 Going into this football season, nobody ever said the Ravens were going to be perfect. And I don't think anybody expected them to either. And if they did, yeah, you set yourself up for that one. But anyway, they have a lot of issues. Some are new issues, some are old issues and some are issues that just have a scratching on his and wondering what is going on. But what is the biggest issue? What are the biggest issues? And are they issues that are fixable? Can these things be rightened? Even though that's not even a word. Can they be solved? Well, in order to solve and answer that question, we bring on a very special guest. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated, automated. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right engraved? Right engraved. Team, keep it clean. A very, very special guest in the building. It's been a long time coming. I got my guy Jamil here before we get into it because we got a lot to discuss. Let everybody know where to find you at, exactly what it is that you do, especially on Twitter, let everybody know. Definitely on Twitter, my at, my Twitter handle is jamil7 underscore. Jamil7 underscore J-A-M-E-E-L, and number seven and then underscore. And that's how you can find me on Twitter. I engage a lot. If you want to talk football, get at me, DM, you know, on the timeline, however you want to do it, man, I'm with it. I'm with all the smoke, I should say. Hey, he ain't lying though, man. And that's exactly what we getting ready to do today because especially after the way that the Giants game has went, and really the way that a lot of these games have went for the Baltimore Ravens, there has continued to be so much to talk about. And the Ravens are sitting right now at three and three. And just overall, how are you feeling about the Ravens right here right now? Oh man, so it's kind of weird because it's like the feeling that I have for them is like kind of how the Ravens made me feel when Joe Flacco was here, like boring. It's a lot of boredom. Haven't felt like this since that 2018 season prior to Lamar taking over. It's kind of like those feelings are starting to creep back. For me, because I just feel like it's like repeating cycle. It's just over and over again, same things going on. Marlon Humphrey literally made a tweet about insanity, just doing something over and over again. And that's all, it's like a repeated cycle every week. And that's just where I met with him. And it's like I don't even know what to expect anymore going into these games. Yeah, I feel you on that. And I think a lot of us will feel you on that too. We don't know what to expect. But with a lot of what Ravens have been doing these past six games, it sort of is like we kind of do know what to expect. Ravens get a significant lead and then that lead shrinks down and then they go through all the drama towards it in this game. But after watching these Ravens, what would you say right now is the Ravens biggest issue? Coaching is the biggest issue. I know we like to say that the personnel, the wide receivers and things of that nature, we all know that that's a, we could use some help in that position as well as edge. We all know that, right? But we just lost to a team who has a receiver that they gave $20 million that wasn't on the field. Cadarius Tony, they spent the first round pick on Cadarius Tony. He was not on the field. They beat us with literally no receivers. You know what I'm saying? So they didn't have any receivers. They beat us with Saquon Barkley and with our mistakes. So I just don't, I think it's coaching, man. If Brian Daybaugh or, you know, someone that, you know, have a little bit more expertise in offensive play-calling, I think if they had this roster, you would see a lot of, you know, a lot more success in different areas. I think we're struggling with the talented roster. I think we do have talent on this roster and I think we could make things happen. Our record is a, you know, it's really not a good representation of what the same is about as far as the talent wise. Cause the Giants doesn't, they don't have a far more talented roster than we do. Like they're actually less talented than we are. The Giants and they're five in one. That's what I go back to coaching. Coaching is the common denominator between us and the Giants in a couple of teams. Yeah, yeah. I can see why you would say that there's been a lot of silly mistakes in both wins and losses from the Baltimore Ravens. And there seems to be, in my opinion, there seems to be just a lack of leadership and it seems to be a lack of, I know it kind of sounds like the same thing, but it seems like there's a lack of just somebody for the players to look up to and really follow. Right. And what I mean when I say that, like, you see stuff, and I guess it does have a lot to do with coaching too, you see stuff like, for example, the Duffield Way penalty, where the Ravens, they had just stopped the Giants on fair down. It's getting ready to be fourth down, fourth and one, I think. And the Duffield Way, he's holding up, Ben Bredesen's helmet, former Raven, by the way, holding up his helmet, waving it up in the air, then he puts it on the ground, kicks it a little bit. And I'm thinking like, man, like what's going on for a player to do that, especially in that moment, and especially with somebody like, with the characteristics and the vibe that a Duffield Way has. Like, a Duffield Way, I remember when he first got drafted, he was super chill, super laid-back. Yeah, yeah. All his family, they in the background screaming, yelling, ah, they going crazy. And you hear him talking. In the interview, he just sitting there, yeah, I'm ready to go to work. I'm not drafted by the Ravens. Yeah, I'm here first round, okay, cool. And that's how, every time you hear him in a press or whatnot, he's not this crazy energetic guy, but not to say he can't be, but to see him do that, it was just very uncharacteristic of an a Duffield Way. But it just, something like that, just it made it seem like this team, and again, the silly penalties, not even just the penalties in general, but the silly penalties, that continues to be an issue. Illegal formations. Mm, that's another one. And the legal formations, the legal shifts. 