 All right Ravens fans, let's calm down. First question came from my guy, Kev Pro. He said, let's calm down. It's week two, going into week three. The Ravens are one and one, the Bengals are 0-2. The good news is, it's week two. They have been countless sky is falling moments in years past and the Ravens have been just fine. How about the 34 to 20 loss to the Chiefs in week three of 2020? Or the 40 to 25 loss to the Browns in week four of 2019. Both seasons ended with the Ravens in the playoffs. But both seasons also ended with the Ravens out the playoffs. But I do see what you're saying. I do see what you're saying because it is still super early. That's the same thing we said on here. It is very early, but you got to understand where a lot of people are coming from. Because while the Ravens are one and one, and there are a lot of positives to take from the game, of course, there are a lot of negatives to take from the game, of course, too. And you can really say that about any game. But when it comes to what the issues were, the biggest issues, it's a lot of the same stuff. That's why I think a lot of people are frustrated and worried. And I know a lot of times when, whenever the Ravens lose or really any team loses, but specifically in this case, the Ravens, whenever the Ravens lose, a lot of stuff starts getting blown out of proportion. A lot of people just, they get super heated and stuff just can go crazy, which I get. I see it all the time, it is what it is. But a lot of people keep pointing out that a lot of what's going on is a lot of the same stuff. One of the things, the Ravens this year, so far, it's been only two games, but they're actually a passing team right now. They're passing team. But they, the run blocking has just been really bad. It's been really bad. But last year, when they had all these injuries to the offensive line, that's how it was last year. They just, they couldn't run a ball. They couldn't do it. And I don't know, again, it's only been two games, but it almost seems like the run blocking to me in these first two games, like, y'all, please let me know if I'm wrong. And I know y'all, but it almost seems to me like the run blocking in these first two games is worse than what it was last year. It was worse. And last year, they weren't prepared for life without Ronnie Stanley. I mean, they had him for that first game, but they haven't for the second game. It just felt like the running was better last in it. Again, only two games so tough. So you could put it against the Jets and the Dolphins versus the Raiders and the Chiefs last year. But again, completely different years, but still, this year, they were supposed to be going into this season like, all right, we know Ronnie Stanley got his issues or whatever. Let's have a little backup plan or whatnot. That, of course, is Patrick McCary. That was Joanne James, but yeah. So I mean, it almost seemed like it's worse this year. But that's a repeat issue that they did with all last season. They did with that all last season, even though, again, they still got some decent runs last year, but it was still rough. So with them getting some decent runs of really just the run game, not being what they normally, what they're used to it being normally last year, they were passing a lot this year. Same thing, same thing. Now, I ain't complaining about the passing game at all. I've been loving it, loving it. Because again, it's been on point. It's been on point. Now, another thing too, that has been an issue, situational play-caller. That's been a repeat issue. Situational play-caller. Now, we, of course, remember the drive where there's some drives where, hey, G-Rolls, like, what are you doing? Then there's some drives where it's like, oh, Ravens players, what are y'all doing? It just, sometimes it's on both. Now, you go to that drive where the Ravens, they got that long 50-minute drive. It felt like they on a goal line. LeMaw Jackson, he fumbles the ball. That ain't on G-Roll at all. That's all LeMaw. Ain't on G-Roll. That's all on LeMaw. He fumbled the ball, so here we go. He fumbled the ball, oh man. They ain't gonna stay recovered it though. And then they got stopped. They got stopped short. And I know a lot of people were like, oh, they should have took the field goal. And I mean, looking back at it, like, me personally, I didn't have any problem with any of the fourth downs that they went for. I didn't have a problem with them going for it on fourth down any of the times they went for it on fourth down in the game. I had zero problem with it. Because y'all know, I would tell you, like, if I ain't think they should have went for it, I'll be like, no, kick that field goal. But there were people who felt like they should have kicked the field goal. And I mean, looking back at it, you could be, oh yeah, and some people felt like that, not even just in hindsight, but in foresight. Some people felt like, hey, in the moment, no, Ravens, take the points. Take the points. Because that's something that, in different games and whatnot, sometimes it's come back to bite them when they don't take the points. Especially like, definitely in that 2019 season in that playoff game, not taking the points and came back to bite them. Even though, again, the