 Probably my favorite thing about questions from y'all is the fact that we could have how we feel something is gonna go down. I could have my own viewpoints on something and I could be certain like, hey, this is what I think is happening. This is the reason why I think it's happening. And those are my thoughts on it. But I always appreciate, and this is whether I agree with or disagree with it, but I always appreciate when people bring a different point of view for something as well. And we can look at stuff from a different perspective and see why somebody else may think differently on whatever the subject may be. And that's exactly what we're gonna dive into with this Lamar Jackson thing. Now yesterday we talked about how so many, so much more people are really feeling like, this is it for Lamar, like this is a rap for Lamar, like this is the end of the Lamar Jackson era with the Baltimore Ravens. But there's another possibility and there's another side to that, to where this may not be the end for Lamar Jackson and these Baltimore Ravens. And that's what we all hope for. We know business is business, but we hope that the good side of business, at least for the Ravens and for Lamar Jackson, I hope that they can make business happen to where we don't have to think about or wonder about Lamar Jackson leaving. And we're gonna talk about that in a little bit, but I just had to say I really appreciate the fact that y'all do that, that y'all bring different points of views. Like, cause I could be thinking like, all right, whether it's about Lamar, whether it's about really about anything, I could be thinking like, all right, this is gonna happen, this the reason why I think it's gonna happen, this is A, B, and C, why I think this is gonna happen. And then somebody could present something where they disagree and they could be like, well, this is why I disagree with what you're saying because of X, Y, and Z. And then I could be like, hey, I never thought about that. Sometimes it may make me change my thinking on it, sometimes it may not, but I always appreciate when people bring that with respect. Cause I mean, you do get that. We do get that a lot on here, but people will disagree, but they'll disagree respectfully, which I appreciate. Then you got your people, well, you're just wrong, buddy. You don't know what you're talking about, buddy. You're a stupid, buddy. What you saying, buddy? So you get all of that too. So, but anyway, it's all good, but that's not all good, but it is what it is. Like, even the other day, it's funny because I think people just, sometimes when people have their opinions on stuff, they will come to a conclusion, they will come to their own conclusion without actually seeing what something is saying. They'll like, they'll remix what something, what the original question was. Let me give you an example. The other day on Twitter, my guy Adam, Adam Garner, he tweeted out, he said, name your top five favorite, name your top five favorite Ravens, not the top five Ravens ever, not the most legendary Ravens ever, not the guys who are the best Ravens players ever, no, no, no, name your top five favorite. So you see the two words that really just separated, your favorite, those were the two words that made it opinion-based. It's all about you. So I listened to my top five, I said, it's Lamar, it's Ray Lewis, it's Hollywood, it's Aireed, and the fifth one, oh, LaDarius Webb. Those are my top five favorite. I had a lot of people who were, they was naming their top five favorite too. Some people are okay, I agree with the list. Some people are like, oh no, these are my top favorite and this is it. Then there were some people like, this list is ridiculous, buddy. You don't know what you're talking about, buddy. How do you have Hollywood on there? LaDarius Webb, how long you been a Ravens fan for, buddy? And I'm thinking like, whoa. Did it, did the question not say your top five favorite? So these are my top five favorite. But I just know like, sometimes people are ready to argue. That's all that some people wanna do. So people saw the original tweet, cause I quote tweeted it. They saw the original tweet name your top five favorite and they still took it and ran with it like, oh, I was saying that these are, these are just the best five Ravens ever. And I'm just, oh boy. You can't say nothing. You can't say anything. But again, it is what it is. Now back to the subject at hand. Well, before we get into the subject at hand, I gotta give a special shout out to the newest Teen Keep It Clean Patreon. My guy, Nicholas, appreciate you being a patron. Appreciate that a lot. I thank you a lot for that, man. Now the question with Lamar Jackson. Could he possibly stay? Could he possibly be a Baltimore Raven for the longterm? That would be nice. That would be great. But before we get into that, let's