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Speaker 1: Welcome into lounge presented by DraftKings.

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Speaker 2: I'm Ryan Ink here with Garrett Downing and we are

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Speaker 2: thrilled to sit down with head coach John Harball and coach.

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Speaker 2: We got to start with the biggest news of the

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Speaker 2: off season. We wouldn't be real journalists if we didn't

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Speaker 2: start here. And that's foul ball Gate.

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Speaker 3: And there's a couple of directions you could have gone,

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Speaker 3: that's the one you chose.

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Speaker 1: This is the most important, in the biggest one.

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Speaker 2: So your brother recently said he's caught twenty two foul balls. Now, Jim,

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Speaker 2: I know he's never one to elaborate on any story

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Speaker 2: or anything like that, but that's what his claim is.

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Speaker 2: You were sitting next to Calibcan Jr. Foul ball comes

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Speaker 2: your way, you know, and kind of the ducking cover

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Speaker 2: kind of move there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I take a little offense at your portrayal

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Speaker 3: of it. Put yourself in the snurw which I mentioned

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Speaker 3: Jim and my dad who were both giving me pointers

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Speaker 3: on how to catch foul ball. I mean I was

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Speaker 3: with Jim for probably I don't know, twelve to fIF

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Speaker 3: fifteen of his of his foul balls that he caught

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Speaker 3: because most of the time we were we would go

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Speaker 3: to Tigers games or Indians games, and especially in Cleveland

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Speaker 3: when we were kids, anytime we were in summertime, we

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Speaker 3: went to visit our grandparents. We went to the municipal stadium.

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Speaker 3: Stadium is huge. It was like what eighty five thousand people,

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Speaker 3: ninety thousand people stadium, the old the old cavernous stadium

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Speaker 3: where the Indians played at right, and there was just

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Speaker 3: you have a whole section yourself, and a lot of

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Speaker 3: times we were we were somewhere up away out, you know,

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Speaker 3: and the section was to ourselves. So it really is

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Speaker 3: me and my brother going at it for the foul ball.

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Speaker 1: So that didn't get contentious at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, And there was a lot of opportunities. I mean,

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Speaker 3: every game we'd get a couple of balls, you know,

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Speaker 3: like especially if we're like in foul ball territory as

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Speaker 3: opposed to home run territory. We we covered the whole stadium.

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Speaker 3: And our uncle Jerry is the one who taught us

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Speaker 3: how to get foul balls. And the strategy has never

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Speaker 3: been to catch it with bare hands, but you can

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Speaker 3: do it. You can do it. Gym's never done it.

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Speaker 3: He does it with a glove. He takes a glove

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Speaker 3: to the game, which I'll tell you I'll get into

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Speaker 3: in a minute. But the bottom line is, as you

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Speaker 3: go low, like Jim said, you go low for the foul.

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Speaker 3: You let the foul ball hit, try to anticipate where

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Speaker 3: it's gonna bounce, and you go. You go, You go

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Speaker 3: ground level, get your sniffer right down round, you go

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Speaker 3: fight it. You get on everybody, and you grab it.

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Speaker 3: That's what Uncle Jerry did. Uncle Jerry was a big guy,

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Speaker 3: and he had said he had the quickest hands of

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Speaker 3: a big man that you've ever seen, which he did.

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Speaker 3: He was a hell of an athlete. So that was

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Speaker 3: where we learn how to get foul balls. Now, this

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Speaker 3: particular one, Okay, for the record, I was gonna bring

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Speaker 3: my glove. We were gonna sit and Steve has four

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Speaker 3: seats behind the Oriols dugout, which I said, Steve can

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Speaker 3: can any chance we could? Yeah, he's sure, So he

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Speaker 3: gave us the four seats. So he went with my

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Speaker 3: wife and I and two friends and uh, and we're

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Speaker 3: there and uh watching the game. So I'm gonna bring

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Speaker 3: my glove, but then we're gonna rush to get out.

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Speaker 3: We're in a big hurry. We got to get there.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have dinner down there beforehand. You know, I

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Speaker 3: forget my glove because that's the perfect spot behind the

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Speaker 3: orioles dugout or the or the you know, with a

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Speaker 3: with a right hand and better, that's right where you

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Speaker 4: You gotta be. You gotta be alert in those seats.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be on there and you can get you

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Speaker 3: can get it, and you gotta have the glove in

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Speaker 3: your on. You gotta be wearing the glove because you

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Speaker 3: can do it. Could be a liner, or it can

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Speaker 3: Are you gonna catch a liner like that? I don't know,

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Speaker 3: maybe maybe somebody has. I haven't seen it been done,

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Speaker 3: you know, I haven't seen it on ESPN highlights. But

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Speaker 3: but then I'm kind of mad because I didn't. Man,

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Speaker 3: I was just when I forgot my glove. You know,

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Speaker 3: cow wants just go sit right behind home plate. Let's go.

