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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge podcast presented by DraftKings. I'm Garrett Downey,

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Speaker 1: joined by Clifton Brown, and today we're so excited today

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Speaker 1: to be joined by Judy Watista from the NFL Network

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Speaker 1: and an NFL insider here in Judy. I'm just we're

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Speaker 1: at the owners meetings and as we said, the stage

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Speaker 1: here for the Ravens going into this season. Cliff and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get your perspective from a national view.

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Speaker 1: You have such a good feel for the league as

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Speaker 1: a whole when you look at the Ravens. What stands out?

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Speaker 1: What do you think about this team?

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, It's a good answer. The first thing that

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Speaker 2: pops into my head. I feel like, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: feel like they're right there. Every year. I always think

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Speaker 2: like every year I'm going to be at a playoff game,

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Speaker 2: probably in Baltimore, and it's just a question of can

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Speaker 2: they get the final you know, that final little step.

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Speaker 2: But I just feel like, listen, I remember when I

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Speaker 2: was at the New York Times a long time ago,

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Speaker 2: but like I remember writing a story about the organization

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Speaker 2: and like how consists didn't it was? It was mostly

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Speaker 2: about Ozzie Newsome at the time, and obviously it has

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Speaker 2: continued with Eric, but it's just continually uh top level

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Speaker 2: and always right there. And I think, like for most organizations,

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Speaker 2: like you probably can't ask for anythingmore.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Lamar right off the top. You know, he

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Speaker 3: almost won his third MVPs. I've been in Baltimore the

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Speaker 3: precinct came in for Lamary. Just wanted to get your

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Speaker 3: opinion on what you thought about the MVP bas and

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Speaker 3: who you would have voted for in last.

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Speaker 2: Year, right, So I don't have a vote, I listen.

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Speaker 2: I think I thought you could have made arguments for

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Speaker 2: several Lamar, Josh Allen. I think Choe Burrow had an

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Speaker 2: insane season. If the defensive played better, you could have

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Speaker 2: made a really strong argument for him. I was surprised

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Speaker 2: it was not Lamar, mostly because if you're the first

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Speaker 2: team All Pro, you are almost always the MVP is

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Speaker 2: the quarterback. So I was surprised by the split of

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Speaker 2: the vote there, don't I don't really know. I didn't

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Speaker 2: really talk to people who were voters and asked, like,

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Speaker 2: what why just split the vote? Like what happened there? Listen?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Josh Allen is obviously deserving. He had a

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Speaker 2: great season. I think probably why people veered toward Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen here. I think there's probably some of the like, well,

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Speaker 2: Lamar's already gotten too, he'll probably win more. He's almost

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Speaker 2: certainly gonna win again, at least one more, maybe more

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Speaker 2: than that. So that's one thing Josh had never won one.

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Speaker 2: And I think there was also a perception last season

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Speaker 2: in particular that the Bills had less around him than

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Speaker 2: Ravens had around Lamar, Right, I mean, Lamar had Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 2: but he's insane. So I think there was sort of that, well,

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Speaker 2: you should reward Josh Allen for, you know, doing it

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Speaker 2: with less than Lamar. Yeah, I'm as I was explaining

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Speaker 2: to you on the lookover. I'm glad I don't have

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Speaker 2: about it. I've been in a level park.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's it's a tough assignment. You know when when

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Speaker 1: you mention, you mentioned stability with the organization, and that's

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Speaker 1: stability has been in place with John Harbaugh. I mean

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Speaker 1: and now and now John finished his seventeenth season, just

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Speaker 1: got a contract extension to three more years on top

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Speaker 1: of the year that he already had and so it's

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Speaker 1: going to take it past twenty years his contract, which

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Speaker 1: is almost never happened crazy in the NFL. Well, what

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Speaker 1: stands out to you about the way that he's been

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Speaker 1: able to lead this team and the consistency that he's brought.

