 So to get us started on this episode, first question came from my guy, Brian. And he said, this may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Lamar should sign what's being offered. I support him getting all of his money guaranteed, but that's not how NFL contracts typically work. And I worry that the Watson deal is being used as a baseline when I don't think it should be. Hey, whose problem is that though? Think, think about it, think about it. Whose problem is that? The market continuously is always reset by the next quarterback that gets the next biggest deal. And Watson, he browns and they change the game. Let it for better, for worse, they change the game, especially with all the, anyway. But Lamar is in DeSean Watson's same line of work in the NFL and playing quarterback, but Lamar ain't missed no time for none of the, yeah. But so yeah, DeSean Watson and the Browns, they change stuff, but that's the market. That's the market. And it did, I know a lot of people call it an outlier contract, but it did have an impact because DeSean Watson's average per year was 46. That impacted everything because Kyla Murray, he got paid after DeSean and his average is 46.1. Now he ain't get all the guarantee money now, but he got the higher average. So again, the market was reset by DeSean, but let's keep going. He said, it's an outlier deal made by a poorly, made by a poorly run franchise that was in a desperate situation. The Ravens are neither. So he's saying the Ravens are neither a poorly run franchise and they are not desperate. He said, I don't think it's a good idea to go into this season and risk injury without a deal. Lamar will immediately lose leverage if he gets hurt again or underperformed, which I'm not expecting. See, why with Lamar Jackson? Why do we always have to go, not everybody, but why does a lot of people have to always go to the what ifs, what if he gets hurt? What if he has a bad season? And I know you said you weren't expecting it, but why does that even have to be, what ifs? What if the Ravens didn't have Lamar? Where would they be? We don't have to wonder about a what if with that because we know what it is without Lamar. But anyway, let's keep it moving. He also said, let me just end it by saying, I think the Watson deal is one of the worst contracts in NFL history. And he said, not only because of Watson's all field drama, but because I feel like Lamar would already have been signed long term. If that deal had never been made, they kind of messed things up. Let me know what you think and keep it clean. Appreciate it. Okay, then it got a little personal with that one. He said, what the Watson deal, one of the worst deals in NFL history. But then he said the why and the why was personal feelings because he like, hey, if that Watson deal would have never happened, then Lamar Jackson, he would have been signed already. Cause the Watson deal complicates, and it does complicate stuff. But for Lamar, it complicates stuff in a great way. Cause he like, hey, Watson got all that. Hey, kinda got all that. Hey, what's up with me? But at the same time with that, it's like, for me, when you think about it, think about it if you got hired at a job and you got hired at this job four or five years ago. So you've been working it for a little while. So you've been working at a job for like four or five years. But for those first four or five years, while you're working that job, you are criminally underpaid. And you get it because that's the way that the contract that you set up with this company, that's the way that it worked. But you are criminally underpaid for everything that you have to do. And for you to have to be the leader for that company in a couple of different categories. And one of them, you should not be the leader for consistently, but you have been the leader for consistently. You having to do so much for your company. You are, when it's time for you to get a raise, you are not just gonna take, hey, here you go. Here's your raise. There you go. Take it. You're not just gonna take the first raise that they give you. You're going to want to negotiate, especially if they give you a raise to where it's like, hold up, what's this? Where's the rest? And especially if you see somebody else who has gotten into some trouble, who's in your same line of work, but they got into some trouble and they get a crazy boatload of money. So it's almost like your company, the company that you work for is rewarding for bad behavior, but you've been on good behavior, but you haven't been rewarded yet. No, you're gonna look at that and be like, hold up now. Let me get taken care of too. But even without the whole Deshaun Watson thing, when it comes to you negotiating with your company, you all are gonna go back and forth. And it's gonna go back and forth until you come to an agreement on something that you feel is fair for you and them. And they're gonna be pushing pool from both sides. Your company that you work for, they may not feel like, hey, we may not feel like you're worth that. We may not wanna give that to you. We may not wanna even guarantee that to you. So that could happen. But then, so hopefully, and hopefully for your company, hopefully for everybody who likes watching your company, hopefully you don't end up going to a different company, but business happens. We know business happens, business can get so ugly. And this is why I just, I do not want it to get to the franchise tag, man. Because if it gets to the franchise tag, stuff could get really, really nasty. Really, really nasty. So hopefully the Ravens and Lamar, they can come to an agreement. That's good. They can come to an agreement. So this whole contract thing, it can be in the past. But I don't know, that clock is ticking. