 Why has Hollywood Brown been struggling so much? Is Greg Roman on the hot seat? Will the Ravens end up signing a number one receiver before they re-sign Lamar Jackson? These and many, many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. YouTube Team Keep It Clean, what's going on, it's Singraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answered in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL Questions from Subscribers, then you can just send me an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com and hopefully your question will be one of the best of the best that we pick for that week. Before we get into this episode, I gotta give a huge shout out to my guy Ben W89. He was the winner of Flick Picks. It's a fantasy contest that we had in our group chat, our RavensFlock group chat on the Flick app. Y'all make sure y'all join that. The link is down below in the description and y'all see it before every video too. So I'll be trying to put y'all on, but it's unbeaten. Shout out to my guy Ben W. And another thing real quick, I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all for supporting the channel. Thank to anybody that's ever donated on PayPal, on Venmo, on Cash App, the SuperChats. Anybody that's subscribed, if you're new here, if you're old here, if you're new, thank you for giving us an opportunity to talk football with you. If you're old here, thank you for continuing to give us an opportunity to talk football with you and thank you for listening. Thank you for being a part of Team Keep It Clean. Just thank y'all for rocking with us. We got some really good questions, as we always do, because y'all always bring it. Let's do it. First question came from my guy Tay Dome. He said, what's good, fam? I've been watching, but haven't sent nothing in a minute. The last email I had to do with my son being gone, but you sent me something that I have read every day since that. And thanks for that. Hey, ain't nothing, man. Ain't nothing. I just, I appreciate you, man. Straight up, man. And he said, well, listen, honor something else for the team. Do you think Ray Lewis just needs to come on and put his madden speech on and don't say nothing? Just to give us some motivation. I just looked at it and I feel it myself. I believe the team is good. Even though we haven't looked as good as we can, we're good. Sorry for the long email and I know you're going to say it's all good, but that speech will do wonders. Rest in peace to Kwan. Y'all be safe. You and the fam and let's keep it clean. I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you a lot, man. And I'll get up with you again. But for Ray Lewis, somebody actually suggested that too. If Ray Lewis could come and give a speech to the team for motivation, he could. It wouldn't hurt, but I feel like a Ray Lewis speech, it could only go so far. But I mean, it could if one of the greatest ravens of all time, I mean, really the greatest raven of all time came and spoke to the team. It could put them on notice and it could make them feel even more accountable because it's like, OK, you got a legend talking to you about your season right now, a legend. And I know my God, Nitro, he said it in another video. He was like, man, if Ray Lewis did that, then he'll be on TV, taking on a credit if the ravens end up winning the game that he gave the speech prior to him. But I would I would be willing to take that take Ray Lewis doing all his talking if if the ravens ended up winning the game. I would be willing to put up with that. But no, it couldn't it couldn't hurt. It couldn't hurt. And it could really just give them a little boost in the right direction because, you know, right now they need all the boost they can get even though they six and three, they six and three. So they ain't like they just losers and it ain't like they getting blown out in all these games. They've been blown out in one game against the chiefs. But besides that, a couple of players away from being eight and one. Obviously not eight and one, but there are a couple of players away from being that. So they'll be fine. Next question came from a boy, Michael A. He said, what's good engraving? Huge fan of the channel tune into it all the time. So I'll get straight to it. Do you feel like Hollywood is a bus? It seems like he can't get separation from DBS. So do you blame the coaching staff? With that being said, Snead and Duvenay went on in seem to be making place. I don't think Hollywood is a bus. No, I think it's way too early. It's literally his second year. It's his second year. And I know fans, they can they can just start like almost talking regularly if things are not going so good for a particular player. Now, I know one thing that has a lot to do with it was a tweet. It was a tweet because boy, that one, once he put that tweet out there, he tried to delete it, but the Internet, once it's on the Internet, it's on there forever. So