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Who do you think makes this Ravens 53 man roster? Is Patrick Queen the piece that we've been missing on defense for a while now? If the Ravens come out flat in the playoffs again for a third straight year, do there need to be some changes made to the coaching staff? Please and many many more questions on this episode of NFL questions from subscribers. YouTube team keep it clean what's going on is saying Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer it in a video just like this. If you want to be part of NFL questions from subscribers just send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com and we'll answer your question in a video just like this. Shout out to y'all. Appreciate y'all's support man.  If you all ever want to send anything to Team Keep It Clean, if you want to send anything to us the address for the PO box is down below in the description. Just thank you. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for rocking with Thank you for being patient because we got a lot of questions still and we got some more questions too but we're going to get through it. So I love y'all and let's just get into this. So the first question today came from well actually it's not a question it's more of a prediction came from my guy Gaming Bros XL and he is doing a 53 man roster prediction. So he said it goes like this two QBs the Marjax and RG3 six wide receivers Hollywood, Boykin, DuVernay Snead, Pro Shae and Chris Moore. Oh he got Chris Moore making it. Tight ends three. Mark Andrews, Jacob Breeland he said maybe scarf instead and Nick Boyle. Okay well I agree so well not with the Chris Moore. I could see Chris Moore making it but I'm shaky on that one. But yeah I mean he got the advantage of special teams over like Jaleel Scott over the Anthony Thomas. So I could see why you say Chris Moore and over Antoine Wesley too and Raven's obviously really value special teams because that is a very important part of the game that goes often it goes under appreciated. So I could see him making it that way but I don't know man. It's not like he's the only guy in the world that can play special teams. I don't know man that that one I'm just really iffy on but moving on to the tight ends I obviously Mark Andrews and Nick Boyle. Jacob Breeland I don't think he makes it though. I could see scarf or veteran. I could see the Raven signing the veteran tight end again.  He says six Ingram, Dobbins, Edwards, Justice Hill, Patrick Ricard and Bronson, Rick Steiner. Okay he got it loaded back there. Okay. Ah that one's tricky too. I can still see them trading Gus Edwards. I know we haven't talked about it in a while but I can still see that happening. It'd be something to keep all four of them really all six that'd be I mean I know they are running team but all right so um so I can see this one but offensive linemen say Ronnie Stanley Orlando Brown Jr. Tyree Phillips. I see him as depth for both tackling interior positions and three tackles is the minimum necessity. Okay. Interior offensive linemen Bradley Boseman Mascara, Brent Bredesen, Patrick McCartney, DJ Fluga. Oh no powers. Oh well here I would disagree then. No powers. A fourth round pick from last year. I think Eric Dacosta is gonna get rid of them so fast. Oh let's see like practice squad but I don't see that one. If he goes on practice squad I think he's getting picked up but anyway he said I really wanted to put powers instead of McCartney but McCartney has more experience but I personally didn't like McCartney's playoff performance. He got beat a lot on tape see and I know there have been quite a few people saying that and I understand why. I understand why. I was just talking to somebody the other day on Instagram about this too. Yeah Patrick McCartney he came in for Mascara and he filled in well. He did a good job but playoff time yeah he did get a little beat up in there but it's for me it's okay. I can't be mad at him for one bad playoff game or one bad game and all the games that he played where he took over from Mascara and sometimes you didn't even remember that Mascara wasn't playing and again you got to remember this guy was a rookie undrafted rookie free agent. He was an undrafted rookie free agent that had never played center before ever. I'm not saying that you can't have you can't have been disappointed with his playoff performance but still you gotta think about that man. You always gotta keep that in your mind. This guy had never played center before. He was an undrafted rookie free agent. He didn't even get drafted. He got overlooked and people were like oh we're not drafting that guy. But anyway defensive tackles. Brandon Williams, Justin Matabique, Broderick Washington, Justin Ellis, Dalyne Mack, Kern, defensive ends, Klayas Campbell, Derek Wolf, Jihad Ward. Oh okay he got panemic feet at the outside line. Yeah he's outside linebacker though. Outside linebackers and linebackers Matthew Judon, Jaylen Ferguson, Tyus Bowser, Patrick Queen, Malik Harrison, LJ Ford, panemic feet. He said he's listed as a linebacker but truly an outside linebacker. Okay cornerback tomorrow Humphrey Marcus Peters, Jimmy Smith, Tavon Young, Anthony Levine, Senior Anthony Averitt. So no even Marshall. Okay and then Safeties or Thomas Chuck-Clock, Deshaun Elliott, Geno Stone. Who am I missing from there? Who's missing as a safety? Oh well that's Anthony Levine okay but he gotta make us a cornerback. Special teams Justin Tucker, Sam Cooke, Morgan Cox. I got to 52 players and these were the options I considered. Bubble players, Trace McSawley, Chauncey Rivers, Rick Steiner, Andre Smith, the Anthony Thomas, Chris Board, oh even Marshall Ben Powers. I think that 53rd spot on this list would have to go to Ben Powers. He said between these options I picked Rick Steiner which you would have seen under the running back four back section but you could have a case for any of these guys because going with just two quarterbacks and three tackles and Tyree being more of a guard may warrant a little worry but I picked Rick Steiner because he's the one guy I don't see being a sit and wait for an injury guy and the chances are for Trace, Andre Smith, Chris Board to play would take two guys at their positions to be injured to even play and Rivers and Marshall had potential but they wouldn't get enough reps at their position regardless if they made the roster but Marshall would play special teams and the Anthony Thomas would be my 55th player if I had that spot because he's a returner but I mean I feel like special teams will not improve with him but that pro Shahid Mohr can handle it as long as the blocking schemes get better. I runner up 54th player if I had the spot would be Ben Powers for more depth and power power up front and I'm actually torn between Powers or Rick Steiner. Rick Steiner with the 53rd guy because well we know what he could do as a fullback and running back and maybe even tight end. Jiro can get creative with him and make more use out of him than the other bubble players I've mentioned. Okay