 with the NFL adding a 17th game this season. What's one way that that could actually help them in their pursuit of free agent wide receivers in the future? A lot of Ravens fans are sold on the prospect of Rashad Bateman joining Baltimore. But if he isn't there, pick number 27. What other wide receiver options should the Ravens go in the first round? What area do you want to see Lamar Jackson and this offense improve in from last year the most? These questions and more on this episode of NFL questions from subscribers. YouTube team keeping clean. What's going on the same grave and here with another video and another episode of NFL questions from subscribers. What question from subscribers is the series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answered in a video just like this. Now if you want the chance to be a part of NFL questions from subscribers then you can send me an email to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Don't send it to any other emails or else we won't have your question. Now this is a special episode of questions from subscribers because we have a special guest today by Chibs aka late round corner aka Mike. Go ahead and tell the people about yourself. Let them know where they can find you and exactly what it is that you do. Well that's a lot of stuff honestly so most of my I do a lot of draft stuff. You know that draft season is probably my favorite time of year and all of my draft stuff right now is on NFL draftright.com. There's also a website that I started but I kind of stepped away from for now. It's called neutral zone infraction and that's just neutral zone infraction.com but if you want to find any of my stuff anything that I do is always on my Twitter and it's at late round corner spelled just like it sounds. Apparently there's a guy named JJ Zachariah that's late round QB. Don't get them mixed up. I'm the other guy. So that's where that is right now. I'm working on a couple other things where I might be contributing to Raven's brawl but nothing is set in stone there yet. So the best thing I can do is if you like what you hear today or if you just want to argue which I do like arguing you can just find me on Twitter at late round corner. It's full of opinions and blue collar analysis. I try to keep it simple for like the casual fan because I know when I first started watching football trying to learn everything was it was overwhelming. But what made you get into really like analyzing and know what made you really get into loving the draft. Man I'd have to say like so I used to be on Facebook and I'm not anymore and I used to just yeah that's what I hear. I used to just like watch college prospects when they would come out and I would say things about them and then people started coming to me and asking my opinion on certain prospects and things like that and it just kind of grew from there which is really how like all of my blue collar analysis started was the first site I ever wrote for. I mean they just picked me up out of a Facebook AFC north group and it just kind of exploded from there or you know grew from there. I don't know that it's exploded yet but it's really just you know people have this tendency to want new and shiny and the next best thing and everything like that and being able to help them see the pros and cons of each prospect even if they don't accept it you know if they're diehard on a prospect like wow I don't know Hakeem Butler then they're not going to look away from that prospect no matter what you say but it provides the opportunity for people to learn and I do enjoy helping people get to know the game better and hopefully keep them from being engaged in silly conversations that they don't need to be a part of. Okay and one last question before we get into this why Iron Man? Why is he the best Avenger? So this is going to be deep man. When I grew up I had a plan for life and without getting too deep into it my plan for life ended up getting derailed and I fell into alcoholism and you know since then I still drink obviously everybody knows that I love my bourbon but I'm definitely reformed from how I was and you know me I've always got a snarky comment to make or a little bit of wit and I just identified with Tony Stark stories like not having his parents going up and you know the alcoholism and the wit and everything like that not so much obviously the being rich thing because that would be nice but it's obviously not on the cards for me and obviously I don't fly around in a metal suit but that would be also very cool but I also like if we're talking just MCU like if you watch his story arc from how he started to making the ultimate sacrifice for the people that he cared about and people that he didn't even know I mean I think there's something within that story versus a guy like I don't know Captain America who just decided to give up on his team and go live the life that he wanted to live. I appreciate that backstory man because I didn't even know all that about your love for uh I know you love Iron Man but I didn't know exactly why so I appreciate you sharing that with us yeah he was like a childhood hero man like comics everything growing up it was it was always Iron Man so all right cool I appreciate it all right so without further ado we got some good questions as we always do let's do it first question came from my guy young gorilla he said what's up in Graven hope all is well with you and the fam been watching for a long time and I'm a long time Ravens fans since basically Harbaugh's third season as head coach so basically I've only had Harbaugh as a head coach so with these most likely being his last two seasons in Baltimore who do you think the Ravens will go after as a new head coach and he has some more questions but we'll start there first now I'll start I can't say that these are