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Speaker 2: What I think he does so well is he keeps

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Speaker 2: things steady, right, Like he is a really steady personality

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Speaker 2: through ups and downs. Obviously there have been controversies, there

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Speaker 2: you know, he's he keeps things steady, and I think

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Speaker 2: he does a really good job of sort of probably

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Speaker 2: noise on the edges and focusing on the football. Look

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Speaker 2: and I mean obviously he's got very good players to

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Speaker 2: year after year after year. And I know fans look

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Speaker 2: Championship game like every year, so to be in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: after year after year, it's really hard, and I think

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Speaker 2: John makes it look effortless. It's certainly not effortless. But

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Speaker 2: what I've always admired about him is that he's just

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that Derek and we had a pretty.

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Speaker 4: Go for good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he we're right, we were all talking about

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Speaker 2: could he be the MVP early in the first half

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Speaker 3: Right right, and now this off season the Raids there

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Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, I'm just curious about your perception of

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Speaker 3: the Ravens being able to be a contender but seemingly

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Speaker 4: That they need along the way.

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Speaker 3: How difficult is an hour and propress on you by

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Speaker 3: the fact that even though they already know they're a

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Speaker 2: So we uh. I sat down with John harpa earlier

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Speaker 2: in this meeting for some future reporting, but we talked

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Speaker 2: aboutd hop and he said, like, finally he said this

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Speaker 2: feels like finally they you know, they've been looking at

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Speaker 2: him for a long time, He's been looking at them

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Speaker 2: Derrek Henry, right, like, finally this marriage we all thought

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Speaker 2: should happen is happening. Listen, That's what good organizations do, right.

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Speaker 2: The Kansas City Chiefs seemed to do that too, like

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Speaker 2: they don't have This has not been a very active

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Speaker 2: any glaring holes you have to fill. Like that's a

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Speaker 2: good thing, right. You kept Ronnie Stanley, that was the

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Speaker 2: big one. D Hop is a piece. I think he's

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Speaker 2: an important piece, even though he's older. First of all,

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Speaker 2: he brings some veteran experience to what is an otherwise

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Speaker 2: And to me, when you have a quarterback like Lamar Jacks,

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Speaker 2: as an organization is to put as much as you

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Speaker 2: Like I think that's why again they cheap. You can't

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Speaker 1: I'm curious when you look at the AFC North Ravens

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Speaker 2: Also really hard in a brutal division. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt what you what do you make the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think their prospects are pretty good. So much

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Speaker 2: depends obviously on I mean, we don't even know who

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Speaker 2: which so much of that has been because of Joe

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Speaker 2: They've made changes on the defense too. I mean, so

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Speaker 2: to be a dangerous team. Again, you don't know what

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Speaker 2: the Steelers. The Steelers have a really good defense, but

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Speaker 2: It's obviously not going to beat to Sean Watson. Jimmy

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Speaker 2: So I think there's significant questions about the other teams anyway,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you talked about you know, the rave is always

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Speaker 4: I think now that's all is what is the secret

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Speaker 3: That seems to be the question everyone wants to know

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Speaker 4: What do you think it is?

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Speaker 3: There's something I'm just curious get someone else's point of

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Speaker 4: Away from him.

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Speaker 2: Man, I don't know. I mean, first of all, you've

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Speaker 2: they were, but that has been an issue in the past,

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think part of this it is just just exactly

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Speaker 2: got to break through. I do think that the one

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Speaker 2: Bowls that the Chiefs have lost have been because they

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Speaker 2: the formula figure out how to do it. But mostly

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Speaker 2: I think that there's just a lot of luck at involved.

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Speaker 1: It's great, awesome, Well, we really appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed getting her kind of ten thousand foot

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Speaker 1: Well, Look, we're walking around here and you see owners

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Speaker 5: the media say, oh man, how long is the offseason?

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Speaker 5: You know how long this offseason must feel to Mark

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Speaker 5: Andrews and how much he wants to get back on

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Speaker 5: that field to show you what he is what he's

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Speaker 5: capable of, what he can do for this team, and

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Speaker 5: what he can do in clutch spots, what he has

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Speaker 5: done in clutch spots before. So I expect him to

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Speaker 5: come with a chip on the shoulder that helps. I'm

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Speaker 5: good with that. I'm good if Mike all pro tight

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Speaker 5: end throughout his career with US, has more to prove

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Speaker 5: this upcoming season. So I think it's gonna be a

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Speaker 5: little things like that DeAndre Hopkins coming in and say

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna help this team get over the hump as well.