anyone that I didn't mention I thought just we're not we're clearly not as much of a priority as the bubble players mentioned. I guess some notables would be Jaleel Scott Antoine Wesley Jalen Mohr, Eli Wolf, Nigel Warrior, Tyler Huntley, Atara Alaka, Jordan Richards. For each why I receive a lack of experience and none of the three came close to making a depth shot. Wolf may get the third tight end spot but I like Breeland and scarf Mohr ahead of him. Nigel Warrior I actually would like him on the roster because he seems like he can prove himself like Chuck Clark in time but with alien and Gino almost doing that he has no spot there. Okay I love Huntley more than Trace but Trace would most likely would most likely wouldn't won't make the practice squad and Huntley could. Alaka and Rick Jordan Richards are cool but man depth players even on teams like the Jets or any team. All right so we appreciate this. This was a fun breakdown fun breakdown so we appreciate the gaming bros. Next question came from a boy of Juan Gotti and he is a well they're not called the Redskins anymore they just called Washington for now until they change name and get through all this other drama they got going on but anyway he said back at it again now to my question about my Redskins a lot of people have the Redskins being maybe one or maybe two years away from being a contender in the NFC and every analyst is counting us out but I mean what can you expect when you just came off the worst season in franchise history that was the worst season in franchise history I didn't even know that wow but it seems like maybe Nate Berluson is the only analyst that is backing the Redskins up and he feels like they can make some noise this season possibly a playoff push. Answer my question how would the Redskins be able to make a playoff push this year and would you be surprised if we made a playoff push this year I mean Ron Rivera did say he doesn't envision this being a long rebuilding process and with that nasi front seven with five first rounders including Chase Young who is arguably the best player in his past draft I don't think it's far-fetched at all I think it's possible and I know you're not the biggest Dwayne Haskins supporter but I guarantee you he would change your mind the season he entered the league is the heaviest quarterback in the NFC East at 240 pounds now he's the lightest in the NFC East at 218 my boy has been working and I'm making a bold prediction he will win MVP once sorry for the long question see week four team keep it clean all right so um um what would it take for them to make a playoff push uh I think the um the biggest thing for them would be uh just sound coaching because and just good leadership and clearly with all the reports and all the stuff that came out and and I know we didn't even get the whole story you know that wasn't the whole story um because we just got little bits and pieces I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that um that fell into the cracks uh about what's really going on with that franchise behind the scenes so we only got a sample size of everything and that sample size I mean it was bad enough but I'm sure this is I'm sure it's so much more um but with them I think it would just really take I think leadership would be the biggest thing um and just cleaning up starting to clean up the mess because what happened happened um and it's bad it's a terrible look it's uh it's it's just bad it's bad it's messy it's disgusting um so cleaning up that mess is where it has to start um and really just building a creating a new culture uh with Washington whatever they're going to be called creating a new a new culture is where it has to start um and then the people who are in place who are in roles of uh leadership then they have to uh it's got to start with them because you can have all the talent in the world you can have the best players in the world but if you don't have any uh leaders any good leaders then it ain't gonna mean nothing so I think that's where we'll start uh with them it starts with Ron Rivera I don't know if Dan Snyder is gonna continue to be the owner or not who knows um it's uh because it starts from the top because if stuff ain't right at the top then everything at the bottom is gonna it's gonna crumble so that's where they need to get things in line first um because you had the best quarterback in the world you had the best receiver best runner back all that stuff and they they got various guys they uh they still got Adrian Peterson Dwayne Haskins ain't he ain't too bad man um I ain't gonna problem with Dwayne Haskins um who's their receivers is it not not crowded who are they receivers um oh Terry Terry Terry McLaughlin I forgot his last name um is it McLaughlin McLaughlin I forgot I forgot but anyway um yeah and in all the first round picks the Ryan Carey again Chase Young uh Montez sweat um but so it's it's talent there obviously but it's not gonna mean anything if if if they're being led by poor leadership so again um that that's where it starts and that's the only way that they're gonna be able to even sniff not even just a playoff but even just sniff any success this year next question came from my guy Matthias he said ain't Graven hold this message finds you well I got three short questions do you think Marshall Yanda is a Hall of Famer yes he is um what a Hall of Famer is um to me is somebody uh it's not all about team success not all about Super Bowl AFC Championships and playoff blah blah blah but it's about somebody that was one of the best at their position for a long time and throughout their career uh they maintained such a high level of play consistently and that was Marshall Yanda so yeah I think Marshall Yanda is a Hall of Famer um number two instead of going after Clowney do you see EDC going after Marcus Golden who is a lower salary guy that can still produce when healthy um no not not really I wouldn't mind if they did but one of my guys I still got to look at it for myself but one of my guys who's a giant's fan he does a giant's YouTube he said that Marcus Golden is in some type of weird like tender with the giants um where I gotta look at it myself though I just because I don't know the details of it um but if they went after Marcus Golden cool but I just I don't see that happen I don't yeah I don't see it happen it would be I don't even think it'd be necessarily less money than Judevian Clowney man because with Judevian Clowney um he's he ain't gonna be expensive because he's still out there he's still out there and with all the different messages we got from his agent from his camp saying I'm open I haven't narrowed it down yet that's pretty much saying like hey I'm available somebody come get me somebody who I want to go to come get me please let's make this happen and I know they said oh well we can't teams have been saying we can't do it because we came visit with free agents and all that blah blah blah but you could make something happen you know you could um so Judevian Clowney I don't even think he would be expensive but I don't