 First question came from my guy Nazarene. He said, hey, what's good, bro? As a critic of your takes, okay, I like that. And your fellow Ravens fan, now I'm just showing love and I appreciate you for your consistency. It's the boring off-season and you make it fun no matter what. Hey, man, thank you for that, I appreciate that. Thank you, man. So look, I have a solution. Me and some other Ravens fans were beefing. What's new? About my take on Anquan Bolton because I said he was the number two receiver when we got him. Now, before we go further, technically you're right, but he was the number two receiver only because the Cardinals also had Larry Fitzgerald. But it's all about the situation. The situation with him and the Ravens, he was the number one. He gave them exactly what they needed as the top target for Joe Flacco. He became the number one at the Ravens, but with the Cardinals, he was the number two. So two things can be right. Even though, you know, when people say that, that's so annoying. Oh, well, two things can be right. Anyway, and the conversation started off rocky, but at the end, a lot of knowledge was shared. Someone pointed out how Baltimore's version of Anquan wasn't the same as Arizona or even San Fran's Anquan that he wasn't all that with us. Hmm, I disagree to an extent because with the Ravens, Anquan Bowden, he wasn't gonna get the same numbers that he was getting with the Cardinals, but he was perfect for what the Ravens did. He was perfect for what the Ravens needed. They needed that reliable go-to on third down the reliable guy who not the tallest in the world, but Joe Flacco could throw the ball up and he would go get it. He would go get it. And they were like, Hey, y'all know Flacco's my guy, man, but there'll be some times when Flacco would just be like, man, just launch it up, whether it be the Tory Smith, hope to get that pass interference, like, oh man, they perfected that, man. They perfected that. We gotta get Lamar and Hollywood to get on that, man. But you know, Ravens, they don't really get no pass interference calls anyway. But man, and then with Bowden, there'll be times when Bowden would save a lot of them. Anyway, let's keep it moving. He said, someone pointed out how Baltimore's version of Anquan wasn't the same as Arizona or even San Fran's Anquan, and that he wasn't all that with us. They used stats and stuff to make the point, and I agreed after seeing the stats. My whole point was that the Ravens don't need a proven number one receiver, but an emerging number one, who is the number two with another team? Landry isn't the number one in my eyes, but you plug him in with Hollywood, Bateman, and the rest of the gang, we would have an Anquan Bowden type of presence again, and I think he's cheap to be honest. Landry would be straight. I don't feel like he's an emerging number one. He would be straight. Yeah, he'd be straight. I would just look for somebody a bit more explosive. I wouldn't be mad if they got Landry, but I would just rather somebody with more explosiveness. But anyway, he said, yeah, Landry isn't the number one, but if you plug him in with Hollywood, Bateman, and the rest of the gang, we would have an Anquan Bowden type of presence again, and I think he's cheap. What do you think? I would even look at Julio. No, he's not a number two. I know because Watkins did some good damage with us this past season, even though he was kind of injured the whole season. Julio won't get that crazy money anymore, so I think we signed him with Landry or O'Dell. The money that we was gonna give Bobby Wagner is definitely enough to get what you and other Ravens fans want. That's my solution. By the way, I think Bateman is elite. He's a chain mover. He does elite things 90% of the time. He was given a chance. Peace and blessings. Woo, it's a loaded one right here to start us off, but the perfect wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. Sounds like that's what you're trying to describe and hoping that they get. Now, Julio, the Ravens signing Julio would be a very Ravens move, but it seems like Eric D'Costa has been slowly trying to get away from that. Signing the older washed up receivers. It seems that maybe, even though he did sign this, right? So, whoa, but, and as far as Sammy, Sammy wasn't, I mean, he wasn't older. It seemed like he was older. Like a lot of us last year, when we found out that he was 27, I was like, what? Sammy Watkins, 27? But Julio Jones, again, I said this before, I wouldn't mind Julio Jones, but only if he could be like their third or fourth option. I would, if they got a Julio Jones, I would want them to trade for an up and coming