Thus then tonight Jackie Cooper as star of the clock and the rope Then play produced edited and directed by William Spear Would you like to hear the old story about the innocent man facing execution and his last-minute attempts to get a pardon? How it feels when he doesn't get it Well, I can tell you all about it because that's my story There's a couple of different twists to it, of course. There always are The one thing that happened to me And now I keep away from I keep away from cities and buildings Buildings with the cells they call rooms and doors that don't always open. I Never buttoned my collar. You'll find out why They earn my living as a guide for hunting parties me Who couldn't find my way across the city park without asking a cop for direction? I Never sleep in door. I Can't and I can't stand clock Most of all, I can't stand clock It happened so fast. I told him it wasn't murder. It was self-defense Involuntary self-defense, you know like putting up your arm to protect yourself But it didn't work out that way in court That's the other difference with that told you that They convicted me they sentenced me to be hanged and They hanged me So a little gas to the rough tip down to some repairs that had to be done the next day take care of any transient overnight parking Then these girls started dropping in for gas every other night or so late I like their style. I was too shy to say anything. I guess she figured it She was set with a sort of little smile half turned in her teeth to watch me while I fill the tank Then she'd pay me and pull away with a funny look in her eyes As if she was getting a kick out of the way. I acted then one night instead of pulling away It's been paid me Oh, come on open up. What? I've been here 20 times You can say a word or two Hello I didn't know that you wanted me to You're a funny fellow Didn't look like I didn't want you to that Don't I know my looks anymore? Sure I guess you did my name is Henry Henry Gilford No steady girl Working here every night. Oh, I get one night off go to a dance Well, I'm off tomorrow night. You ever go to the Arcadia. They've got a good band there. I forget who it is this week Oh, I'm sorry tomorrow night is my night off. Oh, but I'll get off Arcadia closes at midnight all the big dance places close at midnight No, oh, no No, there's the all in They run late and have a pretty good little band in the booth That would be fine. I could pick you up at your job. No, no, I am I'm way up here in town and I have to drive my car back anyway Suppose I need to up the line. I'll be there in a little afternoons I'll be there. Okay. See ya. Oh say, what's your name? That next night around 1130 I've caught the trolley going out along Trapp Scott Avenue. The Mortarman was old Steve Hawthorne He'd known me since I was a kid and he'd rid me about my new gray suit Especially about wanting to get off at the owl in said I was stepping out in the fast company We got there in about 20 minutes and I started up the driveway kind of thrilled at the idea of a midnight date I was just starting up the steps of the end when I heard voices coming from a grove of trees to one side I find all the way out there who you meet nobody okay, but give me that you get Hey, hey, what's this guy you're gonna meet huh? Well, I think Carol both of you now. Hey, what's going on? Anyway?   Well, I got it right here for you I Did it I guess say who who is he you would have done worse for you Well, I didn't know you had a steady fella. I thought when we made our date you didn't ask me He had no right hand to fear well Well, what do we do now mean about him? I'll take care of him. You mean leave him here with you.  No, she didn't come and tell me the police came and got him And they didn't learn about me from her either. They didn't know anything about her I mean I should like they didn't want to know You wrote out there in the probably what is your ride back? Wanted to think that's all sure because you weren't thinking about how maybe the motorman wouldn't remember taking you out there If you didn't ride back. No, why would I do that? I've known old Steve Hoffman all my life. Is that how you found us? You're not very smart. I'm not trying to be smart. Okay, so you hit him in self-defense and to save the girl Now what's the name? I Never got it.  You didn't even know what her name was Yes, I asked her I've seen her often, but he didn't tell me are you sure there was a girl? Of course, who would I have the date with maybe just with a guy you killed? I never met him before I don't even know him. You just don't know anything. Do you? Well, I'll ask you a very simple question I'm sure you can answer this one. I'll try how much money to take off the man you murdered how much yeah How much and where is it this pocket will turn inside out you went from self-defense to help yourself It pushed me around some after that then take me to court and then back to myself Half the time I didn't know what was going on. They gave me a lawyer mr. Hall Bailey Hall He'd do the talking. He kept asking for things like reduced bail time for further investigation Continuances to find witnesses just sort of stalling all the time. I don't know why I Told him I didn't have the money for any bail and witnesses. There's only one. I wanted that girl But he kept on I was trying to hold up things and one day he told me I'd been indicted. I Knew what that meant her. It meant I had to go on trial For murder. That's bad boy bad I've done all I could to delay indictment and trial and I hope there's something that turned up But we're in for now We should give me something more to work on what do you mean this girl you can't even name I can't go in the court with just that the police will certainly never was a girl and there's no trace of her anywhere Well, maybe she'll show up Boy you've got a lot to learn mr. Hall. That's all I know. I can't help it Never mentioned the girl and just claimed self-defense for a fight the girl thing. That's so bad It makes your whole defense fool good Lord boy He made up a girl why didn't to make up a name look? I've been all through that with the police now I'm still gonna talk that way too. Maybe we better forget the whole thing Maybe they'll give me another attorney for none at all for right here. Easy boy. Easy. I'm sorry I popped off, but it isn't a new attorney. You need it's a new story I That's right You heard wrote out to be in that night my trolley was on the fourth or the fifth face the jury, please and talk louder Oh, I say I say I took you for to the end that night It was about ten after midnight Got out and started for the end. Did you notice anyone else around any girl for instance? Yeah No, no nobody else that'll be all thank you the defense may have the witness Soon as we started to talk to Dilford he confessed to striking the blows He talked about doing it himself defense and about a girl he had a date with a witness to fight Have you been able to trace this girl whose existence is claimed by the defendant? No, no trace of her at all No, sir. No trace ever at all and Then we come to the actual evidence gentlemen of the jury Where do we get the evidence from the witnesses and who is the state's principal witness? None other than the defendant himself But the defendant can prove his story He has a witness the girl who saw it all the girl he saved from a bad