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Speaker 3: So we leave. We abandoned our two friends. They were cool,

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Speaker 3: they were cool. One of them came down later because

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Speaker 3: Cal didn't have enough seats for two. Just to be clear,

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Speaker 3: just so you know. So we go down. I'm just

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Speaker 3: talking to Cal, talking to Cal, talking to Cow. Now,

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Speaker 3: this the setup is the first you got about this

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Speaker 3: much room. You get behind the brick wall, bomb calling

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Speaker 3: balls and strikes right, and there's a net that goes

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Speaker 3: in back like some of the nets to go back

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Speaker 3: over the top, so I can't come down. But in

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Speaker 3: Camden there's and and I did think about it. I thought,

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Speaker 3: there's no way a foul ball's gonna get.

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Speaker 1: Right the arc that that has to take straight up straight, It's.

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Speaker 3: Like almost mathematically enough. This is how God works. Sure

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Speaker 3: enough about two innings into sitting there, and I've asked

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Speaker 3: him like every question you can ask about Orioles, and

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Speaker 3: we're talking about you know, his brother and his dad.

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Speaker 3: And this is an awesome, awesome baseball conversation. Man it's

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Speaker 3: it goes up. Hi Rushman comes running back right, he's

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Speaker 3: just I'm sitting here. I see it go up, and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, there's no way. And then then did cal

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Speaker 3: kind of like he kind of like grabs my arm

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Speaker 1: He didn't really pin me.

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Speaker 3: I want to say he pinned me, but I I

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Speaker 3: felt I felt a touch there. And the ball goes

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Speaker 3: realized it's like it is so freaking high that it

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Speaker 3: think of so many things in a moment, right, And

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Speaker 3: so then I got to think, and this is what

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Speaker 3: try to catch it. I know in my mind, if

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Speaker 3: So like I'm not gonna go like, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: It right right, right, right right.

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Speaker 3: But I know I'm probably gonna drop it. I'll probably

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Speaker 3: but I can't live with a drop. I can't live

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Speaker 4: The ball security goes through your mind.

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Speaker 3: Well you just can't. I mean, like like I'll give

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Speaker 3: you the punch one. But so I had been the

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Speaker 3: split second. In the split second, I just go, I

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Speaker 3: go all, I go through my mind and I go

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Speaker 3: just sit there. I don't even know if it's gonna

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Speaker 3: to cow right, So be darned if that thing doesn't

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Speaker 3: then it was like a gunshot went off. Our friends

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Speaker 3: some reason, the way it was spinning it bounced back

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Speaker 3: Then someone got it right. So it's like I thought

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Speaker 3: And I'm kind of glad I didn't try to catch that.

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Speaker 3: It would have been pretty bad. Yeah, and I've been

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Speaker 3: asked about in the press counts, But the first press

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Speaker 3: convers I'm gonna get asked about it. My line's going

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Speaker 3: to be, Hey, col called me off exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, count make the play off, you.

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Speaker 3: Get called off it, you get your off. You know

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw caw Ripken away.

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Speaker 1: Of course not.

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Speaker 3: It's my captain.

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Speaker 1: It's my Captain's funny.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's uh, you know, we can talk baseball all day,

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Speaker 4: but let's talk a little football too. Let's transition to football.

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Speaker 4: It's training campus here. Today is the first day to

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Speaker 4: first day of training camp.

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Speaker 1: Is excite it?

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Speaker 4: There's buzz around here. How excited are you just to

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Speaker 4: get this thing started? And what the season is going

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Speaker 3: Super anxious, anxious, excited, ready to go. Going over my

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Speaker 3: message to the team like a thousand times. You know,

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Speaker 3: I can't wait and change it again this morning. You know,

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Speaker 3: I just gotta be and probably when I stand in

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Speaker 3: It'll be just like whatever kind of comes comes to you,

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Speaker 3: because we're kind of in the moment with everything. It's

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Speaker 3: like talking to a team that gets it already, talking

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Speaker 3: say everything, Hey, you know, so let's go. Now, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna talk about more. But everything we're gonna say to everything,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna say you already know. So just hey, let's

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Speaker 3: and let's let's get started, let's make let's let's make

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Speaker 3: of every great day we're going to have for the

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Speaker 3: rest of training camp, you know. And but just a

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Speaker 1: In what way?

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Speaker 2: How do you how do you notice that from your team?

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Speaker 3: I see it, like I tell the guys all the time,

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Speaker 3: you know, I go by what I see, not what

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Speaker 3: I hear, you know. I go by what I see.