guy. Like you said, or they draft a guy early. They draft the receiver early. Second round at the latest, at the absolute latest. First or second round, it cannot be any later because if they don't draft them in the first or second round, the investment won't be there. They won't care about them. They won't work with them. They won't put them on the field that much. It'd just be doing special to, again, recent third and after guys, Devin Duvenay, Miles Boykin, James Proshe, Tyler and Wally. And Tyler and Wally, his situation was a little tougher than the rest of them, but look at the rest of them. So, I just, again, Landry would be straight. But I just wouldn't want that to be it. I wouldn't want that to be it. I would want them to do more. Speaking of receivers, next question came from my guy, Cody, he said, engraving with Sammy Watkins signing with the Packers, does that make it more likely that we take a receiver in the first round? No, it doesn't. I don't think Sammy Watkins, him signing with the Packers has, I think it has zero impact on the Ravens whatsoever. We knew that Sammy Watkins wasn't coming back. All indications were that Sammy Watkins wasn't coming back. So, nothing that happened with him has any impact on the Ravens whatsoever. I know a lot of people, they've been saying, oh man, it's Bateman's time now. And then somebody was responding to that. They're like, uh, no, it's actually Patrick Ricard's time at Wyris. Anyway, man, Sammy, being a Green Bay Packer, has no bearing on the Ravens whatsoever. He said, I feel like we have way more prominent needs and free agency would suffice, but I wouldn't be exactly opposed to us drafting an exciting new receiver. And as always, I hope you're doing well. Hey, I appreciate you, Cody. I wouldn't be opposed to it either. But I don't think Sammy Watkins, I don't think he changes anything as far as free agency to draft whatsoever. Next question came from my guy, Ma, and he said, if you could trade two firsts, a second and a third for any one player in the league, except quarterback, who would it be from? I would choose Nick Bosa or AJ Brown. Two firsts and a second and a third. Boy, if you trading that for somebody, boy, they better be on point. They better be right. They better be a game changer. Give me the Andre Hopkins. Next question came from my guy, Phil. He said, I understand a lot of fans want to see a trade for a wide receiver, like Scary Terry, Debo Samuel, DK Metcalf, which Lamar recruited on social media. And I would love to see it happen also. But my main question is, does everyone understand? And I know all three only have one year left on their rookie contracts. Well, once 2023 free agency comes around, the contracts of Lamar and Jews, and either one of those receivers will cost around a combined 80 to 85 mil, which means the front office will probably have to give up Brown's 15 mil, fifth year option. I know the cap is supposed to rise around 20 mil next season, but you can't afford to pay 100 mil between four players and then try to fit 49 other roster players within 130 mil. What are your thoughts on it if you get my point? So you are saying that fans, that we want a wide receiver and a wide receiver that's going into the last year, the last years of his rookie contracts. So you are saying that he will have to be paid. My thoughts on that, Ravens do it on defense. They could do it on offense now. They can shift. It will be a philosophy shift because Ravens, they will be quick to give out the bread on defense. They'll be quick to spend it on defense. Why not take that same philosophy but just switch it to the side of the ball that scores? It makes sense to me, and I think it makes sense to a lot of other people too. But, and that's the thing. I know a lot of Ravens fans, they think that way like, oh, no, it's not worth it. Ravens shouldn't do it. These guys got contracts coming up. You gotta pay people. You gotta pay them like you mentioned, you gotta pay Lamar, Hollywood's up, Andrew's still getting paid. And with a lot of these receivers, you would have to end up paying whoever you traded for too. They wouldn't necessarily have to pay them. I mean, we would want them. I would want them to pay them, especially if they came on and they look good. But, see, this is why you have that trial period. Yeah, you give up whatever assets for whatever receiver. And depending on who it is, you may have to give up a little more. Sometimes you may have to give up a little bit less. But you give them that trial period. Hey, if it works, it works. If it doesn't work, hey, you try it. But hopefully it will work. So hopefully you could be in a situation where it's like, damn, we gotta pay this guy because he helped us out so much. We still gotta keep Hollywood because he helps us out so much. Obviously gotta keep Lamar because he is everything. And then Mark Andrews, he already got his bread. So I don't have a problem that it could be a potential problem with having receivers that you have to pay. Because if you feel like you have to pay them, then that means that you played them and they did well for you. You know what? We didn't even do the intro. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Got him made it. Boy, that's my homie. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of Question From Souls, where you can ask me any question and we answer it in a video just like this. If you wanna be a part of it, for the patrons, you can send your question directly on Patreon. If you wanna become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravingvids. And if you don't want to, then you can just send your question on teamkeepitclean at gmail.com. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all so much. I thank you so much for supporting. I thank you for all the positive messages. I thank you for all the great fun questions like always. Thank you for always bringing a different perspective. Even if you agree with the stuff that I say, if you don't agree with stuff that I say, it's fine. But I always appreciate you all's different perspectives on whatever it is that we're talking about. Thank you for shedding a different light on different subjects. Thank you for providing a different point of view. Thank you for coming with this like outlandish stuff that nobody was even thinking about. Cause we appreciate it. I appreciate it. I love when y'all bring stuff that nobody was thinking about and y'all presented because that makes it so much fun. We got some great questions. We got some crazy questions. We got some fun questions. Let's get to them. Next question came from Z. What's up in Graven? I hope everything's going well with you and the fam. I had a quick question. How would you feel if the Ravens got a little creative and ran a 4-3 defense and make a few trades? Here are a few examples. Ravens trade the round 300 pick and round 696 pick. I can't even talk for charges. Jerry Tillery or Eagles, Josh Sweat. Oh, example. Left end would be Adolfi away. Defensive tackle, Michael Pierce. Defensive tackle, Khaledis Campbell. And they're right in Jerry or Josh or somebody who they could end up drafting too. That's another possibility. I think they will do a bit of that. I think they will. Shout out to my guy JT because he pointed me to an article about Michael Pierce and the fact that with him being released, he said that when he did get released, he wanted to play for a team that would run the 4-3 a bit more. That's more his style. And then what did he end up signing with the Ravens? So will that be a tell of what they're gonna run soon? We'll see. Next question came from my boy Antwin. He said, hope you and yours are well. Is it me or does the media seem to want the Ravens to trade big trust Lamar Jackson? The guy they say is not a quarterback and he can't throw. Am I the only one to catch it? No, you're not. Definitely not. I think with the media, they want something because Lamar's not giving them anything. And when you don't have an agent, they will try to spin whatever narrative on you because they don't have one. They don't have any leaks. They don't have any sources. They don't have anything. So it drives them crazy. So that's why you hear all this crazy stuff that comes from this person, that person, that person. And I love how Rich Eisen put it in the interview that he did with Harbaugh when he talked about Lamar Jackson. He said, it's not a you thing. In regards to Lamar Jackson, he said it's a me thing and me regarding the media because there's never been anything like this that's happened before. So since this is new territory for them, they don't know how to act with it. That's why everybody's been going crazy. Next question came from drumdrum. He said, I have loved all the content you've been putting out since I found your channel after week 18. Oh yeah, week 18, I'm still getting used to hearing that because it's so weird because we used 17 weeks for so long but I appreciate you. So shout out to the NFL for providing that extra week because that put drumdrum onto the channel. So thank you NFL. Anyway, he said, I love coming home, playing Madden and listening to your videos. Yeah, some of them be even longer than a Madden game. You can put it on 15 minute quarters and you still be on the same video. Anyway, this is my first