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I love y'all I appreciate y'all we got some questions that we've been meaning to get to for a long time So let's do it first question came from a guy feel he said now that McDonald is our defensive coordinator I know defensive in Aiden Hutchinson who have 14 sexes projected to go in the top 1 2 3 4 5 of This year's draft, but do you think that the Ravens would make the move at 14 to select Michigan's other past Russia? David Ajabo who had 11 sex and a QB hits if he was to fall to number 14 He would be a great fit with away. What are your thoughts a lot of disagreeing with me on Facebook on perhaps making this move in the First round, maybe they don't understand Bowser tore his Achilles week 18 And may not be ready to play at the beginning of next season and that is very very true So this has as soon as the Ravens made it official with Mike McDonald Lot of people were on this they were like hey these two they went to high school together Of course all them pictures start servicing or what a dog fail way with the little baby twist They I don't think those were dreads yet. They probably ain't even locked in yet but anyway um a Pat past rush a past Russia Is a very important part of what the Ravens need moving forward now? Of course, we know they need to build that line around Lamar Jackson. They need to build it like crazy They need to really invest in that again Ronnie Stanley bonus Joanne James bonus you obviously hope you can get both of them back healthy But they are bonuses you can't fully count on them and you need to have a plan So, you know Ravens a lot of times when they Zig when well people expect them to zig they end up zagging and the draft is no different They do a lot of BPA And I don't expect it to be any different this year Of course, you got to mix in best play available with need as well But yeah, Bowser is gonna be out most likely. This is not confirmed But most likely ain't gonna be ready at the beginning of the season. So we'll see But even still even if Bowser was coming back you still pernil make fee possible free agent Who else as far as defensive in Derek Wolf, you're not really expecting to get another bonus I don't expect him to be on a team though, but we'll see what they do Daylan Hayes. Hey, we'll see Daylan dip Hey, we was hoping that we'd be able to see that dip But they stashed him and then he came back and then he really got here But anyway, um a job, oh, I am a lot of people put me on To what happened with them because they said a hugison in a job Oh, well, nobody talking about them before Mike McDonald got there Nobody was talking about them before they were definitely weren't projected to be first-round picks and then they said, oh Mike McDonald showed up and now both of them could be going by in the top 10 is a possibility Both of them could be going in the first round either way and that that says a lot About his impact on that defense But that would be interesting And I would not be surprised if Ravens made a move like that now It it of course all depends on how the draft will fall it will depend on who's available It depends on how high they had him ranked, but he is somebody that I believe is very Raw when it comes to football just like a doubt fair way though a doubt fair way he played for like Five he had like five years of football experience And I think with a job. It's the same way. He got like four or five years of football experience So very young doesn't mean he can't do the job But just very young and inexperienced, but obviously got experienced with Ravens new defensive coordinator So if they were to get him Um Yeah, well, I wouldn't be mad at that it just depends on what the what else they do and on the offensive line Cuz you you got to do a lot there man. You really do you especially at tackle Especially a tackle at God's you straight a sinner You're straight either way in my opinion whether it's both been a Tristan Cologne can steal but at tackle You're hoping that guys are healthy, but you you gotta like fix that and again with Patrick McCary, too I feel like he should be sort of a backup option I feel like you can like he can be a starter and you could do okay You could do fine with him there, but I even feel like they should invest in right tackle as well again. Joanne J bonus Bonus so I wouldn't be opposed if they did it, but it also just depends on what what else they do in the draft I keep hearing from people that Aidan Hutchison. He's more like solid Then a job always And I mean Ravens they definitely ain't getting him He'll be out of there. He'll be long gone by the time the Ravens draft Even if they decided for some crazy reason, which I don't expect them to but even if they decided to trade up Yeah, he'll be long gone because people know it's it's a passing league And you need past rushers. You need quality past rushers So we'll see how this thing ends up next question came from my guy Jay Frank He said what's good bro? Hope you in the family doing well appreciate it He said with the expected hiring of McDonald I can't help but think about the what-if even though McDonald was always a candidate I don't think the other scheduled interviews were just for show or really I do but okay Let's see what you got to say my friend. I think the other candidates were real options But instead of the front office keeping the fire under harb's they