 Ain't nobody going to tell me how to spend my eight dollars on Twitter. Anyway, YouTube, Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is Engraven here with another video. We got another episode of question from subscribers. Now, I know you see the title. Don't shoot the messenger. Don't shoot the messenger. Let's just, let's just get into it. First question came from my guy, Juan. He said, and appreciate you being a Team Keep It Clean patron. He said, what's up Engraven? Hope you are doing well. Congratulations on your anniversary. Hey, appreciate that. Thank you. It is 10, me and my wife's 10 year anniversary. Oh, what an anniversary. So I appreciate that a lot, man. Thank you. He said, man, I'm jealous of your Mexico trip. Me and my girlfriend are planning one now. Hey, man, that's probably my favorite place that we went. We was actually, I was kind of bummed though, man, because on the little cruise we went on, we were supposed to go to Mexico twice. We're supposed to go to Mexico. We're supposed to go to Bahamas, Mexico, Honduras, then Mexico again. Then I think that was it. But because of the tropical storm that was developing, they made a big announcement. They were like, oh, sorry. Well, because of the storm, we won't be able to go to Mexico. Man, I almost start crying straight up, because that's why I wanted to go the most. I almost start crying. But then they were like, oh, we actually, we're going to be able to go to Mexico for one day, but we won't be able to go to Honduras and then Mexico for the second day. So I was still a little bummed, but I was still happy that we did get to go to Mexico. So maybe we take a trip there just by itself. But anyway, enough talk about Mexico. Let's talk about sugar. Anyway, it's in. Now to the Ravens. LOL. If you scroll up through our messages, I was talking about Ravens defense in the middle of the field, being a little small in size and sort of the weakness of our defense. Not the size and strength that Baltimore is used to, with guys like Ray Lewis and Ed Reid made to large size, aggressive tacklers that put the fear of God in ball carriers. Ed Reid? Ed Reid? He wasn't big. Ed Reid was not an aggressive tackler. Ed Reid, like, I mean, he played, he played like the way he covered the field. You would think that he was like 10 foot three or something like that, because he was every man. I always say it. I always say it. And I got to say it again. If you, like, if you had the chance to watch Ed Reid live, there was nothing like it, man. Like, not even just live in person, but live, like, while the game is being played. Not a highlight, not a replay, but actually watching the game live while it's happening. Ed Reid was just amazing. And I'm not taking anything away from Ray Lewis. I'm just speaking about Ed Reid specifically and only by himself. Ed Reid was just so amazing to watch. He, he was the best, man. He was the best. But anyway, he said, and ultimately stopped the run and fast guys off the edge to get after the passer. Man, how excited are you with Smith kind of giving us a glimpse of the past of Ray Lewis? Whoa, hold up there, buddy. Hold up there, buddy. Hey, I like, look, whoa, slow down there. Slow down, pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. But he did say, and I'm not gonna get too ahead of myself, but when I saw him swinging the ball carriers down and getting to the ball with speed and strength, I was excited. We all were. We all were. And there's some crazy stat. I forgot exactly what it was. I know, I know some of y'all will remember that they put up where it's like, Roquan Smith got some crazy stat and the last person that had this crazy stat was Ray Lewis. Now, as far as the comparisons, Roquan Smith to Ray Lewis, I can't do it yet. It's way too early. It was obviously a different generation and whatnot, but still, I can't do it yet. We just got to see, because obviously he's doing this thing over there in Chicago, but now with the Ravens, like middle linebacker is judged a lot harsher. I know they had Brian Urlaca. Brian Urlaca was not Ray Lewis. Brian Urlaca was still nice though. He was still nice. He wasn't Ray. Middle linebacker is judged a lot harsher with the Baltimore Ravens than it is in so many other places. And as an inside linebacker, you will always, no matter who you are, and I know it's so unfair. It's so unfair to everybody who comes through and who came through after Ray Lewis. But you will always be, whether you like it or not, whether fans like it or not, whether people like it or not, you will always be compared to Ray Lewis. You always will. It's not fair, but that's just what it is. C.J. Moseley, he was compared to Ray Lewis. Patrick Queen, he would be compared to Ray Lewis. Roquan Smith, he would be compared to Ray Lewis. Daryl Smith, he would be compared to Ray Lewis. Everybody who lines up there, was it Arthur Smith or Arthur Jones? Not Arthur Jones. Yeah, Arthur Smith, that was the name, right? The second round pick? He didn't work out, but anybody who lines up an inside linebacker for the Ravens will be compared to Ray Lewis. They may not live up to the comparisons, but they will be compared, because it's something like, as Ravens fans who watched Ray Lewis, it's just engraved in our minds, like Ray Lewis, inside linebacker for the Ravens. All right, how does this guy look compared to him? Even if they don't have the same playing styles or whatnot? Again, it's not fair, but it is what it is. Anyway, shout out to my guy