 What should the Ravens do to address their past rush? Which team is the biggest threat to the Ravens advancing to the Superbowl? Can we put the same judgement on a quarterback both before and after you take away his best weapon? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers then just send me an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Do not send it to any other emails. If you send it via DM we can talk about your question but it's not going to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers. So again send it to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. We got some fire questions in this one. This is the very first regular season episode of NFL Questions from subscribers because this came, this is coming after the game. 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He said A in Grave and Hope Ball as well, what do you think about the Ravens targeting Ryan Kerrigan from the Washington football team in a trade scenario? That was just weird seeing it say Washington football team because my mouth wanted to say their former name but got to remember Washington football team now. In a trade scenario he has two years left on his contract. It will be an 11.5 million salary cap hit but if we're all in on a championship this year it will be worth it especially after seeing the past rush for us this Sunday. Thanks for reading my questions and keep the content coming. Ryan Kerrigan, oh man I wish, see I feel like I would have been able to answer this question a little better if I would have got a chance to see the Redskins game but I didn't get a chance to see it. Obviously, whoa, Washington football team, my apologies, see it's just so natural man but if I would have got to see it, I didn't get to see it in play. So if that would be something, I know that's been a name that's floated around especially since after the draft, since they drafted Montez sweat last year, then they drafted Chase Young this year. So they drafted two past rushes and then they still have Kerrigan. An 11.5 million hit, something would have to be worked out to where that would have to be reduced but I could see that. I could see that as a legitimate opposite past rush. What does he about like 30-31 right now? Let me look it up right now. Ryan Kerrigan, let me see, do-do-do-do-do. I don't know why I looked up his stats. I should have just looked up Ryan Kerrigan. There we go. Oh, he's 32. Okay, I mean, hey, if he still got something left in the tank, that's why I say if I wish I would have watched the game yesterday, well, I couldn't. Actually, I don't wish I would have watched it because I was watching the Ravens take care of business anyway. If he still got anything left in the tank, cool but he's 32 and you are all in this here. I think they may want somebody even younger or a bit younger and just a little more explosive so we're gonna see but Ryan Kerrigan, if they got him, I wouldn't be mad. I wouldn't be mad at all. Next question came from my boy Brendan N. He said, hey champ, this is Brendan. Been watching for a year now. I love your stuff. Appreciate it, man. He sent in plenty of questions from subscribers before so I appreciate you being a part of this series, man. So thank you for that, man. He said, quick question, with the huge win the Ravens got in week one over the Browns. Do you think Josh Allen is a better quarterback than Baker Mayfield? Oh, well, I don't even think it's really based off of that game yesterday. But Josh Allen, I mean, they played the Jets so I can't really base it off a week one but just off of everything yesterday, Josh Allen, I think he's had more consistency than Baker Mayfield. Is he a better overall better quarterback than him? I think it's still a little too early to say right now. I mean, I'll probably give him the edge as of right now. He's definitely had more success and he is more, I think he's more of a threat than Baker Mayfield. I think with Baker Mayfield, he's more accurate than Josh Allen. Josh Allen has a bigger arm, but he can do more for you as a quarterback because he has the bigger arm and he is the better runner as a quarterback as well. And that's a big part of the game of football, especially nowadays because like I was going through the Raven schedule and I was yesterday and I was looking at all the quarterbacks that they faced that can take off. And they faced most of the quarterbacks that they faced this year, they could take off even if it's just a little bit. But they only have like two quarterbacks that they go against this year that just are not mobile. But Josh Allen, he gives you that sort of all around quarterback. So right now I will give the edge to Josh Allen over Baker Mayfield. Not by something wide, crazy margin or anything like that though. And next question came from my guy, T'Andre G. He said, can you believe the Jacksonville Jaguars are one and no man? I picked them to lose. I just, I feel like they were in just full tank mode and they could easily go one and 15. You just never know. But they brought it yesterday. Garden