let him off the hook and gave him an extension What did he do not even a week after his extension where before it seemed like he was gonna turn a new leaf for this hiring process Harb's goes right back to hiring his boys. I don't want to condemn McDonald too early But I wonder how much Harb's extension played into this expected hiring. That's a Really good question and I think that was a big part of it because with with Harbaugh's contract extension That shows that the Ravens Well expected expected contract extension because it's not official yet But that will show that the Ravens are like a we locked in with John Harbaugh And if you're gonna come be a defensive coordinator here We want you to be locked in with us too. It's not just a one-year thing Even though it's a possibility that it could be a one-year thing if he does good enough and team see that it's like this young guy By the end of this next by the end of next season He'll be 35 and it'll be like whoa this 35 year old defensive coordinator He came in with the Ravens and he did all this work and it went like that. Wow. Okay. Hey, we want him to be a head coach But if you have a head coach just sitting there in one year status Then you could be like, oh, he might get fired and the whole staff might get fired. Do I really want to go there? That's all I think it was the next question came from a boy. Oh, Lou. He said, what's up, sir? Hope all is well Mike McDonald is all guy not crazy about it But don't be surprised if David a job will falls to us Well, he's still you have to fall to the Ravens unless Ravens went up and grab the book We'll see that's the other rush in from Michigan. I'm not fair way in a job We went to the same high school both a similar in size could be interesting They know each other both are very raw messy I wish I should have read this question first. He's saying everything that we were saying to both are very raw But if worked right could be a crazy force I still like a DB if it's the kid from Cincinnati or the defensive tagger from Georgia So you're talking about sauce and Jordan Davis, I think in the first But I can totally see us going for the Michigan kid Daxon Hill is another name that I wouldn't be surprised if we snagged him in the later round He's a defensive back. What do you think about the hire and do you think he will keep most of the guys already? In the coaching stable I think he will reason being because he came from this coaching stable. He came from the Ravens It's not like this is really an outside hire Uh, he went to Michigan for a year, but he had been with the Raven since 2014 So I wouldn't expect him to come in and be the defensive coordinator and be like, all right. All y'all boys gots to go I mean sometimes sometimes people do do that though Some some people do do that you get them that power and they be like, all right Yeah, I used to be with y'all, but I got the power now y'all can go. Bye But I I wouldn't expect him to um, but hey, you never know. He might want to bring on his own guys Uh, but I just I don't see it happening though because he's again, he's been working with those guys from 2014 Been with the team for a while. So I don't really see in him making Very significant changes to the staff anything like that next question came from my guy more and he said Why don't the Ravens listen to the fans? Oh, okay. He said, I know we fans get hot and we act like we know more than they do But so but so things are so simple To me Well, we all said that the Raven should have started bozeman at center position But for the Ravens, I feel like that never moved him to or they never moved him just to spite us And they were forced to move him to center. Uh, and wouldn't you know it the fans were right? And that would be about like them playing a lot of guys out of position And them having struggles at the center position and then they just kept on wondering why what's going on But it's all good and work works out in the long run for the red Well in the short run for the Ravens because he did a good job overall But in long run it works out for bozeman because he can get that bread. Anyway, um I've been a big hardball fan, but I 100 percent agree with you Keep hardball if he's willing to change his philosophy If not, hey appreciate all that you've done But we need to part ways this rotating players every play has to stop This is why we get so many silly penalties because people are moving so much They don't know when they are supposed to come in and come out of the lineup You need to get the ball to our playmakers not just have them block 80 of the game It's like what was the point of drafting bateman if you weren't going to use him Why not draft an offensive lineman? They're not throwing shade. I'm not throwing shade at bateman But this coaching staff, uh with his lack of use they they stopped throwing They need to stop throwing screen passes to marquis brown. It's not working and stop running draw plays on second and 17 Oh, this was a Little bit of a rant mixed with the question and it's a lot in here Um, it's a lot in here, but it's a lot about ravens. Um philosophy Uh, especially when it comes to offensive linemen ravens, uh That would be a big philosophy change that I feel could do the ravens just wonders If when they draft offensive linemen They like to draft guys that can do this and that or do that and that or do that and that or do this and this