 Now, usually we will start off questions from cells by giving a special shout out to the newest teamkeeper clean patron who in this case is Reginald G. So, hey, Reggie, top G, we appreciate you. And then we will proceed to answer whatever Reggie's question was. But in this case, Reggie did not send the question, which is okay. It's okay. He just decided to become a patron to support which we appreciate. So let's get into the first question from Mr. Jason G, another top G. And he said, engraving takes breath. I think it's time to teach the ignorant and save the babies. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, let's see what he's talking about. He said, I now truly believe for the majority of Raven's fans, and he put quotation marks on that, that have such obtuse takes and opinions towards Lamar's contract, clearly are either too young or too oblivious to remember the years between Dilfer and Flacco. We were in QB purgatory with only brief reprieve in the form of Steve McNair. If anyone truly believes the Raven should not pay Lamar or let him walk, they need to learn or relearn their history. Talk to him and hashtag team keep it clean. So Jason is not very happy with a lot of people's takes on the Lamar situation. Now I wouldn't even blame it on people being too young because hey, it's no problem if somebody's a young Raven fan. Everybody wasn't watching Raven since they became the Ravens and that's fine. And even if it was somebody who doesn't know anything about between Dilfer and Flacco, that's fine too. Everybody's situation for watching whoever their favorite team is is not going to be the same. So you can't hold that against people. And I'm sure there are plenty of people who have been around the entirety of the Ravens and seen all the quarterbacks and still been like, no, Lamar can walk. No, the Ravens don't need to sign Lamar to no crazy deal. Again, everybody is entitled to their own opinion. But with anybody who doesn't feel like the Ravens should sign Lamar, okay, so what should they do? Do you think they should start it over, run it back, start from scratch, go back to the draft. They go with Tyler Huntley, go try to get a free agent quarterback. Just, I mean, anything's a risk. And anything, any way you decide to do it would be a risk if you're gonna decide, you know what? All right, Lamar is not the one. But with Lamar, it's like, why would you wanna start over if you have something so special already? It's like you being with somebody. It's like you meeting the love of your life. Well, it could be the love of your life. You done been in some previous relationships before and oh man, some of them seem like they were promising but they were not promising at all. And boy, you done been through some drama. You done been through some heartache. You done been through a lot of pain. You done been through a lot. But then you meet this one person. And this one person is so different than anybody else that you've ever encountered before relationship-wise. This person is just, they're an anomaly to everything that you had been used to dealing with. And even, there may have been some relationships that had a lot of success. But in the end, you didn't have success in the long run. But you meet this person and they are just so special. And they bring you a lot of happiness. They bring you a lot of joy. They bring you a lot of success. And the thing about them bringing you a lot of success is that you and this person haven't even maximized the full potential of your relationship yet but you are still both very happy. Why would you walk away? Yeah, this feels like a dream. That's what I made. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, out of made it, out of made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right in gravy? Right in gravy. Next question came from Heather, who is also a team keeping clean patron. Appreciate you, Heather. She said, hello, Ingraven, I hope you, your family, and the whole team, team, keep it clean. The family came to talk. I was doing well. Thank you, I appreciate it. Hey, I don't know if y'all ever noticed, but in this jacket, like I guess that's what happened when you wash it. But the eye, the eye in Baltimore is missing. Just a little fun fact. But anyway, she said, do you think that the Ravens have addressed the issues with cover zero? It scares me because of the Dolphins game coming up and being the last season, they lit them all up. It has been a concern of mine ever since. Let me know your thoughts. Seeing is believing. Seeing is believing. And it's not even necessarily just cover zero because Dolphins, they didn't even really do a zero that much. But Dolphins just, they disguised it so well because they will look, they will be in a cover zero look