 Are the Browns now the biggest threat to take the division from the Ravens? Should Ravens regret not keeping Zadaria Smith? Should the Ravens trade for Denver Broncos or pass Russia Von Miller? These and many, many more on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. I'm a fanatic, you see we got the magic. Hey, you and my boys are savage and no been challenged, you madden, ha, let's go. Making rage quit, exit out the door, exit out the door. You was favorite team, but I bought them all, ha. YouTube, Team Keep It Clean, what's going on? It's Aint Grave and here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we put it in a video just like this. And if you wanna be part of NFL Questions from subscribers, send me a DM on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook or you can send me an email at teamkeepitclean at gmail.com or you can send something to the PO box like a lot of you have done and we'll put your question in a video. So we got plenty of questions to get into. Not gonna waste any time, let's jump into it. First question came from my boy, Remember T. He said, what's up, engraving? Do you think we need more playmakers at the wide receiver position or a different personnel? Ooh, I like that one. I like that one. I think it's a mix of both. Now, there have been some people that have been like, oh, Lamar only throws to Mark Andrews and Hollywood Brown. Well, Lamar, those are the only guys that get open. Now, he has missed some open guys too now because there was one in the Dolphins game where Chris Moore was open for a touchdown and there was another one, I think, where Seth Moore was open for something. But anyway, we just need guys that get consistently open and that can consistently make some plays because they can't just be Hollywood and can't just be Mark Andrews and can't just be Ingram. We need more. We need guys to create separation. So with them creating separation consistently, then he'll be able to find them and make those plays. So yeah, I think it's a mix of both. More playmakers and a different personnel. So throw Jaleel Scott in there too, man. Get Jaleel Scott involved and maybe deactivate somebody for a game. Maybe a Chris Moore. Next question came from a boy, Aaron. He said, how do you think Wayne Martindale's defense is going right now? Oh, well, it's not going too well. But I don't even think it's a bad play calling because he's been bringing pressure. He's been trying to bring pressure, but they just have been getting back there. But I think it's just been bad communication with the actual players themselves. Mix of bad communication and bad pass rush. So they got a lot of improvement to make, but the good thing about it is that it's super early. Next question came from a guy, Gerard. He said, with Jaylen Ramsey being on the trade block, there's been a lot of Ravens fans hoping for us to trade for him. But I have a different idea. What if we traded for Von Miller instead? I think our pass rush could be better and it could help our struggles in the secondary. Plus, the Broncos could be in rebuild mode as they are 0-3 and recently drafted a pass rusher in Bradley Chubb a couple of years ago. As always, appreciate all your content. Hey, I appreciate that, Gerard. Ooh, what if the Ravens traded for Von Miller? An aging veteran pass rusher who has been known to be disruptive. He hasn't been disruptive this season, but, hmm, Von Miller. You know what, I honestly wouldn't be opposed to them trading for Von Miller. I wouldn't be mad at that. Oh, he was born in 89. So he is, what is he, like 29? Getting ready to be 30, I think, something like that. I really don't feel like doing the math right now. But he's done his thing in this league. He's been around, when was he drafted? Let me see when he was drafted, man. 2011. Okay, so he's only been in the league for eight years. Oh, he's 30. Okay, I just saw it. He's 30. I wouldn't be mad if they did that. I wouldn't be mad if they did that. I would just have to know what his salary is because that's a big question, man, because if you get in Von Miller, he just signed that big deal, I believe a couple of years ago or something, and he's making some money. He has commanded some bread, but I wouldn't be mad if they did. I wouldn't be mad if they did because they would be addressing a position where we just, we need somebody, man. We need somebody to step up consistent. We need it bad because we're hurting. It's hurting the team overall. It's hurting the defense overall, the lack of pass rush. So if you add a Von Miller, you still got Matt Judon, who's been doing pretty well so far. So that can only make Matt Judon that much better and that can help out Von Miller that much more too. And just help out this entire defense because we need it bad, man. Next question came from my boy Michael Blackman. He said, if hardball was point chasing, why not take the easy free points instead of continuously going for two? Yeah, and in that he was talking about kicking the point after the