 You see what these top 10 lists do? They create this controversy and they got all these people with different opinions on the different cornerbacks on the list and even the different cornerbacks that are even on their favorite teams. And speaking of that, what about the cornerbacks on the Ravens? I saw in the comments section of that previous video that a lot of people started going back and forth on who truly is the Ravens best cornerback and who is even just the better of the two between Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters. And this is something that we've discussed on here before. Initially I had my thoughts and then my thoughts ended up changing. And then we saw the list and they had different thoughts than my thought. It's just a mess. But we hear to talk about it right now. Who is truly the Ravens best cornerback? Over the past couple of hours, I've had some time to think about it. I even shaved all of my hair off because my hair was even driving me crazy and I wanted to make sure that my thoughts were perfectly clear. And now, since I'm bald, you can see them. But anyway, who is truly Ravens best cornerback? Well, first we gotta think of who Ravens cornerbacks are. We have Marlon Humphrey, we have Marcus Peters, we have Jimmy Smith, we have Tavon Young, we have Eman Marshall, we have Anthony Averett. So those are the Ravens corners. Then of course there's someone to practice squad. I think Stanley Jean Baptiste is on there. But anyway, obviously we have the top three, the top three outside corners because that's what we focused on. That being Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters and Jimmy Smith. Well, I have two different answers for who the Ravens best cornerback is. And I know, how do you have two different answers? They can only be one best. And I agree, but I'll explain. In my opinion, for the Ravens, their best cornerback, if they could all be on a level playing field, and when I mean a level playing field, I mean, if none of the three had any health concerns whatsoever, and I know like one and a half of them, they don't have any health concerns. And Marlon health concerns, they're not really big. I mean, he just got his hamstrings, but that's a track thing. But if all three, Marcus Peters, Marlon Humphrey and Jimmy Smith all had an equal bill of health, a clean bill of health, my top cornerback would be Jimmy Smith. Jimmy Smith has the physicality. He has the smarts. He has the experiences. He is good in the short passing game, in the intermediate passing game, and in the long passing game too. He can tackle very well. He matches up with the best of them. As an outside corner, he'll hang with you. And again, when you think of his bad games, DeAndre Hopkins, the Monday night football game, and Michael Thomas, when he was coming back from injury, I think that was the game, the Justin Tucker game where he missed the field goal, I believe, I'm not 100% sure though. But anyway, Jimmy Smith would be the guy. He would be Raven's best corner. If he was never hurt, he would be Raven's best corner. And had Jimmy Smith actually been healthy, there probably would be no Marlon Humphrey, and there probably would be no Marcus Peters. Because both of those guys were the results of Jimmy Smith always being hurt. Raven's needed a cornerback, a young guy that they could rely on, a guy that they could eventually turn into their corner, their number one corner to take over for Jimmy Smith since he was off injured. What happens, they drafted Marlon Humphrey. Some people didn't like it, some people did like it. Now everybody loves it. Why Marcus Peters? Well, Marlon Humphrey had been holding it down, but we just need a legitimate cornerback opposite Marlon Humphrey, especially since Jimmy Smith had just got hurt in week one of last season. Raven saw the opportunity, air the costum made the move, boom, bring on Marcus Peters. And he changed the Raven's game completely. But since we can't play the if game with a Jimmy Smith, if he was healthy, if he was never hurt, we can't do that because that obviously hasn't been the case. Then, phew, and it's tough because it's so close. It's so close, but I gotta go with Marlon Humphrey. I gotta go with Marlon Humphrey reason being because Marlon Humphrey, he can take away a complete side of the field. Yes, he does struggle with the deep passes, with turning his head around on them deep passes. He certainly does. But everything that he does, well, he does such an amazing job of it. He comes through and runs support. He definitely helps and runs support. He is not afraid to lower his shoulder. And again, I told y'all this story before. I remember Marlon Humphrey's rookie year, his rookie season in the preseason. This guy was dropping his shoulder. And I remember watching, I think we were playing the coast. I remember who we were playing the coast for the Bears, somebody, but the running back was running the ball. And then I see Raven's cornerback go low on him, go for them legs. And the running back sorta flipped, went down. I was like, who's that? And they're like, oh, Raven's rookie, first round rookie cornerback, Marlon Humphrey. I said, oh, okay. I like it. I actually loved it. But Marlon Humphrey is not afraid to get involved physically. And like we were talked about in the video earlier with Marlon Humphrey, he, it seems like his job, what he focuses on more is the wide receiver not catching the ball rather than him going for interceptions. He really wants to make sure you are completely taken out of the game. We have seen so many plays with Marlon Humphrey. And those are my favorite ones from him, really from any cornerback, but especially Marlon Humphrey because he's so good at it, where the receiver catches the ball. It looks like the receiver catches the ball, but Marlon Humphrey fights, fights, fights, fights, fights and knocks it out at the last second. That's that physicality. And again, he ain't afraid to go up against anybody. Now again, one of my guys in the comments section, my apologies, because I forgot exactly who it was. He said that he