aggression, it's the greed, it's tough to deny it. It's tough to push it to the side. Like, when you're right, especially when you're right there, you did this long drive. You done had the ball forever. It's like, you don't want to do that for no three points. But then it was later on in the, was it the fourth quarter? Or was it later in the third quarter? It was in the second half, where they had another opportunity to kick a field goal, but they went for it and they didn't get it. So two turnovers on downs. But so that, the first turnover on downs, that's execution. That was on the players. But the second turnover on downs, it just, I hated the sequence of play calling. I thought the situation of play calling was really bad. And that has been an issue that we've been talking about on here for years. And I think that's another reason why people are very frustrated. Because again, repeat offenders. Ravens being repeat offenders. And with people, their frustrations, they don't go unnoticed. But because, and I know it's only been two games, but if you're seeing the Ravens be repeat offenders already with some of the same issues, it's like, oh man, are they going to start doing that early? And I know some people look at it like, well, rather than do it now than later, but is this a sign of things to come? We won't know till we know. But you just, you don't want it to be. But hopefully it can be one of those things. Like, all right, Ravens did it early in the season and they adjusted, they fixed stuff, and they got rid of that. They got better from it. But again, back to the situational play calling. The drive we just talked about, that was all on Lamar, that was on the run blocking, that was all on the players. But in that other drive, it was a turnover on downs. The third down, Lamar kept it. I thought that was a good play call, good deal. They set it up good and nice and everything. But then on the fourth down, I just, I knew they weren't running the ball with Lamar again. I was like, no way. They're passing it for sure. Nope, they didn't. They didn't. They did a QB keeper with him again, back to back. And it was just blatantly obvious. And it was like, what are they doing? What are they doing? So it's like the, they just, it's weird, man, because Greg Roman overall, in the Dolphins game, he had a pretty good game. Had a very good game, very good game. And then he was pulling out some of that 20% plays. He was pulling out stuff from the vault. The Mark Andrews sneak like, what? I ain't never seen nothing like that. Never a tight income, sneak, what? Okay, I like it. I like it because it just came out of nowhere. And then it was unexpected. Then the Dolphins were like, oh, okay. Anything y'all can do, we can do better. And they went and did the same thing, like a couple of drives later. I'm like, oh, okay, Dolphins, all right, y'all playing that game. But anyway, but yeah, so the situational play called it. That's why a lot of Ravens fans are not calm down. Because of stuff like that. Because again, same stuff, repeat offenders. Another thing too, decision-making. And this really falls on John Hall about decision-making. And what I mean when I say that, well, again, with the fourth downs, I'm not complaining about them going full on the fourth downs. I know some people have though, some people, again, like some people said, hey, Raven should have made the decision to take the points. All right, cool. That's their argument for that game. Not mine. Cause again, I didn't have a problem with any of the fourth downs that they went for it. But one of the issues in the game, pre-snap, Tariq Hill, he's matched up with Jalen Armadavis. Shout out to my guy. My guy sent me a message on the IG. He said, man, hey, you got to get the pronunciation of Jalen's name right. Cause you keep seeing it wrong. It's not Armor, it's Armor, like under Armor. So then he slipped that little under Armor promo in there. Oh, okay, I got you. But anyway, so shout out to you. But anyway, so you got Jalen Armadavis matched up one-on-one with Tariq Hill. Jalen O'Rookie hasn't had a ton of reps, especially, I mean, in the pre-season, he don't even think he played in the pre-season. O'Rookie, I mean O'Rookie against one of the best Y receivers in the league. And you look behind Jalen, and it ain't nothing but the end zone. Nothing but the end zone. And you would think as a coach, like I, you're gonna recognize that as a coach, as a defensive coordinator, whichever. Tariq Hill, who already has burned you. Tariq Hill, who you have a lot of familiarity with. Tariq Hill, who you know is probably the best play-making Y receiver in the NFL and he has been for years, O'Rookie. And then your safeties are both in the box. You would think that with the John Harbaugh, with the Mike McDonald, they would recognize that because you gotta be recognizing who Tariq Hill is. You know who Jalen Waddle is and if you ain't know who he was, he certainly made his name known in that game. But you would think that the coaching would recognize that, hold on, we got O'Rookie on Tariq Hill and he ain't got no help. But nope, no time out. They let it ride. Decision-making, poor decision-making. Repeat offenders, repeat offenders. So again, while it is early in the season, super early. Again, two games in, super early. They got 15 games left, super early, but people just don't wanna see the same mistakes. And this feels like a dream, just what I made. