 Why do Ravens play so many players out of position and not allow them to really play to their strengths? My Tyree Phillips can really help out this Ravens running game. Y-Wing should really simplify this defense. These and much more on this episode of NFL Questions from Subbs. YouTube team keeping clean, what's going on, it's Engraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subbs. And what that is is a series where you can ask me any NFL question and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of it, you can send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com or for the patrons and shout out to the patrons. You can send it directly on Patreon. If you want to join them and become a team keeping clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravenvids and if you don't want to, it's still fine. Now, something that I just wanted to touch on real quick, don't let nobody tell you what you can't do. Don't let anybody determine what your limitations are. Don't let anybody down you for doing things the way that you do them. Unless it's wrong now. If it's something that's wrong with legal, I ain't talking about something like that. I don't condone that, but you go for it. You go for it. You reach for it. You go do your thing and you be proud of it too. I love y'all team keeping clean. We got some fire questions that I'm proud that y'all sent in. Let's do it. First question came from my guy, Alex L. He said, how's it going Engraven? I hope you and your fam are doing great. Oh, we are doing phenomenal. Thank you. I hope your fam is doing even better. He said, my name is Alex and I'm a passionate Ravens fan from Soul Cab and watching for around three years now. Oh, I appreciate that man. He said, now the first email that I sent, watching videos have become routine every day for me. Just wanted to show appreciation to you and let you know that your videos, or what your videos mean. I appreciate it man. I got a 2 EO daughter that is always paying attention and watches the videos with me. After the coast game, we were driving home with the fam and I turned on your pre-capping. Your intro song was on and she just started singing it and the whole family started laughing. It brought so much joy to me and had just helped me realize even more how you're somewhat a part of the fam. Thank you Engraven. Know your worth. P.S. I know she a younger supporter at 2 years old and take care. If I had a question, it would be, would you ever think of doing like a team keeping clean, get together, barbecue in the future and have like questions in person or the little question from subscribers in person. Just curious. But we did the, we did the, we did, I appreciate that though. Shout out to you and your family and your daughter. Thank you for that. But we did the team keeping clean flag football game a couple years ago and then of course that was going to be an annual thing. We first did it in 2000, what did we do that in 2018 or 19? We did it in, oh, 18, 18 because that, yeah, 18 was the first year that we did it because that's when I had got, I had got laid off from my job. So that's when we first started doing this like full time in 2018. So I guess that's, that's another reason why me and Lamar, we always joined at the hip man. We always joined at the hip because that's, that's when everything like really, really started full time. But because y'all, y'all know the story already. Just a quick recap. We have been working at, I have been working at my job for like three, three and a half years, something like that. It was going good. I just recently got a promotion four months prior. Then all of a sudden one day we came in, they were like, oh, this whole department, y'all been laid off. He was like, oh, okay. So yeah, then yeah, and we could dive into it more later on. But that's when we started doing this like full time. We started really going at it. And that was when, yeah, we had the, the first annual flag football game that summer. Well, yeah, I think the summer before the 2019 anyway. I don't even, but anyway, we've done it. And it's on YouTube too. You can look it up. You can go to Team Keep It Clean flag football game and it'll pop up. So yeah, it's been done in the future. Hey, who knows, man? Who knows? I'm not sure. It just depends on how really everything goes. Next question came from a guy came. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope all is well with the Ravens in the nice spot at the buy. I want to just also some of the decisions we made as far as past offensive line moves and what we should do to get our franchise quarterback better protected, moving forward with an free agency or through the draft. Well, just with that part alone, and he still got more to his question, I think you got to do a good blender, both you have to. Ronnie Stanley, you cannot rely on him. You can't know my dog. She just moved the mic. Anyway, you cannot rely on Ronnie Stanley. You cannot rely on Joanne James. You have to almost put yourself in the mindset of we're not getting those guys back. And even if we do get those guys back, they may not be 100%. So you have and it's tough to say because, especially with Ronnie Stanley, but you're locked in with Ronnie Stanley. He ain't going nowhere. Um, so you, but you have to have the mindset as if getting those guys back would be bonuses. You have to. So I feel like the Ravens have to attack this off season with through the draft and through free agency at their tackle position, that interior offensive line too. I do expect Tristan Cologne Castillo to take over for Bradley Boseman, because I don't think they're going to keep Bradley Boseman. I think he's, he's a every week that price tag goes up or against the Bengals. It went down a little bit, but overall, uh, that price tag been going up. Uh, so I think he's going to the famous saying when, um, that when I think when, uh, when, uh, Ravens fans and Ravens media, they, they basically say Ravens. There's anybody to pay this dude. This dude, the nice way that they say, they say he's priced himself out of Baltimore. They love saying he's priced himself out of Baltimore. I think that saying came up from just like I said, fans and media trying to ease the pain. Look, he's priced himself out of Baltimore. It's too much money. But yeah, I think Bradley Boseman is going to be gone. He going to go cash in. Um, and Tristan Cologne Castillo is going to take over. Uh, but in Kevin Ziedler, he'll be another year older. I think they signed a, what he's on a two or three year deal. One of those, he's on a multi-year deal. Uh, Alejandro Villanueva, I think he'll be going. Um, but yeah, you, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta do some work. But anyway, I didn't get to his whole question. He said, personally, I like Ronnie Stanley and believe he is one of the best left tackles in the league when healthy. But I see the writing on a wall before we signed him and preferred that we signed Orlando Brown over him mostly because Orlando is more of a proven availability guy. Can't argue with that at all. Can't. Uh, he said, I never liked McCarty at center, but always wonder why we, why would not, why would why, why we would not give him a shot as a long-term option that left guard, giving the known issues we've had there. Bozeman was always best at center in my opinion, uh, and is showing us that his natural position was where he should have been all along. Yeah, but it was one of those things where Ravens already had a center. So they weren't going to be like, all right, you know what, we got a center. You know, all right, Bozeman move or let you take over, even though we got one already. So that's what I think that was. Xayla has been very serviceable and seems to fit in nicely. And right tackle to me should have been addressing the draft instead of trying to count on an aging vet and big Al to be able to make the position switch. It seems like the Ravens brass rely too much on trying to play guys out of position instead of really playing the right guy at their natural position. This is not only about offensive line. This, this is an issue right here. This is big. This is something serious right here. And I'm so glad that you said this because this has happened. I was just talking to my God, Josh, about this yesterday. Well, not yesterday when you all see this, I'm recording this video on Monday, November 1st at 10, 29 a.m. When y'all see this, who knows? But this is an issue. He said he also said, uh, how do we address this offensive line moving forward at every position, knowing now that it is a strong possibility that Ronnie Stanley may never be back to his former elite play at left tackle curious to hear how you will go about strengthening our offensive line for the future. And let's hope the second half of the season gets better so we can protect our franchise unanimous MVP. I appreciate that, man. This is phenomenal. Okay. Um, so we already answered that question. We answered that before he even read all of his question. Um, so like I said, you can't rely on Ronnie Stanley. You can't rely on Joanne James. I think Ali Hondo is going to be going. Um, you got to address both free agency and the draft. And like I said, act like those guys are bonuses, getting to act like getting those guys back up because it is bonuses. They are bonuses. But anyway, um, the playing guys out of position, that's so big because the Ravens, they've been doing that for so long. And they wonder sometimes why guys struggle. The most recent obvious one has been Patrick Queen. And it's something that I didn't even realize. But they said in an LSU, he wasn't the mic. They said he was a wheel. Ravens put him at the mic. He struggled. They moved in the wheel. He's been doing better. But so, okay. All right. Well, there's this one, but then, uh, Pro Shade, James Pro Shade. Now Ravens, I get him a slight pass because last year, the off season was what the off season was, and it really wasn't the off season. But James Pro Shade, it's a 50-50 guy, uh, a little physical receiver, but 50-50 guy, jump ball guy. That's the type of receiver