 So that's it. We now have so many of our questions answered as to who the Ravens were gonna draft, what positions they were gonna take and where it's all done. Now the draft has come and gone. Is this Ravens team a complete team now? No, they are a lot more complete than they were just a few days ago, but they still certainly have work to do in some areas a lot more than others. But let's see how they address it. But before we see how they take care of their remaining issues, we got some questions to answer. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No, just what I made. What I made. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. What in greater... The team keep it clean. Welcome to the first post draft episode of Questions From Subz. We are already in the month of May. And y'all started off with a bang. Trust me, we got some fire coming up. But what Questions From Subz is the series where you can ask me any NFL question and you answer in the video just like this. For the patrons, for the team keep it clean patrons. And if you wanna become a team keep it clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. And if you don't feel pressured or bad or anything, it's okay. But for the patrons, you can send your questions directly on Patreon. For everybody else who's not a team keep it clean patron, you can send it to that team keep it clean at gmail.com. Thank you all for all the questions that y'all sent. Cause we got a lot. Let's get into it. First question came from Hadi. I appreciate you being a patron. He said, what's up engraving? I'm writing this as I'm watching your live draft stream. We just, and shout out to everybody that was there for the live stream. We had a lot of fun for the first night. We could not do it for day two and day three. It would just, ooh, and we were super tired. Anyway, but we had fun. We just traded Hollywood to Arizona. So this was fresh when it happened. We just traded Hollywood to Arizona. And I am at a loss of words. I'm gonna make my question short and sweet. How do you think this will impact Lamar Jackson signing with us? Much love to you and team keep it clean. We'll get through this together, my guy. And just like Hollywood is with the Ravens, sadly. I'm out. Yeah. Ooh boy. Yeah, this one, this one messed me up, man. Cause y'all know I got a lot of love for Hollywood, man. But, and like I said, I didn't like it, but I understood why they did it. Hollywood won it out. He won it out. And I was just telling some people yesterday, it seems like like with the Ravens, they are the new NBA of the NFL. Cause you know NBA, the players, they got control over there. They got control. If they want to leave, boom, they get traded. Usually with NFL, a lot of players, if they want to leave, they don't necessarily get traded, man. A lot of them don't. But with the Ravens, oh yeah, they do. Hayden Hurst, hey, I'm not getting the playing time that I wanted to get. No, I'm not a big enough part of the offense. I want to be traded. Ravens say, okay, we're trading, we got you Hayden. Orlando Brown, I'm a left tackle. I want to be traded. Okay, Orlando Brown, we got you. Hollywood Brown, I don't like this system. I want to be traded. Oh, okay, okay, we got you. Ravens, they sure been acknowledging some trade requests, boy. But anyway, how will this impact Lamar Jackson? Well, I'm sure he didn't like the move, but he also understands the move. And Hollywood, he wanted out and the Ravens, they were probably like at a crossroads with him on how they felt about him. And it just is a situation to where they, it makes Lamar Jackson's job harder. It can also make Lamar Jackson's job, it can make him better at his job. And it's so tricky because you take away a big weapon for Lamar. Not big in height anything, but you take away a big downfield threat for Lamar. You take away his speedster at wide receiver. So you have, his job has gotten harder. But at the same time, this can help open up Lamar Jackson's game to where he spreads the ball around and builds chemistry with other guys that much more. Like we've been seeing this off-season with a Rashad Bateman, with a Devon Duvenay, Benjamin Victor, and we'll see it with Tyler Wallace soon enough, I'm sure too. But how will it impact the contract talks? It depends on what the Ravens do next in my opinion. I think all of this depends on what the Ravens do next. And this is why I was so shocked. And I told y'all, the Ravens hit me with a swerve in this draft because they just didn't do it. They didn't, and I was for sure that they were going to address wide receiver, especially, I was for sure, like I said, in the first three rounds, I was for sure, for certain, that the Ravens were gonna address wide receiver in the draft in the first three rounds. And that was before Hollywood got traded. But then after he got traded, I'm like, oh yeah, it's definitely happening now. It's definitely happening now. And first round went by, and after they traded Hollywood, they got Linda Bum, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. So it's all right, second round, the second round, they got it. Second round came, they got David Ajaubo. I was like, oh, okay, okay, all right. Third round is this on the way. It never happened. It never