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it, I done made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of Questions From Subs. Special shout out to every Team Keep It Clean patron. This episode is gonna feature all Team Keep It Clean patrons who send in questions during the game and we'll see if some tunes change. And then of course also after, but I appreciate everybody, thank you. We are officially at 58,000 subscribers right now. So much love to y'all, man. Much love to y'all for continuing to show a lot of crazy support. Special shout out to the patrons. If you wanna become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. And if you don't want to, don't worry about it. It's okay. I love y'all and let's just get into the next question that came from Emari. Emari said, my guy, it's halftime. You might've wanted to wait, I said this one, but anyway, he said it's halftime. Lamar just threw his third touchdown versus the Dolphins and I can honestly say this is the best I've seen the Baltimore Ravens look. The team looks complete, even with people out. Oof, spoke too soon. Oof, spoke a little too soon, but it's okay. It's all good. He said, last year, I noticed Lamar Jackson didn't make many checks at the line of scrimmage, but the Dolphin Zero Blitz defense forces him to and he has passed the test so far. Let me know what you think. Lagote for MVP and cut check. Oh yeah, cut that check. I had tweeted during the game, Ravens cut the check. And that didn't change after just cause the Ravens lost. That check still need to be cut, but he'll cross that road when they get there. Yeah, that's something that I noticed too during the game, like from jump. Lamar was really like, really taking firm control of the offense. There's some games where you'll see Lamar and he'll go walk up to the line of scrimmage and whatever, call to play and whatnot. But then there's some other games where you'll see him go into a different mode where it's this sense of urgency is going crazy. And I love it. And it was more of an up tempo early on. I loved it, loved it. And they were moving that ball early on and it was great. It was great. So we just want to keep seeing it. We want to keep seeing consistency. Moving forward, we just want this offense to keep doing what they've been doing in a passing game, but then with the running game to come along too. I know I've seen some people talk about, oh, y'all, this is what y'all Ravens fans wanted. Y'all wanted the Ravens to have a passing game. Oh, you got it now, but they ain't got no running game. Now, again, I got to correct that though, because for me, I can only speak for myself, but I continue to say I want those Ravens to put more emphasis on the passing game, much more emphasis on the passing game. And I would always say, because I know some people can take what you say and try to make it extreme, but it's really not. I would always say I want them to put more emphasis on the passing game, but that does not mean that they should not be able to or they should not run the ball. Nobody said that at all. Nobody said, all right, Ravens, we want y'all to be able to have success in the passing game, but we want y'all to have a big decline in the running game. No, nobody said that. That's not what it is. We want them to be able to go to both. We want them to be able to rely on both. We want them to have both options consistently with their offense, because that can make them that much more dangerous. That's it, that's it. And it's crazy, like the Ravens, they had several opportunities to win this game by really having no running game. Obviously, outside of the Mar-Jackson, but they weren't running the ball good. But Mar broke his 79-yard touchdown run off, but besides that, there's a bunch of nothing. I mean, Justice Hill, he had that nice run. And you know what? One of my guys sent me the message on IG, he was like, man, Justice Hill, this should have been a touchdown. And I was like, no, it shouldn't have. It shouldn't have been a touchdown. And he was like, no, Justice Hill had so much green in front of him. I was like, yeah, he did, but I don't see no touchdown. Then I looked at the play again. Then I looked at it again. Then I looked at it again. And I was like, oh, oh, wow. Oh, he actually could have had a touchdown. And if worst case scenario, if it wasn't a touchdown, he could have had a lot of yards. So I had hit my guy back like 12 hours later. I was like, oh, no, actually, you were right. Yeah, that probably should have been a touchdown. But yeah, we just want the Ravens to become more of a complete team. And all they need to do, yeah, the running game should improve. Now, will JK improve it that much? I don't know. Right now, I can't say yes because the offensive line, they ain't been making no holes. But also a lot of it depends on the skin. If you're just running right up the gut all the time, okay, well, you're gonna get stopped. But so it's up to Ravens and their Greg Roman, run game genius to really open up the running game. It's crazy to say that, right? Ain't it crazy to say