touchdowns. So apparently he just, he wanted to be aggressive. And he said the analytics showed that with him going for all them two point conversions, that they would have had a higher chance to win the game if they would have got those. Now there was a mix of, there wasn't just the two point conversions that made the Ravens lose the game. It was offense, defense, it was coaching, it was a lot of stuff. But one of those things, like I said earlier, was field position. Field position, definitely the Ravens cost themselves, especially on that fourth down, they didn't get it and the Chiefs had super easy field position. But I mean, it's the risk you take in football. It happens. But hopefully for hardball's sake and just the coaching staff in general, they can learn from this game, they can watch this game, see what they did good, see what they did bad, and just take it in and move forward and improve with it. Why didn't he just take the easy free points, bringing out the field goal kicker, Justin Tucker? Beats me, man. Like I said, the first and third two point conversion, I didn't agree with those. The second one was like, whatever. But the first and third one, I was like, I wasn't feeling those. Hopefully we can make more calculated risks. Not to say to play scared or timid or anything like that, because I love them being aggressive, but you gotta be smart. Next question came from a boy guy like creations. He said, do you think we have anybody on the squad, low key, that could get these reps and probably make an impact at pass Russia? I'd say Tim Williams. I mean, what's it gonna hurt? And Jaylen Ferguson too. Cause it's like, if the pass rush right now, it hasn't been anything special. So if you ain't gonna go get somebody, then give it to the guys that stay up. Give it to the guys that stay up and give them, don't only give them opportunities, cause you've been giving them opportunities, but give them real, more opportunities. Because you can say, oh, like in the basketball game as a shooter, oh, well, the coach drew up a plate for me to shoot the three, but I missed it. So, okay, and the coach could be like, well, I gave him an opportunity, but if you only gave him one opportunity to shoot that three and he missed it, is that really putting him in the best position to have continued success? Is that putting him in the best position to grow as a shooter, as a player? If he only shoots one, three in the game? No, he gotta keep taking chance, have the chance, have the chance, have the chance, have the chance. So with that, that's why you gotta have, you gotta have these dudes out there. Yeah, hop off through them under the bus. But at the same time, oh, if you're gonna throw them under the bus, at least give them an opportunity to drive the bus and actually have some chances to actually put together some good numbers for you and some good opportunities, and so they can try to show out. Cause in limited opportunity, it depends on the play and whatnot, but the more limited is somebody's opportunity is the less they're gonna have an opportunity to really shine. So I would say, I would give it to Tim Williams, I would give it to Jaylen Fragerz, I would give it to all of them, but they just need more chances. Next question came from my guy, Levi is 24. He said, engraving, was Zadaria Smith continuously balling with Green Bay two sacks the last game? Oh, that's nice. How do you feel about not paying him now with our obvious hole in the pass rush? Just an extra, and would you have rather paid Ingram or pay for Zadaria Smith to stay? Don't know how much either of them got paid, I'm guessing around the same range though. Oh no, oh no, oh no. Ingram and Zadaria Smith definitely ain't making the same amount of money. Zadaria Smith is in a whole nother tax bracket now. But anyway, Zadaria Smith was the one guy that I wanted the Ravens to keep. I wanted them to keep him over Terrell Suggs, over CJ Mosey. Who else was a free agent? Well, Eric Weather was cut, so he don't count, but anyway, Zadaria Smith was the guy that I wanted them to keep. I really wanted them to keep him. But they didn't, and I was like, okay, cool, whatever. But I really thought that he could be something, man. I really thought that he could be something. I thought that he was coming on strong. And I know a lot of people just felt like, oh well, yes, Zadaria Smith, he's just another Ravens defender that's gonna go out and not do anything. It's been the exact opposite. Next question came from a boy of mine. He said, are the Browns the biggest threat in the division? And will the Ravens pick up a jacquard polite? For the second question, no, I don't see it happening, especially since he's, apparently, he got attitude problems or whatnot. I know the Seahawks just cut him from the practice squad. This dude was, what, a third round pick and he got cut, and then the Seahawks put him on the practice squad and he got cut from that. I don't see the Ravens going after him. But to your first question, are the Browns