 He's been saying he wants to be more involved. He wants a bigger role. So, with all that being said, should the Ravens move Hayden Hurst to wide receiver? Marcia Yandas retired. Tony Jefferson was released earlier this off-season. So, do the Ravens really have a lack of leadership on this team? These questions and a few more on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on is saying Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. The date today is March 12th and they, all this stuff with the virus is going on right now. NBA got postponed, NHL got postponed, MLS got postponed. A lot of stuff is getting postponed, a lot of events being canceled and whatnot. So y'all just stay safe out there. Stay safe and stay smart. Because I know this whole thing got a lot of people, all of a sudden, now people are washing their hands. You should have been doing that. It shouldn't take no worldwide virus to get you to start washing your hands. Again, team keep it clean. It's not just YouTube videos, man. It's a lifestyle. But no, seriously, be safe out there. It seems like things may get postponed with free agency. We'll see what happens with that. Maybe even with the draft, we'll see what happens with that. But we just, when I find out, I mean, y'all find out too. But it may just end up giving us more time for questions from subscribers about the upcoming free agency, about the draft and just the questions period. So appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And let's go. I didn't even tell you how to be a part of it. If you want to be part of NFL questions from subscribers, just send me an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Send emails to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com with your question and we'll answer it in a video just like this. I love y'all. Let's do it. First question came from my guy, Enonic, and he said questions from subs on Yonda's retirement. And he sent this to me on March 10th. Again, today is March 12th. So he sent it to me on March Yonda Retirement Day. But anyway, he said my apologies, but I'm writing this as I'm watching your Yonda retirement video so I might be jumping the gun. I really would have preferred Yonda got to retire after a Super Bowl win, but I truly believe he played for the love of the game and the respect of his teammates. I agree. I agree. And I mean he had already got, that's something that I forget sometimes, he had already got a Super Bowl. I'm sure he would have liked to go out on top of another one, but he had already got one. So he's already had that feeling of, wow, this is great, we won. But anyway, when Lamar became the starter after Joe Flacco left, there was a bit of a debate as to whether we draft for offensive line protection for Lamar, remember the Chargers playoff game, or offensive weapons for Lamar to play with. My question, having reviewed the situation as you always do, what's EDC's focus? But does the loss of Yonda, the anchor of the old line, not only in ability, but even more so in leadership, and experience make the old line our number one draft and free agent priority? Thanks Love the Vids, even when you deliver the sad Ravens news. And he said PS that rain up and down the east coast is the tears of Ravens fans after they heard about Yonda's decision. Yeah, that you actually may be right about that, because it was sad, it was like I don't know, it wasn't like surprising, surprising, but I was still a little bit surprised that he did it, because I really thought that he was going to come back one more year. But I don't think that, I don't know, I don't think it makes offensive line our number one draft and priority, or even our number one free agent priority. Because with Lamar Jackson and his, you still want to have quality offensive line, you still want to have a good offensive line regardless. But with Lamar Jackson's ability, you can get by, and I think it was my God, Nitro, that originally brought this point out, that you can get by with less quality of an offensive line. Because for as far as past protection, and again, that's, and I said it throughout the year last year, with Ravens offensive line, they were pretty good, but they were overrated some too. And the reason I said that they were overrated is because they were like, oh, yeah, Lamar hasn't been sacked and no QB hits, blah, blah, blah. But a lot of times defenders were getting through. They were getting through with Lamar just make a mess. You just make a mess. Have that been a lot of other quarterbacks? Sack, fumble, hit. But because of Lamar and everything that he's able to do, he made the offensive line look better. So and now they did that thing too throughout the season, especially in the run, in the run blocking and all that and setting up gaps and holes and all that. But as far as past protection, I think they did get a little overrated. Now, you still don't you don't want to be like, OK, so since we since we got Lamar, you