happened. And there were guys sitting there on the board. They passed on pickings. I guess they weren't feeling him like a lot of us were feeling him, at least at the spot. They passed, well, the whole NFL passed on Justin Ross. I guess the medical concerns really got him. And I hadn't known about his medical concerns until somebody brought him up to me. We could talk about those later. But to me, it's a scary situation right now. But I just, I'm hoping, and I know a lot of other people are hoping too, after we watch how the Ravens moved in the draft, it's like they have to have something else planned as far as adding a significant wide receiver. Something that I was explaining in a Twitter space yesterday. I asked the question, would you buy furniture if you didn't even know you were gonna have an apartment next week? Would you buy furniture for if you didn't even know that you were gonna have a place to put it in next week? So I asked them, everybody said, no, no, I wouldn't do that, no, of course not. Why would I do that? And I said, this could be the Ravens thinking when it comes to the Lamar Jackson situation. Because this could be what could possibly be holding them back from investing in a significant wide receiver. No, we done talked about the debos and the decays and the whoever else. We had all the conversations about it and we would love it. We would love, oh, I would love it. I know some people are like, no, no, no, I don't want it. I would love it. Y'all already know what the wide receivers. But I wonder if the Ravens thinking is that, man, we don't know what the situation is with Lamar Jackson or they may already have their plans with Lamar Jackson. And who knows what that could be? I know they keep saying, oh yeah, we wanna pay him, we wanna pay him, we wanna pay him. But he don't wanna pay, he don't wanna get paid right now. He wanna work this year, he wanna play football this year and that's all you wanna focus on. All right, cool. But so nothing is set in stone, either way. Nothing is set in stone for Lamar Jackson signing with the Ravens, nothing is set in stone for Lamar Jackson, not re-signing with the Ravens. So it could still literally go either way. It could go either way. And that is something when you really think about it. I know a lot of Ravens fans, they do not wanna think about that. They do not wanna think about the possibility of a Baltimore Ravens team without a Lamar Jackson. But it is a real possibility that you gotta think about. You have to, because nothing is set in stone, nothing. But anyway, back to buying furniture for a house that you don't even know you're gonna have yet, that it could be the same thing. So for Ravens, I wonder if they're thinking like, no, we don't wanna trade for a Debo Samuel. We don't wanna trade for a DK Metcalf because we don't even know if Lamar Jackson is gonna stay with us. So why don't we invest significant future draft capital for one of those receivers and possibly significant money too if they ended up signing those receivers to extensions? Why won't we do that? Well, just like Eagles with AJ Brown. Eagles trader for AJ Brown, boom, signing to a contract extension right then and there. So that's kind of set the precedent. That set the standard for trading for one of those receivers who are in the last year of their deal. That set the standard for it. Hollywood signed with, I mean, the trader for with the Ravens for the Cardinals and boom, they picked up his fifth year option. So he got that. So it's like, and we've seen with Devonte Adams traded for, boom, highest paid NFL wide receiver. Tyreek traded for, boom, got his money too. So these receivers are getting traded for and they getting their bread just like that, just like that. So Ravens may be looking at it like that. Like, man, if we trade for one of these receivers, we gotta pay one of these receivers and we don't even know what's gonna happen with our quarterback longterm right now. So that may shite him away from getting one of these big-time receivers or trading for one of these big-time receivers. So I just wonder if that's the way that they're thinking because I could see that. I could see that. And I could understand that. Now I would hope that, and that's a big hope, but I would hope that it wouldn't shite him away from getting a receiver of some significance and adding him to the Ravens offense. But, because again, you should wanna do everything that you possibly can to get that house. You should wanna do everything that you possibly can to get that place. So you can get some furniture and put it in there. But so if you can get a player, get some significant weapons for Lamar. And I know they did get a couple more tight ends. So it's gonna be like 80 tight ends on the field at one time. They got another running back. So they're gonna have like four or five running backs on the field at one time. But yeah, so at wide receiver, just getting him some more there, it could help go a long way. And that could make Tim Stan with the Ravens a lot more attractive. Now I know another thing. And you know, LeBon won't say it. I mean, it seemed like he kind of hinted to it. And was it the last pressure that he did when they asked him about Greg Roman? He's like, Greg