 Do you think the Ravens need another linebacker? Which second-year player should make the biggest jump from last season? Can I find any possible way to love Team Keep It Clean even more? That last one was just a little bonus. But these questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. And little team keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Got it great. Got it great. So YouTube Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is Engraven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subs. And this is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any team player, whatever, and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL Questions from subs, you can send me an email to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com or for the patrons, you can send it directly on Patreon. Shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. If you would like to become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravenvids. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Sad news because this is the final edition of the special question from subscribers featuring our guy, the couch writer Raven himself, Jermaine Lockett. So I appreciated him coming on. I know y'all appreciated him coming on as well. Shout out to him for making the time to come on. So thank you. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Without further ado, let's do the last question on this episode of Questions from subscribers came from my boy Greg. He said, what's up Engraven? Hope you having a great day. The biggest reason I want Justin Houston isn't for on-field production necessarily, but to be another very smart veteran leader to learn from, especially for Adolfi O'Waite. His leadership would be great. But besides that part, do you think the Ravens need another linebacker? I don't. I don't know. Do you think they need another linebacker? I don't. You? Then I'll tell you why. Look when we brought in Eric Bruttle, Eric Bruttle brought in a lot of leadership at the time. But I want you to go back in and think about this when the first time the Ravens with Lamar faced Kansas City, where did that leadership get us? It was a little slow on that on that 4th or was it 4th and 12th or something? I don't remember. I don't remember. 8 of them. I don't remember. 8 of them. Duke it up the whole defense. Veteran leadership is important. I get it. Okay. We got my feet for that. To bring in another veteran who's, I mean, they think in just more of a leadership aspect and taking reps away from these young stars who need those opportunities, you're going to hurt on the back end. It's a youth man. It's a young man's gang right now. If you bring in Justin Houston, he doesn't bring the full talent impact that we're expecting out of a player that we just drafted first round and you're going to just stun his growth. I mean, there's plenty of opportunities, plenty of examples that we've seen in the past. Lee Evans, for instance. I know I hate to bring that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we want to break up these examples. I can break up a million on Lee Evans. Probably stun it. Some of Tori Smith's growth. And, you know, if Tori had been there for that catch in 2011 playoffs, I mean, in the AFC championship game, Baltimore probably in the Super Bowl had been Tori. It was Lee. Lee had the experience. He had the mindset, but the body wasn't there. Everything you needed wasn't there for regular Lee Evans that we expected from the Buffalo Bills. He brought it over to Baltimore and it was more injured and inconsistency when we could have brought Tori Smith along a little further on his path sooner. And Baltimore could have been in the championship that year. They could have been in the Super Bowl that year. So you're only stunting these young players' growth when you're bringing in these Asian veterans that cost a little bit more. You know, EDC is, like I said, every dollar counts. He wants to make sure that he's getting everything he can get out of these young players for the best price for their first contracts to constantly bring in these veterans that are overly expensive. It's just going to hurt the team and you're not going to get as much out of the young bucks as you want. Hmm. Okay. And it's bonus question. He said, who do you think that was drafted last year will make the biggest jump this season? His pick is Madda BK that will make the biggest jump. I can't really say JK Dobbins because I feel like, like JK, like he did really good last year. Um, so yeah, I, I say Patrick Queen. I say Patrick Queen because Patrick Queen last season, I always talk about how he started off hot. He started off hot. He was doing this thing. And he sort of slowed down a bit. He started disappearing a little bit. But with him, and then I know there was sometimes in past country where he would just struggle. Sometimes when he just, he would just get beat and not to say that he can't get beat as impossible for him to get beat, but it seemed like it was more due to a technique. Maybe I don't want to say lack of preparation, but just, just being at the wrong place at the wrong time, um, sometimes it was a late reaction time to something that I was going, but with Patrick Queen, I would say, but overall he had a really good rookie season and he had that