 Why did the Ravens choose to stick with Greg Roman for another season? Should the Ravens bring back Dez Bryant? Did the Ravens waste their passing weapons this year? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. YouTube team keep it clean, what's going on, it's Aang Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer in a video just like this. Now if you want to be part of NFL Questions from Subscribers, then you just send me an email at teamkeepitclean at gmail.com and we'll answer your question in a video just like this. I love y'all team keep it clean, special shout out to all the patrons, all the new patrons. I mean we ain't been having a patron that long so everybody's pretty new but thank you. Thank you very much. I love y'all team keep it clean. Make sure you check out the podcast. 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First question came from my boy Rodeo. He said, my guy, good morning, hope all is well with you and team keep it clean. Just came across something that I thought may or may not be interesting. While stats and odd numbers can sometimes be deceiving or misleading, did you know that David Coley was our passing game coordinator? Well, of course you did. And you knew he was under Andy Reid for 14 years in Philly as a wide receivers coach and then followed him to KC for four years. Did you know in his time with the Eagles chiefs and our Ravens, he never had a wide receiver who earned an 80 plus PFF grade. Now, I know G-Roll is still the play caller, right? But this should have some sort of significance. G-Roll's passing ranks usually rank at the bottom of the league, but maybe just maybe for the Ravens sake, it wasn't just G-Roll this time and Coley contributed. I don't know. Maybe I'm just wishing, but maybe, like I said, we can get Eric B in here at that position since the rest of the league is doing them wrong. That's not happening. I wouldn't mind it if Eric B and me could be our assistant head coach, passing game coordinator. You could be all that. And I know a lot of Ravens fans have been seen in the comments section. Y'all been going crazy with it. But anyway, I don't see it happening. I don't because it would technically it's like. Assistant head coach. Is that really higher than an offensive coordinator? Now, I know based off of the name, assistant head coach, you're like, oh, yeah, like that's the assistant head coach. But is it really higher than an offensive coordinator? I don't think so. And would Eric be into me? The next move I expect him to make is not to be an assistant head coach. It's for him to be the guy. So while him being an assistant head coach, it could be a stepping stone. I just, I don't see that happening. I really don't. And we've talked about a lot on here, how David Culley. It's not just Greg Roman, but so yeah, David Culley, he got his share. Lamar Jackson, he got his share. The receivers, they got their share. It's a mix of everybody. But the people at the top, that's where everything starts. That's where everything begins. So that's why, as y'all know, I wanted the Ravens to go in another direction, but they're not. As far as offensive coordinates, okay, cool. Let's just hope for the best. Let's hope they can bring in a passing game coordinator to replace David Culley now, who will really help this offense do as much as they possibly can. And Greg Roman will take it up a notch. Lamar Jackson will take it up a notch. The receivers will take it up. Everybody will take it up a notch. And we, then we can go from 32nd ranked passing to 30th ranked. No, I really do hope they improve everybody all across the board. Next question came from a boy, Captain Kirk. He said, what's good in Graven? Love the content. Been watching for a few years now. Keep up the great work, bro. Appreciate that, man. Well, Captain, he said, my question is about your offense. With so many great options we had after the season was over to get a new offensive coordinator, why do you think the Ravens stay with Greg Roman? Doug Peterson was out there, even though I doubt he was going to go back to offensive coordinator after winning a Super Bowl, LOL. I think he actually would. I think he actually would because if you ain't got no options and you still want to coach, you're willing to sort of take that step down. And enough times too, some of those guys may not want the extra responsibility that comes with being a head coach. They may want a lot off of their plate. Possibly, not necessarily, but you never know. He said Anthony Lin was out there before the Lions scooped him up. That's true. That's another one. Even the Steelers are looking to bring in Hugh Jackson out of retirement to call play shaking my head. Well, yeah, they did end up promoting their QB coach. I want to say Matt Canada. I know his last name is Canada. I don't remember his first name, but they got that guy now too. So with so many great offensive minds out there on the open market, why do you think the Ravens are so bent on keeping Greg Roman? Ooh, I love this question. This is a really good question. One, they're comfortable with him. They're comfortable with Greg Roman. We know the Ravens, they broke all these records running the ball. They're comfortable with Greg Roman. The Ravens also John Harbaugh. John Harbaugh, when it comes to bringing in offensive coordinators, he normally doesn't bring in guys that are a threat to his job or that could possibly be a threat to his job. And usually when it comes to offensive coordinators, we don't really bring