 Should the Ravens re-send the franchise tag from Matt Judon? Will Lamar Jackson rush for under or over a thousand yards this upcoming season? Will J.K. Dobbins be treated like Lamar Jackson was his rookie year where the Ravens really try to do everything that they possibly can to get him on the field? Please and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. If you want to be a part of questions from Subscribers just send me an email at teamkeepitcleanergmail.com and we'll answer your question in a video. Or you can send something to the PO Box, the address for that is down below in the description. Love y'all, I appreciate y'all. Team Keep It Clean y'all been, again, supporting like crazy. So I thank you for all of that. Y'all are just the best man. Straight up, y'all are the best and I appreciate y'all. So the date that I'm recording this is Friday, May 8th. It's 9 20 a.m. I went to sleep early last night. Shout out to my guy Dre. He said, hey, make sure you stay hydrated. Make sure you get sleep, man. So we've been doing it, man. So I went to sleep early last night, slept through the night. I mean, early for me was like one o'clock, but I didn't sleep through the night. Y'all know, those of y'all that follow on Twitter, y'all know that for me, if I go to sleep before 12 and even before one, then, but definitely before 12. If I go to sleep before 12, then I'll wake, it never fails. I always wake up around like three in the morning. I wake up around like 2.33 in the morning every time. But when to sleep at one, woke up at like 8.45, 8.30, 8.45, something like that. But anyway, so it's not the best schedule yet, but it's getting a lot better. So I appreciate it. So first question in this episode of NFL Questions From Subscribers came from my boy Ibrahim Rao. He said, since you mentioned many times that Joe Flacco and Tori helped elevate the play of each other while they were Ravens, were there any other passcatchers that Flacco helped elevate their game because I thought of this for a while and I can't think of any passcatchers that were good because they had Flacco a quarterback? Well, did he elevate anybody else's game? Well, we can't really say Dennis Pitta because we never got to see him play for another team. So that would be somebody that I would say. But we never got the opportunity to see him play for another team. But I can't think of anybody. I know Anquan Bowden helped elevate Flacco's game because he gave him somebody reliable. And that was the thing with Flacco, man. He didn't throw out his career. He had many reliable targets. I mean, yeah, Derek Mason reliable. He had Anquan Bowden reliable. We asked these men senior reliable. But outside of that, I mean, him and Tori Smith, they had that connection. But outside of those four receivers, wow. When you think about it, that's a big yikes outside of those four receivers. He didn't really have nothing that was very reliable. I know some people might say Mike Wallace, but Mike Wallace, there ain't no offense to him and no diss to him or anything, but just... And how long we had Mike Wallace for a year or two years? I forget how long we had Mike Wallace for. But he wasn't bad when he was here. But Joe Flacco had a better connection with those possession guys. Man, that's rough. But the second part of his question was, if Flacco does decide to play in 2020, do you think any team will sign him back up after Cam Newton gets signed because QB injuries always happen in pre-season and in the season? Yeah, I think Patriots could be a good destination for him. Patriots, maybe Jaguars, maybe even the Bengals. Next question came from a boy, Cliff. He said, what's up, Justin? You know I follow you on Instagram and listen to your videos back when I'm at work, whenever there's a content I missed during the day, which helps me get through the night shifts a lot. So I appreciate that. And I'm sure with the longer videos, they definitely make that shift go by because they probably go over your shift. And you probably find yourself, you might be listening to a video or something and be like, hold up, I got a clock out. This video went way over these nine hours. But nah, I appreciate it, though. Thank you, man. Anyway, he said, my question, am I the only one who wants us to rescind Judon's tag? I mean, yeah, he had his best year last year, but that was only relative to himself and other players currently. That was nothing compared to, say, 2014, I believe, when you had Dooms and Sugs both competing with double-digit sacks along with McPhee cleaning up. That was outstanding. But our best and his best year last year was just mediocre. Aside from stats, we only got the production on his deal year. That being said, there's a huge risk that after the deal he just falls off if he's only motivated to come pay out I think that's part of why EDC ain't putting the trust in big money on him. I'd much rather have 16 mil to throw at Clowney or Yannick Ngagwe. Judon is the best when he's got no competition, but we're trying to be the best period, not just the best one we have on hand. Also, when we talk about Clowney or Ngagwe, we