 Well, that's it. Season's over. That's a wrap. It's been a fun season. And I'm glad, really glad that it's going to get to continue for at least one more week. Hopefully it continues for four more weeks. But we'll just see how everything plays out, hoping for the best for these Baltimore Ravens. Now, with the season being over, the regular season being over, it's always nice to sort of look back. Look back at things that we all said before, looking back at things that we thought were great things about this team. And we thought, well, maybe not so great things about this team as we prepared for the regular season. Now, I'm not going to talk about the things that I talked about with the team, because as far as the record that I thought they were going to have, that didn't happen. But one of the biggest issues that I thought they were going to have, it did end up happening. But that's not important right now. But one of my guys, one of my guys, he called this thing to the tee. Now, granted, some situations with the Baltimore Ravens, they changed and that obviously had a big impact on this season. But we're going to look back at it and look back at this Raven season from his point of view, what he said before the season, and then what he said after. And we'll get into that in a couple of minutes. But first I got to give a shout out to the newest Team Keeping Clean channel members. Now, real quick, special shout out to Baselord, because the other day during the live stream, he gifted Team Keeping Clean channel memberships. So he gave the gift of allowing five people to become Team Keeping Clean channel members for a month. So that was really special. And I really, really appreciated that. I love, I've been seeing, I think his name is Keith Lee. I'm sure a lot of y'all have seen him on TikTok. And I wanted to talk about him real quick, because he does food reviews. And what he does, he goes to these, I think he's out in LA, but he goes to these small mom and pop shop, these small businesses, and he goes out there and he reviews their food on TikTok. And he has a big following and whatnot. But I love seeing when social media is used in a positive aspect. It's used in a positive light, because he even says like for the mom and pop shops, he doesn't want to charge them for anything. He doesn't want to be paid for his reviews from them. And he pays for his own food and all of that. I'm like, oh, that's nice. He just, but for the big companies, he's like, hey, he's trying to get a deal with a big company. But I really appreciate how he uses his platform, uses his social media presence, whatever you want to call it. He uses his page for positivity. So I really, really appreciated that. And that just really made me appreciate y'all that much more. So like we always say, we have conversations about whatever on here, whatever it might be. We talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. But we talk a lot, but it's, and we disagree on stuff. We see things differently, but it's all love, man. So I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Now, for the newest Team Keep It Clean channel members, shout out to OMG, shout out to Mr. Chief, the legit goat, Griffey, Jehan's Lee, shaking my head, Kev, Jamie Marie, who she actually joined during the live stream for the game. So despite how ugly that game was, she says, you know what? I'm still be a Team Keep It Clean channel member. So I appreciate it. Shout out to Isaiah103rd, every single video posting positive messages, no matter what's going on every single video. I know when I see his name pop up in the comments section, it's gonna be a positive message. And then shout out to Kevin Murphy. So I appreciate all of y'all, man. I really do. The whole Team Keep It Clean. Now, timing is everything. It's funny because shortly after the game that we lost to the Bengals the other day, Raven's record was officially 10 and seven. And my guy, Gold Morano, I just remember him, I remember an email that he sent to me a while back about his season prediction, how he thought things were gonna go. And y'all know what, I thought the Raven's record was gonna be 12 and five. I'm like, all right, 12 and five. I don't expect him to go undefeated. Yeah, it could be better, but it could be worth, but 12 and five, that's what I meant. But let's listen to this email that he sent on September 10th, 2022, September 10th. So before the day before the season started, he said, it's good to be back at the start of another Raven season in Graven. I look forward to writing through with you and Team Keep It Clean once again. You may remember that I sent you my prediction of 10 and seven, that being the Raven's final record not long ago. But I noticed that many fans are predicting the 12 or 13 win season. I'm curious to know how fans in in Graven are deriving their win predictions. And again, for that, it was just based off of the team, based off of Lamar, based off of just, you know, the regular stuff. If Lamar's healthy, it holds it, yeah, but anyway. He said, are fans looking at the Ravens roster and deducing their predictions based on pass performance and the current talent level of the team, coaching staff and concluding that we can expect 12 or 13 wins? Yeah, that