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Speaker 3: I see how the guys are working. I see how

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Speaker 3: they're uh, how they are in meetings, how they're learning,

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Speaker 3: how fast they're picking up the defense, how they're how

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Speaker 3: they're running to the ball, how they're not making mistakes,

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Speaker 3: how they're executing the offense pre snap. I see excellence,

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Speaker 3: I also see a guy like guys that are locked in,

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Speaker 3: but they're also they're also they're focused, you know, but

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Speaker 3: they're also loose. They're enjoying one another, they're having fun,

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Speaker 3: they're smiling while they work hard. And uh, that's really

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Speaker 3: that's kind of kind of that's kind of formula.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious about that message to the team because there's

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Speaker 2: just a lot of fans are really excited about this team.

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Speaker 2: We're really pumped up about this team. A lot of

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Speaker 2: pundits are talking about this team and just how great

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Speaker 3: You feel like, I think he's valuable. You know, Lamar

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Speaker 3: has always been like they love Lamar, I mean because

433
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,880
Speaker 3: Lamar is just why they love Lamar because he's genuine

434
00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,760
Speaker 3: exactly at all Tamar. And he's humble, he's confident. I mean,

435
00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,439
Speaker 3: he's one of these one of those guys that you know, confident, humble,

436
00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,199
Speaker 3: and and you know he's twenty eight years old, you know,

437
00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,560
Speaker 3: I mean he's young. I mean he's was his seventh year,

438
00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 3: right right, right, eighth year, eighth eighth, you're coming up eighth.

439
00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,919
Speaker 3: So he's played seven seasons already going into his a

440
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,480
Speaker 3: Season's twenty eight years old. I mean, wow, Yeah, it's

441
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,000
Speaker 3: how young he was when he came in, so that

442
00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,680
Speaker 3: maturing process. Like, man, I think back when you guys

443
00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,240
Speaker 3: were that age. You know, I'm not sure you guys

444
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:23,840
Speaker 3: were have we.

445
00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,040
Speaker 1: Ma sure, probably not as much as yeah, right.

446
00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,960
Speaker 3: Right for but you know that's kind of the point

447
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,119
Speaker 3: right there, you know, and like that's just stronger and stronger,

448
00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:34,679
Speaker 3: And I just I see it every year, you know,

449
00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,679
Speaker 3: I always I always thinks he's great, but you know, uh,

450
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:39,280
Speaker 3: he's getting better.

451
00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,280
Speaker 4: There's a lot of weapons around him too. How excited

452
00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,159
Speaker 4: are you about the weapons that you have at this

453
00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,120
Speaker 4: Receiving Corps tight Ends running back of course, but there's

454
00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,680
Speaker 4: a lot of weapons on this offense for him in

455
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:49,399
Speaker 4: this group.

456
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Speaker 3: Well, all those guys are so determined too. You know,

457
00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,120
Speaker 3: you talk about Derek Henry with a leader. You got

458
00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,440
Speaker 3: Justice Hill. I mean, you know, don't we love it

459
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,320
Speaker 3: when Justice Hill's on the field. And I love these

460
00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,280
Speaker 3: two young backs. I think that they're going to really

461
00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,640
Speaker 3: when they get their opportunity, they're gonna they're gonna they're

462
00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,359
Speaker 3: gonna shine. You know, they do it every day the

463
00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,080
Speaker 3: tight Ends. I mean, we love our tight End group,

464
00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,760
Speaker 3: you know, and uh, and the two top guys everybody

465
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,240
Speaker 3: you know, talks about and they got their stories individually.

466
00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:13,639
Speaker 3: Then you got Charlie, you know, and then you got

467
00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,200
Speaker 3: some other guys, guys like Zaira fighting their way in there.

468
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 3: And then the receivers. You know, of course you got Zay,

469
00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,720
Speaker 3: and Zay's about ready to break out, you know, that's

470
00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,520
Speaker 3: how he sees the guy watching him run up hills

471
00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:31,439
Speaker 3: mountains right another hills that steepened wow, you know. And

472
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,359
Speaker 3: then Bait, you know, Bait is really I used to

473
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,600
Speaker 3: saw Bait the other day and he looks looks like

474
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,919
Speaker 3: a superhero, you know, and uh, he's ready to go.

475
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,920
Speaker 3: And then you bring in like de Andrea Opkins, like

476
00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,119
Speaker 3: I just saw him in the cafeteria. It's like this

477
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,720
Speaker 3: guy is like he's excited, he's locked in, he's ready.

478
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,119
Speaker 3: And then all those other guys, I mean Thailand. You know,

479
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 3: you got got some young guys we drafted way yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

480
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,119
Speaker 3: oh yeah. T I mean Tess. Look at Tesz the

481
00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,280
Speaker 3: off season he had. So you're excited for all these

482
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 3: guys and it's just like, let's just let's role man,

483
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,480
Speaker 3: Let's roll them all out there and let's go see

484
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:02,919
Speaker 3: what happens.

485
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you bring up DeAndre Hopkins. He's been an impressive guy.