question submission and I hope it makes a video. If the Ravens were to trade for DK Metcalf and Huntley was included in the trade, what would the Ravens do for backup after John Harbaugh's comments about not drafting a quarterback? Would they sign an undrafted quarterback or pick up some random quarterback and free agency or go back on his word? I know this question relies on the DK trade actually happening but I would like to get your thoughts. That would be interesting if they did that. I think that that could, if they traded Tyler Huntley, that could obviously change some of their plans as far as drafting a quarterback. They could take one late like fifth, sixth, seventh round, something like that. And I don't even think they have a seventh round pick right now, but they could obviously trade back get some more picks and da, da, da, da. They could sign, there's always Kenji Bahar because he's old reliable. Trace McStorley, I'm not sure what his status is. Oh, he's still on his rookie deal though, so never mind, no trace. Cause he got drafted in I think 2019, but they would have options. Again, you can sign an undrafted, God, there's that option too. Tyler Huntley was undrafted. You could sign a Cam Newton. Cause I know, and I think with Cam Newton, oh, I'm over here kicking my mic. That was an accident. My mic wasn't feeling that idea too much. You have options. I'm trying to think who else is out there as a backup. I can't think of nobody else off the top of my head, but I don't think it would be like this crazy thing where Ravens are like tripping out anything to get a backup quarterback. They'd be able to find somebody, but I'm sure it would be somebody that could move. It ain't gonna be no statue quarterback. It's gonna be had to be somebody that can move a little bit. They could use that on, but they could also use them legs too. Just to be the backup for Lamar Justin Case. Next question came from my guy Matthew. He said, hey, how's it going? Hope all is well with Junior Family. Sorry if this message is a little long. I can't help but notice JC Treader, unless I'm mistaken, is still available in free agency. He is, and I don't think the Ravens are gonna sign him, but let's keep going. He said, I think he'll stay a free agent until after the draft for teams to see what they can get, which works out for the Ravens because I believe we could possibly be in another Vian Waiver situation. Hopefully you're talking about just being able to sign somebody after the draft and not the quality of their play. Anyway, and with the AFC North rival, wants to get their get back at their team. And if the market says Lamar doesn't attract wide receivers, which to be honest makes very little sense, like one-on-ones galore due to needing full 1111 on football to account for Lamar. But anyway, he definitely attracts Lyman. I feel like this could be a possibility at center and really see Patrick McCary is paid extra. The same reason Pat Ricardo was signed extra because they love extra blockers and he might be the contingency plan for Ronnie if he's not ready. That's a good point too. That's a really good point. Patrick McCary could be just that too. I do believe he'll be the Ravens starting center, but the way Eric D'Costa was talking, he made it sound like he gone draft Tyler Lindenbaum because he was like, yeah, there's some centers that we really like in the later rounds. Oh yeah, okay, I don't believe you will see though. But Patrick McCary, he could be that just, that ultimate backup plan, that ultimate option. Now hopefully Ronnie Stanley comes back healthy, but again, stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. Maybe they try Patrick McCary at left tackle. Morgan Moses, you got Joanne James. Hopefully you'll have Ronnie Stanley, but yeah, let's just keep going on first. He said, I think JC Trader might be one of those where we want you, but we want our Compex first type guys. Now, Ravens ain't getting no Compex this year. Compex is out the window this year. They are getting zero. You see all these Ravens signing all these one year deals, these one year cheap deals? Ravens ain't getting no Compex with nobody this year. But he said, if we do get them, I hope the comparison ends at the signing because we all know Villanueva still was playing for the Steelers and all those first down and momentum builders, he stopped, let alone leaving Lamar out to the Wolves. Let me know your thoughts and keep up the great work and go Ravens. Appreciate you, Matthew. Yeah, I don't think they're gonna sign JC Trader. I wouldn't be mad if they did. I wouldn't be mad at all. But I just, I don't think he's gonna go down. Next