where it looked like they were blitzing everybody and they were gonna have everybody else in man coverage, but they would drop some people back. They would blitz some people, and they would drop some people back. So it was the continued disguising of the blitzes that really messed the Ravens up. And we won't know until we know, it's one of those things we won't know until we know. If the Ravens are really ready for it, if they really counted it or not, if they really are gonna have success against it or not. I would think that they would. I would hope that they would, but really only time will tell. Next question came from my boy, AW Juice Man. He said, even though I often wonder and scratch my head about this, but who is the better cornerback tandem from 98 to 2001? Which featured the likes of Chris McAllister, Dwayne Starks, and then a little of a decade and some change after the tandem of Jimmy Smith, LaDarius Webb, or now in current present of Marlon Humphrey and MP Juice Man himself, Marcus Peters. Give me your thoughts. My brother have a beautiful and blessed day, man. Well, obviously the ones that had the most success I will be McAllister and Dwayne Starks, Superbowl champs. Well, Jimmy Smith and LaDarius Webb, they also Superbowl champs, but then you got Marlon Humphrey and MP Juice Man. I would say, I would actually say the ones that haven't had a Superbowl yet. Cause Chris McAllister, he used to be my favorite player. He used to be my favorite NFL player. He used to be my favorite NFL player and Chris Webb used to be my favorite NBA player. Back when I was like in the NBA heavy because my favorite team was the Sacramento Kings with Mike Bibby, Pages to Yacovic, Vladi Divak. Oh, Doug Christie was on there too. I had loved the Kings, but anyway. And those Lakers games, oh, they used to hurt my heart so much. I'm like, oh yeah, Kings about to go in the NBA championship this year. Then the Lakers games will show up and it'll just be so annoying. But anyway, I will say the tandem now. Well, it's crazy because Jimmy Smith and LaDaria Swib, I feel like they were pretty good, but then just injuries messed up both of their careers bad. Bad. But so I would say Marlon Humphrey and MP Juice Man because you got a physical cornerback. Oh, and Marlon Humphrey pretty good. Like he'd be saying some outlander stuff, like on Twitter and stuff. But as a cornerback, he's actually pretty good. And then with Marcus Peters, he's like Ed Reed playing a cornerback position. Cause he's such a ballhawk and it's crazy how great of a ballhawk he is. So I would have to go with the cornerback tandem that we have right now. And hopefully we get to see them back together in action for the first time in over a year on Sunday. Next question came from my boy, Philip L. He said, now with Kyle Fuller and Joanne James out for the season, that means more playing time for Pepe Williams and Amor Davis. I know they will probably bring up our Darius Washington from the practice squad along with offensive tackle, David Sharp. Now, do you think EDC could be thinking about a couple of free agents who are out there like Chris Harris or Joe Hayden? Yeah, they're both veterans in their 30s, but what if another one was to go down, take care? Now, I think he sent this before they signed TJ Carey. But yeah, looks like he got the answer to your question as far as them bringing in a veteran. And I wonder, I wonder, cause let's say Vegas can't be choosers, but at the same time, if you feel like that's not what you want, you don't have to take it. I wonder if, with a Chris Harris or Joe Hayden, if the Ravens would have offered them to, oh yeah, you can come through, we want to sign you, but we want you on the practice squad first. I wonder if they would have taken it. That's just a thought that's in my head. And then he also said, I forgot to ask, don't you think this new Cleveland Elf logo is too childish for an aggressive man's sports like they in that field, especially on the field that they play on? I mean, not really. I don't know where that came from. I don't know what that's about, but no, I mean, I wouldn't say it's too childish. I mean, they look on the side of their helmets. On the side of their helmets, they got a bunch of nothing. It's nothing there. So there's nothing aggressive and there's nothing childish. It's just a bunch of nothing. So I guess them getting that logo in the middle of the field, that's a good start. Next question came from my boy Kevin S. He said, ain't great. And why is no one talking about Mike Davis only getting two carries? I understand he fumbled, that's it. That's it. The question could have been cut off right then and there. He fumbled. You know how hardball is about fumble. He don't play about, well, certain players. If