Juan, man, for starting us off fun. But he said, oh, and seeing Houston having his year, Bowser is back out there getting warmed up. That large defensive front in our excellent DBs and our young safety starting to get hyped up. Hamilton almost with his first pick. NFL don't like Ravens rookie first round picks. They don't like them. The reason I say that, because they love taking stuff away from them when it's their first time. This year, Ravens first round pick, their first first round pick. Kyle Hamilton drafted at 14 overall. Ravens had a high draft pick. But anyway, he finally got his first interception of the year against the Saints. Nice interception. Nice return too. Hey, don't sleep on Kyle Hamilton return skills now too. I said, oh, okay, man. But anyway, they called this really bogus passing interference on Chuck Clark. And it was actually a really bad call. Really terrible call. Terrible, terrible call. So they took it away. I'll take you back to last year, 2021. Ravens versus the Browns, the second game against the Browns. So Tyler Huntley was a start at quarterback. Tyler Huntley threw a pass to Rashad Bateman. Rashad Bateman catches it over the defender, falls into the end zone touchdown. Rashad Bateman is first touchdown of his career. But the NFL said, nope, no touchdown. We're going to say you were down at the one. And they took it away from him. Anyway, he said, I am definitely more confident in Super Bowl chances for the Baltimore Ravens now because defense wins championships. And with the injury to Josh Allen, and they said he's weak to weak now, but we'll see how it goes. The injuries to Bengals, YRC with Jamar Chase and their downfall and the Chiefs, not being able to move the ball against the Titans the other night made my heart start to race. This bi-week is at the absolute most perfect time. What do you think, man? Now Ravens, hey, you said all this about the Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals. Ravens, I don't think they'd be the team that had a winning record. They lost to the Dolphins, lost to the Bills, lost to the Giants. So while I'm glad Ravens took care of business against these teams with these losing records, we got to put everything into its proper place. Now, throughout the rest of the season, the records that people have, the records that the Ravens opponents have for the rest of the season, it works out in their favor and they should take full advantage of it because, hey, you can't control who's on your schedule. You can't. You can only play them. You can only show up and do your job. But those other teams that had them winning records, Ravens didn't finish the job against them. So that's something to think about, especially as you think about the remainder of the regular season, especially as you think about playoffs. Because playoffs, that's when everything matters that much more. So we'll see how it goes, my friend. He said it. And hey, let's not forget, 35-year-old Jackson looked fired up in there, too. He looks like it changed the feel of the other receivers, too. Hey, long as Ravens got some dull bananas on the sideline for Jackson hamstrings, then, hey, we'll be okay. The team keeping clean. Again, welcome to another episode of Questions with Sous. What a fun way that my guy, Juan, got us started off. Now, my guy, Field, and shout out to you being a patriot as well. He said, after the first four weeks of the season, a lot of fans were complaining about Mike McDonald's new defensive scheme from the way a couple of fourth quarter leads were blown. Since week five, the team has gotten used to his playbook and have had our opponents locked down on the field. Recently, Ian Rappaport sent out a tweet saying, the Ravens defense are third in takeaways. Fourth in sex, six for lowest third down conversion rate, which is a top five total defense, which you could say is solid under Mike McDonald's debut. What are your thoughts? Yeah, the defense has certainly been a lot better. And hearing numbers like that, that's just weird, especially when you think about last year, and remember the times from last year, it's been good. It's been nice to see. And something that we continue to say early on in the season, let's see, it's an adjustment. It's a new scheme. A lot of these players, a lot of them didn't play last year. A lot of them were not. Whether they were on the Ravens last year and were hurt, because that was obviously, obviously, obviously something, excuse me. And a lot of them just straight up didn't play last year like that. So yeah, man, it's been a lot of adjustments. It's been a lot of, I mean, adjusting and getting used to and gelling and clicking and building rapport one another. The communication is a lot better. Like there have been a lot of times early on in the year, defensively, where guys just look like they know what to line up at. Guys, you could see the communication issues. Now, there's still been a few here and there. Like there was even, I remember one in the Saints game, where I think Chuck Clark, no, Geno Stone was telling somebody to move or something like that. I forgot who it was. But anyway, they are not as many, not nearly as many as they were early on in the season. Guys just out of place, just not getting it. So things are really starting to turn around in a good way. And Raven's not even at full strength yet. I mean, they'll never be at 100% full strength because Michael Pierce and Kyle Fuller, those guys are out. But Stephen Means, too. But Marcus