 Why Lamar Jackson will be an MVP in 2023? First question came from my guy, Kevin. He said, what's up engraving buddy? This video link is what I've been talking about. Why get rid of Greg Roman and why Lamar Jackson will be an MVP in 2023? And the link that he sent was a highlight video of Lamar Jackson versus UNC where he had 525 total yards. Oh, back when he was with Louisville. He had 525 total yards and six touchdowns. Back to the email, he continued, he said, I've been watching Lamar since he was a true freshman at Louisville. Lamar ran a more complex offense in college than all five of the years that he's been in the NFL. Todd Monkin will change that Lamar Jackson MVP 2023. And, hey, I can't fight you on that. Lamar Jackson, like even last year, especially before the injuries and stuff. I know there was a point in season where it got a little shaking, but how he started off Lamar Jackson, when he played, he usually always, he's in like the talkings and whatnot for MVP. He's always there. Because as we've seen Lamar does a lot for these Baltimore Ravens, he does a whole lot for these Baltimore Ravens. He doesn't consistently. And so now with the new offense, it is expected to be more pro style, or it is expected to compliment the wide receivers a lot more. It's expected to have a lot more balance, a lot more just playing off of the positive, like building off of each other, like the run, building off of the pass, the pass building off of the run. It's supposed to have a lot more chemistry. It's expected to have a lot more of that, or harmony. Shout out to the homie, Sarah Ellison, because when we talked about that with her a while back, that's the word that she used was harmony. But those are the expectations for this top Monkin offense with Lamar Jackson and new weapons and whatnot. So I see no reason why he couldn't be right back in an MVP race. And you know just what I mean. What I mean. You too, team, 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 from subs where you can ask any question you want to. If you want to be a part of it, the Team Keep It Clean patrons, you can send your question directly on Patreon. If you want to become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com. Slash engraving visit for everybody else. You can see a question to Team Keep It Clean at gmail.com. Next question came from my guy Anthony. He said, PQ? Oh, oh wait. Oh, decision, decision. What's going on? Hope everything is all good. So I'm sure you heard EDC say he wants to keep PQ in Baltimore, which I like him and roll together. I know people think we dragged the Simpsons to replace PQ, but what if we do extend PQ and away doesn't take a jump this year. I think it's away who gets replaced. Whoa. I never thought about that before. And away and Bateman got drafted. Was it 2021? Because this is Bateman's third year, 2021, 2022. Yeah, 2023, this is him and Bateman's third year. So yeah, after this year, they have to decide on both of their fifth year options. I didn't think about that at all. Let's keep going though. He said, I've seen Simpson in college come off the edge a lot and create some plays and he's very versatile. I think Simpson has that Michael Parsons skill set, just something I was thinking about and wanted to get your thoughts on trust. Wow, I never thought about that before. But I know Oway has struggled and it's been a bit rough. The potential is there, but again, potential is nothing if you don't tap into it. So it's important that this year, it's a big year for Oway. I mean, it's a big year for so many different people on the Ravens. I mean, every year is a big year, really. You can say that every single year. But this is huge for Bateman and Oway because it's fifth year option time. It's time for the Ravens to decide on those fifth year options. And now just because, say for instance, they decide, oh, we're gonna decline the fifth year option of one or the other. That doesn't mean it's over. It doesn't mean it's a wrap. They'll still have another year if the Ravens kept them at that point, another year to prove themselves and show out. Then they could get the contract essentially a little earlier. So just because the fifth year option is picked up or declined, it doesn't mean, oh, this player's gonna stay with the team forever. Oh, this player's gonna be going. It's just a matter of waiting to see what they do on the field. And third, expectations. Next question came from my boy George. He said, good morning, and the Ravens and the team keep it clean. So now that our most stressful off season has become one of our best off seasons, it has me thinking about realistic expectations for the upcoming season. Everyone is talking about how this upcoming season is gonna be so different than what us fans are used to. And while I agree, I think we need to take a step back and take a look. I feel like next year, not this year will be our year. Hear me out. Unfortunately, it's gonna take some moves as OBJ Rock is seen and a lot of others are either in a contract year or only signed a one year deal, which I feel could be an issue. With a new coordinator Tom Monk and his style of playing, his new system scheme is gonna take time to implement. I think we will be fairly balanced on offense, probably right down the middle 50, 50 pass and rush. But I'm not expecting chemistry to