you're not at the top of the depth chart, then he don't play about fumbles. If you're not the tippy top starter, then he don't play about fumble. If you a starter, like a regular starter, then he might be a little play, but if you not, you're done. That's how we knew as soon as he fumbled that, even though he recovered, we knew his day was done. A wrap. But anyway, he said, I understand he fumbled, but maybe he fumbled because you got him to ball late. Also, I would have rather kept Beatty instead of Justice Hill. Well, I mean, they kind of did keep him kind of sorter. He's on a practice squad. But yeah, I guess with Hill, they just, they wanted somebody who's a little closer to a veteran, somebody with a little more experience. I mean, Beatty could have been in there too. Beatty could have been doing this thing in there too. And they still have that opportunity. They still have that option. Like if they want to call Beatty up, hey, Beatty, come through, you playing this week. So he still has a chance to get in, cause it's not like he's completely off the roster. He just on a practice squad. Said anyway, one last thing. I really think Lamar doesn't respect Greg Romans play calling. Lamar came up under Bobby Petrino and he believed in Lamar more than anyone. Well, I mean, he was in a more pro-style offense in college. Now it's been just a lot of pistol, pistol, pistol. But hopefully this year, I mean, it's year five, but hopefully this year, they can just take another step forward. That's what we're hoping for. Just a little bit more growth. That's all we can ask for. Just more growth from the offense, more maturity from the offense, more advancement and involvement from the offense. And he said, G-Roll doesn't give Lamar artables. Ravens after the season, go get Bobby Petrino as your offensive coordinator. I don't see them doing that. Cause I don't think he's one of their guys. Wherever they move next year for offensive coordinator, I think it's going to be either somebody already on staff or one of their guys from the outside. Next question came from my guy, Rave Kingdom. He said, ain't Rave and Kyle Hamilton got juked and missed tackles in week one against the Jets. Ever since pre-season game one, besides that fumble recovery, he's either got juked, missed tackles or blown coverage. I'm not giving up on him, but he's making it hard. What's your thoughts on him and going forward? I just, I think that there's a lot of nitpicking because I also saw a stat where passes that go went in his direction during the pre-season, they were all incomplete. Every last one of them, they were all incomplete. So there's that tape, do with that what you would like. I mean, I think he'll be fine. It's just a matter of, again, still getting in the groove. It's literally been, he's played in what, a total of two games and one of them counted. He's played in two games because he played in the games that he played in the pre-season. If you add them all up together, that's about one game. And then he played in one game in a regular season. Like, I don't understand the people just trying to just write him off like that. And no, like, it'll come, it'll happen. Every single safety that come out, even corners or secondary players, whatever, they ain't all gonna come out, oh, getting all these pick sixes and fumble force and fumble recoveries and making this, that and the third tackle not for some people. It takes a little more time than others. It takes time. Whether somebody first round pick or not. So I'm not tripping on Kyle Hamilton right now. I think it's way, way too early to be freaking out about Kyle Hamilton. Say, oh, man, I don't know if he get, no, it's too early. Oh, is he a button? No, it's too early. Oh man, is he gonna be good? No, it's too early. The last question on this episode came from my guy, Marcus B, Mr. Bishadi. He said, engraving is getting spicing. This contract situation could set the organization back for a while, hit me out. I mean, well, hopefully they take care of it and they're set for a while. But anyway, he said, I just saw a video from Varmilla speaking on Lamar Jackson contract. And of course, he's on the player side, but the thing that stood out to me the most is that you could hear the respect that Varmilla has for Lamar. And when I think about it, that's all you really hear from opposing players. Nothing but respect. I honestly don't believe Steve Bishadi realizes that all of the league is watching this contract situation and depending on how it plays out, it's going to do more than just affect the quarterback situation. Oh, for sure. I mean, he definitely knows all the league is watching. All the owners are watching. You know, that's what he concerned about. The most all the owners are watching. But