Would any girl be so heartless as to leave such a benefactor in the lurch when just the word would save him Why doesn't he appear? Why isn't he found? No, there is no trace of her not even a small-sized note In other words, she is behaving exactly as you would expect someone to behave who is not real But just a figment of a desperate man's imagination Defendant will rise Gentlemen of the jury. Have you reached the verdict? What is your verdict? We the jury find the defendant Henry Guilford guilty of charge of murder in the first degree. I My boss at the garage and the fellas who worked their days chipped in some money I had an uncle in West Virginia who sent Mr. Hall $50 in cash and a promissory note for another 50 And I guess Mr. Hall put up the money himself for a sentence Anyway, he kept appealing the case all the way up to the state's Supreme Court But it didn't do any good kept coming back to the original decision sustained Mr. Hall said All this time the court that kept changing the date the date. I was supposed to be hanged Now all of a sudden I knew there weren't going to be any more changes The last date that was it. I I Think I started to suffocate right then There was something growing in my throat that wouldn't let me breathe The evening of the next day McGill the deputy warden came into my cell with a couple of guards. It's only I was moving I Knew where it was down on the main floor Our old only three cells It was the last stop Just throw They have a team of two guards who live right in the cell with you the last few days One time a prison breaks down and shows a human touch Yes, or else they just want to make sure you don't go ahead and carry out the sentence on yourself Anyway, whatever it was I was grateful because now I was lonely. I was afraid Not afraid like a man, but afraid the way a child is afraid I was going someplace the last place and I was going alone The thing you feel most the last hours is the time a clock Remembering how often you wish it would hurry so you could get off work or out of school See your girl or go fishing you remember a million hours like that when six hours is all you got left Outside, you know, they're watching the clock, too Not like you are but they're watching it all the usual people concerned with an execution Doing the usual thing Your lawyer the warden the governor, maybe Paper man's guard the executioner. I know what every one of them was doing as they watched the clock that night He told me after now. I'll never forget it clock all over the state Chicken away my life ought to get some sleep warden. That's only five hours away. Yes. I I know I wish I could lose this pain in my chest.  Oh? Make it an hour before him Five a.m. Yeah, this is really all Yes, I'm Who did it? Well, where have you been all this time? What? Yeah, yeah, look, you're not just some crook. That's I have to put I know I know it's for sick this morning. Where are you? All right. Wait for me. I'll be right down. We've got about two hours Take my reputation This is the girl There's a stay at execution. It's true sir. I swear to you. I've been in the east I just haven't heard about it so tonight, but it's just as he said it was And the money that was taken out of the dead man's pocket. I took it. I needed it now had to be right He's been my husband Very well rigid Yes, governor type out a stay of execution on the Guildford case for three weeks bring it in and out sign it You can take it down. All right. You'd better phone the warden to make sure though governor that boys only got about a half hour left Warden's office Yes, this is what Huh, oh Yes, governor Young gilford. Oh You don't say so. Why that splendid governor splendid Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'll let them know right away. Yes. Oh McGill Captain of the warden get him up on the count. Yeah. Yeah. Call the doctor. Will you sure hey the phone's off the hum mind that call the doctor Yeah, I must have been a strain of this execution. I think he kind of like the kids. Yeah I'm 30 Well, I'll have to take over for the execution gentlemen gentlemen Now ten minutes to six in a few moments you will be admitted to the ground floor of block house a The scaffold has been erected and where the execution which you ought to witness as Paper men and members of the medical profession to take place We'll find rows of benches. Please take your seats quietly and any of the rows except the first It has been reserved for members of the medical examining committee We ask you to cooperate with us in our duties and to respect the solemnity of the occasion by moving quietly refraining from any loud conversation in the moment you enter until you leave That's all. Thank you. The minister was reading from the Bible I knew at this time they were coming for me. This was it then It was a group of guards. The deputy warden was with them. They opened my cell door One of the guards came straight up to me. He was carrying a leather strap with a big buckle on it. I Strip up. I told him strapping my arms behind me The ministry stopped reading for a moment to say something We'll go now Say something to the deputy, but he nodded his head at the men and we started to move The two guards who had been in the cell with me stood back and one of them reached over me Put his hand on my shoulder for a second. I tried to say goodbye I walked and realized I couldn't breathe very deeply though. I wanted to just short breaths While I could take the deputy turned around and looked at me He seemed nervous. That bothered me. I wish he wasn't so nervous When we got to a door in the corner through that then another door That was already open. I walked through. I was in a room full of men But my eyes went to something else There were the steps just ahead of me. I'm painted wooden steps. They led up to a platform From above that there Up there was I saw the rope in the position. The men in the room below me now They were looking up. There was a movement among them One of them had fainted fell off the bench and landed hard It was like in a dream. I wondered if he had hurt himself Then I felt something over my head and I knew the rope was being adjusted and another guard was in front of me He had a hood. He lifted it and it came down over my head Somewhere inside of me screamed again, but my lips were closed and I was saying to myself hurry hurry hurry Talk about the neck being broken and death coming instantly. No, not always That doesn't come for a long time For some minutes nearly 20 minutes for others it may be less But never under 12 minutes before the heart stops. You can check on that Me I was up only a few seconds They cut me down and the doctors worked on me right on the wheel stretchers. I was waiting to carry my body out No, I didn't lose consciousness And sometimes wish I had I sometimes wish I'd gone then instead of being brought back to remember every bit of those last hours There was a new trial after I was on my feet again, but I don't know what was good I was free. I saw the girl Judy. I know her name now, and I thank you Neither one of us knew what to say after that. So he just went Yes, and I never sleep indoors Never button my collar. I don't like building any building It's just stone and steel and holds you in. I Want to be out here where I can see the sky anytime I open my eyes And I open them off I think too much when they're closed. I Hear the clock the clock the clock