does feel like Marcus Peters was at the right spot on that top 10 cornerback list. He said, Marcus Peters, he should be at number two because when Marcus Peters wants to play, when Marcus Peters really wants to be that guy, he is the number two cornerback in the NFL. I said, hey, yeah, I have seen when he does wanna play, he does turn into that guy. He sure does. But we just, what we wanna see moving forward, not that we want him to change his game because Marcus Peters gained the way he plays. That's what made him who he is right now. That's why the Ravens gave him the extension. That's why he got the most pick since he came in the league because that's his play style. And with Marcus Peters, I feel like you're even gonna love it or hate it because it is very risky. It is extremely risky. But he's not afraid to take chances and hey, you need that. You look at a guy like Ed Reid. And not to compare the two because they obviously played two different positions and one's obvious hall of famer. I mean, he already got his jacket, but Marcus Peters, he could be well on his way. But both of them took chances. They jumped so many routes over the years and you need somebody like that. That's why I just, I'm glad that we can even have this conversation because all three of these guys are on the same team. But really when just referring to just Marcus Peters and Marlon Humphrey, it's a beautiful thing that we can go back and forth on which one of those two is better. Because at the end of the day, they play opposite sides of each other and they were in that same jersey. They both got on the same jersey. Again, Marlon Humphrey, he wants to make sure that you do not catch that football in front of him. Marcus Peters, he wants to catch the football in front of you. And again, Marcus Peters, just like Ed Reid, he wants to do everything in his power to score. Everything. He wants to make sure that if he gets his hands on the ball, that he's putting it back in the end zone and his defense comes right back out on that field. Couple plays later. After the point, after the touchdown and then after the kickoff. And I love that about him. But again, like we said earlier, it's a gift and a curse. Because with how much chances you take, with all the risks that you take, you can give up a lot too. And when it's bad, it's bad. But I was just replying to somebody in the comment section, I said, well, Marcus Peters, his aggression is a double-edged sword. It's a double-edged sword because it can go both ways. It can go good. It goes good and go really good. When it goes bad, oh man, it can go really bad. But again, that's his play style. But Marlon Humphrey, I feel like Marlon Humphrey has, it's crazy because I feel like Marlon Humphrey has less, I don't want to say less problems than a Marcus Peters, but I feel like Marlon Humphrey is just a better all-around corner than Marcus Peters. What Marcus Peters is good at, what he's better than Marlon Humphrey at is creating turnovers and scoring off of them turnovers too. That's his thing, but Marlon Humphrey gives up a lot less than a Marcus Peters. Because again, Marcus Peters, that's his play style. But that's why you have good safeties. That's why you need good safeties. If you're gonna have a cornerback like Marcus Peters, you best have a good safety behind him. Why? Because he's gonna take those chances and he needs backup. He needs somebody who is trustworthy that's gonna be behind him. Insert Earl Thomas. And there was a top 10 safety list that we're gonna talk about too. And Earl Thomas was on there. We'll talk about that another time. But with Earl, with Marcus, no, with Marlon Humphrey, excuse me, sorry, their names just, I'll be getting their names mixed up. But with Marlon Humphrey, I feel like he's a, I mean, you can leave both of them on an island. You can leave both of those cornerbacks on an island and you can trust them. But I feel like if you had to pick one to be left alone on an island. Ooh, that's actually a pretty good question that I think about it. Cause I was immediately gonna go, oh, Marlon Humphrey, you put him on that island. But then you think about the deep ball and it's like, ooh, yikes. But with Marcus Peters, you think about putting him on an island. Then you think about, whoa, wait a minute, what if he's on that island and he tries to jump the route? And it doesn't go so well. So I mean, it's a risk either way. But again, like I said before, I'm happy that we can even have this conversation and I'm happy that both of them are on the same team. But again, if I had to choose which one was truly the best cornerback on the Ravens, based off of everything right here right now, I'm going Marlon Humphrey. But again, it's not like he's running away from the competition. It's not like, oh, it's just so far apart. No, for me, in my opinion, I think it's like this. I think it's extremely close. And then again, Jimmy Smith having him is a luxury, man. So hopefully he's healthy this year. Hopefully just that's one of the biggest things with the Ravens this year. Not even just their secondary, not even just their defense, just the entire team. Really, I mean, for the NFL period, I just want a nice bill of health. And it's going to be hard. I know my God, Nitri brought out a really good point since the players don't have like the professional trainers and stuff. They don't have their official trainers and stuff from their official teams or whatever. Then they may be getting a little banged up more now than they ever have. So hopefully that doesn't come true, but we'll see. But I'm just looking forward to a really good season. I'm super excited, like more excited than ever now, just thinking about this team, thinking about these Ravens, thinking about this secondary, thinking about just everything, every aspect of these Ravens. Cause we don't talk about every aspect of the Ravens. We will continue to talk about every aspect of these Ravens. But I'm just really excited to see how things go moving forward. But anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. I love y'all and we out.