 Now we knew going into this football season, and especially with all the contract talking whatnot, we knew that Lamar was going to be watched even closer than he already has been. And we get it, we understand the why and whatnot. Okay, cool. But we also knew that Lamar Jackson, it was gonna be scrutinized in a weird kind of way, cause we know with any touchdown he throws, oh yeah, pay him his money. Any interception or incompletion, the bad throw he throws, oh man, see that's why he doesn't deserve it. But this angle that was taken from Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champion, one of the best wide receivers to ever do, from the U by the way. So it's like, come on man, you from Miami, you doing this stuff, don't make us look bad. But anyway, Michael Irvin, he had a very weird take. Let's listen to it. Lamar rushed for 17 yards yesterday. Now, he did a great job throwing the ball, we're learning about the receivers he had. But now, in order for them to be amongst the league, and I think they can't play amongst the league, I'm going to have to see all of Lamar. Lamar ain't gonna play with the elite offenses and only have 17 yards rushing. So, and since we do have this, I'm going to say it, I'm gonna mention it, since we do have this contract situation out here, I'm going to monitor how he plays. If I see you only get 17 yards the rest of the season, I'm going to say, oh, you're worried about your contract because that's just the reality. Now, if Lamar opens up to play this game, yes they can, but only 17 yards rushing. So, the question of the debate, the conversation they were having is, are the Ravens among the AFC elites? Can they compete with the elite teams in the AFC? And Michael Irvin, he started off, he prefaced his answer by saying, oh, well Lamar Jackson did a great job throwing the ball yesterday. We are learning about his receivers from the game yesterday and I'm thinking, okay, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he goes on to speak negatively about Lamar Jackson running for 17 yards. Since, what, like, I don't even know exactly how to respond to that. Because again, we know the narrative has been, oh, Lamar Jackson, he runs too much. Lamar Jackson is a runner before a passing. Now you all know there's plenty of different narratives about Lamar Jackson when it comes to him as a quarterback since he does things differently than your traditional quarterbacks. But in this case, in this game, why is him running, did the Ravens lose? No, the Ravens won, they won 24 to nine. So why is him running less, him only running for 17 yards? Why is that looked at as a bad thing? Especially with them winning, I just, I don't understand, like, nothing, nothing about that makes any kind of sense. So I don't know what Michael Irvin was trying to do. I don't know what he was thinking, but you know what, let's turn this negative into a positive and let's do some questions from subscribers. And this feels like a dream, that's what I mean. You too, Team Keep It Clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it, I done made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right in Raven? Right in Raven. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of questions from y'all. And before we get into it, gotta give a special shout out to all the newest Team Keep It Clean patrons. We got Nova, we got Joseph R, we got JL, and we got Plex. And we got some questions from some patrons right here. And let's start off with my guy, TJ. He said, Flacco's reaction to the Bateman Bomb said a lot to me, but more about the Flacco this season, meaning show out in the playoffs all the way and put a capital D on all D way to Super Bowl MVP and get a fully guaranteed deal. The stars are aligned for the Raven Super Bowl victory. God bless Team Keep It Clean and the family. Stay Raven fly till we die. And when MP Juke's been returned, that D is going to look like 2000 to me. Healthy Ravens equal Super Bowl. Ooh, that's some high praise right there. Added some high praise right there. Now, if the Ravens are going to be Super Bowl champions this year, slow starts like that, not gonna cut it. It's not gonna cut it because not every team is the Jets, but defense like that, oh yeah, that'll cut it. And eventual offense like that, that can cut it, but they gotta pick it up a lot faster. But they'll get there. Again, that game was sort of an extra preseason game for them because so many starters hadn't played together. We gotta remember about the rain too. The rain was a factor as well. So for that game, I'm gonna give them an easy in pass. So that's where Lamar with the receivers with the tight ends, with Greg Roman and it's like, okay, we're easing into this thing. So we ain't gonna overreact or even underreact to that game, but just know that that's just the beginning. So let's see what the consistency ends up being moving forward. He also said, almost forgot, the no look pass touchdown to Dove. And Lamar, look, I understand and I