 one of the biggest waves that the Ravens have been holding themselves back this season so far. How has Greg Romans offensive play calling been through three games of the season? Will the Ravens find other ways to get different receivers involved in the passing game? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subbs. YouTube Team Keep It Clean, what's going on? It's Aang Graven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subbs, a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to and we answer it in a video like this. If you would like to be part of it, you can send me an email to teamkeepitclean.com or for the patrons, you can send it directly on Patreon. Shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. Appreciate all the new patrons that recently came through. Appreciate all the old patrons that just been here for the ride. I really do appreciate your support a lot, a whole lot. And whether you're a patron or not, it's all love. If you want to become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. And if you don't want to, then you just stay where you at. Don't go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. I'm still going to love you regardless. That's it. You could try to run away from this love. You could try to get away. You can try. No, Aang Graven, don't look. No, no, no, I love you. I love you and I appreciate you. Thank you for what you do for this channel. Thank you for what you do for Team Keep It Clean. So I appreciate you. We got some great questions like every single day. Let's do it. The first question came from a boy, John R, and I appreciate you being a patron, John. He said Lamar Jackson has been turning the ball over more than he has in the past. I'm not overly concerned since I believe in his abilities, but it's not every game that Justin Tucker can make a 66-yard field goal. I think it's because they are experimenting and giving Lamar more experience in this more past heavy scheme. The amount of turnovers is still something to keep an eye on. What do you think? Yes, it's definitely concerning. And they cut down on the turnovers, then the points go up. And these games are won by a bigger margin because the turnovers have kept these teams in every game. And they've been just, they've been huge, man. So when you turn the ball over, you leave a potential field goal or potential touchdown. You leave that on the field. It's gone. It's gone. And you can't afford to do that. So good thing for the Ravens so far, it's worked out more than less for them this season because they won more than most of their games this year so far. But you can't keep the turnovers up in the long run. And he said, if it keeps up, then we're going to end up losing games that we should have won. And he said, PS, I will never doubt the Ravens again, LOL. I was one of those in the chat during the game saying that we lost when it was 4-19. I'm admitting I was wrong and I'm happy that I was. It takes a real man to admit that they were wrong. So big ups to you, man. Next question came from a guy, Raven Pride, and I appreciate you being a patron as well. He said, first I'd like to give all thanks to God for allowing me to see another day. Wow, what's going on in Raven? Hope you and the family are well. We're good. He said, man, I'm still wiping the tears of joy from my eyes because JT did something that was so spectacular that it just brought me down to my knees and I cried tears of joy. This kick to me, I believe, is a comfort zone for all the players that are on IAR to help lift him up, to show them that we, as Ravens flock, will continue to fight. Brother, I feel like Mo is just watching over this Ravens team and his strength is why this team cannot be counted out any game, even though we have multiple players on IAR. Thanks for keeping it clean. Love you guys. Yeah, JT, that kick. Yeah, that kick was a 66-yard kick, and it was actually a kick to all them players' butts that are on IAR. Like, hey, it's time. We missing y'all. You know, I don't mind starting and showing out the leg of Tron, the automatic or whatever you want to call me. I don't mind showing out, showing you what I could do. But, hey, y'all come through and let's make this strong team even stronger. Exquestion came from my boy Kevin S, and his title, I don't understand, shaking my head. What's up, Engraven? I really love being a Ravens fan, but it's extra hard looking at bad offensive play calling. Bro, they ran the ball 15 times. 