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Ravens fans have been very, very frustrated. But in this first question, is that frustration being directed at the wrong place or person? Let's get into it. First question came from my guy, Rodeo. He said, I say it again and again. Good morning, my guy. As I sit and reflect, I come to the same conclusion every time and what makes it worse is being a Ravens fan is like being married to someone named Deja Vu. I'm not going to waste time about things we know, like having two total receptions by an entire Y receiver core in a full NFL game. That is blasphemy. Or like running Gus Edwards three times in a whole game against the same team you just burned for 180 yards on the ground two weeks ago. Or like for the fifth time this season, losing a double digit lead late in the second half. It's like a song, a little song Anyway, he said, I'm here to stand pat on what I've been saying properly since last season. See, we've been taking our anger out on the wrong people. Greg Roman, we know he should most likely steal across his fingers, should be gone in the off season. Hardball is hardball and is going to be hardball simply put. EDC has done a pretty decent job to me despite one area. But Steve Vashati is a man I'm looking at currently with several questions. How could you sit back this long and be OK with this? Why aren't you stepping in? How much longer does Baltimore have to cry for change? And the one common denominator I come to is relevancy. Baltimore has never truly been a threat or a Super Bowl favorite or contender. Baltimore is always in the hunt with the in the hunt crowd or a surprise team or a watch out for them team. After the first Super Bowl, we didn't really come close until a decade later. After the second Super Bowl, we came close once and now we are four decade removed with nothing to show for it. I don't really want to get into the NFL being fixed and making the Ravens sell these games like this. I truly believe this is an unstable average team and the owner continues to get paid because they stay relevant and staying relevant results in hardball keeping his job and hardball keeping his job results in his friends keeping theirs. Watching the same thing happen week after week is draining is sad and fairly put is hard to watch. But listening to these coaches and coordinators said the same thing after games and press conferences during the week is even harder is anything. And I mean anything truly going on in practice and meetings because the game they tape shows no improvement at all. I'm talking back into the first quarter of this season. This team is making the same mistakes. And I'm glad we made the playoffs. Yes, it buys us one more week to see our favorite team but being honest, this isn't the 2012 magical ride. This team is not winning a thing this year. Staying relevant over contending is what Bishadi won this year. It's what hardball won this year. Compete over contend is this team's motto and I can't blame our players but I can look toward everyone from coaching up. Hate to say it but we don't deserve the playoffs. We look like the one team that made it that shouldn't have. Nothing has changed and nothing will change with this team overpay on defense, underpay on offense and stay relevant. I know I said a ton and I will leave it at this. After all of our cries, the national media cries and after everyone else, if we go out and truly revamp this wide receiver quarter this off season, I'm talking remove G-Row. I'm talking a trade for a top 10 wide receiver, draft the top five wide receiver out the draft and let Bateman come back fully healthy. If all that happens and we finally take off as a full unit, as a full team, it will leave us wondering, wow, what could have been? Ooh, that's a powerful way to get us started. And he certainly spoke so many facts there. Steve Bishati and on Marlon Humphrey, his show, I think what is it called? Episode 44, Studio 44, whatever it's called, where he was interviewing everybody. He interviewed Steve Bishati and Steve Bishati was talking about how a lot of other teams they have turned over and whatnot, especially had had coaching whatnot, but he doesn't like that, because that's not consistency. And he talked about, he said something like, and I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like, consistency is great. He said consistency is great. And what he said, he was like, you don't have to be great, but as long as you're consistent, that is great. He said something that was super, super, super close to that, but basically, I mean, everything that you're saying, Raven's being relevant. That's good enough for him. Reason being, again, owners don't think like fans. And we gotta realize that and accept it. Owners do not think like fans. We as fans, we want our team to go all out. We want our team to compete. We want our team to win. And owners are cool with winning, of course, but owner's biggest thing is, hey, as long as my pockets stay getting fatter, I'm good. I'm good to go. Football, NFL is a business. I'm an owner in this business, this very profitable business. I'm rich already. I'm trying to get even richer. Oh, my team is, they be in the