anyway, he said, you know, we, the loyal fans, are watching free agents are watching, including the upcoming free agents currently on the team. That's a good point. And that's something that a lot of times I'd never think about with this Lamar Jackson contract situation. That is such a really good point about pending free agents that the Ravens could have where Ravens either got Lamar or they don't got Lamar and that could impact their decision moving forward. Obviously, money is the biggest factor with most free agents is money. Like, and I don't blame them. This is their job. They trying to get paid. So anybody trying to get paid at their job, I have no problem with that. Anybody trying to get more money from their job, I have no problem with that. Like anyway, but yeah, that's a really, really good point because they could be watching and like, oh, Lamar not gonna be there. Maybe I'll look at some other offers, but we'll see. He said, if I'm a free agent, I'm not going to, I'm not going to Baltimore. They're already not a destination spot. For example, Florida, California, New York depends on the sport. And though, by the way, they don't have the most attractive philosophy. Excuse me. Now, for that part, I disagree because it depends on what position you play. If you're offensive linemen, oh yeah, Ravens is your dream. If you're fullback, oh yeah. Ravens are your dream. If you're running back, oh yeah. Ravens are your dream. If you're tight end, oh yeah. Ravens are your dream. If you play defense, oh yeah, Ravens are your dream. If you're pass catching while receiving, trying to get your numbers up, trying to keep your numbers up, then they're a nightmare. I said, oh, by the way, they're probably going to play you out of position and out of the position where you thrive the most. And oh, by the way, they're cheap too. I mean, they've been cheap for a while. Okay, okay. They've always been cheap, but I digress. Now, again, back with the cheap stuff with the Ravens is they're not a cheap team. They're cheap at certain positions. But overall, they're not a cheap team. But again, for those premier positions, that's when the money like, ugh, I ain't really got it like that. Anyway, I said, still, you would think that it would be different this time around with the QB situation. You would think that they would have learned from the previous experience with Joe Flacco. Imagine what the players currently on the team are thinking as this thing plays out. And I know I'm not the only one who saw how different Lamar's demeanor was on the bench. Whenever the camera was on him, he very well could have just been locked in. But I don't know, engrave him something was different. All right, I thought the same thing too, that his vibe was just different during the game. So I don't know, but let's keep going. He said, despite the positive reputation this organization has built for itself, players and fans are seeing the lack of appreciation toward their so-called franchise quarterback. Hardball can spew all he wants about how Lamar's gonna be here for a long time, this and that, blah, blah, blah. But he ain't the one sign of the check. Looking back at Bashati's comments about how Watson shouldn't have been the first one to get a fully guaranteed contract, begs the question, what's his reasoning as to why Lamar shouldn't be the second or in his own mind, the first? But best believe this, what you won't pay, someone else will. And all right, for one, won't be mad at Action Jackson, one bit. I agree, I agree, 1,000%. One him to be a Baltimore Raven, one for the Ravens to sign him, one the Ravens to want him to be a Raven. But if he goes elsewhere, I completely get it. I would completely get it, completely understand. Go get your bread. Go get your bread and go have continued success. Go do your thing. I would hope that wherever he goes, wherever he ends up, whether it's with the Ravens, whether it's with somebody else, I just really hope that, obviously he's gonna get his money, but I also hope that wherever he goes, they maximize this guy. Hopefully the Ravens can do that this year though, but we'll see. He said, but you know what they say, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. See, is that really the definition of insanity though? I know a lot of people say that, that's that saying, but it just doesn't make sense to me. