 Team keep it clean. The Ravens had a presser today that I myself was extremely interested in. Why? Not because it featured Don Wink, Martindale, the Ravens defensive coordinator, not even because it featured Raven starting center, Bradley Bozeman. And if y'all ever listen to the Juski skips when he does a little country voice, it sounds just like Bradley Bozeman. I just realized that today. But anyway, this presser featured Greg Roman, the Ravens offensive coordinator who has just been under a lot of fire from Ravens fans, from media, from just a lot of people. And I really appreciated that. Every question that we wanted to know was asked today. Now, of course, everything, the only thing that matters now is how you respond in game. Cause talk is talk, but we're gonna start seeing on Sunday. But anyway, let's see what Greg Roman talked about. So it was very interesting to me just how Greg Roman started off the presser because with what he said, you know what, let's just say it. He started off the presser by saying, our guys play 174 plays in four days. So he's talking about how this break was good for him. So in my eyes, that kind, that was like Greg Roman kind of being like, all right, well, this is part of the reason why we just didn't execute good because we had played so many plays in a Vikings game. And then we had to turn around four days later and play the dolphins on Thursday night football. And maybe the guys were just so tired. That's what I got from it. Because again, it's not always what you say is how you say it. And to start off with that, I was like, okay, Giro, I see you big dog. Anyway, he said that Lamar, Lamar was feeling better, but he didn't have an update on him. He also talked about that in the first quote, cover zero. Cover zero, cover zero, cover zero, cover zero. They asked him about it and he said that we've seen it, but we weren't sharp. And he said that they saw a ton of it last game and against the dolphins, of course. And he said that they're getting a lot of full speed work at it, but something else that he said that was very interesting to me. He said that this week, they're getting a lot of full speed work at it. But he said last week, they didn't really get to get that much again when you go from Sunday to Thursday. So he threw that out there like twice in the first like two minutes. He threw it out there twice about that Sunday to Thursday game sort of as a reason why maybe things weren't looking so good. But he did say, if people throw it at you, you have to have an answer. And that was the biggest thing that a lot of us were questioning. Like where was the Ravens answer? This was a question that was asked all game because the dolphins, they were sending it. They were sending it, but the Ravens, they just simply never responded, which was unfortunate, but it is what it is. Now he was also asked about them getting plays in so late. And boy, this is a question that we all have ourselves to like, why? And he said that Lamar is actually pretty good at getting to play in. He said that it's up to him to get the plays in quicker. I said, okay, Giro, taking that accountability for that. All right, cool, cool, cool. Now when he talked about the dolphins game, I did really like this one. He said that that's a straight to DVD performance. So meaning that like, if there was a movie that you knew was coming out, but they were like, we don't think this would do so good in a theater. I don't think many people are gonna wanna watch that. Straight to DVD. Well, nowadays on demand, but we got what you were saying, Giro. He said that there was some uncharacteristic things that happened in that game. Oh, you don't say. Ravens offense, like literally not moving the ball at all. Yeah, that's very uncharacteristic. But the slow start, no, that's in their character this year. It's funny because one of my guys in a video that we put out yesterday about the potential of Devon Duvenay taking some snaps in the backfield and that running back as a scat back and whatnot, them just using him in different ways. He was like, oh man, he's like, Ravens would definitely, this would definitely say identity crisis if Ravens were playing players out of position. And I responded to him, well Ravens, they don't even have an identity right now. They don't have an identity. So anyway, he said, when you have games like that and everybody does, he said, it's all about how you respond. Now again, it's not always about what you say, it's about how you say it, but in this case, it was a mix of both because he was letting it known. He was letting it be known like, hey, I'm not the only one that has a bad game. I'm not the only one, we not the only one to have bad games. It happens to everybody and that is true. It's just like what we say about the players too. Just because a player has one bad game, doesn't make them a bad player. So, okay G-Roll, I see you big though. Anyway, he also talked about how the pass protection is something that they want to constantly get better at. He said the dolphins, now this one, like, this one was frustrating for me, this next part, because he said the dolphins didn't do anything new. He said the