men, she was like 19 for 20 for like 195 yards, three touchdowns, no picks. Like those are not even Madden numbers. I sure can't do that in Madden, but he did it in real life. And that was a beautiful thing. So shout out to them. Garden men sure he is definitely underappreciated by not only the NFL or not only fans of different teams, but just the NFL as a whole. He's underappreciated as a quarterback. He actually probably should have been rookie of the year last year. And that ain't no offense to Calla Murray, but Garden men sure did his thing as well. But garden men she was, of course, on the Jaguars, a smaller market team, so they don't get all the glitz and glam and all that. But give him a shot, man, give him a shot. And he's showing like, he don't want nobody named Trevor to come take his spot, man. He don't want that. He ain't trying to go through that. He trying to hold it down, man, and really be Jaguars guy. So we'll see how it all works out for him. Next question came from a guy, Jadiah P. He said, what's going on team? Keep it clean Ravens nation. Of course question. What do we, the Ravens have to do to beat the defending champs, the chiefs when we went, he said, when we meet up in the AFC championship, I like this, I like Jadiah. I love him. Shout out to Jadiah. He said, because to me, they are the biggest obstacle in our path to the Super Bowl. And when we do beat the chiefs, what do you think we will play from the NFC or who do you think we will play from the NFC where we have a chance against that team. And thanks from JP. Let's stay focused. Ravens be safe team engraving Super Bowl or nothing. Ravens big trust. Ooh, I wonder if this Earl Thomas burner account. Cause he talking about when, when we play, whoever we play in the Super Bowl and he said, when we meet them in the AFC championship, yeah, this might be Earl Thomas, LaBernon account still doing this thing for the Ravens. Anyway, what do the Ravens have to do to beat the chiefs? They got to play that game. It is going to be tough. I mean, but they need to focus on obviously one game at a time and they, they got to get there in the first place. They got to get there in the first place to even to the AFC championship game. I think they're going to do it, but they got to make it happen. It's not going to be easy. They have a lot of tasks in front of them. They obviously got a lot of teams in front of them as well. Cause they got 15 regular season games left on their schedule. But for them to beat the chiefs, I think whether regular season, post season, both, they got to play that game. Don't forget the running ball and they, they got to be ready to score. Yeah, ain't going to be no defensive game. Even though I would love if the Ravens, their defense held it down. That's, that's a tough task though, man. You, you, you'd like four cats, not, not necessarily all starting caliber received, but four quality receivers, man. Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins, McCollum, Hardman, the Marcus Robinson, then you got Travis Kelsey too. Then they got a, what's the name? What is it? People still, what's his name? We got a double ass name. The tight end that used to play for the Browns last year, but he's on the chiefs name. Offensive line is doing everything. Pass rush. So pass rush, the defensive line is going to be huge against the chiefs. Man, you got to have a good pass rush because what we saw against the Browns yesterday, it's not going to cut it because Patrick Mahomes is levels above Baker Mayfield. And it's not a shot at Baker Mayfield, but just the, the chiefs are levels above the Browns. Just as a whole. Um, and if you can't get a pass rush against the Browns, oh, and if you go with that same pass rush against the chiefs, that, that, that, that could be good for anybody. So they pass rush gots to be improved. It has to be. And for whoever, as long as Ravens make it to the Super Bowl, whoever they will be playing in the NFC championship, I mean in the NFC and the Super Bowl, of course they would have a chance because they, they would have gotten in the first place. Of course they would have a chance against whoever, man. Like anybody really got a chance against anybody. It's any given Sundays, any given Mondays, any given Thursday, sometimes it's any given Saturday. But the point is, as long as you show up, you got a shot straight up, man, like, again, the previous question about the Jaguars, Jaguars showed up. I picked the Jaguars to lose because I thought they were just done with this season. They showed up and they won. Next question came from a boy, a mod L. He said, yo, what's up in greater man? Love what you're doing with the YouTube channel. Also been tapping in with the podcast. Much respect. Hey, appreciate you checking out the podcast. I'm all up, man. Thank you, man. For real. He said, my question is, can you name your top 10 white? Oh, man. Yo, no. Y'all know I hate list questions, man. He said, name my top 10 wide receivers. He said, name your top 10 wide receivers in the game in order right