 You ever been in a situation where you're watching other people have a conversation about you and so much of what they're saying, you just feel like it's just absolutely wrong. So you sit back, you let it fester for a little bit, then you're like, you know what? I am about to get my comment off, my tweet off, my reply off, and I'm gonna let them have it. So I think this is what happened to Rashal Bateman, but I think he just got so frustrated with what people have been saying that it was kind of grammatically incorrect. But Rashal Bateman, we still get your message. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, what I made. What I made. You too, Tim, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Got him made it. Wood and white and gray. So, Tim, keep it clean. What's going on? It's Aang Graven here with another video, and in this video, Rashal Bateman, he is speaking up for the Ravens wide receivers. Now, before we get into what Rashal Bateman said, I gotta give a special shout out to all of y'all, Team Keep It Clean. Thank you for watching. Thank you for 54,000 subscribers and slowly creeping up on 55. Shout out to Terrell Suggs. But I love y'all. Shout out to the Team Keep It Clean patrons. If you want to become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravingvids. And if you don't want to, you can just stay right there. But I love y'all so much. Now, somebody else who we got a lot of love for too is Rashal Bateman. And of course, this off season, it's off season old man. There's been so much talking. There continues to be so much talk about the Ravens and their situation at wide receiver. You know, there was a lot of talk from that situation on off-run over here because we've been talking about that for forever. And this was before Hollywood got traded. So then after Hollywood got traded, the talk heated up that much more and it got that much more significant. And then of course, when he was traded, I was thinking, okay, at pick 23 are we going to take somebody? Then they were like, no, we're going to trade down. Then they picked 25, are we going to take somebody at receiver? Okay, no, they were like, oh, no, no receiver there. Okay, cool. Then the second round came around. I was like, okay, this is going to be the one. Then they picked a job. I was like, okay, cool. Then the third round came around. I was like, okay, this is going to be the one. But then they did not pick a wide receiver. Then when it got to fourth round and later I was like, oh, ah, are they going to take one? But at the same time, if they take one, I already know what the results are going to be. So they didn't take one. They did sign a couple of undrafted rookie free agents and we still got some more to talk about on the channel to go over, but they haven't brought in a veteran. They haven't made any trades. And they had been talked that they've been interested in different receivers, but nothing has come to fruition. Most recently, the talk was that they were interested in Jalen Riga from the Eagles. I know a lot of people are glad that that didn't go through. But there was also a lot of talk that they were interested in Jarvis Landry. And then of course, we know what the results of that were as well. So the question has been, what are the Ravens going to do at wide receiver? We've asked the question on here a lot. Of course, whenever we have a guest on here, we ask them to just to get their point of view. But Rashad Bateman, he has been hearing a lot of the talk, but somebody, and that's somebody, Adam Newman, he actually tagged Rashad Bateman and he posed a question in an article. It said, Rashad Bateman on the cover of ESPN.com right now. Can the Ravens win now with the current wide receiver corpus? That was the question that he posed. And Rashad Bateman, he quote, tweeted that, man, we can and we will. Y'all talk much. I think he meant y'all talk too much. But again, we get exactly what Rashad Bateman was saying in his tweet. And this has been a legitimate question, a legitimate question. I asked the same thing too. Do you feel right here right now with the Ravens wide receivers that they can win with them? Some people feel yes. Some people feel no. Some people feel, hey, I'm not sure, but let's give it a shot. Some people feel like, hey, I'm not sure, but no, no, no, let's not give it a shot. Let's go get something proven. And it is a really good question. It is. But Rashad Bateman here, he is backing the Ravens receivers. And he is not the first wide receiver to back the Ravens receivers and the guys that they got. Because if I take you back a couple of weeks ago, Hollywood, he did the same thing. And he said that he was speaking up, not only for him. He wasn't just talking about the issues with the system only for him, but he was speaking up for the other guys too. Because he said that we got some guys, like we got some receivers that could make some stuff happen, but they just weren't used like that. Who let that be known when he spoke to Brandon Marshall from I Am Athlete in that interview? So this is the second time that this is happening this off season, where somebody's letting them be known like, hey, we got it. And I mean, why wouldn't he say that though? Why wouldn't Rashad Bateman say that? Because I mean, he's one of the receivers that a lot of people are talking about. But I think when it comes to Ravens receivers, I don't think many people are really questioning if Bateman is gonna be good. I don't think that's the thing. I think most people's question is everything after Bateman and how it's gonna be on the Ravens team and how impactful it's gonna be on the Ravens team and how much this is gonna be used on the Ravens team and how much they're gonna get out of everybody after Bateman on this Ravens team. Now, of course, Rashad Bateman, he still has a lot to prove himself. He really does. And him and Lamar Jackson, they've clearly been working together. Lamar Jackson, James Proshay, Lamar Jackson and Benjamin Victor. And I'm sure Lamar Jackson probably been working with other receivers too in videos that we haven't seen because remember, something that you have to always remember, social media is only what the player wants you and allows you to see. They could be doing less work than what you see in the videos or they could also be doing more because not everything goes on and not everything even has to go on social media. But right now, as it stands, as this current Ravens wide receiver roster is, they have a lot to prove, a lot to prove. And they have a lot of youth right now and excessive amount of youth at the wide receiver position. And not only youth, but a lot of inexperience as well. Rashad Bateman going into his second year. Tyler Wallace going into his second year. James Proshay going into his third