great, really good rookie season with no off season. But this year with him being able to be with the coaches, be with the players, be with the team, be at the facility, be there, then I expect him to take a big jump this year as a player, uh, even as a leader, um, cause we, we were talking about it early offline that I expect that Patrick Queen and I'm sure a lot of y'all do too expect him to get that green dot, not this year, maybe next year, um, but to get that green dot, uh, for him to be the one calling the place since he's the linebacker of the future. Um, and the lineback, not even this of the future right now, but as that middle linebacker, you know, that's what Raven's like. That's what they like sending the plays to a minus Eric Wettel. But I mean, yeah, speaking of Eric, you got Eric Wettel in my head now, like, man, they brought up, they brought up that play too. He got me thinking about CJ Mosey on that play and Tyree Kill. And that's all that, all that game was just hurt. It was a heartbreaker, you know? And it was because, you know, Eric should have been on the sideline helping him call defensive plays. Honestly, you know, let the young bucks, the young fresh legs handle Tyree because that dude is nasty. And I think that's honestly what you're preparing for is what beats your previous year. We've done it multiple times. Uh, and then of course, speaking of preparation for that, uh, you've got Matta BK, honestly, I think it's going to be a Matta BK or I'm about to shock y'all with something here. If he gets the opportunity, uh, for the slot is James Prochet. Uh, I absolutely loved watching James Prochet. I got a YouTube video out there showing a couple of his routes. Uh, he, and last year he had this, uh, I want to say it was a whip route. The first time against the Steel Lizard cost at pick six because he didn't run it all the way through and it was, it was bad. It was bad at how he ran that route. He should have continued to run with it instead of sitting down on it. But then against the Titans, you see him run this route and put this guy on skates and then he makes a 13 yard gain. It was the one route that he caught of the season. Uh, one cast of the year, but I think he needs more opportunities. I think this guy can be just as good if not better than Snead. If he's given that opportunity. So Sammy goes down. I have full confidence that James Prochet can win that on to be that slot master that we need as I just look at his routes and a couple of his games that he played. Oh my goodness. Like you could see him be that while they receive it that you needed. He was just slipping beyond the coverages whenever they were running his own, he was running just right behind him. He found the holes in the zone. He was able to sit down where needed. He made big plays when it came to the slot and actually moving to the outside on fades. Guys, guys got it. He's got a complete game when it comes to the slot. He just needs the opportunities. And that's why I was kind of really much against like bringing in another veteran wide receiver, because I could see him getting pushed down and never getting to see the light of day. His opportunities. DuVernay is already there. Wallace is already there. And so there's going to be tons of competition at that spot. Have another person compete in there. He'd be on the streets right now. Yeah, that's that that is true. And I have I've said it too that I think that I think right now that he's on the bubble. I think he's on the roster bubble, because that receiver room, it's crowded. Very crowded. Not as crowded as the tight end room, but that receiver room is crowded. So you already know, somebody going to get that pinky injury or whatever, just a little bit of a little hang there and they're going to get put on an IR foot here. Yeah, somebody sneezed. They sneezed the wrong way. That's it. John, was that a was that a sneeze? Because yeah, yeah, I are right now. You we got to preserve you. You're going to the IR. Like, coach, no, I'm good for the year. No, no, no, it's just a hang there, man. Can't rescue, buddy. Can't we all shout out? Shout out to Tim White. Yes. Yes. I love Tim White. Oh, my goodness, acrobatic catches. And when he had that family day game, will he was just a it was a camp, you know, game, whatever it was. They invited the family out. Yes, I'm amazed and catches that day. And at camp, of course, he was always impressive. And I feel bad that, you know, Baltimore just couldn't keep them on. I felt like he could have done something big. But I'm always a big fan of the lower name, where I receivers, you know, remember, Spider-Man back in the day with Demetrius Williams. Tana Doss was I was like a huge fan of like Tana was. I thought for sure, like, hey, this is the next Anquan Bowling. I mean, that was like a pick. Yeah, I was like, hey, you know, him and him and Flacco, they just went on the same page, especially when I guess they were off on the connection there and Tana may have went a little bit deeper than he was supposed to go on one of his routes and it caused a pick. And that was kind of like the end of Tana and after that, he got in hardball's doghouse and couldn't get out unless he was on special teams. I'm like, I wanted the best for him. And then, you know, because it was like back then, it was the Marlon Brown