Could the Ravens sign Marcus Mariota as a backup to Lamar Jackson as offseason? What upcoming free agent wide receivers would be the best fit for the Ravens? How can Lamar develop better chemistry with his wide receivers this offseason? and many many more questions on this episode of NFL questions from subscribers YouTube team keep it clean what's going on the same graven here with another video and another episode of NFL questions from subscribers Which this is a series where you can ask me any NFL question You want to based off of any NFL team and we answer in a video just like this now If you want to be part of NFL questions from subscribers Just send me an email at team keep it clean at gmail.com or you can even send something to the PO box If you want to feature in the video or something you just want to give a quick shout out to everybody a team keep it clean Feel free to do that the you can send it via email and again You can send it via the PO box the information for that is down below in the description We got some real good questions to do so let's get into it first question came from a boy Jerome he said and great when I got two questions for you one Ravens related and one not Number one Marquise Brown started the season injured due to what I believe was a Liz Frank injury Throughout the season including the playoffs lost it seemed like he intentionally avoided contact mostly by falling down before making contact Or running out of bounds you are 1000% right I believe he never fully recovered from that injury thousand thousand and one percent right now and we have yet to see the best of Hollywood Thousand and two percent right. I expect he will return next season healthy stronger and even better thoughts Yeah, that's something that we talked about throughout the entire year the entire year And when I first really realized that he was not fully healthy and he wasn't gonna be fully healthy was when you looked at the practice reports because He he ended up playing in the preseason, which we like, okay. That's Hollywood. Okay. There it goes And then every week before every game He would have off. I think on Fridays. They will give him off and you don't give a rookie Fridays off maybe a vet who's been around for a long time and and maybe even a vet that's been on your team for a long time But you don't just give rookies rookie wide receivers especially rookie starting wider, so you don't just give them Fridays off So we knew he was he was not gonna be healthy all season long And like you said, he had been avoiding so much contact every single time he hit he caught the ball He would be sliding running out of bounds and just going down early. But yeah, so we knew he was not healthy So, yeah, it is very exciting for next year knowing that Hollywood this year He wasn't even a hundred percent. So next year. Oh man It's almost scary to think about how good it could be But the next question he said back in September friend and I got lunch and we're talking football now keep in mind He's a stealer's fan. We won discussion of Antonio Brown and he believed that what we are seeing from AB is his are his true colors as Money exasperates who you truly are my stance then and even more so now is that AB has CTE I've watched a lot of TV personalities discuss AB and nobody mentioned CTE Maybe because the NFL wants nothing to do with it in liability No, that's a good point the drastic shift in his behavior and how sporadic these bad episodes are do indicate the possibility of CTE Unfortunately, you currently can only be tested for after person has died and they examine the brain What are your thoughts on this and as always the channel is great and keep up the good work So I appreciate that Jerome. Um, I Don't I don't really think it's CTE. I know that that thought had crossed a lot of people's minds It even crossed my mind a little bit But when you think about it, I just I will go more alongside of your friend Which this this they just be his personality um just They just seems to be a lack of maturity and it seems like it seems like football almost saved him It seems like football almost saved him I know what there was he did have some episodes some stuff that happened even while he was playing football But since he's been out, it's just it's just been bad man. It's just been bad and and you feel like Football was almost his way out and it was an escape for him And it was almost like a safe haven for him to where He was so busy and occupied with being so great at football, which he was He was so busy and occupied with that that now that he has all this free time And we don't know what's going on in his personal life. It could be that he's a big Instigator with all the stuff that's going on or maybe people around him are big instigators people that he has different Relationships with whether it be friends with his his baby moms or whatnot or whatever it may be We we don't know only he and the people involved know but Just from from the part that we see from him. It's been it's been really bad man It's been really bad It's almost scary man because it's just incident after incident after incident after incident and you just hope the dude is Okay, you hope he gets any help that he may need you just hope that um, whatever's going on It gets cleared up quick next question came from a boy out calling. He said I'm gonna give you a simple question Do the Ravens or any other NFL teams have local tryouts? If not should Roger Goodell think about it to help find unknown talent. I Don't even think NFL like even needs any help finding unknown talent because they have so many people that come in and go out every single year