Harbaugh's last two seasons with the Ravens I think it depends on a lot that goes on moving forward and the success or lack of success hopefully it's not lack of success but it all depends on the Ravens success moving forward so I can't pencil these in as okay after these next two seasons Harbaugh's done because just right it depends on so much how you feel about that I don't know I mean I do know again the new and shiny thing comes into play for the last couple of seasons fans have been all out on Harbaugh largely 2019 being the outlier of course you know saying Lamar Jackson saved his job and then Harbaugh wasn't a good coach and like every coach has their faults period you're not going to find a coach that is good at absolutely everything Bill Belichick maybe the best coach of our generation probably the best coach for our generation is terrible at drafting like you're not going to find a coach that is perfect at everything and I don't understand the fans you know wanton abandonment of John Harbaugh I don't know that he only has two years left like you said I think it depends on a lot of things you know if they win a Super Bowl in the next two years John Harbaugh is not going anywhere right they get close to a Super Bowl John Harbaugh is not going anywhere you know if everything falls apart obviously John Harbaugh is probably gone and then I think you look at a guy and this is hard to call two years out because you don't know who's going to be available but if there is a guy like Eric B. Enemy available I think you take a long hard look at him but honestly I think you pull somebody from the college ranks like a Lincoln Riley or something like that especially if they're going to extend Lamar Jackson and you have that kind of quarterback under your control for the next five six years then I think a college coach is probably going to be able to get the most out of him as far as creativity and doing some of the things that Lamar Jackson can do best I like that and one of the answers that you gave actually led into his next part of the question and he said but you answered it already he said should Harbaugh stay if we win a Super Bowl in the next two seasons of course like especially if they don't have a serious upgrade at wide receiver if they win a Super Bowl with Sammy Watkins as wide out one then John Harbaugh needs to stay because that is just it's an atrocious wide out group so then he's next up he said does Wink or Roman get the promotion I don't think they would give it to Roman he said I know it's early but it's been on my mind since this offseason started I hope you get to my question much love for the channel and for the keep it clean family have a blessed day so here's the thing gorilla I can appreciate thinking about the future but thinking about a head coach and change two years in advance seems a little bit arbitrary man we have no idea what's gonna happen yeah super super early but we appreciate the question young gorilla next question came from my boy William J he said what's up in Graven how are you bro I'm just going to get to it because I think this is an issue that is haunting the Ravens and maybe keeping the Ravens from making that splash deal of course we all know Ravens don't make big moves unless it's a cost conscious move but maybe Eric the cost his hands are cuffed just a little because of that infamous Earl Thomas 10 meal uh dead money wonder what moves would be made if the Ravens didn't have the cesspool contract looming over their heads anyway that's my question let me know what you think about that and as always stay safe love you bro love you too William um so go ahead do your thing I would have to hop on Twitter to verify this but Brian McFarland uh at Raven salary cap said something about that contract they would have had to not sign Earl Thomas at all for them not to have this money hanging over their head now granted the grievance is still going on but I don't think Earl Thomas is going to win and I don't know enough about the salary cap to speak on how that affects their their cap but if you look at it from a objective standpoint they had enough money to make a decent move the question is like how much money are you going to spend for a guy like say Kenny golly like if his asking price is 18 million a year which it was are you willing to spend 18 million a year for a guy like Kenny golly that's true so there's I think there's more to it than just the Earl Thomas contract I think the Ravens have always been about right player right price and I know a lot of fans are like well sometimes you have to go get your guy your guy wasn't there Alan Robinson got tagged he was the guy Chris Godwin got tagged he was the other guy Kenny golly is a tier below them so if Kenny golly is who he's referencing I would hesitate on throwing something at Eric because to be visited inside yeah and I know yeah I was looking at the Raven salary cap looking at his tweet as well in that because I forget a lot of times about the whole the Earl Thomas grievance and that there's a possible it's possible that those guys may have to pay Earl Thomas that money right I don't I don't see it happening but we won't know till we know until it's official but that does make sense as to why they would I mean normally they like you said right player right player right price they move carefully already but with that Earl Thomas money possibly hanging over their head maybe they just keeping something to the side as just in case money so they don't get caught up so you actually had a conversation with him yesterday mm-hmm yeah okay so yeah it does look like it still has implications all right so I mean I guess it was a good question I just feel like in the grand scheme of things that amount of money is not going to make or break them maybe this year for for sure where they have the lower