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of Questions From Y'all. And before we get into this, I gotta give a special shout out to the newest team, Keep It Clean patrons, Dorell and Mike C. I appreciate y'all and all the patrons and really just everybody. Y'all been showing insane amounts of support every single video, every single day. So I appreciate it. I appreciate it. When we did that video titled the other day, y'all really need to chill out. Y'all go, y'all can chill out. Y'all can relax a little bit, but we appreciate it. We got some great questions from some patrons, but let's get into this first one. And it came from my guy Raymond. He's been a patron for a couple days. So he's a new Team Keep It Clean patron. He said, and Raymond, do you think our wide receivers can handle the weight we are putting on them? He said, me, I think they can. What is your take on this? Hey, they ain't got no choice but to. They ain't got no choice but to. It's up to them now to show the world, like, hey, we here and we ready for this. So you got Bateman, DeMarcus Robinson, Pro Shade whenever he gets back, Tyler Wallace whenever he gets back, Devin Duvenay, possibly Bridges, possibly Polk. They're rumors that Raven's looking at some other guys too, we'll see. But, hey, so it's put up a shut up time. So if they, whether they can handle it or not, we're gonna see, we're gonna see real, real soon. So it's important for LeMar to give them opportunities. It's important for Harbaugh and Roman to give them opportunities. And it's important for them when they get opportunities to make the most of it, to show that they can handle that weight. Next question also came from a patron, my guy, Jakeyon Pete. He said, yo, he said, yo, engraving, I'm not a fan of the Ravens, but I enjoy the content and the few Ravens players I like tighten up engraving and keep up with the good work. May God bless you. Appreciate that, man. See, that's what I'm talking about, man. Y'all just, y'all showing crazy support like that, man. Jakeyon said he ain't even a fan of the Ravens. He a fan of the Titans, but still became a patron. So I appreciate that a lot, man. So thank you. Next question, well, okay, I guess it looks like a comment came from a new patron, Mike C. He said, I follow the channel daily. It's awesome. I have been trying to become a patron for a while now. Oh, he said he's a season ticket holder living in Baltimore, but got property down in Florida. Hey, that's what's up, man. And he said, glad I could support the channel. Thank you, man. Thank you. That's what's up, man. And hopefully with you being a season ticket holder, you can go lose your voice a bunch of times at these games because you'll be cheering so much for the Ravens to get back to that home field advantage that they used to have and they could go undefeated at home this year. What if they went undefeated at home and on the road this year and they did do that whole 20 and no, I know it ain't gonna happen, but. Appreciate you, Mike. Thank you, man. Next question also came from a patron, my god, TJ. He said, yo, I'm Raven. Thanks for the shout out. Say you made my kids think I was famous. Hey, none of us are famous, but you're special, man. And your kids should definitely know that you are special. And we over here at Team Keeping Clean, we appreciate you. So shout out to you. Shout out to your kids too. Shout out to your whole family, man. He said they loved it. Thank you. And he said, to the point, I say it lightly in your voice. Woo, let's go. But he said, doesn't he look like a reincarnate? Oh my goodness. This is crazy, man. He says, doesn't he look like a reincarnated Angkwan boulder? What's funny? Just talking to my guy, JT. He said he ain't calling reincarnated anything, but he said he reminds him of Angkwan boulder. We were just having this conversation yesterday or the day before yesterday. And he said the exact same thing. I haven't seen it yet, but I also haven't really been looking for it yet either. But sometimes when you're not even looking for things, they just show up. Like how JK reminded me of Ray Rice, like that dude, I mean, but he did have a big 27 on his back. So that helped. But I'm gonna start looking for that and see. But he said, yikes, can you say Super Bowl victory? Hey, I hope so. He said he moves like a dog receiver. I can see him making a game, winning touchdown, catching this year's Super Bowl. God bless the family and team. Keep it clean. What you think? Hey, trust me. I don't think anybody would be mad at that at all. If that ended up happening, yeah, we'd all be celebrating. Next question came from my boy Phillip. He was