was it. He said, number two, could fans possibly be basing their predictions on the actual schedule ahead, taking into consideration the degree of difficulty that each opposing team will present? Number three, or could fans be estimating that opposing defenses will have no idea the level of supreme motivation Lamar will be playing with after being jilted by his current team's management? Do fans believe that being spurned by the team for which he has given so much could just be the impetus that will cause Lamar to play out of his mind and will his team to an extra three victories as he plays for his football life in Questa each has goal of becoming a billionaire. He said, he based his 10 and seven prediction not only on the fact that EDC did not make a substantial talent investment on the offensive side of the ball once again, and rushing players back from serious injuries for which they need more time to heal, but also on the talent level of our opponents and the parody that exists throughout the league. We're going to be met with some very serious challenges from the outside, from outside our division. The Jets, Giants, Panthers and Jaguars are four games. They are the only sure bet wins in my eyes. So for that part, he wasn't so perfect. That part he was two and two, because he said that the Jets, Giants, Panthers and Jaguars, those are all games that the Raguars are going to win for sure. They obviously beat the Jets, the Giants, they had them up by 10, we're like what, four or six minutes to go. Obviously we know what happened to Panthers. They won that game, it was really ugly, but they won and the Jaguars, well, it was a weird game, but that's when the offense, they started going down the field and driving and getting touchdowns, but in scoring and getting to go ahead points but then the defense just couldn't hold anymore and you know how that happened. But anyway, he said, no head coaches more prepared than Bill Belichick. So underestimating him and Matt Judon would be a mistake. So they did take care of the Patriots though, so that was good. Pittsburgh may have a new quarterback, but they have improved and will be no walk in the park as we certainly saw. Mike Tomlin led teams are well prepared and pose a true threat. They will give Ravens a run for their money. Although our D-line may be respectable, we don't have the pass rush to keep Joe Burrow off balance and yeah, we saw that. He's putting up 35 or more in both games. Well, no, he didn't, he didn't in either game and I think, what did they score? Well, yeah, they did, I guess they scored over 35, both games combined, but anyway. Cleveland is stacked with talent. Does team keeping clean predict that we do better than three and three in the north? And hey, that's exactly what they did. They did three and three, because they split with every team. One on one with the Bengals, one on one with the Steelers, one on one with the Browns. So they went exactly three and three, look at that. He said, as you have stated, postponing the completion of Lamar's contract only benefits the quarterback because his price will only increase with each passing game. So that was what he sent before the season started. So he was pretty much spot on, man. He was pretty much spot on. The record, not only the Ravens record and again, like I said, injuries change stuff. Injuries change stuff, but hey, he got it. He got it. But let's look at what he sent after the season. He said, the swami speaks. And Graven, we made it to the conclusion of another regular season and you've made the whole experience that much more fun and interesting once again. Oh no, I appreciate it, man. He said, now it's time to collect my accolades. As you may remember, you predicted a 12 and five finish for our beloved Ravens. While I, the new swami predicted a 10 and seven finish. Well, what do you know? I was perfectly accurate for the second year in a row. I don't know how I keep doing it. I can't wait for us to make our predictions for 2023 after we learn who our quarterback will be, which coaches, if any, will part ways with the team and how many of the pending 23 free agents will retire or walk. If EDC will finally institute a new philosophy in skiing and most importantly, will EDC address what has permanently become known as the team's most preeminent need since 2019, a top five wide receiver. I can't wait to compare predictions again in September. Oh yeah, for sure. He said, awards, the Gold Murano Award for the best in season moved by GM, the October 21st trade of Christian McCaffrey from the Panthers to the 49ers. You know, I forget about that one. I really do. I forget all about that one. He said, the Gold Murano Award for the best late round drafts deal, the San Francisco 49ers for drafting Brock Purdy with the final pick of the 2022 draft. Two things the Ravens should learn from the 49ers. Number one, when your team's offense is premised on the running attack, have a true hybrid running back slash wide receiver. Like, oh, running back and wide receiver like Debo Samuel and or Christian McCaffrey to compliment your field stretching number one in a workhorse running back. Ross's construction, like San Francisco, causes defenses to tire quickly and defensive coordinator to