respect and I appreciate the humility and the modesty. Cause Lamar said, no, that wasn't a no look pass. Yeah, okay. But anyway, it was a nice no look pass, but I understand he ain't wanna get all that, all that attention for what he, he's like, yeah, he threw a touchdown pass. No, it wasn't a no look pass, yeah, okay. But anyway, he said, we ready. Enough said, team keep it clean over everything we got, continue to bless your podcast. They help us all. Even during our darkest hours of days, thank you and Raven's call. Hey, appreciate that, TJ. Next question came from my boy, Philip L. He said, that press guy is out with a fracture thumb for about six to eight weeks. If you were ADC and you were to get a call, if they become interested in hot lead to offer a trade, would you do it? If so, Anthony Brown during preseason, he proved that he is a good passer and can push the ball down field. I would, I would. They offer, obviously they offer first. Oh yeah, hey Tyler Huntley, love you. Go, go flap your wings. Go make it a QB controversy out there in Dallas. I can't even talk this morning. But go out there and do your thing. This is your opportunity. So go, you got some running backs? You got some receivers? Your offensive line, they're straight, but it could be a little better. But hey, go out there and do your thing. It's a beautiful opportunity. I would be more than happy to let him take it because this could be sort of a segue for him to more opportunities if he goes out there and does his thing. And because he goes to Dallas, gets traded to Dallas and hey, he could be a backup for a year. I think after this year, is he still an exclusive rights free agent? I think they will have to put in a, I think he'd become a restricted free agent after this year, I think. But either way, this could, if he goes out there and does his thing, obviously that's that Prescott's team. So he'll come back and take over. But hopefully, hopefully Dallas fans and Dallas media and Dallas ownership, hopefully they could question it, even though they paid that a lot of money he ain't going nowhere. Well, hopefully they can just question in their minds like, huh, should we keep rolling with Tyler Huntley? Because hopefully he will be doing good. But I would do it in a heartbeat, in a heartbeat. Compensation, obviously a first, second, yeah, cool. Couple of thirds, oh yeah, cool, yeah. So I would do it. So we'll see what Dallas ends up doing if they end up doing it. I don't know, man. There's Cam Newton, he's out there too and they ain't got to trade nothing for him. But I don't know, Tyler Huntley, he's got that healthy upside and he, hey, I hope they do it because I hope for their sake and for Tyler Huntley's sake, really because this could be his chance. Next question came from my guy, Jason. He said, ain't great. I'm hoping you and all the team keep it clean and enjoy yesterday's win. Now, how anyone summarizes the week one games. One thing that stood out loudly to me, Lamar didn't have his best game. The offense as a whole didn't. But Lamar didn't turn in a performance like the garbage Aaron Rodgers did yesterday. Like the garbage Aaron Rodgers did yesterday. So as the annoying criticism and speculation dragged out over a contract, I hope everyone pays attention to the other quarterbacks that people claim Lamar shouldn't be in the same pay scale conversation with appreciate your work. Oh man, I saw a lot of that yesterday, especially from Raven's fans. I saw a lot of Raven's fans getting on Calamari saying, oh, y'all, y'all anything Lamar was worth as much as Calamari? I saw a lot of them getting on Russell Wilson for that game too. And that game was, that was crazy. That was a fun game to watch though. But yeah, man, it's like a lot of people were like, hey, y'all saying that Lamar shouldn't be in the same stratosphere or that Lamar is not even worth more than those guys and you see how they performed. So yeah, hey, it's about consistency, man. It's about consistency. And that's why I just don't want to, and of course Lamar is worth all the money. But we also at the same time with all those other guys too, we don't want to overreact to one game, one loss. Now, another thing too, I think the thing with Raven's fans that has bothered Raven's fans the most is not even the fact that those guys have bad games. Cause we know they're gonna have bad games, Lamar's gonna have bad games. It happens. But the biggest thing that bothers Raven's fans is the lack of consistency when it comes to the criticism of those other guys. Because Lamar, if he would have had a bad game, ooh, sports and all them shows that everybody watches, they would have been going crazy with it. They would have been like, oh, Lamar, oh, he won a contract and this is how he's playing? Whoa, that really shows that he deserves that fully guaranteed contract. Oh, he's never getting that now. If he went out there and did that, oh boy, you would never hear the end of it, but those guys, they go out there and do that