They they did something like like the guy from who was the guy who I think was gonna Texans Well, he ended up getting a trial, but I was it locally I know he like had a sign that he was like homeless or something and then he ended up like sneaking into the first I forgot the entire story and then of course the guy with the Browns Was it she he was I forgot what his name was but um Should should they do that? I mean they could it wouldn't hurt It wouldn't hurt But yeah, it wouldn't hurt it would it would actually be able to help some local guys out if they were able to impress enough and then Get an opportunity because because everybody's story isn't the same Every everybody doesn't go to normal route that a lot of these NFL players do what they've been playing all their lives up And since they were like kids and stuff and then they go to high school They play and they go to a college and then from college some of them get drafted and then like they already have a lot of Attention around them, but that everybody doesn't have that same story So somebody may have a different story where they didn't go that same route And if they could get an opportunity from a local trial then that could be in their favor next question came from a boy Antonio he said do you think that Miles Boykin in Hollywood Brown would be more of a contribution to our offense in season 2 after They have rested and gotten the fundamentals in memory I think Hollywood will continue and he could get even better Boykin boykin. I am It's gonna be interesting what they do with boykin what they do with the free agents What they do it is with any wide receiver free agents and we do just what they do at the position period Because it'll let us know how much they really value boykin. It's also Jaleel Scott to came forget about him But whatever they whatever moves they make is gonna let us it's gonna be a good indicator on what they feel about him because his Rookie season wasn't all that sometimes he looked a little lost out there now He didn't get too many opportunities When he did get opportunities there was some drops and then he did make some plays too So it was that so sort of up and down But I think he finished the season with like 13 catches like a hundred sixty five yards and like three touchdowns something something like that And I mean for for Calvin Johnson, he got all that in like one game, but He got the body for it. He got some speed He just got to work on everything and get a little more polished and you got to get more opportunities to a Lamar They got to get a connection because they don't have any connection man. They ain't got no any connection So I definitely think Hollywood will continue to be even better since it'll be healthy like we talked about but for boykin I'm hoping the best for me because he got he has he has the body he got the perfect body for being a wide receiver especially this offense to He can block good. He can if he can get more physical like with the ball in his hands and and for the jump balls and all that's the man The sky like literally the sky is a limit because he like as tall as the sky So yeah Speaking of wide receivers next question came from a boy enonic He said engraving I'm still recovering from the devastating end to our season But I have a comment and three questions if Lamar doesn't develop the chemistry necessary to take advantage Oh, wow It's like we a lot of us like be on the same page with our thinking and it's kind of it's almost kind of scary sometimes How like yeah anyway because I was just talking about boy anyway Let's read it. He said if Lamar doesn't develop the chemistry necessary to take advantage of and fully utilize all of his wide receivers weapons It won't matter who we bring in this offseason. That's true. My question is all what do you think Lamar can do in the offseason to overcome this? Just build a chemistry with him build a chemistry with him You saw that him and Hollywood they had chemistry both on and off the field. They were linked up They were super cool with each other and you ain't gonna vibe with everybody the same way I understand that I get that but him and Hollywood they boy, they were like on and together man but if he could just That work. I know he put in a lot of work with Antoine We didn't know Jalen Smith because that was the college guy, but he didn't make the team But just put in more work with him Just put in that work in the offseason to really get with these dudes and really like Up your game with these guys and and just really build that chemistry for the future because he needs it He needs it bad because this offense I expect the offense to open up a little bit more I expect it to be that same style will run heavy But I expect it to open up more and do some different stuff as well So in order to accomplish that different stuff and get the wide receivers more involved you got to have a chemistry with these guys and If you can get that chemistry with some guys that are definitely gonna be on the team like Hollywood's definitely gonna be there They got the chemistry. You got to build off of it now. Well, these needs should be there Yeah, he'll be there.  