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Speaker 5: I think those are the things that you need. You're

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Speaker 5: gonna need your veterans to kind of carry you at

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Speaker 5: that moment and continue to rely on your on your

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Speaker 5: youth to be the spark that keeps you moving in

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Speaker 5: the right direction as well. So it's just a matter

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Speaker 5: of making the plays at the right time. It hasn't happened.

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Speaker 5: It's not for lack of coaching and lack of preparation.

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Speaker 5: It's just tough to win in the playoffs in this league.

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Speaker 1: And you talk about the offense, and this is the

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Speaker 1: team overall veteran leaders, Ronnie. The rate the Ravens typically

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Speaker 1: do business is they keep their own guys, and Royne

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Speaker 1: Stanley is a player, former first round pick. He's done

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Speaker 1: multiple deals with the Ravens. They work out the long

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Speaker 1: term extension with him to keep him in Baltimore, and

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Speaker 1: Hardball talked today about how he's a legacy type player

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore and he's one of those guys that's been

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Speaker 1: there for this, for this run. How big was this

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Speaker 1: to keep him in Baltimore and knowing that he obviously

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Speaker 1: could have had a lot of suitors out there.

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Speaker 5: Oh, he had a ton of suitors. He was gonna

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Speaker 5: have a ton of interest, and who knows what he

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Speaker 5: could have wind up making, But it was more important

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Speaker 5: to him to get a fair deal and to be

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Speaker 5: with the team that he felt comfortable with it. He

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Speaker 5: feels like, probably the same way I can help, I

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Speaker 5: want to be here when this team gets over the

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Speaker 5: hump and finally wins that championship. So it was absolutely enormous,

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Speaker 5: not just from a schematic standpoint to get your left tackle.

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Speaker 5: We know the importance of having a left tackle you

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Speaker 5: can rely upon in this league, but also a guy

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Speaker 5: that has so much impact throughout the organization as well.

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Speaker 5: I thought them getting him. I was surprised I thought

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Speaker 5: I bought into the hype. I thought he was going

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Speaker 5: to hit the market and head elsewhere for big money

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Speaker 5: to get him done, even before the market open, if

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Speaker 5: I recall correctly, was just enormous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome. Well, we really appreciate the time. Enjoy the

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Speaker 1: rest of your week here in Florida. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: We'll see you at training camp when I'll be talking

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Speaker 5: about the Ravens having a good twenty five season and feeling.

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Speaker 4: Great about it.

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Speaker 1: We'll remember this conversation there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, awesome, thanks man, Well.

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Speaker 2: Big thanks to Mike.

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Speaker 1: And as you heard there, Cliff, I mean he talks

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Speaker 1: about the stability of the organization a lot of similar

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Speaker 1: themes to what we just had the conversation with Judy

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Speaker 1: there in terms of the stability of the organization, in

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Speaker 1: terms of horrball, and his leadership for this team in

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Speaker 1: terms of Lamar And I think that like the belief

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Speaker 1: and when you talk to different people around in the

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Speaker 1: media here, everyone's kind of saying the same thing. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens are expected to be a team that's right back

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Speaker 1: in the middle of this AFC playoff race, and the

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Speaker 1: question will be how you get over the hump and

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Speaker 1: how you define that and how you do that. No

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Speaker 1: one has like the magic answer for that, But the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are going to be in the mix. That's what

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Speaker 1: everyone thinks.

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Speaker 3: Right And also you know the fact that you can

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Speaker 3: keep doing that a year after year after year. I

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Speaker 3: think one thing to keep in mind is that you

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Speaker 3: cannot let whether you actually win the Super Bowl or

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Speaker 3: not carry over into the next year. It's a hard

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Speaker 3: thing to do, but I think the Ravens have been

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Speaker 3: very good at that that. Putting the last season behind them.