Instead of just drafting the guy that specializes there And it's nice to have guys that have versatility you love versatility, but at the same time Look at winx defense very versatile. You got to have guys that do so many things But they couldn't specialize in one area So you you want guys that can be great in one area And I know ravens they they hope guys are good in multiple areas But you I feel like they got to look for some guys that are great In one area and as far as the offensive play calling and in the use of their weapons Yeah, that's that's definitely got to improve because we talked about how um ravens could bring on this guy that guy this y receiver that y receiver But if they're not getting used if they're not even out there on the field for plays Then what would be the use next question came from nanosh today engraving the builds where his chief's game brought a lot to my mind A lot but what stood out for the most part for me was sitting there watching this thriller of a game Was there awesome coaches and they're great coaching It was very apparent watching these two masterminds of the game at work With mcdermot and read coach read and mcdermot Teams game planning and preparation were on display And these guys were like none other that i've ever seen in the nfl players on both teams and both sides of the ball Not only knew their assignments, but they executed well I'd say great training great coaching and discipline were contributing factors. Oh, yeah That's it's got to be a healthy mix of literally everything everything For sure because if you don't have everything Then it's not gonna work starts with coaching They got to get these players right then the players they got to perform right So it's it's a big process But if you get off everything clicking then it obviously shows up in the end Like she said we could clearly recognize these coaches are very knowledgeable of the game and making contributions From the beginning to the end of the game that were engaging not or not relying on their oc and dc When they were required to make adjustments, they were able to adapt and they did it on the fly This has never or very seldomly happened under john harbaugh as our team coach and his sidekicks greg roman And it looks like we have a very long way to go to be able to compete in the asc Or even the rest of the league with these caliber of teams. We've watched in these seasons playoffs Even as talented as lamar is i don't see him taking on any of these great playoff teams We've been watching over the past weeks around the league by himself as he often works to try to make something happen And him being successful You said a lot right there Uh, and yeah, ravens ravens got to step up a lot When it comes to just being able to keep up with those teams Well, yeah, we we know the ravens did beat the chiefs earlier. We know that Um, but would they beat them in the playoffs? Would they beat the bills in the playoffs? Anything's possible, but it would take a lot and ravens just got to get their firepower up They got to get their firepower up. They they they got some bullets, but they'll never be load them in the chamber They don't load them in the chamber. So it's important that the ravens like First you you got it again. You got to have that offensive line They got to get that right, but then they they the play calling and just the adjustments and the switch ups And just being able to attack attack attack what your opponent's weakness is They don't do that enough. They they they get out of the floater game too many times Um, they there's drops. There's there's sometimes they can be just a lot of confusion like somebody Martin was just talking about in the previous question Um, it's it's just a lot that it's a lot of little cleaning up that they need to do In order to just do better and that's from coaching that's from players That's from everybody If they they got if they can work on fixing the little stuff Work on fixing the little stuff and that can go such a long way Then of course you can advance to the bigger stuff too um She said but we can be we can rest assured As with everything else Lamar will get the blame instead of john harbaugh and greg roman where it squarely belongs I really can't stand what steve is shoddy and edcc and john harbaugh And greg roman that gives them false security that these two walking disasters and failure should continue on in any capacity on our team In closing, um, what can we do to support lamar and encourage better for him from management? Sorry for the lengthy comments. Thank you very concerned ravens fan What can ravens do to support lamar and encourage him, uh, encourage better for him from management? Just hope Just just hope uh That they really again, they they build that force field around lamar that force field of offensive linemen um That can protect him that uh, that wall that will be in front of him to where it's like, uh, ain't nobody getting through And then um lamar he got to do better execution too Um, especially like games like that browns game. We was just like, whoa, what's what's that about now? And we know that's not the norm from him, but lamar got stuff that he got to improve on as well um getting the ball out quicker, uh with the short passes Really, uh putting it on the money for those short passes because they could be sometimes for it's it's weird Because for short passes, I know my