see them going after Marcus Golden he's a number three if all three of all backup tight ends scoff etc he's just for scoff etc if all three of them backup tight ends uh don't work out and Bronson Rickstein it doesn't work out do you think that hardball would move Gus Edwards to tighten to feel Hayden Hirsch wrote no not at all um I know it's a stretch that all four of those guys did not work out but six one two thirty eight Gus Edwards looked pretty good as a blocker and that would give him a role on offense just wanted to hear your thoughts and thank you I appreciate it man um no I don't see that happening at all um because with Gus Edwards if they if they didn't give him a role as a past catching back out of the backfield I don't think that they would move him to tighten at all because that's that involves even more past catching and if they haven't put him in in a role as a past catcher already then it just it wouldn't I don't think it would make any sense for them to move him to a role where he has to catch passes even more next question came from a boy Jerry B he said has Patrick Queen been the defensive piece we've been missing and also what are your thoughts on Lamar okay all right so has Patrick Queen been the defensive piece we've been missing well we got to see we got to see um because we I think CJ Mosey was that guy he was that inside linebacker that had the knowledge had the smarts um he wasn't the quickest but he he's still he was pretty good he was pretty good um and when he left Ravens were like hey we're not gonna overpay so when he left went to the jets um I think they were missing that they were missing that that nucleus guy that guy who had the uh the brains in the middle of the uh defense and and it ain't no offense to it's not a this to Patrick on Wasu but he um it just a lot of times when he was feeling that role he did look lost uh so then they went and signed very they signed two smart underrated players uh last season during the middle of last season Josh Byans and LJ Fort and again I remember initially thinking like well who are these guys well I knew who Josh Byans was I didn't know anything about LJ Fort though um and when they signed him I was like uh okay well this is this is all that the Ravens could do and then I um I heard about LJ Fort some more and Josh Byans I talked to my guy SG about him um and a lot of my boy Carlo iron attic about LJ Fort and they put me on they were like the and the biggest thing that um that I got from the conversations that I had with both of them too and my guy skipped to go to my guy Carlo iron attic uh because it was kept to go to about Josh uh Josh Byans and Carlo iron attic about uh LJ Fort the biggest thing that I took away from our conversations about each one of those uh players uh was that they had the smarts they had the smarts and I was like okay that's very important uh even because especially when you get older now because we know Josh Byans been playing for a while LJ Fort not so much but um with Josh Byans he may not have the ability like that he may not have the speed like that but if you have it up here that can make up for so much and we saw that we saw that with the interceptions that he got with the almost interceptions that he got and with LJ Fort he got both the ability and the mindset so he's in a great position and it ended up working out big time so um Patrick Queen he can just add to that because apparently he is a student of the game um and he really dives deep into film study and watching tape and whatnot and just really analyzing stuff so that's um that's that's a good thing so him adding to uh LJ Fort and uh that that's I think that's gonna work out big time um and his next question what are your thoughts on Lamar saying he isn't worried about the Madden curse I for myself do not believe in curses I agree uh I mean AB was on the cover a few years ago but former Stealer Safety Ryan Clark said he was a bad human since 2010 so so so how can a curse from the 2018 football game have gotten him if he's been starting fights and acting now since 2010 it probably never got to the public because he wasn't as famous in 2010 as he is now oh that's funny um yeah I ain't worried about that all that Madden curse garbage yeah it's yeah it's just it's it's funny to talk about um because there's been a lot of coincidence with the people who've been on the cover of Madden I ain't worried about it Lamar ain't worried about it seems like you ain't worried about it I don't think anybody should be worried about it soon and he said uh if Lamar does not win a playoff game in the next football season will the Ravens already be looking for a replacement for someone who can get it done in the playoffs I love Lamar so this isn't me trying to sound like a hater anything um with that I um no I don't think they'll be looking for somebody else um this early uh I mean with teams you never know but I don't think they'll be looking for somebody else this early I don't think they will give up on him this early and I think everything just everything just depends on how everything that would depend on how he lost in the playoffs because while um if you look at the playoff games and you look at the playoff performances you look you look at uh the the biggest thing that you can take away from both games is and I'm not taking away the blame for the players at all but the biggest thing the the common denominator uh in both games was poor poor coaching it was poor coaching again two years ago against the Chargers kept doing the same thing over and over and over wasn't working so they still kept doing the same thing over and over and over and then of course last year they were this heavy running team they relied on a run game they ran that run game whoever was back there was Ingram Gus Edwards Justice Hill Lamar himself whoever they were using that run game but then Ingram's hurt Gus Edwards is back there healthy but they didn't even use them they didn't even run the ball they didn't even run the ball so it was like oh boy they um coaching was terrible and again players they they they had some little hiccups too now but I think to me both games it was coaching that was the biggest problem in those games man so they they got to get that together man they got to get that together I don't think they'll be looking for another quarterback but they they got to get the coaching together man next question came from a boy Adam he said today I read that the Ravens have been selected as a defense of the decade by ESPN now as we know unfortunately Ray Lewis retired in 2012 then Ed Reid left and retired in 2013 but then we had Suggs and CJ Mosey leading the way until 2018 uh when they had free agency and left the beginning of last season through the first four weeks our defense was ranked 27th in the league but once we traded for Marcus Peters and picked up linebackers Bynes and Ford see look at him we were just talking about that uh the next 13 weeks our defense was ranked third in the league so now coming into this season we have the number one secondary and