Bitcoin has seen a pretty big fall this week, along with the entire crypto markets. However, some people like Tom Lee saw the pretty bullish outlook for the cryptocurrency, even though Lee slashed his 25k price point for Bitcoin's end of the year price early this week. He's then maintained a 15k price point even amidst the current market crash. Even though experts from Bloomberg also say that Bitcoin could go as low as 1,500, they still kind of think that's a good thing, saying that that's what makes the coin less boring, whatever that means. Anyway, we've talked to some experts about this, including Alex Tapscott, Anthony Pompiano, and Tony Vase, to find out what's going on with this market crash. There is no cause. There is never a single cause that causes any crash.  The Bitcoin was overpriced. It's been overpriced all year. Bitcoin does that. Bitcoin constantly drops 80% or 90% to make sure people know what they're doing, that they understand why they're in Bitcoin. And I think there were so many big buyers of Bitcoin and they weren't buying it for the right reasons.  And I think a lot of these people need to exit the market completely. There's a lot of what I call the conspiracy theories are out. Is it folks are just selling because of end of year stuff? Is it because of the Bitcoin cash fork? Is it because, I saw a report today that said people who bought in early 2017 are starting to sell now because they're near their cost basis. I think it could be a combination of all that. But I don't know if it actually really matters. I tell people that the individual reasoning is much less important than the longer term trend. We've been in a bear market for a while. I think we're going to continue to stay in that bear market until we kind of bottom out. Well, I don't think there's any one particular cause to the market crash. You know, if you look at what's happened over the past year or so, the market has been a declining since an all time high in January. And I think that the high that we reached was an artificial one. It was based on a lot of hot money entering the sector and pushing valuations up to a level that were totally unsustainable. So I think most of the correction that we've seen so far has been very healthy. I think what's happened in the past a couple of days or a couple of weeks has basically been a flight to liquidity. So effectively we're in a period of time where there are a lot of investors who own lots of different kinds of alternative coins, you know, or things other than Bitcoin basically. And as the market continues to correct, they're looking to liquid liquidate into something that has more fungibility, more liquidity. And then what's compounding that I think is that over the past, I should say about a year ago, a bunch of people went out and raised a lot of money for funds, which are nearing the one year maturity date when typically investors are able to redeem. And so wouldn't be surprising if I saw a lot of those different kinds of investors redeeming now. And that's exacerbating that liquidity crunch. And then compounding that there are a lot of projects who've raised money over the past year who are looking at their treasury basically evaporating because they still hold a disproportionate amount in ether and Bitcoin and they're essentially trying to liquidate the fiat as quickly as possible. So it's sort of a perfect storm of a number of things. One was your evaluations were too high. Number two is we're in the midst of a prolonged bear market. And then adding on to that, you've got this rush to liquidate, which I think is causing people to take bids at any level effectively and driving the prices down even more. Psychological argument is just there's not enough pain yet.  There's this belief that, you know, it's going to be okay. And I think that we that means we haven't reached true capitulation yet. When we reach that, that's kind of the psychological bottom, if you will. When you look at the technicals, there's supports that seem to be somewhere in that, you know, 4,000 to 2,800. There's there's multiple supports in there. And so I think that we've kind of punched through the rest. And so maybe it stops at 4,000, maybe it's 3,500, you know, 3,000, but it's definitely farther below where we are today. And I think the other thing is the historicals, right? So, you know, historical analysis does not necessarily mean that's what's going to happen in the future, but it is a good way to get perspective, right? And so if you look at kind of the first two market cycles, there was over 80% drawdowns. So at 75% today, which is close, but if we went to $3,000 and put it right about 85% right off that haul time high. And so I think that's really kind of the triangulation of multiple arguments around psychology, technicals, historicals, etc. That get us into that sub $4,000 price point as a general target. I'm doing my best to navigate my followers so that we can properly time the bottom. But at the moment, I don't see it in sight. At the moment, it looks to me like we can fall significantly lower and we can and it can last significantly longer. I hope it can change because in this in the last few weeks, people finally started to understand what a bear market can do. But I think people are still in a very happy place with Bitcoin and the Bitcoin ecosystem has this amazing ability to put everybody in a very sad place. And only when that happens will the price finally bottom and then start to go to new all time highs. There's a high probability that Bitcoin will continue to go down in value. We could see sub $4,000 somewhere in the like $3,500, $3,000 range. And then from the timing perspective, you know, we think it goes into 2019 could go as long as till Q3 of 2019.  I don't think we hit the bottom. It's really hard to say Bitcoin can reach, you know, $1,000 if it falls quickly or we can stay here in the $3,000 to $4,000 range into the summer and that would be enough. It's not about a specific price. It's not about a specific time. It's about people's mentality. When enough people exit the system because of bad decisions and there's nobody left to exit, Bitcoin will finally bottom. This may happen at a very low price of Bitcoin. This may also happen at a distant point in time. We're 10 months into, you know, a bear market now in normal financial markets, typically bear markets don't last this long, but in crypto, the only precedent we have is the periods that we saw in the past and in the past, we've seen periods where prices have corrected very quickly and rebounded, but we've also seen periods where things have continued to decline for long periods of time. I'm looking at the market today and, you know, trying to gauge not just the financial drivers, but also the emotional drivers of this market. And I think that there are a lot of people who remained hopeful until relatively recently and now they're very fearful and what happens after fear typically is capitulation and after capitulation, people basically just give up. So I'm not sure if we reach that capitulation point yet. I wouldn't be surprised the prices rebounded here.  