also a patron and all these questions have been from patrons so far. Appreciate y'all. He said, I know I already mentioned him and EDC probably won't pick him up if he's got. But the speedy, Scotty Miller down in Tampa, it's now being reported that his roster spot is in jeopardy due to the addition of Julio Jones. Your thoughts? I mean, I, Scotty Miller, he's cool, yeah, he's speedy wide receiver. I mean, we down two of our receivers now anyway, with, I mean, who knows how long Pro Tray gonna be out for? Who knows how long Tyler Wilder's gonna be out for? Ravens, there was their rumor going around. I don't know if it's true or not, but that rumor that they were interested in the receiver from the Cardinals, who was battling back and forth with Brandon Stevens, Andy Isabella. So I guess they just really like his heart. They like, man, he really taking up Brandon Stevens' town, man. So we like this guy, but I don't know if it's true or not. But if it is true, then that would mean that the Ravens would be looking for like a little slight, shifty type of receiver who could stretch the field. So I mean, just, you know what? To me, I don't think it would really move the needle, but with Ravens and their receivers, I guess right now at this point of the season, the move in the needle is gonna really have to come from how they're used. That's gonna be the biggest needle mover that there can be. How these guys are used, if they're placed in position to succeed, if the coaching staff and Lamar Jackson, and then the receivers again, like we talked about, they're making the most of their chances. If all of those things happen, it takes everybody, it takes a village. You know how they say, oh, it takes a village to raise a child. It takes a Ravens village to raise a receiver. So it's important that the village all get everybody on point, all get everybody involved, all get everybody that gets played to their strengths, and then they can make it happen. Next question came from one of the newest team, Keep It Clean Patrons. I don't got my guy Dorell. He said, I appreciate everything you do and your hard work. Always showing love and energy, always positive. Appreciate that, Dorell. We don't do nothing over here though. All we do when it's talking. That's all we do. All we do when it's talking and put it online. That's it. I appreciate it. He said, I don't know if it's just me, but does Kyle Hamilton look lost out there? The quickness and how much he takes up on the field is great. It's a lot of little things he has to get better at, but to keep Chuck Clark here for maybe one or two years is key. I hope we don't trade them, but that's all I got. Everybody stay safe, bless peace and love. Appreciate it. Yeah, with Chuck Clark, the reason I wanted to keep him is just for depth, for the Ravens have more quality depth and just more options on defense, more versatility on defense. But yeah, Kyle, I mean, you got to remember, we have to remember. And I know he's the first round pick. So I know that puts a lot of pressure on, that puts a lot of both pressure and expectations on him. But we got to remember, he's literally a rookie. He's a rookie that has played in two, maybe like as of now, maybe like four quarters, maybe four and a half quarters. He hasn't played very long. That like he's played in a little over a game's worth of a game. That's how long he's played for. So he's going to be looking lost out there. It's like when you start a new job, even if you got a promotion. So you've been doing, you've been in your line of work for a while, but you got a promotion. So now with the promotion, you like looking a little bit lost. You're doing some nice stuff for your company, but there's some other times when you're looking kind of lost. So, but people are going to understand, hey, yeah, he has been in this line of work for a while, but he's new to this field. He's new to this level of it. So it's going to be an adjusting period. So that's all it is with Kyle Hamilton. I know he got to clean up on a tackle in a little bit and the pursuit is good though. The pursuit is there. And just making a smaller decision. I know he left the running back wide open, but again, it was just instincts. It was instincts. Mike Trace McSawley was running to the end zone. Kyle, I was about to say Kyle Murray. Kyle Hamilton, trying to step up, make the stop. That's it, it's just instincts. So I think he'll be finding the long run, but we got to remember that it's still super, super early. Next question, well, I guess really more so a comment came from my guy Yahoo. He said that he has two Ravens vs. Jets tickets for sale for September 11th at Jet Stadium in section 134 and row 13. So really good seats. They on sale for $300 each. So if y'all want that, y'all can let me know and I can let him, only if you're serious though. None of the play-play stuff. And he also said he has Ravens Dolphins. So the home open on September 18th in section 129 row five. So again, really good seats right behind Ravens bench that he's selling those for 320 each, so $320 each. So you can let him know or you can let me know and I'll refer you to him, but only if you're serious. So y'all let me know. Conspiracy