Roman, cool. But he said, that's up to them guys upstairs. And when he said that, I was like, ooh, that ain't sound like you're a big fan, but. And I wonder if that would hold him back knowing that Greg Roman is here still. I wonder if that would like, not even dissuade Lamar not to sign, not to re-sign with the Ravens, but just keep him from doing it while Greg Roman is here. And I with Greg Roman, I do not think that he can get the best out of the Lamar Jackson. I think he can get some good out of Lamar for sure. But I don't think he can get the best out of Lamar Jackson. Like I always say with Greg Roman, he was an amazing introductory offensive coordinator for Lamar Jackson. And we have seen some growth from Lamar for sure, but it just still feels like the Ravens have these training wheels on their quarterback. And it feels like they've had these training wheels on their quarterback for years. Is Lamar perfect? No, no, no, no, no, by no means he is not. He's still got plenty of stuff that he got to work on for sure. But is this offense perfect for him? No, no, no, no, no, no, it's definitely not. This offense still got a lot of stuff he got to work on for sure. And I do not feel like this offense is weird because this offense challenges Lamar because I feel like sometimes it can make stuff harder. And they just like, I feel like a lot of times they just overthink stuff. They overthink situations. And they rely on his athleticism to sort of save them. They rely on Lamar Jackson's athleticism to save them. And Lamar Jackson, he don't even want to rely on his own athleticism to save him. He wants to use his arm more. He said it plenty of time. He don't be feeling like running the ball. He'll run, of course, he'll still get his, but he don't be feeling like running the ball. That's why it can be so frustrating when we watch Lamar Jackson play and we know what he can do. And a lot of us are like, man, hey, throw the ball, throw the ball, throw it, throw it. Oh, no, no, no, no, excuse me. On the plays where we talk about he's holding onto the ball forever, we're like, hey, take off, take off, take off. And he's waiting, he's waiting, he's waiting. He's evading the defender, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, wait, cause he's trying to throw the ball. He ain't trying to run, he ain't trying to run. And I just, we see that a lot. So I wonder if Greg Roman still being with the Ravens will be another part of Lamar Jackson's contract issues, so to speak, the reason why he doesn't wanna resign yet. And another thing too, I wonder, I wonder if whatever the Ravens offered him, cause they had them conversations about the contract with a little bit he and there, but I wonder if whatever the Ravens offered him, it was like, what? Like, okay, yeah, we don't even need to talk contract. If that's where y'all starting at, we don't even need to talk. We don't even need to talk. Or even if what they offered him is still significant, I mean, whatever it's gonna be, it's gonna be significant, but he could look at that and like, oh, that's it? Okay, cool, you know what? Watch this here, I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you what, I got you, I'm betting on myself. That contract is cool, no, no, watch this, watch it, watch. So it could be just several reasons for this holdup with this contract right now. But back to the original question, how Hollywood impacts Lamar Jackson and his the contract talks with him and the Ravens. I just think that, I just think that it all just depends on how the Ravens move now. Everything depends on what the Ravens follow-up plan is gonna be. I know so many Ravens fans, well, here comes Julio and that will be very Raven-esque. But it's, I'm about to say it seems like Eric Dacasa has been shying away from signing those older wide receivers, but he signed Sammy Watkins. He's not older, but he's very banged up and he had a history of being banged up and he ended up getting banged up with the Ravens too. He did bring in Des Bryant to the year prior and we know how that went. So, I don't know, man. Yeah, like, but Julio would be very Raven-esque. Jarvis Landry, he would be too, but Will Fuller is another name to look out for as a speedster, downfield threat. He's had his injury issues though, but I don't know, I just, I don't know what the Ravens are gonna do. I don't know, because again, when I think, all right, yeah, they all, they gotta have a plan in place for a trade for something. Oh yeah, for sure. But again, they don't, since they don't know what's gonna happen with Lamar, that could hinder them from doing that. That could be like, all right, that could make them shy away from doing something like that. So again, it is something that's very concerning and like I've seen many people post, it is okay and it is realistic to say the Ravens had a good draft. They did. They had a good draft and you kept hearing the word steal all draft. All draft long for the Ravens, you kept hearing steal, steal, steal. Why that guy was a steal? I can't believe they got him. I can't believe he was available. I can't believe Ravens got him. Boom, steal, steal, steal. But it's okay to say that they had a good draft, but there are still huge concerns for the Ravens at wide receiver.