 Now, when I first saw this question, I said, whoa, hold up now. He may be on to something. First one came from my guy, Joshua. He said, is the trade deadline in Raven's last chance at keeping Lamar for the long run? What's up engraving great work on keeping the flock updated? Is this trade deadline Baltimore's last chance to prove to Lamar that he should stay in Baltimore? Let's not sugarcoat him. After 2019, this Ravens front office has been flat out helpless to Lamar outside of the draft. Though Lamar may not speak out against EDC in the front office, the people around him, like his mother in personal circle, are most likely not ignorant to how negligent the office has been by not opening the bank to get Lamar weapons. Like every other front office in the AFC does for their quarterbacks. Not just the AFC, but the NFC too. But anyway, he said, is this deadline their last chance to prove to Lamar and his people that they are competent? Otherwise, Ravens Nation may be shocked when he dips out in the off season. That's a really good question. That's a really, really, really good question. And yeah, like I said, I always say after after 2019 and 2020, that's what the nation have been like. All right, while this dude, we ain't really know about him in 2018. 2019 he went out and won the MVP. All right, let's really like go in for him now. But 2020 Nope, they ain't do it. 2021 Nope, they ain't do it. They a lot of times they do a lot of bare minimum stuff. 2022 Nope, they ain't do it. They traded away his favorite target in Hollywood. Never really replaced him. I know a lot of people say, oh, well, Rashad Bateman was to replace Hollywood. Well, you could have both. You could have both. Or you could have really added to Bateman and Duvenay and Pro Shea and Wallace or whatnot. But Nope. And there were opportunities, but they didn't take those opportunities. So yeah, this this trade deadline, yes and no. Because the question is, is this trade deadline the Ravens last chance to keep them off for the long run? Yes and no. Yes, it does provide them an opportunity to show like, hey, we we we really want you to succeed. We really want to do what we can. But at the same time, I will say No, because they've already shown you who they are. And I mean, while we're hoping that it works out with like the DeSean Jackson signing Andy Isabella, whatever's going to happen with that, we hope that those work out. And obviously, the guys who are still here, like Rashad Bateman, like Duvenay and whatnot and the rest of them. But they've already shown you who they are. So if they show you who they are, what's going to change between this trade deadline and the off season? Yeah, this feels like a dream to keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him, made it. Well, that's my home. He ain't that right. Engraving. Right. Engraving. Welcome to another episode of question from subs. And the next question came from Neewan. He said, I engrave and not sure if I should send questions to this email or what. Let me know. Yeah, you sent it to the right email. Thanks for not sending it to the wrong email. Because if you would have sent it to the wrong email, then it wouldn't be on this episode. Anyway, he said question. What are the chances of hardball letting Greg go or demoting him to run game coordinator and promoting someone else on the staff to offensive coordinator? If we lose in dynamic fashion on Thursday to Tom Brady, if we lose three straight games, let me know your thoughts. Hopefully, hopefully we don't have to go through that. But I could see it happening. But the chat demoting him to run game coordinator. No, Greg Roman ain't going for no demotion. It's either he's offensive coordinator or he's nothing. Nobody's going to accept the demotion. They do one of them things. I can see them doing things. Oh, we mutually agreed to part ways or something like that. But he ain't going to be demoted to run game coordinator. But I think for that to happen, the offense will just have to continue to be underwhelming. Trouble not in the locker room, but in the coach's room. Next question came from my guy, Julius. He said, what's up engraving? Phew. This season. Of course, I want to thank you for the content before I go in. So thank you. No, thank you for watching it. Okay. Now the defense Mike McDonald has no idea how to put together personnel packages for the defense to operate at their maximum potential. Why does he keep lining Kyle Hamilton up at outside linebacker or put them in man-to-man situations with speedy receivers? Look, man, they ain't going to use Kyle Hamilton as a safety. So why not use him as a pass rusher? It worked last week. So might as well keep doing it, right? He said, I'm confused. Would he not be more of a threat dropping back and having Peters over top for help or put Hamilton on top of Humphrey for help? I think that would help keep a lot of plays in front of them. Where's Pepe? There's a lot of confusion in the red zone with the defense as if the calls in the headset don't match the calls on the field of vice versa. Look