know what, we straight, we ain't even got to worry about offensive line. You don't want to go into it like that. But I but you can. Don't even feel like saying it, but you can get by by doing less at that position. But you still want to have great quality. But so I don't want Ravens to neglect the position. And I know they won't. But I don't think it should be a top priority in the draft. Should be a priority in the draft. And hopefully Ben Powers can be that dude. But you still got James Hurst. Hopefully he'll be back by the regular season. We'll see James. Oh, did I say James Hurst? I meant Mass Gura. Sorry, I meant Mass Gura. James Hurst, he's suspended for the first four games. So you're going to have to do some things with the offensive line. Oh, I'm over here knocking my mic out. But you're going to have to do some things with the offensive line to make sure that they are good to go. And they said you want to put the best offensive line out there. But I think it would be more of a priority in the in free agency than the draft and just to get some quality depth. And maybe potential starters. Next question came from a boy, Josh Hoffman. He said today he also sent it on March 10th. And he said today is March of Yonder retirement day. So he gave it that acknowledgement as well. So naturally I want to ask about hardball, really more of an observation. To me, Yonder was the last of the generation of mighty Ravens from the 2012 and before times. Suggs is gone, of course. We always talk about how much players coach up other players and how important it is. Now there's definitely a leadership loss in the last couple of years with Flacco, Suggs, Yonder leaving that we haven't seen since the departure of Ray Lewis and Adrian. And at a very interesting time, the team is so talented, but seems to fall apart in the postseason. To me, this will be one of hardball's biggest tests. Your thoughts and thank you as always. I appreciate it, Josh. It will be. It will be. I mean, you still got Lamar. You still got Mark Ingram. Still got Earl Thomas, Tony Jefferson. Yeah, he's gone. Obviously, over the past couple of years, some big leaders on the Ravens have left Suggs, gone, Wettel, gone, CJ Mosey, gone. But now, yeah, Judo, was he really a leader, though? I don't really think Judo was and that's not a shot at Judo. So don't take it like that. I don't know. I don't really think he was one of the leaders, though. But now I mean, you still got some guys there. But yeah, it is going to be a test for hardball. I mean, every year is a test in its own different way for hardball. But really continuing to pull these guys together, keeping them together because they don't need to be pulled together because they are already together. But keeping them together. So that will be sort of a test for hardball, along with everything else, too. We ain't going to get into it. But yeah, that could be a test for hardball. But I already know what I'm talking about, man. Next question came from Avaro. He said, hey, man, this is my very first question from subscribers. Mexican fan over here. So sorry for the grammar. Don't worry about it. I'm over here in American. I can't even speak English, so there ain't no big deal at all. The first thing is, what about if the whole Yanda retirement thing is purely strategy? This is my point. We all know and you told us explicitly that Yanda is a personification of an offensive lineman, a lot of adjectives. But the very first that pop in my mind is he's a team player. I think all of us agree that having Yanda is better than not having him on the roster. But the thing is, if Yanda makes it official before the draft, what happens with the other teams? They all know that we have a new position to feel. But if Yanda is that kind of team player, why don't why don't he make it official after the draft? I mean, make it clear to EDC so he can make the free agent in draft signings and then announce the retirement. Maybe it's a little bit on purpose to mislead the other teams and EDC has been cooking all this since the extension. And that's why we drafted Ben Powers, making him learn the system under Yanda and then misleading the other teams with the retirement before the draft. So what do you think about that? And he said, sorry for the length. Oh, no, you're fine. This trust me, that wasn't long at all. I don't know. I don't I don't really see any any benefit in that. Now, this this is something that Marsha Yanda did say that he had already come to the conclusion before this past season that he was going to retire. So if he had shared that with EDC or not, who knows. But I don't really think it would necessarily change anything. And I've been saying for the past two years, they need to be drafting Marsha Yanda's replacement. Um, I don't really see how it would benefit the Ravens to with the timing of Marsha Yanda's retirement, because, I mean, I don't see how it will benefit the Ravens throwing other teams off. I don't