he is. Ravens didn't use them there at all. They didn't use them there at all. And he was out there on the field a little bit. I mean, they really ain't hardly using them. You only got two passes thrown his way. And not that you're going to force feed anybody, but still. But Devin Duvenay, who was out there, Devin Duvenay receiving college, you throw him a screen, he takes off. You get him in open space. He does this thing. Now, you can still, of course, have him as a little deeper than whatnot, but use him like how he's, how he was using college. That's the reason you drafted him, right? Right? They don't do that with Devin Duvenay. They didn't do it his rookie year. They still haven't done it this year. So still waiting with Hollywood. Hollywood, they just, Hollywood, they just use them as a deep thread and that was pretty much it. Um, something that I have been screaming ever since 2019 season, after 2019 season, when we saw what they did with them in playoffs, I said, man, why don't they use them in it like they use them in a playoffs for every single game? Why don't they do that? If they did that, oh man, it still would just eat. And that was 2020 season. Saw the same thing. Oh, Hollywood, Mr. Gouroud, pretty much, um, but, and then in the playoffs, they actually, you, they, they, they was playoff Hollywood. They use them in all these different ways and stuff in the, in the Titans game, in the bills game, all that stuff. Uh, but now it wasn't until this season that they really start using him like playoff Hollywood in a regular season and look what he's doing and look what he's doing despite having those drops too. Pookie, what you doing, man? What are you doing? Man, I guess you, you, you really want to get involved in the video, man. But anyway, um, she kept moving the mic. Anyway, we're not editing that out either. We're keeping it. Um, so anybody who watches part of the video, I appreciate y'all and I love you. Uh, and I love Pookie too, but you can't be doing that Pookie. I love you, but you can't be doing it. And I should just put up Paul on my knee. I love you too. But anyway, um, with, uh, you know, she just, she really want to get in the camera. I know she, I know she does. Come here, Pookie. Cause I know, I know you want to say what's up to everybody. I know you want to say what's up. There you go. Come here. Cause you just, uh, there she goes. Look, look that way. There you go. All right. Appreciate you, Pookie. Thank you. But you, you can't keep moving the mic. You can't keep doing that. Sit down. You got to relax, man. Anyway, um, so my point is that with Lamar Jackson initially Lamar Jackson, they had this dude just as a gimmick. He ain't no gimmick, but rookie here talking about, they had gimmick. And I know they just really want to get this guy on the field by any means possible, but they is a little worrisome now. It's like, Oh boy, they're going to have this guy just as a gimmick guy, but they, it ended up working itself out. Um, so I, I just, this is something that Ravens do. Tyus Bowser, this guy, he, um, he's a pass rusher. Now he can't cover now. He can cover too, but he's a pass rusher. I'll let him pass rush. Adolfi away. He's a pass rusher. Now I know he said that. Oh, I don't want to just be a pass rusher, especially as I want to be, uh, just a good player. I forgot what the exact quote was. She just moved it again. But Adolfi away. They got this dude dropping back. They got this dude doing all sorts of things, playing the interior defensive. No, he's an outside linebacker. Have him as he's outside linebacker pass rusher, have him rush the pass. You need that speed there. And Matt Judon, Matt Judon is another one like Matt Judon pass rusher. He can rush the passer, but in Winx defense, you got him doing all this and that in the third. I know you want to be creative and I get that. I understand it, but have guys do what they do, have them do what they do. And then now you see what he's doing over there with the Patriots. You need King Gakua. Y'all need King Gakua. Now it wasn't the best fit now. Wasn't the best fit. Um, but still, even with him. Same thing. You keep moving guys. You keep bringing in guys. Yeah, you want to keep guys fresh, but at the same time, you also should want to get guys in the rhythm and he spoke on it. And it's true. So this is a, this is a Ravens issue that it's not new. It's not new. Camille Correa. Oh, that was one of the biggest ones. This, this dude was an outside linebacker, pass rusher, pass rusher. What did the Ravens have him do? Huh, man, we're going to have him play middle linebacker. And we're going to wonder why he's struggling. Why is this guy struggling there so much? What's the problem? It's not what he did in college. That's not why you drafted him. Now, of course you want guys to fit into your scheme, but you got to get guys that fit your scheme. And you, like, it's like, if you're going to draft somebody, you're drafting them because you saw what they did in college and you see their potential. Why don't you use that potential and