Williams, he'll be coming back, they said in December. So that's something to look forward to. And yeah, so it's nice to see the turnaround and the difference from the beginning of the season to where they are now. Next question came from that boy, Isaiah. He said, ain't Graven, would you consider trading any of these players if it was, or if it meant to keep Roquon Smith and Lamar Action Jackson here? Kalaeus Campbell? Well, you ain't got to worry about trading him. He's probably going to retire. Chuck Clark, he's probably going to be traded anyway. Patrick McCary. Oh, that'd be an interesting one. But to keep Lamar and Roquon, yes. Daelyn Hayes, he got released, wave injured release. So he ain't even on the roster now anyway. Nick Boyle, Raven's got like a million tight ends anyway. And he said, it would clear up 45 million before 38. Oh, would it clear up that much? I don't know if it would clear up that much. But anyway, he said it would clear up 45 million and before free agency, they could end up with 85 million. I already know I'm looking forward to the offseason just in that one game. I can't imagine Roquon Smith walking in the offseason. Look, before that, before that game, he was not walking in the offseason. Ravens ain't bringing that dude over here to be like, hey, come over here, play like eight, nine games with us. And then you can go on about your merry way. We'll get off third round comp. No, Ravens ain't on no third round comp pick for no Roquon Smith. He ain't going nowhere. The panic button next question came from Terry. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope you and the family are doing great. And well, I had a question for you. Is it time to hit the panic button on Adafi away? Now we have to take into consideration that the outside linebacker position was very thin heading into the start of the season. But since we started getting guys back, he still hasn't been making big plays. What do you think we need to do for Adafi to get to killing? Kill nobody, but just to get to playing better and I guess producing more. Stay safe and keep going and trust. That's a good question Adafi away. I would like to see how he does with Bowser all the way back. With Tyus Bowser all the way back, like playing a full game because I believe he is playing in Tyus Bowser's position. But anyway, it's just a matter of finishing because he get a little precious here and there, but it's just a matter of finishing. And I think he just need to spend a lot of time with Justin Houston, man, like straight up. He need to spend more time with Justin Houston, like be under his wing. Ask Justin Houston, like, look, please, man, teach me everything you know. Show me again because I'm sure Justin Houston has had these conversations with him and stuff. Because Justin Houston is like, he seems to be one of those players and we saw it from when they signed him last year. He seems to be one of those players that is a player's coach. Because to where coaching is not their job, their job is to play. But you got these people that they know how to do their job and they've been doing their job for a while, but they're willing to teach somebody else who's on their same, not on their same level, but I guess they have the same sort of level of employment to where they're an employee as well, but they don't mind sharing their tricks and trades and whatever with other employees too. So I think that's what it is with Justin Houston. That's what it needs to be, more with Justin Houston in a doubt-fair way. He just got to really just take everything from him. I don't know exactly what it is with a doubt-fair way. I don't know exactly what it seems to be that's missing. So hopefully they can really get it figured out soon. Graven was right all alone. Oh, this is probably going to be a little scary. The next question came from my guy, Sean. He said, hey, and Graven, my name is Sean. I've been watching your channel for around a year and a half after my dad put me on your channel. Hey, appreciate your dad, man. Thanks, Pops. He said, I hope you and the family are doing good. Hey, we doing really good, man. You were right all along. The news about Bateman came out, and it is going to have a big impact on the rest of the Raven season. This is why I was right with you on the Ravens trading for a wide receiver at the trade deadline. The front officer had seen that DuVernay was doing better than expected, and Andrews, of course, is continuing to do great things and said, we can get even better. This was a perfect time to provide Le Mans with a wide receiver that he should have had for a long time. Andrews can happen at any time, and it has sadly happened to our injury-prone first-round pick. I just wonder how Le Mans will feel about this and how this may affect whether he stays in Baltimore due to the fact that we cannot provide him the talent at the wide receiver position. I'm 50-50 about Le Mans, whether he stays after this season. I know the Ravens want to be different, but the league is changing, and we should have changed with it a long time ago. I appreciate the videos and keep being great. Oh, no, we are not great at all, but thank you for this, and thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it. Again, shout out to your dad, man, for putting you on. I mean, it is what it is at this point. I might hope going into this season. We set it all off-season. Stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. Then that applies to so many different