot of the dad jokes too, but it's all good. It's all part of the process, right, baby? But anyway, with today being our anniversary, it is gonna be a very busy day for us. First, we getting ready to head to, Carter has a field day. And I get to be one of the parents that participates in it, that helps navigate some stuff and whatnot. So I'm excited for that. So I'm gonna be over there shooting some hoops and whatnot. But anyway, so we're gonna be doing that. And then of course, whatever else we get into, we're getting to. But this is gonna be episode of question from subscribers, but it's gonna be raw. Gonna be straight raw. It ain't gonna be edited and all that with all the questions popping up in the side of the screen and whatnot. Cause I just ain't got time for it today. So my apologies to y'all. But without any further ado, let's just get straight into it because Rashad Bateman, he is somebody that we've been waiting for him to break out, waiting for it to see him go off. And like I told y'all going into the season, I expected him to be wire received at one. Lamar said he's gonna be wire received at one, but they just, it ain't happened yet. Wire received one has been Zay flowers all day, every day by far, not even close. Nobody else has been close. Not old L. Beckham, Jr. Not Rashad Bateman. Mark Andrews is not a wire receiver. He's a tight end. I would always hate when people, oh, who's Raven's wire receiver one? People like Mark Andrews. No, he's a tight end. But anyway, first question came from my guy Oreo Cookie. He said, hey there, and Graven hope you've been doing well. I have lost nearly 50 pounds, which is a small step where I need to be, but it's the step in the right direction. Hey, that's really good, man. I'm happy for you. That's great actually. Like, I'm trying to lose some weight myself. So, hey, I'm trying to get right there behind you, but that is great because that's a significant amount of weight and that shows your consistency and your commitment to your goal. So I'm happy for you. We all happy for you, man. So shout out to Oreo Cookie, man. Said I say this not to brag, but as a way of saying, if you put your mind to something, you can do anything. With Rashad Bateman's slow ramp up in yards and momentum, I am reason to think he could have a big second half of the season. What do you think? Sorry you're so long and have a good rest of your day. This wasn't a long question. Oh, trust me. We used to get a little paragraphs. Like some people send five, six paragraphs. Ain't nothing wrong with that, but those are long questions. This is another long question. But anyway, with Rashad Bateman, oh man, him having a second, a great second half of the season would be amazing. Just really Raven's getting anything out of anybody else. Now they've been having a lot out of Mark Andrews too now, but Raven's being able to get other people involved besides Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews, like a Rashad Bateman, like Odell Beckham Jr. Nelson Aguilore has been, he been getting involved here and there too. But especially with Rashad Bateman, his confidence seemed like it's slowly ramping up. And I'm sure he really confident in himself already, but I think it's important the same way that like they designed a lot of plays for Zay Flowers. Do something for Rashad too. Like seeing him on the jet sweep and he corrected, I think, was it Garrett Downing or Jameson? He corrected one of them reporters because they were like, oh yeah, we saw Rashad Bateman on the end of the round and Harbaugh said, no, it was a jet sweep. I was like, all right, Harbaugh, yeah. I ain't no exes in the old guy. Y'all know that, I don't know about a lot of that stuff, but I do know about them jet sweeps. And we called it a jet sweep, so we were right from the jump. So thank you, Jonathan Harbaugh. But anyway, it was nice to see him get involved in a different way and him just to be involved, period. So if they could just design some stuff for him too, it would be nice just, and I know they, I'm sure they do, but sometimes the defense may be playing in a certain way to where they can't get it to him. So I think it's important that with Rashad Bateman, cause you want to find out who he is, man. You want to find out what you got in Rashad Bateman. And I think right now they just, they still don't know all the way yet. The potential is there, but we tired of talking about potential. We want to see results. And speaking of results, next question came from my guy, Brendan. And he says, Stanley to right tackle. He said, hey, what's going on? Hope all is well and happy anniversary. Oh, I didn't even know he sent this last night. He said, happy anniversary to you and your wife. I appreciate that, Brendan. I have a question about Ronnie Stanley. I've seen him a lot. I've seen him in a lot of O-line run packages where he's blocking on the right side. Could this be a trend? Do you think they will eventually move him to right tackle and we draft the left tackle? This could both start line and be really strong for years going forward. The thing with Ronnie Stanley is if he moved to right tackle, cool. I'm sure he would do a phenomenal job at it, but how is his body like? Cause he misses a