the biggest threat in the division? Um, yeah, I think so, because they got the ability to get hot at any time. Steelers are not the same Steelers as before, not saying that they can't be a threat, but we just don't know about Mason Rudolph. But with Steelers, they would usually start off slow and then they would pick it up real fast. But now with Ben Rothesberger out, we don't know if that's gonna be the same case, because this is a completely different Steelers team now. It ain't no Ben, big Ben, and they know Antonio Brown, and they know Levy on bail, the three Bs are going, and now they were forced into this new era. So I think right now, yeah, Cleveland would be the biggest threat to the Ravens in the division. Next question came from man 9021. He said, do you think the Ravens lost to the Chiefs because John Harbaugh overreacted because it seems like the coaching staff got out their game plan and played into the Chiefs? Or do you think the Ravens just got out of play? Oh, I think it's a mix of both. It's a mix of both. They weren't, it wasn't Ravens football. Ravens didn't play their style of the game. They didn't play their style of play, and yeah, they also got outplayed as well, but yeah, they didn't play what is their style of play, and that ended up hurting them, and it forced them to change up the way they were doing things. Now, when they did start to get back to normal on some stuff like with the running game, but by then, not that the game was out of reach, but it just changed it. I just said it just changed it. Wow, that's embarrassing. It just changed their entire, just the way that they go about things on a week-to-week basis. It just changed their entire format for their offense. So yeah, I agree. I think it's a little bit of both. So real good question. Next question, well, really I guess comment, came from my guy, Sapsgrab20. He said, everybody said I was dumb and I didn't know football, and they love how aggressive hardball was, but let me rewind real quick. It's no way you're gonna tell me that you didn't see what I was saying. We wasted that fake punt in the Miami game and we may need that during the Chiefs game. I know you remember that. He said, coming out of halftime after we scored, stopped him and got the ball back. We had a decent drive that stalled out at about our 40-yard line. Was that or was that not the time to pull out that fake punt? He said, LOL, I know nobody gonna give me my credit and that's cool, but you know I was right the whole time. We needed that game. The Super Bowl was almost for sure gonna go to New England or Kansas City this season, and that was our shot at home field advantage. Now I told my guy, and I remember when he said all that stuff, but I still think that the fake field goal was them giving it away or it was blown out of proportion. Every fake field goal was not done the same. They could have ran another one right there. I do understand what you're saying. It wasn't necessary in the Dolphins game and they could have used it in the Chiefs game, but I still don't think that that was a reason for them not to have gone for it with a fake punt. But yeah, they could have definitely used it in this Chiefs game, but with it in the Dolphins game, I just don't think it was a big deal, man, especially for the fact that they had already punted a few times in the game prior to that fourth down attempt. But yeah, it's still super early. It's still super early. He said that was our shot at home field advantage. Not necessarily, man. It just depends on how the rest of the season plays out. Our Chiefs gonna go undefeated. I don't think so, but hey, you never know. You never know. They could. And obviously a 16 and 0 team will be better in the 15 and 1 if the Ravens won out. So, but it's way too early to tell if that's gonna be the game that the size between the Ravens having home field advantage and them not. I don't think it is because it takes an entire season. Not just one game, but that one game, it could come back to bite them in the butt, but we'll see. Hopefully the Ravens put themselves in a position to where that game does matter a lot between them too, because hopefully they have a similar record. We'll see. Next question came from Scotty Pollock. He said, what up team? Keep it clean. You have an awesome channel. Keep up the good work, man. Appreciate that, Scotty. Thank you, man. He said, London, Ontario, Canada feels the love and support you have for the Ravens. So I wanna make sure you know it's appreciated. Hey, I appreciate that a lot. So shout out to Canada, man. London, Ontario, Canada. So shout out to y'all. Appreciate that, man. He said, I have a question that just popped up in my mind. As I'm sure it has other Ravens fans' minds too. With our questionable play calling, we just witnessed this past weekend. Two point conversions, Lamar running, throwing the ball when Ingram and Bust were hungry. Should we be worried when we hear the Browns' coaches take full responsibility for play calling, for bad play