add the caveat that they could come if putting faith and success over the money they could make. We are cool with that pitch to strangers to the organization, but Judon ain't interested in the same concept. Where's his trust in the Ravens? He's trying to get all this money regardless of team success. If he don't have faith in what we're building, how can we ask someone else to? I'm not huge on pocket watching, but Judon has me confused, feeling entitled to more when he's not exactly a household name. Sorry for the long ramble, and I'm sure I forgot other key points, but hopefully as you dissect this question you come up with what I have missed. Appreciate you, bro, and keep it clean. All right, what a way to start off a question from subscribers. Well, not started off, but just being away at the beginning. All right, looks like we're going to be here for a little while on this one. So he said, is he the only one that wants the Ravens to rescind Judon's tag? No, I know other Ravens fans feel the same way, especially it being $16 million worth of money. And he said, I mean, yeah, he had his best year, but that was only relative to him and other players currently. And that was nothing when you compared to like Doom and Gloom, well, Suggs and Dumeville competing with double-digit sex. And those guys were two established, two veteran, two elite past rushes at that time. So it's hard to, I know what you're saying, but it's hard to compare Judon to them because this is only Judon's, what would this be his fifth year? This year, I think, something like that. Yeah, his fourth or fifth year, he ain't been playing long. And those guys had already been playing, I think double-digit years, by the time they got to play with each other that year. So it is a slightly different situation. And with Judon, he ain't, like, he didn't have, yeah, it's just different, man. And he also said, oh, aside from stats, we only got this production on his deal year. Well, yeah, it technically was his deal year. It was his contract year, but at the same time, this was the year that he got the most opportunity that he ever got. And especially one thing that I had been concerned about going into this year, or this past season with Judon, I'm like, oh, man, he ain't gonna have no Terrell Suggs on the other side. He ain't gonna have no Zadaria Smith on the other side. Oh, man, that's a big yikes. But he got more sex than he ever got. He got nine and a half. And regardless of how he got him, regardless of what type of pressure the Ravens were bringing when he got those sex, he still got him. He still got him. So you can't take that away from him. And he said, there's a huge risk that after the deal, he just falls off if he's only motivated to come pay out. Well, that's just a risk in business period. That's a risk in business period. If any of us were at our job, and it was like, uh-oh, it's time to get a raise. If we knew that our potential big raise was coming up, depending on our performance this year, it could be like, hey, yeah, I feel like I'm a good worker already, but I'm about to put in extra. I'm about to put in extra, because I'm really trying to get this payday, man. So, I mean, you could say the same for anybody in the profession because there is that risk. Well, okay, we paid you now what you're going to do. So hopefully the increased pay, like for any of us too, hopefully the increased pay would mean even more increased production. And you would want to maintain a level of consistency because as you know, I mean, it's obviously different in the workforce than the NFL, but things can happen. You can get dropped like that. Whether it's for work performance or the company just needing to make cuts. Trust me, I know from experience. But things can change quickly. But you would just hope that with his new pay, that he could end up stepping up even more. And that's just something out of everybody's control. So anyway, and he said, I think that's part of why EDC ain't putting the trust in big money on him. And I mean, he definitely put some trust in big money on him because he got him on a tag right now. Now, he hasn't signed a tag yet, but he got him on a tag right now for 16 mil. So he definitely trust him. And then he said, I'd much rather have 16 mil to throw a clowny or Yannick Ngagwe. I wouldn't want to pay clowny all that money. If it was over two years, like two years, 16 million dollars, okay, I'm with that all day. I'll be with that all day. Okay, cool. You getting paid eight mil per year. Okay, cool. I'm fine. Um, and with Ngagwe, um, I would like Ngagwe on this team. I just, I would just really like to see him for a year first thing before they issued this all this big money to him. I really like to see him for a year first. That'd be nice to hear Kalea's Campbell on the other side again and a newly motivated like when you got new motivation, even if you're older like Kalea's Campbell, if you got a newfound motivation on a new team who's had success before and you could be one of them missing pieces. Oh man. And then if they brought Yannick Ngagwe, oh man. But Yannick Ngagwe happening. Um, and