lose a lot of sleep. Number two, don't load your roster with undrafted backup quarterbacks. That's a recipe for disaster instead. Be about the business of always searching for quality depth at that position whenever the opportunity presents itself. It's not an insult to your starting quarterback to keep adding quality arms in house competition is a good thing. And he put in a little asterisk in 2005, the Packers had Brett Favre and Rogers and Kurt Warner. They had Kurt Warner too. We had Anthony Wright and Kyle Bola. Green Bay has always understood the benefits of continuously adding quality arms instead of just warm bodies to fill a roster spot. That's an interesting one right there. But yeah, man, you got it. You got it. You called it and that's what it is now. I wonder how you call the playoff record. And this feels like a dream. That's what I made you to keep it clean. You see my boy, he like out of made it. Out of made it. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of Questions For Sells where you can ask any question that you want to answer in a video like this. If you want to be part of it for the Team Keep It Clean Patrons, the Patrons you can send it directly on Patreon. You don't need to send an email but for everybody else, if you want to be part of it, you can send an email to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Do not send it anywhere else or else your question will be disregarded, thrown away, tossed out. It won't see the light of day. So I appreciate y'all saying Team Keep It Clean. Thank you for making it easy. Thank you for sending it to the right emails and if you send it to the wrong emails, hey, that's on you. I still love you though. But anyway, next question came from my guy, Marv Hood. He said, good morning, Professor Engraven. And this was a reply to his previous question where he brought up that he thinks Raven's fans are privileged. So there was a lot of conversation about that back and forth. I even got DMs and stuff from people. Not in disrespect for anything like that but some people like, yeah, that video, I think Raven's fans are entitled. They are privileged and whatnot. Some people disagree, some people agree. So yeah, you caused a lot of discourse with that one but it's fine, not any bad discourse. But anyway, he said, good morning, Professor Engraven. I may have to slightly disagree with a few of your takes, most notably failure of accepting your professorship. Have you ever watched Sidney Portier to serve with love? No, I haven't. He said, team, keep it clean. It's like your classroom. You maintain dignity and mutual respect without suppressing self-expression. I know you're a humble dude but you have to admit even that is a tight rope. Yet you pull it off. Look, I don't do nothing, man. That's all y'all, man. Straight up, that's all y'all. But that's the biggest thing that we ask for. Now all we ask for, that's the biggest thing that we ask for though, is that we can have these conversations like this. We can go back and forth. I have my opinion. Other people may have their opinion but we express it respectfully amongst each other. That's it. And we have fun in the process. Cause it's all fun, man. It's all fun. But anyway, let me start by first acknowledging that what I meant to convey but by my title of privilege was not so much that many of us are entitled but that I finally believe it is a privilege to be a Ravens fan, partly because John Hardball does more than any other coach I have witnessed with lesser first 10 draft picks. One, Ronnie Stanley. Okay, so that's the only time you picked in the top 10. I guess so, it has been. I think you made that clear in your original message but anyway, let's continue. He said lesser impact free agents, four or few more. Campbell, Houston, Peters, Williams. Okay, he talking about right now then. And lesser pro bowl players, eight, Andrews Humphrey, Moseley, Jackson, Judon, Stanley, Tucker, and Yonda. Ray Riesel in the pro bowl. But anyway, he said, of course, by lesser I am referring in contrast to almost all playoff teams who built their roster with multiple first 10 draft players, multiple pro bowl free agents and players. The Bengals and Rams had a whole high top 10 pick draft and pro bowl squad within the last 10 years. In turn, Hardball builds a culture of accountability. Hold up now, hold up, hold up now, how about that? Grit, discipline and overachievement with late round draft picks strictly. Some of those things can definitely be called into question. Accountability, I think Ravens are definitely lacking in the accountability part. Grit, that Grit has definitely fallen off recently. They, these ain't the same old Ravens. Shout out to Eric Guadal. Discipline, the discipline, that's been lacking a little bit too, that, yeah, it ain't, and overachievement with late round draft picks strictly. Oh, with late round draft picks strictly, okay. He just told me picks from the late round. Yeah, I wouldn't even say that. Like the discipline, well actually sometimes on the field discipline, no, a lot of times. Anyway, I won't even reference our participation of free agency, let's not go there. Imagine if an offensive line had a young Stanley and Yonda consistently with the other pieces