with Hollywood is a he's not a bus, but it's he's struggling right now. Now Lamar, the part of that blame goes on Lamar, too. Now it's not just on Hollywood because Hollywood has been open enough times. He's been open deep. And he called for a and Lamar either doesn't see him or if he does see him, he throws a short or just throws it too far. It's just they haven't been able to get that consistent connection. I think the only deep ball that Hollywood caught this year was in week one against the Browns. And they went for like 45 yards and they didn't go for a touchdown, but it was a deep ball. But I think like that's the only one. So these two just they haven't been able to get on the same page yet. And we just wait and week after week, we're waiting for them to get on the same page, but I do not think that Hollywood is a bus. It's just a mix of things. It's a mix of Hollywood sometimes not getting a separation. So makes it a lot more Lamar when Hollywood does get separation, Lamar not hitting them. And it's also a mix of the lack of creativity on the coaching staff, to and just finding different ways to get your different players involved. Hollywood, is he a number one wide receiver? It's not really looking like it right now, but you throw him in a slot. Give him some quick passes. Give him some slants, some drags. Just do stuff to get him involved. And this is this is how you get all your guys involved, man. Again, it doesn't just have to be a go round all the time. You can use Hollywood more than one way. Next quit, well, actually, really a comment came from BB. He said, engraving Devon Duvenay has mad skills. They don't matter if the ball is wet or dry, he is going to catch it. Still a lot of football to play. And I'm excited for these rookies. Hope all is well with you and the family. Everything is good and I appreciate you. And with Devon Duvenay, yeah, we've been glad to see him get more and more involved. We just want him to be even more involved now, more catches, more plays and just keep not necessarily keep doing what they've been doing, but get that guy out there a lot more, man. Just start him. You might as well. Couldn't hurt. Next question came from a guy, Colin W. He said engraving week 10. I've seen enough. I'm ready to call it. Ravens are NFL's most unjustly penalized team this season. Now, you know what's funny? I actually saw a stat that said the Ravens are on offense. When their offense is on the field, they are ranked 31st with penalties called against opposing defenses. So like defensive holding, passing of fear and so all that stuff. When Ravens offense is on the field, the opposing team's defenses are called for the least amount of penalties. Well, one reason I can think of is because the Ravens offense gets called for so many penalties, but somebody I forgot who it was. I think it was somebody from Russell Street, I forgot who it was, but they they had responded to it and they was like, no, I don't want. I don't think that's an excuse or anything, but I think it's just that the Ravens offense doesn't cause any defenders to make any penalties. They don't they don't the defenses don't respect the Ravens offense enough to hold their receivers because they don't have to. To do any type of legal play on the offense because they don't have to because they don't have anybody that they really respect on the offense like that. I mean, obviously, besides Lamar, but they didn't. They don't respect anybody like that. But anyway, I'm back to his question. He said, now I'm used to some boneheaded penalties. That's what play playing through the whistle eventually does. And now typically be the first one ranting about how judon can hurt this team more than he helps. But my man's is not getting called for real penalties anymore. He's getting the Vontes perfect safety gloves treatment from these reps. If do makes any kind of contact, they swarm like flies to team keeping clean knows what to put the plate under microscope. It's like the distraction kid in class. The teacher is moderating the whole room around that one kid's behavior. And you can see the teacher's focus is never far from that kid. You can just tell their knee jerk reaction to seeing some grown man involving some grown man action involving number 99 is to throw that yellow flag against him. And occasionally, reps do pick up their flags with a no-call, but more often than not, a thrown flag means they're going to stick to the original ruling rather than backtrack on that first call. So judon is made out to be a bad guy. And I mean that literally Tom Brady type dudes can flail their arms in frustration, make contact with a ref accidentally and the zebras take no offense body by Taco Bell type dude rack up enough of those flags. And suddenly there's no more benefit of the doubt and they get tossed from games. Yeah, with judon that I could see that because it was frustrating on the Sunday night football game