at the film. The offense has kind of, well, okay, as far as the defense, we're getting to that point because it's again, it's a new defense, new defensive coordinator, new defense. Everybody's still learning, but we're getting to that point. It's, I mean, this week eight, it's 17 games in the season. You're getting ready to go into your eighth game. It's time for stuff to like really start clicking because we're getting past the point where it's like, oh, everything's new. So maybe the guys are still adjusting, which they are. But still, but at the same time, Gino Stone, he's really getting a feel for things because he's really getting a lot more playing time than expected with the Marcus Williams injury. That I don't think they really bumped up Kyle Hamilton's play time yet. But they're getting some guys back from injury who they didn't have before. So maybe just maybe just guys just clicking a little more. They learning to click a little more. So I guess that's that. But we get into that time where it's going to be like, all right, is this thing jealous or not? But anyway, he said the offense has kind of fizzled. Where's Slade Bowden? Oof, that's who you start off with Slade Bowden. Slade Bowden just like, I think last week, I thought he had already got injury waved, but apparently not. But they released him from the practice squad like two weeks ago. He said, where's Slade Bowden? Pro Shae Isaiah likely. Josh Oliver. Makai Polk. Oh, Makai Polk. Tyler Wallace, Andy Isabella, Deshaun Jackson, Bailey Gaitha, Benjamin Victor. Wow, okay, you went through like everybody at the way in the back of the depth chart. But actually some of these guys are like the Ravens 4th, 5th receivers and whatnot, 2nd, 3rd tight ends. Anyway, he said poor utilization of the personnel and packages. What package do we always see? Lamar, Andrews, Bateman, Ricard, and whatever running back they choose is redundant. Either it's hardball holding the coaching system back with his analytics, specific pieces of the philosophy or the entire philosophy. That's it. That's it. You said it. It's the philosophy. That's what it is. Ground and pound, ground and pound, ground and pound. The philosophy has been, oh, whatever seeds we got out there we get by. As long as we can pound that rock, that's the most important thing. Play some good defense. It's a philosophy. The philosophy is not invested in the offense like that. So expect more of the same. Anyway, he said we have allowed John to hire all these retirement home coaches or promote a defensive equipment manager to defensive coordinator. Even John was a special teams coach that got gifted with a head coach position. Now he used to be a defensive backs coach too. But anyway, he said we have had qualified proven coaches before Rex Ryan, Jim Carwell, Gary Kubiak, Dean Pease, Marty Morninweg, Jerry Rosberg, David Coley. Yes, David Coley assistant head coach, passing game coordinator. Why receive a coach in 2019? Check his work. My opinion, John needs to go. He lost his juice, his plate calling judgment, but the most important of all, the locker room. Your thoughts. Interesting one, because as far as the locker room, I really think with that, the whole 2012 reunion, I think that's so he could try to get the locker room back. And since they won, I think that did help. But I still think they got more work to do. But yeah, I just think the philosophy just basically needs an overhaul. Next question came from my guy, Anthony. He said offense or defense? How's it going? I hope everything is good. Everything is really good. I appreciate you asking. So with the trade deadline approaching, would you want the Ravens to trade for an offensive player or defensive player? And who? Me? A dream scenario for me will be the Andre Hopkins. So, but I will go offensive player. Dream scenario will be the Andre Hopkins though. But anyway, he said, me personally, I'd rather defense. Reason why? I like all weapons. Yes, we can have more. But what's the point in adding to the offensive? Giro won't use them right. If I, trust me, I understand that. And we've been talking about that with the volume. Yeah, with the usage of guys not maximizing their potential. Trust me, I get that. But you still don't want to undercompensate weapon wise. Even though, yeah, and look, worst case scenario, think about this. If Giro doesn't use guys, then wouldn't that put even more eyes on him and really more eyes on this Ravens team and their philosophy? Wouldn't that put more eyes on them and open more people's eyes? Like, man, y'all got this, that, that, that. And y'all still can't have success on offense. Y'all still not using them? Like, think about it. We'll put more eyes on it. Would it change anything? I don't know, but it will put a lot more eyes on it. So a lot more people could take notice. But anyway, he said, I feel like Giro is holding Lamar Jackson back. And I feel like it's Mike McDonald's first year as our defensive coordinator. Well, I mean, it is his first year. He's a rookie. I mean, rookie defensive coordinator. Excuse me. Giro been here