in tact. Casey was horrible when the old line was injured in the Super Bowl. Belichick had barely sniffed the playoffs since Brady made a dash for Florida and he is the goat of coaches. So let's forget about Hardball's record against Hall of Fame quarterbacks before 2012. That was my mistake. He's done quite well over the past 10 years with lesser talent as opposed to the other premier teams. I just think he deserves a little more appreciation for having a lack of healthy premier talent. I'm not saying by any means our players are slouches. Even Purdy and San Fran is balling. However, he does make the best out of the lesser than elite talent, for example, Frank Walker. Goodness. I mean, yes and no. I think when you look at something to see with that when it talks about the lesser talent, the late round talent, the depth, I guess, you can look at the preseason. Look at the preseason and look how the Ravens doing their preseason. They don't lose. They don't lose. That's what I said, man. If Ravens treated the regular season like they treat the preseason, oh, they'd be undefeated every year. We'd be talking Super Bowls every single year. We would love it. We would love it. But I mean, yeah, give Hardball credit for what he's accomplished. But his biggest accomplishment is in the past. I see what you're saying. Oh, yeah, he's continued to have a team that's competing and whatnot and they're competing every year with the roster that they have. And a lot of it could be lesser talent. But my thing is, why? Why does it always have to be lesser talent, especially on offense, especially on offense? They be having some players on defense now. And they got a few on offense here and they obviously LeMau, Mark Andrews and J.K. Nice, too, but it's like, why does it have to be lesser talent? Why do things have to be made harder? And it's like, now, this time, you talked about after 2012, which is great. But it's like, why do we have to, why do things have to be made harder? And then you look at the lack of success after 2012. I mean, obviously, 2012, that's the ultimate success that you can have as a Super Bowl. And you can only go down from there. But why haven't they reached that high high? Like, yeah, it gave you credit because Ravens ain't been like losers or nothing like that. For the most part, I know they had some seasons here and there, but they ain't been like losers or nothing. But at the same time, they haven't won as much as, they probably should have won, especially with some of the rosters that they had. And I think that they should, if they've been doing what you've been saying, if they've been doing overachieving with lesser talent, why not add more so you can overachieve with them too? Next question came from my guy, Quinn. He said, I figured it out. Yo, what's good, this Q from H-Town. Oh, shout out to Houston. He said, I hope all is well with you and yours, but Boyle Boyle, what do you think about this? If after the season, Stevie B fired John Harbaugh for allowing Greg Roman to put in such a bad product out, and now we have to pay Lamar. Bring in Sean McVay. I'm sure Lamar will love that. But yeah, what do you think? I don't think it'll happen at all. Harbaugh ain't going nowhere. I don't see any scenario where John Harbaugh is fired from the Baltimore Ravens at all. It ain't gonna happen. I'll be extremely shocked if it does. I have like a million percent confidence that it will not happen. And as far as Sean McVay, Sean McVay said that he was gonna step away from the Rams for a little bit. So he's doing the same thing Sean Payton did to where he's retiring, I guess, but the Rams will still have his rights. He was still contractually obligated to the Rams. So in the event where he does want to come back, he decides, oh, you know what, I do want to coach again. Well, he would have to get traded. So Ravens would have to give up draft picks for a coach. I don't ever see them doing that because they love them draft picks too much. Next question came from Britt. She said, good morning, Graven. I just wanted to first thank you for taking the time to research and deliver the information to us. I know that takes time and effort to do. Also appreciate the cleaning and respect for where you deliver and run your channel. I appreciate that, Britt. Thank you. Thank you. She says, okay, so my question is about G-Roll. If the Ravens decided to give him an extended contract, ooh, and it is a possibility, man. Ooh, that would be something. Ooh, that would set the Ravens world on fire. But anyway, do you think the coaches will be able to keep the locker room? Oh, that's such a great question. Wow, I ain't never think about that. I never thought about that aspect of it before. How would the locker room feel? Because if you do that, yeah, people, it's obviously been called out a lot publicly. Tyus Bowser put it out there publicly with the, because he had to record that. Tyus Bowser literally saw the papers that somebody on the inside, somebody from the Ravens wrote out. Tyus Bowser literally saw those papers on the ground. I don't know if he put them there. He knows who put them there. I'm sure they probably do. But he saw those papers, proceeded to grab his phone and to think about it. Wait a minute, I'm