So they got those two already got chemistry, but with a boy can Build it up with a boy can to have him come to your little wire receiver camps and all that Just have everybody there man and just really try to work Of course you want to work with all the guys But for the guys that you know are gonna be on the team like really put in that work hating hurts to man Unless Ravens end up trading anyway next question. He said of the wire receivers that may become available in free agency Who would best fit for the Ravens? I actually do think this would actually be a good fit for the Ravens because he would be a Complementary guy. He wouldn't be the number one guy like he was it in Dallas But he's already been there. I do like Robbie Anderson a lot He would pose another deep threat that got some pretty good hands Some playmaking ability after the catch and they would have to respect his speed along with Hollywood speed So that could open up the underneath game for whatever receiver wasn't going deep on the play And it would open it up for the tight ends for Willie Snead for and for the opposite receiver who wasn't going out. So um Yeah, Robbie Anderson would be that would that would be a guy. I really like And he said what would this oh see that's That's what I be talking. I Literally just said this I just said this in the last question in In the last question I talked about how whatever the Ravens do it why receiver would be an indication about how they feel About miles Boykin. Ah, I just said it. His third question is what would this acquisition mean for Boykin? That's what I tell y'all man. It's almost scary how a lot of us will be on the same page, man It's crazy, man. He said love rocking with team keeping clean keep up the great work. I appreciate it. Thank you, man That's wild next question came from a guy Brandon Lewis. He said she'll a more Jackson win most improved player to along to go with MVP That would be um, that would be something if he won the most improved player as well To go with his MVP trophy that he's like 9.9 times out of 10 gonna get um mmm Wow, I mean you compare nine games or eight games to 15 He could yeah, I mean We see how we we really think about it. He actually could so hey give him that trophy too Next question came from a boy John Bush. He said I love Mark Ingram, but he's getting old What do you think about us drafting Jonathan Taylor from Wisconsin to take Gus Edwards spot immediately? Since he's probably leaving in free agency and then for him to replace Ingram when his contract is up. Oh So my guy John Bush is thinking ahead. He ain't playing I Think no, I don't I don't think Gus Edwards is going anywhere. He's an um Exclusive rights free agent so the Ravens um, he's not an unrestricted free agent So Ravens they could trade him, but they have his rights But I think they'll probably sign them to like maybe like a two three-year deal Give him a nice little raise for the work that he's put in And I mean he should have been able to put in a lot more work during the playoffs If they're just having like three carries or anyway, um, I Don't think he's gonna go anywhere, but as far as them drafting and running back I would have to look up this Jonathan Taylor because and Just see how he will compliment this offense Because we still do have a justice heel. I know a lot of people up and down on justice heel but he He just he didn't really get too much opportunities, especially because he wasn't the lead guy When the Ravens were up big. That's when you saw Justice Hill But yeah, Mark Ingram is getting older, you know, like old old, but he's getting a little older But he's he's still he's still fine. He still got it And I'm if if this Jonathan Taylor if he was a back that was Scheduled to be drafted early like in the first three rounds. I don't think it would be worth it right now Unless this dude is just like Maybe that the highest I think the Ravens should draft the running back would be nah The highest I think they should have to run it back would be like round four maybe but they have other knees man They got knees at wide receiver. They got knees at past Russia. They got knees on offensive line Possibly cornerback like secondary. I mean inside linebacker, of course, like they they have they have too many other needs I think in my opinion in or depending on where he would be drafted but they have too many other needs in order to draft a running back high so I Would I would say no not for now next question came from a boy Chris Farid. He said a broken grass on 22,000 subscribers Thank you. Thank you. He said my question for you and teamkeeper clean is something that would take our secondary to a completely different level With even Marshall being stashed for most of the year Do you think it's a possibility for us to pick up Jamal Adams and trade Jimmy Smith? I love Jimmy, but I know ED is all business with table on young coming back and younger talent on the team I can see that happening. I Do think it's a possibility that the Ravens could get a Jamal Adams But for trading Jimmy Smith know because in order for them to trade Jimmy Smith They would have to sign him back because he's a free agent. He is a free agent And then they definitely would not tag franchise tag Jimmy Smith because they franchise tag Jimmy Smith Nobody would acquire Jimmy Smith. Um, so since he's a free agent. He's like 32. I think but he's not gonna be Franchise tag if they're gonna bring them back, they're gonna bring them back at a one or two year deal but they're not gonna They're not going to Franchise tag them and trade them or they're not gonna sign them and trade them because it just It wouldn't be worth it for them to do that. So that will be out of the question, but for them to acquire Jamal Adams We'll see I do like Chuck Clark if it was up to me and I had to choose between the two I would say just stick with Chuck Clark, but I can understand what people want to Jamal Adams to I mean Hey, he's a nice player. He's these are real good player. I love his game, man Um, but I just feel like Ravens that is a position I feel like Jamal Adams would be a luxury more than in a more than a necessity