 Why are there still fans wanting Trace McSawley to leapfrog both RG3 and Lamar Jackson to start a quarterback? Is Eric Dacosta already a better GM than Ozzie Newsom? Do the Ravens have enough salary cap to resign Ronnie Stanley, Matt Judon, Peanut, Michael Pierce and Jimmy Smith? These questions and many many more on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. YouTube Teamkeeper Clean what's going on is engraving here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers just send me a DM on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook or you can send me an email at teamkeeperclean at gmail.com or if you want to send something to the P.O. Box. The address for that is down in the description. We got a lot of questions to cover as we always do so I appreciate y'all that keep on sending them and feel free even if you've been part of Questions from subscribers before and you want to do it again? No problem, send your question and we'll get on it. So let's jump into it. Next question came from my boy Thabo. He said, hey man, I've seen a good number of fans doing their usual hate on Lamar for no reason thing, but now it seems people want Trace in over Lamar and RG3. Why? I mean, I have my own opinion of why because 99% of these fans share one thing in common, but I'm curious to see what you think. Trace might be an OKQB, but that's not what we got him for. Yeah, the usual hate on Lamar for no reason. I mean, same stuff that we talked about before. He's not he's not your typical NFL quarterback. He's not the. Yeah, he's just not your typical NFL quarterback and a lot of fans. Not even just Ravens fans, but fans period. But with as far as Ravens fans, I hate on Lamar. I think a lot of them are just afraid of change. A lot of them just they're so attached to Flacco and whatnot. And then you can understand why. But they just they didn't want to let go. They weren't ready to let go. And with Lamar, this dude could do everything in the book right. But they'll still try to find something negative about him. And I'm not saying that he's this all star quarterback, at least not yet. We were hoping that he gets there, though. But and he's definitely got work to do. But it's like, again, same story as it has been ever since last year. Oh, and I tell some people, like, just get used to it. That's how it's always going to be. That's how it's always going to be. You're going to have some people that root for him now. And there's differences. There's some people that they just they don't feel him as a quarterback. But they still root for him because they Ravens fans. But they just that that isn't their first selection for who they would like to have as a quarterback or who they wish the Ravens would have drafted or whatnot. There's other people that just hate him for no reason. And they just they want him to fail. And then, I mean, it's just that's just how it's going to be. So might as well get used to it. But as far as people wanting Trace McSawley to be the guy, could be that some people are Trace McSawley fans from whatever he did in Penn State. Or it could be that a lot of people are just against Lamar Jackson and RG3 that much to where they want Trace McSawley to be that dude. So I mean, I think it all just depends on the person, depends on the situation. It all just depends. But again, like I said before, get used to it. Next question came from a boy, Connor Lavery. He said in Raven, do you think that the Jim Harbaugh or that Jim Harbaugh's experience with Greg Romans, Kaepernick offense at the 49ers, majorly influenced John Harbaugh and making him our offensive coordinator? I do think that's a piece of it, but I also think that that is the direction that the Ravens have been wanting to go into for a while now. And it just seems like they were already planning for life after Joe Flacco, once they hired Greg Roman, because Greg Roman, I think before his title was like run game coordinator, something like that. I forgot what it was, but they hired him. Well, Flacco still had a couple of years left with the team. So Greg Roman has been around for a few years now. And it has it has showed that this is the direction that the Ravens have been looking to go into for some time now. Reason I say that is because Ravens, it is always the craziest thing with the Ravens. Like some some of y'all be seeing some of the stuff early. I don't always catch it early, but a lot of y'all catch stuff early and put me on. But what the Ravens do whenever they make a move, especially in the front office, it's usually always something that's planned out. It's usually always something that they've been wanting to do, a direction that they've been heading in. And some of the stuff may come as a surprise to us initially. But then when you look back, it's like, oh, wow. So that set up that. And that OK, got it. That makes sense. But it seems as if they were looking to go into this direction with a more uptickle offense and more mobile quarterback after Joe Flacco, whoever was going to be his successor. They just wanted to pick up the pace. And they they hired Greg Roman. But they also they they tried to sign RG3 before didn't work out. He turned it down. They tried to sign Kaepernick within that whole thing didn't work out. So they've been trying to get in this direction. And then when they signed RG3, a lot of people felt like, oh, man, they probably going to draft Lamar Jackson. They're going to draft Lamar Jackson. They brought him in and then they ended up doing it. They ended up drafting Lamar Jackson. It was like, whoa, OK, wow. That is a complete shocker right there. Some people that didn't see it coming. Um, and it was just definitely some different. But they they gave us little hints here and there. Like, again, when they tried to sign the two other the other