in anybody who's really the best of the best. So I think that's a part of it too. And Greg Roman is somebody that's more low-key. He's a low-key guy. And he already had a reputation for, we saw the numbers in San Francisco with the Bills and all that. And then he still had those same numbers with the Ravens. So nobody is looking at Greg Roman like, oh, you might have to take over for John Harbaugh if he don't get it right. I think it could be one of those instances where the Ravens just, they don't want to think outside the box with this one. And I don't even think, I don't even think you really even got to think so outside the box. But I just, I would really love them to take the reins off of this offense. Stop making it child's play and bring it to the adult section. Like really take the reins off, man. Like really, and really force these guys, man. Because I don't want to hear that because I know some people say, well, maybe it's because it's Lamar, that's easy, I can't even talk because it's so frustrating. Maybe it's because Lamar is just so limited. Maybe that's why they run the offense the way that they do. Well, you need to unlimited him, force him to be that, open it up, open it up. Stop holding back, stop doing the same, open it up. Nobody's saying to absolutely destroy the run game, kill the run game, no. We just want to be more balanced. We were, and we've been talking, we talked about this before this past season even started. We want it to be more balanced. I was in a group chat with some fellas and one guy was talking about, well, when the Ravens were passing earlier this season, that everybody was calling for them to run. But then Ravens, they just run, run, run. Now people calling for them to pass, what is it? And somebody responded, we want balance. We just want balance. And what I responded with is, yes, we want balance, but we want to be able to consistently do both. We want to be able to do both. And especially in games where one of those things is taken away, we want to be able to do the other consistently, continuously. That's what the Ravens need to do. So as far as why they kept Greg Roman, I don't even know. Next question came from Shazab. He said, in Graven, this is my first email to team, keep it clean. Paul is well with you and the fan. Recently, I was made aware that Allen Robinson liking tweets about possibly playing for the Ravens. Do you think the Ravens will finally pull the trigger on a big name receiver like Robinson? Like Robinson, not really. I'm not sold on them doing that, I don't. Do you think this is any indication that Allen Robinson will want to sign with the Ravens if they gave him an offer based off of his Twitter likes? Allen Robinson looking to get paid. Ravens, they don't look to pay the top receiver money. That's not them. So if he's looking for it based off of that, then he looking in the wrong spot. He also liked tweets about him going to Miami and I think there was another team he liked tweets about him. So I wouldn't take the Twitter thing too seriously. It is what it is. Because he also, he did like a tweet about the blank check. About, oh, there it goes. The Ravens should just hand Allen Robinson a blank check. He liked that tweet. So, but anyway, if the Ravens don't get Allen Robinson based off of money, who do you think they will go after? Personally, I'm tired of these cheap aging veterans. Love your vids and keep doing you, appreciate it. I'm tired of it too, but I think the Ravens will still go in that direction. I wouldn't want them to, but I could really see them signing AJ Green. I could see them signing him after the deadline passes to where these a free agent that's leaving his previous team counts against your comp pick formula. I could see them signing AJ Green then. And even if they signed him, I don't even think they're gonna sign him for anything that would really even count against the comp pick formula. They ain't gonna sign him to no crazy deal, anything like that. But I could see them signing AJ Green. Healthy AJ Green, prime AJ Green will be a perfect fit, perfect receiver for this offense. And I'm sure he can still do some things. And maybe he'll have less wear and tear being in the Ravens offense than any other offense. Cause there will be, he'll be asked to do less. Well, he'll need to put in more effort than he showed with the Bengals. Cause it was a big yikes. It was a big yikes. And just in them two games where the Ravens played the Bengals, he ain't wanna be there. He was done. He was, he was way done. But anyway, with AJ Green, I feel like the Ravens, that that would be a move that they would make. So I, like I said, I think he would be a really good fit. Prime AJ Green would be. This AJ Green now, well, hopefully we won't see, but I just, I really wouldn't be surprised if they did it. Next question came from my boy, Javo. He said, how do you feel about bringing back Dez Bryant and getting Odell Beckham Jr. and Antonio Brown, or one of the two instead of spending lots of money on an Allen Robinson or another type of sever? So about bringing back Dez, I don't think it's gonna happen. I would like for it, well, you know what? I would like for it to happen, but if they're gonna bring him back, use him. Use him, use him, use him, use him, use him. But I don't want him to be brought back if it's gonna be like it was this past season. If it's gonna be like that, let him go, let him go. But if you're gonna actually use him, okay, welcome back Dez. But as far as Odell Beckham