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Speaker 3: There's going to be a lot of talk about how

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Speaker 3: last season ended and how the Ravens are still on

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Speaker 3: that Super Bowl quest with Lamar. But every year is

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Speaker 3: so different and you have to approach it the same way.

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Speaker 3: And I was really impressed last year with the Ravens

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Speaker 3: after they started zero to two, how they responded that,

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Speaker 3: to me, showed a lot. How the defense responded late

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Speaker 3: in the season when it struggled early showed me a lot.

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Speaker 4: That is resiliency.

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Speaker 3: You have to have that if you're going to ultimately

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Speaker 3: win a championship. So the Ravens are going to come

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Speaker 3: into I believe, this season with just as much fire

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Speaker 3: and passion despite the disappoint any last year as they've

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Speaker 3: had any other year, and they obviously have the talent

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Speaker 3: to do it, so just a question to putting it together,

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Speaker 3: playing your foot best football when it matters most. But

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Speaker 3: you can't overlook the regular season first. I don't think

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Speaker 3: the Ravens are going to do.

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Speaker 1: That now before we wrap today. Another big part of

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Speaker 1: these meetings are a business side of things, So of

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Speaker 1: course we focus on the football aspect of things, but

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Speaker 1: there's also the business side of things as well, and

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Speaker 1: one of the items that was announced this week is

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens have entered the NFL's Global Markets Program

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Speaker 1: for UK and so basically what that means is the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have marketing rights in the UK. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens are going to be playing there every

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Speaker 1: year or playing there more. But of course the NFL

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Speaker 1: is also talked about expanding the number of international games,

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Speaker 1: so there could be an expansion on that front overall

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Speaker 1: league wide. But basically this allows the Ravens to build

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Speaker 1: off what they've been able to do on those previous

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Speaker 1: two trips to the UK. I was on those trips.

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Speaker 1: I've seen the enthusiasm in the UK. We have a

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Speaker 1: great fan group over there, the UK Ravens, who are

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Speaker 1: passionate about this team and bring energy when we go

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Speaker 1: over there. We've actually done we've done live podcasts over there,

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Speaker 1: which has been really cool. It's one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: things we've actually ever done on the lounge. And I

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Speaker 1: can tell you from being over there, you just see

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Speaker 1: like this excitement in this enthusiasm and this hardcore fandom

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Speaker 1: and it's it's really really cool. So that's a big

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Speaker 1: thing that we're excited about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to kick out of you know, the

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Speaker 3: trip to the lad trip to England that Lamar seemed

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Speaker 3: surprised that he had such a filew Yeah, internationally, but

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Speaker 3: he does the Ravens do. And it's clear clearly the

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Speaker 3: NFL fully intends to expand globally and this is just

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Speaker 3: part of that situation. I can envision a time not

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Speaker 3: too far in the future where you know, every team's

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Speaker 3: playing a game overseas at least, you know, once a year.

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Speaker 3: I can see that, you know, going to places they

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Speaker 3: haven't gone yet, and they're continuing to go to different places.

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Speaker 3: It's only going to expand the balls rolling in that direction.

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Speaker 3: It's great to the Ravens now being a team that

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Speaker 3: has star players and a consistent winner. That's the type

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Speaker 3: of team that's going to attract attention globally when these

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Speaker 3: trips are made. So yeah, it's just another indication that

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Speaker 3: the Ravens are going global.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the game is growing, the NFL is growing, and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are growing right there along with it. So

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Speaker 1: make sure you go ahead if you're if you're a

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Speaker 1: fan of the UK, make sure you follow us across

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Speaker 1: our new social media platforms and handles that we just

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Speaker 1: started up alongside part of this announcement on x on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. The handles are Ravens in UK, so make

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Speaker 1: sure you go ahead and check those out. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have some fun content there that we're gonna be bringing

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Speaker 1: to you all throughout the year, so make sure you're

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Speaker 1: a gaining to follow those Ravens in UK. That's it

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Speaker 1: for us on the podcast here today. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for watching and listening. You can email us at

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Speaker 1: the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net and we

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Speaker 1: will be back with you again tomorrow