that all night? Like, and it's obvious up to the offensive line too. But the Ravens and the offensive line and Greg Roman, they need to open up the running game. It's crazy because we're saying that about the running game, not the passing game. We cool with the passing game right now. But now we wanted the run game to be better. So hopefully when JK comes back, Stanley one day eventually, maybe who knows, Nick Boyle. So we'll see, man. We'll see. But yeah, I've been loving how the passing game has been looking. Next question came from my guy, TJ. He said, you ain't Raven. You have to officially ban any Dolphins podcast members. After that guy said we would lose 35 to 10 and actually said he was serious. I told you before, I'm saying it again, the stars are aligned for a Raven Super Bowl victory. Let's go. He sent this on Sunday during the game at 2.42 p.m. So we know how to rest of that win. Next question came from my guy, Martin. He said our offensive line through two games is a big yikes. Worse than the league, Lamar makes them look better than what they are. They need to step up and Kyle Hamilton can tackle but he needs to learn how to cover and quickly. Worse than the league, I don't know. Run blocking has been bad. Pass blocking has been straight though. Pass blocking, it's like who are these Ravens? Well, I guess Lamar knows who they are. But anyway, offensive line, yeah. The run blocking, it's been rough. I mean, as far as Kyle Hamilton. Yeah, rookie mistakes, man. Rookie mistakes. I know it's been seeing a lot of people just ready to throw Kyle Hamilton away. Like, oh man, this dude's trash. He's garbage. He's a bus. He's this. He's that. Rookie mistakes. But it's up to, I was talking about earlier that. That's up to coaching. To like, hey, if he, it needs to be where, and of course he's gonna make mistakes, but it needs to be where, all right, if he missed time jumping the swatter pass down or something like that. If he missed a tackle, all right, something like that. If those were the issues, that's be like, okay, that's on Kyle Hamilton. Got to work on technique. All right, cool. But if it's him not being lined up correctly, if it's him being completely out of position, that's a coaching issue to me. Expression came from my guy, A.W. Juiceman. He said, L.O.L. I am disgusted. Hats off to the dolphins. But come on now. We took our foot off the pedal and I don't know what it is without Isaiah likely, but he's just a pre-season star. Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He actually made a nice little catch. He, well, he had three catches the other day, I think. Then he did, of course, have that one drop, but that was a little tough one. It was a little behind him, too, though. But he'll get there. It's, again, slowly but surely. It's a process with him, man. It's been a process with him. And he's becoming more and more involved as the games go along. So I think Isaiah likely will be fine. This is why I said, I remember somebody asked a pre-season prediction for how many yards in touchdowns for Isaiah likely. I said 600 yards. I said 600 yards. But I said maybe a high amount of touchdowns when they start using them in the red zone, if they do. I think I said seven or eight touchdowns, though. So that's a lot. And hey, it could still happen. But yeah, I ain't trippin' off Isaiah. Again, another rookie. Another rookie. I ain't trippin' off of them right now. But we'll see how it goes, man. He said, that's all. He needs to change to 88. Ditch that hideous 80 jersey, hardball needs to go. How you end it off like that? You just throw that in there randomly, that hardball needs to go. All right, next question came from my guy, Darrell. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope all is well. Oh yeah, everything is really good, man. Definitely after that game yesterday, I was thinking we should just trade Tucker for a first round because we never used the man. Oh, okay, I see what you're saying. He's saying, he's saying to take those points. I can't argue it. Like I said, I didn't have a problem with any of the fourth downs that they went for, but I can't argue that point either about taking the points. Well, I can't argue against it. He said, this run game is not it. It's embarrassing at this point. In my opinion, the left side is so weak, specifically Ben Powers. I've been seeing that conversation a lot. I've been seeing that a lot this week or after the game. I've been seeing a lot of people talk about Ben Powers specifically. And again, I just, I didn't believe the Ravens. When they kept propping them up, oh, it's gonna be the starter. He's projected to be in the starting lineup. I just thought they were gonna try to trade them. I really did. I thought it was gonna be Ben Cleveland. But anyway, he said in the defense in the second half, ooh, don't get me started. I know it's still a young season and I have faith the Ravens can get it together. And hopefully they will. It's about just not continuing to be repeat offenders. It's about correcting your mistakes, fixing your issues and you're not gonna have a perfect season. You ain't gonna have no perfect season. It's still gonna be times where they messed up, times where they gave up big plays and whatnot. I mean, we would hope