things, but with the Ravens, they were ready as so many other positions on the roster. They had a lot of depth, a lot of depth as so many other positions on the roster. But at wide receiver, we had the conversation off-season, man. What if, again, 2021 showed you, like, hey, after that year, what if somebody gets hurt? You want to try to stay as ready as you could possibly get. Stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. What if they running back, offensive line, can't get so much depth at quarterback, obviously. But running back, offensive line, tight end. But they got, like, 80 tight ends on the roster. D-line, outside linebacker. They went crazy with it. Cornerback, secondary. Linebacker was a little, but look, they got real close. There. So, hey, look at that. They still had Josh Biden over the during the season. They signed AJ Klein, Malik Harrison, Christian Welch. But their inside linebacker, that was a little bit thin. But they went and got real close. But at wide receiver, it was like, ooh, what if one of them guys get hurt? What if? And now it's happened. And it's like, ooh. So, hey, this is, I mean, it's just a situation at the ratings. They put themselves in. So, I mean, you, of course, don't want or expect people to get hurt. You know what happens, because it's football, unfortunately. But I think they should have just been better prepared. As far as Lamar, yeah, I told you before, too. I'm also like, I would be 50-50 on him, whether he stays, whether he goes. Right now, I really just, I'm more leaning, I guess less than 50-50. I'm more leaning to the Ravens not giving him the big deal. I just, I still don't see it. I don't see them doing it. I think they should, but I just don't see them doing it. But we'll see, man. We'll see. I would love, love, love, love for him to stay. But I don't know, man. We'll see how the business goes. Wow, it's 11.33 a.m. on Thursday morning. And my guy coach Jay, a patron, he sent this question at 11.32. So, one minute ago, while we were doing the other question, he just sent it in. But he said it. Aang, Raven always enjoyed watching the videos and hearing different perspectives from Team Keep It Clean. Yes, Team Keep It Clean be coming with the fire, man. But anyway, he said, I would like to take Team Keep It Clean on a dreamland journey. Many people have talked about what Sean Payton said about him and Lamar being a free agent. Yeah, Sean Payton was like, oh, one of the possibilities is that I'm a free agent this off season. You know, Lamar Jackson is too. But anyway, he said, I'm quite sure this wouldn't happen. But would you agree that it would be deadly if the Ravens let G-Roy go and ask Sean Payton to be Lamar's offensive coordinator? I don't know about you, but I think we will run the tables with that pairing. What are your thoughts? I think Sean Payton is an offensive coordinator. I think the Ravens could go crazy at that point. I think they will go crazy. But I don't think that Harbaugh would allow it, reason being because Sean Payton was once a head coach in this league. And it seems like he still wants to be a head coach in this league. And Sean Payton, he has a lot of respect amongst the NFL as a head coach in this league. So I feel like if Harbaugh were to hire Sean Payton as an offensive coordinator, then there could be sort of a power clash to where... I just don't think Harbaugh would want to risk that. I don't think he would want to risk that because Sean Payton is a established name in the NFL. He's not just some guy that's only been an offensive coordinator in that... No, he's been a head coach. So we're going to head coach too, yeah. So I just... I don't think Harbaugh would go for it. But you did say Dreamland. You did say Dreamland. So if they were to... Now, also, if they were to bring in Sean Payton, I think how much would they clash? Like, I'm trying to get into the Dreamland scenario, but I just can't because that would be a big difference in philosophy, right? Things would have to change like with Sean Payton because he has an offensive coordinator, especially how Harbaugh does with the offensive coordinator. It sort of seems as if the Ravens give the offensive coordinators their philosophy. Like, hey, this is what we want to do. We want to run the ball. That's it. With the passing game, that's cool. We'll do whatever. Just as long as you're efficient. We want to run that ball. That's what we want to do. So with Sean Payton, they did a lot of passing under him. They did do that running too now, but they did a lot of passing. So I just feel like the philosophies would crash. Apologies. Next question came from my guy, Oreo Cookie. He said, I ain't Raven. This is more of a comment than a question, but I want to formally apologize to the Ravens for being so pessimistic and ignorant to them. Like most people my age are. No, don't don't don't down yourself like that. Don't don't don't do that. He said, we might even have a better record than 12 and 5. And Skip would say about his cowboys. How about them Ravens? We'll see. We'll see. We'll see how things shake out. They sitting at 6 and 3 right now. So they are in very, very good shape in a good position. And they going into the bye week. So they got another opportunity to get healthier, to recover, to relax, to take some time off. So they in good shape right now, but hey, everything is up to them at this point. Next question came from my guy, Flirting N'Winsky. He said, hey bro, hope all is well with you and