he said, Judon is the best when he's got no competition, but we're trying to be the best period, not just the best we have on hand. Well, I mean, again, his best year came, uh, this year when he had no elite pass rush on the opposite side of him. And he didn't have any veteran on the opposite side of him. Well, he had pernemic fee for a little bit, but then he got hurt. Judon was still there whole year. So got to take that into account too. Um, and he said, uh, we are cool with that pitch to strangers to the organization, but Judon ain't interested in that same concept. Where's his trust in the Ravens? He's trying to get all this money regardless of the team's success. If we don't have faith in him, that we're, uh, if we don't have that faith in what we're building, how can we ask someone else to? I'm not huge pocket watching, but Judon has me confused feeling entitled to more when he's not exactly a household name. If, if you're working your job and not everybody on your job or not every boss, not every employee, not every, um, employer with that company, if not all of them knew who you were, would you still feel like you should be paid any less? Just because they don't know who you are? Should you pay be paid based off of your name alone? Or should you be paid off of performance and especially timing? We always talk about how on here timing is everything. And it, this reminds me going back to Joe Flacco. Was Joe flat? And he was coming off the Superbowl though, but so that makes a big difference too. Was any point in Joe Flacco's career, was he the best quarterback in the NFL? Not at all. He wasn't. He was never the best quarterback in the NFL. He did his thing in the playoffs and that, there was a period in time where he, he was one of the best in the playoffs. Ain't no debate in that, but was he the best quarterback in the NFL at any point in time? No. But did he get paid like it? Yes, twice. Why? Because of timing. His contract came up. And he could have got the deal a year earlier, but he said, no, I'm going to wait it out. Him and his agent, I forgot his agent's name. I think the last name starts with an E, but it's not even important. But him and his agent, they waited and waited until his final year. And then what happened? Oh, the Ravens just so happened when the Superbowl. And now you got to pay him even more because he's just coming off a Superbowl. So with his contract, with him, he's not, he wasn't a household name, but the timing of his contract and the performance that he put at the end of his contract, it certainly worked out for him. So with Judon, it's the same situation. Is he a household name? No. Does everybody know who Judon is? No. A lot of people do, but he's not a household name. But just because you're not a household name you don't deserve to get paid. And he is, if he signs the tag, he will be getting paid 16 mil a year. Now, whether that 16 mil comes from the Ravens, if they keep him on the tag or they extend him to a longer deal, or if he signs the tag and becomes against traded to another team. And that would of course be contingent on who he's being traded to and if they can agree to a long-term deal because nobody's going to keep him on a 16 mil tag. Well actually some people could possibly but it's highly unlikely. So with Judon, I... it's just so many different factors. I do not think that it's him being entitled at all though. I don't think that at all. Because I don't feel like just because somebody's not a household name that if they feel like they should be paid more and that the timing comes up to when it's time for them to be paid, I don't think that that makes them entitled. Because he hasn't been around like on Twitter saying Ravens, y'all should pay me. Y'all need to pay me. He hasn't been putting all this stuff on the social media saying oh, y'all better pay me. He hasn't been doing none of that. None of that. We've seen other teams, we've seen other players where they go on these tirades and stuff. And their situations are different. They may not be feeling that organization or whatever. But I mean you look at I mean from Maryland too. I mean I know Matt Judon ain't from Maryland. But Stefan Diggs. Stefan Diggs. He would go to social media and he would say that some of the tweets who ain't have nothing to do with Vikings but they have something to do with Vikings. Straight up man. Go on, go on social media. We don't know what was happening behind closed doors. We don't know. So I can't really speak on that but as far as how he portrayed himself going these little tangents and tirades on the Vikings and stuff then of course we see Yannick and Gagway who you also mentioned. He was straight up with it. Jaguars, trade me. Trade me. That's the end of our relationship. Trade me. Get me out of here. Trade me, trade me, trade me. And while he's been a good player there's no doubt about that. He's been a good player but everybody handles stuff differently. He could say the same thing. He could say, hey, trade me. Or sign me long term. Because players want security. What a lot of people and it usually happens when you get