now. Oh, and he said in order. Oh, that's rough. He said, I'm really interested on your take because this is, uh, how close it gets from me. From seven to 10, my top 10. Number one, Julio Jones, Michael Thomas, Tyreek Hill, DeAndre Hopkins, Devonte Adams, Odeo Beckham. Stefan Diggs, Mike Evans, Amari Cooper and Kenan Allen. Oh, that's 10. Okay. Well, mine would be a little different than this. Mine would be DeAndre Hopkins at number one at number two, probably Julio Jones at number three. Hmm. Number three would either. Oh, number three would probably be Kenan Allen. Number four, Devonte Adams, that boy. I feel like he's underrated as a matter of fact. Man, that dude is something serious. Uh, number five, probably, uh, well, Tyreek Hill was crazy, man, because Tyreek Hill, this dude is so low to the grounds, a small receiver, but this dude would be putting in that work, man. So Tyreek Hill is up there. Uh, who else? Oh, then Mike Evans, Amari Cooper. Um, I'm not just, I'm not a real big fan of Amari Cooper. Um, as far as him as a top receiver, I just don't see that. Uh, man, I should have wrote this down, but yeah. I said DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, um, just say Devonte Adams, uh, then Kenan Allen, Tyreek Hill, um, Odeo Beckham when I don't know what's going on with him right now. So it's like with him being on the list, it's a little bit questionable, right? I don't know what's going on with him. Cause he had a good season last year, even though he was hurt, but I just, like yesterday's game, I don't know what is going on with him. He, he kept being in and out, like on the sideline. I don't know if he's still hurt. I don't know if he was just mentally hurt. I just, I don't know, man, but top 10. Oh, who else? I don't know if I could do a full 10. Cause that's tough, man. A full 10. Cause I say, uh, direct, could I say for a full six to 10, uh, Hollywood Brown, Miles Boykin, Willie Snead, uh, Pro Shea, and Duvenay. Am I allowed to do that? Um, um, maybe what, maybe Michael Thomas. Yeah, maybe. Cause Michael Thomas is good. And with Michael Thomas, the thing with him is like, I feel like he lasts you. I feel like he got way overrated, but he, and, and it's, he is, he's benefiting from the system. He's in doesn't make him a bad receiver now, but he's benefiting from the system. He's in because it was like one of those Ben Rosberg with Antonio Brown things where they just spam, spam, spam, spam. He will keep throwing him the ball, double coverage, triple coverage. He will keep throwing him all the footballs in the world. Um, but he's been catching them. I mean yesterday, he only called three, but he be catching. Uh, so I, but he's still a good receiver. Um, I did say Mike Evans already. Hmm. It's a fun thing. Oh, for, for the rest of this kind of murky after that, man. Next question came from a boy, Gary. Hey, he said, I ain't graven. Love the veers and I hope you and your family is safe. Appreciate you, man. He said, now onto the questions. Do you think the AFC is stronger than it was in the mid 2000s? We have the chiefs Raven Steelers and Patriots and whatever team wants to win the division and AFC's equivalent of the NFC East, the South, he's so petty for that. So after the Texans and chiefs game, people were throwing excuses for Deshaun and this is an unpopular opinion, but he's had a tech or he's a tad bit overrated. He has stinker games. No one talks about against the Broncos and Ravens last season, but people will blame Bob for a bad sack or throw that he takes. Uh, this doesn't mean that Bob is a good head coach last GM. Plus, I remember when him and Lamar were in college and he said that he didn't want to be known as a dual threat due to racial undertone. I think he's underachieving with his athletic prowess and letting the outside noise affect his play style. Lamar embraces that Lamar embraces what he is and doesn't let anyone tell him how to play his game. What are your thoughts and remember, keep it clean. Appreciate you, Gary. Um, so is the AFC now stronger than it was in the mid 2000s? No, I don't think so. Cause you, of course, you, you had your power houses in the mid 2000s too. So you, it's always going to be power houses, so to speak, but it's always going to be those teams that have good coaching and just know how to do their thing. And, and they, they continue to get it done. So I don't think it's any different. Now I just think some of the teams have changed. Um, and as far as the Sean Watson, the Sean, I like the Sean Watson, um, I think he's nice. But now I think this year will really show a lot. This year is going to show so much because they gave away the best player on their team. They literally, they, they gave away the best player on their team in the Andre Hopkins and they gave him away for pretty much nothing. Um, but they gave him away and that is, uh, now the Sean Watson, he's going to, we're going to see, okay, the Sean, what you really got now without a DeAndre Hopkins. And I don't think it was fair that they gave him away, but, and I don't even think