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I thought insanity is just being crazy, but hopefully the Ravens don't be crazy enough to let Lamar Jackson go. And now the real last question, because somebody literally, he just sent this. I'm recording this at 423 PM. He sent this at 421 PM. So I literally got this email while we were recording. Came from my guy, Isaac. He said, I ain't graven, hope all is well with you. I believe a big storyline to look for in the Miami game is if the Ravens have the ability to beat Miami's cover zero, look and be effective at scoring. I mean, yeah, that's definitely it. Cause you know, the talk is gonna be old 2021 last year. You remember what the Dolphins did to the Ravens in that game? Oh yeah, so for sure. You 1000% right. He said, I predict that the very least, if Greg Roman is unable to scheme in offense against this look, it may put him on the chopping block. Ooh, you think so? Oh, maybe. I could see what you're saying because there's not only gonna be a lot of internal eyes on this, but a lot of external eyes on this. So people from the outside looking into and that's gonna be the talk, talk, talk, talk. And you know Ravens, they listen to a lot of that talk, talk, talk, talk. They don't always go by it, but they certainly listen to it and they hear it. And they let it be known that they hear it too. But with Greg Roman, this a big year for him. This a big year for really a lot of people on the Ravens, not just Greg Roman, just a lot of people. But I do see what you're saying how just, cause this is like, all right, you're gonna get the same team. They got some different players and whatnot. They got a few different coordinators and whatnot, but you're gonna get the same team. How are you gonna do it? How are you gonna fix it? How are you gonna adjust? And he said, PS, I don't know why, but this team is really giving me 2012 vibes for some reason. All the best. We'll see. That always reminds me of when people, when every year, every year never fails, never fails. No matter what year it is. Fans will be like, oh man, this year feels different. This year feels different. And I say, well, yeah, it does feel different because it's a different year than what we just went through. All right, so I was just editing the most recent, well, what you've been watching, I was editing that this morning. By the way, right now the time is 9 0 8 a.m. It's Friday the 16th. So I was editing a video that you were just watching. And then I checked, I said, hold up, wait a minute, because we got two new Team Keep It Clean patrons. I recorded all that stuff yesterday, but then this morning, so we got two new Team Keep It Clean patrons. So I said, you know what, no, no, no, no, no. We gotta add them. We gotta add them to this video. So shout out to Justin and shout out to DeNail. Appreciate that both of y'all. And actually one of them, Justin sent in a question. He said, now my phone don't wanna load. Oh, there you go. He said, I love Lamar Jackson, but. Oh, but it's okay. He said, I also love engraving. Let's go. I love you too. We love you too. I appreciate you supporting me. And then now the real last question on this episode. I done said last question like two, three times now, but this is the real last one. They came from my guy, Nick Brick. He said, are you at all worried about G-Roy and all Lamar and all Harbaugh giving up on likely? No, no, no. If we had some sort of patterns that showed that, then I'd be, oh, okay. Wow, man, they might give, we haven't seen it yet. We haven't seen it yet. We can't go by just one game. We can't. It's just way too early to jump to something like that, in my opinion. Now, the way Harbaugh talked about who, he was like, oh, he called him out specifically and talked about the holding call. And he just, like, he spoke doghouse, talked about him in the last presser. And then when he was speaking of crochet with the holding call, he just called him a veteran. He said, we had a veteran that had a holding call on the outside too, but he ain't named drop crochet, but with likely he'll go into details about this and that, he gotta do this and do that better. Da, da, da, da, da, da. And I was like, oh, okay, okay, okay, chill, man. But no, I think it's just way too early. But he also said, we all know the first game was a let down, but I really hope that, even if it takes him four to five games to figure it out, that no one loses trust in them. The investment in patients will be worth it, in my opinion. Also, bonus question, what do you think is up with James crochet? I don't know. I don't know. I do not know. It's, he got like, what, three, four snaps, maybe five on something? I don't know. Let's, again, same with James crochet. Let's not jump to anything so quick, but let's just see. Because y'all know, I said it on here, I was for sure. The way that they were propping him up with the presses and stuff, I just, I really thought, because I did not see Devon Duvenay as wide receiver too. I didn't see him as that. Cause I didn't think the Ravens saw him like that either. Based off of how they had used him. Cause they had only used him like a gadget