a bit older in the workforce. When you're younger the only thing you think about when you're applying for a job is pay. How much money am I making? That's pretty much the only thing you think about. How much money am I making with this job? What's the salary? What's the hourly wage? What's the hourly wage? What's the hourly wage? What's the salary? Whatever. But when you're older you start thinking more long term. You'll of course still appreciate a good salary but you're thinking benefits. What are my health care options? What are my retirement plans? What's my 401K? It gives them one year, fully guaranteed. A lot of money for that one year. But beyond that, that's it. You get injured you got nothing. You got that one year, that's it. You got that one year and that's it. So that's why a lot of players don't just jump quick and be like, okay, I'll sign a franchise tag. And that's no offense to any players that did go ahead and sign it already. But with players that don't sign it right away, that's the reason. They want long term security. And I can't call Judon entitled for trying to get that. If that's what he's trying to do. Next question came from a boy, Jordan. He said, I ain't Graven. I sent a love from Canada. I appreciate you man. He said, if the Ravens find that Thomas violated his contract and let him go, do you think the Ravens will use the money? They will save from letting Earl go to sign to David and Clowney and then trade for Jamal Adams to fill Earl's spot. Yes. Especially more so the Jamal Adams part. Or Ravens made, I'm sure that if they do end up doing that I'm sure they got some backup playing that safety. I'm sure that they do. Who it could be but I'm sure like, I'm sure they have they went through this entire thought process and been like, okay, because again that the thing came out last night that the Ravens are looking to see if he violated that contract. So I'm sure that they got a whole plan in the back of their minds like, okay, if we do release Earl then this is who we gonna go after. So I'm sure they got something under wraps but we'll see if he even gets to that point. Next question came from boy Adam. He said, today I was watching the Pat McAfee podcast show I love his show. One of the only things that I don't like on the show is when they don't keep it clean and when AJ Hawke the linebacker used to play for the chiefs he'll be sitting there and it's like, what are you doing if you're sitting there smoking a cigar while they doing the podcast and stuff and it's like what's the point? You just had to come on here and show off that you do want to smoke a cigar it's so pointless man every time he does that it's so cringy man but besides that I love his show man I love his show I love that he's one of those players like he's one of those players that doesn't talk about his playing days in a cocky arrogant way because there's some players who have a platform whether they on ESPN or whatever and whenever they talk about when they play it comes off as very arrogant it comes off as like, well yeah I played before and it's all how you present something but when he talks about his playing days he's cocky at all doesn't come off as arrogant he's very funny I love how honest he is I love his energy I enjoy his show a lot and he talks about everything everything and he could say what he wants cause he ain't part of the NFL no more but yeah but he doesn't disrespect anybody and he like players anything like that and yeah he just I enjoyed it a lot but anyway he said I was watching a Pat McAfee show who was the retired former coach punter he brought up that Adam Shepter came out and reported that if the season is played without fans this year that will be a loss of about 100 million revenue for each franchise which may cause the salary cap for each team to drop 30 to 80 million dollars and if this happens it will cause teams to lose a lot of good players what do you think about this it's a hashtag team keeping it clean and hashtag Raven's flock appreciate it Adam I think we just had to wait and see we just had to wait and see because with that potential loss and salary cap I think that what the NFL would do because it would obviously affect every team I think what the NFL would do would be to just change how something I think they will come up with something to where they change how like maybe contracts are applied to the salary cap because if you think about it a lot of teams spend close to the cap and if they spend close to the cap and that cap ends up dropping by a lot of money then I think they would have to come up with something because it's like you can't just cut all these players and teams will end up getting so much dead money because of the salary cap dropping and if they had to cut a bunch of players to get back under the salary cap I think they may do a thing where they may allow them to maybe be over the salary cap or even when free agency starts because you know when free agency starts the new league year starts and that's when you're supposed to be under the salary cap but they may do something they're going to do something man because