 Now, Team Keep It Clean, I gotta issue some apologies because I completely forgot about this. So that is my fault, that is my bad. And what I'm talking about is questions from subscribers. We ain't even doing it last week. And this is something that I want to do moving forward at least once per week. Cause as y'all know, stuff gets crazy busy with the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL. And we do stuff on this channel and we do stuff on the more engraving video channel too. And make sure you subscribe to both and leave likes on the videos too cause it shows a lot of support and helps out both channels big time. But question from subscribers, I've been slacking. And another thing too, I gotta apologize to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. Shout out to y'all. I really, really appreciate y'all. Thank you for being patrons. I can completely understand. If right now you're like, man, the patrons we don't get anything special engraving videos ain't really been doing much with it. So I can understand if some of y'all wanna be like, you know what, I don't even wanna be a patron anymore. I completely get it. And some people have done that. And I'm not mad at you at all because I understand it's the same way with the Team Keep It Clean channel members. I appreciate all of y'all like crazy. I do, I guarantee you I do. But stuff be so busy and I continuously forget to give y'all your proper shout outs and your proper appreciation. So this is me doing that right now because y'all deserve it. Y'all show a lot of extra love and support to the channel. So thank you. Thank you. I wish I could find a way to get every list of everybody right in front of me right now so we can go name by name by name by name. But I really, really appreciate y'all for real. Seriously, I do. Now, you know what, without any further ado though, let's get into these questions from subs. Now, some are gonna be from last week, some are gonna be from this week, but we're gonna time all together and get this thing done. Let's do it. And we're getting this thing started with a question from my guy, Maude, who's been a patron for two years. So I appreciate you, my friend. He said, coming into the season, I was very down on the Ravens defense. I didn't think they would be very good, especially the Edge, Russia and quarterback position. What I saw on Sunday against the Texans was very encouraging. I know it was just one week and we lost the key piece, but I hope I continue to be wrong. And A, after week two, what we saw against the bingles, like that team, those bingles, still impressed. Still impressed. Yes, they scored 24 points, but we got to remember too, bingles really just scored 17. And while that's still a good amount of points for this Baltimore Ravens defense to be as depleted as they were and as hurt as they were. And to hold that bingles team to 17 points, that says a whole lot. To hold Jamar Chase to like 31 yards, I think. Now T Higgins, he got like 89 yards, too touched to him, but to hold them down the way that the Baltimore Ravens did, that was phenomenal. So I really, I loved it. He said, I don't mind being wrong in this case. I've been someone who has put a lot of hope in Adafi away since his rookie season last year. It made me down on him. But one thing I always love about Adafi away is that he's all over the field. Even if he doesn't get to the QB, he would chase down whoever throws the ball to in the backfield. I love the hustle from Adafi. Dude has insane speed for an edge rusher. He created lots of chaos against the Texans. Even if he wasn't getting sex, he felt like he was a big reason why the Texans couldn't move the ball because he was chasing CJ Stroud down constantly. Sorry for the rambling. I'm gonna put my thoughts out there and thanks to the platform and stay hydrated, team keeping clean. Yes, Adafi away. In that Texans game, he was moving around a lot. Now, unfortunately, in a bingles game, he did get hurt, which sucks. And hopefully he won't be out too long for not only the Ravens' sake, but for his sake too. So hopefully he can bounce back real soon. And he also said, Nelson Aguilore reminds me of Jacoby Jones, a good veteran that will be in the league a while and has had success in that he is a complimentary reliable guy that defenses don't cover because they're trying to cover everyone else. And do you think he could be Lamar as Jacoby Jones? It's an interesting comparison. I don't anticipate them using him in the return game because that's obviously something big that Jacoby Jones did for the Baltimore Ravens. But yeah, that complimentary guy, that reliable guy, that guy that can give you some significant plays throughout the course of the season, he may not be the number one guy and he doesn't have to be the number one guy. I mean, even though against the bingles, he was the number one guy, but he helps where he helps it and he makes everybody else's job easier because he's still good at doing his job. Next question came from my guy, Blacks has been a patron for a year. He said, would you rather? It was a sloppy game on both sides of the ball against the Texans. Lots