see what my guy Caleb had to say about it. He said, engraving, we simply don't know Lamar's heart. The last time people thought he wanted to leave the words that came out of his mouth after those comments were, they don't know the conversations. We simply don't know how he feels. And I believe this is the same case. He simply said they aren't going to talk until the end of the season. And that's true. I don't, I never once doubted like, oh, that Lamar would prefer to stay with the Baltimore Ravens. No, no, no, no, no, no, that wasn't the case. I think Lamar Jackson would love to be a Raven. He obviously got a lot of love for the Ravens, a lot of love for the city, a lot of love for the fans. Got a lot of love for the Ravens franchise as a whole. But the reason that, well, one of the reasons why I felt like it is a big possibility that he might not be here is because of business. Because of business. And business in the NFL is real. It's very real. Now we knew like going into the season, like you mentioned, he said it from jump, like after week one, we ain't talking. We in week, we going into week 17. And of course, like you said that after week one, they ain't talking. Nothing can change about the contract from now until the end of the world. It can change, but nothing is going to change about the contract from now until the end of the season. Because he said he ain't talking until the end of the season. He said he ain't talking until after the season is over. So another thing too, though, is just because your heart is somewhere, it doesn't mean that you will be there. Now we hope like that, that definitely helps, though. Because as hard as with the Ravens, he loves the Ravens, that can help a lot. And that can make you, when it comes to negotiations, that can make you give a little. Sometimes I don't think it will be anything that would be, I don't want to say non-team friendly, but discount. I don't think there would be a discount just because he loves the Ravens. Now there of course will be some given tech because it's negotiations. Y'all know negotiations, both sides are trying to win. Eric Dacosta and the Ravens, Steve Vashati, they going to be trying to win. Lamar Jackson, his camp, they going to be trying to win. Both sides are going to be trying to win and figure out what they can give and also figure out what they can take. But both sides are going to be trying to get that advantage. But that's part of negotiation. It's about what are you willing to give up? Oh, what are they willing to give up? So it's something that can get done. And if both sides are really in it, if both sides really want to make it happen, then they're going to have to be some, again, it's a given take. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully it ends up working out. We really hope that it works out because I want Lamar, y'all already know how I feel about Lamar. I definitely want him to stay with the Ravens forever. But I also, it's deeper than just keeping Lamar beyond this year for me. If they end up keeping Lamar Jackson which I would prefer and I would love, I would also just love to see things change. That's my biggest fear though. That's my biggest fear with the Ravens and them keeping Lamar. Will they change the way that they do offense? That's the biggest thing that I would be scared of because it's like, all right, you keep Lamar, you sign up to a big deal, great, awesome. That would be amazing. But now what are you going to do? And what about these last five years or really about the last three years, what should lead me to believe that you're really gonna invest in this guy like that? Besides money, the investments go far beyond money. No money is a pretty big investment, but what about the design, the structure of the offense itself, the scheme of the offense? How are you gonna build around them? How are you gonna be like, all right, let's get some talented guys in here to really help take this offense really to another level? That should have been done. That should have been done a long time ago, in my opinion. But now what's gonna change? What's gonna change from before he really got paid to after he really got paid? See, that's why I'm concerned about it. That's why I'm very scared about it because that's what makes me feel like is they kind of like, by the way they're thinking the way they get down, it seemed like this kind of stuck between a rock in a hard place. Cause it's like, don't want Lamar to leave at all. Cause that would be like really setting the team back again. It would be rough. Not to say they couldn't eventually recover, cause they could, they could eventually recover. But it's like, you got somebody so special right in front of you, right now, right now. And you know, it's tough to find a good quarterback. It's tough, it is tough. It's so tough to find a good