come overnight. And with a lot of changes to our scheme, I think it's fair to expect the year for everyone to jail and find the chemistry it's gonna take to be a legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Now that part it is, I think it's definitely gonna be growing pains for the new offense. And it's gonna take some time. I don't think a year, like the whole season and not be written. No, I don't know. I don't think you take that long. Like maybe like a couple of games or whatnot. Maybe a couple get like, I would expect them to get more get better and better as the year goes along. Get more and more comfortable and whatnot. Yes, it is a new system. But hey, like this the NFL, baby, you ain't got no year to get right in a new system. You gotta get that thing moving, man. So that's why this off season is of the essence. This obviously the, and once they start playing real football, it's gonna be important. But nah, you ain't got a year to do this thing, baby. Anyway, he said looking back at other teams with these kind of big changes to philosophy players and how this team will operate going forward. I believe this year will be good, but we'll be more of a building and bonding season than a realistic championship run. Especially we're looking at all the teams just in the AFC alone who have had time to put it all together. Thanks for what you do. And the positive platform you've created for all of us to share. And check team keep it clean. Appreciate that, George. Thank you, man. Now one thing with that, that's true, the AFC is loaded. But with Lamar Jackson, like Ravens can go against anybody, but it's important that it's with Lamar Jackson. So, and with this team, yeah, health, health, health has been one of their biggest enemies, man. One of their biggest enemies over the years, it's been health. It's been the biggest thing. So if they could fix that, and again, they've done different things to work on that. But if they could fix that, they can rock with anybody. They really, they really can rock with anybody. They can mess with anybody. When I saw this team, very injured team, back in what, 2021? When I saw this team beat the Chiefs, said, what? What? As long as they got, yeah, they can mess with anybody. When I saw this team going to Seattle in 2019 and really beat up on them, ooh, what? This, oh, all right, yeah. Okay. And they've been playing plenty of other games you can choose from too, but they can rock with anybody. If they have health, they can mess with anybody in the league. They really can. And I ain't saying that just because I'm a Ravens fan or whatever, but no, it's true though. They can mess with anybody. So let's hope that they're healthy. But yeah, chemistry is super important too. Obviously, as you know, and you stated in your question, chemistry is super important, but the more you work together, and again, you're gonna go through the mistakes, you're gonna go through the problems, or you're gonna go through that stuff, but as long as you're building more than you tearing down, well, not necessarily tearing down, but long as you're building and working and succeeding a lot more than you're failing, that's what's important. Because again, the mistakes are gonna happen. The mistakes are gonna happen. It's gonna be a bad throw here. It's gonna be an interception. It's gonna be a drop. It's gonna be a fumble. It's gonna be a sack. It's gonna be this, that. It's gonna be, stuff's gonna happen. But as long as you're working on correcting that stuff, you'll be good to go. Next question came from my guy Everett. He said, what's up fam? Good to put another question in. How's your crew's going? Hope God gave you back everything you lost and more. Oh, I appreciate that. This, that whole thing was, ooh, it was an experience. The demonetization, it was rough. And I was talking to my mom about it the other day. I'm like, hey, it's just, it's a loss. It was a big loss, but a lot of good came from it. And a lot of good came from it. The way that Team Keep It Clean came together and really, really supported like crazy. I couldn't believe it, man. Cause I knew all of y'all were good people, but I didn't know y'all were like good people like that, like that. But that showed me a lot. It opened my eyes to a lot. It just made me appreciate all of y'all that much more because y'all looked out like for real. And as far as the crew, the crew was fun. It was nice to get away. And we had actually made, we recorded two videos on the crew's. It was seven days. We recorded two videos on there. And there was a time early on, and we recorded those videos like early on in the crew's. But there was a time when I was thinking, all right, something happens with the Ravens. I'm gonna talk about it, I'll record a video or whatever. But then I was like, hold up, no. I said, no, I'm not doing that. I said, this is going to be a vacation. This is going to, like I'm going to disconnect from all of that stuff. We ain't gonna be on here recording everything that had not, all that stuff can't wait. It can't wait. And it did. And it was nice. It was nice to like really take a break break from all of this. Cause we always talk about it around here. You need breaks from all of that stuff. Yeah, just get away from it sometime. So it was nice. So, and that crew was something that had been playing for