 Before we get into this episode of questions from subs, I gotta give a special shout out to the newest Team Kiwi Clean Patrons, Davion, and Derek. Appreciate the both of y'all. If any of y'all would like to become a Team Kiwi Clean Patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravingvids. Or if you wanna become a channel member, you can hit the join button. And either is all, of course, optional. If you do great, cool, love you. If you don't, it's not a big deal. Great, cool, we still love you. So the first question came from a patron. My guy, Serge, he said, the pressure is on. Well engraving, I feel bad. I only ever ask questions when we're losing, but right now we're all frustrated and looking for answers. I'm writing this just hours after our embarrassing loss to the four and seven Jaguar. Hell yeah. So he updated their record when he wrote this. Of all the games played today, almost every team with the winning record won their games. Although prior to this game, the Ravens won four games in a row, I can't help but feel the tension within the Ravens community. We've dealt with years of frustration over the team's philosophy, a lack of a productive passing game, multiple starters being injured, drop passes, overthrown passes, blown coverages and much, much more. Though these are issues that are normal with other teams, it seems especially prevalent with our Ravens. We're nearing the end of the season, still dealing with issues we had the first half of the season and they don't seem to be getting any better. The NFL is a business and as it all goes with businesses when business isn't going good, someone must pay. So my question to you is, who do you think will be the scapegoat and when will they be dealt with much love from the A? Shout out to Serge. Depends on how the Ravens handle this thing. If the Shadi or EDC, if they approach hardball and be like, look, hey, I don't think they're going to, but if they be like, look, hey, this something's got to give. We need answers, hope I'll come be like, hey, I don't call it your offense. It ain't me, I don't call it defense either. I'm here to motivate and lead these guys, but you go look at Greg Roman and Mike McDonald. So I think that I could see it, if as far as you're talking about scapegoat, I can see that getting put on somebody like Greg Roman. But again, we keep saying it, man. Greg Roman is much deeper than just Greg Roman. It's all philosophy, it's all what you value as a team, as an owner, as a GM, as a head coach. Everything trickles down, but it starts at the top. You get great, get rid of Greg Roman. Yeah, a lot of fans are going to be happy. Oh yeah, woohoo, great. But they still going to have the same philosophy. It's going to be the same. They've been winning a lot of games in regular season with that philosophy, but well, you know the rest. Now, and you talked about how we've dealt with years of frustration over the team's philosophy, lack of productive passing game. So you said it yourself, years, it's been years of frustration with the Ravens passing, years. This is nothing new. So it's the same issues. Different players have come and gone. Different offensive coordinators have come and gone. It's the same thing, my friends. Multiple starters being injured with that part. I mean, don't ask Derrick Wolf about that part. But as far as the injuries, I can't be mad at somebody for getting hurt. I know some old Steve Saunders, but I mean, the injuries I can't get mad at because stuff happens. Stuff happens, you ask Derrick Wolf, he won't just say stuff happens. He said there's a reason behind it. He said the way to Raven, but who knows. But anyway, drop passes. Well, that's execution. Overthrowing passes, well, that's execution. Blown coverages and much, much more. Blown coverages, that's a bit of both coaching and execution because with the blown coverages, there's sometimes when it's like they'll have certain guys on islands. And hey, timing is everything. Can you know what's funny? On a Thursday game, the Giants were playing, oh, the Cowboys. And somebody was saying, oh, man, I think it was Shannon Sharpe. But somebody was saying, oh, man, why is Wink Martindale playing this kind of defense? And oh, there you go. Shannon Sharpe said, why would Giants defensive coordinator play all this man coverage with your starting two DBs out? That's dumb coaching. And guess who quote tweeted that with a laugh and emoji and put a little recycle, well, not recycle, but the arrow was just going in the circle. Basically saying, oh, it's the same old stuff and a laugh and emoji was Patrick Queen. It's Patrick Queen. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so three days later, guess what that Ravens defense did? The same thing. That Ravens defense that had been playing great for these past couple of games, what happened? So he over there laughing at Wink and now Wink is laughing at them. But anyway, with the defense in this game, oh, the blown coverages and just miss assignments and just putting guys in bad positions. Now, again, recently they haven't been doing it, but in this game, especially the situation, if it was just random play or something like, but the situation, the situation, now Marcus Peters, he had a rough game execution, but then Brandon Stevens, it was the two point play, Jack Walls was like, we ain't scared of no Ravens, man. So they were going for two. Brandon Stevens on an island. Brandon Stevens was on an island and you had just caught a time out. You had just caught a time out. So, and you had Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters on the same side. And maybe they were like, oh, you know what, Marcus Peters, you've been struggling. You know what, let's put Marlon Humphrey on this two point conversion play. But he had them two on the same side. Yeah, Brandon Stevens all on an island by himself, by himself. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? That's coaching right there. That's coaching. That reminds me of the Jalen or Moore Davis part, or Jalen Armadavis, excuse me, on Tariq Hill in that Dolphins game. Like, yeah, so it's a lot of the same issues, man. So who do you think it should be? If it's a lot of the same stuff happening, a lot of players are coming and going, but it's a lot of the same stuff happening. Who do you think it should be? Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, but a man. What a man. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Next question came from another patron that came from Ezzana. He said, hello, engraving. Hope your day is going well and thanks in advance for taking my question. After hearing your thoughts on Duvenay's lack of targets, I decided to do some digging and find what the target shares are. So here's some of the numbers. Mark Andrews has 72 targets on 273 passing snaps, 26%. Duvenay has 39 targets on 197 snaps, 20%. Duvenay has 32 targets on 255 passing snaps, 12%. Bateman has 28 targets on 127 passing snaps, 22%. And likely has 30 targets on 178 passing snaps, 16%. Ooh, the numbers just making me go crazy, man. Though Duvenay has taken the second most passing snaps, 58 more snaps than the third. He has the lowest target share. With all that being said, I don't see the Ravens keeping him past his rookie contract, considering his lack of usage. All these numbers don't include the Jags game. Okay, so I mean, not much really changed there. Let's see, let's see. It could be, again, it could be one of them Gus Edwards things like, hey dude, we gonna keep the numbers low and then come contract time. Hey look, you didn't produce like that. You weren't going off like that. So we ain't gotta pay you like that, buddy. Next question came from my guy Dominic. He said, what's up in Graven? Just watch us lose to the Jags and all pro Z Jones. For some reason, we can't stop Z Jones. He cooked us last year in that Raiders game and sealed the deal and now he does it again. But what I really want to talk about is Brandon Stevens. Why do we keep putting him on an Island that seems every game he gets burned or draws a flag? Like, why isn't Pepe Williams out there? Also drops killed us once again, but this time we couldn't overcome it. Yeah, the same thing I was saying, I don't know. I don't know. And I don't know where Pepe Williams is. It's like, he's active. He was healthy. I don't know. I don't, and he was out there like they showed, they loved him in pre-season. Looked like they were loving him. But I guess they just like, you know, were more comfortable with Brandon Stevens. Also with Pepe, I don't know what's up with Pepe at all. That's a good question. Next question came from another patron, my guy, Plex. He said, shrug. There's absolutely nothing that can be said about this game that hasn't been said in the past. Repeat offenders. It's literally the same thing after every loss and even some wins for years. Yes, thank you for highlighting that because it's not just in losses. These are things that we've been talking about even when the Ravens win that they need to fix. Anyway, we need a new O.C. Fire Roman. The philosophy needs to change. Lamar has no weapons. Lamar missed too many throws. Get rid of hardball. There's more, but you understand where I'm coming from. I'm tired. I've gotten to the point where I don't care. I'm not getting my hopes up. Things will be what they've always been, so it is what it is. My guy, Plex, said he is officially checked out. The blame game. Next question came from another patron, my guy, JL. He said, ain't my boy. Love the channel. Appreciate it, man. I haven't seen a lot of blame getting thrown around as a result of the Jags game last weekend, although I will not participate in it. I would like to state that when you invest most of your money, sign big time free agents and make big trades for players on the defensive side of the ball. You cannot give up a 75 yard touchdown drive in a two point conversion to a three and seven team. With all the treatment, this runoff is gives the defense a side of the ball. They should be able to be depended on to close out games, period. But what do you think? You right? You right? That's where all the money is. That's where the biggest and most investments are. So they should be clutch. All right, so next question and the last question on this episode came from my guy Nazarene. He said, what's good big bro? Hope all as well. As a Die Hard Ravens fan and an unbiased fan at that. I would like to share this article from Russell Street Report with you in the flock. Complete, brutal and honest assessment of this whole team. Enjoy. Okay, we can't read this whole thing on questions from subs, but we can go through some of it and then y'all can go to russelstreetreport.com. It's called Legion of Gloom. These are the John Harbaugh Ravens and the article was written by Rob Shield. So shout out to Rob. The first paragraph says the Ravens are coming off another bad loss there. Now the 15 in NFL history that have had a lead of more than one score in their first 11 games. The previous four teams, all 11 and no two 11 games. The Ravens, seven and four. This is just a horrible stat that speaks to so many of the problems with the team. Before I get into everything, I will say that the Jags are a better team than people think. Their lines are both pretty solid and they have been in a lot of games all year. DVOA has been high on them for most of the year, certainly liking them more than their record. The Ravens are also a team that has been dealing with cold weather and then traveled to a warm weather and they had an extra delay to deal with yesterday. How much that affected them is unknown, but I doubt it helps. Top of that, the Ravens recently had a stretcher playing just one game in a three week timeframe and then just had the holiday week, which muddies the practice waters as well and add that to a few guys being out, a few key guys being out in the mall missing some practice time due to illness last week and injury this week. And it's not surprising that the team looked flat in the first half. With that being said, the problems are far larger than that. Last off-season I wrote a multi-page article on the philosophy of the organization and how I felt it was holding the team back. Sound familiar? I talked about the poor passing game, the reliance of the running game and how they are more focused on stopping the runner and not enough on getting after the passer. It's just an overall archaic way to build a team in today's game. I've been harping on how Greg Roman needs to go and I will reiterate as I did then that this isn't just a Roman problem, but he is definitely not a solution either. We've seen the same issues over and over year after year, the passing game stings, the plays take forever to get in, there's no rhythm or tempo, poor play calling, poor out concepts and mental mistakes, including penalties we see very little development of young wide receivers. The Marjaxon continues to struggle with accuracy and making all the clothes consistently. And what really makes matters worse in all of this is that the Ravens have an elite or offensive line. Ben Powers and Zyklah have been the best pass protecting the set of guards in the league. Ronnie Stanley who didn't play yesterday is the best pass block-in left-hack on the game. Even Morgan Moulton, Patrick McCary have largely been above average in pass protection this year. And yet, the Ravens are one of the worst pass in teams in the league, according to many metrics, including PFF, win rates, et cetera. Again, PFF, they too sometimes, but we get what you're saying. But anyway, I mean, it's, he like, Nazarene literally sent like the whole article. So y'all can check it out for yourselves on RussellStreetReport.com, but it sounds like a lot of everybody's same complaint, same issues because a lot of the same stuff just keeps happening. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, what I made. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, out of made it. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Graven? Right in Graven. Right in Graven. Shout out to Graven.