where the Patriots, they did a pass and play, I think it went to number 47, the fullback and he caught it. And then judon while the while number 47 was catching the ball, it judon pushed a wide receive out the way and they caught a flag. I was like, what? Like I hadn't I'd never seen a flag like that before. I've never seen a flag like that before. So I was I was really confused about that. So it could it could be like and it's like with judon. Like us as Ravens fans, we know with judon is he used to be good for the boneheaded play like once one, at least every couple of games, every like three games he would make a one of those boneheaded plays. But he really hasn't been doing that too often, especially last year. He didn't do it at all this year. He hasn't really been doing it too much, but it's it's just it's just frustrating to where the the officials, they were acting like he did. And I do understand what he's saying with the Vontess perfect treatment. I don't think it's on that level, but the the officiating on Sunday night was just a little bit ticky tacky. That's probably the best way to describe it. And he said, I swear, I see this happening with MP Juice Man, too. He's going to get tossed from a game for some total non reason. It's sad, but it seems like Ravens defenders getting emotionally invested in games is just flag bait now. Anyways, I watch refs lick their chops. Yes, I can see it through their mask when 24 gets frustrated by a bad call. They cannot wait to compound his mistakes. Sure, players have weaknesses and their personalities can exasperate exasperate them. But those two dudes in particular are quickly becoming magnets for this stuff. And other teams are pressing the issue and exploiting them in the most flustered moments. Refs treat 99 like he has a highlight reel of dirty plays that he's watching and taking notes on every night before he tuck tuck in for bed. Your thoughts, yeah, with MP Juice Man, with Marlin. I mean, not Marlin, with Marcus Peters. Oh, for sure. He would be an easy one because, again, we talked about this before, too. He gets very emotionally invested in the game, which is not a bad thing, necessarily, it just depends on how you act on those emotions. And it can when he's like when things are not going his way, especially with the refs, it can sort of take him out the game and it can make his game go down a bit because he will just be so focused on that. And I can understand why, because it's so frustrating, but it'll sort of take him out the game. So hopefully moving forward, all this can stop, but we'll see. The next question came from a boy, Ryan D. He said, yo, is Ryan a huge fan of the channel? Greg Roman has to be on the high seat at this point. Right. I point some stuff out to you. All right, here we go. He said he's running the same scheme as last year with a very different personnel. Terrible crunch time decision making, scared to throw on third down. We all know what Lamar and Hollywood have said pretty much about him. Watching as a fan feels like he has about 15 past plays in his playbook. I've been patient with him, but I gave up on him when I saw a QB draw on fourth down against the Steelers and the Wildcat last night on the most important play of the game with the struggling center. He's holding back Lamar in my opinion, and I think it may be time to move on if we want to make a playoff run. So Greg Roman has to be on the hot seat at this point. Right. I think it's I think it's warm. I don't think it's hot right now, but I think it's a little warm, especially because of all the attention that he's been getting, not only from the media, but with the players actually calling him out. I think that has a lot to do with it. And of course, we see the the struggle from the offense weekend week out and before the trade deadline, a lot of us, including myself, would have loved if the Ravens were to trade it for like our true number one wide receiver, a guy that can get separation, a guy that can find different holes through different coverages, a guy that can just get open. But the Ravens said, hey, no, we're going to run what we got. We're going to add more to the defense because y'all know we love investing on defense, but offenses, it can be an afterthought. But anyway, they it's just the same story. And again, I bring up the question that somebody asked how many times, how many how many how many times are we going to continue to question the offensive coordinators under John Harbaugh? That's a question that a lot of us got to think about. We have to think about that. And I'm glad that somebody pointed that out because I was just like, wow, that's very powerful because I know Greg Roman, he he was John Harbaugh pick. But the last time when we had a successful offense, consistently successful offense was back in 2014. I was Gary Kubiak. He wasn't one of Harbaugh's boys. Usually, Harbaugh hires all his friends. He hires