see how it would do a disservice to other teams with Marsha Yanda announcing his retirement now. I guess I think what you're saying is that if if he could have done it after the draft, then maybe teams wouldn't wouldn't have thought that Ravens may go after certain offensive linemen in the draft. They might have been like, OK, Ravens on the clock. Oh, they they gone pass on this offensive linemen so we could take him or whatever, something like that. But I don't I don't really think that is. I don't really think it's a strategy him retiring now. I think it's I mean, it is smart. It's good because he's doing it before free agency. He's getting ready to start in a week and he's doing it before the draft. You don't want you wouldn't want him to wait till after those things happen. You're like, OK, we went through free agency. We went through the first and second wave of free agency. OK, cool. We had our picks at this guy, that guy and the other. And then we went through the draft the first through the seventh round. OK, draft is good. We good. OK, let's get it, baby. Then Marsha Yanda is like, excuse me, the Costa. Can we talk real quick? Yeah, by the way, I'm done playing football. What are you serious? Yeah, I think that I'm I'm just going to go spend time in my family. I don't want to go through the whole thing anymore. I don't want to be hurt anymore. I don't want to hear the word rehab anymore. I'm I'm I'm finished. Why couldn't you tell us this before? So I don't think they want to go through any of that. Next question also from my guy, Avaro. He said, the second thing is, I think maybe since the Yannick rumors, theories, etc., you've been really clear about one thing, about hating hers, being our best titan and having the best hands on our team. So my question is, why don't we trade Yannick for Mark Andrews? Who and he knows he knew you're going to get after them because he said, LOL, take it easy. I'm going to try to make a point. We all know Andrews is Lamar's favorite target. But when they were traded, hers was his go to guy. So maybe without him, Lamar could change his readings and spread the ball better. Oh, OK. So he's he's putting a scenario out there if that trade was to go down. OK, I see a big dog. Yeah, you be over there thinking, man. I see you and I like it. But he said, yeah, Lamar could change his readings and spread the ball around better with all the receivers, including Nick Boyle and Hayden Hurst. Also, I think it's more tempting to another to another team to get the statistics guy like Andrews, second titan in the NFL with the most receiving yards and a Pro Bowl selection in the second year in a league than an old third string, not proven titan. Yikes. He said, I know it sounds a little bit of crazy, but I was thinking that I could feel better with Hayden and Nick Boyle than Andrews and Nick Boyle. Don't get me wrong, Andrews is one of my favorite Ravens picks ever. But if we could trade him and get a better all around team, I'm all in. Oh, my guy, Alvaro is a business man. He don't play. He don't play, man. He is a business man. Um, that would be something. And yeah, Hayden Hurst is the better titan. I know a lot of people disagree. A lot of people still disagree. And that's fine. That's fine. It's still all love on my end. Y'all know that, man. But, um, Hayden Hurst is better than Mark Andrews. Anyway, um, I can't see them doing that. What you're saying makes sense. It makes a lot of sense, but I can't see them doing that. But I every every is everything you're saying makes sense because again, Lamar Jackson, he looked for Hollywood. He looked for Mark Andrews. And if those two ain't open, then he'll look around a little bit. Then he might be like, let me move around in a pocket. Wait till one of those two guys get open. Those two guys, they ain't open. They move around a little bit. Then he'd probably take off. But yeah, just look for those guys. But it is possible that, hey, if they did trade away Mark Andrews, then it could be like, oh, OK, oh, oh, you. Oh, you want to my receivers, too? OK, cool. Let me start looking for you, too. Cool. But it's also possible that he could, uh, the same thing that happened with Mark Andrews could happen with Hayden Hurst. So we'll never know. A big fan, man. Keep up the good work. Sorry for the conspiracy theories. Maybe I need to get a game of thrones break. I hope my grammar doesn't make it really hard on you. I promise to get better. No, it's perfectly fine. I understood. They understood. And if I understood, because I don't be understanding nothing, I know team keeping clean understood because they understand everything better than me. But no, everything was fine, man. Don't worry about it. Appreciate it. Thank you for sending this in. Much love to you, Alvaro. Thank you. Next question came from Recon. He said, hey, sir, how are you and the family doing? We're doing pretty good. I appreciate it, man. He said, pray all as well. I've been watching