salary cap and everything but overall I'm not sure you know five ten million dollars is is really that much of a boon to a very detriment to the Raven salary situation next question came from a guy rodeo he said my guy with NFL agreeing to add another game to the season could this help the Ravens in an unforeseen way I could really be looking way too deep into this but hear me out we've had thousand-yard rushes in recent years we haven't had a thousand-yard receiver since Lamar has been here Hollywood and Andrews come close every year because they are our top two options when it comes to throwing the ball but with Greg Roman having help at coaching the United States telling Baltimore they have to not only get better at throwing but to throw more and this extra game we may finally be able to have a thousand-yard wide receiver or two if that happens of course free agents may not be afraid to come here as a wide receiver having a thousand yards puts them in a certain bracket stat wise what do you think you can go first okay so I uh that that's an interesting way of putting it I never thought about it like that when I think about the 17 game schedule I think about it a lot of records just getting ready to be demolished but it won't hold the same weight as a 16 game schedule if that same record was demolished so with this yeah Ravens receiver could get over thousand yards now especially with an extra game but at the same time depending on uh how the Ravens do hopefully they will be in this case where they have that option but the Ravens could be in a position to where they can rest some starters it's not a normal thing that happens with the Ravens like last season the way that the schedule went that's a lot more normal for the Ravens than it was in 2019 where they were 14 and two and they were just coasting we weren't used to that but it could be where uh even if Ravens receiver gets a thousand yards yeah people could look at it like oh yeah oh that's great they get it they got a thousand yard receivers now now looks better but at the same time people could also look at it on the other end of the spectrum and be like oh it took them 17 games for their receiver to get a thousand yards like what kind of offense is that right at that point when you're adding the 17th game I think you start looking at the deeper stats like for one yards don't mean anything without scores at the end of it so I would rather have a 700 yard receiver that's scoring eight nine touchdowns or you know an 800 yard tight end that's scoring 10 touchdowns than I would a thousand yard receiver that's scoring five touchdowns like yes I know you need the yards to get to the touchdowns but at the same time like thousand yard receiver great who cares like it's a fantasy football stat to me you want to look at the deeper metrics what was he averaging per game did he have really good games and then really bad games or was he fairly consistent every single week what are his what's his yards per target yards per out run your receptions are you catching the ball more than you're dropping it what's your drop rate what's your what's your touchdown rate so on and so forth yards don't really matter to me I get everybody loves the flashy numbers and this and the third like oh we have a thousand yard receiver can city at a thousand yard tight end like it got them to the Super Bowl granted but what did he do when he was in the Super Bowl consistency is what's important to me while I would you know I'm not going to be like I a thousand yard receiver like get him off the team at the same time like I don't think it's the end all be all and I'm not sure that it solves the receiver was in Baltimore then you I mean it's just a guy that has more stats because there was more games I think is the the long and short of it is that's the only reason it would happen in Baltimore and I'm okay with it I am one of the few that believes that you can win with a strong run game and a strong defense in the postseason as long as you can figure out how to call plays correctly next question came from my boy omg he said I engrave and hope you and your family are doing well haven't seen a question from subscribers since last September so I thought why not dust the cobwebs often ask you this I don't know if you are a mock draft guy but I have probably done about a couple dozen mock drafts recently and nine times out of 10 Rashad Bateman gets taken and this could be a possibility in the actual upcoming draft I know a lot of Ravens fans want him to be our ideal guy if the Ravens pick wide receiver in the first round I haven't been a Ravens fan for too long now but from what I am hearing the Ravens love to hog to as many draft picks as possible and will most likely not trade up earlier in the first round from their 27th overall pick spot so to mentally prepare us Ravens fans for the disappointment uh of on draft night when Rashad Bateman is off the board and Ravens do go for a wide receiver who would you like as the night the next option uh disregarding if they are fit for our team or not I like Teris Marshall Jr. Kaderis Tony Marry Rogers and because of his connection with T-Martin Sully and Timorian Terry sorry for the long email I would also like to throw this question out to all of the team keep it clean members and ask them on their opinions down in the comment section below I'll keep up the good work love your content and work ethic and stay safe and hashtag in EDC we trust so I'm gonna let you take this one all day every day because I know you are the the the draft guy so if Rashad Bateman isn't there what's the next best option none of them oh Teris Marshall might be a first Teris Teris Marshall might be a first round pick like he's maybe on the edge of it but he's a move receiver the Ravens need a guy to play the boundary and only play the boundary