calling? And Johnny Hobbs brushes it off as an inability to execute the offensive game plan. We should expect to see moving forward. Perhaps this is a front to mislead the Browns and others into thinking we are the same team every week. Perhaps I'm looking into these tidbits of press a little too much. Love to hear your thoughts and keep on keeping team, keep it clean. Appreciate it, man. Thank you. Peace and love. A much peace and love to you too, my friend. That's a really good observation and a really good, that is very hard ball like though, to sort of play with, play mind games like that with the next team that the Ravens are going to be facing. So I think it could be some of that. But I think more so is just hard ball not having accountability for his errors. And that's how hard ball's been for the majority of, pretty much his entire, entirety of his career as a head coach at the Ravens. He is not a coach that really takes ownership of big in game mistakes like that, especially something like this. And I don't expect him to, when he was asked questions about the going for the two point conversion, I don't expect him to be like, oh man, well maybe I shouldn't have done that. But don't be afraid to be like, well, we didn't get it. Maybe we could have just kicked the extra point there. My mistake. I accept for responsibility for that. And the fact that we didn't execute and we could have gone a different route. But at the same time, I still want to play aggressive. He could have said something like that and took accountability of it, but he didn't. But that's just not, he just, he's not a doesn't take accountability like that. So I don't think any Ravens fans were surprised. And again, like I said, as far as him being aggressive, I'm not mad at him being aggressive, but I just don't think it was the smartest decision for that first and third two point conversion. But could that be, could the way that he has been explaining it in the pressers, sort of be something to sort of throw the Browns off and make him make the Browns feel like, make the Browns feel like the Ravens have an inability to execute the offensive game plan. It could be. It could be, but I don't think so that much because all the Browns gotta do is watch the film. They could look at the past three games of film, see what the Ravens like to do, see what they like to do early, see what they like to do late, see what they good at, what they bad at, what they need to work on, what they definitely improved on from last year. They're gonna look at all of that. They're gonna look at all of that. But I do like where you're going, but I don't really think that hardball is looking at it or thinking about it like that. I don't think he's really putting it out there like that for the Browns to make them think, oh, well, he can't coach. Because the Browns have been going up against hardball for, what is this, the 12th year, I believe? 12th year, yeah, 12th year. But anyway, we'll see. Good question, a real good question. Next question came from a boy, T.S. O. Pistol. He said, you think sometime this season the Ravens will address the pass rush? I feel like the Ravens should just redo that part of the defense like they did with the secondary. Ravens don't have a star pass rush that seems to have to, that teams have to game plan for. Ravens should have made the trade for Clowney. I mean, Jordan is cool, but yeah, we just need, we need a little more. We need a little more. And it's crazy that Pranel McPhee has become our guy. Because like I said before, I expected him to just have a sort of a supplemental role. He wouldn't be the guy at Pass Russia. He would just be a guy, a guy that can come in on 30 long, whatever, different pass rush situations. But he's been the guy. Him and Matt Jordan have been the guys and nobody else. So with John Harbaugh having called out the pass rush, I do expect him to do something. I don't expect him to just stand pat or stand put and just sit there. I expect him to do something. We're gonna see how this game goes against the Browns, but maybe even before then, Ravens may just make a move, man. I don't know for who. Maybe they say, hey, Shane, what's up? Next question came from my guy, Jack's Jaguar 95. He said, what's your take on these new school quarterbacks? Like Gardner Menchew from the Jags, his team, Kyle Allen from the Panthers, and Daniel Jones from the Lions. I'm holding out, man. Like with any new quarterback, the biggest thing that you gotta see is consistency. That's the biggest thing. Like they could all have a cool start. They could all have a hot game or whatever. Like they all had. They all had good games, and they all won too, yeah. They all won. But it does give you a reminder, regardless of how all of them did, whether it was good or bad, but with them it was good. But regardless of how they did, it does give you a reminder that the quarterbacks of the past, they're not gonna last forever, man. Eli Manning, obviously not gonna last forever with Jacksonville. They