15 times if you take off Lamar Jackson's 7 carries. What I don't understand is why. I don't care about drops. Why did you only run the ball 15 times? All the playoff losses and even losing to the Raiders this year. Look at the rushing attempts on all those games. It's hard to watching Shaquille Neil shoot threes when he's dominant in the paint. I just don't understand. All right. The Lions, if you watch, they were extra prepared for the run. The offensive line was not, they were not creating no big run lanes for the Ravens. Ravens could not run the ball successfully against the Lions consistently. They couldn't. But guess what was working? The pass. The pass was working all game long and then of course you include the drops in there too. If the drops would have been taken out, the pass game would have been even stronger and it would have had a couple more touchdowns added on to it. What my complaint has been with the Ravens is why go away from what's working. You're not going to be able to run the ball every game. You're not going to be able to run the ball at a high level every single game. Some teams, they're going to sell out to stop the run. Okay, Ravens. So make sure you can counter that by being able to pass the ball consistently. They showing that. So I don't understand the complaint here. Next question came from Wanya K. Sidane Ravens. Wanya here like the guy from Boys to Men. What's up my man? Hope everything is good with you in the fam. Love the channel. Appreciate it Wanya. He said, my question for you is, do you think James and Tylon, Tylon Wallace will see the field at all on offense this year? Well, they both already have. James Prochet a little bit more. Tylon Wallace has hardly been out there like at all. But they have both seen the field but not much. Anyway, he said, I know I can't be the only one who thinks this and I know Rashad and Miles and Nick will be coming back. But right now it makes no sense for us to be running the same wide receiver set all game and we can't we can't just keep throwing to the same three people every pass play since our three main targets hands are always up and down as we clearly saw today with the multiple drops. It also makes no sense for them to just be standing on the sideline all game when they can actually help us in the passing game. And I know it's only three games in but we kept James and drafted Tylon for a reason. They can contribute but we're wasting their talent so far by having them be on the sidelines all game. Anyway, sorry for the long post. Just want to get your opinion on this matter and hope that it makes one of your questions from subscribers for the week. Much love family. Keep up the great work. I'm out. And that's a good question. But I think with the Ravens, I guess they feel right because a lot of times when they go empty backfield, it'll be Hollywood, it'll be Sammy Watkins and it may be Devin Duvenay. But what they do too, it'll also be Mark Andrews. And then a lot of times they'll have a running back in the backfield and then they'll send the running back out wide. So in cases like that, it only calls for three wide receivers because you have a Titan in the running back as your other wide receivers. Sometimes they have Patrick Ricard out there and they'll motion him out wide so he can be an extra blocker and sometimes they'll send him out on routes too. But with it being early, I'm not going to get three games in again, three games in. I'm not going to get overly concerned about it right now. I do completely understand what you mean. But let's try to see some more consistency from these Ravens. Let's try to see what they do. Let's revisit this. I say like in week five, week six, and see how things are going because with the way that things have been going, they've been successful with it. They've been successful with it. And they sprinkle a little crochet in there, just a little tiny bit with Tylen Wallace. Again, they ain't sprinkling no Tylen Wallace in there. But then of course you got semi-walkings in Hollywood as your main guys. And your main guys are your main guys for a reason because those are the best wide receivers on your team. So you're going to have them out there. But once Rashad Bateman comes back, then Pro Shade, I would expect to see even less of him after maybe one or two weeks when Bateman finally comes back, whenever that's going to be. Even Miles Boykin too. But Miles Boykin and Pro Shade, yeah, Miles Boykin will take away time from Pro Shade too. And it's a good problem to have because the quality of your receivers, all that means just your worst guy is that much better. But so it's hard to fit everybody in the scheme. So once Bateman and Boykin come back, I could see Tylen Wallace being inactive. Yeah, I think he will end up being an eye man now as far as being active on game days. Next question. Well, comment came from my boy Nicholas C. So that ain't great even a dude that said that Lamar Jackson should be traded for Justin Fields has now changed his opinion about RQB1. There's an article that was published on September 24th from Bucky Books saying that Lamar Jackson deserves to be one of the NFL's highest paid players. That's media for you. It ain't no big deal. Some of the guys could be flip floppy. But other ones, some of them just stick with their narrative. And I guess Bucky was like, you know what, this narrative ain't working. Let me hop on a Lamar Jackson train. Next question came from my guy Pedro Emmie said, when do you think Derek Wolf will be back? That's a great question. I have no clue. They said he's dealing with like a back injury. And he's been dealing with it since training camp and has held him out the first three games. But I would say like, I would expect him back within the next two games. The only reason I say that is because they haven't put him on injured reserve yet. Like if they anticipated him missing the first three games, which I don't think they