god, josh Hoffman brought it up too But for short passes sometimes lamar could throw it like he could throw it a little too uh too out too far A little too wide uh behind behind the receiver pass catcher a little too far in front of him um Sometimes uh, we just got to work on work on that short and that would go such a long way It would go such a long way Getting the ball out quicker throwing the ball away living to see another down Not not having them you don't got to make every single play on every single play Sometimes you just got to get rid of and be like, all right. We lost this down. It's okay. We'll move on um, and then of course with play calling that's I feel like we talked about that so much Uh with play calling it's got to be better. Um play calling got to help your offensive line out Play calling got to help your quarterback out play calling has to see like, all right What are our weaknesses and how can we counter those? Oh, this next question came from marco and it was right after wink had got fired and you were so close marco He said ain't gravy and I just saw your video of wink being fired And I don't know why but the first thing that came up to my mind is jim hardball And here's my question. Have there ever been a situation where brothers are coaches for the same team? And do you see jim and john coaching together with greg since jim is very familiar with him? And could that even be possible? Oh, you were so close Because he got the guy from jim's school Even though he used to work with john before Um, oh you were close, but it is possible. It is but that's why I say, you know what You you might as well You might as well bring jim on to might as well even though he would probably rather be a head coach, but Might as well because it is a big this is one big family with the ravens So bring on jim to I'm sure he'll be at some of the games, man But anyway, he said one thing I'm getting excited about now is that maybe we're having a new with a new defensive coach There will be some changes that are being done. Thank you and hope you're just finding my question We'd like to know your thoughts. Yeah, that's what um, we all hoping for now that uh He can uh, just just make some small fixes Um, let the past rushes be past rushes Give help to your guys if you see somebody struggling make adjustments like right away to try to help them And just put players in best position so they could be successful as best they can out there on the field Next question came from my boy daddy game and he said it was good, bro beans I got an insane theory that I would love for your input on With the recent wink martindale ousting lol if you remember joe hortese the ravens director pro personnel Was the top candidate for the giants gm open It was believed that if he were hired for the job, he would bring wink over with him So maybe harvests was planning on firing him to begin with however Since the ravens are a class act organization harvests might have wanted to wait to let him get that opportunity As giants head coach turns out joe shone from the bills got hired as a giants new gm On january 21st at around noon the same day wink was fired Oh However, wink was fired in the evening After shone got hired harvests probably discussed with edc and bishadi for a couple hours about the possibility of wink Actually landing a head coaching job They might have decided to pull the trigger right then and there because they lost hope in a team hiring wink As a head coaching time since as we all know the ravens want to get started on their all season asap Like this firing is pretty late into january and such firings are unusual. I agree Anyway, this theory could be complete nonsense, but I think this is how it all played out Let me know what you think. Wow, that does make a lot of sense. I oh, I didn't even think about that when all that went down This is what I always say, man. Even if this isn't true, um, it is very this is like great This will always say you cannot be dismissive of ravens fans and what they be thinking because They can put so much stuff together and ravens fans. They pay attention to so much They pay attention to so much. I love this. Thank you for this. He said always love watching viz Really respect how decent you are as a person and the way you speak you and your videos have had a real influence on my life Allow me to have an open mind. Keep cranking out these vids Oh, man, you ain't had to say all that man Got my eyes getting hot water and stuff now. I appreciate you though, man I ain't I ain't nobody but uh, no, I appreciate you watching. I appreciate you. Uh, supporting too, man. Thank you All right, next question came from my god Adriene said, do you think we really need to revamp our offense and defense? So do you think we fix minor detail such as getting one or two more pieces on each side? I too much. I see too much bickering, uh between fans on what we need to do and it's annoying Lamar is fine. I believe greg roman asked him to do too much That's why his longevity throughout the season hasn't been great since 2019 If greg roman runs a similar offense to what he has been doing for tyler huntley, I feel like we'll be fine. I agree Um, a little bit less cute qb design runs I feel like the the runs for lamar should be if a play breaks down lamar like, all right. I'm out In my opinion and they can still have some in there, but just scale them back