So I wouldn't I wouldn't do it especially cuz you're gonna have to sign him to a big money deal Not that you can't but you got a lot of other needs more pressing needs right now than another good safety Next question came from my guy Greg. He said do you think the Ravens will sign Marguer's Marriota as a backup this off season? I wasn't impressed with RG3 in the final game. Oh That would be very very very Interesting if they were to do that. Why because I feel it I feel like he would be a perfect backup for the Ravens perfect backup Because he can throw and he can move and he also wore number eight. I believe with the Titans This was this guy would be a former. What was he like a number one a number two overall pick I think number two because Jamie Swinson was number one, right? I forget but He's not gonna stay with the Titans. They got Tanny And yeah, he's getting ready to be a free agent. I believe so I really He would fit in man We would have again. I mean we got RG3 now But I know there were a lot of people on the fence about RG3 but what RG3 I felt like with him he was somebody that um You You couldn't be too mad at him if he didn't come in there and look lights out because one he's not the starter To he doesn't play with the starters I mean he's in practice with the backups and then three When you're comparing him to Lamar Jackson then like that's a big drop-off as far as the speed as far as the with them Just to play it of the offense period So it's different Lamar Jackson is a much bigger threat to opposing defenses than RG3 is right now At his this point in his career So if they do it or if they were to get rid of an RG3, I could see them doing it but oh Man, I wouldn't be oof, but RG3 man. That's it. We got RG3. So I Would it would be strange if they did that? Because again, you have RG3 already you have an RG3 already Maybe if you got an opportunity to start somewhere But I feel like almost feel like if if RG3 got an opportunity to start somewhere I feel like Marcus Mario to make it an opportunity before him since he's a lot younger I don't know man, but if they were to sign him, I wouldn't I wouldn't be opposed to it at all I would be down for he might even make me go get mad and again


Happy Friday, Mars fans, and welcome to another Whiteboard Friday. This week's video is about Core Web Vitals, and before you immediately hold F4, pause the video, press back, something like that. No, we haven't got stuck in time. This isn't a video from 2020. This is looking forwards. I'm not going to cover what the basic metrics are or how they work, that kind of thing in this video. There was a very good Whiteboard Friday about a year ago from Cyrus about all of those things, which hopefully will be linked below. What this video is going to be looking at is where we are now, and what happens next, because the page experience updates from Google are very much not done. They're still coming. This is still ongoing. This is probably going to get more important over time, not less, even though the hype has kind of subsided a little bit. So firstly, I want to look at some of the historical context in terms of how we got where we are. So I've got this timeline on this side of the board, and you can see in May 2020, which is nearly two years ago now, Google first announced this. This is an extraordinarily long time really in SEO and Google update terms, but they announced it, and then we had these two delays, and it felt like it was taking forever. And I think there's some important implications here, because my theory is that, and I've read about this before, and again hopefully that will also be linked below, but my theory is that the reason for the delays was that too few pages would have been getting a boost if they'd rolled out when they originally intended to, partly because too few sites had actually improved their performance, and partly because Google is getting data from Chrome, the Chrome user experience or crux data, and it's from real users using Chrome. And for a lot of pages for a long time, including now really, they didn't really have a good enough sample size to draw conclusions. The coverage is not incredible. So because of that, initially when they had even less data, they were in an even worse position to roll out something, and they don't want to make a change to their algorithm that rewards a small number of pages disproportionately, because that would just distort their results, it would make their results worse for users, which is not what they're aiming for, that would ruin all of their own metrics. So because of these delays, we were sort of held up until June last year, but what I've just explained, this system of only having enough sample size for more heavily visited pages, this is important for webmasters, not just Google. This is why, we'll come back to it later when we talk about what's going to happen next, I think, but this is why whenever we display core vitals data in in most pro, and whenever we talk about it publicly, we encourage you to look at your highest traffic or most important pages, or your highest ranking pages, that kind of thing, rather than just looking at your slowest pages or something like that, you need to prioritize and triage. So we encourage you to sort by traffic and look at that alongside performance or something like that. But so anyway, June 2021, we did start having this rollout and it was all rolled out within two or three months, but it wasn't quite what we expected or what we were told to expect. In the initial FAQ and the initial documentation from Google, they talked about sites getting a boost if they passed a certain threshold for all three