486
00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 2: I mean it kind of to a degree, reminds me

487
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,920
Speaker 2: of when Derrick Henry joined the team last year. You're like,

488
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,920
Speaker 2: this is a pro. Like this year is just a pro.

489
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,959
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna work, you know what I mean? Like,

490
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,760
Speaker 2: what has been your impression of DeAndre so far?

491
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 3: That's how I see it, Like it's just gonna work. Like,

492
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,040
Speaker 3: you know, same questions. I don't know if they're the

493
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,639
Speaker 3: same or not, but just you know, all the doubts.

494
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,120
Speaker 3: It's like, it's all these things that we heard about

495
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,040
Speaker 3: Derreck Henry last year. I just did. Don't get brought

496
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 3: up now like Derrick Henry the best back in football

497
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 3: or one of the top two. It's pretty good too. Yeah,

498
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 3: you know they're both great, and but last year it's like,

499
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 3: is he lost the step? How's he gonna fit in

500
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 3: your offense? There's no way Derrick Henry's gonna be successful

501
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 3: with you guys. You know he's gonna be in the

502
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 3: gun too much, right whatever, And it's just like he's

503
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 3: gonna you know, it's like, oh yeah, we just respectfully disagree.

504
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 3: I guess you hear it. In my mind, I'm like,

505
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,400
Speaker 3: but you're really just like, you know, I really think

506
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 3: he's gonna be I think he's gonna fit in just fine.

507
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,120
Speaker 3: Then he goes out there and he wrested for almost

508
00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,720
Speaker 3: two thousand yards, you know, and it's just like it's

509
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 3: just like, hopefully you can't we got the right kind

510
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 3: of guys, got the right kind of guys.

511
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Speaker 4: Well, you know he's got Adam Sandler Cameo riding out

512
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,199
Speaker 4: two thousand yards this year, right, I heard about it.

513
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 4: Maybe you get if if he gets two thousand, maybe

514
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,640
Speaker 4: you can try to negotiate your way into the movie.

515
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Speaker 3: Well, I think I would deserve because, like we now,

516
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,199
Speaker 3: maybe he'll bust through or whatever. But you know, we

517
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 3: get towards the last game, say we're up by a

518
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 3: few touchdowns, you know, and say he's like five yards short.

519
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 3: You know, like in the fourth quarter, you're.

520
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 4: Gonna start negotiating.

521
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 3: I mean, he's gonna want to be in there, you know, I.

522
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Speaker 1: Mean Cameo Cameo at least.

523
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Can I just yeah be the coach or something.

524
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 3: I don't know what frow me in the background.

525
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,399
Speaker 4: Ye no, no, you need a speaking role just in

526
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Speaker 4: the background.

527
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Speaker 1: You know. It's I'll take a speaking role. You're ready

528
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:49,919
Speaker 1: for it.

529
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Speaker 3: I think so.

530
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Speaker 2: You're actually a legit pretty good actor. I think you're

531
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 2: pretty solid.

532
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,640
Speaker 3: I think you know. I watch myself. I think I'm

533
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 3: better than I. I'm like most players. I think I'm

534
00:21:59,400 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: better than I.

535
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 1: It's singing in the shower. You're like, man, I am

536
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: sounding good? Good?

537
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 3: Don't we all have?

538
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,959
Speaker 2: So we're talking about the offense, and you know, you

539
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 2: talk about statistics with Lamar. Gosh, it's hard to be

540
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 2: statistically better than the Ravens were last year, right, I

541
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: mean we're number one offense in the league. Right, But

542
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 2: you always have to keep evolving. If you don't keep

543
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 2: evolving something, then the league will catch up to you.

544
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 2: How have you seen Todd Munkin and his staff and

545
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 2: all of you go about that this offseason and kind

546
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 2: of the next iteration of this offense?

547
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's I think what you said is what

548
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 3: it is. You got to keep it moving. Yeah, you

549
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 3: got to keep it moving, and you got to keep

550
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 3: it moving in a couple of directions. You keep it

551
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 3: moving creativity, and you got to keep stay ahead of people,

552
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 3: and you got to give them the next iteration, and

553
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 3: you got to challenge challenge what they think they know

554
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: about you and create problems for him. But you also

555
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 3: got to keep it moving towards towards being smaller. You know,

556
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 3: there's like the telescope and there's the microscope. The microscope says,

557
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 3: let's let's zoom in on us and what we need

558
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 3: to do to be really good, like what we're really

559
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 3: about you. Hopefully we don't go into training camp. We're

560
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 3: not experimenting with a bunch of stuff. We're actually running

561
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 3: the stuff that we're going to run in games, because

562
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 3: what are we practicing for the games?

563
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: Right?

564
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: You know, So the tighter we can be with our

565
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 3: offense in terms of understanding ourselves and you know, what

566
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 3: our players can do well and and what's going to

567
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 3: cause other people problems and really getting good at those things.