we have upgraded our run defense through free agency in the draft I say Baltimore's 2020 salary commitment for defense is 119.6 mil which is ranked second in the league when more than half the league are using 100 mil on offense this season so like they say do you think offensive defense wins games um it all depends there's no like set um there's no set formula to win a game well besides scoring more points than your opponent but um as far as offense and defense I think the Ravens spend they spend so much money on defense because their offense is so young and cheap for now um that's going to change over the years because you got to pay Lorani Stanley you got to pay Lamar Jackson uh Mark Andrews coming up Orlando Brown Jr coming up and um you're not going to keep everybody you're not going to keep every single player that's due for a contract but um right now their their offense like I think all of them besides Willie Snead I think all of them are on rookie deals man like all of them besides Willie Snead uh Chris Moore the Anthony Thomas and Chris Moore and the Anthony Thomas ain't really on offense like oh and Mark Ingram um yeah they are they all on rookie deals pretty much and Nick Boyle oh and DJ Flucca but he's on a vet man he's on less than a rookie deal but um anyway the point is the offense they they are very cheap right now because they are on pretty low deals so Ravens can afford to invest more into the defense but as far as which one wins games it all depends on coaching it all depends on what type of team you have and and how that team is run um now of course the offense is uh they the the the rules cater more towards the offenses um and you still you need to have a decent offense to uh to win I think um my opinion I think you can have a good offense I think it will be uh better for you to have or not necessarily better but I oh yeah maybe better but for you to have a good offense in a in an okay defense rather than an okay offense in a good defense I think it'll be better to have it the other way around good offense and okay defense because your defense they don't need to be the best they don't need to be this amazing defense oh they're shutting people out and shutting people down you just need to have a defense that's opportunistic and that can just make a couple plays throughout every game get a couple sacks get an interception here and there for us to fumble for us to turn over here and there but they don't have to be this lockdown defense but if you have this great offense that that helps a lot and that helps make it easier for any defense so and his next question he said the 2019 MVP Lamar is only making 2.5 mil this season which is ranked 38 among quarterbacks it ranks him behind backups like AJ McCarran and Kayce Keenan but as we know after this season or come next season Lamar will get paid so do you think he will take less than 40 mil for our team say since we know my home will reset the market and this was obviously before my homes got paid do I think he'll take less than 40 mil I think a lot depends on I do not think he's going to take some Patrick Mahomes crazy deal like that even though it has him set at because of Patrick Mahomes deal when you look at it it's really not so bad especially once the quarterbacks continue to get paid more and more and more and more Patrick Mahomes he set now they they probably will revisit it in some time but it has him set at the I think the same cap hit every year for the next well once he starts getting into the deal it'll be for 10 years because he still got two more years left before he really gets into the deal but for Lamar I just I don't see him taking I don't see him being cheap now but I don't see him breaking the Ravens back for bread I think it's going to be something significant he's obviously going to get a significant raise I mean coming up coming from a rookie deal it's definitely a significant raise but I don't think it's going to be anything that just absolutely destroys the Ravens cap I think it's going to be something where um they can manage to pay him but still manage to do other things around him and a lot also depends on what happens with the salary cap because it's it could stay the same it could be reduced after this football season we just got to see what happens but um I don't think it's going to be anything that just destroys the team next question and probably the last question on this episode the question from subscribers came from my guy josh Hoffman here we go he said uh engraving team keep it clean hope everyone is doing well yes we certainly are he said I think the time is coming to get over last season in the Titans game that'll be august uh but since it's not august if you wouldn't mind I'd like to get your opinion on something I've been kicking around a lot some of this has been in previous questions and everyone has discussed it so nothing too new but I want to put a fine point on it if I can it's really the what we lost with Ray Lewis question which is the same as the what we lack with John Harbaugh question going into the season I want to be very clear on what I think we should be expecting from the coaches and I'm curious if you see it this way I was watching that 45 minute documentary of the Ravens 2000 season that year they had all these challenges Ray Lewis had his thing fans at every away game were about as nasty as possible because of it the Ravens were the bad guys because they played defensive football they had all that horrible struggle on offense and switched QBs the defense was getting mad at the offense Jermaine Lewis had a terrible personal loss toward the end of the season and Brian Billick had a whole psychological strategy for dealing with it it worked perfectly in Ray Lewis and company kept everyone focused for the next 12 years he began a tradition which is now over these last two playoff losses weren't anything like the ones in 08 through 11 these last two years they just came out flat everything wrong came nowhere close to anything like a position of winning either game I don't think they were mentally prepared Harbaugh was notorious for making stupid calls on challenges 4th downs 2 point conversions etc and he knew it then he switched it up to the heavy analytics approach and things for a little better I think that's like his retreat from bad decisions it's based on math so it can't be too terribly wrong he puts it out of his own hands in other words oh so to like pass the buck almost be like you know what the analytics said it so that's why we did this anyway I think his in-game decisions showed no clue for the flow of the game or morale of the team which was reeling like it hasn't been all year also I think he was scared that pass happy game plan it was almost like he felt we weren't going to win by doing what we've been doing that 4th down attempt instead of the field goal in the 3rd it's like he thought we could get a touchdown right there oh if we could get a touchdown right there the game was lost and it was but it wouldn't have been if they would have took the field goal the