All of the speculators and the tourists have sold, they've left and what you get is you're left with this base of holders who are saying, you know, I'm a long-term believer, I'm not going anywhere and there's really that true seller fatigue and it feels like that's probably lower than where we are today. I think that the government crackdown on cash can help Bitcoin go a long way as the government starts to eliminate cash, more physical cash, more and more people will be will be looking at Bitcoin. If the global economy starts to go down really badly, the governments might go after people for taxes and people might be looking at Bitcoin as a bit of a safe haven. We need to have people feel that there's value in these assets and be willing to buy them not because of momentum or because of FOMO, but because they're actually valuing it on what the fundamental utility could be long term. So to me, I'm looking at a lot of projects that raised money over the past year, which have yet to even launch but are coming out in the next little while. So projects like Cosmos and Polkadot, for example. And I'm also looking at some of the emerging networks, the ones that follow the theory and that are now live things like EOS and Aeon, Icon, Tezos and others to start showing organic growth in terms of new application development and also reaching milestones in terms of technical maturity. So the things that I look for are not really catalysts, they're not momentum or sentiment. They're actually fundamentals. I want to see that this technology is being used and people are actually getting value out of it and that the promise that a lot of people made is beginning to get fulfilled. In the end, ultimately, the thing about technology is that people generally tend to vastly overestimate its potential in the short term and then vastly underestimate its potential in the long term. Anybody who's hanging their hopes on a reversal in the market because of things like a Bitcoin ETF or so-called institutional buying or the adoption of Bitcoin futures through backed, I think all of those catalysts that people are looking at will be positive, but don't hang your hat on them. If you're only hoping that one single news event is going to change the direction of a marketplace, I think you're going to be mistaken. I think that there's a lot more than needs to happen for this market to turn around. But yeah, of course, I view those things as being very positive. One thing I will note though on this whole institutional investor side, institutional investors have been in this industry for years. When people talk about the upcoming institutional investors, they may be talking about more traditional vanilla style investors, mutual funds and sovereign mull funds, but there are hedge funds and family offices and venture capital investors and high net worth individuals, people who you traditionally consider to be institutions that have been in this market for years. And I know that firsthand and I know a lot of people who work in this industry know that as well. So I don't think that there's any big wave of institutional investors that's going to move the needle anytime soon. But I do think that at these valuations, there are going to be a lot of people looking to reload and are going to look to invest a lot of money with prices where they are. Sometimes no action is the best action. A lot of times what helps is creating a time-based or periodic buying or selling schedule and then just staying super disciplined to that, right? And saying, look, I've got long-term belief in either direction of an asset and I'm going to stay disciplined and that usually ends up being, you know, working out pretty well for people. So my advice right now is if you were thinking of quitting your job and going into the Bitcoin ecosystem, don't do it right now. Wait another year. Try to accumulate more fiat capital. And if you see Bitcoin drop below that $3,000 range, start accumulating that Bitcoin. This is not the time to panic sell. Don't ever panic sell. And you're better off like waiting and selling at 5,000 or 6,000 at a little bit higher price. And if we did bottom, I don't believe that we did. But if we did bottom at 4,000 this morning and we start to go up to new all-time highs, that's okay. You can buy it back above 10,000. The important part is to buy it between buying at 10,000 and you hold it into 50,000, 100,000. Well, I've never really understood the concept of huddling. I understand the concept of holding something long-term because you think that it's underpriced and you think the value is going to go up. But if you are looking at investment today and you think on its merits, you know, there's a chance that it could go down. It could go down for a while. Then I don't see why you wouldn't try and mitigate your losses and then reenter at a lower price. And also there are, you know, practical tax reasons why you may want to sell, especially if you're going into year-end to capture a capital loss. So the question of the concept of huddling, I agree with the idea of owning something long-term because you believe in it. But I think that holding just for the sake of holding without consideration for other facts or other factors is not necessarily the best investment strategy. So if you look at the mining perspective, we've got people that we've been talking with that are mining anywhere between $4,500 to $6,000. Most of those people are shutting off, but there's a very large portion of people who are mining at sub $3,500 price points. They usually are getting either free low cost or like two cents a kilowatt hour power. And this is all the traditional areas, China, et cetera. And so we don't think they're going anywhere. We think there's a long way for the price to go before they get in jeopardy of mining at a loss. And so those are the people who are really worth paying attention to because that's the bulk of the miners. They're doing it commercially. And those are the ones that it would be really scary if they started to shut off the machines. If you run a very efficient, very well-researched mining operation, then you're probably doing okay. I'm pretty sure there are miners where their cost of production is between $2,000 and $3,000 per Bitcoin.  It's going to separate those that know what they're doing when it comes to mining and those that don't.


Well, that's it. Season's over. That's a wrap. It's been a fun season. And I'm glad, really glad that it's going to get to continue for at least one more week. Hopefully it continues for four more weeks. But we'll just see how everything plays out, hoping for the best for these Baltimore Ravens. Now, with the season being over, the regular season being over, it's always nice to sort of look back. Look back at things that we all said before, looking back at things that we thought were great things about this team. And we thought, well, maybe not so great things about this team as we prepared for the regular season. Now, I'm not going to talk about the things that I talked about with the team, because as far as the record that I thought they were going to have, that didn't happen. But one of the biggest issues that I thought they were going to have, it did end up happening. But that's not important right now. But one of my guys, one of my guys, he called this thing to the tee.  