quarterback. It's really tough. So if you got one, like, you would think, all right, y'all gonna wanna take care of this guy. So we'll see what happens. But anyway, he said, but I do believe after the season, convent conversations with Lamar and Eric could be, get rid of G-Roll and I won't take a fully guaranteed deal. Or get rid of Harbaugh and I will sign. Just like Aaron Rodgers did, nobody in the world thought Rodgers was going to sign and look what happened. But we'll see. Ooh, you put in some pretty big ultimatums there, buddy. Like the first one, get rid of G-Roll. Okay, that really ain't no big thing. But, cause again, if they got rid of G-Roll, all right. Harbaugh gonna bring in one of his boys, but the second ultimatum, if you say get rid of Harbaugh. Whoa, whoa, whoa. And that's where, that's where things would be very tricky. That's where things would get super tricky. Like that's where it could be 50-50. Cause if they got rid of Harbaugh, obviously Lamar loves Harbaugh. He love him. Got a lot of love for Harbaugh and whatnot. If they got rid of Harbaugh though, and they would either way, they're going to franchise tag Lamar. But they tag and trade or tag and sign or whatever. I mean, it'd be nice if they could get a deal, but Lamar probably most, nine times out of 10, probably going to get franchise tagged. But if they got rid of Harbaugh, then they could hire a new regime. And a new regime could be like, hey, well, we like Lamar, we're going to rock with him. We want to keep him. He'll probably play on the franchise tag. See how it works out for that first year with the new regime. Or Lamar could be like, no, I don't want to be a part of this new regime. I don't feel like starting over with y'all. Trade me. That could happen too. So that, those ultimatums, like the G-Roll one is not really a big deal. But the Harbaugh one, that would create a whole nother, just crazy scenario, which we know Harbaugh ain't going nowhere. We said that time and time again, Harbaugh is as safe as safe could be. But he ain't going nowhere. But if that were to happen, like that would create a whole nother, that would make it that much harder. Just it would make everything that much more tough to keep Lamar. So we're going to see, man, my hope, just to close this out, my hope is that they would keep Lamar and they would also really invest in him, invest in the offense, like really. But I'm just scared. I'm just scared that that won't change. Cause what, let me tell you my dream scenario, what I would hope that Ravens would do. You can call it crazy. You can call it realistic. You can be hopeful about it too, whatever. That's fine. I would love, okay. Ravens, they re-signed. Lamar Jackson, all right, cool. I would love if they traded for somebody who's liked that at the wide receiver position. Know a lot of people have been bringing up DeAndre Hopkins recently. And I mean, that would be nice. That would be great. I don't know how I feel about DeAndre Hopkins. They're my favorite receiver. If they, whether it's DeAndre Hopkins or somebody else, I would love for them to just get that guy, somebody who's really, really liked that at the wide receiver position. Also, I would want them to draft a good, not a project. No projects at wide receiver, not in the old world. This guy, he got some potential. No, somebody who's liked that already in college. And it ain't even gotta be a first round pick. But if somebody liked that, then they probably gonna be first, second, something like that. But get somebody who's nice now. Who's nice right away. Who's not somebody who you're banking on. Well, maybe they'll develop into an NFL. No, an NFL ready, wide receiver. So that would be two. So that would be a veteran, not an old veteran, not a washed up veteran, but a veteran who's liked that. And also the first or second round, maybe third might be pushing it. But get somebody who's NFL ready. But if they NFL ready, probably gonna have a higher draft status. And you still got Rashal Bateman coming back. I ain't forget about Bateman. I ain't forget about your Bateman. Don't worry, I ain't forget about your buddy. And then you still got Duvenay coming back on the last year, here's deal two. And then you got Pro Shade as well. And then you, the Marcus Robinson, you can sign him to an extension. Shouldn't cost you much money. Boom, set. So all the pressure again would not be on Bateman cause all the pressure was on him this year. Then he got hurt. So boom, everything went down the drain when he got hurt as far as the virus. Everything went down the drain. But if you do that, if you do that, then you would be setting yourself up nice, really nice. And that, again, that's what I would love to see. I would love to see if the Ravens operated like that, also not done yet, the scheme, I would say, okay, if Jiro's gonna go cool, but