and be a possession receiver and be a true ex receiver Teris Marshall like oh he ran a 4.38 LSU's pro day is held on a really fast field that guy runs he plays like a 4 4 6 maybe which not bad but not great either so like Teris Marshall is move receiver you use him for matchups he's what like 6 3 to 110 pounds like he's the guy that you're going to use for for matchups you know you put him in the slot against a nickel quarterback or you get him on a linebacker you're not necessarily just going to keep him on the outside edge which granted now you have Sammy Watkins I can do that and you have Hollywood Brown I can play in the Z Amari Rogers is not a first round talent and everybody likes him just because of his connection to T Martin but if you like the connection to T Martin then you can get an ex receiver in round four and his name is Josh Palmer and he's really good. Who else did he say? Teris Marshall, Amari Rogers, Cadarius Tony also not a first round talent he's the second round guy maybe a third round guy you know he had some flashy highlights at Florida but he's not better than he's definitely not better than Bateman I don't even think he's better than Teris Marshall I don't think there is a next best option for round one if Rashad Bateman is gone I mean unless if something crazy happens and DeBonta Smith J. LaWaddle or Jamar Chase are available but Rashad Bateman's gone then sure take one of them but if we're talking like the first four being some order of Smith, Waddle, Chase and Bateman there's nobody after that for the first round there isn't one you either trade back or you take best player available which would be like a Trevon Morig or you know Aziz Ojalari, Jalen Phillips, something like that. There's an Aziz prospect focus article coming out today. Alright next question came from my guy Inanik he said engraving I just finished watching your latest vid or latest vid at the time because he sent this on March 28th he said the video about do we bring in Antonio Brown after signing Sammy Watkins and the Lamar and Hollywood South Florida connection came up because you know I love it. We know Flacco hung out with Todd Heap then Dennis Pitta and maybe a few others when he was here however Joe did what a QB should do and that's target a guy down the field. Oh look I've got no proof that Flacco didn't hang out with Anquan Bolden, Tori Smith, Steve Smith senior Derek Mason, Jacoby Jones, Ray Rice but Joe didn't need to have a guy as part of his crew to throw him a pass. My question for you is do you think the need for a tight off-the-field connection is a problem full of more in the Ravens passing offense moving forward. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts congrats on 40k appreciate it. You should be proud of the community and culture that you foster keep up the great work appreciate that Inanik. I will um yeah I'll start this one. I don't think it's a uh you said do you think the need for a tight off-the-field connection is a problem for Lamar and the Ravens passing game moving forward. I don't think it should be. I don't I can't say that it is um I know one of the biggest things that we look at uh when it comes to the passing game um is is Miles Boykin or the lack of targets that he gets the lack of connections that he has with Lamar Jackson those two are just they just not on the same page like ever right um with Miles Boykin I uh they you don't see any videos of them hanging out or anything like that you don't see any videos of them off the field or anything like that but I think one of the reasons why their connection is so bad is because I just don't think there's trust there. Lamar just does not look like he trusts Miles Boykin and I think it's come from when Miles Boykin is targeted that it just something always not always but enough time something has happened to where things go like terribly wrong and then I think Lamar has seen enough of that to where he's like uh he doesn't even look for Miles Boykin half the time and there could be times when Miles Boykin is wide open but Lamar won't even be looking his way because I don't think he has trust for him. Now I would Mark Andrews who's on the opposite end of that spectrum I don't ever see any videos of them hanging out together and they have a great connection uh he's from jump from when Lamar came on the scene him and Mark Andrews they've had that connection from jump so I can't say that it's a uh a lack of off the field connection that would hinder Lamar from really connecting with his wide receivers but I think it all just depends on who it all depends on uh Lamar seeing the field a little bit better uh it depends on the offense using guys to their strengths and really putting guys in positions to where they can succeed and all depends on those guys too they'll work ethic as well the route running if they can get some separation uh it's just a mix of things but I don't think it has anything to do with the off field connection. So you know what the wild thing about Miles Boykin is? What? So from charting his games uh the number of their percentage of catchable targets he had was about 67 percent of his targets were catchable okay that's not a great number he caught about 58 percent of those catchable targets also not a great number but that makes his true catch rate like if it was adjusted close to 86 87 percent so like Miles Boykin has the talent I don't know what the disconnect is there um but he has the talent and it's so frustrating to watch because you're right there are times that he's wide open Lamar Jackson doesn't even look at him and that part's on Lamar completely on Lamar because it doesn't matter what has happened the past before you need to show your guys that you have faith in them and toss them the rock. I don't think having an off the field connection should be part of your