 When it comes to the Ravens there aren't too many receivers who used to play for them whose names really hold much weight especially when they talk about the Ravens passing game. But somebody who weighed in on it whose name does hold plenty of weight with Ravens fans, somebody who just who fit the bill of being a Raven and he when he joined the Ravens it was like why wasn't he here before that was one Steve Smith senior. Of course he spent three years with the Ravens the first year was the best and most productive and most successful year of the three and he made an immediate impact and when we watched Steve Smith senior play on the Ravens we were all thinking why didn't this happen sooner like why wasn't this guy on the team earlier than this because it just made sense but Steve Smith senior he chimed in he was on 105.7 the fan and he had some words to say about the Ravens in their style which is very unconventional. Funny I was actually talking to my uncle this morning about being unconventional because what we do he reminded me of what we're doing on here and this is obviously a very unconventional way of doing things and he reminded me he said that I've had setbacks doing this have had a lot of doubters and just some mistakes that were made along the way and told him yeah all that's true all that is a thousand percent true but I told him I'm glad everything happened the way it did glad that everything happened the way it did because in the long run it ended up working out and I gotta thank y'all for being a part of that for supporting so much I appreciate that big time um but that that is part of uh the unconventional process when things aren't done the traditional way when things aren't done with the uh the norm the normal style then a lot of people they won't like it a lot of people won't like it and that's fine but that doesn't mean that it still can't work and that's how the Ravens offense was this past season very unconventional not traditional at all and these guys ran ran ran ran ran ran ran but they still had a quarterback they let the league and touchdown pass but they ran ran ran ran ran ran ran and they were obviously a run first team run first maybe even run second maybe even run third uh but they they still took care of business except the playoff game but overall they still took care of business but statesman senior he made some comments about this offense and shout out to my guy alex graham underscore three uh that's his name on instagram he was the one that actually uh had told me about this um so I pulled up the article on pro football talk and I said you know what let me take a look so it reads former ravens wide receiver statesman thinks that baltimore is a tough place to play the position so when I read that first line in the article I was thinking okay well um things are obviously a lot different now than from when statesman senior was playing um because he had jo flacco they got lemar jackson now and it was just a completely different team completely different vibe completely different set up completely different anyway he said um in baltimore that uh he says these miss these Smith seniors said on fan uh that in a run first offense like baltimore's wide receivers aren't doing what they were brought in to do and they may start to get frustrated okay so we're just gonna break this down piece by piece so wide receivers aren't doing what they were brought in to do and they may start to get frustrated well if you're in a run first offense and I and this reminds me of what uh dan or vlowski was saying in his uh top five quarterback thing when he was saying that he expects to and burrow uh that they're better draft picks than lemar jackson um but one of the reasons that he said that was because he said with the ravens with the style with the kind of offense that they have he said they have to get certain type of receivers to fit their offense and he made that sound like it was a bad thing but again when we talked about this before we said the same thing wouldn't every team do that when teams get players that fit their scheme that fit their style that fit what they want to do because to me it just makes sense that if you're drafting somebody signing somebody whatever you're gonna get guys that fit what you like to do on offense or defense whatever you whatever position you're signing or drafting or whatever so wouldn't doesn't that make sense and y'all let me let y'all let me know in the comment section if y'all feel otherwise but I feel like that just if you're getting somebody somebody's joining your team then you're gonna want somebody that fits your scheme you joining the team you fit in the scheme I don't know maybe that's just me though but anyway so I don't think that that was a bad thing but he did say what was so he said receivers aren't doing what they were brought in to do so again I think that if a receiver was brought in for the ravens ravens have an expectation for that receiver yeah right now it's a super run first offense super run first offense and run second and run third too but I'm sure ravens have an expectation with the receivers and yeah the receivers and I think that that could have been and now that I think about it that's interesting because now that I think about it that could make them drafting a receiver so late in this past draft that could make that a little more a little more clear that could make it a little clear because since they didn't put so much emphasis on drafting a receiver early they could have they had options first round they had options second round they had options but they waited and with them waiting that that eliminated them from taking one of the top wide receivers so that shows that they didn't put such an emphasis on having to have one of the top receivers because why because they they have a running game they drafted a running back before they took a receiver and I don't think there would be anybody who who would have said that running back was a bigger need than wide receiver in this draft but the ravens drafted a running back before they drafted a receiver so that does give you a reminder about what this team is about first so that makes sense but anyway um so he said again wide receivers aren't doing what they were brought in to do so they are brought in to catch the ball obviously they're wide receivers that's their job to catch the ball but with ravens expectations for their wide receivers what they expect them to do yeah catch the ball but in this run run heavy team you got a block two but receivers all across the board they got a block two it ain't like just because teams may be past first that oh receivers ain't got a block when they call it on the block