if Hobbes is gonna hire somebody, like it gotta be a collector. Don't just let Hobbes hide a person by himself. And I'm sure they don't just let Hobbes hide him by himself. We got to go through interviews and all that, but it has, I know Hobbes gives the guys free reigns, but they would just really need to scrap their philosophy when it came to the passing game. It needs to be something that you work on more, that you implement more, and that you emphasize more. It has to be, it has to be, because who wouldn't want to get all this talent at the receiver position? He still got Mark Andrews and he, oh boy, he would just, he would be in such a great position if that happened. Cause he'd be able to eat even more. This year, he been starving. Mark Andrews been starving this year cause he had no help around him. Everybody, all the defenses, they can watch Mark Andrews. They can be like, oh, take out Mark Andrews, we straight, cause they have been. Now Ravens, they still been finding ways to win, but imagine like Ravens, for them to win, stuff, and a lot of times they make stuff hard on themselves, but they got to scratch claw, fight out to get a win in the NFL these days. Ravens do. Imagine if they had an offense that was actually like, like that. Imagine that Ravens would go crazy, crazy. They would go crazy, man. So whoever the next offensive coordinator would be, just make sure it would be somebody that would really involve the talent that you have and really put them in positions to have success, play them to their strengths, build off of their strengths, let them get consistent games, establish them like, and then again, we would already have that established while I receive it, somebody who liked us who been there, done that. Rashad Bateman will be in his third year. We will have the rookie who was nice in college, NFL already, he come in and help, you still got Duvenay, so when you wanna run your jet sweeps, you ready, buddy? Duve, you ready? Come in motion, man, here you go. Oh no, it's a fake. QB Keeper, but anyway, so I just, I want the offense to have options. You still got JK and Gus too, we forget about the running game now. You still got Pat Ricard, you signed them to what, a three year deal last year? So I just want the Ravens to have options. I want them to just go off. I'm so tired of seeing this Ravens offense and it's like, man, they're so limited, they're limited. I don't like seeing that, I know a lot of y'all don't like seeing that either. We wanna see them take it to a whole another level, man, because they got potential too. But it's all about the investments. And again, not just the money, but that would be the, for me, that'd be the perfect scenario for the Ravens and the Marjacks in this office. That would be the perfect scenario. I would love that, so that would be so great. It'll be lovely. Will it happen? We'll see. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Just 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 Ravens? Right in Ravens. So team, keep it clean. I know we deep into it, but this is another episode of Question From Subs and that's a series where you can ask me any question you want to. If you wanna be part of it for the patrons, you can send it directly on Patreon. For everybody else, you send an email. And if you wanna support the channel in any other kind of way, check the description. There's so much stuff down there. You wanna send something to the P.O. Box, whatever. It's all in the description. But anyway, next question came from my guy, Jerome. He says, run the ball. Now, first, initially, I was not gonna do this question because I saw the subject. And even though you put the hashtag, the percentage sign, the asterisk, another percentage sign, a hashtag, cause you put run the F and then you put all those signs to sort of bleep out the word that you were saying, the curse word, and it's team, keep it clean. It's like, you sent the question to team, you got a reminder to team, keep it clean at gmail.com. And you still sent that, even with all the asterisks and all the, please don't do that, man. Please don't do that. Like, come on now. Don't do that. Anyway, he said, I engraving for this video, you can call me Rome. Hope all is well with you and your family on this fine Sunday afternoon. Well, yeah, it was on Sunday afternoon. Everything was good and everything's still good today. It's Tuesday morning. Anyway, he said, this is my first time sending a question. I just wanna say I love the content. Your daily regular videos is what keep me going with this team. Appreciate it. He said, I am sending this during the Falcons game. And I wanna know if you think Greg Roman is sabotaging our defense. Our defense plays good just about every game we play, but Greg Roman won't continue to run the ball down opposing team's throat, allowing for these teams