But we're going to look back at it and look back at this Raven season from his point of view, what he said before the season, and then what he said after. And we'll get into that in a couple of minutes. But first I got to give a shout out to the newest Team Keeping Clean channel members. Now, real quick, special shout out to Baselord, because the other day during the live stream, he gifted Team Keeping Clean channel memberships. So he gave the gift of allowing five people to become Team Keeping Clean channel members for a month. So that was really special. And I really, really appreciated that. I love, I've been seeing, I think his name is Keith Lee. I'm sure a lot of y'all have seen him on TikTok. And I wanted to talk about him real quick, because he does food reviews. And what he does, he goes to these, I think he's out in LA, but he goes to these small mom and pop shop, these small businesses, and he goes out there and he reviews their food on TikTok. And he has a big following and whatnot. But I love seeing when social media is used in a positive aspect. It's used in a positive light, because he even says like for the mom and pop shops, he doesn't want to charge them for anything. He doesn't want to be paid for his reviews from them. And he pays for his own food and all of that. I'm like, oh, that's nice. He just, but for the big companies, he's like, hey, he's trying to get a deal with a big company. But I really appreciate how he uses his platform, uses his social media presence, whatever you want to call it. He uses his page for positivity. So I really, really appreciated that. And that just really made me appreciate y'all that much more. So like we always say, we have conversations about whatever on here, whatever it might be. We talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. But we talk a lot, but it's, and we disagree on stuff. We see things differently, but it's all love, man. So I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Now, for the newest Team Keep It Clean channel members, shout out to OMG, shout out to Mr. Chief, the legit goat, Griffey, Jehan's Lee, shaking my head, Kev, Jamie Marie, who she actually joined during the live stream for the game.  I'm still be a Team Keep It Clean channel member. So I appreciate it. Shout out to Isaiah103rd, every single video posting positive messages, no matter what's going on every single video. I know when I see his name pop up in the comments section, it's gonna be a positive message. And then shout out to Kevin Murphy. So I appreciate all of y'all, man. I really do. The whole Team Keep It Clean. Now, timing is everything. It's funny because shortly after the game that we lost to the Bengals the other day, Raven's record was officially 10 and seven. And my guy, Gold Morano, I just remember him, I remember an email that he sent to me a while back about his season prediction, how he thought things were gonna go. And y'all know what, I thought the Raven's record was gonna be 12 and five. I'm like, all right, 12 and five. I don't expect him to go undefeated. Yeah, it could be better, but it could be worth, but 12 and five, that's what I meant. But let's listen to this email that he sent on September 10th, 2022, September 10th. So before the day before the season started, he said, it's good to be back at the start of another Raven season in Graven. I look forward to writing through with you and Team Keep It Clean once again. You may remember that I sent you my prediction of 10 and seven, that being the Raven's final record not long ago. But I noticed that many fans are predicting the 12 or 13 win season. I'm curious to know how fans in in Graven are deriving their win predictions. And again, for that, it was just based off of the team, based off of Lamar, based off of just, you know, the regular stuff. If Lamar's healthy, it holds it, yeah, but anyway. He said, are fans looking at the Ravens roster and deducing their predictions based on pass performance and the current talent level of the team, coaching staff and concluding that we can expect 12 or 13 wins? Yeah, that was it. He said, number two, could fans possibly be basing their predictions on the actual schedule ahead, taking into consideration the degree of difficulty that each opposing team will present? Number three, or could fans be estimating that opposing defenses will have no idea the level of supreme motivation Lamar will be playing with after being jilted by his current team's management? Do fans believe that being spurned by the team for which he has given so much could just be the impetus that will cause Lamar to play out of his mind and will his team to an extra three victories as he plays for his football life in Questa each has goal of becoming a billionaire. He said, he based his 10 and seven prediction not only on the fact that EDC did not make a substantial talent investment on the offensive side of the ball once again, and rushing players back from serious injuries for which they need more time to heal, but also on the talent level of our opponents and the parody that exists throughout the league. We're going to be met with some very serious challenges from the outside, from outside our division. The Jets, Giants, Panthers and Jaguars are four games. They are the only sure bet wins in my eyes. So for that part, he wasn't so perfect. That part he was two and two, because he said that the Jets, Giants, Panthers and Jaguars, those are all games that the Raguars are going to win for sure. They obviously beat the Jets, the Giants, they had them up by 10, we're like what, four or six minutes to go. Obviously we know what happened to Panthers. They won that game, it was really ugly, but they won and the Jaguars, well, it was a weird game, but that's when the offense, they started going down the field and driving and getting touchdowns, but in scoring and getting to go ahead points but then the defense just couldn't hold anymore and you know how that happened. But anyway, he said, no head coaches more prepared than Bill Belichick. So underestimating him and Matt Judon would be a mistake. So they did take care of the Patriots though, so that was good. Pittsburgh may have a new quarterback, but they have improved and will be no walk in the park as we certainly saw. Mike Tomlin led teams are well prepared and pose a true threat.  Although our D-line may be respectable, we don't have the pass rush to keep Joe Burrow off balance and yeah, we saw that. He's putting up 35 or more in both games. Well, no, he didn't, he didn't in either game and I think, what did they score? Well, yeah, they did, I guess they scored over 35, both games combined, but anyway. Cleveland is stacked with talent. Does team keeping clean predict that we do better than three and three in the north? And hey, that's exactly what they did. They did three and three, because they split with every team. One on one with the Bengals, one on one with the Steelers, one on one with the Browns. So they went exactly three and three, look at that. He said, as you have stated, postponing the completion of Lamar's contract only benefits the quarterback because his price will only increase with each passing game. So that was what he sent before the season started. So he was pretty much spot on, man. He was pretty much spot on. The record, not only the Ravens record and again, like I said, injuries change stuff. Injuries change stuff, but hey, he got it. He got it. But let's look at what he sent after the season. He said, the swami speaks. And Graven, we made it to the conclusion of another