a long time already. Like for, yeah, a long time. Wow. But it was nice. Like the timing of it was just everything just worked out, man. And this year has just been crazy. It's been a crazy year. The whole Lamar Jackson interview, that was insane. Still got like some more stuff coming up, like real soon. Real soon, something else crazy coming up real soon. That should be a lot of fun. And maybe Team Keeper Clean can get involved in it and whatnot. We'll see. But I'll let y'all know, once stuff gets more finalized and official or whatnot, but stuff is moving, man. Stuff is moving, stuff is crazy. It's just, things are amazing, man. I'm just really appreciative of everything and just everybody involved. Cause it's been a process, man. It's been a big, big, long process, man. So I appreciate y'all. So thank you, man. Anyway, he said, first, are you going to London? I didn't plan on it, but I can't say for sure. Most likely not, but probably not. But we'll see, but probably not, but I don't know. I don't know, but we'll see. Probably not though. But anyway, he said, how do you feel about the Raven Secondary being tested this year with the corners they have against the cores and star quarterbacks, including Rookies, that being Houston, the Colts, Seahawks, Dolphins, well anyway, he named all the teams. So yeah, they're going to be tested. Cause again, you got Marlon Humphrey. We know what you're going to do. You got Rocket Sane, he should be solid. But then after that, it's like, ooh, really getting tested. And these quarterbacks are going to find those young guys. They going to find those inexperienced guys and they're going to try to attack them like crazy. So I'm still wondering if Raven's going to make another move in the secondary. All right, he said, third, the player I'm praying makes a 53 is Keaton Mitchell. He's a beast that reminds me of a Tony Pollard, the Anthony Thomas, Darren Sproes. We could use him in so many, so many packages that have back running back slot, punt return, kick return, at least 15 touches a game. Ooh, that's, that's a lot. That's a lot, especially with everybody else on offense too. And he said, seven punt return, two to three kick return, three runs, and about two catching opportunities, a hundred total yards average a game. He has that CJ2K speed, even between the tackles, finds holes in the shoots through. Oh, really? Oh, I didn't know it was like that. That's gold as a back looking at Gus and JK battling for a contract and he'll be in a special team. You could have a speed package with him and Zay and Dube on the field, et cetera. Fourth, at corner, doesn't there need to be at least two more signings unless the youngest really show big dog promise? Not 2021 promise not to get hurt, LOL. I think of Peters and William Jackson could or would be good overkill. We'll see with Marcus Peters. Hey, maybe by the time we edit this video and put it together, Marcus Peters will have made his decision or some of the team will make their decision on him. So we'll see. He said, and last, what's that with Houston and Amos? I would love him to come back home at safety and let Kyle work out on the field like a Highland and Simmons on the Cardinals. Oh, so he could just be everywhere. And so what I mean, like last year, like last year, he was in safety, but he was like a slot corner. He was a pass rush. He was all that stuff. So he was just moving around. So I see what you're saying. He said, from our opponents, I'm calling it a great 14 and three season. Okay. Lamar MVP, 5,000 yards, 40 touchdowns, 15 interceptions. Okay. Beckham 110 for 1200 and 12 touchdowns. Whoa, Andrew's 94,000 and 10 touchdowns. Okay, I can see that. Bateman for 70 and 800 yards and eight touchdowns. Whoa. Nelson Aguilar, 60 catches for 600 yards and five touchdowns. Whoa, Zay flowers 85 for 1,000 yards and five touchdowns. Whoa, Duvenay 25 for 250 yards and three touchdowns, likely 20 for 200 yards and two touchdowns. 460 completions equals 27 completions a game. And on about 30 to five to 38 passing attempts a game. Oh, okay, okay. See, when you put the numbers, when I'm reading the numbers, I was like, whoa. But then you break it down like this. Oh, okay, I see. And my games I want to see is the London game. 49ers is hopefully Christmas night, or it is, it's on Monday night football on the 25th. And he said, I now hope the Miami and Seahawks games are night games in Baltimore. The Miami game is, I think it's a one PM game on December 31st in Baltimore, but the Seahawks game, I don't think that's a night game. He said, that's my time, Brody, sorry for the long one. Appreciate you, man. This question came from Den. He said, I ain't graven, hope this reaches you while you and the family on excellent health, both physically and mentally. I would have added financially in that too. However, now that YouTube stopped acting like, now that YouTube stopped acting like the EDC and run that money, I'm sure you're doing well in that area now. And graven, with the media dislike of Lamar Jackson, especially with him not using an agent to do his contract, do you really realize that they have nothing negative to say about the contract, except that he didn't get a fully guaranteed deal? There's always gonna be some, somebody say something negative about it, of course. But yeah, that's one of the only things that