to come back against us. This has been a constant thing this season with us. This season, this ain't just been this season. It's been an ongoing thing. But he said, but if we run the ball, when we have these leads, we won't have to worry about leaving so much time for other teams to come back against us, especially when our run game has been so efficient these past couple of weeks. So I just wonder why we even steer from it. Maybe Greg Roman has a mentality that he isn't going down alone, and Mike will go with him. Oh, that's funny. Hey, that's funny. You know how some people get in the workplace? They like, all right, if I know I'm about to get fired, you coming with me too, buddy. But anyway, I don't know, but the way Greg calls these games makes me worrisome for the playoffs. Oh, you should be worrisome for the playoffs. We all should be worrisome for the playoffs. We just gotta hope like Ravens just do something crazy that they having an anomaly of an offense and it goes crazy. But you know what I say? Thanks for all the amazing content. Hopefully this entry makes it into the video and like Greg Roman for the 2023 season, I'm out. All right, but yeah, the play calling it's been weird for a long time. It's been sort of awkward for a long time. Like what are we doing? Why are we doing it this way? What's going on? And the Ravens hopefully come to playoffs. They make it make sense. A nice follow-up to the previous questions. Ken, that came from my guy, Kyron. He said, our fans too hard on Greg Roman. What's up in Graven? I'm sending this email the day after the Falcons game. But I was watching the game yesterday with my mother and brother. I lost it on G-Roy after he called two straight passing plays with five minutes left after Gus ran for almost 30 yards. They both told me I get too angry at Roman. I was mad because common sense says, run the ball while you're up 11 points with five minutes left. And Atlanta can't stop Gus or JK, even though he didn't get any touches in the fourth quarter again. See, Ravens, they are their own worst enemy. So many times, they're their own worst enemy. Anyway, he said, why I don't like his play calling the passing schemes. It did make me wonder, do you think we as a fan base are too hard on Roman? You literally just listed everything that Roman be doing wrong. Now, to criticize the play calling and all that, yeah, okay, cool. The fans that do the disrespectful stuff, not that, not cool. Not cool. The personal stuff, that's never cool. You're talking about the job that we see on a public platform, okay, cool. Talk about all you need to, you need to run the ball when we should run the ball. You need to pass the ball in the scheme. Okay, cool. Personal stuff, nah, never. So I would agree that the personal, the fans that get personal are too hard on Greg Roman, but the public, no. He said, by the way, I don't, okay, yep, see, I should have read that too. He said, by the way, I don't condone that video of the fan harassing him after the Broncos game. Yeah, that was not cool. It wasn't funny at all. And the last question on this episode came from J.A.N. She said, A.A. and Raven, I doubt that I'll be selected, but I do have a question I'm curious about. Don't come in like that. Don't come in with the negativity. I don't say, oh man, I'm sending this question, but I doubt I'll be picked. If you really doubt it, see, look how, look how, I know you don't believe that. If you really doubt it, that we were gonna use your question in an episode of Question From Subscribers, then you would have never sent it in the first place. So you knew, buddy, anyway. I doubt that I'll be selected, but I do have a question I'm curious about. First, I do want to say how grateful I am for your channel and all the hard work you always put in. Appreciate that, thank you. Though this year has been quite negative at times, and it felt like the Ravens were never gonna get it together at times. I can't argue with you on that one. Your channel is always a source of happiness and comfort for Ravens fans, especially us fans who live abroad. Now I always look forward to seeing notifications knowing it's time to watch some quality Ravens content. Thank you, that's real special, right there. I appreciate that. Second, my question comment is actually regarding Kyle Hamilton. Now I'm not super knowledgeable about football specifics. I mean either, especially position name, but I had a thought about why Kyle Hamilton seems to be performing better in his first year in comparison to previous first round picks. Well, before we get into it, I think it's because of less pressure. I think it's because of less pressure on Kyle Hamilton in the situation that he's put in. Think about it, excuse me. And this like, now that I'm thinking about it too, the scenario that I was envisioning for the Ravens on