game if you don't trust the guy because he's causing interceptions like Rashad Perriman fine if you I had to get that in there if you don't trust the guy because he has a crucial drop in a game against Tennessee like Seth Roberts fine but you can't not trust your wide receiver because you don't hang out with him you don't ride around the car with him so if that is part of the problem that is a huge problem but that's on Lamar shoulders it's not on Baltimore shoulders the end statement there is that it should not play into who you are throwing the ball to you need to get everyone involved otherwise you are stimming the offense and you are causing a huge problem as the main guy on the offense. Next question came from my boy Akil he said what's up in Graven I've been watching for a while appreciate it he said and at the present I need to become a Patreon I ain't no pressure man if you want to that's fine if you don't want to that's still fine don't don't pressure there's pressure get his Patreon. He said but do you think the Raven should take a chance on right tackle Isaiah Wilson he's going through a hard time in his career and this gives me damn wall of vibes I don't know the details but I feel like we could have held on to him I feel like we should not make this mistake again and pick him up for cheap and give him some time to better himself so Akil said he wants the Ravens to bring in Isaiah Wilson um and this would I mean assuming that Orlando Brown Jr would be traded I um you could do that but you can't put all your eggs in the Isaiah Wilson basket yeah you can't like bank on him all right you can't bank on him to be like okay this is our guy at tackle this is who we're moving forward because you saw what happened with the Titans you saw what happened with the dolphins you can't bring him on and expect your team to be like this savior team you're like oh yeah okay we revived this career we're gonna revive his career there's no doubt that we're gonna get this thing done and he is going to be our guy okay you could uh no I'm I'm no you can't do it yeah I'm I'm all the way out on that first of all a person has to want the help for them to accept the help Isaiah Wilson is not at that stage of his life uh there is a lot about him that makes me think he just wanted that rookie contract so he could just live out his days and do whatever he wants like he's out here dancing on cars and breaking car windows and like doing all types of crazy stuff like I get it I get the the upside because of the talent and everything like that but one you don't want to take the shot and two you risk bringing a cancer into the team and you cannot afford that when you're in the middle of your your Super Bowl window I would rather take a shot on a guy that has uh you know that's coming off injury like Mitchell Schwartz or something like that or I don't know maybe draft one in a historically deep draft because offensive tackle is pretty deep interior offensive line is ridiculously deep so if you and the Ravens are pretty good at drafting offensive linemen so if you're going to take the shot you take the shot in the draft or you take the shot with a proven vet like Mitchell Schwartz or something like that uh or I I don't know maybe keep Orlando Brown who wasn't top 10 in pass block win rate or run block win rate in 2020 at left tackle let's face facts Orlando Brown is a right tackle period he played well at left tackle he's not in the top 10 category maybe he just I understand it's his dad's dream for him and everything like that but at some point dude like you're gonna make more money playing right tackle over the course of a career anyway and right tackle is just as important as left tackle these days because defense is removing their past rushes around all the time so right now we have Orlando Brown until we don't have Orlando Brown. The next question came from my guy Adeep he said uh my first name sounds like how it's spelled uh anyway got you he said ain't great even long time subscriber first time asking the question what area do you want to see the offense improving the most from last year for me it's third down fourth down and red zone efficiency in 2019 we were the most efficient offense but we lacked the talent to go to the championship game this year with the new coaches and walk and signing I feel like we have more talent in the wide receiver room than in 2019 if we can use what we have currently on the roster and return to the efficiency that we had two years ago I think that we could go further I apologize if this is a long question just wanted to hear your thoughts so from Raven's offense what what is the biggest improvement you want to see from the Raven's offense moving forward or right off the bat I don't think you need to see a huge improvement in third and fourth down because if the Raven's offense improves you won't be in a lot of fourth down situations um so like asking for them to improve in third and fourth down like yeah I get it yes I would like to see them improve there too if they're in those scenarios but the biggest thing I would like to see them improve in would just be and this is kind of a cop out but just kind of in general play calling needs to be better uh concentration drops need to go down um yards of separation needs to go up the average yards of separation for anybody not named willy sneed uh was abysmal willy sneed by the way was what they call wide open on 47 percent of his roster 47 only guy that's the guy we let walk to Raiders hollywood brown I think had uh 1.7 average yards of separation mark andrew's had 2.1 uh myles boykin actually had more he had 2.3 um so separation routes or something that I would like to see worked on I think sammy walkins will kind of help with that as far as uh taking attention and opening up separation and whatnot especially as if he