dolphins didn't do anything new and said that everything that they did, they've shown on film before. So when he said that, that was frustrating for me because it's like, okay, if dolphins didn't do anything new, if this whole cover zero and all that blitz talk, if that wasn't anything new, then how come? And again, he said that they didn't do anything new and everything that they did, they've shown on film before. If that's the case, why did, no answer for it all, no answer, running back one more time, no answer for it all game, I couldn't get with that part. Like, if he would have been like, if he would have been like, all right, dolphins, they did some stuff that they had never done on film before in this game. Okay, cool. But if you're coming out and saying that, and the way he said it, it wasn't anything new. It wasn't anything new that they did. Everything that they did, they've shown on film before. If that was the case, how come ravens, they have nothing for it? Literally nothing. See, this has been a big problem with the ravens. Now, overall, the adjusting has been better because they've been adjusting in the second half a lot, more times than none. But the late adjusting, and in this game, the no adjusting, but it's the late adjusting that has been a frustration in the slow starts, but we're not done. We ain't done talking about slow starts because Giro wasn't done either. He was also asked about, oh, real quick, he said they'll definitely see that defense again, like from other teams, like the cover zero and all that, the way that the dolphins played the ravens. And he said that it's what the ravens do from here moving forward that matters. And that's true. That's true. You're six and three right now. All right, you lost to the dolphins, okay. The way you lost to the dolphins was a big yikes, but okay, you lost. Now it's about the bounce back game. So he was asked about Tyson Williams getting more carries and Nate McCrary too. I said, oh, who was that reporter that said that? These reporters been bringing up our boy Tyson a whole lot and I love it. I love it. But when he was asked about those two, he brought up Levy on bail. He brought up Levy on bail and said how well, he talked about how well Levy on bail did. And if y'all caught it, it was kind of weird to me because the way he spoke about Levy on bail was like Levy on bail is still with the team. Like he didn't even take a flight back home or something. That's the way I got. And then he said that, oh, he could possibly get more opportunities in the future. It was just, that part was really weird to me. I don't know if any of y'all that watched that part and saw it, like if y'all got the same vibe, but that's what I got for it. The way he spoke, it sounded like Levy on bail was right there in the facility. But anyway, and then with Tyson, he was like, oh, with Tyson with the name McCreary. He didn't mention it by name, but he was like, oh yeah, those are the guys' options too. So to get that little generalized answer. So don't know what to expect. So we'll see. Excuse me, he said, do you really? Oh, cause this was one of my favorite parts. Like when Mark Andrews talked about it, yes, it's almost like this back and forth type of thing. What Mark Andrews told y'all in the presser yesterday when Mark, and it was in our video that we put up earlier today. In the presser yesterday when Mark Andrews talked about, when he was asked about the no huddle, you saw him sort of getting giddy. You saw him like laughing and stuff and smiling. And you could tell it was, it's something that he would love to do. You could tell. But then he was like, we have full confidence in Greg Roman. So he kind of stopped any like, cause you know Greg Roman, they don't really run a no huddle like that. That's not their thing. Until it's like late in the game and they really need something before the two minute war. I mean, before the halftime too, but it's just, it's not something that they do. But when he talked about it, you could tell Mark Engel. I mean, not Mark Engel, yikes. Mark Andrews would love it. But again, he kept the peace, which is good. And he was like, but we had full confidence in Giro. So Mark Andrews almost did a little deflection himself. He was like, oh, we have full confidence in Giro. So then when Giro was asked about it today, he said, do you really want to run your best runs early on in the game? Or do you want to wear the other team down a bit? And then this part he said, do you want to run no huddle early in the game? Or do you want to wear the defense down a bit? So he shut that no huddle talk down. He shut that early no huddle talk down. He shut that early up tempo talk down. And Giro was defending himself in the way that he runs this offense. So I put it on Twitter, I said, I respect Giro for how he's defending himself. I respect that. But he did say some very, some questionable things. Again, my biggest thing in this presser today was when he said everything that the Dolphins did was nothing new and it's all on film. They've seen it on film before. That was my biggest problem with this whole thing. Because again, if you've seen it before, then what