and it's crickets. Next question came from a guy at Nova. He said, a different perspective on a contract situation. What's good in Raven? Hope all is well with you and yours and as well as the Team Keeping Clean family. Finally got around to getting a Patreon, but I have a different take on this Lamar contract situation. So first off, I love Lamar, but, uh-oh, I've got a feeling you're trolling me. I got a feeling you're trolling me with that part. But let's see, he said, oh yeah, he said, nah, I'm kidding, LOL. I want Lamar to secure that bag and get every coin that he has earned and deserves. However, with no deal on Friday, I began to think about what the hiccup could be as both the Ravens and Lamar have expressed and have an expression and want to work out a contract. I'll share my thoughts. So we know Watson's anomaly of a contract and how the backlash has been put out there. And I think the holdup is Steve Vashati himself. Putting things into context, the owner's club isn't a fan of Cleveland for making that contract up. And yes, he came out and publicly said that. So you're right. He said, and for as good as Watson was, they paid for what he was three years ago. Think about it. When Watson hit the scene his rookie year, he had the whole NFL notice for five weeks. It was something we hadn't seen before with his ability to run, pass, make plays and win games in the manner he did it. But since then, we've had other quarterbacks have passed what he did with Mahomes, Jackson, Herbert and the like. Well, Herbert, he's been a good quarterback but he just, they ain't been winning. But anyway, let's keep going. He said, suddenly what made Watson appear so special doesn't seem so extraordinary when one third of the quarterbacks in the league can do what he did and do it in a greater way. So on the short, the Browns gave a guy a fully guaranteed contract for a player whose abilities aren't that special compared to the 2022 quarterbacks and has off-field issues clouding over him. I think that, again, the off-field issues is still the strangest part to me. The Sean Watson, we know he can play. That dude, he could play some football. He is a good quarterback. But just the, and I know it's a different situation because all these different teams were bidding for his services. But still like all these different teams were bidding for his services and they gave him a deal with all that stuff that he had on the side. Like, I just, I don't think I ever be able to understand that. And I know NFL, it's a dirty business. So I guess that'd be the perfect explanation to it, it's a dirty business. Anyway, he said, now to reign in my point, Steve came out and said that he would never do a contract like that. So if that's what Lamar wants, it's a conflict between his word and what Lamar wants. As a fan, we just say pay him what he wants to end this but it's deeper than that. Remember, Lamar has no agent and it's pointed out 14. He said, and it's pointed out 14 times a week and it is assumed that he and his camp have no clue what they're doing. See, it depends on who you're talking to. See, somebody who thinks the less of Lamar thinks he's a fool, thinks his people are a fool, they would assume that him and his camp have no clue what they're doing. But somebody who realizes that, hold it, no, no, no, Lamar is not stupid. His people are not stupid. Even though a lot of people try to paint them to be, they are not stupid, obviously not. But you got to know that they know what they're doing and they got people in that corner that know what they're talking about. But anyway, he said, his QB style is also polarizing which none of the media and others in the NFL believe he will be playing, excuse me, at a high level past 30 because of the hits he takes running. Lastly, he's confident in himself despite a lacking supporting cast or playmakers. I like what we have but compared to other teams they have more playmakers but less at quarterback. Yeah, you put that. So if Steve does this blank fully guaranteed check for Lamar, it makes us fans elated. Lamar stealing Baltimore in the future of quarterback has been secured but it also makes it so Steve can go back on his word. But again, it's deeper than that. Remember that club of 32 NFL owners? Oh yeah, it's definitely a club. They all in this thing together. But anyway, he said Steve will be exiled for giving another fully guaranteed contract joining the Haslums. Hmm, this also sets a precedent that quarterback should get all these types of deals. So in Borough, Herbert, Tua, Hertz, all for deals you basically have set those franchises into, well I don't know what word that is and I'm not gonna use it because I don't know if his team can be clean or not but I'm just gonna say you set those franchises back. These owners will frown upon them. Lastly, how would this affect? No, okay, well first let's get into that part about him sort of being exiled and whatnot. Yeah, he, that is a really good point. And something that I feel like