hunt a lot. They in the thick of things a lot. They get a lot of attention. Oh, yeah, I'm good. We're good. And when it comes, that's why the Ravens have stayed competitive for so long. And you keep seeing these same strategies over and over and over and over. And a lot of us are wondering why. Like, man, why won't they change stuff? It's because they are competitive, like you mentioned. They always in the thick of things. They always like, their names are always buzzing and whatnot. So the owner's making money. He's making money. So he's like, hey, as long as y'all making money, I'm straight. Y'all take care of the football stuff. I'll send you the money for it. But as long as y'all keeping me, my pockets getting bigger and bigger, I'm good. So again, we got to remember that owners, they don't think like fans. They're not fans. Well, some of them might be, but they don't think like fans. We want our team to really try to heart us. We want our team to go all in every single year. We want our team to fight. But for owners, as long as they're making money, they're straight. So there's been this complacency with the Ravens because they've been good, but not good enough. You get what I'm saying? They've been good, but not good enough. They've been straight, but they ain't been contenders, contenders like that. So I think that's all it is. So yeah, you'd be frustrated at this, that and a third, but what you always been saying is, I know a lot of people always say, oh, Giro this, Giro that, Giro that. Giro is easy when to target or whatever, because the offense has been struggling for a while. And then you see this, just this, almost sometimes silly play calling sometimes. And Giro has had his issues, certainly, but it goes far beyond him. Conspiracy, next question came from my guy, David, and appreciate you for being a patron for two years. Two years, appreciate that, man. He said, ain't Ravens good, bro? Hopefully you and the family, Team Keeping Clean fam also had a wonderful season. It's been a while since I've seen it in a question, but please allow me to unleash my inner conspiracy theories. This season, I believe we all have been paying particularly close attention to the Ravens offense. We've seen an offense on fire for the first few weeks and recently an offense that has zero situational awareness, play calling that lacks consistency and or reasoning, playing players out of position, wide receiver, one project that, I appreciate that. And let's not forget the third down plays where the opposing defense dropped seven into coverage and we respond by sending a wide receiver on a goal route, triple covered, a tight end on a curl route or come back three yards short of the first half, Mark had double covered and a running back to the flat, six yards short of the first. My question is, ooh, is it like funny to read that, but it also hurt inside. He said, my question slash conspiracy is, could this all be a strategic move by Steve Bishadding and Eric DeCosta to have some negotiation leverage and attempt to drive Lamar's price tag down by keeping his statistical numbers low. When the play calls made since earlier, this season, LJ again was setting a league on fire, I believe the front office saw that price tag going beyond the clouds and they had to do something about it. Lastly, there's no way, whoa, hold up, let me talk about that first. And I would really hope not. I would really hope not. I can't put anything past anybody though. I really can't. When you see the product that the Ravens have put out there when you see Lamar Jackson, you see his potential, you see what he's capable of and for you to consistently put that product out there, I can't put anything past nobody. I would hope that they wouldn't sabotage themselves because to me that would be silly. It would be silly to do that. But I know in football, it's about the long game, man. It's not just about the short game, it's about the long game and it's about the future. It goes far beyond just one season. People are thinking about future long-term stuff. So I would hope that they weren't doing that though. But anyway, he said, lastly, there's no way. You've coached the game of football at a high level since your 20s. I'm referring to Harbs and Giro and they continuously make the same mistakes weekend and week out. In Harbs, Ravens, Tenor, I've never seen him outcoached on a weekly basis ever until now. No one has been called out for horrible decision-making like in Times Pass example, Cam Cameron and Mark Tressman and both Cam and Tressman's offenses were ranked higher. 