versus Tana Doss, who's going to be that guy. And of course, Marlon ended up winning out temporarily and then just kind of faded out into non-existence. So it was just see that that that reminds me of what you said. Now, with me, especially this year, I was like, hey, bring on whatever receive is going to be Julio, bring them on. I was with it. But it it does put other people does bury other people on a depth chart because that's exactly what happened with Marlon Brown. Yeah, check out my YouTube video of we got Julio at home, by the way. With Marlon Brown, his rookie year, he came on the scene. He had, what I think, seven touchdowns, I want to say, broke the Ravens rookie record for touchdowns. And I'm thinking, oh, we don't find the gym. This is our guy, man. And this guy was undrafted. I'm like, he went to Georgia. He's like, six, four, like this outside receive. We got our guy. Finally, like we actually got one and we made him. And then the following year, that was 2013. 2014, Steve Smith, senior. He came along when did we get Mike Wallace? I think Mike Wallace was that maybe that was either. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was Marlon Brown. He is rookie season, amazing, did his thing and then. Disappeared, I put down a depth chart and then that was it. That was a wrap for me. I think it was Kamara Aiken in a beating. My aching. Now, yeah, that Kamara Aiken was definitely 2000. That was his year was 2015 when he just went off. But he had been around for a little while. With the Patriots and something. He went to the Copes. And I think he was on the Packers before the Ravens, I think. I'm not 100 percent sure. I think he was, though, but Joe had a real connection with him. I thought, should I keep him on? Because it was just like he was a chain mover. He wasn't magnificent, but it was like, hey, let's get the job done. And that was the piece that Joe needed for his game, was to be able to move the chains. Because we know Joe, he could bomb it like crazy. He never had to be bold. But once you get down to that 30 yard line, I mean, he's taking four sacks or taking three sacks. And then the greatest kicker all time comes out and does his thing. You know, and even with that, I think if Justin Tucker was on another team, then he wouldn't be considered the best kicker in the league or even one of the best of all time because Ray. No flakko is going to introduce Justin Tucker to the Hall of Fame. Because he made it happen. People will be mad at me like, man, you're going to take a shot at Joe. That's my girl. You can't call him Joe. Look, I'm telling you, Joe had an amazing playoff run. Agneps, he had a good 2014 when he hit the 4,000 yards or whatever. And he turns up in the playoffs, but regular season, Joe. I think I've yelled at some TVs that some therapy right now because of the things that I put that TV through because I'm yelling don't want Joe, don't want Joe and then Joe is on his back. Why don't you take a sec, Joe? Like, oh, the dude was well, Joe, and then that Bill's game, where he threw the five picks. I was like, OK, OK, we got it. That was Nate Peterman before Nate Peterman. I'm not saying before that game, for that one game I'm talking about. Of course, you know, Joe, he had some some ups. He had some real big ups. Oh, yeah, like he rolled Ray Wright's in a great defense for the majority of his years. And, you know, then, of course, when they went away, you could start to see some of the decline when it came to Flacco. And I like I appreciate everything Joe Flacco did for the Ravens. No doubt, like, you know, great dude, but I was so happy. I was there the night Lamar Jackson got drafted. I was in Dallas Cowboy Stadium. And honestly, I was frustrated. It's all get out about the leave because we drafted Hayden Hursey. After all the trading back and trading and trading back. I'm just like, man, screw it. So I did actually leave. I got to the car and we're riding down the road. And I see this motorcycle, like, do this white line of thing, popping a wheelie past the car. And for some reason, the radio popped on right at that moment. And instead, the Eagles had traded the pick. And I'm in the car, just like, go and turn the car around. Turn the car. Like, we need to go back. We're going to go back. And that's when the Lamar Jackson era started. I was so pumped, like crazy. And that's when, of course, I went to go look at it even more. But I saw a few videos and everybody was like this Lamar. And I was like, I can't wait to see another, you know, mobile quarterback. I want to see a guy play football. Like I play man, you know, because for years, what did I do? I would put in Troy Smith. I take I don't like I put in my right Taylor. I put in Joe Flacker. We didn't have a mobile single color man. One year I was hot. I was like, I'm training for whoever in France. Because I loved watching a mobile guy who could run out of the parking and make plays down the field. And then, of course, make it, you know, use that next element. The thing like, you know, like Vic said, hey, if there's 11 or 11, ain't nobody covering you, man. He's like, you wide open. If everybody's covered it, they got man coverage. And that's why those teams, they, you know, they play the man coverage. They they in trouble because that means the more wide open if he drags everything.