if it were to drop 30 to 80 that's a big drop that's a big drop and it just they're not going to have something where okay everybody got to cut everybody they're not going to do that and they could work something out for the salary cap what that plan is I'm not sure but we'll see when we get there next question came from my boy Greg he said I don't have a dog in this fight I'm a Darhaw Ravens fan but I need to speak on Dalton and Prescott in my humble opinion there's no difference in talent between Dalton and Prescott they are exactly the same if you compare their first four seasons honestly I'm taking Dalton over Prescott people forget Dalton averaged 10 wins and 25 touchdowns in his first five seasons he said the cowgirls have made offers to Prescott but he declined it come on man get real Prescott Jerry Jones isn't going to but his organization oh he's not going to put his organization in salary cap in a salary cap mess for a second to a quarterback if I was Jerry Jones I would tag and trade Prescott to gain draft capital to trade up for Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields in next year's draft what's your thoughts on the matter he said go Ravens um yeah Dalton the way I look at it with Dag Prescott they just as a whole he's not as bad as people make him think but neither is Andy Dalton and with Dag Prescott their team he's got a lot of his numbers they've come in like garbage time when his team is weighed down and they have to throw their way back in the games or just try to play catch up especially last year and that's how I think Dallas end up getting like the number one offense well because of that but anyway with Andy Dalton oh man he's done a lot more I feel with a lot less and he's somebody that when he's hot he's hot man he's gonna get going and he's done it with just he hasn't done it with the weapons that Dallas has if you give him the weapons that Dallas has an offensive line of Dallas has and a running game with that Andy Dogg if he's up serious man with Dag Prescott I feel like Dallas they don't fully trust well they obviously do trust them cause they did offer them the deal but the only thing I heard about the deal was like it was worth like 33 mil per I believe there's some language in the deal that Dag Prescott and his agent didn't like we don't know why he turned it down we don't even know if he even really got offered the deal cause you know again sometimes teams will have information put out about players so the team can make themselves look better it happens all the time it's a nasty business man it's a very nasty business so don't just be like oh well Dag got offered the deal oh man that guy is stupid cause I know that's what a lot of people have been doing a whole lot of people have been doing but it's a possibility that maybe they didn't even offer him something maybe they just put it out there in the media so they can sort of have fans turning on them and stuff and media turning on them so that sort of has him cave to where it's like okay I'll take the deal because you don't want a bad public image but Andy Dogg and yeah he is no slouch and Andy Dogg can come in and do some work and the fans definitely know next question came from man man he said in gravy do you think the reason the or no the media and teams are criticizing Lamar running the ball is because they just using that to manipulate him from doing that against him and their teams because let's be real Lamar's ability to run the ball hurts a lot of teams so do you think the pressure of him throwing the ball will benefit the other teams not saying he can't beat you with his arm but if teams know you throwing the ball you become more predictable they are not concerned about that because they would actually like that a lot of people in the media would actually like that if he did get hurt because that would mean that so many of them would end up being right because that's what a lot of and it's a shame it's a shame but people would be willing to for a good player like him they would rather him get hurt so they can say hey I told you so I told you it's gonna happen they would rather that happen than to see him do well and it's sad and there even fans like that the people like that is it's just sad but it is what it is and like we said from jump when Lamar first came on board with the Ravens that's what we said from jump it's always gonna be like this his entire career so get used to it cause it's always gonna be like that but I think with Lamar's answer when he was asked about it I think that cause he said he's gonna be running less this year and I think he's just saying that that's why I said at the end when we did the video on that that's why I said at the end just put it in the comment section and I think he's still gonna play his game he's still gonna run break his big ones, break his short ones do what he does but I also do expect him to expand the passing game too now he don't need to change his game for analysts for the experts for the media, for none of that just play your game next question came from a boy Leron he said I know he signed Chris Moore to a one