theory. Next question came from my guy D3. This should be a lot of fun. He said, what's good, bro? Hope the family is doing well. I have an observation that I would like your opinion on. Remember how Ozzy, being in Alabama, Allen will look to draft several players from that university. Once EDC took the reins, he's drafted from Oklahoma with Andrews and Brown. Well, now Andrews was Ozzy too. But anyway, he said yet many of our players and free agents seem to be from Florida. But anyway, he said last year we drafted Bateman from Georgia, even though he played in Minnesota. We just signed to Marcus Robinson, who played in Florida. Yeah, he was a Gator, I believe, but it's from Georgia too. My question is, do you think that there will be a shift in our wide receiver selection process, which will focus on wide receivers and players from the south? Duvenay and crochet are from Texas. Thank you for your thoughts and observations. Give up the great work. Hey, you talk about with Florida Ravens now, so you know I'm on board with that all day, man. But anyway, he said, thank you for your thoughts and observations. Keep up the great work. And whether you know it or not, the optimism in non-biased takes a greatly appreciated. Thank you for not trying to push a narrative, but you're using common sense. I don't know if it's always common sense up here. I might have to disagree, give you some pushback on that one, but I appreciate you, man. Could it be a shift? And something like that, and the receivers may be, because we know Florida, Texas, no California too, and I say that other states aren't, but even how big those high school games be, they'd be out of this world, man. So it starts there, but then of course, with the colleges and stuff, I mean, well, they got some of the biggest, most best colleges or whatever. But I mean, I don't know, man. I don't know, we'll see. I guess we gotta wait and see if this strategy continues. I would like it though. I wouldn't be mad at it at all. And you talked about me being non-biased. Well, hey, when it come to Florida Ravens, that bias is the creep in there. That's what I'm trying to get you. Shamar, do your thing. And then of course, Shamar like, got a special place in my heart for Shamar because he, just the way how he interacted with Carter at training camp, him, Pepe, Jalen, Rashad Bateman, I really, I appreciate, like I said, if somebody do something for me, cool, whatever, it's fine and I appreciate it. But if it's something that's done for Carter, then I just appreciate it way more. And the fact that those four gentlemen, they, the way they interacted with Carter, it just, I loved it. And it just made me room for them that much more. So it was just super cool to see. But yeah, I won't have any problem. And if it's gonna be Florida Ravens, let's go ADC. Next question came from Oreo Cookie. That would be good right now with some milk. And then anyway, he said, ain't great in getting ready to start junior year of high school. Hey, congrats. I hope you do really good. And maybe you can do good enough to where you can get ahead for Nacia. So next year will be even easier for you. But anyway, he said, I was watching for when I was sports talk and one of them brought up how Lamar was not smiling in the pictures with Hollywood Brown and barely signed his jersey. And I would like to know your thoughts and I hope you have a good rest of your day. Hey, I hope you have a great rest of your day though. I don't think it's a big deal. I think Lamar was just chilling. He even posted the picture of him and Hollywood doing the jersey exchange. And he said, this whole jersey swap stuff is weird. But I guess he might have been thinking real quick, oh, what it could have been with Hollywood still on the squad. It didn't seem weird to me at all. It didn't seem awkward. It just seemed like, are you just saying what's up to Hollywood? Hollywood saying what's up to really all the guys. And it was just all love. So I didn't take anything from it. I didn't take like, oh man, Lamar was upset or Hollywood was upset. No, I didn't take nothing from it. Just boys seeing each other. They both work for different companies now. And it's like you seeing one of your boys that you used to be in the same department with but now he just changed departments. So he changed companies or whatnot. He got a different job somewhere else. And you just saying what's up to him. Next question came from my guy, Castantino. He said, hope everything's good with you and the family. Appreciate it. Huntley and now Brown as backup quarterbacks are looking good by experience. Huntley is still the number one backup. I like what I see in Brown. We know that the Ravens have excellent scouts and fine gyms and undrafted free agents. I believe they will keep three quarterbacks on the 53. I don't think so. But hey, let's see what else you got to say. He said, especially, oh, he said, especially if Lamar has not signed but also because of the quality of the two backup QBs. What are your comments? Thank you. Appreciate it. No, I mean Lamar is under contract. We got to remember that Lamar is under contract. So I would only expect them to keep three if he held out. So if he was like, you know