quarterbacks, both the Kaepernick and RG3, when they tried to sign them, that was like a little reminder like, hey, we are looking to go in a different direction, not to say that those guys were going to overtake Flacco starting spot. But they could be mentors for whoever would be the rookie coming in. Whoever would be that next quarterback coming in to help that quarterback transition, so help to really help the Ravens transition by them entering that quarterback and them helping that quarterback out, whoever that may be and who ended up being Lamar Jackson. So but like you did say, I do think that Jim Harbaugh's experience with Greg Roman in Kaepernick's offense, it did help. It has some influence, but I don't even think that was the biggest part. Next question came from my boyfriend, Frank Andrews. And it's funny that he asked this question on, I can't even oh, why I took a picture of it on June 22nd. So it was around then and it's almost a month later. But the question is still remains the same. He said, wanted to know your thoughts on Jadavian Clowney that he's still available for the trade. Do you think the Ravens as we get closer to the season will make the trade happen knowing the potential of the pass rush in with our great secondary would possibly provide what we had last year. So if the Ravens traded for Jadavian Clowney, I don't see it happening because I think they would have to give up too much. Texans, they couldn't they weren't able to come to an agreement with them for a long term deal. And they got this whole mess going on with the Texans tried to tag them as they try to decide whether to tag them as a DN or a linebacker. But I believe the linebackers get less than the DNs and he wanted to be franchise as a DN. And it's just they the NFL PA, the NFL Players Association, they filed a grievance against the Texans because they the Texans designated Jadavian Clowney as whichever one of the two positions got paid less. The Texans trying to save money. They trying to do the business move. But anyway, it's just a mess over there. It's a mess over there. So I do not expect him to be back with the Texans after this year and and of course, anything could happen. But I don't expect it to I expect them to hit free agency next year and cash in Raven's right now. I don't expect them to trade for him because they would just they would have to give up a lot. They would have to have to give up a lot. And I don't think not that they're not in a position to do it, but they are they don't want to do that. I don't think they want to give up the world for this guy. He will be a nice addition, but we'll see as a free agent, maybe, but as far as in the trade, no, it's not going to happen. Next question came from a boy skeptical. He said, one of your subscribers asked, how are we going to survive all the injuries this year since last year? We had few or really none and you let him off the hook. Did he forget how Lamar Jackson got the gig or maybe Gus Edwards, what about Tony Jefferson and the injuries to young wide receivers and DBs? Come on, man. And yeah, it is that is a part of the game. It happens every year, every team. And there's always some success story every single year of a player who wasn't supposed to be in the position at the end, but the player ahead of them ended up getting hurt and then boom, insert this player and this player does really well with the team or this player does really bad with the team. But this player gets an opportunity that they wouldn't have had had somebody else not gotten hurt. So yeah, that's part of sports, really. Definitely football, though. We've seen it every single team, that's the way it goes down. So yeah, I appreciate you catching that skeptical. Next question came from a boy Brian Benji. He said, is Eric DeCosta already a better GM than Ozzie Newsom? No, he's been doing really good. But to say that he's already a better GM than Ozzie Newsom, that would be foolish for anybody to say because he hasn't even gotten a chance to show anything yet. I mean, he's shown a good night to the offseason, but it's going to take a long time to really see if he's a better GM than Ozzie Newsom. And I don't even think the two are going to want to be compared or not necessarily compared, but just I don't think that the two are going to want to be compared to each other. They're going to be compared to each other, but I don't think they're going to want to be compared to each other since they're from the same bloodline. It ain't like Ozzie Newsom got fired or something, and then Raven's just went and got a whole new GM. No, they hired from within and somebody that Ozzie trained. So Eric DeCosta, again, like we said before, it's really going to take two to three years to really see how good or how great or how bad it ain't looking bad right now, but it's going to really take us two to three years to really see how good of a GM Eric DeCosta really is. Now, this first year, so far so good, but we still got a season to play. The offseason, that's only a part of the battle. We still got a season to go. We didn't even get to preseason. We didn't even get to training camp yet. So we got a long ways to go. And Eric DeCosta, he, as a GM, he's going to really have to really build this roster. And also, like we mentioned in the previous question from subscriber from Skepta, go to about the injuries. Eric DeCosta hasn't had to face any big injuries yet. And of course, we hope that he won't have to face any big injuries, but if he does, then what are you going to do? How are you going to work the roster to where you can compensate for that injury? Or even if there aren't any major injuries, just with the depth that you have at these different positions, who's going to make it, who's not, what's going to go down with it? See, it's, we only like a