Titans didn't score all game unless off a turnover so he's chasing turnovers instead of pulling up for the goal headscore on the next possession why should this long-tenored highly experienced Super Bowl winning coach act like this I mean these are dramatic fails right here really dramatic and it's team-wide which means we have to put the responsibility at the top and most teams play harder in the playoffs so the Titans were both hot and playing their hardest and I don't think last year's Ravens knew what to do when the music stopped playing which hadn't happened really since week 4 through 6 for them hardly any adversity for 12 weeks just a couple tough wins that weren't even that tough in the Lewis Reed Suggs Flacco era we knew they weren't going to play flat in the postseason you said a while back if the Ravens have another playoff let down how about Mike get on the hot seat and I totally disagreed and I still do they'd never ever fire him after next year if they make the playoffs but I think they should because they'd be seriously underachieving at that point and there's just no way it can be justified not another loss like that if they go one and done but play well enough to win and some breakdown happen I feel differently hardball has lost something on or hey excuse me hardball has lost something or never had it and the fact that that was covered up by the players we had and don't have anymore so it's up to Lamar Jackson and others to feel that void as I see it that or else hardball has to start relying on long division the old tradition ended with flacco Suggs and yonder is hardball right to carry on with the new thinking back on the raven successes and failures do you think it really is that hardball is missing something big if it happens again would you be happy to see him going I see him as a very good coach in many ways but very flawed and flaws are fine as long as they can be improved on and aren't fatal flaws I wonder does this season oh does this next season tell us tell us if it's a fatal flaw I know you know my answer and I know you see a lot of things that I see even if you don't see it all the same way as me but really hardball this team there's no excuse for having your worst game there's no excuse for having your worst game when the postseason starts a 30 year in a role is there will you join those of us calling for his head oh thank you so much as always Josh Huff and appreciate it man um yeah there uh that would certainly be something um we don't want it we don't need it but that would certainly be something because that I mean it's already been like we talked about in the previous question on this episode it's already been a direct reflection of coaching um these past two playoff games um because these teams like you look at them you compare the regular seasons to the post seasons and it's completely different teams completely different teams like they uh and in these regular season games they're fighting these dudes are fighting like even excuse me even um the the 2018 season when Lamar started after Flacco got his injury these guys they they they have this completely different offense they changed up the whole offense um and even in the game that they lost they lost to the chiefs in overtime in overtime and it took oh that play was so frustrating it took a crazy crazy fourth what was it fourth at nine or fourth at 11 whatever fourth and long when Patrick Mahomes just said who and Tyree Hill she said cool it called that was so frustrating that though that that game hurt so bad oh that game hurt my feeling so bad that game in that Saints game that anyway um so they but they were fighting they they went to overtime with them with the chiefs the chiefs it's Raven's team brand new offense went to overtime with the chiefs um and that that was the only game that they lost in the regular season then in the playoffs yeah it is a team that you played twice it's the first team that you played twice at day and then they and but it was coaching they just they they would not change it up they kept doing the same thing it wasn't working charges came out ready for and Raven's made no adjustments whatsoever who makes the adjustments is it the rookie quarterback at the line of scrimmage no it's the coaches it's the coaching staff and again it's it's like obviously it ain't the same situation but it's it's it's a similar not a similar scenario but let me just let me just explain it what we talked about earlier with my guy one got his question because he talked about what would it take for the Redskins to have some success this year to for them to sniff the playoffs this year and I said it starts at the top because if things are not right at the top then nothing else is going to matter and you can have the best players look at the Ravens last year they had the MVP the league they had one of the top defenses they had a playmaking defense they had a playmaking offense they had a good off they had a great offense and a great defense last year but like I said with the Redskins you can have a best of the best but if it's not right at the top with coaching it's not going to mean anything so with the Ravens especially last year maybe not two years ago but especially last year you had the best of the best you had some of the best corners you had one of the best two of the one of the best safety duos you had an excellent secondary you had a defense why the pass rush wasn't the best in the world the defense was still making stuff happen obviously your offense again with the MVP got the number one rushing game in the league by far you average what they average 100 rushing yards and 100 passing yards a game and that was like some crazy record or something like that but anyway they had the best of the best when it came to play us but coaching killed all of that it killed it it killed it and it's like yeah I know I I did say that before that I I would expect and yeah I said this a while back that I would if Hobart didn't didn't get there like I mean if they got to the playoffs and did the same thing another one and done this year too oh but yeah I know that I know they are very loyal loyal to Hubble and I mean it's very tricky man because he's had success overall he's he's got a great record as a head coach overall um he's had playoff success overall but it's it's very tricky because it's not a John Fox situation because I love what Denver did with John Fox John Fox he even took them all the way to the Super Bowl took them all the way to the Super Bowl they still fired them they still fired them and end up getting Kubiak they still fired they stayed fired the coach that got them all the way to the Super Bowl he said you're out you're gone you're done but he obviously hadn't won a Super Bowl with them before and I think um one thing that goes in John Harbaugh's favor is the Super Bowl that he's gotten that goes in John Harbaugh's favor big time because he's achieved the highest level of success it's on his resume that being on his resume that I think that's a big part of why his spot has been so secure