all Ravens fans who have been thinking about more so the business side and with Steve Bashati, we just feel like he's not, well me, I speak for myself, okay? I ain't gonna speak for nobody else. I don't feel like Steve Bashati is ever gonna give Lamar Jackson a fully guaranteed contract. I don't, and I feel like this is one of the biggest reasons why I, and Lamar even the other day or after the game in the presser when Diana, I think it's Diana Rossini from ESPN, when she asks, oh, we heard you turned down a $250 million guaranteed contract and he was like, oh, with a fully guaranteed? And she was like, what did she say? I forgot what she said, but he was like, no, no. He's like, that didn't happen or that's not true, something like that. But Steve Bashati, yeah, like you said, it's, they going against each other. And I just don't ever feel like Steve Bashati is ever gonna give Lamar a fully guaranteed deal. So this is one of the reasons why I am concerned for beyond this season, if Lamar Jackson is still gonna continue to be a Baltimore Raven. I of course want him to be as y'all obviously already know, but I'm not 100% confident in it. And like you said, because it will be Steve Bashati going back on his word and just, and like you mentioned too, with all the other 32 owners, like, yeah, the Haslams did it with the Sean Watson they want that, owners want that to be considered an outlier. But of course, you know that Lamar wouldn't want it to be considered an outlier. So yeah, Steve, like you said, the other owners would frown upon that. But anyway, Pookie moved. Pookie was over there missing, she hit the camera. Anyway, he said, where were we at? Oh, all right, here we go. These owners were frowned upon that. Lastly, how would this affect the other quarterbacks coming out? If Lamar gets this done with no agent, this also sets a precedent that you don't need an agent. That infuriates both the agents and media as well as, as well to see these quarterback prospects opt to not have an agent and do negotiations on their own. It could, but at the same time, it could, it could prompt some people to be like, all right, I don't need the agent no more. You see, I saw what Lamar did and whether they think they're gonna get a contract more or they're gonna get a contract less than Lamar's. Some people could be like, all right, I don't need the agent anymore. But then there are other people that like, hey, I've had this agent for a while. This agent, they never steered me wrong before. I don't feel like doing all that work myself. You've already handled it as far as them speaking to the agent. You've already handled all this stuff for me so far. Just keep doing it, keep doing it. You take your cut, I don't wanna do the work. So it could for some people, but for other people, they just gonna stick with having an agent. But he said, media and agents go hand in hand like crime and punishment. So when that flow is disturbed, you see how discussing the media reacts. Florio is a prime example with his garbage takes. Oh yeah, you know, Mike Florio. Any article about Lamar? Like it could be, oh, Lamar Jackson, after the game, the Monday following the Ravens game against the Jets, Lamar Jackson went and he went to a kid's school to go read them books and ask them what they wanna be when they grow up. Oh, but he went to that, those kids' school and he didn't have an agent. See, he should have had an agent because an agent would have told him what book he should have brought to the school to give to the kids. So it would have been something crazy like that. But anyway, he said, so with all these secondary and, with all these secondary effects for Lamar's deal, I'm sure Steve is in between an unstoppable force and an immovable object. He would be paying for a quarterback, a fully guaranteed contract to a player who has no agent and has a polarizing play style and making all these other franchises heated for continuing this trend. That's true, that's true. This opinion is already long enough. So I don't think I need to say what happens if Steve doesn't pay Lamar. He keeps the other owner club members happy. True, but you can already imagine the backlash the city and the fans would have, true. Anyway, what do you think? Well, yeah, we explained that during the question, but he said, I love to hear your thoughts and always keep up the great content. Appreciate it, man, thank you. Next question came from my guy, Doreal. He said, what's up in Graven? I've been thinking about this for a while. Sorry for the long message, LOL. But I see a lot of people saying that Ravens don't value Lamar. I would like to respectfully disagree and give reasons why they do value him. So during this off season pre-draft, they notified Lamar about Hollywood not being happy and wanted to be traded. They then asked him, what does he want for this upcoming season? As far as on the field and Lamar stated, he wanted a better old line. So they revamped the old line and they have about 10 on the active