guy, Jet Sweep King. But Devon Duvenay has been wide receiver too. I mean, last game he was wide receiver one. But I thought it was going to be Bateman as wide receiver one. Prochet as wide receiver two. And Duvenay, the market, well, actually when they signed the markets, Robinson, I think, okay, Richard Bateman, the markets Robinson, then Prochet in a slot, they used Duvenay still on the Jet Sweeps and stuff. But it was obviously Bateman was out there, but a lot of Duvenay, a lot of them, August Robinson, a little tiny teeny teeny teeny approach. So I don't know, I don't know, but let's see how they move in this dolphins game and how they either have or don't have him involved. Now I know y'all not gonna believe me because I already said that we would, we did the last question. I done said last question like three, four times, now the time right now is 916. I don't even know if y'all can see that or not. I don't know if it's clear or not. It's 916 AM. We just finished editing those last two questions from Justin and from Nick Britt. We just finished editing those two. And then all the questions that you saw before that were questions that we did last night. We recorded it last night. So we were done. But then literally at 913 AM, we got another question. Y'all let me take a break. Now I'm playing though. Next question. And this is the real last question. I feel like y'all know when I'm editing or something. So y'all, that's when y'all, oh he's editing, time is in a question. But anyway, last question came from my guy Joshua. He said, all the Ravens financially broke and not telling anybody. See, I wonder if, could I just listen to this clip from the Pat McAfee show where they were talking about that. He was talking about, if the Ravens couldn't write a fully guaranteed check for LeMau, they can't come out and say that. Especially if when a team in their division, the Browns, they just did that with the Sean Wiseman. But he's like, they can't come out and publicly say, oh yeah, we ain't got it. But anyway, let's see what he had to say. He said, what's up in Raven? I see you edit again, keeping the Raven vibes going in season and out for the flock. Great work, my guy. Hey, appreciate you, man. This may be a simple and dumb question. No. There's a, well, no, there's no such thing as a dumb question because if there was a such thing as a dumb question, then that would mean it was a dumb person. So no, cause if somebody just doesn't know something, they just don't know it. And so you can take the time to educate them on it. Y'all educate me on a lot of stuff every single day with your questions, with your answers, with everything. So I appreciate y'all. Cause I got a lot of questions, a whole lot of questions, but y'all answer a lot of them. So I appreciate y'all. Anyway, he said, this may be a simple and a dumb question, but someone got to ask it. Do you think the Baltimore Ravens actually have the money to pay Lamar? The entire contract episode has been suspect. And knowing the Ravens front office, they find ways to save. They said they find ways to save money. Waiting for Lamar's price to increase week after week. Anti, seems anti cheap, anti Ravens. So that will make you think that they may be anti signing him in the long term. That's why I keep saying that I'm just, I'm worried about it. I'm very worried about it. And I am not confident right now in the Ravens keeping Lamar Jackson for the long term. Because the way that they've been moving about this thing is just weird, man. It's really weird. Now again, apparently they offered him something and, but obviously they couldn't come to terms. And Lamar was like, nah, no thanks. They offered him a deal, but it wasn't good enough for Lamar. I just, I don't see, if they couldn't meet his terms now, again, the price is only increasing. It's only going up. What's gonna make them change and be like, oh, well, now, okay, we can meet his terms now. We didn't meet his terms last year. We didn't do it the year before. Oh, but we can meet it now. I just don't see it. I hope, I really hope to be wrong about that. But I don't see it. I don't see it at all. But again, hopefully everything works out. I just don't see it right now. But we'll see. Anyway, says, waiting for Lamar's price to increase week after week seems anti-cheap, anti-ravens. They actually could have paid Lamar back when Josh Allen did his contract. Even when Mahomes did it, even paying for a premier wide receiver has been an issue. Something's funny. The cap is only kept when there's no real capital at the bank. Why you had to end question from subs like that? Yeah, this feels like a dream. You know just what I mean. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Right engraving. Shout out to engraving.