scale them back We know that lamar superman. He can do all this and all that But I would love to see the ravens offense be coached as to Not having lamar have to be superman. I would love to see them try that To see all right. Well, let's let's have some other people be the supermans for our team I will love to see that anyway, um He says uh kill the oh, I should have kept reading. He said kill the qb design runs I hate them or take them to a one or two a game not eight Then greg will have his job at the end the next season Wink is great. We need to fix the blitz. I think this might have been before he got fired We need to fix the blitz on every down with marcus peter's coming back and marlowe mixing man and zoned in the blitz We're really confused the opposite I say we need a man on defense who prides nothing but tackling our defense has one major problem And it is tackling. Oh, yeah, that was a huge problem for sure I also think it's a lack of understanding too But he said obviously injuries this past year, but the big plays wouldn't have happened if we could tackle So I think we need a linebacker who can get off alignment and tackle and it isn't being talked about enough I I agree queen show great spurts and clutching him at some points. Obviously not consistent enough We could use d-line, but adafi has miles gear potential if wink would just let him attack the qb Which I think will happen next season. Oh, that's a little awkward, isn't it? Um, but he said offensively. I don't see us drafting wire receiver I think we are fine unless we can get calvin ritley or robinson allen robinson I wouldn't worry about it too much. They won't come sadly But I believe we get rid of via nuova and draft attack Or god If not, then they will be getting a linebacker or a corner. These are the biggest needs in my opinion Tell me if i'm wrong graven lll. Oh Hey, this is your opinion. So it's not right or wrong. It's just your opinion. That's fine Uh, the only reason I say corner is just to make sure mp will be ready to go for next year ACLs are possibly career ending. Sorry for the book. I'm just super happy and finally a patron This has been bottled up for a year. That's why it's like this lll. Thank you graven. Hope you and the fam have a blessed day Hey, it's all good man. Um, yeah with inside lineback is a position that I I agree It's not being talked about enough. Uh, patrick queen. He did struggle there. Um, there were a lot of inconsistencies You see the potential But the wrapping up the tackling that has got to get better that that's that's what I feel like Has been his biggest issue has just been the the consistent or lack of consistency in tackling Um, and as far as cornerback getting ready to lose anthony avid losing jimmy smith Tavon young possibly. So yeah cornerback is a need as well Will they draft it early? Will they draft it late? We'll see but yeah with marlin Humphrey coming off of season ending injury With marcus peters coming off of season ending injury It's something that you got to think about are they gonna be the same when they come back? How are they going to be when they come back? We hope that they are just as good as they were before even better when they come back But it's something that we just don't know Anyway, he says sorry again for my last question lol You're the only guy I can talk to about our team But my question is do you really think we could have we could have a head coach come in And do a better job than harbaugh has these past 14 years He's been almost as consistent as mike tolling and he keeps our physical edge going on With new coordinators and he won a ring in the hardest conference for the past 14 years Even we had to be Peyton Manning and Tom Brady almost all 14 Oh personally, I don't think anyone else out there right now could have could have as much consistency as harbaugh The only person that I can think of would be Brian Flores any argument that harbaugh should be fired I strongly disagree. What do you think? well He's getting his extension. So I mean this doesn't rule out anything But no, I just I just think it's about giving somebody a chance Giving somebody an opportunity I am not one of the people that think that harbaugh is the end all be all at coaching I know a lot of ravens fans feel like oh is is is harbaugh or nothing If ravens got rid of harbaugh didn't know they would sink they would suck they'd be sorry They wouldn't be able to do anything And I feel like a lot of ravens fans just and and I can understand why because he's been there for so long So I understand a lot of people don't like change a lot of people are scared of change And a lot of people when they've been doing something for so long They feel like that's the only way that this should be done. That's the only way can get done But what what has gotten done since that Super Bowl? What has gotten done? Yes, we know he's only losing seasons technically when a lot of people got hurt But how many real winning seasons has he had? 9 and 7 is technically a winning season 10 and 6 is a winning season It is technically winning seasons, but how much was really won in those seasons There are people who could come in and and do just the same job as harbaugh possibly even better We won't know that until we know But again, my thinking is that harbaugh is cool. He's nice But he's not the only guy out there that can get a job done Next question came from