568
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 3: The bottom line is how good you are at what

569
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 3: you do. If you're really really great at what you do,

570
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 3: you know, if you're if you're better at the fundamentals

571
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 3: and the basics consistently better than everybody else, then that's

572
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 3: what greatness really is. So that's what we try to

573
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 3: do on offense. So that's really the next iteration. It

574
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: goes yeah, it goes outwardly say ahead of people, but

575
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 3: it also goes inwardly to try to actually be better

576
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 3: at what we do.

577
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 4: I'm curious about the experimenting piece, Like you say, it's

578
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 4: not training camps, not We're not going to be experimenting

579
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 4: on offense. And on one hand, I would think like

580
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 4: training camps a time to experiment and try these things

581
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 4: and see what you're going to be. But is the

582
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 4: reason that you don't feel like you're experimenting as much

583
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 4: in this year's camp just because you have a clear

584
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 4: identity of like what you are and what this offense

585
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 4: can do.

586
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 3: Yeah? Generally speaking, yes, you look back at the seas

587
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: and say what do we how do we assess ourselves?

588
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 3: Who are we? What is our identity? What are we

589
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 3: good at? Like and that you should be you'd like

590
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 3: to narrow that down. Then you look at and say

591
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 3: what do we need going forward? Like who are we playing,

592
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 3: what defenses do they run? What do we think we're

593
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 3: going to need to cause people trouble? And then you

594
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 3: look at and say what can we actually get good at?

595
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 3: You know? So like I think early on, you know

596
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 3: you probably do early on with Lamar, we probably were

597
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: looking at like what kind of an offense are we

598
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 3: going to build here? And you try this and try that,

599
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 3: and what he's good at and what the guys are

600
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 3: good at. And we probably spent more time searching than

601
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 3: we did actually training, you know. So I think we're

602
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 3: more into, way more into training mode than we've ever

603
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 3: been before, which I feel good about.

604
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,160
Speaker 4: On the flip side of defense, last year obviously finished

605
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 4: the season really strong, you know, went through some growing

606
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 4: pains early in the year, but then finished the season

607
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 4: on a really strong note. How how is that first

608
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 4: year as a defensive coordinator and the learning experiences of that,

609
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 4: How does that be if it's Zach going into year two?

610
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 3: Oh, you can just think of I mean, Zac's talented

611
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 3: and great and you know he's smart, but he's also humble.

612
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 3: You know, he's not the kind of guy that like

613
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 3: knows it all. You know. I like the conversation that

614
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 3: we had a couple of times last year was just

615
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 3: think how much I want you to just I told him,

616
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 3: I said, just zoom ahead five years. Okay, say you're

617
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 3: wherever you're at, but just say you're right here in

618
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 3: this chair. How much more football? How much more knowledge?

619
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 3: How much more understanding how many lessons are you going

620
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 3: to be ahead five years from now? Right, just keep

621
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 3: that in mind, you know, so you know this every

622
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 3: every day. Man, it's an opportunity to get better and

623
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 3: to learn. And you're just you're just you're just not where.

624
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 3: You don't need to have every answer. You don't need

625
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 3: to know everything, you know. You just need to just

626
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 3: live in the moment and let's do the best job

627
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 3: we can today and don't worry about any of the

628
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 3: other stuff. I mean, five years from now, you're gonna

629
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 3: look back and go, Man, man, if I only knew

630
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 3: then what I know now, well, that's going to be

631
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: five years from now. So like now, it's and Zach

632
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 3: Zach really like he gets that. You know. He's not

633
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 3: trying to like be act like he's he's just really

634
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 3: And I think that makes him because he's so talented

635
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 3: and so good and he knows so much. I mean,

636
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 3: for his age, he knows so much football. It's shocking

637
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 3: how much football he knows. Yeah, and uh, and he

638
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 3: brings it to bear. But until you've done it, you

639
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 3: haven't done it, you know. And he you know, being

640
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 3: a coordinator, defensive coordinator is a unique thing. I mean,

641
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 3: how many guys are actually defensive coordinators or offensive coordinators

642
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 3: or special teams or whatever. It's like, until you've actually

643
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 3: done it, you don't really you know, you haven't done it.

644
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 3: So just see just getting out there and calling, calling defenses,

645
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 3: being in situations, having the fur flying and all kinds.

646
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 3: All those kinds of things I think are things that

647
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 3: you just kind of be used as you go. So

648
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 3: a year now, the second year in, you know, I

649
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 3: mean he learned so fast, look how much, Look how

650
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 3: he grew during the season. But the second year in,

651
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 3: I think is a good thing.

652
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just him, obviously, there's some new additions

653
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: to this coaching staff. And you talk about guys who

654
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 2: have done it, Chuck Pagano or it being one of them,

655
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 2: Tyler Santucci, Donald di Alicio. You know, what have you

656
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 2: seen from those guys and they're going to bring to

657
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 2: this defense.