all your recent videos about free agency and what the Ravens will do with tight end Hayden Hurst. So I was sitting and thinking, why don't the Ravens move Hurst to wide receiver since he has the best hands on the team? Oh, we're lacking a wide receiver. And it will give the Ravens the ability to use a draft pick on a different position than what we need. Oh, then we need, excuse me, or that we need. Oh, I'm over here messing up his whole thing. Let me run that back. I was sitting here thinking, why don't the Ravens move Hayden Hurst to wide receiver since he has the best hands on the team? And we're lacking a wide receiver. And it will give the Ravens the ability to use a draft pick on a different position that we need. Hurst has been mentioning a lot that he wants to be involved more in the offense. Well, he can get his opportunity at that position. Plus he can help balance out the field because he can become a threat for other teams because now he has something to prove. But Lamar has to get his wide receivers involved this upcoming season. What do you think? God bless. Simplify, brother, keep up the good work. Appreciate it. Thank you. Hey, that is something, man. Wow, Hayden Hurst's possession wide receiver. The hands, route running? Or the hands for sure. I'm not sure how good or great his route running was, but the hands are there. Definitely be a possession guy with some sneaky speed. He ain't burning nobody or nothing, but wow. He could be like our white Anquan Bowden. They got the same number, right? So yeah, he could be the white Anquan Bowden. But man, that is very interesting. I don't even know the thing about it. Move Hayden Hurst to wires, but then you lose one tight end. So then you gotta get another tight end. But I think most of the type of wide receiver that we are looking for is a speedy guy. Somebody opposite Hollywood that can really command respect and could be that burner, that deep threat besides Hollywood, again, just be Hollywood. But with Hayden Hurst, what I think they could do in this situation, just put them out at wide receiver. Put them out in the slot, even put them outside if you want to, but I don't think they actually have to make a switch, making him a whole wide receiver. Just put them out there from time to time. And actually use him there. Don't just put them out there and have them as a decoy, but use them there. And again, that's all Lamar to see the whole field more. Next question came from my guy, Chris. He says, sad, sad day for the Ravens with Marsha Yonder retiring after 13 seasons. Who's on your mind for a replacement? Do you think we can just do a plug and play or let a guy like Ben Powers start? Or we can draft the guy or sign one. I'm thinking left guard for the New England Patriots, Joseph Thunny. He's a free agent and his strengths are past protection, but he's really good in the run too. He didn't get any credit, but he was one of the main reasons for the Patriots playoff run back in 2018 when Sony Michelle ran wild. He wants about 16 million a year, which is not bad for him. It doesn't necessarily have to be him. Just curious to hear your thoughts. He say, by the way, I don't want to keep spamming questions because I want to hear other people's questions too, but I'm just trying to hear your thoughts. I love your views and keep posting the great Ravens, Ravens content 24-7. It's all good, man. It's all good. I appreciate the questions, man. I appreciate all the questions. We appreciate all the questions because we all take part in them. So thank you for that. And thank you for being willing to give other people opportunity too. But don't worry. You're not taking away from anybody if you send a bunch of questions, man. So it's all good, man. If he wanted 16 million a year, he gonna get that somewhere else. He ain't gonna get it from no Ravens. But yeah, like I talked about with Kalecheo Simile, he could be an option and he could either, if he's better than Ben Powers, okay, he could be the starter. If he's not better than Ben Powers, he could push Ben Powers to make Ben Powers even better. So I think that situation, if they were assigned to Kalecheo Simile, then it could be a win-win for both of those guys. Win-win for the Ravens. So that would be a guy I would think, and then, I mean, you got the outside taking care of inside with a, you got Bozeman left side, you got whether McCurry or Scurra at center. I don't think, I mean, of course, you do need some quality right there at the right guard position. But I think they may just, I don't think there's as much pressure to get somebody there as we all may think. It'd be nice. But 16 mil per, no, I don't think they need to do that for an interior guard, an interior offensive lineman. I think that, yeah, I don't think they would have to dedicate all that money to alignment. I think they could do fine getting somebody else for a lot less. Next question came from a boy, Tanner Outwell. And he said, I haven't done