metrics, all three of the new metrics they're introducing. And although they kind of started become more ambiguous about that over time, that definitely isn't what happened with the rollout. So we tracked this with with Modcast data. So between the start and the end of when Google said they were rolling it out, we looked at the pages ranking top 20 in Modcast that had passes for zero, one, two, three of the metrics against the thresholds that Google had published. Now one thing that's worth noticing about this chart before we even looked at it any more closely is that all of these lines trend downwards. And that's because of what I was talking about with the with the sample size is increasing with Google getting data on more pages over time. So as they got more pages, they started incorporating more low traffic, or in other words, low ranking pages into the crux data. And that meant that the average rank of a page that has crux data will go down. Because when we first started looking at this, only about even though this is top 20 rankings for competitive keywords, only about 30% of them even had crux data in the first place. When we first looked at this, it's gone up a lot since then. So that so it now includes more low ranking pages. So that's why there's this sort of general downwards shift. So the thing to notice here is the pages passing all three, these all three thresholds, these the ones that Google said we're going to get a big boost. And these went down by not point two, which is about the same as the pages that were passing one or two thresholds. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that was just the general shift caused by incorporating more pages into crux data. The really noticeable thing was the pages that passed zero. The pages that passed zero thresholds, they went down by one point one went down by one point one positions. So instead of it being pass all three and get the boost, it's more like pass zero and get a penalty. Or you could phrase you could rephrase that positively right and say the exact same thing as pass one and get a boost relative to these ones that are falling off the clip and dropping over one ranking position. So there was the big impact it seems from the rollout, but not necessarily the one that we were told to expect, which is interesting. And I suspect that's because Google perhaps was more confident about the the data on the sites performing very badly than about the data on the sites performing very well. Now, in terms of what happens next, I think this is relevant because in February or March, probably as you're watching this video, Google have said they're going to be rolling out this same page experience update on desktop. So we assume it'll work the same way. So what you've seen here on smartphone only, this will be replicated on desktop at the start of this year. So you probably see something very similar with very poorly performing sites. If you're already watching this video, you probably have little or no time to get this fixed, or they'll see a ranking drop, which if maybe that's one of your competitors, that could be good news, right? But I don't think it'll stop there. There's two other things I expect to happen. So one is you might remember with HTTPS update, and particularly with mobile get in, we expected this really big seismic change. But what actually happened was when the update rolled out, it was very toned down, not much noticeable shifted. But then over time, Google quietly turned up the week and these days, we would all we would all expect a very mobile, unfriendly site to perform very poorly in search rate, even though the initial impact of that algorithm update was very minor. I think something similar will happen here. The slower sites will feel a bigger and bigger penalty, gradually building, I don't mean like a manual penalty, but a bigger disadvantage, gradually building over time. Until in a few years time, we would all intuitively understand that a site that doesn't pass three thresholds or something is going to perform horribly. The last change I'm expecting to see, which Google hinted about initially, is new metrics. So they initially said that they would probably update this annually. And you can already see on web.dev that Google is talking about a couple of new metrics. And those are smoothness and responsiveness. So smoothness is the is to do with the sort of frames per second of animations on the page. So when you're scrolling up and down the page, is it more like a slideshow or sort of fluid video? And then responsiveness is how quickly the page interacts or responds to your interactions. So we already have one of the current metrics is first input delay, but as it says in the name, that's only the first input. So I'm expecting this to care more about things that happen further into your browsing experience on that page. So these are things I think you have to think about going forwards through 2022 and beyond vitals. I think the main lesson to take away is you don't want to over focus on the three metrics we have now, because if you just leave your pages kind of having a terrible user experience, but somehow sort of wiggling its way through these three metrics, that's only going to punish you in the long run. It'll be like the old school link builders that are just constantly getting penalized as they find their way around every new update rather than finding a more sustainable technique. I think you have to do the same. You have to aim for a genuinely good user experience or this isn't going to work out for you. Anyway, that's all for today. Hope the rest of your Friday is enjoyable. See you next time.