year. Devon Duvenay going into his third year. Benjamin Victor going into his second year, I believe. And then they got some undrafted, excuse me, rookie free agents. They obviously in their first year in the NFL. That's a lot. That's a lot to deal with. That is a huge transition. And as it stands right now, right here right now on May 18th at 10.23 a.m. Eastern time, by the way. Shout out to y'all. The Ravens, they don't have much experience at wide receiver on their roster. Now, again, the expectation is that they gonna bring somebody in. And you got to think that because of everything that's been said and everything that's also been attempted to be made happen. They were apparently interested in Jarvis Landry. They were interested in Jalen Riga. You're not just interested in those guys. If you like what you got already, then why would you be interested in that? Now, something to think about. Something to think about, which is a really significant. And it's a very, very good, it's a great question as a matter of fact. Ravens knew from a long time ago that Hollywood wanted out. So if the Ravens knew that Hollywood wanted out, why did they not address the wide receiver position earlier, whether free agency, whether a trade earlier for somebody? Why didn't they address it early if they knew Hollywood wanted out? Because I feel like we always talk about, people always talk about how Ravens are just this team that's always thinking ahead. They always extra prepared for different situations. But why did they not address that? Oh, and Calvin Austin, that was another one that they were apparently interested in but then Stiller said, ha, ha, ha, no, no, no, no, no. Nope, you ain't getting it. But why didn't the Ravens take care of it? It would lead a lot of people to believe, man, do Ravens believe in their guys? Do Ravens believe in the guys that they got already? Could they? I don't know, only time will truly tell because the Ravens, another thing that's been talked about a lot when it's come to receivers and potential receivers that the Ravens could add at this point, a lot of people are talking about cap cuts. And with the cap cuts, I just, you could get somebody from that. And the Ravens have done that before with different players at different positions. But I just wonder like, one of the biggest things for a quarterback and a receiver that just helps them so much is chemistry. It's chemistry. If your quarterback and receiver have chemistry, that just, it does wonders for them. So I wonder if they were to get one of these cap cuts, whoever it could possibly be. What would the quality of that wide receiver be? But another thing, the timing, the timing, would the cap cut be after training camp? Would it be before training camp? If it's after training camps, then it's like, all right, boom, hey. The pre-season is here or it's done and there could be a lack of chemistry between Lamar and that wide receiver. So how much of an impact could that wide receiver have? And not saying that they couldn't build chemistry because they obviously could, but me personally, I would want the Ravens to go into this thing, go into the season with Lamar knowing his guys, his guys knowing Lamar vice versa because it helps so much and it makes the process that much smoother. So if they are to get a receiver, I would love it to be sooner rather than later. But I do know, again, they love going through those cap cuts. See, any diamonds in the rough here, any good leftovers here. And sometimes it's worked out, sometimes it hasn't. It's just a gamble, it's a gamble. But I do respect Rashad Bateman for saying what he said and speaking up about it. But now it's just about showing it. It's about showing it. And of course, we wouldn't expect him to say, no, we can't win and we won't. No, of course, he ain't gonna say that. Of course he ain't gonna say that. But now like these Ravens receivers, they have a lot to prove, a lot to prove. And it is the one position for me personally, and I know for a lot of other people too, but I can only speak for me personally, it's the one position where I'm just so lost. I'm so lost on how the Ravens are gonna go about this. What they're gonna do there? People have talked about potential trades for some guys and a lot of the names that I hear, I'm like, ah, I just, would that really move the needle like that? Nah, I don't really think so. He talked about signing some potential guys and I'm thinking, oh, oh yeah, it could, will they stay healthy? I don't know, man, but hey, they could. Then they talk about rolling with the Ravens guys and I'm like, oh, well, they could do that. There's a lot of unproven in them, but hey, is that enough for a Super Bowl? And then I always hear the, oh, but hey, look at what we had in 2019. Look at what the Ravens had in 2019 and injured Hollywood, Miles Boykens, Seth Roberts, Willie Snead. You're telling me the recurrent receivers that we got right now? They're not better than what we had in 2019? And I just, to me, it just, every time somebody says that it always sounds like settling. It always sounds like settling. Like, all right, our group back then, they weren't none special, so we at least better than that, right? Cause that's what it sounds like to me. And then when you talk about wide receivers, people, they be like, oh, Mark Andrews, we got Mark Andrews. He's used as a, Mark Andrews is not a wide receiver. He's a tight end. He was the best tight end in football last year and he catches a lot of passes for sure. He is not a wide receiver. It's different. He's a tight end. He's one of the best in the game at his position, but we talk about wide receivers. So it's a different conversation. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. Ravens they know and they love keeping it interesting. And I appreciate that about them. They always keep it interesting. Ravens are never this boring team to where it's like, oh, well, yeah, we ain't got nothing going on in his office. You know, just keep him a note on all Ravens. Oh, they always have something going on. But this, I'm just genuinely curious to see how this thing at wide receiver goes. The confidence that Rashad Bateman put in his guy there and publicly put into his guys. I love that though. That is mentality of an alpha. That's somebody who's willing to step up to the plate because he knows what people been saying. Like he's a young dude with social media. He knows what people be saying. Sure, he gets tagged in a million things that people be saying. So he knows what the pulse of a lot of the fan base is. A lot of the media is when it comes to the Ravens wide receiver. So I respect him for being willing to put himself out there and speak up for his guy. So shout out to Rashad Bateman. Thank you, be clean. I love y'all, appreciate y'all. Yeah.