long enough. That ball should have been open. Yeah. And that tight end under center with Andrews is cute. Exactly. That's exactly what is cute. But is that all we're going to get? We won the game against the Browns. Yeah, that's great. But it still wasn't the prettiest. I'm sure the team is tired of stressing about blowing leads. Just like us fans. Sorry. This is so long, but I had to get it out. Nah, it's all good, man. This wasn't long at all, especially compared to a lot of other emails we get. So I appreciate you. Next question came from my guy, Greg, and Bebmore. He said, I ain't great. I hope everything is good for you and the fam. It was good to see Gus, the bus. It was back. I think Gus has been, he should be the primary guy. And Drake and Hill should be the complimentary backs is the way to go. Oh yeah. That's one thing that Raven's going to get right. That Gus will be their guy moving forward, for sure. That's one thing you can count on them to knock it out of the park. But anyway, he said, do you think Gus is the main guy now going forward? Or will it be a game by game design between him, Drake and Hill on who gets the most running opportunities? Since they already gave Gus his contract extension, then they could really max Gus out now. Because remember, before Gus got paid, they were like holding them back. And when you hold them back, you could be, you could look back and be like, Gus, you see your numbers? That mean they were straight. Nice average for you. Nice average yards for a carry. But you didn't hit a thousand. You didn't hit a thousand. But I mean, you put in some work though. So we ain't going to pay like no thousand yards. But you got close. But no cigar. But anyway, anyway. I feel for them, man. Because you could see it, man. You could see how they did Gus over the years, man. Gus will be rolling. Take him out of the game. Gus will be on fire. Take him out of the game. Gus is killing it. Take him out of the game. It's business, baby. But anyway, he said, uh, last last game they celebrated Super Bowl 47 team was some of the memories from that season that still sticks with you. Um, 1429 and San Diego and Jacobi Jones and Denver are two players that still sticks in my mind more than anything else. Oh, so yeah, from that season. Um, yeah, that just the charges game as a whole. Uh, because I thought it was over. It was looking really looking bad. It was late in the game. I thought the Ravens about to lose, but they didn't. Um, the mile high America. I remember almost like passing out from just running around and screaming at the sports bar that we were at. Um, then finally like beating Brady at his crib in a playoff game and that advancing to the suit is just crazy, man. It was crazy. It was a lot of crazy moments from that season, man. Um, all the Jacobi Jones plays, all the Tory Smith plays, Flacco, Ray Rice, Bolden, Pitta, just the season was just crazy overall, man. And it led to the best kind of craziness at the end of a season. The Super Bowl. Next question came from my guy, Mike. He said angry. And what do you think it would take for the Ravens to fire Greg Roman? Some fans have said we don't need to sign an elite Y receiving free agency. I disagree 100%. However, even if the Ravens finally did get that guy, he went through a thrive in Roman system. No, he wouldn't thrive in Roman system. But I don't think he would even thrive in hardball's philosophy. Um, but in order to, to fire Roman, it would just have to be just a complete collapse from consistent collapse from the offense. And the last question on this episode came from my guy, Jason. He said carry over from your post game thoughts and great and happy victory Monday to you and team. Keep it clean. First is clear. The missing players slash pieces that returned yesterday were wildly missed in games prior. Justin Houston, Gus Edwards and Rashad Bateman. The president showed immediately the Mars body language completely shows that playing in spite of this stagnant offense has gotten to him. He already ends this season at the disadvantage of dealing with contract negotiations. This being a contract year in the scrutiny that he faces specifically. I know Lamar brands himself to be one of those players who ignore the outside noise eight times out of 10. He does. But this year is different and he's human. No, I think he hears a lot of that outside noise. I mean, he's shown that over the years that he hears a lot of the outside noise. I never forget from jump is his first week one game starting where he in Miami against the Dolphins where he threw the five touchdowns and then right after that in the locker room, he was like, Oh, not bad for running back. So he hears all that stuff. He hears and it would. That could be like a gift in a curse hall at the same time because if you showing people that you hear all that stuff. Yeah, you can prove them wrong. But at the same time, they know that they could talk and they could try to get to you that way. But anyway, he said this all culminates into a question you asked previously has hardball lost the locker