of penalties and mental mistakes. I didn't see anything that couldn't be fixed as the season progresses. More rust than anything. These injuries really put a damper on the wind. I feel so bad for J.K. The man wants to play ball and showcase his abilities. It's not like he's suffering from sprains, strains and bruises. He's getting career threatening injuries. Whatever the future holds for him, I'll always be rooting for him. We saw Ronnie, Marcus, Linda Baum all go down. With all the injuries we had yesterday, a thought came to me. Would you rather have lost and had everyone stay healthy or keep things the way they happened? Obviously it is what it is. We can't change anything, but it was a hard question for me and I could not come up with an answer. Our division is tough. The ASC as a whole is just as tough. We can't afford to take an L against the team we should beat. And you never want to start the season 0-1, but at the same time, we could potentially be missing four key contributors for some significant time. No real updates had come out at this time, but if you had to pick, which would you choose? That is a very interesting question. And I want to say it's a fun question. It's not a fun question given a scenario for it is what it is like you mentioned, but it is kind of a fun question. But I would take the win. Reason being, because with Marcus Williams, with Ronnie Stanley, with Tyler Lindebaum, unfortunately J.K. Dobbins, but with all the other guys, they expected to come back. So they are gonna be, it's not like they lost for the season, not like they done for the season. Obviously we would rather take the win and everybody healthy, but if I had to choose one, I would choose the win because you getting those guys in the long haul. Next question came from my guy Dominic who's been a patron for nine months. He said, what's up my guy, what's up? I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet, but first I gotta say thanks again for all you do to inspire and inform us every day. Oh no, no, no, I don't do nothing, y'all inspire me. And y'all make this a lot of fun and y'all help out in a lot of different ways. I appreciate y'all. He said, okay, so am I the only one who has noticed that the same pundits and so-called analysts that were saying that there was no way that our beloved Ravens could ever have a deep playoff run with their previous run heavy offense or the same hypocrites chastising the Ravens for loading up in the receiver room and trying a more balanced offense this season. I'm here a lot of why would you go away from what won you the MVP argument from those same pundits? It's official, they just wanna hate us, particularly Lamar. They're looking for anything to complain about when it comes to him. Why do they not wanna see that man succeed? I have a few suspicions, but they're not very team keeping clean. So I'll just bite my tongue on those for now. The hate is definitely real out here. Keep up the good work, blessings to you the fam and all the team keeping clean and like the haters coming since. I'm out. Oh, that's a question right there. And I think people just, you know for the longest there's been a lot of people that just do not wanna see Lamar Jackson succeed. They don't wanna see him win and because he plays the game so different from a lot of other people, from a lot of other quarterbacks and so many people were down on it from the jump and some people have continued to stay down on it. Some people have changed their tune but for the people who continue to stay down on it they're always gonna change something. They're always gonna change the narrative he and there. They're always gonna do a remix on it. The reason why that it's not gonna work or that it is probably gonna fail or whatnot but it is what it is. Now it's just continues to be up to Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson to prove him all wrong. Expressions came from my guy Jarvo. He said, hey, I know it's only week two and it's a little early for this question but it must be talked about sooner or later. What happened this season with our upcoming free agents like Geno Stone, Patrick Queen, Matt Abike and others? Do we rework some contracts? So Geno Stone is tricky man because I think he goes somewhere else and starts because from now until Marcus Williams comes back he's gonna show people like, hey, I can start. He's already shown people that he can start but if he's a free agent after this year then I think he'll be gone and I think he'll get an opportunity. Patrick Queen I think is the trickiest one out of here because Patrick Queen, he's a baller man. He's a baller, that boy can play. Him and Roquan Smith, the Ravens obviously love the duo and I think that they would really try to work hard to get something done, something that would be reasonable. If Patrick Queen is willing to take less money to stay with the Ravens, I think they could get it worked out but if he wants to get as much bread as he possibly can which I couldn't blame him, then he's gone. Matt Abike, who the Baltimore Ravens also love who's off to a good start, minus those penalties but he's off to a pretty