all his boys. Again, hashtag hood Harbaugh because he puts his boys on when he comes up. He said, hey, y'all coming up too. And that's a beautiful quality about John Harbaugh. But a lot of times, especially offensive coordinators, it can backfire. So with Greg Roman, last year was amazing. Last year was great. But this year has been a lot different. Now, with I know you mentioned personnel, personnel has been a bit different because it hasn't been three tight ends out there anymore. We only had two and now we only have one when I'm recording this video. I'm sure by Wednesday at the latest, they will have signed a tight end or two already. But it's just with Greg Roman, I don't expect him to be back after this year. But if things like I was really thinking during that Patriots game, like at the beginning of the game, I was thinking like, man, if the offense doesn't do good tonight, I really thought it was a possibility that he could be fired. I really did. And I'm not no knee jerk reaction type of guy. But I was thinking like, man, I really thought that there was a high chance that he could be out of there if the offense didn't do that good, especially because of everything that's been happening, everything that's been being said, because the media, if the media was just saying it, that'd be one thing. If it was just all these analysts and reporters and all that blah, blah, blah, saying it, then that would be one thing. But it came directly from your court, not just your wide receiver. The wide receiver is one thing, but it came directly from your quarterback on more than one occasion because there's been presses where Lamar talks about, oh, we just we want to take more shots down the field and he talks about play calling in different presses. And then, of course, the famous Rich Eisen interview where Lamar put it out there so it is coming from, it's coming directly from your quarterback. And if Harbaugh has to choose between Greg Roman or Lamar Jackson, who you think he's going to go with? So I do not think his seat is hot right now, but I think it's just a little bit warm. Next question came from my boy, Jacob C. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope you and the family are doing well. After the Patriots game, I'm really upset with the team and saw two clear holds with wide receiving offensive line. What do you think the Ravens addressed in the first round of the draft next year? Offensive line or wide receiver? Well, that is going to be dictated by free agency what they do there. But I would say, I'd probably say offensive line, but again, we won't know till what happens in free agency happens. Whatever happens there, then we'll know. Next question came from my guy, Crabcase52 saying, Graven, just send us a love your way. Love the chats in the streams, appreciate it. He said, my question is where are we going wrong against scouting explosive players? Specifically receivers. That 2019 draft brought out the likes of AJ Brown, DK Metcalf, McCall Hardman, and Paris Campbell. All were picked after Hollywood. What are we missing? True that Hardman has my homes. DK has, he has Russell Wilson. AJ Brown has Tanner Hill, who has revived his career in Tennessee. We've got to get better with evaluating talent and what we believe makes us better. I love Hollywood, but he's not showing that he can be a number one. I think he'd be so much better with a bona fide number one. He could be our manual Sanders if he learns how to run the entire route tree. Your thoughts? Yeah, I think Hollywood would definitely, if we got like a true number one guy, Hollywood would definitely benefit off of that. For sure. Now, again, like I stated earlier, some of it is on Lamar, but to your question, like where are we going wrong when it comes to scouting explosive players? Hollywood was an explosive player, and he is an explosive player, but he's just, again, Lamar's missed him a few times on the deep passes, or quite a few times on the deep passes. Sometimes he just doesn't see him because Hollywood would be somebody. And you'd be like, hey, hey, hey, but Lamar won't hit him. So I don't even think, like, I mean overall, besides Hollywood, it's been a big yikes at the Ravens drafts at Wide Receiver, but I do think there's definitely an issue with scouting. There's definitely an issue with scouting and development for sure. And it's been an issue for a very, very, very long time, a very long time. And it continues to be an issue because we continue to see the same stuff. Now, I do love how Eric D'Costa has tried to go a different route because we know the Aussie route, he would draft a couple of receivers just to say, okay, I drafted those receivers, but they wouldn't get much playing time, so they couldn't really develop like that, and he would sign a bunch of older veterans. Eric D'Costa said, you know what? Let me take that, but change it up a little bit. We're gonna draft some young