Jr., no, Ravens, they, and I know you can find ways around the salary cap, but Odell Beckham Jr., nice receiver, good receiver, would give us a legitimate guy opposite Hollywood. That could be something, but I don't know. Odell just, all the talent in the world, he just doesn't seem very Raven-like to me. He just doesn't. He's nice, but I just, I don't know, man. I don't know, I don't know what it is about Odell. I like Odell as a, I really do. I don't know what it is about him that just doesn't seem very Raven-like. And then the Browns trading Odell to the Ravens, I don't think that would happen anyway. And then he said, he said, get an Odell Beckham Jr. and Antonio Brown. And Antonio Brown, they should have already been there, done that, but man, well, you know how they, anyway. All right, so maybe trade for Zach Erz and use draft picks to build our offensive line. Now I did see where it came out today actually that Zach Erz is not gonna be playing in Philly next year. So whether that's via trade or whether he's cut, you know the Ravens wanted him before. Sometimes when the Ravens want something, they may revisit it again. We'll see, but you know, you know, if they want something on offense, they don't revisit those again. On defense though, they'll circle back around. We going back, we getting that play on defense, but on offense, they're like, oh, we tried. Okay, nevermind, let's move on. So with Zach Erz, maybe if he's cut, Ravens could pounce. That'd be nice. Little Mark Andrew, Zach Erz, Mark Jackson would be drooling. He'd be like, yes, tight end, let's go. But anyway, and he said, a last move I like is to try to get JJ Watt from the Texans. That's another one that I could see happening. It couldn't hurt, especially if we lose Panel McPhee. JJ Watt would give us an edge guy, but I feel like he would be one of those situational players. I feel like he wouldn't be an every down defensive end. I feel like he'll be a situational guy because whenever I watched him, whenever I watched the Texans this year, especially when they played the Ravens, he just looked tired, like tired, tired, tired, tired. So JJ Watt, if he was really cheap, okay, cool. If you're gonna spend big, no, don't spend no big, please don't. And he said also, I think Lamar needs to discuss passing schemes with Roman or sign a coach to aid Roman with the passing game. I really hope Lamar takes the right approach with his upcoming new contract to help build around him. Yes, Lamar needs to tell the Ravens, I'm not signing anything unless y'all show me that y'all gonna sign something in somebodies to really help this thing get turned around. Next question came from Hendo. He said, what's good? How's the fam doing? Oh, we good, we good. Hope your fam doing even better. He said, hope all is well. I would just like your perspective on two players. Do you believe Brandon Williams is worth the money for a two down off injured player? Off injured, I wouldn't say that. I know he did get a little banked up but his biggest injury this year was a whole C19 thing. But yes, because when you look at the run defense without a Brandon Williams, it's a big yikes. But then you look at the run defense with Brandon Williams, it's like, oh, okay, there we go. Much better, much better. So do I think the Ravens may have overpaid Brandon Williams slightly a little bit, but he's somebody that is often underappreciated and undervalued by a lot of Ravens fans in my opinion. And he said, and what do you feel about Andrews getting a big contract? I just feel like he disappears in big games and in the playoffs. Whistle. Mm. Now, Andrews, whoa. Yeah, Andrews is a good tight end, not great yet. Hands, they're shaky. Andrews, oh, he is a tricky one. You don't want to lose somebody like that, but you want to keep them because they are a big part of your offense, especially when they show up. But yeah, sometimes he can't end up getting lost in these bigger games. And we've seen it time and time and time again. But it just, I would love for them to bring in another tight end too. Bring in another tight end to pay with Mark Andrews and see how he does then. Like a legitimate receiving tight end because Nick Boyle's already there. He's a blocking tight end though. He can catch now too, but bringing a legitimate receiving tight end, somebody that can compliment Mark Andrews and then see how he does that. Even though that would actually be, cause how do you explain it? You don't want it to be to where he only does well if somebody else, another tight end is doing well too. But at the same time, you want there to be options and you want them to not just be able to take Mark Andrews out the game. But that's also where receiver comes into play. You have more than one legitimate receiver on the field at the same time. And the opacity scheme, if it's a legitimate one, then that'll open it up for everybody. So with Mark Andrews, I would rather them keep him than lose him, but I would definitely want it to be a reasonable contract because again, them hands, they be getting shaky, baby. They be getting shaky. Mark Andrews is nice though, man. But that's a tough, tough question. I'll leave it for the comment section to take care of that. Next question came from my boy, Jen Nereepa. He said, what's going on in Graven? So my question is, what type of plays would you like to see implemented into this Ravens offense? Oh, we've had this conversation a lot this year, but I don't mind having it again. He said, I would love to see more RPOs running back