did, I think they've been expecting his back to get better anytime any day now. But if they anticipated him missing the first three games, and they would have put him on IR already. But the fact that they haven't put him on IR, that lets me know that they expect him back at any given time. So we just got to wait it out. Next question came from Tanja. She said, ain't great when how are you in the fam? I had a question about Lamar Jackson for forcing the ball to Hollywood all the time in the end zone. Hollywood seems to make a catch when he is open. However, it irritates me when Lamar throws the Hollywood in coverage. He never comes down with the ball when the player is in the end zone. Shouldn't Lamar throw to any receiver like Andrews or put Tyler in Wallace Day until Bateman comes back? In the cheese game, they beat Hollywood a few times and he is just too small. What are your thoughts? Now, I think she sent this before the game. And then she followed that up. She said, ain't great when funny how I sent my question from subscriber earlier today before the game and Hollywood has proved my point. He is not good in the end zone. Need to give Pro Shade DuVernay and Tyler a chance, make adjustments and maybe Hollywood should have been benched. That's what Mike Tomlin does next man up. Now, I would, um, I would disagree that Hollywood's not good in the end zone. Like, do we remember Lamar Jackson's first passing touchdown of the 2021 season? Who was it to? Where was it at? When did it occur? It was the instirators. Lamar Jackson did all that crazy scrambling and then he somehow zipped the ball into the end zone and found what number was it? One, two, three, four, number five in the back of the end zone for a touchdown. It was him. And we've seen plenty of other times too, when Lamar's like in the Steelers game front, was it last year? 2019, whichever one it was, where he threw to Holly. Yeah, I think it was 2019. He threw the ball to Hollywood in the end zone. Hollywood took a big hit, but came down with it. Touchdown and the ball was thrown. It wasn't a yards after the catch where Hollywood caught it and then ran into the end. No, Hollywood was in the end zone. Lamar threw it to him and he caught it. And there have been other plays like that to Hollywood as well. Like in the Rams game with the Jackson five, where Hollywood was in the end zone and Lamar Jackson threw it to him. It was a touchdown. So again, with Sunday, I know Sunday was frustrating. Sunday was bad. That was like I said, I think it was Hollywood, the worst game that he's had ever as a Raven in his professional career. But I wouldn't go out on a limb and say, Oh, Hollywood is not good in the end zone. It just happened. He dropped the touchdown pass. It was terrible. It was. We know it was terrible. He knows it was terrible. But to go out on a limb and say that, Oh, he's always terrible in the end zone. I can't agree with that. Next question came from a boy click one. He said, engraving hope you doing well in the family safe. Just writing this email to ask about how our defense will finish right now in terms of scoring. I believe we are bottom five and scoring. Granted, we did face the best QB and offenses in the NFL with the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and also an underrated Raiders offense. But do you think we can make a deep playoff run if the defense continues to play as inconsistent as they are playing right now? And yet a defense has been, it's been rough. It has been rough. But they just got to clean up a few things here and there. Now one thing I think that happens with them, they get tired. They get gas, they get tired. And the second half so big, like in the first halves, the defenses, they've been making some nice plays. They've been making some nice stops. But the offense with the turnovers and whatnot, it puts the defense in a bad position. And often the offense just got to put up more points too. It goes both ways. Both sides of the ball got to help each other out. But I think one of the biggest things too is a pass rush as well. And again, second half adjustments because teams in the second half, they have been adjusting as far as their offenses versus our defense. They have been adjusting pretty good. I mean, Wink, again, I forget about this all the time in the fourth quarter, the Chiefs, they didn't score any points. So Wink made some great second half adjustments or fourth quarter adjustments there. But the Raiders, of course, we know how that game went, all game and how it ended. And then with the Lions, we were holding it down in the first half. Then the second half, they were like, oh, hold up. Okay, we got them. They like blitzing. Let's hit them with them screen passes. And so again, I think the biggest thing is just adjustments. And because we're going up against a lot of really good quarterbacks, like a lot of really good quarterbacks. So that's all I could say. Next question came from Great Ice. He said, greetings and salutations. Now that we are three games in the Lamar's fourth season, which position group is more important to Lamar's success? The offensive line or skilled positions? Seeing the Vegas game and the KC game, I'm starting to believe