13 and 18, then Giro's 29th ranked pass game. Well, now where they ranked 13 and 18 than a pass game or 13 and 18 overall? Cause that's tough. And then I mean with the numbers, it's tough to, cause it's tricky. Cause yeah, any team, well, most teams, well, a lot of teams that lose their starting quarterback, things are gonna go down in a bad way. Things are not gonna look as good, not nearly as good. But then that's where coaching, like when you lose a player, somebody gets hurt, somebody's absent, then that makes you step up your game that much more. Cause you gotta compensate. You gotta compensate. But we haven't been seeing that stepping up. But anyway, he said, to me, this just seems very, very intentional. My apologies for the super long question, but I'm hoping LJ is not, but I'm hoping like LJ is not for the playoffs. I'm out. Yeah, I would hope that that wouldn't be the case. I really would hope that that wouldn't be the case. Cause I know you, you don't want to pay him a bunch of money. We know you don't. They gave him an offer, but they don't want to pay him like all the money in the world like he may want. But I just, and I know it's a dirty game. It's a very, very dirty game. But I would just really hope that that really wasn't happening. Next question came from my guy Chris. He said, what's up in Graven? What if, I love Lamar Butt. No butts. Dude is unreal and needs to get paid. The Raven squandered his talent so far and it sucks to know that we probably won't see a fully maximized Lamar in the Ravens jersey. But what if he ended up, what? What if he ended up as a wide receiver on a pass heavy team in an alternate reality? Given it, no, no, no quarterback only. Given his speed, athletic talent and ability to embarrass defenders in open space, do you think he would be a dominant receiver in an NFL? To be clear, I'm not suggesting that he should be. Lamar is a QB. He's the best offensive player on the field and should have the ball in his hands every play. Obviously it won't happen. So this is just a wildly speculative, what if question from someone sitting at the end of the ball. Thanks for everything you do for us fans. Yeah, and us fans, because we all fans of the game of football. I think it could if he wanted to, but that's like, yeah, we know, no. Quarterback and quarterback only. And last question on this quick episode of questions from subscribers came from Tay Sean. He said, is the incoming off season already set? What's up in Graven? It's been a while since I did one of these questions and I hope it finds you well. I've been increasingly suspicious of this Lamar situation throughout the season, but it isn't until now that I'm thinking that he really may have already played his final snap as a Raven. I feel as if the sneaky Ravens could have already agreed to a hush deal with Lamar and another team to tag and trade him in the off season, which may be why we may not ever see Lamar in the playoffs. Possibly part of this assumed deal is that he is preserved for his new team. I never thought about that in his business. So it's possible, because you can't like sit up and really think that these teams, oh well, we're gonna wait till the negotiating window to make a trade or we're gonna wait till it's clear by the NFL for us to talk to these. No, no. These teams, they're dirty. They do dirty business. It happens all the time. We know that. So I can't sit up here and say what you're saying is far fetched. That would make it hurt that much more, but it could make it make sense. But anyway, we'll see how it goes. He said, Lamar might love the organization, but he sees like we all do that their mindset, philosophy, his coaching staff issues, et cetera. This team is headed nowhere fast. That on top of the fact that the Ravens have made it clear that they don't intend on making the necessary moves to build around him, including paying him what he deserved. I think he's making a wise decision to go to a team more than willing to compensate him and build around him so that he can finally reach his true prime and give his best years to a team that is actually trying to win Super Bowls like he is. I've been Ravens for most of my life, but they made me feel like they don't care about winning. Just making sure they're somewhat relevant so they make profit. Hey, we were just talking about that earlier. All of our talent seems to leave because they don't, they see they're being held back. Do you think it's possible that Lamar in front office came to another silent agreement to trade him away when they get the chance like they did Hollywood? I mean, it seems like this whole season, even through their own media, they've been trying to groom fans and get them ready for life on the Ravens without Lamar. You said it, baby. That's it. You've seen so many outlets. You seen people who are close with the team and putting out all these different articles. As a matter of fact, one just came out. Today is the fifth. One just came out yesterday. Another one just came out yesterday prepping people for life without Lamar. Coincidence, we'll see. He said, hopefully I wasn't too all over the place and this question wasn't too long. I appreciate the content and keep us all in loop with what's going on with these Ravens and act as a mediator slash therapist at the same time. But like Lamar Jackson, very well could be when it comes to being a Raven real soon. I'm out and going wherever LJ goes. I like that ending, man. But yeah, you spot on. A lot of stuff is what it seems. And it's like they, a lot of these, it's like they're trying to subconsciously let Ravens fans know. Subconsciously prepare Ravens fans minds for what could be. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, what I mean. What I mean. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Ravens? Right in Ravens. Shout out to Ravens.