happened? Anyway, I did not catch Bradley Bozeman's part. Bradley Bozeman's part, I was editing some questions from subscribers and working on some other stuff in the background. So I listened, but I didn't really listen. But I did catch Wink. And Wink was talking about with Justin Fields. He said, mobile quarterbacks, they are the way of the NFL now. They are the way. He said, Fields has a tremendous talent. He can throw the ball really well and has nice velocity. And he actually said, he'll be one of the guys that you'll be talking about in Super Bowls. I said, okay now Wink, high praise. I know what y'all do though. I know these coaches, they like playing mind games. They like to build the other teams up so they can try to tear them down. Anyway, he said with the mental mistakes, because somebody asked him how do they correct the mental mistakes? He said, work, work. Straight up like that. And he said with the mistakes, he said it's not even that it's repeat mistakes. And it's like my God, Josh Hoffman brought up a really good point yesterday on Twitter. He talked about how with a lot of Ravens fans, like there's a lot of people whether it be on Twitter or on YouTube, on this and that. Some people will be like, you fans, fans don't know more than the coaches do. You guys are just armchair GMs. And nobody ever says that the fans know more than the coaches. Well, some fans will say that when they get really upset. But just because a fan has an opinion on something, it does not make their opinion wrong. And it does not supersede the coaches' opinion. Well, obviously it doesn't because the coaches, the coach, they're on the team. But people, they gotta stop discrediting what a lot of fans say. Because fans, a lot of times you all see stuff that's clear as day. Obviously we're not in the meeting rooms. We're not at practice. Well, some of y'all are because y'all got the media passes and all that. But a lot of us are not in the film room. We're not in practice. We're not behind the scenes. So we don't know everything that goes into the game plan and whatnot. What goes on is the stuff we don't see. We don't know about that. But at the same time, a lot of y'all know football. A lot of y'all understand football. And a lot of you can see some stuff that is just clear as day when we watch the games. Some things that the Ravens should do. Some things that maybe the Ravens shouldn't do. And we all have our opinions on it. But something that my guy Josh was saying yesterday was like, man, fans have really been on it when it's come to the Ravens recently. They have really been on it. And it's stuff that has ended up coming to fruition with the Ravens. So with that being said, y'all keep on bringing that heat. Y'all keep on letting it be known how you feel about this and that and the third. Because a lot of times, again, it makes sense. It makes sense. And real quick, do not let anybody discount your opinion just because you don't work for the Ravens. Don't do that. I hate when people do that when they say, oh, your opinion means nothing. Oh man, Ravens would never do that. What you're saying, though, who cares? You don't know what you're talking about. Just like, no, everybody got their own opinion, which they should. Now, some of the stuff that he mentioned was, he said, what the fans have been saying for the longest and the Ravens have just started doing it and they see that it's working. He said, get a serious vet wide receiver. And he said it ended up happening like two years late. It should have happened earlier in Lamar's career, but it happened two years late with Sammy Watkins. And then he also said, let Freeman get more carries. And you see, when he's been getting more carries, he's been doing more damage. Instead of them just sharing it, here, you get some. Here, even though it was leaving on bail, they were force feeding that guy. They were really, because again, I know they were just trying to make it. They really wanted it to work. And I understand that, but it just wasn't. He said, let Orlando Brown start at right tackle. And he said that was four weeks late and only because of injury. And we remember that his rookie season. We were all, oh, Orlando Brown needs to be the starter. He needs to be the starter. And I remember it was so funny. I remember one guy specifically in the comment section. I don't remember what his name was because he's long gone and blocked by now, but he used to tell me in videos back then when Orlando Brown was a rookie. So back in 2019, no, 18, no, 19, 18, 18, 18, 18. In 2018, he was like, man, what are you talking about? Why do you think Orlando Brown Jr. should be the starter? The Ravens coaches, they know what they're talking about. A lot more than you do. That's it. Or you are just some guy on YouTube. You don't know what you're talking about, man. And he used to say this every single week. Every single time I would talk about it, he'd say the same thing. And then when James, James heard struggle now, he wasn't the worst, but James heard struggle. And then unfortunately he got hurt. So then they inserted Orlando Brown Jr. to the starting lineup and look what happened. He did a phenomenal job. And