regular season and you've made the whole experience that much more fun and interesting once again. Oh no, I appreciate it, man. He said, now it's time to collect my accolades. As you may remember, you predicted a 12 and five finish for our beloved Ravens. While I, the new swami predicted a 10 and seven finish. Well, what do you know? I was perfectly accurate for the second year in a row. I don't know how I keep doing it. I can't wait for us to make our predictions for 2023 after we learn who our quarterback will be, which coaches, if any, will part ways with the team and how many of the pending 23 free agents will retire or walk. If EDC will finally institute a new philosophy in skiing and most importantly, will EDC address what has permanently become known as the team's most preeminent need since 2019, a top five wide receiver. I can't wait to compare predictions again in September. Oh yeah, for sure. He said, awards, the Gold Murano Award for the best in season moved by GM, the October 21st trade of Christian McCaffrey from the Panthers to the 49ers. You know, I forget about that one. I really do. I forget all about that one. He said, the Gold Murano Award for the best late round drafts deal, the San Francisco 49ers for drafting Brock Purdy with the final pick of the 2022 draft. Two things the Ravens should learn from the 49ers. Number one, when your team's offense is premised on the running attack, have a true hybrid running back slash wide receiver. Like, oh, running back and wide receiver like Debo Samuel and or Christian McCaffrey to compliment your field stretching number one in a workhorse running back. Ross's construction, like San Francisco, causes defenses to tire quickly and defensive coordinator to lose a lot of sleep. Number two, don't load your roster with undrafted backup quarterbacks. That's a recipe for disaster instead. Be about the business of always searching for quality depth at that position whenever the opportunity presents itself. It's not an insult to your starting quarterback to keep adding quality arms in house competition is a good thing. And he put in a little asterisk in 2005, the Packers had Brett Favre and Rogers and Kurt Warner. They had Kurt Warner too. We had Anthony Wright and Kyle Bola. Green Bay has always understood the benefits of continuously adding quality arms instead of just warm bodies to fill a roster spot. That's an interesting one right there. But yeah, man, you got it. You got it. You called it and that's what it is now. I wonder how you call the playoff record.  That's what I made you to keep it clean. You see my boy, he like out of made it. Out of made it. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Team Keep It Clean, welcome to another episode of Questions For Sells where you can ask any question that you want to answer in a video like this. If you want to be part of it for the Team Keep It Clean Patrons, the Patrons you can send it directly on Patreon. You don't need to send an email but for everybody else, if you want to be part of it, you can send an email to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com. Do not send it anywhere else or else your question will be disregarded, thrown away, tossed out. It won't see the light of day. So I appreciate y'all saying Team Keep It Clean. Thank you for making it easy. Thank you for sending it to the right emails and if you send it to the wrong emails, hey, that's on you. I still love you though. But anyway, next question came from my guy, Marv Hood. He said, good morning, Professor Engraven. And this was a reply to his previous question where he brought up that he thinks Raven's fans are privileged. So there was a lot of conversation about that back and forth. I even got DMs and stuff from people. Not in disrespect for anything like that but some people like, yeah, that video, I think Raven's fans are entitled. They are privileged and whatnot. Some people disagree, some people agree. So yeah, you caused a lot of discourse with that one but it's fine, not any bad discourse. But anyway, he said, good morning, Professor Engraven. I may have to slightly disagree with a few of your takes, most notably failure of accepting your professorship. Have you ever watched Sidney Portier to serve with love? No, I haven't. He said, team, keep it clean. It's like your classroom. You maintain dignity and mutual respect without suppressing self-expression.   Look, I don't do nothing, man. That's all y'all, man. Straight up, that's all y'all. But that's the biggest thing that we ask for. Now all we ask for, that's the biggest thing that we ask for though, is that we can have these conversations like this. We can go back and forth. I have my opinion. Other people may have their opinion but we express it respectfully amongst each other. That's it. And we have fun in the process. Cause it's all fun, man. It's all fun. But anyway, let me start by first acknowledging that what I meant to convey but by my title of privilege was not so much that many of us are entitled but that I finally believe it is a privilege to be a Ravens fan, partly because John Hardball does more than any other coach I have witnessed with lesser first 10 draft picks. One, Ronnie Stanley. Okay, so that's the only time you picked in the top 10. I guess so, it has been. I think you made that clear in your original message but anyway, let's continue. He said lesser impact free agents, four or few more. Campbell, Houston, Peters, Williams. Okay, he talking about right now then. And lesser pro bowl players, eight, Andrews Humphrey, Moseley, Jackson, Judon, Stanley, Tucker, and Yonda. Ray Riesel in the pro bowl. But anyway, he said, of course, by lesser I am referring in contrast to almost all playoff teams who built their roster with multiple first 10 draft players, multiple pro bowl free agents and players. The Bengals and Rams had a whole high top 10 pick draft and pro bowl squad within the last 10 years. In turn, Hardball builds a culture of accountability. Hold up now, hold up, hold up now, how about that? Grit, discipline and overachievement with late round draft picks strictly. Some of those things can definitely be called into question. Accountability, I think Ravens are definitely lacking in the accountability part. Grit, that Grit has definitely fallen off recently. They, these ain't the same old Ravens. Shout out to Eric Guadal. Discipline, the discipline, that's been lacking a little bit too, that, yeah, it ain't, and overachievement with late round draft picks strictly. Oh, with late round draft picks strictly, okay. He just told me picks from the late round. Yeah, I wouldn't even say that. Like the discipline, well actually sometimes on the field discipline, no, a lot of times. Anyway, I won't even reference our participation of free agency, let's not go there. Imagine if an offensive line had a young Stanley and Yonda consistently with the other pieces in tact. Casey was horrible when the old line was injured in the Super Bowl. Belichick had barely sniffed the playoffs since Brady made a dash for Florida and he is the goat of coaches. So let's forget about Hardball's record against Hall of Fame quarterbacks before 2012. That was my mistake. He's done quite well over the past 10 years with lesser talent as opposed to the other premier teams. I just think he deserves a little more appreciation for having a lack of