because they know and feel like hey Harbaugh's been here he knows how to get there again we know what it takes because we got that experience we we've been there but it's like man like what's been going on with coaching and the playoffs the past two years and again it's not completely on coaching but that's where it starts and that's been the most powerful part of the problem PPP but that's been the most powerful part of the problem the past two years when it's been time has been coaching because coaching just ain't been getting it done they just ain't been cutting it at all and it's it's very frustrating to see especially last year like two years ago it was frustrating too there and uh actually both yeah both years were very very frustrating because I was gonna say last year was both frustrating and two years ago but two years ago like everybody like we're all in the stadium and we're like what why did they keep doing this over why they're not changing it up why they're not changing it up they literally doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and it's not working and they still keep doing it they're not trying to change it it's very frustrating and then last year they they did too much changer it's like you didn't even try to get what got you in the position that you in you you just won 12 games in a row doing the same thing and then on the 13th game that you play you decide you know what we just won 12 games in a row doing this but you know what let's do that let's do that and it's just ugly now with the fourth down attempts I understood why you went for it I didn't necessarily I didn't necessarily have a problem with them going for it when they did go for it but at the same time I do understand I would have understood if they would have took the points because being there like looking back hindsight is always 2020 even though my uncle when he was he was sitting next to me at the playoff game he was like he was like man kick the field goal he's like why not why don't I kick the field goal but y'all know me I'm greedy I'm like hey I ain't got a problem with them going for it but um in hindsight yeah if they would have took the points and I hadn't even known that um I hadn't even known that all of uh what's the the Titans points came off of turnovers that's big but me during the game I didn't really I didn't realize that but it's also not my job to realize that that's coaching staff's job to realize that so and it's coaching staff's job to make adjustments based off of what's going on in game you don't make your adjustments after the game you don't make your adjustments in the offseason oh you make you need to make in game you need to be able to make in game adjustments and it it's just yeah with hardball he's not a bad coach like you said he has flaws every single coach has their flaws every single coach has something that they don't do right with Bella check I guess it's just sometime not not playing fair but some people say if you ain't cheating you ain't trying but anyway um with uh with hardball his his biggest problems have been I think it's been it's been sort of leadership well not leadership but control it's been control and ownership that's the word we're looking for control and ownership you're the head coach you have the power and you have the control to say hey let's change this up let let's not do this anymore or let's do this you have that power and I feel like there are times when he uses that power for good and then there are times when he uses that power for bad and then ownership hardball has never really been one to take ownership and be like hey that's on me that's my fault that's my responsibility I'm the one that messed up I that's on me and I mean we saw that from the comments about the Titans game he said it was about execution he said he said hey we were prepared for the Titans we were well prepared for the Titans but we didn't execute who executes the players are the ones that execute who prepares who prepares for the game that's coaching so he said hey we will we will well prepared so that means coaches were well prepared but we didn't execute and that means players didn't execute so he put it on them and he was like that wasn't on coaching there ain't us so we're good and that's some of his biggest flaws and and they've been some flaws over time with some challenges and stuff we're not making the best challenges and just sometimes there's been and again like I always say hashtag hood hardball it's like a gift in the curse all at the same time because um it's a beautiful thing when you come up and you could put your boys on if you come up and you could provide an opportunity for your boys for some of your friends that you might have grown up with or some of your friends that you might have worked with at past jobs or whatnot but with hardball one of his biggest flaws has been that same thing that hashtag hood hardball mentality because he he came up through the coaching ranks and then he put his boys on what his boys that he put on was like yikes big yikes Marty morning where it was probably the biggest one and it just that's been his thing and him hiring a lot of his friends but so I mean we just got a hold for the best man and Kalaeus Campbell hopefully he can be that that that guy that cuz again I know a lot of people have said that even but no Apollo said it and read talked about it too and some different people could see like some people felt like a it was Ray Lewis they felt like Ray Lewis and every was really the coaches of that team they said that they really felt like they were the real reason that the Ravens won the Super Bowl so I mean I don't know man I um it is something that is scary to think about it is very scary to think about a very alarming to think about like what could happen if the Ravens go to the playoffs this year and then do one and done again it's scary to think about it's sad to think about cuz it's like man not like not again and again like you did mention in your question if if they played a winning football game and then they had a little hiccup and then if you're okay we lost it'll be more heartbreaking but it'd be like okay these dudes fought they were ready they came out prepared they just messed up right there but for what we saw the past two seasons that no that ain't it that wasn't it and that doesn't need to be it now as far as what will happen to John Harbaugh he probably right if they went one and done in the playoffs again he probably wouldn't go anywhere he probably wouldn't I even though I still do think that Lamar Jackson taken over I think that did save his job I really do but I think the that couple with the Super Bowl that he got obviously in 2012 that season think that that saves his job as well me so but now I don't I don't want Harbaugh's job to be saved because I don't want us to even be having this conversation come next season because I just I want coaching the Ravens go to the playoffs well obviously want them to win the Super Bowl and I expecting to be there but for some reason if they if they don't get to the Super Bowl I expect them to get to the Super Bowl but if if some reason if they didn't I do not want us to be having this conversation to where it's like oh boy coaching done did it again three years in a row I we don't need that we don't want that and right Ravens kid again have that we don't need to be having this conversation man we don't need to be having this conversation because it's not a good one so it's just frustrating to think about because you don't want it to get there there's obviously been a trend the past two years but we don't want that trend to continue so we will see what happens moving forward good question frustrating question only cuz he just it makes you think makes you think about let's not go through this again but you know it's possible