a player for the Baltimore Ravens. I play for the Baltimore Ravens. I'm a starter for the Baltimore Ravens. People know me for the Baltimore Ravens. My social media is public for the Baltimore, or for me, and I'm a Baltimore Ravens player, proceeded to grab his phone, take it out, go to the camera, or go to Instagram, straight, yeah, he probably went straight to Instagram, proceeded to click on Story and proceeded to record the papers on the ground. Make sure it was crystal clear that we could all see that they said to fire Greg Roman. He did that. He had to go through that whole process. So, yeah, that's a really good question about them potentially losing the locker room. Because if he did that, not about a position coach, not about some strength coach, not about, not even about an equipment manager or somebody or staff on the equipment to know, he did that about a coordinator, an offensive coordinator. And he knows, he sees, he hears everything that's been said about Greg Roman, good and bad. So, for him to do that, you would definitely feel like he ain't the only one that feels how he feels. Well, he's not the only one that feels what he portrayed that he possibly feels. I can't say how he feels, because I don't know. But for him to go through all, that's funny, but that's a really good question. She said, many players lately have expressed their frustration with the offense. I know people either love or dislike Hollywood, but that was the reason he left, right? It's rumored that Deshaun Jackson requested to be let go. Yeah, I don't know about that, but she did say, now don't quote me on that. I'm not 100% sure that it's true, but it's just a rumor. Yeah, we all saw the post that he put, so he put something about the politics. He said, y'all got it, forget the politics or something like that. And it could have been about the locker room, but we don't know, we won't know until we know. Anyway, she said also, I don't know if people remember, but Lamar expressed frustration sometime ago. He mentioned something about the defense calling out the plays while they are playing. Now the frustration has trickled over to the defense, although we lost the game yesterday, we actually could have won the game. Defense held the bingles to three points in the second half. Why couldn't offense capitalize on that? I know it was a game that would have just been bragging rights, but we could have won that game, just my thoughts. Yeah, the Ravens could have won that game, but yeah, them turnovers, man. Turnovers were killer in that one. So thanks again for all your hard work on the channel, but I appreciate it. But yeah, that is a risk that they would run. If they bring back Greg Roman, which Ravens like taking some risks. They like taking some risks like that with coaching staff and stuff like that. So we'll see that. Because not only will it possibly impact current players who are already on your team, but also future ones too. Well, some of the old future players might not end up being future players. Because they may be like, oh, are they keeping him? Okay, well, I ain't even gonna think about going in. Next question came from my guy, Lewis. Oh man, who was your guy, Lewis, the tight end? Oh, I know, because I remember, what was it about a year ago or two years ago when you were saying the questions about him? I cannot remember his name. I know you know who I'm talking about. Cause you were like that tight end's biggest fan. I can't think of his name right now. But anyway, he said, Bady, let's go Bady, man. I'm happy for the boy betting on himself. Hopefully Lamar comes through in a similar manner. Now, what if you say you happy for Tyler Bady betting on himself and you hope Lamar comes through in a similar manner. So you're saying that you hope that Lamar bets on himself and leaves the Ravens and goes somewhere else. Next question came from my guy, Teddy. He said, off season moves. Can you see the Ravens trading off some extra pieces to be able to retain Lamar and Roquon, pick up draft picks and get more cap space? For example, trading Michael Pierce. We could always use him, but we don't need him with all the young talent. But there's a few guys on the roster that can be moved so we can obtain all the things we require. EDC has been working the cap since he came in. I mean, I can always see them trading some extra pieces, but I don't know if it'll be to retain Lamar. I can see them trading some extra pieces though. Like, I think this will be the year with Chuck Clark, where he actually does get traded, especially since they really seen Kyle Hamilton. They haven't really seen him in starting role as safety yet, but he's been looking better and better as he is going on. So I was like, all right, they probably gonna be like, you know what, let's run it, let's do it. Chuck, thanks for everything, but that's that. I could see them getting rid of James Prochet. And with James Prochet, I was just talking to my boy Kev about this this morning. I was saying with James Prochet, it's tough with him because I feel like he's in the same position as Miles Boykin was. And really a lot of the receivers really because with the offense, the offense doesn't give the receivers many opportunities as is, it doesn't get