it was fair to really have put that pressure on your quarterback, but they, they mad, they may have been the only way it makes sense that they wanted to pay the Sean Watson and they knew DeAndre was coming up too, but they didn't want to pay him too. But still, man, you give away your best player on your team. But, uh, now, now we'll really see, uh, if you're right about the Sean Watson being overrated, we'll just see how he can carry this team. We'll see how he gets it done this year without, I can't say without a number one receiver because he got Brandon Cooks. Yes, he still got Will Fuller. He got Randall Carl, but those, like, that's not DeAndre Hopkins, man, straight up. That's not DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre Hopkins, man, just levels above those guys. And there's no offense to those guys at all, but DeAndre Hopkins is like that, dude. I mean, you saw him yesterday with the car and everything he was doing with, like, it's like, man, I was, I was a little bit jealous. I'm like, man, he should have been a Raven, but it is what it is. So again, to answer your question again, I think we'll really see, be able to determine who the, who the Sean Watson is and what type of quarterback he is this year. Even though I don't think he should have been in this position, because you, you, you take away his best weapon, like what, like it would be the same thing with Lamar, like with Lamar, if they take, if they traded away Hollywood right now, if you took away his best weapon, it's like, what, like, why would you do that? For what? Why? It's like, you, you go to any quarterback and you take away their best weapon, you, you would expect them to struggle because that's their best guy. That's their go-to guy. It's like, I just, I just, I was very disappointed in the Texans for that move because it's, it's going to have an immediate impact on your quarterback. I, I don't think it'll make him better. Even with Flacco, his best weapon was Vanquan Bowden. What happened? Traded him away. Traded him away. So, here's what it is. Next question on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers came from my boy, Matthew, and he sent this on September 12th at 1157 p.m. So this was the night before the game. So he was up thinking and here we go. He said, yo and Graven, hope everything is well. If this makes it into a video, it would obviously be after week one. Hey man, I appreciate you for that man. Thank you for, for that. Thank you for, um, because there'll be some people, you got to put this in, in the video before, before the game, no. And people, even if they send it this late, they would expect to see it the very next day. And questions from subscribers, it just simply does not work like that man. But I, no, I seriously appreciate you acknowledging that, um, seriously man. Like, you, you, you just don't know man. A lot of the messages that people send, but I appreciate this man. He said I was actually going to leave you my week one stat predictions and have you see how close it was to reality. Oh, so he said Lamar, let me, let me pull up the Ravens, uh, that box score man. Let me pull it up right now so we can do a compare and contrast. So, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Let me go to scores and let me go to that. Let me just look for that 386. I ain't even got to look for the teams. I just got to look for that 386. Anyway, so he said Lamar, 17 out of 23 as far completions, only missed six passes. He went 20 for 25, so he only missed five passes. So he was close. He was close. Lamar, nine attempts, 64 yards. Well, he had seven attempts, 45 yards. So that was a little off. Ingram, 16 attempts, 97 yards. Well, that ended up being way off. He had 10 for 29 and he said Ingram, five receptions for 53 yards. I don't even think he had five receptions yesterday. Oh yeah, he didn't, he didn't have any. Okay. Lamar without no checkdowns to the running backs. Okay. So that was obviously all the way off. He said Dobbin, six attempts for 32 yards. I think this one is actually close. Oh, seven attempts for 22 yards. So he had one more attempt for 10 less yards. So he's a little close. Edwards, five attempts for 16 yards. Oh, he was really close with that one. Gus Edwards got four carries for 17 yards. So he was really close with that one. Hollywood, four receptions for 60 yards. You underestimated Hollywood. You underestimated them. Now I'm playing, but yeah, he ended up getting what's five for 101. Boykin, six receptions for 52 yards. He got three for 37. So he's a way off with that one. Snead, two receptions for 20, 24 yards. He actually got four for 64. I didn't realize he had 64 yards. Then he said Duvenay three for 18. Duvenay actually got one for 12. So close. Andrew's eight receptions for 90 yards. And Andrew's got five receptions for 58 yards. It seems like he had more yards than that, but he got the two touchdowns. Of course. And he said, Boyle, two receptions, 15 yards. And Boyle got two receptions. So he got that right, but for three yards. So very short. And