roster. See that part, I do hear that a lot. And you're right, Lamar did. That's what they said. He said that he wanted old line. But I feel like with that, it's a lot of people take it as such an extreme. Like, all right, what do you want? Old line or receiver? Well, what do you want Lamar? And if Lamar said old line, does that mean, all right, we're gonna get him old line? And that's it. That's all he asked for. So that's all we're gonna get him. Should that really have been it? Should they be, all right, old line? And that's it, no more. I just feel like that's such an extreme that it shouldn't be. But anyway, he said they allowed him to bring in his personal QB coach to training camp, which I've never seen that done before. Didn't they do it one more time? But yeah, that's not a normal type of thing. So yeah, that's good. They've, well, they also are trying to get this guy signed. So if you wanna try to get this guy signed under your terms, not his term, but under your terms and you're gonna slide him a couple of little incentives and whatnot, you can bring your QB coach and it's fine, hey, you know, we love everybody here. Bring him on through. But anyway, he said they've hired another QB assistant. It's more that they can do it, but I can't say that the Ravens don't value Lamar. I just think him not getting the money he wants yet is what's making everyone say the Ravens don't value him and not understand. Oh, no, no, no, no. This was being said way before the contract talk was even the talk. Yeah, yeah, this is not just because of the contract talk. This is the way that they use Lamar, the way that they don't surround and hadn't surround Lamar. So this ain't just about the contract. But anyway, he said he will go off this year and get his paper. But in my opinion, billionaire Steve had his mind set that he wasn't gonna do a guaranteed deal from that interview after Watson got the contract. That interview was the biggest clue to this. Oh, and let me not forget that Jiro added the 20% to the playbook. Oh my God, bless all of us. And let's get ready for a fun season and a fun season, it will be S&D. Next question came from my guy, Raven Pride. And again, all these people that are sending these questions for this episode, all of them are patrons, so appreciate all of y'all much love. But he said, question. Hey, and Raven, what's going on? My brother, hope everything is good with you and the fam. I just wanted a real quick thank team, keep it clean for their support while I was in the hospital with COVID. I just want the whole, I'm glad you're doing better now. We glad you're doing better now. But he said, I just want the whole entire organization of the Ravens to remember what Lamar the truth did to save a lot of people's jobs within the organization. My point is this, did you expect Lamar to perform like this in the NFL? Because I believe they didn't. And because of his gameplay, they just don't want to pay him. Could it be because he was drafted late or could it be because he wasn't someone to really replace Flacco? What I'm saying is those factors is that they want to keep them out there or they want to keep them here for cheap. Excuse me. I say this with all the respect to the Ravens. If you're not going to give this young man what he deserves, let him go. Don't want his career with fake gestures saying everything is good when you know it's not fair to do him this way. Next year is going to be really big, man. Next year, because I just don't see this whole franchise tag thing happening two years straight. I don't even think they'll get through it next year. Honestly, that's just my opinion though. Because Ravens could franchise tag him, but I think if their plan is not to... And I feel like this way regardless, if your plan is not to sign Lamar Jackson, okay, if you're going to really try to sign him, oh, okay, give it a shot, really try. But if your plan for the long term is not to sign him, then just let him go do his thing elsewhere. Don't waste his time. Don't hold him hostage. Go let him do his thing. If that's going to be your plan. If you don't really plan on giving him big money, again, apparently they offered him a contract, but then it came out that the real contract that they offered was like, what? She said 160 to 180 and guaranteed money, which is a lot. But hey, if he wants more, okay. Well, again, if you don't plan on keeping him long term, I will just say, let him go do his thing, man. Cause it's like, again, Hollywood, he ain't playing on keeping Hollywood, you let him go, you ain't keep on playing, you don't keep on hating her, you ain't playing on keeping Orlando Brown, I know in Lamar it's much different, obviously, than those play, that is a quarterback. But if that's not your plan, just let him be. Next question came from my guy, Joseph R. He said, what's good in Graven? Shout out Flock Nation. Great first week of football and a good game from the Ravens. My biggest takeaway from the win today was the run game. What