question came from my guy, Jake. He said, hope you and the family are doing well. Also hope the viewers are well. Hey, appreciate that. I've been saying, excuse me, I've been having this huge obsession of trading up this year. This is based on the fact that the Ravens have so many picks. I want the Ravens to get into the top six and get tippet-o. He idolized Ray Lewis and said, I'd love to be a Raven. I know this isn't Ravens like at all. Yeah, you're right. But I want them to make a big move, making a statement and showing the Ravens aren't messing around anymore. What do you think? Oh yeah, that is not a Ravens move at all, but it would be moving up for a defensive player. So that would be a Ravens move. It would give somebody opposite Adafi away. A game changer on defense. And as long as they got that interior right, and maybe this could be Mada Bique's year where he steps up Michael Pierce of Kalea's Campbell. So you got some solid guys in the middle. You're just waiting for that guy and the guy who's really gonna get after and provide that interior pressure. And like I said, maybe this is Mada Bique's year where, cause you know Kalea's Campbell, he ain't gonna be out on the field 24-7. Mada Bique gonna have his opportunities, but how are they gonna do that rotation? Are they gonna really let guys get into a rhythm? Are they gonna be doing flip flopping rotation just to try to keep guys extra fresh? I just wonder how that's gonna go. But I wouldn't be mad if they did this. Now to move from 14 to six, that's eight spots. That's, oh yeah, I had to make sure my math was right. That's eight spots up in the first round. That's a lot. Now, if all it took was a couple of them fourth round picks or something, okay, cool, whatever. But that could take a lot, that could take a lot, man. Cause you ain't moving one spot. You moving eight spots into, ooh, ooh, ooh. Oh, and you said into the top six. You didn't even say it's six. You said the top six. So that's one through six. So yeah, that could take even more. Now as far as him saying he idolized Ray Lewis and he loves to be a Raven, he would love to go anywhere, really. He would just love to get drafted. He's gonna love wherever he goes. Of course, you probably got some preferences and whatnot. But I did see that interview that he did where he was sitting at the table and talking about the, I think, wasn't Ray Lewis there? I think Ray Lewis was there. But I mean, I don't really, really, not that I don't buy and talk that, but I don't really get all super hyped off of that. Like, it's like, I remember Michael Crabtree when the Raven signed Michael Crabtree back in 2018. And he was like, oh man, it was always my dream to play for the Ravens. And I'm like, okay, yeah. All right. And when people say stuff like that, it's cool, but I don't really think it means much. I remember, was it last year or the year before last? There was some past Russia. I forgot who he was. And he was working out and he had on like a Raven shirt. And everybody was like, oh, we might draft him, we gonna draft him, oh, it's Destiny. Yeah, okay. It doesn't mean much to me at least, but they got him, that'd be cool though. That'd be cool. Will he be drafted that high? Ooh, we gonna see. Draft only a couple of weeks away. But, oh, speaking of away. Away, because again, this would impact away. All of our edge guys, all of our edge past Russia's guys, they all coming off an injury, something more significant than others. They either coming off an injury or they gone. Adolfi away coming off an injury. Panemik Fee gone, Justin Euston gone, Tyus Bowser coming off an injury. Jaylen Ferguson, I have question marks there. So I just, I'm not sure that he's even gonna be on the team. So I don't know, man, I don't know what happened with that. I don't know what happened with Jaylen Ferguson. It's like this guy leads college in sex, leads the NCAA in sex, and it's like, what happened? Did the Ravens just mess up on Jaylen Ferguson or what happened there? Cause I initially, usually when, oh man, he was terrible, he was this, he was that. But then I think like, hold up now. Did the Ravens just slip up? Did they not play him to his full potential? Did they not put him in positions to succeed? I don't know, cause it's, it's weird. You don't just go from balling out in college and then you get to the pros and it's like, ooh, yikes. So I don't know, man, it's just something to think about. But as far as KT, yeah, I wouldn't be mad if the Ravens got him. Cause it would be an immediate help to an area where you've been lacking consistency at for a while. Next question came from my guy, Cage. He said, A, engraving