cash in on it? And, and, and actually, like, use them for what they specialized in. It's just been like the weirdest thing, man. Next question came from a guy less. He said, what's up in gravy and hope you good. I'm not going to dwell on losses and nauseam. The defeat against the bingles is in the books and the team, they just have to work on getting better and more consistent credit to burrow. He had a good game, but our secondaries made it look a bit too easy for the bingles at times and some of the touchdowns were very soft in our old line big yikes. Anyway, my question is about the media as I'm in Britain. I don't get ESPN, although I do see what's being talked about in my news feed. And of course your video. So thanks for keeping us informed. I appreciate that. Is it mainly just ESPN that seems to want to run this narrative of hate on Lamar? No, it is not. Or is it similar from other pundits in the media over there? How has the media over there reacted to my homes this season with Casey's struggles? They've with with no, it's not just ESPN. It's pretty much all of now you do have some guys on each network that would be like, hold up. No, no, no, that's not true about Lamar. Lamar is a quarterback. Lamar can throw. But then the majority is like, no, he's this. He's dead. He's running back, playing quarterback. He he need to get better at passing the ball. He need to get better from the pocket, all that stuff. They'll they'll they'll have these. They'll try to make it sound professional like that. And the way that they'll word stuff, it'll sound like, oh, man, wow, that's that's really good point, but it'll be a terrible take. But with Patrick Mahomes, they have been saying that he's been playing bad. But I know a lot gets deflected to the defense and the defense has been bad, too. But Patrick Mahomes, he been turned that ball over too. So but he he doesn't get it the same as Lamar does. Not not nearly the same. And he never will. He never will. So it is what it is. He said, how did the media react to Josh Allen and the Bill's defeat to the Titans? No, they said that's not on him. He said it's not on him. So this or other quarterbacks when they have a bad day at the office. Yeah, it's never going to be it has never been like that and it's never going to be like that to where these other quarterbacks get reacted to or talked about the same as Lamar Lamar has a bad day. Oh, I see. I told y'all I told y'all he can't throw. I told y'all you're not a good quarterback. Told y'all he's not a leader. Told you he came past. I told you this told you that but other quarterbacks have a bad day at the office. Oh, he just had a buck. He just had a bad day. He'll bounce back. We've seen this before. He'll bounce back. So I said, I get that pundits have opinions, which is cool. Everyone is entitled to that true, but some of the ongoing narrative about Lamar just seems a little bit desperate like these guys need to stay relevant and interesting as pundits or as a TV network by creating a mountain out of a molehill. A keeper with great work is always much peace and love to team keep it clean. I appreciate you, man. Next question came from a boy. Howdy said, what's happening in Graven? I've seen your latest video and agree with your takes on Raven's injury situation and their poor play in the Bengals game. Also want to acknowledge that I was the one in a video that suggested that Patrick Queen move over from Mike Linebacker to Will Linebacker in the very next game. They made that switch. I called that one. I think Tyree Phillips being at back at starting right tackle is an upgrade because we need that big mauling presence on the offensive line to enhance the running game. What's your thoughts on my observations and predictions? Yeah, with Tyree Phillips. Yeah, that that could help a lot with the running game. Now, again, it sucks that McCarrie is out. But I think Tyree Phillips will will help us in the running game a lot. Now with the passing game, it could be a little declined. Hopefully Tyree Phillips gets up to speed it, especially after having his bi-week and whatnot. And he'll come back and just be ready to go. And I'm sure he'll be better from last year because last year, he ain't having offseason and offensive line is a very hard. I mean, any position in football is a hard position. But offensive line, you got to learn technique. I don't know how to block. You got to learn run block, pass block, you got to learn so many different stuff, your stances and all that, how to go against different pass rushes and their different styles and whatnot. So it's a challenge. So he should be better equipped this this go round. But yeah, with with Patrick Queen moving, yeah, he's been better. He's been more comfortable. He's played a lot less, but he's been playing better. So this is where it starts to really get his confidence built. Next question came from my guy, BB. He said, listen, fam, I think I got it. What if Raven sign a true center? Well, they got Bradley Bowman, but again, I think he's going to be going after this