that if Lamar had a great offensive line with his current weapons, Action Jackson could transcend beyond Patrick Mahomes. Could this be why every dollar counts? EDC acquired Joanne James from Denver, just like our injured guys out. Yeah, it would all be offensive line. Um, because that's nothing happens without an offensive line. Like literally nothing happens. You could have the best of the best at receiver, which I would love to. You could have the best of the best at receiver, but if you can't get them passes off, what good is that? And Lamar Jackson has shown that I will still would love for the Ravens to go crazy with receivers. But with the offensive line, if you can't block, then you can't throw the rock. It's in his true. Um, because offensive line, they play such a big part in Lamar Jackson six, really in any quarterback success. But we've seen with Lamar Jackson, when he has time, he can be deadly man with the receivers that they have. So now again, Bateman gonna be back soon, Boykin gonna be back soon. You still got the guys that are here. Boiler be back soon. It like, and that'll just open stuff up that much more. So if the Ravens offensive line was strong like that. Oh man, Lamar, he will be going crazy, man. And he has been doing some crazy stuff, but offensive line has not been good this year. Overall, they have not been good. And it's only three games in. So hopefully they just going through some little growing pains here and there. But hopefully they start clicking. And because, because if they play good, then that'll let Lamar play even better. Next question came from my guy less. He said, Hey, engraving hope all this well with you and the fame. I'm enjoying the videos. There's always equality. The presentation is great. So keep up the good work. Hope that your channel keeps growing as you are that good and deserve the success you have. We are. We ain't that good though. I appreciate it though. He said, after the Lions game, I had to watch your reaction on the live stream fit. How you managed to keep it clean when crazy stuff like JT's on real field go happens. I'll never know. But it's great to see the emotion. So four knees Ravens is one heck of a roller coaster. I love this team and that's in all caps, by the way. Anyway, last season and throughout the off season, much talk was about the Ravens passing game and how it could be improved and how we should adjust the scheme to make us more of a threat in the air. As the three games, how do you see our passing game coming along in reflection, comparing our issues to last season? Do you see any indications of improvement so far in terms of play calling going to still a bit too early in the season to make judgments, especially without yet seeing the the impact the guy like Richard Bateman could have on our plays? Much peace and love. This is a really good question. The passing game, my opinion, it's been coming along really good. Really good. Even when people would say, oh man, all you got to do is make Lamar Jackson pass. That's all you got to do to beat those. Okay, they've made Lamar Jackson fans. They've been doing a great job at it. So what now? So it's been it's been going good. They have been diversifying the plays they have been getting. Well, not all the receivers involved. Just been Hollywood and Sammy Watkins and they sprinkled a little tiny bit of dude when they in there. And that's it. But of course, Mark Andrews did as well. So they're big three have been their big three and it's shown throughout the first three games of the year. But it'll be that much better when they get more of their guys back because again, that can open things up. So I think the passing game been coming along just fine. As far as play calling for the most part so far so good for the most part, there's been a little hiccups in there, little question marks in there. But for the most part, it's been so far so good. They've been going with what's working. The biggest question mark for me came in week one, though. When Tyson Williams when they weren't, they kind of like took him out the game in the second half and they weren't running him. I know he did have the fumble on the sidelines or and but I just that that part I just I didn't like. But other than that, so far overall, it's been so good. Next question came from my god Dylan. He said engraving, hopefully this email finds you well and in good spirits after Legatron hit that 66 yard game winner. He needs his Hall of Fame jacket now. But man, I'm just tired of seeing the Hollywood hate comments after those drops. He's human like the rest of us and has bad days. No one was complaining about that the first two weeks. But anyway, I'm going to get on with my question. Why is Freeman on the roster over Levy on bill? This man didn't do anything in preseason when he was on the Saints and actually fumble against our backups and has only had the one good run in the Chiefs game. Meanwhile, we have Levy on just chilling waiting to be used and quick Super Bowl prediction for this year. I got the Ravens in the Rams with the Ravens sadly losing. But hope you're having a good week and let's go Ravens beat them Broncos. As far as Levy on bill and Devonte Freeman, like