good start. It's tricky but I think they would find a way to keep him as well and some others, I can't think anybody else off the top of my head. He also said, watching this game, we definitely need offensive line. With the always injured Ronnie Stanley, do you think it's time for us to just look into trading him? I don't think they really can right now. I think they locked into him for a while because he has a big contract and then they've reworked his contract so many times so whenever you reconstruct somebody's contract, you push that money down the line. So Ronnie Stanley, they locked in for a minute with him. And he said also with the JK injury, no, I'm not looking to trade for one like others are but what do you think the contract negotiations are going to look like? I think they're going to be all in favor of Ravens. Like every last contract negotiation with them and JK Dobbins, they would all be in favor of the Ravens because he's hurt and he's been hurt and he's kept getting hurt. So Ravens, they have all the leverage with that. Ooh, next question came from my guy, Joshua. He said, could JK's injury help the Ravens pass game to stop playing? Scared, what's up in Graven? Good to see you in the booth for another NFL season. I appreciate your work, ethic brother. No, I appreciate you, man. First of all, praise up for JK. I pray he recovers and lives out to his full potential as a stud in the league we know he can be. Secondly though, I'm torn about JK. His injury could actually benefit the Ravens offense in the long run. I know it sounds dark, but hit me out. The offense has to get out of their comfort zone. I'm starting to think that Lamar and the play callers play scared. No deep shots, easy sweeps, only throwing open. I don't see the fearlessness in dog in their eyes like 2019, the passing game did not show up in week one due to rust, but you also see them trying to turn they flowers into an extended running back with all those horizontal throws. Right, and that was getting on my last nerves. The old line needs to improve for sure, but the only way Lamar and Monk can truly develop the passing game is by trial and fire. Miskues, interceptions, route misses, and so on early in the season. It's okay, but they gotta stop doing this running sweep, shell, and start taking chances. When you're all more afraid of making mistakes than actually trying, it tells me your ego is more important to you than growth. Ooh, that is such a great question. And you know what, I'm actually glad that we got to answer this after week two because everything that you wanted, you got. Them taking more chances, they did it. They certainly did it. Them going down the field more, they did it. They certainly did it. So everything that you were concerned, the offensive line playing better, even without Ronnie Stanley and Linda Baum, they did a phenomenal job against them Bengals the other day. So all of your concerns, they got taken care of a week later. Oh, wait, hurt. Next question came from my guy, D3. He said, what's good in gravening and team keeping clean? I hope that the family as well too. Now, quick question. Was the timeline on Bowser's return impossible injury to our way? Which Hubbaugh refused to talk about? Do you feel that we should just elevate one of our practice squad guys like Jeremiah Moon, which they said had a great training camp or move on to signing an available free agent? And he said, Tavius Robinson Clowney, the job are currently good to go right now. And he named some available guys like Calvin Noy, Melvin Ingram, Carlos Dunlap, Robert Quinn, Jason Pierpaugh, Bruce Irvin. Again, thank you for your content and get your suit ready for your interview with ESPN and CBS. Speak it into existence. I appreciate you, D3. Hey, who knows what could happen in the future? We'll see. But as far as, it all just depends. It depends on how long a die fair way is gonna be out for. I think, hey, you know your guys that you got on a practice squad. They sitting there, they ready and they available. You see them in practice all the time too. So if you feel like one of them could come in and contribute, hey, I'd say go for it. Go for it. But if you feel like their contributions would be limited or they may not be as good as you want them to be, then I think everything just depends because if I say sign somebody, then that means a die fair way will go to Endure Reserve. So that means he'll be out at least four games. Now is his injury that significant to where he'll be out at least four games? We don't know. We still don't know as of this recording. We just don't know. So everything just really depends on that. If he's gonna be out for a while, okay, you can sign somebody, hold it down or even sign them to the practice squad. But if he's only gonna be out a short amount of time, you could try some of your own guys like they did with Clowney. Clowney get a lot more playing time like he did against the Bengals. Next question came from my guy, Anthony. He said, what's up in Graven? Real quick question, what trade would you like to see or do you see the Ravens making before the deadline? Hope you and the fam are