12 men on the field, man. Yeah, 12 men on the field. It's tough. It's really tough. Yeah, man. So with that, what you're saying coaching is the biggest issue. What would you do to fix it? How do you think the Ravens people about addressing it? Okay, so I was in a space and guys were saying, you know, gut out everything, blow it up and things of that nature. And you know, I don't have an issue with that, but because it's not like we haven't changed coaching in the middle of a season. And then we went to the Super Bowl last time we did that. Remember, we fired Cam Cameron, bought in Jim Caldwell. Well, yes and no. We didn't. Because no, in 2012, they did that. They fired Cam Cameron. And Caldwell took over, Ravens went to the Super Bowl. But it wasn't the last time that they did that. Because in, I want to say 2016, on October 16th, no, they fired Mark Tressman. On October 16th, yeah. I forget about Mark Tressman. A lot of us do. I forget about Tressman. I forget about Tressman. Okay, so I say that to say we've done it and had success doing it. So we went to the Super Bowl that year when we fired Cam Cameron and we got Jim Caldwell. But the difference is when you blow it all up, a lot of people are talking about head coach, offensive coordinator, they're saying everything, not just the OC switch. I'm one of those people that feel like, you know, it just, it ran its course. You know, things get old after a while. It's time for something new. It's okay. It's not to say that John Hallbrough is in a good head coach and that Greg Roman wouldn't have success elsewhere. It's just time to move on. I think it ran its course. That whole Lamar with John Hallbrough thing, it just ran its course. I think it's time for, you know, them to go a different direction, the Ravens organization. Yeah, that's powerful right there because if they, because my thinking has been this, they could get rid of Greg Roman tomorrow. I know a lot of Ravens fans jumping for joy. Yeah, Greg Roman's out, G-Roll's gone. But my biggest fear with that would be that the cycle would just continue. They were bringing another offensive coordinator as they have done. Because, you know, they done fired plenty of offensive coordinators over the years, got rid of them or whatnot. But it continued to be the same cycle where we like, man, we complaining about the Ravens offense, complaining about the Ravens offensive coordinators, and then the heat gets turned up enough and then boom, all right, that offensive coordinator's fired, but they bring in somebody else who does a lot of the same stuff. Exactly. So this is why, for me, I've been real big. And something that you mentioned before we went live is that the philosophy, the just the, there seems to be a hold up with the philosophy as far as Ravens moving in a different direction for what they, for where they have been so far. How do you feel the Ravens should move when it comes to their overall philosophy? I'm at a point now where I feel like they are in a bit of an identity crisis. I feel like over the last couple of draft classes, minus last, this most recent one, I feel like there were things going on where EDC was taking a certain type of players, certain type of players in the draft that didn't necessarily align with Greg Roman's offense, the offense that John Harbara also loves to run. He loves to run the ball. That's just the philosophy, defense and running the ball, controlling the clock. I think it's time for something new. It's time to go in a different direction. I don't, not gonna say you need to be a past happy team, but I just think that they need to go in a different direction where as though the way that they're running their offense. Yeah. I think these are going in a different direction because it's just, it's ran dry. It's ran dry is where we've seen this since 2019. It was exciting. It was, oh my God. It was so exciting Lamar went to MVP in 2020. Teams kinda got, you know, a little acclimated to what we do. So it kinda slowed down a little bit. And then in 2021, you know, we got hit with all the injuries. Now we're looking like, you know, what's going on type of deal. Yeah, I agree, man. And I know a lot of times when we've talked about that same thing on here with the Ravens sort of shifting their philosophy, you don't have to beat it's just, all right, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. You do want more emphasis on the passing game, on the receivers, on the corral concepts, all that stuff. But that's not to say, oh, the run game is gonna be neglected. No, there's nothing like that. But just want more emphasis on that passing game. And this year, it seems as if they started going in that direction, that direction a bit. So things have been changing, but I just, I'm almost scared. Like you said, it almost seems like even with them making that shift this year, it just, it almost seems like it's almost capped. Now, Lamar, he certainly hasn't been perfect at