658
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think they're really good, really good like

659
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 3: organized process thinkers, like we want we want to we

660
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 3: want to be system builders and we want to be

661
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 3: process oriented. And those guys really think that way. You know,

662
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 3: they they are, they are on point. They teach the

663
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: details of the process. Uh, they say things the right way.

664
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 3: They have drills that really apply to the to the

665
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 3: outcome that we're trying to achieve on the field, you know,

666
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 3: what we want to look like. I just think they're

667
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 3: great teachers, great guys. They're all stars in their own right,

668
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 3: you know. I mean our whole coaching staff. I see

669
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 3: a bunch of stars, you know. I On the defensive side,

670
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 3: all the guys you mentioned, uh, I mean Dennis Chuck also,

671
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 3: you know, all those guys are incredible coaches. And then

672
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 3: on the offensive side, you know, t is amazing, Willie's amazing,

673
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 3: George Gassi is something is credible, George warhop Man, I mean,

674
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 3: what a great offensive line coach.

675
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: You mentioned the offensive line.

676
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: I do want to circle back to that because you know,

677
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: you were talking earlier about, oh, what people were saying

678
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 2: last year about Derrick Henry, and like they were saying

679
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 2: the same stuff about the offensive line because there was

680
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 2: turnover three new starters on that airline, and and I

681
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: really feel like the offensive line made great strides last

682
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 2: year and by the end of the season was one

683
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: of the better lines in the league. I felt like,

684
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: and they still didn't really get the credit. I felt

685
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 2: like they deserved. How do you feel about this offensive

686
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 2: line going into this year, especially you know, obviously Pat left,

687
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 2: but you have a lot of continuity there and you

688
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: have good young players that are improving.

689
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, well, we're the seventeenth ranked offensive line

690
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: going into the season.

691
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: So you know, it still exists.

692
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 3: I guess where I guess we're mediocre, you know, And

693
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 3: that's that's yeah, it has some things never changed, you know.

694
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: And I and I and I'm really looking forward to

695
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 3: proving everybody wrong. Yeah, that's that's that's the goal. I

696
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: think those guys are great players, you know, and I

697
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 3: think they're going to play great and uh and that's

698
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: our job to make sure that they do. But I

699
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 3: love every one of those guys. And there's competition in

700
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 3: there too, so it's all good.

701
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 4: Coaches find motivation and anything, you know, to that point,

702
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 4: and like like.

703
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Like i'd be honest with you, like I I don't

704
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 3: say the good article, they say that I saved, that

705
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 3: I saved the insulting one. Yeah, I got to refer

706
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 3: to them. Yeah.

707
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and because it's got My point was like

708
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 4: on defense, like on the secondary, and the secondary is

709
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 4: to be honest, it's almost a different conversation because you

710
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 4: have so many five first round picks in your secondary.

711
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 4: You have all this talent and the exciting players you

712
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: agi Alexander get Malachi Starks, Kyle Hamilton is probably the

713
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: best safety in football, and so everyone's like, man, the safe,

714
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 4: the secondary is going to be lights out. And so

715
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 4: I'm just curious, like your impressions of the secondary and

716
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 4: then how how how how quickly that group can come

717
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 4: together and gel and just play at the level that

718
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 4: everyone thinks they're capable of.

719
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just depends on us. I mean, how how

720
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 3: well we build our system and how well we teach

721
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 3: our system and how locked in those guys that are

722
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 3: into learning it, which they've been incredibly locked in and good.

723
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: So I saw no Ta's like I said, what I see.

724
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 3: I didn't see a lot of mistakes out there, But

725
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 3: you know, we lost our Darius and putting a rookie

726
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: out there. You know, until you've done it, you haven't

727
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: done it. So I've also read that, you know, I

728
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: know that the two veteran corners we brought in and

729
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 3: both been hurt for the last two years. It's all

730
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 3: I read that quite a bit. So you know, then

731
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: you know TJ Tampa. You know, he was hurt all

732
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 3: last year and he you know, how good is he really?

733
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 3: I mean, Jalen never been able to stay healthy and

734
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 3: get on the field, you know. So I read all that.

735
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 3: So that's how I think. I'm not thinking about the

736
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: other thing about that, you know, And it's like and

737
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: it kind of takes me off. So it's like my

738
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 3: thought has just got to prove them all wrong. Even

739
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: if they think we're good, we still got to prove

740
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 3: them there's still not we don't. That's the thing too,

741
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: It's like it's all set up. Let's just be honest.

742
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,239
Speaker 3: You know, people put that, they put the platitudes out there.