year. But anyway, he said, what if they sign a true center and when they were able to move Bradley to another position on the offensive line, not to take anything from away from him playing center, he's a beast. This old line is depleted enough. Also, I do understand the chemistry it takes between a cure quarterback in the center. It might be a plus to be able to move Bowman. Um, nah, I wouldn't do that because I do understand that the offensive line has been having some weaknesses, but you don't want to make a position of strength or weakness because he is a true center. That's what he did in college. And now he's back doing that. And you've been doing a really good job, but you don't you don't want to weaken a position just to try to strengthen some other ones a little bit. But I, yes, I would say no for that one. And he said also Patrick Queen is a work in progress. Let's try not to critique him just yet. It takes time to perfect your mistakes. Thanks for the channel homie. Hashtag to keep it clean and hashtag positive. I mean with with Patrick Queen and really with any NFL player with their job being on display like that, they're going to get critiqued. Um, but it's it's about, in my opinion, it's about respectfully critiquing them. If they struggle in here, if they struggle in there, okay, we can talk about it. We could also talk about what they do good. We talk about both the good and the bad, but my biggest thing is that people do it respectfully. Not to be, oh, man, this guy sucks. Oh, this guy's terrible. Oh, this guy doesn't. This guy's in the NFL. If he sucked in, trust me. He definitely wouldn't make it that far. He wouldn't. So yeah, that's all this is about in my eyes. And the last questions on this episode of questions from subs came from my guy. Florida Winske. He said, hey, it's your boy. Florida Winske. Back again, hope all this well with you and your first off. I'd like to give a shout out to Anthony Avery because as many times as he got targeted in the bingos game, you would think that he would have gave up something, but he didn't. Hello. But on my first question, what do you think we can do to get our guys to wrap up? Man, I don't know. But anyway, he said I was serving the Ravens Twitter and everybody was on it was on this get wink out of here thing. But watching the game, the Blitz was dialed up correctly if they didn't miss so many tackles, they will be praising that man. LL on a slant chase broke like six tackles. True. Yeah, that was that 80 some yard touchdown for Ravens to wrap up. Man, I guess they just they just got to like go back to fundamentals and maybe. Oh, maybe Wink could maybe he could just try to simplify some stuff for a little bit like and take take little baby steps. Go back was a little bit like slow down the defense a little bit, just simplified a little bit to where guys they ain't got to think about so much they ain't doing so much. And it just gets a little more basic. Have it be a little more basic. So again, guys, the task are simple. The task are easier, what not? And then you start ramping it up as you see they completing the easy stuff, then you start ramping it up to the heart of stuff. That's that's what I would do. Anyway, he said what I will get on Wink about is the zone blitz. He just needs to stop it. Like I said in week one, zone blitz and it's not for us. It's always been a big gaping hole in the middle of the field. And it's always the middle. Yes, the middle of the field be wide open. It's like, hey, hey, all fences, hey, y'all y'all want some real estate right here? You want to buy some land right here? Hey, check it out. It's wide open. Anyway, also along with wrapping up, what do you think will spark all line because I know a lot of people will want to blame Marlowe for losing the game for us. I mean, you can make a case he gave up three TDs. The reason often started off slow was the line play. I agree 1000 percent. The offensive line was not blocking for the more they weren't. And anyway, he said if it wasn't for the more snapping the ball and having to make four defenders missed before throwing the ball. It was a line with the holds. I jumped out of my seat when the more had the 50 yard run. Then boom, I seen the run out of bounds and they threw a flag. I was like, well, it's time to go beat the traffic last, but not least, not a person to blame refs in the game because if we played how we needed to play, then we would have won, even if the refs. But did you notice early in the first quote, I believe the second drive burrow tried to sneak or try to sneak got met in the backfield, which was clearly a loss for at least two. But he got fourth. He got fourth in one and the play right after that, the tackle clearly jumped before the ball was snapped. I was in my seat going nuts. Oh, I didn't see it. I didn't see it. The play that just really stood out to me was the first touchdown that brought through to you, you zoomer, you zone, you zoomer. I forgot his name. Anyway, the tight end that was dogging us because on that play, Kalea's Campbell was