that guy was long gone after that. Anyway, he also talked about letting Dobbins and Gus get the carries. And we remember last season, we were all saying that, like, why are y'all force feeding this thing of Mark Ingram? Mark Ingram is obviously the weak link, unfortunately. And Gus and JK, when they touching the ball, they moving. They moving. But when Mark Ingram gets the ball, it's like, oh, everything's sold out. And maybe he wasn't fully healthy last year. Maybe he wasn't fully healthy. But it just, we saw that with the Ravens, they were trying to make everybody happy, keep everybody happy. And us fans were saying, no, don't do that. But then when they finally stopped doing it, guess what happened? Run Gang took off. So another thing, stop blitzing my homes all the time. He said, one or two years late. And with that, whenever we would play my homes, they always show that graphic. Oh, my homes is, he has like 12 touchdowns and no interceptions against the blitz this year. My homes has like 95 QBR against the blitz this year. So we were all thinking, okay, how about we cut back on the blitz into my homes? And then even in the games, they tried a little bit. Okay, I understand you want to try a little bit. It's not working. Let's take it back, scale it back. But no, the Ravens would keep blitzing everybody in my homes. They would send Marlon Humphrey, they send Marcus Peters, they're like, why you putting your best corner, why you sending your best corner backs to blitz my homes and you keeping all these other guys on an island, ah, come on. And my homes would burn them every time. But then finally this year, finally this, finally this year, they said, nope. And they showed that blueprint. And so many teams have just not been blitzing my homes and they've been having a lot of success against the chiefs. So Ravens fans, they, y'all are smart and y'all are on it. So shout out to y'all. Now back to Wink. He talked about how to mistakes on defense. The mistake that the Ravens have been making, they haven't been repeat mistakes. He said they've been new ones. Cause he talked about, first it was attack and this is everything that we were saying too. He said, first it was the tackling. But he said, okay, then they fixed that. But then it was mental mistakes. So again, said it's just gonna take work to get that fixed. He talked about how Justin Ellis, Jelly, he's been a stud. I don't know why I got the hiccups now. And he said he's happy for him. And with Wink, you could definitely see how he is just such a player's coach. You could tell like, and you always heard about how the guys, they love Wink. Like you always hear about that a lot. How they just love Wink. You hear that a lot with hardball too. But you hear it a lot with Wink, like defensive guys, like even when they were leaving, they always high praises for Wink. But you could hear that like when he speaks, how he speaks and you could really tell like, he loves him some football, man. And he loves some defense. Like just, yeah. So anyway, he talked about Kalea's Campbell, how he's playing at a pro bowl level again. He sort of echoed John Hardball's comments from yesterday on Kalea's Campbell. And he said it's nice to have someone you can count on day in and day out. Agreed. And he was asked how he balances the defense or how he balances when the defense plays well in certain spots. Like when they do a good job, it's like, okay. Versus how they play bad and others. And he's like, oh, okay. But he said those are conversations that have to be had. He said he has to have those talks. He said, it's not easy conversations but you have to have them and that's true. You do. As much as you're gonna let somebody know, hey, you do a great job at that. You do a phenomenal job at that. Oh man, you're so good at that. Oh man, this is really, you do this really well. You also need to let them know what they don't do so well. It has to be balance. It can't just be all praises and oh man, everything's so great. And it also can't be oh man, you just terrible at everything. Wow. No, it should be balance and respectfully balance. So shout out to Wing for that. And then it was pretty short. I know we were talking for a while. We were probably talking longer than Wing was, but Wing's, his part of the press was pretty short. And then once they were like, they had no more questions, he said, oh, you guys are nice. So this was a very, like I said, a very interesting press. I mean, Raven's always keep it interesting for the most part with these presses. But it was nice to hear directly, directly from the leader of the coordination of offense and the leader of the coordination of defense. So now against the bears, it's time to see how these guys respond. Team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. I love y'all so much. Thank you so much for listening and thank you for supporting. Shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. Appreciate y'all showing extra support. 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, that's fine too. Don't feel bad. Don't know why I still love you. Team Keep It Clean, we got a lot. 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