healthy premier talent. I'm not saying by any means our players are slouches. Even Purdy and San Fran is balling. However, he does make the best out of the lesser than elite talent, for example, Frank Walker. Goodness. I mean, yes and no. I think when you look at something to see with that when it talks about the lesser talent, the late round talent, the depth, I guess, you can look at the preseason. Look at the preseason and look how the Ravens doing their preseason. They don't lose. They don't lose. That's what I said, man. If Ravens treated the regular season like they treat the preseason, oh, they'd be undefeated every year. We'd be talking Super Bowls every single year. We would love it. We would love it. But I mean, yeah, give Hardball credit for what he's accomplished. But his biggest accomplishment is in the past. I see what you're saying. Oh, yeah, he's continued to have a team that's competing and whatnot and they're competing every year with the roster that they have. And a lot of it could be lesser talent. But my thing is, why? Why does it always have to be lesser talent, especially on offense, especially on offense? They be having some players on defense now. And they got a few on offense here and they obviously LeMau, Mark Andrews and J.K. Nice, too, but it's like, why does it have to be lesser talent? Why do things have to be made harder? And it's like, now, this time, you talked about after 2012, which is great. But it's like, why do we have to, why do things have to be made harder? And then you look at the lack of success after 2012. I mean, obviously, 2012, that's the ultimate success that you can have as a Super Bowl. And you can only go down from there. But why haven't they reached that high high?  For the most part, I know they had some seasons here and there, but they ain't been like losers or nothing. But at the same time, they haven't won as much as, they probably should have won, especially with some of the rosters that they had. And I think that they should, if they've been doing what you've been saying, if they've been doing overachieving with lesser talent, why not add more so you can overachieve with them too? Next question came from my guy, Quinn. He said, I figured it out. Yo, what's good, this Q from H-Town. Oh, shout out to Houston. He said, I hope all is well with you and yours, but Boyle Boyle, what do you think about this? If after the season, Stevie B fired John Harbaugh for allowing Greg Roman to put in such a bad product out, and now we have to pay Lamar. Bring in Sean McVay. I'm sure Lamar will love that. But yeah, what do you think? I don't think it'll happen at all. Harbaugh ain't going nowhere. I don't see any scenario where John Harbaugh is fired from the Baltimore Ravens at all. It ain't gonna happen. I'll be extremely shocked if it does. I have like a million percent confidence that it will not happen. And as far as Sean McVay, Sean McVay said that he was gonna step away from the Rams for a little bit. So he's doing the same thing Sean Payton did to where he's retiring, I guess, but the Rams will still have his rights. He was still contractually obligated to the Rams. So in the event where he does want to come back, he decides, oh, you know what, I do want to coach again. Well, he would have to get traded. So Ravens would have to give up draft picks for a coach. I don't ever see them doing that because they love them draft picks too much. Next question came from Britt. She said, good morning, Graven. I just wanted to first thank you for taking the time to research and deliver the information to us. I know that takes time and effort to do. Also appreciate the cleaning and respect for where you deliver and run your channel. I appreciate that, Britt. Thank you. Thank you. She says, okay, so my question is about G-Roll. If the Ravens decided to give him an extended contract, ooh, and it is a possibility, man. Ooh, that would be something. Ooh, that would set the Ravens world on fire. But anyway, do you think the coaches will be able to keep the locker room? Oh, that's such a great question. Wow, I ain't never think about that. I never thought about that aspect of it before. How would the locker room feel? Because if you do that, yeah, people, it's obviously been called out a lot publicly. Tyus Bowser put it out there publicly with the, because he had to record that. Tyus Bowser literally saw the papers that somebody on the inside, somebody from the Ravens wrote out. Tyus Bowser literally saw those papers on the ground. I don't know if he put them there. He knows who put them there. I'm sure they probably do. But he saw those papers, proceeded to grab his phone and to think about it. Wait a minute, I'm a player for the Baltimore Ravens. I play for the Baltimore Ravens. I'm a starter for the Baltimore Ravens. People know me for the Baltimore Ravens. My social media is public for the Baltimore, or for me, and I'm a Baltimore Ravens player, proceeded to grab his phone, take it out, go to the camera, or go to Instagram, straight, yeah, he probably went straight to Instagram, proceeded to click on Story and proceeded to record the papers on the ground. Make sure it was crystal clear that we could all see that they said to fire Greg Roman. He did that. He had to go through that whole process. So, yeah, that's a really good question about them potentially losing the locker room. Because if he did that, not about a position coach, not about some strength coach, not about, not even about an equipment manager or somebody or staff on the equipment to know, he did that about a coordinator, an offensive coordinator. And he knows, he sees, he hears everything that's been said about Greg Roman, good and bad. So, for him to do that, you would definitely feel like he ain't the only one that feels how he feels. Well, he's not the only one that feels what he portrayed that he possibly feels. I can't say how he feels, because I don't know. But for him to go through all, that's funny, but that's a really good question. She said, many players lately have expressed their frustration with the offense. I know people either love or dislike Hollywood, but that was the reason he left, right? It's rumored that Deshaun Jackson requested to be let go. Yeah, I don't know about that, but she did say, now don't quote me on that. I'm not 100% sure that it's true, but it's just a rumor. Yeah, we all saw the post that he put, so he put something about the politics. He said, y'all got it, forget the politics or something like that. And it could have been about the locker room, but we don't know, we won't know until we know. Anyway, she said also, I don't know if people remember, but Lamar expressed frustration sometime ago. He mentioned something about the defense calling out the plays while they are playing. Now the frustration has trickled over to the defense, although we lost the game yesterday, we actually could have won the game. Defense held the bingles to three points in the second half. Why couldn't offense capitalize on that? I know it was a game that would have just been bragging rights, but we could have won that game, just my thoughts. Yeah, the Ravens could have won that game, but yeah, them turnovers, man. Turnovers were killer in that one. So thanks again for all your hard work on the channel, but I appreciate it. But yeah, that is a risk that they would run. If