runs in a spread formation and play action off of those runs in spread formation. Most importantly, wide receiver, bubble screens and trips formation. PS, I was furious that Josh Allen got that freebie touchdown to digs on a screen pass. Where was that for Lamar? Screen passes is one of the biggest things for me. More plays on the center, but the screen passes would be something that could just, if those were implemented, it could, it's something so simple. And even some little misdirection screens and whatnot, just you don't have to do anything that's too crazy. You don't gotta do anything that's too wild to make the offense that much better. It doesn't have to be anything crazy. More runs from under center, more passes from under center, coming out in the eye formation, the more be under center, there'll be Patrick Riccardo and either Gus or JK, or whatever running back, the Justice Hill, whatever running back they drive, cause you knew they were gonna drive one. But you got, it's simple stuff, man, simple stuff. And plays that with all the receivers, they not going into the same place. Devon Duvenay, I just, my thing, I would love to see so many different types of plays, but I would just really love to see so many different types of players get involved. And I would love to see players become legitimate threats, legitimate threats to where teams are like, oh man, oh, I remember Duvenay, he caught a slip and earlier, we gotta watch out for him. Besides the jet sweep. Oh man, this dude Pro Shae, oh man, Lamar threw that pass and Pro Shae caught it all over our corner back. Oh man, we can't have that again. Keeping an eye on him. Boykin, oh man, Boykin caught that fade right in the back of the end zone. Man, we can't let that happen again. Hey, double team him. That's what I want. Next question came from Eastside Live. He said, what's up in Graven? Sorry if I didn't spell your name right, but I love what you've done this year. It's been a long season. Hopefully we can have a bounce back here. They appreciated me. He said, the reason why I think there's Brian wasn't involved in the offense as much as people thought he was going to be was because he came late in the season. So he really didn't have a whole off season to prepare for the Ravens offense. But what about Miles Boykin? What about Devon Duvenay? What about James Pro Shae? Those guys were not involved in the Ravens offense much. Well, Miles Boykin has a blocker, but as a pass catcher, as a receiver, those guys were not involved in the Ravens offense much and they were here the entire off season. So what's the excuse then? So I just, I came by into that since there's Brian came in the middle of the season, excuse me, then that's why he wasn't involved. But anyway, he said, I think that by next season, Hollywood or there's Brian will be fighting for that top receiver position. And I think there's Brian is going to get it because he's way more experienced and he barely has dropped the ball this year. Well, he's barely caught any passes too. But, and he was actually looking like his old self and they start to connect with him more. But I think next season, LeVon Dez are going to look like Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs, I don't know about all that poor, but anyway, he said, that's just my opinion. Can you give me your thoughts on that and team keeping clean? Sorry if the grammar is a little bit off, but before I go, I'm not saying that Hollywood was a bad player this year, but if he wants to keep the leader and see the role, he's going to compete with Dez Bryant if Dez Bryant is here next season. All right, so that would be nice if there's that competition, but I still think Dez is gone. I don't think Dez is coming back. I wouldn't mind him coming back, but I don't think he's coming back, especially with Greg Roman still being an offensive coordinator. I just, I don't see any way where Dez, he comes back to the Ravens. So if he'd buy some chance does though, and he would end up being the number one guy, him in Hollywood, one A, one B guy, cool. But to make him, for him to really be a threat, he got to be involved. For anybody to really be a threat, they got to be involved. Simple as that. Next question came from a boy, Ryan B. He said, hello. Hope the family as well. Yes, we doing good. He said, ready for our kids to get back to school full-time. My question is, Harbaugh says that he expects both coordinators to be back next season. The passing game and Lamar Jackson can't succeed with these passing concepts. How is this team ever going to move forward? And the playoffs, thanks for everyone, or thanks for everything and hope the best in 2021. Appreciate it, Ryan. But again, they just got to, they got to start doing stuff this outside the box. They got to get out of their comfort zone. I think that's the best way to say it. They got to get out of their comfort zone. We know you can run the ball, but now it's time to really, really compliment the run game with the pass game. And like a real complimentary pass game too. Yeah, that's it. They need to get out of their comfort zone and find a way, because in the regular season, everything's cool, but come playoff time, things change quick. They change quick. It's like we get that big wake up call like, oh, what happened? But it almost seems like it's crazy because regular season Ravens will be coasting. But then come playoff time, that's when things turn into a big yikes. But at the same time, now that I think about it, we lost that game