room. He definitely lost touch in some facets because these games where we come out all past to start the second half with no positive yardage. The first thing I should think is hardball flipping out on Roman through that headset and flat out the Ravens need leaders internally. It's been noted and said and it's true. Thanks for your timing for your content. Appreciate it. Yeah, that's true, man. The leadership is a little bit like Rocky right now. It's a little bit shaky and I don't know who those guys are. I know Marlon, he stepped up recently more as a more vocal leader. Kaleis Campbell has always been a leader type and whatnot. But I think they just need more. They need more guys with fire like that Marcus Peters type of fire. They need guys who's going to who's going to try to just get them right. Get them right. Not get them right in a post game presser. Not get them right in practice. Well, get them right in practice. But during the games, if stuff ain't going good, like somebody to really like pull everybody to the side, pull them all to the side, pull the offensive line to the side, like getting people's face and really get them fired up because stuff just ain't clicking right now all the way. They want all Sunday, which is great. But it's like we continue to see a lot of the same flaws in this team. So they need somebody that's just really going to like a player coach almost because this is something that you would want to have the coaches do, but it's different coming from a player because with a player, other players can relate to the other players on a more personal level. Like if you facing something in the game and you struggling or whatnot, a coach could come over and talk to you. Hey, yeah, you got to do this better. But if it's a player, then it'll resonate a lot different. I thought the last question was going to be the last question. It was supposed to be the last question and I even edited the video and it was the last question. But while I was editing my guy Gene, he sent in another question. And the only reason that we putting it in there is because this is a very short week. And this is going to be the one of only two episodes of questions from subs before the game against the buck. So shout out to my guy Gene. You literally just made it. Anyway, he said changes. Hey, what's going on in Raven? Hope everything is well down there and sunny Florida. Yeah, everything is really good. I appreciate you, man. Do you think Lamar will be a Raven after this season is over? Nope. I don't believe so due to the fact that Roman is the OC. I think it's more than just Roman, but let's keep going. He said, I believe it's going to come down to it's me or him type of deal. Well, I mean, the Ravens have continued to construct an offense for him and not Lamar. So I mean, I feel like they already gave them gave him their answer when it comes to that. But anyway, Lamar will have to speak up for himself and let the office know what he what he once done for him to resign. That's the thing. If he does that and who knows, maybe he's doing that now. We don't know. But say, for instance, that's the situation. Lamar is like, all right, this is what I need y'all to do in order for me to resign. He would have to make sure those things get done. He would have to. They don't don't bank on no promises don't bank on no, no wishing well, no hope that all I hope the Ravens would do it. They told me they don't do it. So I believe no, no, no, no, no. It needs to be done. But anyway, he said that has been plenty of times that Lamar has called out Roman, but no one seems to him. I don't know if it's the slight injury he has or he's just out there to be out there. But you can tell he isn't too happy right now. And that's the biggest problem. Back to 2019, that team was having a blast and look what it did. They played great until the playoffs. Let me know what you think and like Lamar may be with the Ravens. I'm out of lessons. Appreciate it. What a way to end that. The whole Lamar is clearly off as we can all tell. He in the presses, he just looked dejected, flated and it could be a number of things. He could be upset with himself. Like, man, I just feel like I ain't been playing that good the last couple of games. I ain't been playing as good as I can and I ain't been playing as good as I should be. He could be dealing with something that we don't know about. Could be that or it could be, it could be that he's not happy. We don't know. But based off of the timing of everything and just the way that things went, especially with them winning because they won the game and he still wasn't looking happy. That led a lot of us to believe it had something to do with the Ravens. But only time will tell. Only time will tell. And eventually we're going to find out one way or another. So we'll see how this thing goes. Hopefully we can see a happy Lamar in Florida against the Bucks on Thursday. Yeah, this feels like a dream. See my boy, he like automated. Automated. Well, that's my homie. Ain't that right in Graven? Right in Graven. Shout out to Graven.