slotted in as the the quote unquote wide out one um I think that kind of opens up marquee's a little bit and everything like that so that helps um so I think row running is honestly going to show a bigger improvement than people think it will uh to the overall offense so I think that's the biggest thing that I would like to see especially out of like t martin like teach these kids how to run routes so they're not getting their legs tangled with the db every time they make a break um so I didn't think about that until right now but I guess route separation would probably be the biggest thing for me because you start doing that and everything else improves oh and come on with the illegal formations yes that see man I was like okay I'm surprised he didn't say my answer yet but that that was mine was be the uh the pre snap penalties it was like there was a point in where we reached where we we just expected it every single game and we knew they had to get at least like two out of their system every single game with the pre snap it was like a nine game streak it was ridiculous yeah man it was bad but so that that would be one of my biggest improvements another one for me would be the consistency of the deep ball uh there were a lot of opportunities that were missed with the deep ball um and there will be times where there's a lot of times with hollywood that's why I say hollywood should have had a lot more yards than he did have because there would be times when hollywood he would blow pass a defender and lemar would either over or under throw it um and I would also say with lemar the uh the quick decision making and not necessarily be to be locked on to one wide receiver but to make quick decisions and really be sure of himself uh one of the examples are where one of the biggest examples from last year for me where I saw that lemar was unsure of himself uh was in the game against the jaguars jacksonville jaguars uh ravens came out they were moving the ball down the field on the first drive of the uh of the game for them first offensive drive moving the ball down the field and it gets to the point where lemar he drops back hollywood he's behind the uh the defenders in the end zone it's two defenders on him he's behind both of if lemar throws it boom it's touchdown but he hesitated a bit and still hesitated a bit and then he threw it in a section so it's um lemar overall it's a very good decision maker but it's it's some of those decisions where it's like you really got you got to trust your arm so I would say that and also um taking a bit a bit more of the check downs too because I know a lot of times where lemar he's he's goals for that big hero play that superman play that big play um but there may be a check down that's available right there you know lemar he wants to move the ball down the field of course any quarterback does but sometimes you got to just take what those uh defenses give you and I think that uh lemar should do a better job of doing that um and I would say for as far as the offense too as a whole this was more so with coaching of course you know lemar you know he can do everything he can do all the stuff he can pass he can run all that but I would love to see where because we definitely uh use all of lemar's talent we use it obviously use his arm not not as much as they should but they use his legs a lot I would like to see to where we really do that same thing where we try to maximize using players talents with other guys yeah so with uh and especially guys like a Devin Duvenay they they do it with hollywood they definitely use him in angels but and they they do it with the running backs too but with the wide receivers I would really really really love to see those guys like Devin Duvenay and Sammy Watkins and then even Pro Shade Boykin too just see those guys and I know it's only so many balls to go around but I would love to see to where those guys talents really get maximized as much as they possibly can and when you're talking about a guy like Duvenay like he should have been used more last season and he wasn't so I agree with you there the thing about the check downs um Gus Edwards has really improved he's uh one of my knocks on JK Dobbins coming out of college was he needed to improve his hands so yeah yeah uh so I agree sometimes you need to take what the defense gives you the other part of that is I'm not sure that their hands are there yet uh Gus Gus more so than JK for sure and Patrick Ricard needs to work on his hands as well you need to have that option um you also need to have a good underneath guy hopefully Devin Duvenay is going to be that guy this year um but it needs to be there and you need to be sure of it which goes back to what you said originally uh about Lamar Jackson feeling sure of himself you also need to be sure of your guy oh yeah I like that next question came from my guy uh Doc Zenith he said what's up love the channel appreciate it man he said what do you think about Orlando Brown trading Orlando Brown Jr to the dolphins uh for their pick if Kyle Pitts is available um I do not see I don't I don't envision any scenario where a dolphins one of their first round picks uh I don't envision any scenario where they would trade for Orlando Brown Jr with one of those really really high first round draft picks I mean I wouldn't be mad if they did but I don't see that happening and then the Ravens taking Kyle Pitts now that that would that would be something right there man Kyle Pitts and yeah that would be sick but I just I I just don't see it happening man it's inconceivable Kyle Pitts has gone by pick four the Falcons have had like 12 zoom meetings with him at this point like it's probably the safest pick in the draft outside of Trevor Lawrence at one like if you're mocking it's Trevor Lawrence at one Zach Wilson at two I don't know at