that there wouldn't be, but it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Like I know you don't wanna compare it to last year necessarily, especially with all the injuries and whatnot. But again, with the injuries, they put people in the game who may have less skill than the guys in front of them. But there's still no reason why, because there were times last year. Even though, yeah, you were missing people. There were still times last year when guys were running just wide open, wide open. So it's like, man, what is going on? And that was Wink. Wink was the defense before they left. Wink ain't dead right now. And I know Mike McDonald, he learned a lot from Wink. So hopefully he can. We need to mend and black this thing and go get a pen and make him a race. Everything that he learned from Wink. Next question. Well, it looks like a comment came from Amani. He said, it's interesting how for some of us, it appears a little weird for lefties to throw. This clip is super interesting and gave me a familiar version of quarterback play. Got a credit to him, man. He did a heck of a job against us. And it was the clip that's been going around Twitter where somebody flipped it. We ain't gonna put it on for copyright purposes, but somebody flipped the tour throwing the ball. And so they made it look like he was throwing right-handed because they flipped the video around. And it was pretty cool. And yeah, it just, it did change everything. It did make it look like normal and whatnot. But yeah, shout out to the tour, credit to the tour. I don't know if that was a tour or that was Damarino who was throwing that ball. But yeah, he balled out, did his thing. And he got it to, I mean, a lot of people had questioned and made fun of his arm strength. He got it the way it needed to be though. Especially against the right. He got it the way it needed to be. To Tyree Kill twice, Jalen Waddell. Jalen Waddell was doing a lot of that yak work. A man like, and for Tua like the decision-making was quick. It was accurate. He moved around the pocket. Well, he even had to run out of the pocket. Sometimes he made it happen though. He made it happen. Probably the best play I think from, well, one of the best players, he had a lot of best plays, but one of the best plays from him in that game came when Broderick Washington was pressuring. And it's Broderick Washington and tour one-on-one. I don't expect Broderick Washington to win that matchup. But so Tua did a little spin move and then he was able to refocus it, readjust his eyes, looked to the open receiver, boom, hit him touchdown to 85. Next question, well, I guess really common came from my guy B Jones. He said, tough loss yesterday, but we will bounce back straight like that. And the last question on this episode that came from all the patrons came from my guy Gareth. He said, ain't graven, I really would love to know how you and your family are doing. Hey, we're doing pretty good, man. I appreciate you asking. He said, do you think we need to go and trade for a cornerback? Cause we have a great team. And to go on and make a run for a Super Bowl, I'm so sad at what we watched on Sunday. My daughter had to give me a huge hug and said, go watch engraving channel. LOL, she's so cute. P.S. We will get through this though. Love you, bro. Keep being great. Team Kiwi clean. Oh no, we definitely, we not great at all. But I appreciate you. Shout out to your daughter too. Um, trade for a cornerback. Oh, I mean, they could. They got some free agents out there too. But with a new cornerback really changed much. I mean, it could give you more quality in a secondary, but if you still got guys running wide open, you had the most lockdown corner. And, but if you got guys running wide open, guys going to be running wide open. So I think coaching just really got to take a look in the mirror. They really got to take a look in the mirror and figure out like how to scheme this thing up the right way. And just to have more self-awareness, I would say. More self-awareness of the scheme, of maybe issues with the scheme. Cause even in a jazz game, the jet, those wires, sometimes they're wide open. Especially in the middle of the field in a jazz game. But this game, they were more open on it, the size of the field. But they would just drop, they would drop a lot of passes. They drop significant passes too. And it was like, okay, but anyway. And again, I know this day and age in the field, you're not going to just be this lockdown defense. So it'd be unfair to expect that. But for guys to just consistently be wide open, it's going to happen when guys get open. Cornerback could get beat or whatnot, cornerback might slip, it happens. But for guys to consistently be wide open, especially in clutch time and clutch situations and to have stuff like what happened on Sunday to happen, that's unacceptable. It's unacceptable. And coaches know that, they know that. Like they know like, oh man, that's what I mean. Or they should know that. So yeah, hopefully Ravens just do a lot of adjustments and do fixes. And it's like, does it have to be anything drastic? I just get guys lined up in the right spots, man. And just realizing what's happening more on that field. 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.