small portion of the way there. And we got a ways to go. So it's way too early to tell that. Next question came from, also came from my guy, Benji. He said, I feel we drafted So So from 2013 to 2015, but after 2016 we picked it up. What do you think? Yeah, I agree. I agree. With the Ravens, especially over the past couple of years, I feel like they've really been drafting guys, more impact players and guys that can impact right away. And I think that's made a really big difference. So yeah, I agree. Next question also came from my boy, Benji. He said, will the Ravens have enough money to re-sign Ronnie Stanley, Peanut, Michael Pierce, Jimmy Smith, and Matt Judon? Wow. You don't want to let nobody go. You don't want to let anybody go for real, man. That's a lot of money, especially left tackle money and past Russia money. Ooh, even cornerback money, but even Jimmy Smith would get a little bit less. He wouldn't get no top, top dollar. Well, you know what? You never know. But Michael Pierce too, this will be his second contract. So all of these guys would be, besides Jimmy Smith, Ronnie Stanley, Peanut, Michael Pierce, and Matt Judon, they would all be on their second contract, all of them. And you got to think in terms of money, like just imagine if these guys were to go to another team. I think when you are imagining how much money the Ravens would have to pay somebody, you would just think about them being a free agent. Is that person gonna command a lot of attention in free agency? Ronnie Stanley, yes. Michael Pierce, yes. Matt Judon, yes. Jimmy Smith even, yeah. And Peanut even maybe too. Not as much as the other guys, but he would still get signed, especially since he's a defensive player from the Ravens and they always get signed. But do we have enough money to sign or re-sign all of those guys? Well, maybe if some of them took some super cheap deals. But if, as far as signing all of them to what they want, what they're gonna want, I'm sure Ravens could work something cause they're salary cap people are something serious. But no, that would be too much money committed to just those five guys and Ravens don't operate like that. So I'm gonna go with a no. Next question, also came from my boy Benji. He said, is RG3 better than Dak Prescott at 30 million in terms of value per quality of play? Oh yeah, cause Dak is about to get paid. Now this question is, let me read it again. Is RG3 better than Dak Prescott at $30 million in terms of value per quality of play? So I'm assuming you're saying that, or you're asking the question, if you paid, or if you had to choose to pay either one of the two, which one would be worth it as far as value per quality of play? I would say right now I would say Dak Prescott, but the only reason I would say that is because we, and of course he's gonna start needing to move the ball down, feel a little bit more, he picked it up a lot last year, especially once he got a Mario Cooper, he was like, yes, I finally got a receiver. But I would say Dak Prescott right now because we've gotten to see a lot more full bodies that work from him over these past three, four seasons. But RG3, we haven't got to see that because he's been a backup and he'll be a backup again this year. So if he were to go to the free agent market, he was waiting it out too. He was waiting it out with the Jaguars, I think, but they ended up going with Nick Fools. So then after the writer, like right after that, he was like, okay, I'm a Raven again. I'm re-signing with the Ravens. But we, I would say Dak Prescott because RG3's been a backup. We haven't got to see a full body work from him. We haven't even got to see eight games of a body work from him. Now, when he has gotten in the games, he's looked good. He looked like he hasn't lost a step. But again, it's all about consistency. So I will go with Dak Prescott right now. Next question also came from my boy Benji. He said, do you think Jerry Jones will be interested in trading for Earl Thomas or RG3? He's so old, I get the feeling he wants to win now. And if so, would you be in favor of it? So, oh, no, I wouldn't, you must be like a Raven slash Cowboys fan, like a Raven boy or a Cowraven. Okay, neither one of those two nicknames sound good. Forget that I said that. Anyway, do I think Jerry Jones will be interested in trading for Earl Thomas or RG3? And if so, would I be in favor of it Earl Thomas? No, because Ravens just signed this dude to a huge deal. And that would just kill that cap if they traded him. But I wouldn't be in favor of it either way because Earl Thomas, he's regarded as some people calling the best safety in the league. And he's been a very consistent, really good safety ever since he came into the league. So, and we got him on our team. So I wouldn't want to give that up to the Cowboys. Now RG3, I would rather not. I don't know much about Trace McSully, especially I've never seen him in in-game action. Of course, and he's a rookie. It is nice having RG3 there as a Justin Case. Like, well, what if I have something happen to Lamar? It's nice having RG3 there. It's comforting as a Ravens fan when you think, okay, we got Lamar Jackson or something happened to him. Oh, we got RG3 straight. So, but if RG3 wasn't there, it was just Trace, I don't know. I don't know. And I'm not saying that's nothing against Trace McSully. It's just that I just don't know enough about Trace McSully to know. And of course, nobody does. Nobody knows about Trace McSully at the NFL level because he hasn't played in the NFL level yet. So that's to be determined. But I would not be in favor of trading RG3 to the Cowboys. No, not at all. And I'm sure he does want to win now, but now I would tell him to go find somebody else who's back in quarterback. See you soon, big plane! Bring them beans. Yeah, this feels like a dream.