 Could you envision a scenario where the Ravens actually didn't pick up Lamar's fifth year option and didn't sign him to a contract extension? And while we're on that subject, let's think of some reasons why the Ravens shouldn't even get to that point and what they need to do in order to avoid it. Is it possible that the Ravens are holding back and saving their best plays for the playoffs? With the same thing as if Lamar Jackson hasn't really made that huge jump as a passer from last year to this year, will that scare away big-time free H&Y receivers from coming to Baltimore? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. And you know just what I mean. You too, Tim, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Raven? Right in Raven. Shout out to Raven. To Tim, keep it clean. What's going on? It's St. Graven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. 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We do talk about football a lot on there, but a lot of it is not about football and that's actually what I enjoy talking about the most when it comes to the podcast. So y'all make sure y'all check that out when you get a chance to. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. We got some good questions as always. Let's do it. Now first question. Oh, this is going to ruffle some feathers, man. It came from my guy, Enonic. He said, what if the fifth year option isn't picked up for Lamar Jackson? Well, and I know this is a question that a lot of Ravens fans don't even like thinking about. And I know that anytime that this gets brought up, especially like publicly, a lot of people think, oh man, whoever brought that up there, hater or there, no, it's not being a hater. It's just thinking about all the possibilities. It's thinking about all of that. Now, of course, we don't want that to happen. And we want things to improve and things to just get a lot better, but it's just a thought. So let's go into this question with the mindset that right now is just a thought and he's thinking about possibilities. Anyway, he said, good morning, Raven. Last night, I found myself thinking, what last season seemed unthinkable with Lamar's current sophomore slump. And I say sophomore slump because this is his second fourth season. Do you think the Ravens will move on from him in two years and draft another quarterback? Well, I ask because while we are six and three, the offense has become lifeless and his over the top Lamar's performance is of the past seasons aren't there right now. For example, the up and over passes to Mark Andrew splitting the defense we saw in Lamar's first charges game, the 15 yard flick at a risk while running to his right to Hayden Hurst or Nick Boyle on a 3rd and 11th for a first down. The deep shots to Hollywood, Mark Andrews, Hayden Hurst, Buffalo, Seth Roberts against the Jets, and yes, Miles Boykin, remember Seattle? And where are the Jackson Fives? Did they break up? The explosive slippery as the raindrop runs and the Lamarvelous ankle breaking joystick spin moves, everyone remembers during his record breaking season are things of the past. Is Lamar a victim of he and Greg Roman's success? If so, will it cost both of them in the long run? G-Roll's offensive success has a history of tapering off after two to three seasons, C-49ers, Bills, and now the Ravens. Let's face it, Lamar in his first four years and Greg Roman's offensive play calling were a match made in heaven. While Kaepernick and Tyrod Taylor were passing QB's that were also elusive on the ground, Lamar was the opposite. His ability to electrify the game with his runs let his passing game take flight. However, this year he seems determined to run less, almost trying to escape that aspect of his game that makes him great. Not bad for a running back. I'd rather throw a pass than run. We have guys for that. Now, on the other aspect of the Ravens offensive woes, neither he or G-Roll can do much about this lack of commitment by Erik D'Costa to get Lamar a true number one dog wide receiver and another tight end as weapons. Baker has them, as does Kyla Murray, Josh Allen, Tua, Borough, Justin Herber, and my honest opinion, Lamar's passing game needs these weapons much more than most because it's his Achilles heel. Imagine if he didn't have that ground game elusiveness, would he even be in the NFL? Does the lack of a commitment by EDC to get Lamar a true top level number one and number two wide receivers mean the Ravens and EDC plan to move on? I'm starting to think the remainder of this season, injuries notwithstanding will determine the NFL futures of both men. Love to hear your thoughts and sorry for the long rant slash question, but maybe you can use it along with your other questions from subs as a TeamCupidCleanTopic video. Love what you do, keep doing what you're doing. 