what? No, I'm not gonna play. Then I would, okay, maybe they keep three but I don't expect them to play. And I don't expect them to keep three QBs on the roster. I think it's just gonna be Hunt and it's just gonna be Lamar and that's it. And I think Anthony Brown will go on a practice squad. That'd be cool if somebody got him off the practice squad and he could start, but I know that's probably not gonna happen, that's a long shot. But yeah, keeping three quarterbacks, no. I don't think they do that, especially with just how, it's like you got 53 players, but at the same time it's like the roster is so small and you like, every spot counts that much more, especially two because you can only have 46 active on game day. And I think, I forgot how I worked with the practice squad call-ups, man. I think you can call up two from the practice, but no, I don't even remember, man, but the roster decisions are tight, the rosters are tight. So keeping three quarterbacks, I don't think Ravens really have that flexibility like that. So we were just talking about three quarterbacks. Now let's go to one quarterback, you know, quarterback who hopefully can change his name to number one after this year. I mean, change his jersey to number one after this year. Anyway, he said, I ain't great when I hope you and the family have been blessed in my own personal opinion. Oh, it came from my guy, Caleb. He said, in my own personal opinion, I believe Lamar Jackson does not deserve a fully guaranteed deal because he has not been able to prove he can play in the playoffs like he can in the regular season. I'm a huge Ravens fan for over 10 years and will be at the Pats vs Ravens game. Hey, that should be a lot of fun. He said, I just don't think Lamar has proved a fully guaranteed deal. You know what, Caleb? I respect your opinion on that. And I respect your willingness to share that too. So what would be your, what kind of deal does he deserve? What kind of deal would you say Lamar Jackson does deserve? What would be your plan of action? To me, I think he deserves it. Reason being, I get what you're saying about the playoffs. Trust me, I do. But the playoff conversation is even a playoff conversation because of Lamar Jackson. No Lamar Jackson, I mean, again, you've seen it for yourself. You say you've been a fan for over 10 years. So for over 10 years, it's 2022. Okay, that will put you right. You saw the Super Bowl. So the Ravens Super Bowl in 2013. And then the following year, no playoffs. No playoffs. They went eight and eight. The year after that, they did make the playoffs and they won a playoff game. So I was like, yeah, let's go, 2014. They did it. They're like, yes. 15, no playoffs, but everybody was hurt. 16, no playoffs. 17, no playoffs. 18, it was getting ready to be no playoffs. But then what happened? The guy who I feel like should get a guaranteed deal, he happened. And he happened in 2018. He happened in 2019. He happened in 2020. And then in 2021, everybody got hurt, including him. So, I mean, the reason that I feel like Lamar should get a guaranteed deal with the Ravens is because in my opinion, if he's healthy, he fully guarantees that you are gonna even make the playoffs. Now, once you get there, yeah, he got some stepping up that he gotta do. He certainly does. But everybody does. Everybody certainly does. And while he hasn't been the only reason that the Ravens have been getting to the playoffs, because he does not play lights out every single game. He doesn't. We know that. We get that. There are games where he will be off. There are games that he has that will be ugly. It's happened before. It's probably gonna happen in the future too. It happens. It's part of being a quarterback. But, he is the biggest reason for the Ravens even being able to talk about the playoffs. So, that money should be guaranteed. Next question came from T. Franklin. He said, it was Isaiah likely showing promise and skills as a vertical threat. And some of the other rookies too, do you still think we need to go find or go get that wide receiver one? Thanks for all that you do. Pray you and the family are well. Oh, yeah, we're doing real good, man. I mean, at this point, it's pretty much, it's kind of too late. I mean, it gotta be something homegrown at least this year. Unless the Ravens have pulled something out of the hat. But, no, it's gotta be something homegrown this year as far as wide receiver one. And again, the expectation is that Rashad Bateman is that. But, for me, it's not even necessarily about another wide receiver one, but just another legitimate weapon on the outside for Lamar Jackson. Rashad Bateman getting taken out of the game. Who else gonna step up? Mark Andrew, hey, Mark Andrews getting taken out. Who else gonna step up? That's my big thing. Who else is gonna step up? Hopefully, Isaiah likely can be that. Hopefully, the Marcus Robinson, he can contribute. Approach, just everybody. And that's been my biggest thing. Just really having legitimate weapons and using those legitimate weapons. Not just having them, because you could have them and they could just be sitting there, you could be looking like, oh. But if you actually use them, that's a whole other story.