lot of time. Ronnie Stanley misses a lot of time. So whether he's at left tackle or right tackle, I think you still have to have a good backup. You have to have somebody who stays ready so they ain't got to get ready because it's like we're at the point where with Ronnie Stanley, the expectation is that he's gonna miss time. We hope that he doesn't, but the expectation is that he is. So it's just, it's unfortunate, but it is what it is at this point. So, hey, if me moved to right tackle, great, cool. But they will still need to have a serviceable backup. Our next question came from my guy, Howard. He said, what's up engraving? I was thinking about Todd Munkin in his play calling situation because after the Arizona game, Harbaugh and Lamar both spoke about how they should have ran the ball more in the first half with more balance. I'm scratching my head because all through OTAs and training camp, they talked about how Lamar had the freedom to check in and out of plays at the line of scrimmage. If Munkin is calling all of them past plays, why wasn't Lamar checking in them into some run plays if he had that so-called freedom? Just curious to hear your thoughts on that. Hashtag Ravens Nation. Think of you a quarterback. I mean, those players like going your favor because you getting to throw the ball. You getting to throw the ball a lot because they go throwing the ball a lot in that first half of that game. So, and I think with him, he just, maybe he was thinking about it. Maybe he was like, you know what? Maybe he felt like something was going to work in the passing game. Maybe he felt like he saw something. You know how when you try something and you just miss it, you just come so close and you're like, you know what, I see it, but I just got to fix a couple of things. Maybe that was him in that first half of the game. Excuse me. And maybe, since this is raw, that ain't getting cut out. And maybe he was in on them possibly setting it up for the second half because maybe what they were doing was doing the pass in the first half and then trying to throw the cartons off, keep the cartons on their toes with the passing game. Then they like, all right, we were really going to eat them up with the run game in the second half of the game. So maybe that's what it was. Who knows? He also talked about, I hate to say it, but the Ravens needed to be in the trade market for a new left tackle next off season. Oh, they need to be in the market for a new left tackle next off season. Same as Ronnie Stanley, it's more and more of a liability than all pro lately. Shaking my head. Just curious to hear your thoughts on that. And yeah, so you can keep it clean. Be on the same page with so much stuff, man. Because I do believe, again, and I know my guy Brandon asks, oh, what about if Ronnie Stanley switched to right tackle? All right, cool. If he's a left tackle or right tackle, like Ravens, in my opinion, need to get somebody else who's ready. And I think they need to draft somebody rather early. Does it have to be first round? Ah, not necessarily. Cause I think you still locked in with Ronnie Stanley for a little while, but like, you gotta get somebody who can come in and do it. If you get one of them players that played on both sides of the line, coming out of, okay, cool. But coming out of college, that's straight, but you gotta get somebody who's gonna be ready to do it, in my opinion. And then the last question, it came from my guy, George. See, this is a long one. He said, trade deadline drama. He sent this on November 1st. So after the trade deadline. Good morning, Raven. Hope all is well with you and the family. Okay, I got a vent a little. I'm a little disappointed we didn't make a move as well, but yes, I am too. Oh, I was too, but now it's like, okay, moving on. But most of us fans were over the top on how EDC handled this past off season. Oh, how short our memories are. Frankly, it bothered me seeing how fans were posting some downright ignorant things on Lacey D'Costa social media platform last night. I did see that. I saw, yeah, that's unfortunate. Shout out to Lacey though, because she does like, she's out there. She's out there on social media. She lets it be known that she's on social media with people know who she is. Like it ain't just anybody with that last name, D'Costa. So for her to continue to allow herself to be out there in social media, that's a lot. I remember when we had her on, just asking her about that. And she talked about it, that there can be a lot of negative people as we do see all the time, unfortunately. But there's still a lot of positive people too. And she wants it to be where social media can be a positive place for people. So, yeah, that was unfortunate, some of the stuff that we saw. He said, how are we now a mediocre team with no hope for the post season because we didn't make a move before the deadline? One and done in the playoffs is what I keep seeing being posted. Yeah, I would certainly hope not. And I think it's just about recency bias, I believe. Because a lot of us, we wanted the Ravens to make a move. We expected the Ravens to make a move. But when they didn't make a move, it was really disappointing, especially because the trade deadline has so