my guy marco. He said what's good in graven. Hope you're good. Oh, yeah Yeah, we're good two questions. Do you think the failed two point conversions will play a role in harb's decision on g-roll Hmm or what decision a decision to keep him or them possibly letting him go But either way, no, I don't I don't think it plays any role. I think that's more hard than anything um, and he said secondly, do you think Jim carwell would be a candidate for the offensive coordinator position Now, I don't oh, yeah, I don't think they move on from giro in that case I think giro is not going anywhere now. What's weird is that? Um, he didn't get announced for a presser I mean, they they do announce presses and then they have people that end up talking in those presses anyway But greg roman didn't get announced for a presser a season ending presser John harbaugh did the new defensive coordinator mike mcdonnell did and eric de casa did But nothing from roman so just something to think about but also nothing from the special teams coordinator So and he he ain't going anywhere. So yeah, we'll see I wouldn't really read too much into it like that But we won't know till we know and the last question was sort of comment or recommendation came from My boy calm city. He said start your draft preview with wide receiver christian watson He went to the same school as costa wins. He's six five two ten and he could jump Uh, look at look him up on youtube. This kid is everything that we need Well, does he play with aggression? Does he go and get it? The does he just wait for the ball to come to him? I feel like we need that this big body wide receiver Who's gonna be aggressive who's gonna be nasty and who is going to fight for that ball Who is going to reach out and get it not just wait like, oh, okay. It's on the way. Okay. Here it comes No, reach out and go get it and take it if he's that hey bring them on This last question it also comes from my god martin and appreciate all the patrons who participated in this episode a question from subscribers But he had just sent it and I haven't edited the video and we made it a couple days ago But stuff's still been crazy busy. Uh, but I decided so, you know what let me just add it in here But anyway last question came from my guy martin He said man, I'm so disappointed with this ravens team I really went and thought the ravens should go out and hire brian flores Since to this point no one has hired him after the way He shut down lamar in this offense. You think it would be beneficial to have this guy On the staff so lamar has to face his defense every day in practice and can learn and grow Well, that's an interesting way of looking at stuff but instead We But instead we have to play it comfortable and hire people we know Also, I feel like hardball doesn't want guys like flores on his staff not because they are a threat to his job But because he knows they will just be taken as soon as the season ends Then he'll have to look for another defensive coordinator or offensive coordinator But that's what happens when you build a super bowl team other teams want your guys Yes, I love that I love that and I appreciate that so much. Anyway He said, um, we should be looking to build a super bowl team not a comfortable Well, we tried team and people giving the injury excuses this year need to wake up because guess what people are going to get injured next year To especially after so many people are coming off of injury You can't expect to just start the season completely healthy from start to finish No, I don't think anybody expects that but it Next season cannot be anything like last season when it comes to injuries. It's just impossible, ain't it Oof. I just that that can't happen Uh, anyway, he said also side note Maybe the ravens did give brian flor as a car He turned them down if that's the case I could see why they wouldn't say anything because they wouldn't want to flock Uh harassing brian flor is because he didn't want to be our defensive coordinator But knowing our front office they didn't even make an attempt No, and I think with um with mcdonald, uh We just I mean we really got no choice but to but gonna give him a give him a fair shot Give him a fair shot. I do understand your frustration with them. Um, making the comfortable move uh and We just hope that because not every comfortable move is always the best move um But it is somebody who hardball trusts Uh, not necessarily always a good thing, but we just got to see we just got to see with mike mcdonald Um, he has been known to change it up He is known for getting the most out of his players and he is known from from everything that I've heard about him Uh, he is also known for making adjustments so that Because the the thing with him with mike mcdonald the same way I feel like with an offensive coordinator The same way I feel like with a defensive coordinator the same way I feel like even with a head coach anybody that comes in here Especially if they have everybody healthy It's gonna be really hard for them to fail. It's gonna be really hard for them to fail like really Seriously, like it would take them going out of their way in order for them to fail So we'll see how he does Um, we'll see what similarities he has with previous defensive coordinators and what differences he has with previous defensive coordinators But we just hope that he ends up really doing a great job of the job