they still got a block everywhere now with the ravens they got a block a lot more but with other teams they still got a block two but anyway he said and they may start to get frustrated that part i could understand i could see that they could start to get frustrated when it's like oh you're running running running running running and hey i'm a i'm a wide receiver i want to catch some passes i could understand that part but with when you're winning and again it's only been one year it's only been one year in this offense um but when you're winning winning it it masks a lot of those issues but it gets more interesting it's these men seeing you made a very very good point but i could so i could still understand the them getting frustrated i get it so he said i'm a wide receiver and my question is always going to be how is this passing game going to develop i hate to say it this way but as a wide receiver i love to block but i didn't wake up trying to block and run 70 plays a game and 68 of the 70 are run plays because then when the contract season comes up you have leverage because my numbers aren't up and that is a very very good point we discussed that briefly um i think it was doing last year maybe during last year's off season um but that is a very very good point and i think it might have been a might have been a question from subscriber something maybe during the season a lot off season about hollywood and would he resign resign here um but that is such a great point because if and but that's that's that's only contingent on if the offense continues to be exactly the way it was last year and for me it's very hard to believe that it's going to be exactly the way it was last year and i'm not saying that i expect them to change so many different things and become this uh this whole new offense and revolutionize the game again no i expect them because y'all know me always say don't don't try to fix what's not broken if it ain't fix hey don't no ain't no need if it ain't broken you can't fix it don't fix it don't fix what's not broken but i do expect them to grow i do expect them to expand i do expect them to just evolve as an offense especially the passing offense running offense keep doing your thing but the passing offense it i expected to take some strides forward too but the part that he said about uh when that contract comes up when the contract season comes up and you have leveraged so the ravens would have leverage because my numbers as a wide receiver aren't up so that's that holds some weight because yeah if the ravens if the receivers in the offense they looking at all these receivers across the league and they may be like hey i'm trying to get paid too what's up i want top receiver money but then the raven showed him like hey look at your numbers is this and then look at this receiver numbers that just got paid this huge contract your numbers don't match up to this and a receiver could be frustrated to be like man like what what's up with that like that's that's how the offense was i still produced when i got a chance but i didn't have as many chances so that argument i could see that when it comes contract time but the thing about that is again like i just said this this uh offense it's only been one year it's only been one year we haven't got to see this offense for two to three years we haven't got to see this offense for a long period of time we've only seen them for one season and that was it so that's why i say all of this is contingent and all of this just depends on what happens next but his arguments they do hold some weight and they do make sense but for for what Steve Smith senior was saying it's a it's a matter of time and it's the same thing that i said before when Eric the cost of first got hired and it's the same thing with this offense when i when Eric the cost of first officially became the GM i say hold up hold your horses just wait don't and even though a lot of ravens fans oh when free agency first started oh this guy sucks he's terrible he blah blah blah bring Ozzy back and Ozzy was good he had his he had his things that he needed to work on no GM is gonna be perfect even though Eric the cost of he's been close but um but Eric the cost i said it's gonna take two to three years to really figure him out and for this to really be his team two to three years because he had to deal not only with players from the previous regime who Ozzy knew some guys but also contracts also coaches so he had to deal with different stuff that was still part of the Ozzy Newsome regime and it's not like they like against each other anything like that Ozzy was training this dude so this dude was able to see okay i like what Ozzy did with this let me work on that let me let me just tinker it a little bit let me fix it oh i don't like what Ozzy did with that let me do it my way for this part so he was able to do his own thing based off of what he learned and so to switch some things up too but um it's it would it would always take us two to three years to really know what type of GM he is and what type of moves he makes even though we in the second year and he's still keeping that poker face even with us even with us but that's the same way for the offense too we've only seen it for one year so it's gonna take two to three years to see what this offense does and of course this second year this second year is gonna tell a lot too this second year is gonna tell a lot just like last year did they run heavy are they gonna continue to be as run heavy as they were i mean if it's working hey no problem with me but you obviously in the playoff game showed well really i mean that was really a coaching staff because they just didn't want to run the ball at all but anyway um the playoff game showed that you still need quality receivers you still need guys that can make some plays for you especially when them lights on and when it's crunch time so anyway i appreciate y'all this was a fun little chit chat shout out to Steve Smith senior man um and again he boy i remember when we first got him i was like man it was just great man it was great and it would we should have had the Super Bowl that year but again in 214 point comebacks by the Patriots because we wasn't deep in the secondary so that that season it led to Ravens really investing in the secondary and trying not to let something like that happen again but it's all good Ravens make up for this year in Tampa anyway team keep it clean i love y'all i appreciate y'all i hope you're doing really really good and thank you for supporting thank you so much for supporting i appreciate it a lot man we a team um we there for each other so i thank you all for that man anyway appreciate it and i'm out