offense, like with Rashal Bateman in a first round draft pick and having a veteran that they acquired via trade, probably not for the agency but for the name out there via wide receiver. But what we were talking about at the beginning of this video, that's the situation that Kyle Hamilton is in because the Ravens went out and got a veteran. They signed Marcus Williams to that big deal. They had somebody in the position already in Chuck Clark and then they went and drafted Kyle Hamilton in the first round. That's what I want them to do at the wide receiver position. Go get a veteran, somebody like that. And you still got somebody already at the position and Rashal Bateman who's showing himself and then you can still draft somebody. But anyway, I think Kyle Hamilton has been better because there's less pressure on him. Like, yeah, he's a first round pick and first round picks come with high expectations but their guys at his position already that are holding it down. So he ain't got to come in and be the savior. Rashal Bateman, he was supposed to come in and be the savior or die fair way because our pass rush was just all kinds of bad. He was supposed to come in and be the savior. But with Kyle Hamilton, he's in such a good position to where he doesn't have to come in and do that. But let's hear what you had to say. She said, Hollywood, peek. Oh, I should have read it. My, my, see, this, I get to run in my mouth. I get to run in my mouth and then we'd be thinking about it, we'd be on the same page. I didn't even think about PQ. But she said, Hollywood, PQ and Bateman were all drafted to fill in the immediate weakness or opening on the team. Boom. You, 1000% spot on. She said, they were all expected to start right away and be the solution. Man, yeah. See, I got to talking. I got to talking. But anyway, she said, as has been for a while, there haven't been any decent vet wire receivers on the team or linebackers for PQ and Bateman or Hollywood to really learn from. Kyle Hamilton has had Chuck Clark to watch and learn from and other quality calibers, secondary and safeties. Yeah, this is, oh, excuse me. It seems that Hamilton hasn't had the immediate kind of pressure the others have had. He wasn't plugged into the lineup to be used as something the Ravens were desperately lacking. Yes, yes, yes. That's why from jump, let's say he was a luxury pick. He was a luxury pick. Yeah, they probably gonna get rid of Chuck Clark after this year, but Kyle Hamilton was a luxury pick. Ravens could have went in so many different areas, but they went for, they felt was the best player available. He said, I know football is very different from baseball where guys are able to grow their talents over a period of time. And football first rounders are drafted with the intention of becoming starters their first year majority of the time. That's true. Anyways, this was a thought I had while watching Kyle Hamilton perform better than the past three first round draft picks his first year. As we can see, PQ is now able to make the play that he should have always been making because he's finally getting the help he's needed. I believe it was an interview from Marlon Humphrey who said PQ had been doing everything on his own. This also makes me think, of course, of a certain Ravens QB who also could have been reaching his potential if the Ravens would invest in getting him the help he needs. Oh my goodness. Wow, wow. Whoo. Anyways, I digress. Whoo. She said, my main question is, oh, I thought you, I thought that was it. I thought you had already said everything, but said my main question is, do you think this could be a reason why Kyle Hamilton has been better than PQ, Hollywood Bateman in his first year with the team? Or could there be another reason? Like he's just more talented. Best to the whole family and everyone part of Team QB, cleaning Ravens flock from a faithful subscriber. Hey, I appreciate you so much. Thank you. But yeah, I think that's exactly it. And again, we were thinking on the same page. I should have kept just reading what you said, but we jumped into it and yeah, we had the same thought process. Again, less pressure, less pressure. Kyle Hamilton didn't have to come in and be that guy to help out right away. Well, not to not help out, but he didn't have to come in and be the guy, be the savior right away. They were able to bring him along slowly. The other guys, they had the end in situation, different situations, call for different stuff or whatnot. But the other guys, they would, they asked to come in, fix it right away. Fix it. You ain't got no time to really get help like that. No, fix it. We need you to be that guy. And they just hadn't been really ready yet. And this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie. Ain't that riding gravy? Riding gravy. Riding gravy. Shout out to gravy. Riding gravy.