yours. I feel superstitious at this point. So I got to send them in game now. Look, man. The questions that you said, they ain't having no impact on the game. It's okay, man. But anyway, he said, I'm sending this right before half with that weak cover two getting torched per usual. But anyway, Smith has been making plays. So that's great. Oh, Callaway just dropped a wide open touchdown. No surprise. Man, I had, when we did our post game thoughts video, I had completely forgot about that. I had completely forgot about that touchdown that he dropped. Because he called Marcus Peters slipping. He just beat him. And Marcus Peters just stopped. He just stopped on the route. And I know he was over, but he just stopped. And the thing is, the effort is, I don't know what's been going on, Marcus Peters. It seemed like it was his play been up and down, but I don't know, Ben. It's, I don't know, Ben. I don't know. But it's like, we've seen crazy things happen when a player may drop a pass or something or a bobble it and then defend it and end up catching a pick or something like that. So my point, you can't give up on a play. You can't give up on a play. I think there was, was it Marcus Peters, as a matter of fact? It was in the Eagles game from like two years ago, where the Eagles, I think running back, he, they broke on the Ravens defense. He ran, ran, ran, ran, ran. And then I think the Sean Elliott was chasing him. And Marcus Peters was running too. But something happened where I think the Sean Elliott like knocked the ball. He forced the fumble. Marcus Peters just, he had stopped, but had he kept running, then he could have recovered the fumble. It was something, I forgot exactly what it was, but you can't give up on a play. But anyway, that wasn't, I ain't even had nothing to do with his question, but I just, that just reminded me of that. He said, but anyway, my real question, do you think we need new talent scouts? I was thinking like, yeah, we hit with likely cool, but he was kind of a no brainer, other than that, not really. But other than that, not really. But over the years, I realized how many picks we have and how many people we passed on multiple times. Like that kid Pierce, who's killing it in Houston. It's funny because he reminds me of Pierce that we had some times ago. Open up here, so okay now. Or Warlin. Oh, Tariq Warlin, the Seahawk 6-4 corner, that's the top five fastest player in NFL. We passed on him a million times. You see my guy, oh yeah, my guy JT, that was his guy, man. That was his guy. Whenever he'd be out there, you see him making plays, he's like, hey, he'd give me a nice reminder. Like, hey, I wanted Ravens to get that guy. And yeah, they passed on him. So maybe like Ravens should like hire some of the team keeping clean to be scouts or something. Can y'all be on it, man? Y'all be on it like straight up. But anyway, he said, oh, even DK Metcalfe. We have at least 10 picks a season, but miss out on these players. DK and Warlin stress me out every time I see them play. Oh, like stress you out in a good way. Like, man, they'd be over there balling. But they could have been Ravens. Oh, I know that probably hurt your stomach every game. But anyway, he said, but why do you think that? We literally pick players we know don't fit us and won't be here. So why not just trade? He said, we literally pick players we know don't fit us and won't be here. So why not just trade up? But yeah, I'm out. I mean, yeah, the shout out to my god, Jameel. My god, Jameel, he talked about this when we had a morn. That the scouting, it just could use some revamping. Because Ravens just seem to be missing out on guys. And I mean, a lot has to do with your scheme and what your preference is and what your philosophy is. And how you think guys will fit into what you do versus how they fit with those other teams and whatnot. But straight up, people can play, they can play. Sometimes it may be character concerns or whatnot. It could be a lot of different things. But draft wise, Ravens, they do got to do a little better. And again, every year it seems that they've been improving. Ever since Eric Dacosta has been here, it seems every year that they're improving, they're getting better. They're getting better at draft. They're getting more impact from their guys. And I think as of Kala getting put or Kola, again, I mess up his last name all the time. I think Ravens, like all of their picks are on the roster now. All of their draft picks are on the roster now. Because Kyle Hamilton, obviously. So Tyler Lindebaum, because they had 11 this year. Tyler Lindebaum, Travis Jones, Fahlele, Jordan Stout, Jaylenoma Davis, Pepe Williams, Isaiah Likeley. Did I say Kala already? I think I did. But who the other ones that I missed? I ain't trying to take up too much time guessing on the draft picks. But I can't think of them off the top of my... Oh, Beaty. Beaty's not on the roster. Beaty's on the practice squad. So it's 10th. Yeah, they got 10 guys on the roster. I forgot who the other ones are off the top of my head right now. Oh, David Ajabo. David Ajabo is another one. I guess I'm going to take up the time thinking of it. I can't think of the other two that I'm missing right now. But anyway, yeah, that's that. So with your question, they got some work to do in the draft department, but they have been getting a little better. Boy, he like automated. Automated. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that riding graven? Riding graven. Shout out to graven.