good. God bless and trust. Appreciate you. That's a really good question. I think it all depends on when guys get back because I could easily say corner. Even though they play really well against the Bengals but and then get them all in Humphrey back any day now, that'd be great. You could say pass rush, but again, I feel like we don't even know our pass rush yet because with the Bengals, they were getting a ball out so fast, we didn't even see if our pass rush was good or bad or whatnot. We didn't get to see where it was at. In the Texans game, it was solid. It was straight, but in the Bengals game, it was, we didn't really get to see them that much. So it will probably be one of those positions. Probably either, I feel like it's so early to say, it's too early to say for me right now because right now we still have those unknowns, but if I absolutely had to choose one right now after two games, I would probably say cornerback. Expression can't came from my guy, Colin. He said, what's up? I mean, Graven, hope all is going well. I was wondering, since Linda Bond was injured, do you think Ravens might bring in a center like Rodney Hudson or Chase Rulier for the time being? No, no, I think they stay put. And he did ask this after week one, I would have thought they would have promoted from within. With the center position, the center, the QB exchange is very, very timely. It's very, very significant because they hand the ball off to each other every single snap. So I would expect the Ravens, if they, when Tyler Linda Bond got hurt, Sam Mustafa came in there and he did his thing. And he's continued to do his thing. So I would expect them to keep it like that because you don't want to bring in some, if push came to shove, you might have to, you would have to in a certain situation. Certain situations, but with Sam Mustafa, he was already on the team. He was already playing center for the team. So he already knows the team, he's jelling with the offensive line and whatnot, with the actual offense itself. So making him be the center, instead of bringing in somebody who's a free agent, it makes the transition a lot smoother. Oh man, I wish I would have saw this question before because we literally just did a video on this on Thursday morning. He said, what's up with the usage of Gus Edwards? Next question came from my guy, Asong. He said, and Raven, I was wondering if you think there's anything going on behind the scenes or injury wise with Gus Edwards. In a Houston game, it felt like J.K. Dobbins never came off the field until he toys the killies. And this is even with him clearly not performing his best. Only then did we see some real Gus action. And even then it seemed to be a second fiddle to Justice Hill. They gave Hill the ball in all their goal line situations, which was odd, given the short yardage advantage Gus gives you. Gus ended the game having the most yards and best yards per carry of their running backs by a good margin. Yet, in the Raven's wire video, they released to address J.K.'s injury. Shout out to Gear Downing. They presented Hill as a guy to step up and spent more time on him than Gus. And maybe nothing, but it just feels weird to see the usage of and behavior towards Gus, given all he has done and continue to do. What do you think? PS, take care, man. You've been giving me joy in a year round Raven's outlet for years now, and I really appreciate that. Hey, thank you, Asong. I appreciate that a lot, man. Thank you. And yeah, I agree with Gus Edwards. It's been weird for years with the usage or lack thereof with him. He has continued to put up good numbers and limited usage. He's continued to show like he can carry the team if need be. He's continued to have a super high yards per carry. I think his yards per carry throughout his entire career since 2018 is 5.2 yards per carry. So yeah, man, he been here since Lamar been here. Yeah, shout out to Gus. But yeah, so it's weird, because before he got his three-year contract extension, I thought that they were holding him down and restricting him. So when it came time to pay him, they could be cheap. And I mean, they did do that. It was a cheap contract. But then after that, I'm like, okay, you got him signed on the contract. Why not let him go off? Why not use him? And of course, you know they wanted JK to be the guy. But in 2021, that's when JK got hurt, but then Gus Edwards got hurt and Justice Hill got hurt. They were all out for the year. So that messed up everything. Then the following year, they came back. JK was still hurt, so there was more Gus, but still it was limited. And then of course, last year, and this, I mean, excuse me, this year, it's really weird. So I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. But Gus Edwards continues to show up and show out, continues to just do his job. He don't complain, at least don't complain publicly without that anything we hear of. But he just shows up and does his thing. So why he doesn't get more? No clue. Next question had come from my guy Darren. And he sent this question before the Texans game, but it still applied to the Bengals as well. He said, and Graven, can our secondary