40k is almost here. We got a little while for that, but now I appreciate you eating on again. Thank you for dropping another banger. This is a fun way to start us off for this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. So first question or the first part of his question slash rant, do you think the Ravens will move on from him in two years and draft another quarterback? I think right now it's way too early to tell. It's way too early to tell. It's just simply too many factors in the entire equation to be able to come up with an answer or a formula for what the Ravens are going to do. And he talked about the passes to Mark Andrews, leading the defense, the deep shots to Hollywood, the big plays to Seth Robbins, even Boykin got involved in those, the Jackson Fives, all of that stuff. First, let's start with those. The big plays in the passing game. Well, this year has obviously been a lot different, a whole lot different. And I think one of the biggest differences this year is it seems like as if for the first nine games of the season, definitely like the first six games of the season for sure. It seemed like Lamar was just doing a lot of overthinking. It seemed like he was just doing a lot of overthinking and just really not really fully playing his game and sort of like holding back. It seemed like he was second guessing and almost third and fourth guessing too. And what I say that is, I mean like he will have a lane, but it seems like a lot of times it seems like Lamar has been like sort of playing to prove himself like, yeah, I'm a passer. I can do this. And we know that he can make the throws, but we would just love it if Lamar just really just played his game. Now, he could play his game as much as he wants to. A lot of stuff around him makes a big difference too. Like, and I think the biggest difference from last year to this year has been the offensive line. It's been the offensive line. And we've seen this from jump literally all season long offensive line has been rough. Ronnie Stanley, he struggled. And then he ended up getting hurt. So now he's out. Orlando Brown, he was struggling on that right side on the left side. I think he's actually been better. That's my personal opinion. But DJ Flucca, he struggled. Makaria struggled. Masscura has struggled. This entire offensive line, they have all struggled. It's been a big struggle. Obviously losing Marshall, Yana losing the Hall of Famer. That's a huge blow. Huge blow. And again, I remember so many conversations I had with Josh Hoffman about that. Because that was his biggest concern going into this year, the loss of Marshall Yanda. Because he said that he just felt like nobody was talking about that enough going into this season. And it was a big loss. And it's shown, it's shown from jump and literally through the whole season whether the offensive line was healthy or not. It's been a struggle. So I think that's where it starts. And I think Lamar knows that his offensive line is not what it was last year. So I think that causes him to have less trust in those guys. It went from big trust to baby trust in the offensive line. So with the trust dropping, then your trust can, it can drop in your head too. And you may start second guessing yourself. And you may, and we've seen Lamar run into sacks. We've seen Lamar just waiting for somebody to come open. He's dropping back, dropping back, dropping back, dropping back, then he'll take a sack. We've seen him forcing the issue sometimes. And it's just, it's been a big mix of things this year as opposed to last year. And I think last year, the offensive line was a lot better. And I said it throughout last season too. I do feel like last year they were still a bit overrated, but they were still a lot better than they are right now. And Lamar, he obviously made a lot of plays happen, but the running game too, they ran that ball. And guess one big difference from last year to this year in the run game is that with them running, they weren't trying to share the wealth with everybody. They had, obviously Lamar, he ran a lot. He had over a thousand yards. Mark Ingram, he had over a thousand yards. Gus Edwards, he had a bunch of yards. And then it was Justice Hill. Did they force feed Justice Hill? Nope. Not at all. Lamar got his. Mark Ingram certainly got here because he was the number one guy. And Gus Edwards, he got his. Justice Hill ain't really get his like that. Because with their running game, they ran with Ingram, Gus, those were the primary guys, their primary runners and obviously Lamar. But I think that's a big part of it too. And that really goes to play calling and coaching. So now with the running game, they've been trying to keep everybody happy. So nobody's been able to really get consistent like that. They don't just, they don't feed the hot hand. They keep everybody's hands warm or lukewarm because they don't even be that warm. Well, Gus's hand, his hand is the warmest, but they try to keep everybody's hand at the same temperature. And it doesn't work. It don't work like that. It don't work like that. So it's been a mix of Lamar just not having that guy. Now, if we drop down in your question where you talked about, where is it at? When you talked about the other quarterbacks. Oh, here it goes. He said, now the other aspect of the Ravens offensive goals, neither he or Greg Roman can do much about is the lack of commitment by Eric DeCosta to get Lamar a true number one dog wide receiver and another tight end as weapons. Baker has them, Collin Murray, Josh Allen to a burrow, Herbert, just to name a few. That's a big thing with it too. And that's something that is a big frustration. Me personally, I've been frustrated with it for a while. And when we look around the league, it's like, oh man, jealous, because it's like all these other young quarterbacks, they have their guy, some of them have their guys up at wide receiver, like established guys that have been there, done that still in their primes, young, making plays. The Ravens gave Lamar Jackson, there's Brian, and that's no shot at there's Brian or even the other receivers that the Ravens have right now. But that premier guy, and I saw somebody say the other day, Oh, but engraving, a lot of y'all talk about the Ravens need that premier wide receiver. A lot of y'all talk about the Ravens need that number one receiver. But what's going to happen, if you really get that number one wide