in the quarterback, sort of not limbo, but, I mean, they signing Nick Foles. And he's injured, so now insert Gardner Menchew. He could end up really taking over. He could end up taking over, because Nick Foles on injured reserve, I believe, so he gotta miss at least, what, seven more weeks. So he may be out of a job after that point. After this off season, they could end up releasing him. And then with Kyle Allen, with Cam Newton, he just been banged up for forever, man. He been banged up for forever. And I would not be surprised if Panthers had to put him on injured reserve. So that could be that with him. And then with Daniel Jones, oh, that should have been happening a long time ago. Eli should have been, he should have been sitting down somewhere, man. He should have been. No, he got his two Super Bowls, blah, blah, blah, but he should have been on a bench a long time ago. Next question came from a boy, Alex. He said, I might be late to the party, but I would love to see you do a video reacting to hardball's post game interview. He seemed super salty, that his aggressive play didn't work, and seemed like he was gonna, he was gonna do it until it does work and rub it in everyone's face. Seemed childish to me. I mean, and that's, that's hardball, hardball is a, he's, what's the word I'm looking for? Not necessarily stubborn, but stubborn could be it, but I'm just not wanting to admit the fault to it. Yeah, if it were to work cool, but even still if it were to work though, I still don't think it would have been a good move. Cause you, yeah, just, I think it was just pointless. And he, as a head coach, I think a part of it could be that you don't wanna look like, you don't wanna look like you don't believe in yourself, you don't wanna look like you don't believe in what you were doing during the game, cause that could make you look weak. So that could be him just, that could be a big reason why he doesn't back down, that he's not, hasn't been backing down from why he did it, and he hasn't apologized for it. So it is one of these. Next question came from a boy Bradley. He said, how do you feel about Lamar Jackson moving forward? And do you think we should have ran with the running backs more in the first half rather than having more of a passing offense? Yes, they definitely should have ran more in the first half. Because that's why you got those guys back there. And not to say that you shouldn't throw the ball, but get that running game going, man. Get that running game going and play your game. I feel like they just try to play the chief's game too much and they didn't play their own game and that's what ended up just making them, helping them, assisting them with the loss. And about Lamar Jackson, I feel fine about Lamar Jackson for the same way I felt about him before and after the game. He fought, that definitely was his best game, but he still took care of the ball. We did make some crazy throws, especially the one, the big one on 30-17 and what he's seen in that big one of Seth Roberts too. But they fought, man, they fought. One thing to think about, they were some prayers. He threw it up and was like, oh, please, one of them got to come down with it. But you already know. Like people, they discredited him, Lamar said, oh, you shouldn't have completed that, but if it was somebody else and they did that same thing, they would have been like, oh, man, what a magical play. Next question came from a boy, Thomas Morgan. He said, do you think that the Ravens should trade for Ryan Kerrigan? He has two seasons left on his contract with a base salary of about 11 mil a year. And he just had 13 sex in 2018. So I wouldn't mind that. We talked about a little bit in the live stream that I did last, that we did last night, that you probably won't be seeing this the next day. But anyway, Ryan Kerrigan, ooh, I wouldn't mind that one. And again, for him, if we got a Ryan Kerrigan, he wouldn't have to move far. He'd go from the Redskins to the Ravens. You down the street, baby, you down the street. But Ryan Kerrigan is a proven past rusher. He brings some size, too. So to have Ryan Kerrigan on one side and Matt Judon on the other, I would not be against that. And you said this is around 11 mil per year? That ain't bad, man. That ain't bad. To get a good past rusher and with Redskins in a rebuild mode, then yeah, that could definitely, that could definitely benefit the Ravens. So yeah, I would be all for that, man. To upgrade that past rush, because past rush, again, we don't have like, people aren't scared, man. People aren't scared, there's not somebody that people are pointing out like, oh, man, that's gonna be the guy. Oh, man, we don't have that. And not necessarily saying that we would have that with a Ryan Kerrigan. But at the same time, to have Kerrigan and Judon on two different sides, that would just bring a lot more respect to our past run. Yeah. My favorite team would have bought them all, huh? Don't get mad. It's just what it is. Just four shot, I think Ravens.