all. He has not been perfect. He has not. You know, this past week against the Giants, he missed a couple of throws. Last week against the Bengals, he missed the two touchdowns. And then he also had overthoned the Marcus Robinson, which ended up leading to that interception. So Lamar has certainly not been perfect. No, no, no, no, no. He has not been perfect at all. Yeah, it's, you know, people don't like that though. You better not say that. No, don't, don't criticize Lamar. Don't criticize Lamar, man. You can't criticize LJ. We all love LJ. Most of us love Lamar Jackson, but he has to be better. Of course, he has to play better. There are, for all the flag that the wide receivers get about not being able to get separation and get open. You do see a lot of that on certain plays, but there are plays when they do get open because it's so, it's so, the scheme is like the margin for area is so small. You have to be perfect. Thank you. You have to be perfect 24-7. So if Lamar's only taken two deep shots a game and he misses both, it's blown out of proportion. If he throws the ball down the field five times and he misses two and hits three, we're not having these conversations. If Rashad Bateman gets 10 targets and he catches seven of them and he drops three, are we really having this, you know what I'm saying? Or two of them are inaccurate and one of them is a drop or however you want to dice it up. If he catches seven out of his 10 targets, are we really having this conversation? He's getting five targets, so you want him to catch all five or four, however many you want him to catch. So it's like, it's small, margin for area is small. I don't have any notes written down for this video. I don't have anything saved on my phone, anything like that, but I feel with what you just said, like you were reading my notes or you seen something that I got stored in my phone because I was thinking the exact same thing and like, man, he's saying what I'm thinking of the volume. The volume, it can be so low. A lot of times that everything, and this is not just a this year issue. This has been over the past couple of years. The passing volume is so low that everything gets highlighted that much more. Everything is that bigger when it doesn't go the right way. Absolutely. And again, like you mentioned Lamar, he ain't been perfect. He done had his issues with the receivers. They ain't been perfect. They done had their issues. And of course he ain't been perfect. He done had his issues as well. But for the offense, that's why when they do mess up, it hurts that much more. If everybody ain't on the same page, it hurts that much more. They ain't passing the ball like crazy like that. Exactly. So we'll see how this thing, go ahead, go ahead. No, no, no, I was just saying, man, I agree. Like, that's how it's been, like, you know, if you, like I said, man, if you're not, it's a, it's a volume. Like you saying, bro, it's volume. If you're not attempting a lot of those deep shots or things of that nature, and you're, you know, you're missing two and all you took was two for that game. It's like, oh Lamar missed, like when Lamar missed to Thailand and he missed, he missed Thailand last, last week versus the Bengals, well, the week before last, and he missed Duvernay as well. Those two misses, I don't think we attempted to go down the field again for the rest of the game. A lot of everything was in the middle with Mark Andrews after that. Like, it's like once we, once something doesn't work, and I remember you've even said this before, like we go away from it when it doesn't work. When it goes bad, we just, we go away from it. We don't even try it anymore. Like, I'm kind of seeing that. And that was like from the past, but I'm kind of seeing that as a recently, like if we miss on an opportunity once or twice, we shut down shop and we just try to, we just, you know, try to find other ways to move the ball. Yeah, man. So hopefully, hopefully moving forward, Ravens can start to get a lot of this stuff right because they're a team that's, they're close. They are close. Again, every single game, double digit leads. The games that they lost in the fourth quarter, you leading by 21 against the Dolphins. The Bills, they had a 17 point lead at one time. Then it just kept shrinking, shrinking, shrinking. And then of course against the Giants, they had a 10 point lead with six minutes left, not in a half, not in a court, but in a game. They had six minutes left in the game. And it just, it all came crumbling down. So hopefully these Ravens could get it turned around. I know a lot of people got their doubts, but hopefully they can get it turned around. They need to shake something up. We just, they start clicking on, oh, something got to give these Baltimore Ravens. But before we get out of here, one more time, let everybody know where they can find you at. Yeah, man. If you want to, you know, have a conversation with me, you want to talk to me, it's easy to reach on Twitter at Jamil7 underscore J-A-M-E-E-L, seven underscore. Get that, man. Follow me on Twitter, you know, all that good stuff. I'm with the smoke. And I have his link down below in the description, just to make it easy for y'all. So I appreciate you coming on. Thank you for sure. For sure it's gonna bring you on again. You already know what time it is, man. Keep it clean. Make sure you follow him on Twitter. He'll be bringing it, like literally every single thing. So much love to you. Keep doing your thing. Keep it clean. Yes. Gravis. And you know just what I mean. 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