hope everything as well. It's my first time sending the question. So I've been thinking recently, since all of the free agents that left us recently only got small one year deals. This means that we most likely won't get any compics next year, correct? At first I was disappointed, then it just hit me. Shout out to Will Smith. If we don't have any compics, then what will stop us from signing big name free agents next year if we have no picks to lose? Just something to think about. Well, actually this year, that will be this year because with the compic formula, it's based off of any players that qualify for compics, like the way that it works. Say for instance, Bradley Bozeman, if he signed a big deal and it qualified the Ravens for like a third or fourth round compic, but if they signed somebody to a big deal like Marcus Williams, that signing will cancel out the compic that they would have gotten for Bradley Bozeman. But if they didn't sign a Marcus Williams and Bradley Bozeman got signed by somebody else to a big deal, then they would get the compic for Bradley Bozeman unless they signed somebody before the compic period ended. So the compic, you get it next year, but it's all about what happens this year. It's all about what happens this off season. And then next year's off season will impact the following year's compics. So bottom line, they ain't getting none this year. Ain't none of those little small deals that these Ravens free agents got, none of them are qualifying for no compic. So the only thing stopping the Ravens from signing a big free agent is the Ravens. Our next question came from my guy, Hoodie Cammy. He said, ain't Raven, how's the fam? We should push for Debo or DK or even AJ Brown. Ooh, ooh, ooh, like DK or AJ Brown, I would love either one. Debo don't know, not at all. He said, the Ravens need that trust, that number one guy, and I think Debo should come because he's a good fit. He did it all last season. Just imagine if we put Debo and running back, the Ravens would be a problem. But what you thinking? Nope, I'm a no for Debo. Not because he's not a good player because he's a great, phenomenal player. Difference maker on offense, but I just feel like if the Ravens would get him, G-Roll would overthink everything with him. He would overthink and overcomplicate everything. I would much rather a more traditional wide receiver, like a DK Metcalf, not a weapon guy like Debo Samuel. Debo Samuel with the right offensive coordinator. Oh my goodness, amazing. But not, Greg Roman, I just feel like he would be trying to do too much. He already tries to do too much with Lamar Jackson. With Devon Duvenay, they don't know what they're doing with him. That's all they do with him is Jet Sweeps. That's it, he's a Jet Sweep King. That's all they do with him. So that's why I would much rather a traditional wide receiver. Like you mentioned AJ Brown, you mentioned DK Metcalf. I would much rather somebody like that rather than a guy who's a baller now. Again, Debo Samuel is nice, nice. But Ravens and they would just overcomplicate everything. Next question came from my guy Quentin. He said, Aang, do you think the Ravens would draft the linebacker in the first round? If so, who do you think would be best? I think Devin Lloyd. And he's somebody that can play literally everywhere. Every linebacker's about Mike, Sam, Will, everything. Do I think they would do it? It could be a sneaky pick, but I don't think they would. Yeah, I don't think they would. They have, they got some options at linebacker now. And obviously with Josh Bynes, he's not the future. With Patrick Queen, I think the Ravens, they wanted him to be the future, but right now he's not their future. Well, he is technically in their future plans, but I don't think he's their long-term answer for the future. And this year, oh, this year's gonna be big for him because after this season, then they'll have the option to pick up his fifth year. So that's gonna be something. So he, a lot of pressure on Patrick Queen, man. You still got Malik Harrison there. So that's somebody who could possibly step up too and get it. And Ravens, like the thing with them, they'll give their linebackers a shot. They, it don't matter what round you was drafted in, even if you undrafted. If you show you could play, you will get a shot. Guarantee it, it never fails. And that's rounds one through seven. And if you wasn't even drafted, you can get a shot. You show out in training camp and pre-season and all that. Oh, yeah. They gonna find you a spot on the roster if you like that. So they, as far as the first round, I don't think it happens, but I don't even think it needs to.