receiver, you got to pay him, you're going to lose somebody on defense. Okay. Okay. The Ravens had they invest so much in the defense all the time, all the time, they invest so much in defense, which we cool with. But at the same time, when the offense continues to lack and the offense continues to miss that guy at the wide receiver position, some got to give right. And I honestly would not mind losing somebody on defense just to pay somebody on offense. And I'm sure a lot of y'all wouldn't either. And we know a few names that for sure not going to be here next year that are on a defense right now. So I certainly wouldn't mind taking that money and investing into the offense a lot more because they, they, they find, I always find ways to make plays on the defensive side of the ball in the front office. And it's been that way forever. Flacco went through the same thing too. Now, what I would hate to happen, oh man, what I would hate to happen would be that if they declined Lamar's fifth year option, if they didn't extend Lamar Jackson, but they never provided him with adequate weapons. That's what I would hate. If you're not going to extend Lamar, if you're not going to pick up his fifth year option, if you're going to move on from him eventually, that would be frustrating. But I would hate it even more if they never set him up for success on offense. That's, that would be my biggest frustration if they decided to do that. What I want from Lamar Jackson, from the Ravens front office, from Greg Roman, or whoever the offensive coordinator ends up being in the future, what I want it to be, I want it to be where there are absolutely no excuses from any side, then none as, as to what the Ravens are going to do. If the Ravens are going to keep Lamar, if they're going to end up moving on from him, I want there to be no excuses. And what I mean when I say that, I know my boy, Jarvis Fowler asked this in a question from Subscriber in the last episode. He said, will the Ravens re-sign Lamar first or will they sign a number one wide receiver first? And I said, I hope it will be a number one wide receiver first. Because with Lamar, I just, I want him to be put in a position where the Ravens are like, okay, we gave you everything. We gave you everything and you either took it and ran with it or you came up short. But we get, we did our part because right now, and we love the Ravens, but we're also going to be honest about the Ravens right now. They haven't done that yet on offense. They have not done that. They have not given Lamar everything. See, these other guys around the league, they gave them everything, they gave them, hey, no excuses. Alain Calamari, hey, you ain't got no excuses. We gave you the best one in the league, the best receiver in the league. And then the receiver you came to this team with, he got the best hands in the league. This dude don't drop a thing. Then Kirk gets a bet. And I mean, we don't got to go down the list for everybody, but I mean, we can, but when you look around, you look at all these, the top quarterbacks in the league and look at what's around them. Look at their weapons. Look at it. It's a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing. But then when you look at the Ravens, and the best way, like I love when people say, oh no, Lamar Jackson, he got weapons. His weapons are fine. His weapons are this, his weapons are that. But the easiest way to shut that down, ask anybody, whether whatever fan they are team of. So do you really think that if you were to ask a quarterback who has his weapons, are you jealous of the Ravens and all the weapons they have on offense? You asked Patrick Mahomes that. You asked Drew Brees. You asked Tom Brady. You asked Collin Murray. You asked Josh Allen. You asked Russell Wilson. You asked these other guys, are you jealous of all those weapons the Ravens have on offense? And then you tell me. So that's my biggest thing. Again, is that I just, I wanted to be where Lamar Jackson, he has no excuse. And I wanted to be on the Raven side, where they literally done, they did everything that they possibly could for him moving forward. So they provided him everything. Because again, you go back to the Joe Flacco days. It was the same stuff. Same stuff. Same stuff. So we'll see what happens. And hopefully again, hopefully we can get to that point. It obviously can't happen this year. Trade deadline has passed. The free agency, obviously, well, the beginner free agency, that's been passed. So hopefully next year, next year, hopefully they can start to where is they really go all out on offense. Because that's just simply something the Ravens just never do. Next question came from Avery. He said, hello, engraving been following since we signed Michael Crabtree. Oh, and those are fun times. That was about what two years ago? I appreciate it. He said, who was the last team to run to the Super Bowl? How often has a running back led a team to the Super Bowl in the last 10 years? Brady didn't win six rings by running the ball. The Pittsburgh Steelers are undefeated. Their running back is probably not going to get 1000 yards this season. But Big Ben will throw for almost 5000 over 40 touchdowns. Ravens are not getting to the Super Bowl by running the ball. This is not the 90s. The last time we won the Super Bowl, we had a good running game. But Joe Flacco also had one of the greatest playoff runs in the history of football. If we cannot beat teams by throwing the ball when they take the run away, we won't go far come January. What do you think? Thanks for everything you do for the channel and keeping us updated. I appreciate