run game? But anyway, he said it was pretty much non-existent. Okay. It just shows me how much Lamar's ability to run strengthens Roman's great run scheme. Really hoping we can come back on the QB design runs and just let Lamar ball and play Lamar ball. I agree. I agree. And if he chooses to run, cool. And not necessarily saying eliminate the design runs, but there are a lot of times when some of them just seem really like kind of goofy. They seem like really mismanaged and the timing of them just, sometimes it's just so obvious. Sometimes it's just like, why? What are we doing? But let him choose it. But anyway, he said forever proving he wins from the pocket. Unfortunately, we lost James for the season, praying for his recovery and mental state. Shout out to McCarty for justifying that contract too, showing he is a good quality backup. Love what I've seen in a passing game, just got to work on that chemistry and timing. Peace and blessings to all, JTA. That's perfect. That was perfect. You nailed everything on the head. Perfectly said. The last question on this episode came from JL. He said, it's time for Greg Roman to pivot. And great, my God, hope all is well. After watching the week one game against the Jets and seeing us get no push in the run game, much like last year, I think it's time for Greg Roman to pivot. It was so frustrating seeing the offense in those bunch pistol formations and having play calls come in late. The Kool-Aid drinkers were naive to think the Ravens could recreate the anomaly of a season that was 2019. It is time to pivot. It is time to rally behind the Marjax and let him win us games with his arm. No more slow, boring pace, let's speed it up and spread it out. I think the struggles in the run game forcing the Ravens to improve passing is a net positive. However, our lack of weapons and G-Rolls and ability to make things easier for them all, worry me, please give us your thoughts on the matter. When you first said pivot, it reminded me that with Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor, the podcast and Ryan Clark, but anyway, let's see. Let's see, I can't, I'm not gonna be like, all right, weak one, Ravens couldn't run the ball, let's blow it all up. Because again, with Greg Roman, I know everybody, Greg Roman, this Greg Roman, that it's much deeper than Greg Roman. So, but let's see, like, cause I did like the way that the passing game was headed. There was some drops. There was some throws that could have been better from the Marj too, for sure. Cause there was some throw, a little bit high, some throw, we do a little bit low. So that, again, like you mentioned, the chemistry is gonna be a work in progress and whatnot. But again, the lack of run game last year, that helped the passing game a lot. And in this past game, yeah, it obviously helped the pass. Well, I mean, if they would have had a run game, that could have helped the passing game even more. But think about that. Think about that. The Ravens had a decent pass game. It wasn't the best. They didn't throw three touchdowns now. So that was nice and it was pretty. But it could have been even better. I don't think that the passing game was the best it could have been on Sunday. Reason being, because they had no run game. The running, if they would have had a run game, that could have opened up the passing game even more. But think about this, think about this. The Ravens pass game did what it did. The Jets knew the Ravens were gonna pass, cause the Ravens, they couldn't run the ball at all. So the Jets knew the Ravens were gonna pass and the Ravens still were able to pass that ball. It took them a little while now. Took them a little couple of minutes, but they ended up still passing the ball. So just imagine what could happen if they add the run game in there too. Next week, well this week, well next week technically, whatever, they played the Dolphins. So we'll see how the weather is and whatnot. Cause again, I do not want people to just overreact to one game. It was one game. Let's see what the consistency is with the offense first. And I say, you gotta wait at least like three, four games before we can really be like, all right, well they need to do that. Cause we just, we don't know who the Ravens are yet. Ravens don't know who the Ravens are yet. It's still super early. And another thing too is health. You got Ronnie Stanley, hopefully coming back over the next couple of weeks. Nick Boyle, hopefully be ready in the next week or so. I don't see, J.K. Dobbins will see when he comes back. You got guys that come back that can make a big impact in the running game and helping the passing game too. So again, I just, I don't want people to judge the Ravens too harshly or be too critical of the Ravens from just one game. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, what I made. What I made. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Automated. Well that's my homie, ain't that right in Ravens? Right in Ravens. Shout out to Ravens.