they can hold on to. Ah, see, he didn't get as fully guaranteed money like he wanted. But with that, then I know some Ravens fans have done that too, like, ah, hey, he didn't get it fully guaranteed. My thing is, all right, he didn't get fully guaranteed. But it's like, when it comes to negotiations, you don't aim low. You're supposed to aim high. And then when you settle for less than you were aiming for, you get that. It's like, it's a win. But it worked out for both sides for sure, man. Ravens ain't had to pay fully guaranteed, but Lamar, he got to become the highest paid, got a lot of bread, and now they locked in. So it worked. But anyway, he said, if this deal was not an exceptional deal, they would have been ripping him all over the place. But now that he has shown that he is more than competent, everyone stays silent. The struggle of a young black man. Yeah, you know that there've been plenty of people just ripping him in the shreds over the years. Not year, but years. Not off season, but off seasons. Hey, you need to get an agent. He needs to get an agent. He doesn't understand how these contracts work. He doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know how to negotiate. His mom doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't have any credentials. This, that, and the third. And they got it done. So yeah, what are they gonna say now? And the last question on this episode, the question from subs came from my guy, Rodale. He said, no disrespect with all due respect. My guy, not trying to be that guy and not trying to throw shade. I repeat, not trying to be that guy and not trying to throw shade. But on this lovely afternoon in Baltimore, I just had a random thought pop in my head and wanted to see what you thought. Uh-oh, okay. You said it. Now essentially, Lamar Jackson has been here and started for three and a half years. Having an MVP as a quarterback was something that we never could have imagined and something unheard of in Baltimore. With that being said, that award was essentially four years ago. This is a, what have you done for me lately, Lee? And as I look back in history, was Flacco's start better than Lamar Jackson's? Well, before I read the rest of this email, if we're talking about individually, no. Team-wise, yeah, of course. They win the playoffs every year. They won playoff games every year. Then they got the AFC Championship. Then they ended up winning the Super Bowl. So yeah, Flacco's start, team-wise, was better than Lamar Jackson's. Individually though, no. Well, if you go individually like him as a quarterback when, I mean, QB wins all stat, right? So QB wins, the playoff wins, yeah. If we talking playoffs, yes. Flacco's start was better than Lamar Jackson's, obviously, because they won. And he really started turning on in the playoffs a lot. Well, it took him a little bit, but once he started turning on in the playoffs, he started turning it on, it was good to go. If we talking regular season, then it's Lamar all day. So yeah, that's real. So now we just, what we're waiting on now is for Lamar and him to turn that corner in the playoffs. And Lamar's showing that he gonna show up in the playoffs. He gonna make stuff happen, but this is where now we need more of a team effort too. We need more of that. And another part of that is the playmakers too. You see with Flacco in, especially in the playoffs, you know, Flacco was weird, man, because in regular season, Flacco, he get through, but then in playoffs, he turned to a different animal. But something that helped Flacco big time, as you all know, and it helped him get a Super Bowl, a Super Bowl MVP and all that. Ravens, they drafted Tori Smith. Tori Smith in the second round of the 2011 draft. Pretty sure, from Maryland. Deep threat wide receiver, big play guy, drew a lot of passing appearances, great. But they traded for Anquan Bowden. They traded for Anquan Bowden. They also signed Jacoby Jones. And in 2012, all of those things were together. And you still had Dennis Pitter and Ed Dixon. So you had a really good title. Actually, Ed Dixon used to be better than Dennis Pitter, but then I forgot what happened. They ended up switching. Dennis Pitter took off and the rest was history. But you had a good title, solid backup tight end. You had multiple good running backs. So, I mean, sort of like the Ravens kind of got now. I mean, you ain't got no Anquan Bowden on the team, but you got some weapons in place now. So the Ravens for Flacco, they started putting everything all together. And it was no coincidence that when they really, when they really started, because they had the defenses. Remember? They had the defenses. They had the good defenses before. But then they started really putting it all together on offense and coincidentally, what was the coincidence? No, but coincidentally, that's when they ended up in the Super Bowl and the Flacco, when they put it all together, all together. So hopefully it wouldn't be and put it all together for Lamar, they can do the same thing. They do the same thing. And a lot of that is on Lamar too, obviously. Big part of Lamar's missed some time. He's missed time last year, missed time the previous year. That's important too. Just being there for the stretch. That's super important because without Lamar, this team ain't going nowhere as we know. But it's