he said, why is he on the roster? Yikes. That's rough. Ravens, they had kind of a problem at running back kind of. I think they had a problem at running back in. They were like, Hey, let's get this veteran that used to be one of the best running backs in the league. Let's get this other veteran that used to be one of the best running backs in the league seems as if Levy on Bell is going to get called up soon. Maybe even by the time you see this video because I'm recording this video on Tuesday, September 28th. And the time is 9 59 a.m. 9 59 a.m. So that lets you know. So when you see this, it is probably not going to be on Tuesday, the 28th. But anyway, Levy on Bell will get his time eventually. When they signed Nate McCrary to the practice squad, I was thinking, Oh, could they actually cut Levy on Bell? Could they get rid of him? Because I was like, Nate McCrary is familiar with the Ravens playbook. But somebody in the comments, they reminded me they like, Hey, maybe Ravens are doing this to help with get some of Denver's playbook. And I was like, Ah, I did not think of that because that's it happens. Don't let Orlando Brown Jr. or Eric Guero fool you. Don't let them fool you when it like how both of them like, Oh, I'm not giving up plays. I'm not snitching plays. I ain't telling no play. Yeah, okay. I like how Sammy Watkins said it. Call me snitch and no snitch, whatever. I'm trying to help my team win. Thank you, Sammy, for being straight up because it's a business. Ain't no lawyer like the Ravens cut you Eric Guero. The Ravens traded you Orlando Brown Jr. There is no loyalty in Orlando Brown Jr. Of course, wanted to be traded and they sent them to a pretty good team. But still, like, nah, man. So with Nate McCrary, that could definitely be a part of Ravens plans. But as far as Devontae Freeman, he was in more football shape than Bell. And again, sometimes how about just be talking? But I think that is actually true. But with Levy on Bell, I'm sure he wasn't like in no crazy shape where it's like, Oh, man, this guy just really can't go right now. I think Levy on Bell, he always took care of himself. That was always one thing about Levy on Bell. He's always in shape. You never heard anything about, Oh, man, Levy on Bell reported the Steelers camp out of shape. You never heard anything like that. So anyway, he'll get his time eventually. Eventually, they've been talking about him a little bit more and more here and there. So kind of makes us feel like, Hey, it could be any day now where he gets that call up. But where would there be room for him? Because they own the active roster, they got Latavius Murray, Devontae Freeman and Tyson Williams. Now, if they activated Levy on Bell, I feel like Devontae would be the odd man out because Tyson ain't going nowhere. Latavius Murray got signed to the active roster from jump. So he ain't going nowhere. And with Devontae Freeman, it could be tricky, man. They could release him and then sign him back to the practice squad after he cleared waivers or whatever. And then promote Levy on Bell and have them sort of switch roles. I mean, we'll see. I don't know what the Ravens are going to do. But if when they do activate Levy on Bell, that would be my guess as to how they will go about doing it. Next question came from going to Walmart. Be right back. He said, Hey, what's up, man? Hope all is well. Quick question. I know I've asked about Justin Tucker being the highest-paid kick in the league and you shot it down. Now, given the fact that this man is still the best in the league, don't you think he could get another payday or at least join the 99 club on Madden? Again, hope all is well. I shot that down before. You sure? I would love to see like what video we said that in. Well, Justin Tucker should not be the highest-paid kick in the league. I would love to see that. But anyway, I think he already is. If he's not, then he's close. But I said it after the game. He deserves another raise after that one, man. He deserves another raise. And Justin Tucker has been, he's been the reason that Ravens have been in so many games since he came to the Ravens. Before LeMaw, during the Flacco years, Justin Tucker was a big reason. Like, because Ravens offense, they would not be moving. They would they move a little bit. They moved just enough for Justin Tucker. And then he kicked a field goal. And that would be it. And he would kick a lot of field goals. Like I said before, I do not, if Justin Tucker was on a lot of other teams, he would not be considered one of the best kickers of all time because he wouldn't get nearly as many opportunities to kick all these field goals. If he was on a team that actually had a good offense over the years, then he definitely wouldn't be considered the best kicker of all time. You still be able to kick now, but he wouldn't be considered the best because those teams would be able to score the ball, score touchdowns more than field goals. So yeah, Justin Tucker, again, I think he is already the highest pay kicker, or he's very, very close to being it. Next question came from Greg from Beemaw. He said, what's up in Graven? I like that Duvenay got to redeem his fumble that luckily got a race from a Lions out of bounds penalty from the punt return on that same drive by ending it with a touchdown catch. In the preseason, though, I was more impressed with Prochet and was hearing more from Prochet than Duvenay at a training camp. I do like Duvenay a lot. And I trust that if the Ravens have him sharing wide receiver three and four roles, likely when Bateman returns. But do you see any real chance without injuries for Prochet to make a real chance of wide receiver on this offense or get more than a few targets, maybe monthly? No. I think Bateman will be the better player later after getting some experience. But currently, now in my opinion, Prochet is better than both him and Duvenay. But I trust the process and the people making the decisions. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks to Graven. I hope you have a wonderful day. No, I don't. I don't really think there's a much of a chance that Prochet gets much playing time. He's already like, think about this right now. He's not out there that much. He's out there a lot more than Tyler Wallace, but Tyler Wallace is not there out there at all. So anybody that's out there is going to be out there more than Tyler Wallace. But with Prochet right now, he's not getting much playing time. He's not getting many passes thrown his way. He's not getting hardly any action. But then once like in Duvenay, he's been out there a lot. But imagine this once they're not only Rashad Bateman comes back, but once their first round draft pick at wide receiver comes back. Because there's a pecking order here. He's a first round wide receiver for the Ravens. He's going to be out there when he comes back. So that'll drop James Prochet down that much further. Miles Boykin, their best blocking wide receiver for a team that runs the ball like the Ravens do. He's going to be out there pecking order. Prochet is going to get dropped down even further. So I do not anticipate a way where Prochet he can end up getting more than a couple catches a month. I just right now, I do not see it. And the last question on this episode of questions from subs came from speed kill. He said I'm sending these stats for you to look at for Lamar Jackson. Since he's made one intention clear through three weeks of the season, he wants to push the ball downfield after three games. Lamar Jackson's average distance of target is a shocking 12.3 yards per attempt per next gen stats. Lamar leads the NFL in distance per target by large margin. 2.6 yards further than the next passer, Josh Allen at 9.7 yards average distance of target. For reference, that's the same distance 2.6 yards per attempt that separates Allen and a 25th ranked passer, Justin Herbert. The record for highest air yards per attempt in an NFL season is dating back to 2016, which is 11.2 yards, which the Sean Watson posted in 2017. Jackson's intended air yards per attempt and Sunday's win over the Lions was an absurd 19.3 yards per attempt. That was a highest single game average distance of target posted since next gen stats started recording this metric. Jackson attempted 12 passes over 20 yards in week three, connecting on five of them, while there were drops or incompletions of accurate passes on an additional four. Jackson currently leaves the NFL in yards per completion. Completed air passes per attempt and is on base to throw for over 4,300 yards through four games, despite only ranking 23rd in attempts. Jalen Hurts is likely to move him to 26 after playing on Money Night Football to conclude week three. Jackson's will to push the ball downfield can be accounted for situationally in a metric that next gen stats called air yards to the sticks. According to next gen stats, air yards to the stick shows the amount of air yards ahead or behind the first down marker on all attempts for a passer. The metric indicates that if the passer is attempting his passes past the first down marker, or if he is relying on his skilled position players to make the yards after the catch. Jackson leaves the NFL in this metric as well, averaging 2.6 yards past the first down marker per throw. Only 10 quarterbacks average throws past the first down marker and Jackson is the only one whose tally starts with a two. While Jackson receivers have yet to bail him out of any questionable decisions pushing the ball downfield, he's continued to consistently push the ball regardless. He's adopted a true gunslinger mentality while displaying poise in the pocket. Jackson's calm regret was on display when the Ravens had their backs against the wall. Most. Jackson's face 3rd and 18th as well as 4th and 19th in this game. The results two completions both well past the line of game for 55 yards and a touchdown. Now which with all these stats that I sent to you look at when this continues and he gets the great passing numbers. What will the media have to say after this? Boom. And yeah, you're certainly right. Lamar has been pushing that ball down the field. I did not know that it was on this level. So thank you for providing those statistics. We all appreciate it. But we've been seeing it that Lamar been pushing this thing and he been showing like, Hey, y'all like, y'all keep talking like what y'all gonna say now?