him any opportunities at all. But then on top of that, so if you're like a backup backup receiver, like a backup backup backup receiver, then what you do, because already everything that the receivers do, it's already emphasized. There needs to be more emphasis on the receivers, but what they do is already emphasized a lot because there's less emphasis put on them. If you get it, I know that don't make sense, but since the receivers have so little room for error, they have like no room for error. I mean, the passing game as a whole, but with the receivers, they have so limited opportunities. So with their limited opportunities, whatever they do good, it's gonna be like, all right, great, whatever they do bad, it's gonna be like, all right, man, it's gonna be, but it's gonna be blown up that much more. So with James Pro Shades, similar to Miles Boykin, they just ain't been able to get on the same page with everything going on, but they've also had limited opportunities. But a lot of times when they're out there, it's like, it just, it doesn't end up working out. Something ends up going wrong more than it goes right. So I think the Ravens, I think they unfortunately, especially for him, well, actually not unfortunately for him, it could actually be a good thing. If he gets an opportunity with somebody else, it could be a good thing, but I think they will unload James Pro Shades off season. Who else, you talked about Michael Pierce, I wouldn't see them trading him. I could see them cutting him. I'm not sure how his cap is though. Who else? But you said in order to retain Lamar and Roquon, I still right now, I mean, I'm still if you're on them retaining Lamar. So we'll see what happens with that. Like I'm if you're on, if I think they're gonna do it or not. I'm leaning more towards that. I don't think that they will. I'm leaning like way more towards that side, but we'll see, of course. But yeah, so I guess to answer your question, no, I don't see them offloading people in order to retain, I was about to say Laquon and Roquon. I don't see them offloading people to retain Lamar and Roquon because I don't see them really keeping both of them. Next question came from my guy, Justin. He said, what's up, am I the only one who wanted to lose against the Bengals? I just feel like if we would have won, then they would have blew the Ravens out of the playoffs. But let's rest and get ready. I love y'all, I appreciate y'all. And just like I hope the Ravens are not next week, I'm out. What a way to end it. Question came from my guy, Rave Kingdom. He said, with Bengals fans and Bengals players accusing the Ravens of dirty plays and with Roquon Smith and other Ravens players saying they can't wait for next week. Is there a possible chance that we might see a classic rival, Steelers Ravens type of game on Sunday next week with the Ravens and the Bengals? I think so. I think so. I think it's definitely gonna be one of those, it could be one of them low scoring games. If Ravens don't, like for Ravens to get themselves the best chance, like I think it would need to be a low scoring game. Well, if Lamar comes back, then there's, I mean, there's potential for, obviously potential for a lot more points, but especially though, if he doesn't, if he's not back, they got to keep the points low. They got to, they got to keep the scoring low so that they cannot turn the ball over. And you know, you don't want your quarterback, if it was Anthony Brown, Tyler Huntley, you wouldn't want him going out there playing scared, but you would have to keep the points low. You got to take care of the ball. And you got to get help too, your offense, especially your passcatchers, they got to help you out more too. So yeah, we'll see soon. And last question on this episode came from my guy, Kyron, he said, ain't great when I'm sending this email after the Bengals game. I admit I'm nervous about next week's wildcard game versus Cincinnati. Oh, you should be. Not only because of how our offense has looked over the last month, but also my brother is a Bengals fan. Oh, that should be fun. He said, but I'm actually more confident after today's game. Yes, we lost and turned it over four times. The three in the first half killed us because it led to 21 points for the Bengals. But the defense played great. They held Cincinnati to 17 points in week five and 20 points today. And at times, the offense looked decent today. I believe with a healthy offense that protects the ball, Lamar especially, and the defense playing the way that they have in both Cincinnati games, we can win next week. Yes, I believe after this loss, what do you think? Yeah, I agree. Like I said, especially if Lamar comes back, but even if he doesn't come back, Raven's chances are very slim, extremely slim, but they still do have an opportunity. They still got chances because, yeah, like you said, the turnovers, the turnovers just gifted the Bengals points. It made it so easy for the Bengals, but the defense made it hard. So if the Ravens could again take care of the ball, they'll be in good shape. Yeah, this feels like a dream. I know just what I mean, what I mean. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Raven? Right in Raven. Right in Raven. Shout out to Raven.