743
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,959
Speaker 3: You start doing well, you're just setting up because as

744
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 3: soon as you don't reach that lofty uh, you know,

745
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: all that praise that they gave you, they're the first

746
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: ones to slam you and bury you, right right right, So, uh,

747
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 3: we don't believe any of it.

748
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: Part of the problem is July July in the NFL,

749
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 2: everybody has a vacation, which this is great.

750
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate my baseball is a great sport.

751
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 2: W n b A is amazing, right, right, But then

752
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: everybody just starts making up a zillion ranking as they

753
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: rank everything in July.

754
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: How about how where are you guys ranking on the podcast?

755
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: Number one, number one, But they're still doubting us. We

756
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: find any opportunity to use that motivation. I am one.

757
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: Of the probably the biggest items of training camp and

758
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 2: something that everybody's gonna be watching it as a kicker

759
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: competition obviously h Tyler Loop and John Hoylan kind of

760
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: competing against that. What are you looking to see from

761
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: those rookies as they compete.

762
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: For that job.

763
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, the main thing is make the most of every

764
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 3: day to start with them, and most of every drill,

765
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 3: most of every kick, every situation. We'll put them a

766
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: lot of circumstances, situations that to try to create game

767
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 3: like environment as much as we can in practice, put

768
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 3: as much pressure on them as we can so that

769
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 3: they can actually replicate that that process that swing, you know,

770
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 3: every time. And then also you know, create try to

771
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 3: get them win, Try to get some rain, try to

772
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 3: get some wet turf, wet footballs, all those kind of thing.

773
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 3: But and then you know, so they prepare and then

774
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 3: then what's gonna come down to is they gotta go

775
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 3: out there and do it in the moment, you know,

776
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: and can they can they can they take that moment

777
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: not be too big for him, you know, and realizing, Hey,

778
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm hitting. I'm hitting the ball, And I

779
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: told him just kick kick the ball straight. That's what

780
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 3: that's that's your job. We strive to kick the ball

781
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: straight all the way back to David Acres when we

782
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: first started. The goal is to kick the ball straight,

783
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 3: and that's that's not easy. You know, anybody plays golf.

784
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,479
Speaker 4: You like to put the pressure on him. I mean,

785
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 4: I know sometimes in some of these you'll bring the

786
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 4: veterans in there, and I remember Trail Sugs when Tucker

787
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 4: was a rookie giving him a hard time. Like you

788
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 4: like to have put him in that type of a

789
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 4: situation where everybody's watching and all that stuff.

790
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like I miss Suggs. We have to

791
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 3: bring Sugs back just to.

792
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: Let's do that. That's a video we need.

793
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: To We.

794
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 3: Will pay you to come back and heckle the killer.

795
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: He's the best at it.

796
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: He was true.

797
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: He had.

798
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 4: Just last one coach uh Is training campus here. We

799
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 4: talked about that, Like, for you, what's your favorite part

800
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 4: of camp? If you could pick one thing that your face.

801
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 4: You're part of training camp, what would it be?

802
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I love the team meetings, you know,

803
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 3: because I love meetings, you know, I love team football meetings.

804
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: And then I get the coach and teach, so I

805
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: love that. I love sitting in the office and defensive meetings.

806
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 3: I love the back and forth you know about the football,

807
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: you know, And you know, the nice thing about being

808
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 3: the head coach is you know you can say whatever

809
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 3: you want, you know, and like hopefully I'd like to

810
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 3: think it's very edifying and incredibly informative, you know, but

811
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: but you know, you just you know, you never want

812
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: to walk away from teaching. You never want to walk

813
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: away from teaching football, you know, and saying things in

814
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 3: a way that guys, I mean, you can share something

815
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 3: that helps a guy be better, a player be better,

816
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: or a coach be better. A lot of it's coaching

817
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 3: the coaches too, and you you know, you don't want

818
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 3: to like overstep it. But every now and then you

819
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: say something that guys like, oh yeah, that makes sense

820
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 3: to me. Then you see him go do it on

821
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 3: the field and do it just like in other words,

822
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 3: oh you see what I was seeing And and they're like,

823
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: this is better, this is good. I get it now.

824
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: That's the most fulfilling part of it. But just the process.

825
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 3: I love going out to practice, I love going into

826
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 3: the meeting room. I love the whole. I just love

827
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 3: the lifestyle of training camp, you know, And it's better now.

828
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 3: We used to go from like, you know, six thirty

829
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 3: in the morning till eleven o'clock at night. As coaches,

830
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 3: we put the players to the baby lights out of

831
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 3: ten thirty or eleven, and we'd be meeting until ten,

832
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, we just you know, and now,

833
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,479
Speaker 3: like I look, and that's the way it was done.

834
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 3: You know, we did it that way here for a

835
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 3: number of years. Now the rules change, but we also

836
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 3: we've also changed, and you just start to realize that, like, okay,

837
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 3: it's just not as effective, you know, it's not Maybe

838
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: it was more effective then, I don't know, but things

839
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 3: are different. We have better, better ways of doing things now.