Hi, I'm James Randi and this is Massimo Polidoro, hello from the fine country of Italy He's come over here to visit us and he's Been a great guest and we've had a wonderful time hadn't seen one another in several years And it's about time that we got together again Massimo, I wanted to sit you in front of the camera here in order to ask you what is the state of the skeptical? Movement let's say in Italy. I know the state of it here. I know it in China I know it in Australia, but I don't know much about it in Italy. What is the current status? Well, Italy has the It's called CHICAP which means the Italian the Italian committee for investigation of claims of And it's an organization that now is about 20 years old and it was started Thanks to Pirrangelo and yourself who came to Italy and helped us start it and of course all the people at CHICAP occurred and everybody helped us to to get things started and then along the years it grew we have a magazine we have Memberships and we organize National conferences and we are what we are most proud of it. The fact is it's investigating things so we have In this 20 years investigated a few hundreds of cases of many many many kinds from this blood of Sanjana areas to Magnetic heels to psychics of any kind and we receive dozens of letters from people claiming to have psychic powers and of course they are all mostly Honest people really believe that yes. Oh, yes They have no clue on how to test these things self-diluted folks and you've got to treat them with a lot of respect I'm sure you see that we certainly have seen it here Because they are honestly self-diluted. They don't know how to test their own claims Oh, as you know, Massimo and most of our viewers will know the James Randy educational foundation has a million dollar challenge that we put out there and we have Spoken to people in the Italian group, of course And we've informed them as we do with all skeptical groups all around the world that if claimants People who say they've got some sort of supernatural power or believe that they have Are welcome to be tested by local groups and foreign groups such as And they've done many tests as the the German group at GW UP has done for us in Germany And that serves as the preliminary test. Now, of course that they don't pass the Reliminary test for the million dollar challenge They have to wait 12 months until they reapply if they want to and very seldom do we ever get anybody reapplying Because they didn't give excuses like well, I guess this is the kind of thing that can't really be tested Oh, yes, it can of course, or we wouldn't get involved that but that's usually the last we see of them and Chica does of that exact same nature I should also mention that many of our viewers won't know who Piero Angelo is and but in Italy It's incredible you walk down the street with the man and it's like God is walking down the street beside you He's very very well known. He's as well known as someone like Walter Cronkite Yeah, for example here in this country would be known and though. He's in much better state Because he's very much alive Piero is a wonderful gentleman as we know and he is very much the moving spirit behind the Skeptical movement in Italy and has had a great deal of influence here, too You do get a lot of people making claims though. Yeah, lots of people and and also from the media We get many requests to do investigation to the tests on television, too You see that you you're doing better in that respect than we are doing in this country, however now only recently We had this ADE 561 or whatever it was Dowsing rods we found it in the UK. They've done something about it but it's very difficult for us here in the United States and It seems that you cop is doing better than we are doing. I don't know what it is We have the support of many famous scientists Nobel Prize winners and of course journalists and even some Celebrity as you would say But we're constantly asked to be either on radio and television or interviewed for newspapers You know, I can analyze for you the for the million-dollar challenge now.  I'm sorry. No, I shouldn't say that we get the craziest claims made by otherwise quite sane people Let's put it that way But the majority a good 85% of the claims that we get here for dowsing this business of Sticking your hands bobbing up and down and they say they can find oil and gold and missing children missing coon dogs Even they've got a specific dowsing rod that's for sale just for coon dogs If you lose your coon dog friends write to us and we'll send you this for $400 or whatever they charge for it And that's supposed to find your coon dog. Yeah, sure, but the dowsing claim is by far the most common one and this is because there's a good reason for that because Dowsers are largely self-deluded. They're not fakes. They're not pretending they have this power The idiomotor reaction and you can look that up on the J ref website by the way do take a look at it because it explains what the The idiomotor reaction it has nothing to do with idiots But the idiomotor reaction is a very strong reaction until you have experienced that You won't realize just how strong it is. What a psychological influence it is now You're a psychologist by trade profession that is Although you're you're not practicing it as a as a psychologist So you understand fully well what the idiomotor reaction is and I want people out there who hear this broadcast or view this video I should say to look up the idiomotor reaction in your dictionary and in Psychology textbooks and look it up on the James Randy educational foundation website as well We have a definition right there that explains it pretty well And it's mentioned many times in the annals of Swift our web page Now the idiomotor reaction is so subtle It's very convincing people are taken in by it and that's why there are so many people out there who honestly Believe they are self-deluded But they honestly believe that they can do this business with the sticker the pendulum or the coat hanger wires or whatever They say they can use to determine the sex of an unborn child for example And and find gold and oil and all the rest of the thing and missing children They they say they can do this sort of thing They believe they can't and they honestly do believe