it, man. Thank you, Avery. Now it's funny because I've seen this come up a lot and every time I hear those commentators say it, I cringe a little bit. And the reason why I cringe a little bit is because I know the media says that's so much. This team will never get to where they want to go by running the football. What team has run to a Super Bowl? But see, the funny thing is last year, you know, the greatest show on turf 2.0, the Ravens, they ran the ball at an alarming rate and alarming in a good way, obviously. But in the playoffs, they stopped. So we never even because I know a lot of people use last year and say, see, look, that team was the best running team in the league last year. And in the playoffs, look what happened. They fell flat. They came up short. But the Ravens, they didn't even play that game in the playoffs. They didn't even play that style of football in the playoffs. They didn't even run the ball in the playoffs. So we never really got to see if a running team could run their way to the playoffs. Because Ravens didn't even take a chance on doing that. What did they run the ball between Gus Edwards and Mark Ingham, like either six or nine times total? Like total. So I can't get with the whole, oh, the team, the team will never be able to run their way to a Super Bowl. I can't get with that because we haven't seen that yet. And I know, I mean, with this Ravens team, they don't really have an identity right now. So I can't even say if we'll see that because they are not a running team. They are not a passing team. They're somewhere in the middle and they still trying to figure out some things right now. So with the Ravens, yeah, they do need to improve in the passing game, but they also need to improve in the running game. They need to certainly improve in both. Now, the passing game has been improving, but the biggest thing that's missing from them are those deep plays, the bombs, whether it be Hollywood, whether it be Duvenay, whether it be Boykin, whether it be whoever. That's what's missing. And just some simple fixes too, simple adjustments, the drops. We got to drop the drops. We got to get rid of that. But we're just missing that explosiveness right now. So that'll certainly go a long, long way. Next question came from Anonymous. He said, why is it that when Mahont has a bad game, he doesn't get hate? But when Lamar has a bad game, he gets tons of hate. I think that's just because a lot of people just they sit back and they wait for Lamar to lose. They waiting on them. They waiting on them. But another reason is because with Patrick Mahomes, he's proven more than Lamar has, especially with having that Lombardi trophy. He obviously got an MVP already. So he been there, done that. Now he got a Super Bowl MVP. So he been there, done that. Lamar, he got his MVP. So he been there, done that. But now we waiting on that second part. And it's funny because with Patrick Mahomes, he in his breakout season, he threw for 51 touchdowns, something like that. I forget the exact number. And then the following year, he passed for like 26 or 29 touchdowns. And so the numbers, they dropped off a bit. But he won that Super Bowl. Lamar's first breakout year, he passed for 36 touchdowns. Only six interception ran for 1200 yards. But this year, the numbers seem to be down a bit. So hopefully he follows that trend. Next question came from a boy Kwame. He said, Hey man, been watching you for a couple of years. Keep up the good work. You done good by his Ravens fans and done an excellent job keeping us updated. I appreciate that man. Thank you. He said, My question is, why are people always saying that the Ravens offense is not the best this year? And that Lamar Jackson had too much hype. But don't you think the Ravens are just waiting until the playoffs to open up that 2019 Baltimore Ravens playbook? Because when we faced the Titans last season, we had no surprises for them. And we actually gave the Titans an advantage to stopping us in the playoffs. So don't you think that we can do it in the regular season? And then in the playoffs, we can have a surprise for that postseason Super Bowl run. Man, I was just talking to somebody about this the other day. And I said, That's what we were all thinking last year. We were all thinking last year, like, Okay, this offense, they got some tricks up this sleeve and whatnot. Come playoffs. Oh yeah, they about to let it all out. And then nothing. So Ravens, one thing that I am glad about right now is that Ravens are going through these problems during the regular season. They facing this adversity during the regular season, and then they having these challenges during the regular season. So they can get it all out their system during the regular season. So come playoffs, no excuses. And the next question and last question on this episode of NFL question from subscribers came from my boy Rodeo. He said, My guy, hope all is well with you and the fam. As far as me, I'm a little bit worried. I know we have a really tough and complicated offense that we run. Also know that for running backs, it's a dream come true scenario. But just trying to put myself in a wide receiver shoes, this is absolutely disgusting. Like imagine playing 60 to 70 offensive snaps and blocking for 60 to 70% of them. Imagine playing 60 to 70 offensive snaps and only being targeted three to five times. This has to legit be stressful and irritating. It's one thing to be a run first offense, but for you quarterback to also be limited as to what he can do in the pocket, big yikes. With that said, could you see Hollywood requesting to trade this offseason? So