important that he's there for the stretch. And now it's like, he got weapons. He got some weapons, some decent weapons. It's like, okay, got a new offense. So again, like we talked about earlier, it's gonna take some time to get adjusted. But once they saw a rolling, they should be rolling. And then especially by the end of the season, especially come playoff time, they should definitely be clicking a lot more. They should be flowing by then. So the potential is there. It's a matter of Raven's getting it. Yeah, but let's continue. So I went off on a little tangent. Anyway, he said, ironically, both QBs dealt with great defenses, great tight ends, great runner backs, and disgusting wide receivers. Goodwill wide receivers, free agent leftovers and just disappointing draft selections were thrown out on game day as both QBs wide receiver room. Here's how the QBs compared. Flacco won a division twice in his first four years, 2011, 2012. Lamar won a division twice his first four years, 2008, 2019. Excuse me, 2018, 2019. Flacco made the playoffs every year in his first four years and won at least one game every year. He made the conference championship in two out of his first three years. And in year four, won the Super Bowl. No, it was year five. Yeah, it was year five. Yeah. His playoff record in his first four years was nine and four, which is including the Epic Super Bowl run. I feel like some of those numbers might be a little, but yeah, his Super Bowl was year five. Cause, wait a minute. Yeah, 2008 to 2009. 2009 to 10, 10 to 11, 11, 12, 12, 13. Yeah, year five. Anyway, he said Lamar Jackson made the playoffs every year in his first three years, Tyler Huntley year four. He didn't get a win until his third playoff appearance. His fourth playoff appearance, he wasn't available. His playoff record to date is one in three, not including the Tyler Huntley's 2023 playoff loss. Flacco completed 207 passes out of 373 attempts and it's four years in a playoffs, posted 2,672 yards, 19 touchdowns and eight exceptions. And again, ultimately won the Super Bowl and became the Super Bowl MVP. Lamar completed 76 out of 136 attempts and his three playoff appearances posted 900 yards, three touchdowns and five interceptions. And again, LJ has a regular season MVP. All in all, obvious roster construction, coaching opponents and a boatload of other variables can come into play. However, when you line them up toe to toe, just like we praise LJ and give them a standing ovation for essentially all of Baltimore's success. Ooh, excuse me. We can look back at what Flacco accomplished when it mattered most and wonder why the shortcomings for Lamar Jackson. A regular season MVP and a boatload of regular season wins or enough regular season wins with great playoff performances and a Super Bowl with a Super Bowl MVP. While we can hope for both, yes, that's what we're hoping for. Again, you got a regular season MVP. Okay, cool, nice. Let's go get that other MVP, the one that comes in the post season. I mean, with that Super Bowl, that would be a beautiful thing. But anyway, he said, while we can hope for both. Oh, there it goes. Lamar is a, I lost my place, as y'all can tell. While we can hope for both, Lamar is a better talent overall than Flacco, meaning he has to prove himself when it matters most which Flacco was able to do. And there it goes, yeah. And that's what we're waiting on there. Waiting on that turn in the playoff time. We're waiting for the Ravens to hit that switch come playoff time. And again, the potential's there. But now Lamar just got to be there for it because he wasn't there for the playoffs last year, obviously. And then he had him in position before, the year before, but then he ended up getting hurt. So it was unfortunate, man. But that's why Lamar's there, they can rock with anybody. But health is wealth. If you make it in the playoffs, you got a shot. Anybody got a shot? You got a shot. And like we always say, Ravens can mess with anybody, but health is wealth. So being there, that's the first part. And then just making it happen. So the Ravens paid Lamar Jackson that money because they feel like he can make it happen. They went out and got some other pieces because they feel like he can make it happen. I feel like he can make it happen. Again, biggest, biggest enemy for the Ravens biggest enemy for Lamar Jackson. It's been health. It's been the biggest enemy. So Ravens conquered that. Lamar Jackson conquers that. And these receivers conquered that. I mean, the receivers, that's been a big enemy too. And that been a Raven thing for a long time. Like you mentioned, it's been a Raven thing with Joe Flacco two a lot of times, but it's like when they, again, when they surrounded Flacco with the best, at wire receiver, when they really put their best foot forward at wire receiver for Flacco, it changed everything. Changed everything. Now, the way they did it for Flacco, they did it before his rookie contract was up. I just wish, again, I wish they would have done that for Lamar. I wish, I really wish. I really wish, but yeah, I know the rest of that story. But we're here now. We're here now. So let's see how these Ravens do. Let's see how Lamar does. And let's hope that, again, he can add another MVP. But this time, not a regular season MVP, but a Super Bowl MVP to his trophy case. Let's go.