so they're self-deluded But that's as I say about 80 to 85 percent of the claims that we get over the years and we've had thousands of claims Of course, but second to that is healing or diagnostics They say that they can look at a person or they can Borrow a ring from the person or something and get vibration. They can tell what diseases that they're subject to and of course That's that's full of all kinds of interpretations, you know, you have a heart problem. You know, I never heard Oh, no, I mean a heart problems coming up So they they they adjust their their their prophecies you see and their diagnosis to these things and Then people say they can actually heal By concentrating on you or sending you with the right kind of letter having you hold an amulet or worse I'm big around your neck and in many cases these people are also self-deluded But what have they made your claims that you get in Italy? Well, these two as well, but also Anything from haunted houses poltergeist. Oh, yes People claiming strange for example things that you wouldn't even imagine It was a lady that claims she had the power to mummify eggs. Oh Yeah, I remember yes. Yes. How would you imagine to first of all, why would you want to mummify age? Unless you're an Egyptian and you're very religious. I don't know and you want to bring eggs with you Exactly, but still, you know, she came with his dried up eggs Open in addition. She said, you know, I have these energy coming out from the ends and this is what happens So I want you to study me and What we could do is was a double blind test. Of course We would you take ten dishes with ten eggs and then one they should give to the lady and she treates it like she does At her home and the other nine other just samples control samples that you give and you place them in two different rooms Because of course, she said, you know, we treated once the energy flows and changes all the other So two different rooms with the same conditions and temperatures and humidity and so on and in the end you come You call a an independent judge somebody who doesn't know anything about this to to say if they see any difference between What one of these is treated and the others are not so tell us if you see any difference And of course in the end all of the eggs are the same. They are all dried up Because this is what happens if you break an egg and if you leave it in a dish in a room Which is not too hot or too hot. So it's just a question of the hydration Yeah, and Still when you do this experiment, which is very easy in the end to understand and very demonstrative It does prove the point one way or the other What you would think so but this lady for example and most of the people that count was as well as those that come to you And I am sure they rationalize this and and in this case She said well now this proves that everybody has this power Of course, they're great at rationalizing Because they they usually are forced to rationalize they try to show it to somebody else and they give them the same reasons and they say ah But we have an answer for that. Yeah, even if before you ask them, you know to write down exactly if the conditions are perfect If there's something wrong, you don't do the test because otherwise, it's an excuse how true Massimo I want to thank you very much for your time. It's been a pleasure talking to you again And we'll I'll be over in Italy not too long from now as a matter of fact Looking forward to that and you will have the brass band to beat me at the airport, of course. Thank you muscle Thank you. Thank you so much. We thank you for watching this latest episode of James Randy speaks for more of James Randy and the Educational Foundation make sure you visit Randy org


The word tragedy comes from the ancient Greek words for he goat and to sing, so literally a tragedy is the song of a goat. Scholars aren't sure exactly why, but they have a couple of theories. Number one, in ancient Athens where tragedy was first performed on stage, Dionysius, the Greek god to whom the plays were dedicated, was associated with satyrs, a sort of mythological goat. Or two, goats might have been sacrificed during the performance of tragedies in ancient Athens. Or three, a goat might have been the prize for writing a winning tragedy. We don't know which one of these answers is the real one. In spite of this mystery though, we're stuck with the word tragedy to refer to a narrative arc in which things start out in order and end in disarray. In his poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as a morally ambiguous genre in which a noble hero goes from good fortune to bad. For Aristotle, the tragic hero can't be totally evil or purely good, but instead must be a character between these two extremes, whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty, also known as ha-martia, that is, by a fatal flaw. The point of Greek tragedy is to use this morally ambiguous character's death to create an emotional effect in its audience, a purifying sort of emotional release that Aristotle terms catharsis. In ancient Greece, tragic theater was a ritual performance where the negative emotions of a society could be purged and the end result had political goals, a better functioning Athenian democracy. But Aristotle died over 2,000 years ago and the definition, purpose and focus of tragedy has changed a bit in that time. In ancient Greece, tragedy was a ritual performance of the downfall of a great man, usually a king or nobleman, brought low because of some sort of fault. In the medieval period, tragedy was concerned with noble or illustrious men too, but these tales usually took on a Christian moral valence. In Shakespeare's tragedies, which are some of English literature's most famous, the tragic action nearly always focuses on one central character, like Hamlet, King Lear or Othello. But Shakespeare's tragedies also focus on how broader political consequences follow as a result of a great man's death. The fall of Denmark and Hamlet, for instance, are the Ottoman-European political conflict at the heart of Othello. Modern tragedy, however, is a little different. It doesn't tend to focus on just great men and their political actions. Instead, it focuses on the middle class. We might think of Arthur Miller's death of a salesman as a good example. Modern tragedies might be ironic or sarcastic too, playing on two millennia of the idea of tragedy to both seriously entertain the drama of life while making light of it, and giving readers of all classes an opportunity to connect with and share in the emotions and political import of private devastation. When Willie Lohman dies in the death of a salesman, the tragedy is just as much about his failings as it is about the failure of mid-century economic and political systems. So, just as the origins of the word tragedy are ambiguous, so too does a sort of ambiguity and flexibility define the genre of tragedy. However, by and large, if a narrative begins with everything in order and ends with everything in disarray, you can probably classify it as a tragedy.