much excitement. Like free agency, a lot of excitement, the draft, a lot of excitement, but trade deadline, that's probably the most exciting time in the middle of the regular season. So a lot of us were excited. We all hyped and whatnot. And when you get excited for something and it doesn't happen, you get disappointed. So I think that's what it was. Is there so many fans saying if Gustavus gets hurt, we are doomed. Well, that could be said about every position on our roster. Making a move just to make a move just doesn't seem like a good idea. The price for a player has to be right for both sides involved where there's some trades I would have liked absolutely. Like Chase Young, I would have loved, but so many fans act like all these players were available for us when a few of them, it was never the case as team said, they weren't dealing some certain said players, but it takes two to tango. But going forward, we should have nothing but positivity and high hopes. This isn't madden and I believe our roster is as good as it ever has been to compete for a limb body trophy. Yeah, the roster is good. The roster is certainly good, but it wouldn't have hurt it to add even more talent, add even more strength. And that thing that you mentioned about Gustavus, I mean, it is something to think about. And obviously we don't want it to happen, but Raven's depth at running back is certainly like this thin. So we'll see, man, we'll see. I do expect them like now maybe even more why they still rely on Gustavus but to really share the wealth and add Keith Mitchell in the mix a lot more too, just to ease Gus and rest him in, because the playoffs is around the corner, man. The regular season is going to go by like super fast, unfortunately, which is really sad because we love the regular season too. And the whole NFL season, we love it, but it's going to go by fast. So I'm sure they want Gus and company to be well rested and just them to be in good shape for the long run. Anyway, he said, and that is due to DeCosta's team building over the past few seasons and the stars we do have. Some say he has missed on second round picks, but at the same time he has hit on other late picks and undrafted players like Geno Stone as an example of a late pick. The drafts overall for Eric DeCosta, there have been some hits, but there have been a lot of misses. We know the drafts are a gamble. Nothing is guaranteed with the drafts, but the drafts have been rough. But the 2021 now, this year, they're getting a lot of production out of that class. Like it's Patrick Queen, I think it's Geno Stone, it's Matt Abike, Devon Duvenay. I know I'm missing somebody too. I know Malik Harrison is in there as well. Did I say Geno Stone? I think I don't, but anyway. He said DeCosta in the organization has made some blunders and isn't perfect, but what front office is. This team is well constructed and able to compete with anyone in the league. And I feel as fans need to get behind this team and enjoy the ride as we have the real potential. Oh, sure. All the fans of the Ravens are still fans of the Ravens. They're just frustrated. That was it. They're just frustrated. And that's how fans are. Fans express their frustration differently. Every fan does. Some fans do with respect. Some fans unfortunately don't do with respect, but everybody expresses it differently. So I think it is important to handle yourself with respect. But anyway, he said the trade deadline shouldn't have taken away all this excitement we have for this new offense, free agent additions and the determination that we see in our team leaders like Lamar and Roquon. We have some good games ahead with a nice home stretch at the bank. Let's handle our business, stand by our team and see where this season ends up. I'm just as excited now as I was before the season and everything is still in front of us. We lead the AFC North and are tied for first in the AFC conference, right? Where we need to be to handle our business. Yeah. So big, big, this is a huge weekend. Every weekend moving forward is a huge weekend for the Ravens because you got the Dolphins and the Chiefs. The Dolphins got, I think they six and two. I want to say in the Chiefs, I believe are six and two because they lost to the Lions and they lost to the Broncos last Sunday. So that's a huge game. Hey, it'd be great if they tie. If they tie, that would help the Ravens out because they will be six and two and one. So the Ravens still got to handle their business against the Seahawks and like. So again, it's a tight race. It's going to be a tight race. And then you got all these other AFC North teams. Just they just keep winning and they like trying to crawl back and it's like, man, go away, leave us alone, man. But anyway, we'll see how that goes. He's also said, I'm just as excited now as I was before the season and everything is still in front of us. That's true. Oh, I've read that already. Let's get positive and stay positive. The end game is the same and we are sitting pretty. Sorry for the rant, but we are right where we need to be to accomplish our goals. I on the prize, love what you do. Stay positive and team, keep it clean. Appreciate that, George. That was a real nice way to take us out. Love y'all.