three Kyle Pitts at four. Next question came from my boy Dray from Hawaii he said I want you to look at some film on my brother and please let me know what you think I really will be happy if we drafted him he will be a steal I think we will bring back lj for it too what do you think um and his brother that he's talking about is from Arkansas state uh Jonathan Adams what do you think about Jonathan Adams okay um actually I have some notes here oh perfect and why he's looking up those notes about bringing lj for back I love the idea of bringing lj for back but also like you have to understand that the young guys need to get their reps and they are they're pretty happy with how Chris board has come on so you have to let and I love how Malik Harrison uh came on last year a lot of people I think are underrating what he's going to be um Patrick Queen had a lot to work on Malik Harrison is very good at the role that he is being asked to do he was on my list of ex receivers um I feel like he has an attitude problem which I absolutely love not that he has an attitude problem but that he plays with an attitude problem and I absolutely love that if you have an ex receiver you want them to have that mean streak and just kind of like get out there and punch guys in the mouth uh to go and get the ball but I also think that like he's also a downfield threat so it's a weird paradigm because he has this attitude and he can go up and he can high point the ball um and he wins his contested catches but you can also get him down the field so I think that's a nice combination of like size speed strength um I do think that he has issues he's got a few issues as far as uh route running um he wasn't asked to do a lot of that Arkansas State um I've seen him run three different routes uh you need to run the entire tree as an ex receiver in the the NFL I also think that he has some issues with uh concentration drops I don't think they're that blatant um but I know he definitely has some so if he works on his hands uh route running is going to be a big thing his releases need work as far as foot and hand work um but if he fixes that stuff I mean I think he's going to be very good uh he offers a little bit on special teams um but I don't think he's particularly twitchy enough to be a good special teams wide receiver which is fine if if you're taking the guy to be your ex receiver you don't necessarily want to want special teams so um I mean I don't hate it I think he's probably a late day two early day three guy I mean the fact that he had over 1100 yards uh in he played in less than 10 games because he was out for a couple of quarters he's definitely got the stats to back it up I know you don't get a whole bunch of uh you don't get a whole bunch of eyes on yet Arkansas state but I did like Adams um he's probably in my top 17 ex receivers okay which is pretty good considering how that sounds like not great um but considering how deep this wide receiver class is top 17 is actually pretty good okay but do you think we'll eventually trade Orlando Brown jr for draft capital or for DJ shark or Michael Thomas uh EDC has something up his sleeve hashtag silent assassins I hope you and your family are great and I enjoy the content go Ravens and Lamar Jackson will win MVP this year appreciate it Jay um for shark I don't think shark happens I would wouldn't mind but I don't think shark happens I know Tony Khan got into it on Twitter with that uh the guy CJ Goulson and yet he kept shutting that down but at the same time I was thinking like hold up why is Tony Khan continuously going at this random guy and I was thinking man like why even waste the energy going at this random person that said that this trade was in the works and it just it just had me thinking a bit like does that mean that it actually might have been ripped but anyway um and Michael Thomas I uh I don't think that one happens either uh I know Saints are doing a lot of um they've been trying to get under the well they obviously under salary cap now but they've been trying to get a lot of additional cap space but I don't think Michael Thomas is um is gonna be uh traded now last year if you'd ask me that I did think that he could have been traded last year but this year no I don't I don't see it happening um but as far as Orlando Brown jr I said this in a video I think from yesterday well when you're seeing this video maybe from a couple days ago but I if Orlando Brown jr doesn't get traded uh before the draft or if he doesn't get traded on the first night of the draft then I don't think he's going anywhere and I think that every single passes uh Orlando Brown jr has a higher and higher chance of staying uh Baltimore rated yeah I that's I said that as well and the whole uh OBJ for shark thing didn't really make sense to me because if you're getting Trevor Lawrence right and you have all this cap space and you're trying to build something you have all this draft capital and you're trying to build something in Jacksonville why would you get rid of your number one wide receiver because you're automatically hamstringing uh Trevor Lawrence at that point yeah and he's always right and people are like oh well they can just get another one in the draft to the hit rate on a guy like DJ shark in the draft is not great so it makes no logistical sense for the Jaguars to trade for Orlando Brown when they can they have enough picks where they can just draft an offensive tackle and if they don't feel great about that one draft another one so there's no reason for them to to trade for a guy that's going to get a market level contract at LT just doesn't make sense um I agree with you that each day that passes Orlando Brown is more than likely going to stay uh Baltimore Raven that is not to say that he won't be traded at Deadline um but again doesn't make sense for the