with that, I've heard some people suggest that. I've heard some people say some stuff about that. And I could, but it just all depends on how the season finishes out. It all depends on how everything goes moving forward because the internal frustration that he made external when he put it on Twitter. And again, try to delete it, but you know, the internet never forgets. But with that, that showed the frustration. And that's not necessarily even anything new with the Ravens offense. We know with the Ravens offense, they ran a lot, but now like we said earlier, they don't have that identity. They don't have an identity as a run first team. They don't have an identity right now. Through nine games, the Ravens offense has not established an identity. Now, while they have come up on the better end in 66% of their games, since they're six and three, they still don't have an identity. So they're still trying to figure some things out. But as far as Hollywood possibly requesting to trade again, like I said, I just think it all just depends on how things go moving forward. And I do think it's a real possibility, but it just depends on so much. Because I do feel like Hollywood, if he was used the right way, because I know some people saying, oh, Hollywood, he's not a number one receiver. He's not this. He's not that. He's a bust. He's not a bust. Do we need to just go back to just last year when he was hurt? And what he did for this offense then? Do we need to? Because I feel like so many people, they have an obvious recency bias. So it makes them forget. And this was just last season. It makes them forget so much, so fast. But with Hollywood, I just feel like if he was used the right way, if he was used the right way, then he could do so much more for this offense. So much more. He's got to step it up. Lamar got to step it up. Greg Roman got to step it up. It's a group effort. But if all three of those dudes would step this thing up together, man, Hollywood could, he could go a long way for this Ravens offense, like literally not just for the depots, dude, but he go a long way. So I do think it's a possibility, but it all depends on how things finish out. And he said, continuing off that we aren't helping our calls for other free agents or big time wide receivers coming to Baltimore. Whether Greg Roman stays or goes, do you think big time wide receivers will want to come here seeing Lamar has not made the big jump as a passer? See, that's the thing that's so tricky about this whole situation, man, is that I think with Lamar, the reason that he, the reason it looks like he hasn't made this huge jump as a passer is because he hasn't been given the weapons. He hasn't been given the big time weapons. It's like what we talked about, you see Josh Allen killing it right now. Like this dude is destroying things right now. Obviously Patrick Mahomes to a color Murray over there and they keep comparing his season now to last year Lamar is MVP season saying he's on track to do even better. So shout out to color Murray, but with the difference, the same difference, those teams gave their guys weapons, they gave their guys weapons. So in their second years, they could make a huge jump. They could make a huge jump. Like they provided their guys with weapons. So I'm honest, y'all know I'm honest about Lamar Jackson, love him, but we're still honest about him. So with Lamar Jackson again, when he gets compared to the other quarterbacks and whatnot, the comparisons are going to come because you're an NFL quarterback. But then when you compare their situations, it's almost no comparison. Like these other teams have these elite wide receivers, some of the best of the best that they were given. But Lamar, he hasn't been given that. He hasn't been given that. And again, that's all Ravens, man. That's all that front office to really give him what he needs. So you can see another jump. You can see another jump because there was one play specifically where in the last week's game against the Patriots, where Lamar, he ran for like, I think he ran for like six, seven yards, but the play, he dropped back. He's looking, looking, looking. And it's empty backfield. It ain't no running back in the backfield. It's empty, empty. So he got five wide receivers. I think one of them was Mark Andrews too, but we got five receivers drops back. He's looking nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Now the Patriots, they only sent two. So they had nine in coverage. I feel like I would just love to watch film with all of y'all one day. But anyway, they only had two Russian and they dropped nine in coverage. Lamar is looking, looking, looking, waiting, waiting, waiting, nothing. We got receivers running into each other. We got receivers running into the Patriots players. We got, it was just a mess. And I remember watching that play live against the Patriots. And I was just like, wow, I remember watching a replay too. And I remember watching it live and y'all can go back and watch the live stream if you want. But I was like, Duvenay, cool. Like, what are they doing? I did not know what they were doing. And I don't think they knew what they were doing, but we're just proven, a proven guy, man. They need a proven guy, proven guy for Lamar, man. So he can take this other jump that all these other quarterbacks seem to be taking. And is it because they're all better than Lamar Jackson? Well, you can debate that if you want, but he hasn't been given what they've been given. So until he's given what they've been given, in my opinion, the comparisons, it just, it doesn't hold the same weight. No more dairies.