he said, yes, I'm aware of the Mars throwing stats are not matched with receptions. I didn't even notice that, man. But he said, well, love to see how close I got and any changes you would make to my prediction. Also love the podcast. Listen while doing schoolwork. Team keep it clean. Appreciate that a lot, man. Thank you, man. So yeah, for some of them, he got close. Some of them he was way off, but no, this was fun to do and look back at, man. Appreciate you. And the last question on this episode of NFL question from subscribers came from my boy Reginald B. He said, what's good in Graven? Hope you and the family are doing well. It's been a long minute since I've asked anything. Hello, but I'm definitely still keeping up with the videos. We appreciate you, man. He said, but anyway, it's question time and people might think I'm hating with this one. Oh, he said, but do you think my homes would have had would have the same success if all of his weapons were taken away? Because after watching that game on Thursday, it really does seem like he just he just throws a ball up. Well, but since he has a track team as a wide receiver group, it helps him out a lot. He even admitted last season that he's just figured out how to read defenses. So it really makes you think about it. I still think he's that dude. But if he and Watson swap places, I don't think he would have been as successful as he is now. Well, you can look at it a couple of different ways. And like like we talked about earlier, with the Sean Watson question, I just I think it's unfair when teams take away a quarterback's best weapon. I think it's just it's not fair to the quarterbacks, because again, that's their best weapon. And with the chiefs, you can't blame them for establishing the team that they have. Alex Smith, he had some of the same weapon, not all of the obviously couldn't have McCall Harbin because he wasn't in the league yet. And I don't think he had the markets Robinson either, but he did have Tyreek Hill. And I mean, we started learning about Tyreek Hill with Alex Smith. But Alex Smith wasn't putting up the numbers that Mahomes putting up. But they obviously did add a little more and Travis Kelsey too. But Mahomes, if you took away all his weapons is it's just something that we'll never know. And hopefully for chiefs, they we will never find out because it's it's a collective effort. And I think it's just I think it's unfair to to think of quarterbacks like that. Like, oh, well, he wouldn't be so good if he didn't have this person or if he didn't have that person. And I mean, we could say the same thing about a lot of quarterbacks. But at the same time, you want like I'm sure chiefs fans loved what their team is doing as far as the weapons that they provide Mahomes with because they give him some legitimate weapons. Every team should want their quarterback to have some of the best weapons possible. Like like we talked about earlier, they got four quality receipt and a great tight end too. They built such a strong supporting cast around Patrick Mahomes. It puts him in such a great position. And again, he still got to make the those now, too. Because it's not all about the weapons. There's a lot about him. He's still got to get them the ball in stride, in different windows and he got to still do that. So I don't think it's fair to take away from a quarterback and say, oh, well, I don't think he would be that good if he didn't have him. I don't think he would be as good if he didn't have him. But it's it's a relationship like a quarterback to receive. It's a relationship that they help each other grow. They help each other go through the process. They help each other get stronger, get better, get more consistent. Because if you put any quarterback with a bunch of random weapons, a lot of them ain't they they not going to have any chemistry. That's why it's so good when quarterbacks get weapons that they can rely on that they can build trust with that they can build rapport with that they can build chemistry with because it just helps them. It helps them as a quarterback to get better. It helps the team to be better. It helps everybody from top to bottom, from front office to coaching, GM ownership. It helps the business of the NFL to franchise as a whole. It helps the fans sleep better at night. Oh, we got this for it. Like Chiefs, you know Chiefs sleeping. Chiefs fans sleeping real good at night. They're like, ah, we got Patrick Mahon. Yeah, we got Tyreek Hill. We got old man. Clyde Edwards. Oh, man, I cannot forget about him earlier when we was talking about the Chiefs. So it's it's like we cannot cannot blame the Chiefs for putting Patrick Mahon and putting so much around him and just we can't blame them for that. It's it's I mean, we can't make it like it's a bad thing. And it does not take away from in my opinion, it doesn't take away from Patrick Mahon's man and how good he is. But we should give give kudos to the Chiefs for putting Patrick Mahon's and and the receivers vice versa, putting them both in good situations on offense.