defend Nico Collins? And Nico Collins, he was getting a bunch of catches, a bunch of yards too. He said, with guys like Mike Evans, Vonte Parker, Zay Jones, Corey Davis, I noticed that we get our lunch eight. Do we have a problem with tall, athletic wide receivers? And I think so, but I think they give anybody a problem. Because if somebody is short and athletic, then if somebody tall is around, they can knock it down. But if somebody is tall and athletic, that's a problem. That's a big problem. And they are a matchup nightmare. So you're going to have to do extra to put in work to try to take them out the game. Now we saw what Nico Collins, he was doing this thing against Baltimore Raven, then we saw with T Higgins after a little while, he started getting more sinking, getting more rhythm and started doing his thing against the Baltimore Ravens. Even though one of those matchups was Ardarius Washington against T Higgins, I'm thinking like, hold up, what's he doing against T Higgins in the red zone? In the red zone, like put Kyle Hamilton on him, put one of the cornerbacks on him, it's not Ardarius Washington. Ardarius Washington can play, but that matchup was just, it was a terrible matchup. So I think the Baltimore Ravens definitely going to be looking back at that one and be like, oh no, even though Ardarius Washington is out now, which is unfortunate. But yeah, so it's one of those things that you just, you got to play at the right way, man. Getting Marlon Humphrey back though, that will help with that a lot. Next question came from my good guy, Flurton Winsky. He said, what's good? It's your boy, Flurton Winsky back again. I can't even talk right now. He said, hope all is well with you and yours per usual. And per usual, Mike McDonald is running that tire cover too that gets picked apart every game and has lost us plenty of games. And when in doubt, he turns into a wink. And sadly, our line still can't hold water. So Lamar still only has one second to throw majority of the time. So the Zay screens were perfection. It's weird because at least five plays out of the game, Lamar got absolutely perfect pocket and every time he delivers a dot. But then the rest of the game is blocking forward. They are rushing for Lamar, it's being Lamar or getting sacked. Bro, this is very alarming. But listen, a win is a win. And this was obviously after the Texans game, but before the Bengals game. He says, I'm not surprised by McDonald. You know how I feel about him. But they all see, how do you feel about his calls? I know you love the screens because I did too. Last question. Okay, so first with Mike McDonald, excuse me, no, with Todd Munkin. So far, so good. My only thing has been the third and short plays where he'll do a toss player or pitch play. I'm not a fan of those, but that's it. And sometimes some of the screens, they can sort of be a little overkill. Just a little bit, not too much, but a little bit. But overall, he's been doing a good job. Obviously, I mean, they scored 25 and 27 points. So yeah, something's going right. And then they've been getting more in rhythm. And obviously, like you mentioned, when the line blocks, when Lamar got a clean pocket, oh, it's game over, it's lights out. But he don't always have a clean pocket, but he been doing his thing. Then you saw the, you saw the, in the bingles game how, yeah, the pass rush was getting there. But Lamar, I don't think he got sacked once. I don't think he did. And then when the pressure was there, he would evade somebody and they had Justice Hill ready for the check down. So that was super, super important and I loved that. And he said, last question though, is it time to start firing and strengthening coaches ASAP? It's no way for the last five years, we are the most injured team in the NFL, LOL. Like to be honest, it's not even funny. Might have been a good amount of truth in what Wolf was saying because bro, it's no way. One game, we lost all those people. Last but not least, the tough part of the business, I think JK seen the trend and wanted to get paid something like, and something like this happened again. And on the flip side of things, the organization didn't want to pay him because they seen the trend and didn't want to give him the money before something like that happened. Again, it's tough because I was at the game and when I seen the tackle, I was crushed. So I can only imagine how he feels. That's real right there, man. I remember you said Mitchell was a stash. Well, not anymore, sadly. And like Ronnie Stanley is the majority of the time, sadly, I'm out. Wow, you cold for that last part. Last question on this episode came from my guy, Sean, and this is sort of a bonus for anybody who goes to Raven's games. He said, what's up, you're having a team keep it clean. This is more of a reminder than a question for anyone going to Raven's home games, including you, Mr. Engraven. Make sure you catch the Raven's band in Camden Yards. We perform a little concert every single home game, normally two hours before kickoff. Hope to see you all out there today. And just like Mark Andrews was for week one, we out. What a way to end it.