840
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 3: So get the guys out and just make sure that really,

841
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 3: like it's not so much of a it's not so

842
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: much of a distance run. Okay, life is just sixty

843
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 3: seconds worth a distance run like kipling, but it's really

844
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 3: sixty seconds worth. It's really a series of sprints, you know.

845
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 3: It's momentary sprint, sprint, sprint, sprint, sprint, and then you

846
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 3: it's it's like how football's played. It's a play to play.

847
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 3: Sometimes we're back on the line quick other play. Sometimes

848
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 3: we're in the huddle. But it's a series of sprints,

849
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 3: you know, and to try to be really locked in

850
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: and focused on in those moments, those when those sprints

851
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 3: take place, that prepares you for the moments that are

852
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 3: the biggest moments and the most the most meaningful games

853
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: to try to put your best out there.

854
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: Awesome, Well, we can't wait for it. It's gonna be

855
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: a fun season. And thank you for joining us.

856
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 3: And my pleasures always great.

857
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: Awesome, thank you so much.

858
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the lounge. We are coming to you

859
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 4: from the Sea Geek Studio. We also want to mention

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Speaker 4: The Crown is yours. So it's great to spend some

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Speaker 4: time with the head ball coach as training camp kicks off,

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Speaker 4: and I really enjoyed hear from him in the perspective

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Speaker 4: that he has going into the season. Obviously there's optimism

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Speaker 4: and excitement and as he as he talked about and

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Speaker 4: now it's up to the team to do the little

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Speaker 4: things day by day to go and deliver on these

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Speaker 4: standards and the expectations that they all have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, And as we talked about, you know,

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Speaker 2: the expectations are high for this team, and they're not

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Speaker 2: running from that, all right, and they hear it, they

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Speaker 2: know it, like you're not putting your head in the sand, right,

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Speaker 2: But it's about kind of embracing those expectations. And they've

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Speaker 2: been there before, like they you know, the Ravens have

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Speaker 2: gone into the playoffs. So everybody's saying like this is

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Speaker 2: the hottest seam of football, you know, and could this

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Speaker 2: to be the year?

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Speaker 1: Now? Now it's time to do it?

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Speaker 2: And uh and and that's process oriented, right, You can't

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Speaker 2: just say, yeah, this is the year we're gonna get

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Speaker 2: over the heme that it's process oriented and uh, I

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Speaker 2: give you know, coach a lot of credit for that

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Speaker 2: in kind of dialing it down to all right, what

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Speaker 2: do we need to do to get there?

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Speaker 4: I also think that a lot It's like when a

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Speaker 4: season ends, you want to go back to. You just

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Speaker 4: want to get back to can we be back in

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Speaker 4: the you be back in Buffalo on a snowy night?

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Speaker 4: Like can we just fast forward to that point? And

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Speaker 4: obviously it goes without saying it doesn't worked that way.

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Speaker 4: And I think that the Ravens under under coach Arball,

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Speaker 4: have done a really good job of like doing the

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Speaker 4: little things all throughout the in order to get yourself

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Speaker 4: into that position.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's be honest, we kind of, I think, sometimes

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Speaker 2: take it for granted around here just how good this

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Speaker 2: team has been year in and year out. This is

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Speaker 2: incredibly hard to do what the Ravens have done, and

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Speaker 2: I understand, like we feel it too. Gosh, we want

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Speaker 2: to be at the super Bowl, you know, the Arms

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Speaker 2: wants to be at the super Bowl. Everybody wants to

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Speaker 2: be there, right, Like, we we get that, and like

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Speaker 2: that's stunk.

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Speaker 1: That's stunk.

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Speaker 2: But like also, gosh, like being on that cusp year

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Speaker 2: in year out, competing being one of the best teams

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Speaker 2: in football.

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Speaker 1: Like that's hard to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it should be kind of to

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Speaker 2: his point, you know, he's like all that super Bowl

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Speaker 2: or bust stuff, Like I hate that stuff, Like that's

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Speaker 2: a bunch of nonsense, because, like you know, appreciate what

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Speaker 2: it takes to be in this position, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean, And the Ravens are they're going to be

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Speaker 2: in that position again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So we're fired up training campus here. Players are

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Speaker 4: as we're talking right now, are making way into the

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Speaker 4: building and in the first practice is on Wednesday, and

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Speaker 4: then they're practicing all throughout the summer and so we're

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Speaker 4: gonna be bringing you all the highlights, the analysis, interviews,

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Speaker 4: everything related to that. So we've got a lot of

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Speaker 4: exciting fun stuff planned.

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Speaker 1: As always.

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Speaker 4: You can email us at the lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 4: NFL dot net. Thank you so much for watching and listening,

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Speaker 4: and we will talk with you again soon