receivers, and we're gonna play those young receivers. We're gonna give them opportunity. So respect that, love how he's been doing that, but so far it hasn't been working. Now, I know you could say like, oh, well, hey, they're receivers. It could take them some time to adjust to the NFL. It could take them some time to develop. But you look at all the other guys that he mentioned in his email, McCollardman. He's the one just fine. He's not a number one now, and he is on a team with a lot of weapons. He is there everywhere. So when you play in the Chiefs, you gotta account for so many people. Then you look at DK Metcalf. He's on a team with weapons. He is there everywhere. It's not just him. It's Tyler Lockett too. And Russell Wilson, you know, he could push that ball down the field to anybody. Then you look at AJ Brown. AJ Brown's on the Titans, and they have legitimate weapons as well. So with Hollywood, it's very tricky because I know a lot of people can get caught up, oh, he's not doing what this guy's doing. He's not doing what that guy's doing. And he's not right now, but then you look at the situation around him. How many other legitimate weapons are around Hollywood Brown right now? How many other legitimate threats do defenses have to really prepare for around Hollywood Brown right now? Now we know Willie Snead's been coming up over these past couple of weeks, but is he really like that legitimate guy? The team's gotta like stay up late like, oh man, oh, we got Willie Snead coming to town. I just, I don't know, man. I don't know what we about to do. I don't know what we getting ready to do against this guy. Hopefully that can be the case. Cause again, he's been doing a lot better these past couple of weeks, but Hollywood doesn't really have like that other guy. And not that that's an excuse. Cause again, there's a lot is on Lamar too, but it would just, if this offense could really make threats, make weapons, Devon Dover, they could be it. He could be it. So we just gotta give him, get him involved a little bit more too. Now one good thing that has come, boy, even just speaking about the Sunday night football game, one good thing about that game was that, at least he Lamar showed that he would try Hollywood. Well, he only tried them like on a deep ball once. So I guess nevermind. He didn't consistently try him on a deep pass. So nevermind then I take it back. And the last questions on this episode, NFL questions from subscribers came from my boy, Jarvis Fowler. He said a few questions for you, Mr. Engraven. Number one, do you see us signing a number one receiver before you re-signed Lamar? I hope so. I hope so because what I want to happen, I want there to be absolutely no excuses when it comes to Lamar time. Like right now, it's with Lamar, I know it's part of playing in the NFL. You're gonna be compared to whoever, whether it's to benefit somebody's argument, to benefit their argument against you or even for you. But Lamar obviously right now, the hot thing is to compare him to Kyla Murray. That's fine, it's the NFL. Can't be a baby about it. Oh, don't compare me to him, because no, you're gonna get compared. So that's gonna happen. But with Lamar, who's his number one wife? Like look at the weapons. Look at the weapons of all these other young QBs around the league. And that's why I just, I want there to be no excuse when it comes to Lamar Jackson. I want the weapons to be there, like legitimate weapons to be there for him, so he can have a real opportunity. I think he knows, I think he just don't wanna say. We'll say boy, he don't big though. But I think he just don't wanna say. Like he ain't gonna come out and say, hey, I need a real number one guy. He ain't gonna come out. No, he ain't gonna come out and say that. I wouldn't expect him to either. But I just, I want it to be level playing field for him and everybody else. So do I think we will sign the number one receiver before we sign Lamar? I hope so. Number two, he said, should we promote death to number one wide receiver? Move Hollywood to the slide and sign Delaney Walker and Luke Wilson as our three tight end sets. Now for the Delaney Walker and Luke Wilson, I definitely wouldn't mind that. Now moving promoting death to number one, they still gotta ease them back in a little bit. But I mean, who's our number one guy now? Really see been stepping up, but there's Bryant, if he could be the there's Bryant of old, and even if he can be a couple notches down from how he used to be, that could go a long way for this Ravens team, a long way. Like if he could be like a turning to a legitimate threat. And again, he's not the answer long-term. We need an answer long-term, long-term. But there's for now, he certainly couldn't hurt at all. Could he be our number one guy? I mean, who's Raven's number one guy now? You take it with clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Got it engraved. Shout out to Graven.