Ravens to trade Orlando they have all the leverage first of all second of all they are right smack in the middle of a Super Bowl window you don't you have Ronnie Stanley on one side Orlando Brown on the other like that's a really good situation to be in you don't just trade that away because oh I'm getting a second round pick for it no you're going to give me a couple of first maybe a player that I want if you think this is a market level left tackle that's what the going rate is period I mean look what I now granted it was Bill O'Brien so this is a little bit of an overpay but look at what what Claremie Tosso got when he got traded he used it you know what I mean so the Dolphins are still building their team off of that yeah so if it's not that kind of package or something close to it sorry but you're at right tackle I don't know what to tell you plus somebody brought up this point like what if Ronnie Stanley's not ready for a weak one that's true are you comfortable with like Tyree Phillips and uh I don't even know who would be on the other side at that point if OBJ is gone and Ronnie Stanley's still injured then you have Tyree Phillips and what DJ Fluker Ben Bredeson like who's playing tackle at that point you can't hamstring yourself by getting rid of OBJ just to make him happy he doesn't have the leverage he I hate to put it this way but he can just sit and chill and chill something happens worst case scenario he leaves in free agency next year see that's that's something that I didn't think about um would be if if they got rid of Orlando Brown Jr and Ronnie Stanley still wasn't ready to come back yet right that that yeah that's scary to think about yeah then you're gonna crush your franchise quarterback if he gets injured then your whole season's a waste and goodbye Super Bowl window and last question on this episode a question from subscribers came from Tanja she said hey good morning Graven hope you and the family are great I was at work and watching first things first and they talked about Sammy Watkins being injury prone and how he might not be reliable for Lamar Jackson I feel a little better about Sammy being a Raven because the analyst mentioned that Sammy tweeted this is going to be a season to remember so to me it seems like he is all in plus the analysis said that we still need another receiver because we can't rely on Sammy Watkins I agree and guess who they said we need to get Antonio Brown could it happen I will be done maybe it's just a dream have a great day your friend Tanja um so yeah that's that's what I said as soon as they signed Sammy Watkins even I remember the video that we did when it came out that the Ravens were even interested in Sammy Watkins I said if they signed him I feel like that can't be it man because he hasn't played a full season since 2014 his rookie season yeah and you you just you love the upgrade and hope that it works out and I mean I can't really um I know he did say that he was all in and that he was tweeting all this stuff about the Ravens but that's a team that gave him his opportunity had he went to another team he would have been tweeting all the same stuff correct but I am I'm hopeful for what he can do and I hope that he can stay healthy it's going to be that much harder now especially because they added a 17th game so I was like oh man but um with Sammy Watkins I it's just a lot of hope my expectations not that they're low or anything but my expectations they're tempered I don't expect him to come in and just all go off and just explode but I do expect him to be a uh significant contributor to the offense especially since it's an offense that he uh should be able to pick up on quickly since he ran it before some years back um but with with him I just I don't feel like this should be it like the Ravens should be like okay we're done that's it we're finished I feel like they should still invest in another whether it's via trade whether it's via draft whether whether have or they get it I feel like they shouldn't be done so I completely agree with you because as soon as they signed Sammy like I tweeted out right afterwards like the Ravens still need a true X receiver and they do whether it's through the draft or a trade or or whatever I mean you want to trade Orlando Brown over to uh to Chicago give us that one Robinson cool with that uh you want a draft or shot Bateman cool with that too Josh Palmer Nico Collins absolutely let's get it Sammy is not an X receiver um even if he does stay healthy for the entire season um they need a bigger more physical imposing presence uh to take attention off of whoever is on the field at the time plus what people aren't thinking about what if Sammy stays healthy but somebody else gets hurt what if Marquis and I'm not trying to put anything out in the world but he's fast dude fast people tend to have leg injuries uh you know if they don't probably take care of themselves and on top of it he's little so what if something happens to his leg he's got a sprain for a few weeks who do you have then then you have Sammy as your fast guy and what Miles Boykin Devon doing a James crochet are you comfortable with that have to get another guy absolutely have to um I don't want to say I have no faith in Sammy but show me you can stay healthy your range of outcomes more likely he is going to get injured then he isn't going to be injured due to his past history now I don't know that he's injury prone a lot of the things that have happened to him seem like freak accidents and there is a huge disparity between freak accident and being injury prone so uh I would have to take a deeper look at all his injuries and how they happened and and you've kind of come up with a conclusion after that but I think she's right you can't have the faith in Sammy to be there for the entire season until he shows you that he can