year deal but do you see any of the drag the wide receivers playing point and kick return? oh yeah Proche, Duvenay, I think definitely Proche Proche I think he could be he could end up fighting for that point return or kick return spot especially point return boy Jarvis Fowler he said well Lamar Jackson rushed for under or over a thousand yards this upcoming season I'm gonna say under because I mean what he did last year whoa you know what, now that I think about it it could be over it could be over again and I was gonna say because I know last year he definitely ran a lot and it benefited the Ravens in a big way but um they're gonna have the similar style offense and they may throw little wrinkles in here and there but he was off for two games in one quarter and he still rushed for a thousand and still let the league touch it so you know what I can say over and I feel bad about it because he rushed for over last year and missed two games worth of time next question also came from a boy Jarvis Fowler do you think we should re-sign Gus because Mark England doesn't have that many more years left so when he does retire we have Gus Edwards Justice Hill and J.K. Dobbins and will Antoine Wesley be forgotten like Jaleel Scott hmm well to the second question it's crowded it's crowded at receiver and it's gonna take it will take a lot for him to make it whether the regular I mean not regular season, whether active roster or practice squad it's gonna take a lot for him to make it um but I do expect him to keep about one or two practice squad but we just got to see how that all works out um but for your first question should we re-sign Gus because Mark England don't have that many more years left I just I don't see him being on the team man I know Eric DeCosta talked about oh yeah we keep four running backs that'd be cool if they did okay cool but I just I don't see them doing it I don't see them doing it so I think that he would end up getting traded before the regular season next question came from my boy Mr. Einstein one he said hey hope your day is going well hey it's going really good he said my question for team keeping clean is will J.K. Dobbins be treated like Lamar Jackson his rookie year because Lamar was a backup to Joe Flacco but Raven's always tried putting Lamar Jackson in much in as much as possible plus Lamar took full control after Joe's injury do you see J.K. having the same path or results if Mark Ingham gets injured halfway through the season ooh I like how he put that not the injury part but how yeah I love that because yeah that is exactly what they did with Lamar Jackson they were like man we got this guy this new weapon this new athlete this new just quarterback that can do so many different things we gotta get him on the field we we we gotta get him on the field we got to got to so they forced him on there even when stuff was going good for Flacco and Flacco was having some consistent drives they said hey Flacco you go at go at Y receiver Lamar come here come here you know you get out there and they did just that and they because they really wanted to use him they really wanted to have him out there and hey most of the time it worked sometimes it didn't but most of the time it worked and yeah he ended up Flacco got that injury and I believe the injury may have been a little overblown just so Lamar could be that guy um and they they sort of I think they sort of may have used that to be like oh well okay well this is the sort of transition from Flacco to Lamar um but regardless uh and that's and then Lamar was born into being the starter and everything changed um so with J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram yeah I could definitely see that where they like hey J.K. all right you up Ingram come here real quick let me talk to you real quick and then like J.K. hey you up baby let's go let's go so and and and they put him out there I could definitely see that happen because you know I think it's gonna be like a Willis McGathey and Ray Rice not even not even just the the little Joe Flacco and Lamar but Willis McGathey Ray Rice we got an established veteran running back but then you got this second round pick number 27 um who is what number did Willis McGathey wear when he was here was it 23 I think it was 23 because I think he wore didn't he wear 21 in Buffalo anyway don't matter um but you got this established veteran running back and you got this rookie coming in and this rookie is a complete back he can do everything that all the backs can do but he can do it all in one because he got speed he can catch out of the back field um he can break he can do all that stuff so with that being said you're gonna want to get this guy on the field and again you didn't draft no running back in the second round for nothing because running backs don't get drafted high too often so if you're drafting a running back high you're gonna be using them so yeah I do expect uh like you said the J.K. Dobbins is to sort of have that Lamar Jackson uh impact and for the Ravens to do him like they did Lamar Jackson a couple seasons ago so that was a real good question