clearly being held. And it was like, it was just burrow. It was the offensive linemen and Kalea's Campbell. So it was easy to see, but it wasn't called. He said, how do you think we can clean up the tackling line play and penalties? Oh, like I said, the tackling just simplified stuff. The offensive line play. Now that's a tough one because I just, I don't know about that. I don't know. Oh, you know what? Screen plays, some rollout plays and run. Trying to really establish a run game. So instead of the offensive line just going backwards all the time, they can go forward and they can push, they can engage, they can initiate the contact. So I think that would help out a lot. And the penalties, that's just a repetition thing. Feel like they just got to repeat doing the same stuff over and over again and hopefully successfully though, like end game and the penalties should slow down. Cause you just got to get into more of a rhythm. I think when you start getting penalties, I think that could show that you, you out of rhythm, you out of sync. But he said, because if this line is going to continue to be our problem, sad to say, but it only gets worse during the playoffs, LOL. But I do think the Ravens suffer from what all other NFL teams suffer from. And that's the belief in Superman. When you look at Russ and Rogers, Cam, Big Ben, just to name a few, what do they all have in common? Their teams put in the O-line last because of their ability to make plays every single one of them. They neglected that until something bad happened to the QB. And I think that's pretty weird. You would think that if you have a special player like that and you've seen so many other teams fall victim to that, you will switch it up. But it seems like teams always will fall victim to Superman. Ooh, that is something right there. And hey, you know, I mean, everybody knows what Lamar can do. So that allows you to sort of be a little cheaper offensive. Oh, we ain't got to do all that at offense. We could just do this in offense and then we'll be straight. And with Ronnie Stanley, I mean, you don't expect Ronnie Stanley to be at will. You don't expect Ronnie Stanley to be out, especially for this long. And you don't expect Patrick McCarty to go down. You ain't expect Tyree Phillips to go out. You ain't expect all these injuries to happen. It's just been rough, but still. I know a lot of people like, especially during draft time and whatnot, they'll just live it, man, that the Ravens didn't go offensive line more. And I mean, we've seen the results. And he also said, as I said before, Levy on Bell doesn't fit in our system. I mean, if the line clears a crazy hole in the defense, he'll pick up a first down, but bearing that, it's nothing happening. Why is Tyson not getting the bulk? Like I understand about the negative reinforcement, but to what cost? Losing? Not saying Bell isn't the reason why we lost, but in the bingles game, Bell definitely slowed up the offense a lot. If we notice this, why don't you think they notice it? I really think with Levy on Bell, they just hope him. They waiting and they hoping like, man, he gotta break one. Something's gotta give, something. Cause he's a good blocker, but just as a run, yeah. And like I said earlier, I didn't think that he was a good fit, but then I saw like, he got the ability to make quick decisions, but this hasn't really been making a quick decisions. And it's just, hasn't been the best experiment so far. Hopefully they can get some things going after the buy to where it does look a lot better and things go a lot better, but it's just one of those things that we just gotta wait and see. If I feel like right now, our best runner that we'll get opportunity is Devonte Freeman. And I said, best runner that we'll get opportunity. If I just say best runner, I would say Tyson Williams, but best runner that we'll get opportunity, Devonte Freeman. So I feel like, since they ain't gonna give Tyson Williams a ball, they ain't gonna give him the shot like that. Let Devonte Freeman do his thing. Just feed him, feed him. And don't try to force feed everybody. Really try to get him hot, try to get him going, be consistent. You ain't gotta do this. Oh, all running backs need to get an equal amount of care. No, mm-mm, don't do that. Feed this guy. Feed this guy and try to get him hot. If he ain't getting hot, okay, move on to the next guy, try to get the next guy. But I want the Ravens to go with the hot hand. They haven't really established a hot hand in running back because it's been this guy, that guy, that guy, that guy. They doing the same thing they did last season. Same thing. Now it's funny because last season, it seemed as if they were trying to seed about the passing game a little bit more early on in the season. They were really passing that ball so much early on last season. And they weren't running as much. Then after a little bit, they started running the ball a lot more. So is that, how they gonna do it this season? We'll see. Right in Raven, right in Raven, right in Raven. Shout out to Raven.