they bring back Greg Roman, which Ravens like taking some risks. They like taking some risks like that with coaching staff and stuff like that. So we'll see that. Because not only will it possibly impact current players who are already on your team, but also future ones too. Well, some of the old future players might not end up being future players. Because they may be like, oh, are they keeping him? Okay, well, I ain't even gonna think about going in. Next question came from my guy, Lewis. Oh man, who was your guy, Lewis, the tight end? Oh, I know, because I remember, what was it about a year ago or two years ago when you were saying the questions about him? I cannot remember his name. I know you know who I'm talking about. Cause you were like that tight end's biggest fan. I can't think of his name right now. But anyway, he said, Bady, let's go Bady, man. I'm happy for the boy betting on himself. Hopefully Lamar comes through in a similar manner. Now, what if you say you happy for Tyler Bady betting on himself and you hope Lamar comes through in a similar manner. So you're saying that you hope that Lamar bets on himself and leaves the Ravens and goes somewhere else. Next question came from my guy, Teddy. He said, off season moves.  For example, trading Michael Pierce. We could always use him, but we don't need him with all the young talent. But there's a few guys on the roster that can be moved so we can obtain all the things we require. EDC has been working the cap since he came in. I mean, I can always see them trading some extra pieces, but I don't know if it'll be to retain Lamar. I can see them trading some extra pieces though. Like, I think this will be the year with Chuck Clark, where he actually does get traded, especially since they really seen Kyle Hamilton. They haven't really seen him in starting role as safety yet, but he's been looking better and better as he is going on. So I was like, all right, they probably gonna be like, you know what, let's run it, let's do it. Chuck, thanks for everything, but that's that. I could see them getting rid of James Prochet. And with James Prochet, I was just talking to my boy Kev about this this morning. I was saying with James Prochet, it's tough with him because I feel like he's in the same position as Miles Boykin was. And really a lot of the receivers really because with the offense, the offense doesn't give the receivers many opportunities as is, it doesn't get him any opportunities at all. But then on top of that, so if you're like a backup backup receiver, like a backup backup backup receiver, then what you do, because already everything that the receivers do, it's already emphasized. There needs to be more emphasis on the receivers, but what they do is already emphasized a lot because there's less emphasis put on them. If you get it, I know that don't make sense, but since the receivers have so little room for error, they have like no room for error. I mean, the passing game as a whole, but with the receivers, they have so limited opportunities. So with their limited opportunities, whatever they do good, it's gonna be like, all right, great, whatever they do bad, it's gonna be like, all right, man, it's gonna be, but it's gonna be blown up that much more. So with James Pro Shades, similar to Miles Boykin, they just ain't been able to get on the same page with everything going on, but they've also had limited opportunities. But a lot of times when they're out there, it's like, it just, it doesn't end up working out. Something ends up going wrong more than it goes right. So I think the Ravens, I think they unfortunately, especially for him, well, actually not unfortunately for him, it could actually be a good thing. If he gets an opportunity with somebody else, it could be a good thing, but I think they will unload James Pro Shades off season. Who else, you talked about Michael Pierce, I wouldn't see them trading him. I could see them cutting him. I'm not sure how his cap is though. Who else?  So we'll see what happens with that. Like I'm if you're on, if I think they're gonna do it or not. I'm leaning more towards that. I don't think that they will. I'm leaning like way more towards that side, but we'll see, of course. But yeah, so I guess to answer your question, no, I don't see them offloading people in order to retain, I was about to say Laquon and Roquon. I don't see them offloading people to retain Lamar and Roquon because I don't see them really keeping both of them. Next question came from my guy, Justin. He said, what's up, am I the only one who wanted to lose against the Bengals? I just feel like if we would have won, then they would have blew the Ravens out of the playoffs. But let's rest and get ready. I love y'all, I appreciate y'all. And just like I hope the Ravens are not next week, I'm out. What a way to end it. Question came from my guy, Rave Kingdom. He said, with Bengals fans and Bengals players accusing the Ravens of dirty plays and with Roquon Smith and other Ravens players saying they can't wait for next week. Is there a possible chance that we might see a classic rival, Steelers Ravens type of game on Sunday next week with the Ravens and the Bengals? I think so. I think so. I think it's definitely gonna be one of those, it could be one of them low scoring games. If Ravens don't, like for Ravens to get themselves the best chance, like I think it would need to be a low scoring game. Well, if Lamar comes back, then there's, I mean, there's potential for, obviously potential for a lot more points, but especially though, if he doesn't, if he's not back, they got to keep the points low. They got to, they got to keep the scoring low so that they cannot turn the ball over.  You got to take care of the ball. And you got to get help too, your offense, especially your passcatchers, they got to help you out more too. So yeah, we'll see soon. And last question on this episode came from my guy, Kyron, he said, ain't great when I'm sending this email after the Bengals game. I admit I'm nervous about next week's wildcard game versus Cincinnati.  Not only because of how our offense has looked over the last month, but also my brother is a Bengals fan. Oh, that should be fun. He said, but I'm actually more confident after today's game. Yes, we lost and turned it over four times. The three in the first half killed us because it led to 21 points for the Bengals. But the defense played great. They held Cincinnati to 17 points in week five and 20 points today. And at times, the offense looked decent today. I believe with a healthy offense that protects the ball, Lamar especially, and the defense playing the way that they have in both Cincinnati games, we can win next week. Yes, I believe after this loss, what do you think? Yeah, I agree. Like I said, especially if Lamar comes back, but even if he doesn't come back, Raven's chances are very slim, extremely slim, but they still do have an opportunity. They still got chances because, yeah, like you said, the turnovers, the turnovers just gifted the Bengals points. It made it so easy for the Bengals, but the defense made it hard. So if the Ravens could again take care of the ball, they'll be in good shape. Yeah, this feels like a dream. I know just what I mean, what I mean. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Raven? Right in Raven. Right in Raven. Shout out to Raven.