this in a while, but I think I need to get this off my chest. Okay, here we go. He said, I still believe the Ravens have the best roster in the NFL going into the 2020 season, but I have one specific concern. Ravens have nine draft picks, so I'm very confident we can replenish any holes in all roster through the draft. But if you ask me who the leaders in our locker room are, a year ago, I would have said Terrell Suggs, Eric Guero, CJ Moser, and Marsha Yanda in that order. Well, one year later and every one of them is gone. My main concern of this team and this show and the playoffs is who will be the leader of this team? We don't have enough veteran presence on this roster, not to mention the release of Tony Jefferson. You might as well, you might say, well, Earl Thomas is a leader. Well, yes, he is a veteran, but I could argue I've seen him be a poor leader many times. Remember when he stopped running on that Nick Chubb run because he didn't want to pull a hammy? If you're worried about pulling a hamstring just running, you shouldn't be playing football. Okay, see, now he's shutting me up about what I was saying early about Earl Thomas being a leader from my guy, Josh Hoffman's question. So, let's get back to it. He said that he guaranteed a Super Bowl before the regular season was even over. Our team is extremely humble and very focused, but it seems like Earl is never either. I genuinely believe that Ravens would have hoisted the Lombardi this year if we had better leadership and more of a veteran presence. But don't get me wrong. I think the youth movement was the best thing to happen to this team. I just believe we need a little more good veteran leaders. How do you feel about this? Oh, wow, that was big. That was real too, man. That was real deal right there. Boy, he ain't holding nothing back, man. He ain't holding anything back. So yeah, I mean, Earl Thomas, I know my guy Joe Nubow said it best about Earl Thomas. He said a lot of stuff that Earl Thomas says they rubbed some people the wrong way because Earl Thomas is brutally, brutally honest in everything that he says. But yeah, I remember that the whole hamstring thing. Oh boy, I went on a tail on that one because I did not like that at all. I hated it. I hated it. Then they said he got into a Brandon Williams and whatever afterwards, but he had that hamstring. Oh, I did not like that at all. But Earl, I mean, he did talk about the Ravens playing in the Super Bowl before the season even started. And I think three out of the four times that Earl Thomas spoke about something before the game, spoke about a team before the game. It ended up going in the opposite team's favor. First, he spoke about the Chiefs. He said we're gonna take away all the deep passes. Chiefs sure got some deep passes in on the Ravens. Not Earl Thomas, but on the Ravens. And they lost that game. Then he talked about we tied it here in the Browns being the best team in the league or being the best team, blah, blah, blah. We wanna shut all that up. Browns beat the Ravens. I forgot what the score was. And then he talked about, well, he did talk about the Ravens being in the Super Bowl. But it was another game too. But it was another game where he said something but we ended up winning that game. And then I think he said something before the Titans game. I think he did. But yeah, he got turned around twice in one play by Derek Henry and ended up turning into a fullback. But yes, we do definitely need veteran presence. And I mean, Mark Ingram was that. But besides Mark Ingram, Yonda was that, but now he's going. So now, I mean, Brandon Williams is there. I don't really know if he's that vocal leader like that. But yeah, the team is very young. You all right. Wow. Yeah, Mark Ingram. Yeah, Mark Ingram and Earl Thomas are like the old head. And they just got here last year. Now they did make a big impact on the team. But wow. I feel like I'm missing somebody, but I'm really not. That era is like over. That era of all of our previous older defensive and offensive leaders, it's over. Flat gone, Yonda gone. Bolden been gone. Sugs gone, Yonda gone. Loading out of gone. Ed Reid, obviously, Ray Lewis, obviously. Wow. That's pretty big when you really, when you really, really think about it. Veteran presence is a huge thing. Experience is a huge thing. Leadership is a huge thing. And you cannot have enough good quality leaders. So I do think that is an aspect of the Ravens that may be missing right now this year. Just more of it. Cause again, with Mark Ingram, we got him. Earl Thomas, yeah, he's up and down. But who else? I really can't think of anybody. So yeah, I get this brings me back to my guy, Josh Hoffman's question from earlier. Is this a real test for John Hubbaugh? And yeah, it just, we circle back around to that. And it's going to make it a huge season. Now they still got free agency, of course. So we'll see how that goes. But yeah, wow. It's going to be, a lot is going to be on hubs.