to the Patriots. Patriots took away our run game for the most part. But the pass game, Lamar had a pretty good game that game, minus that interception, but he had a pretty good game that game. And then the Titans game, we were running the ball okay, but then when it came to passing, Ravens just, I don't think they passed that well in that game. So maybe it's that those better teams, when it comes to those better teams, the Ravens start to lose their focus a little bit. Just a little bit. Well, maybe a lot of bit because they just get imbalanced. They get imbalanced, imbalanced, whatever the word is. When it comes to those better teams, things, they get imbalanced. And those better teams present a better challenge. So we need the players, the coaches, we need everybody to step up to the challenge much better than they have. Much better, everybody. It's a group effort. The next question came from DJ Bill. He said, did the Ravens waste their passing weapons this year? A engraving and team keeping clean. I hope everything is well. I'm still processing this loss against the bills. It makes me think about the entire season. Once again, Ravens failed to show any creativity in the passing game, but this question is about personnel. Did the Ravens basically waste their passing weapons this year? What I mean is, I think everybody would say yes, but what I mean is think about how much we were able to learn about who we have. We come into the off season once again, saying that we need a number one wide receiver. But we didn't even get the chance to see if Boykin, Pro Shade, maybe Duvenay could be that guy. Do you think the Ravens wasted an opportunity to see what they have? This should have been the season where they really got a chance to see what these additions added to the team. That's very true because you drafted these guys both last year or two years ago and then this last season as well. And you failed to really get them involved consistently. It's the same old story, man. And he said, as we always say, the defense got to see what they had in everybody. Think about it. Yannick may not be the answer. Wolfe is an underrated contributor. Tramon Williams is a step slower than we probably need. Avid has promise. Queen is a keeper. Elliot is super solid and Chuck Clark should never be in coverage in one-on-one situations. Oh, man. Now, bring it back to the offense. What did we learn that we didn't already know? Gonna keep it to the additions. There's his locker room leader, but did he get a chance to show what he could really do? He was really on the field. Is Proshay any better or worse than Willie Snead? What's Duvenay's biggest receiving contribution? But of course we did learn that JK is a stud. I say all of that to say this. Did we waste our opportunity to see what we had in the passing game? Cause none of our additions made it to the field enough and nothing was schemed differently. Anticipatory throws or shots down the field. I love how you put that. That was just perfect. I don't have anything to add to it. You covered literally everything already. You covered it, 1,000%. And he said, second question, is our number one receiver right in front of our eyes and we just aren't getting the opportunity to see it? Have we really put the pressure on anyone but Hollywood and Andrews to showcase number one ability? Boykin is in, but a glorified blocker. There's never felt like he was in during big situations. Snead was so up and down. One game he's a leader and the next he's ghost. Proche barely hit the field but at least he can catch a punt, right? Do we have another season to figure out with a new coordinator? Well, that ain't happening. If we can create our own number one receiver. Welp. We just gotta see again. We just gotta wait and see again and hope. Hope. Yeah, we just gotta wait and see and hope. And that's it. I'm hoping for the best. Again, my expectations are not super sky high or anything like that, but I'm hoping some things change around. Let's see what the Ravens do a passing game coordinator, but let's see who they bring in and replace David Coley there. And hopefully it can be somebody that has a great track record and just is really gonna be able to help turn this thing around. I'm like, well, Greg Roman again, he has what he's done. He has his past. He has his history. Hopefully his history can be changed, but I don't know, bro. I don't know. So with a passing game coordinator, let's just hope that they can make a big passing game impact because it just hasn't been it, man. It hasn't been it. And we, this is, it's crazy because this is something that we even talked about when the Ravens were winning. We talked about this when the Ravens were winning. We talked about this when the Ravens were losing that the Ravens, they just, we need better. We need better, we need more consistency and we just wanna see guys be involved. I think that's been one of the biggest points from this video and from a lot of these questions. We just want guys to be involved. We draft these guys, we sign these guys, we bring in these guys on offense and they're just, they're not involved and I love how he brought up that we got to see what these defensive players, man. We got to see what they got. We got to see who they are. But when it comes to the offense, it's so many unknowns. It's so many head scratches, so many questions. But this has been a consistent with the Ravens, a consistent. So we're hoping that that consistency can change. We'll see what happens moving forward.