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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We have the

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Speaker 1: pleasure of sitting down with cornerback Rock you scene today, Rock,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. I want to start here.

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Speaker 1: I mean Rock. I mean, there's no better name than

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Speaker 1: Rock for a football player. It doesn't get a Pepe,

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Speaker 1: you know, no shade on Pepe, but rock player is

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Your given first name is Abdu rah Men. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I say, I think I think I got closed. And

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Speaker 1: so where did where did Rock come from? Can you

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Speaker 1: tell us the backstory?

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Speaker 2: Well, I was I was wrestling.

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Speaker 3: I had a coach, Keith Johnson, great you know, legendary

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Speaker 3: high school coach in Georgia. Yeah, but I mean like

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Speaker 3: kind of brass guy, you know. So you know, we

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Speaker 3: started wrestling and I came in the first date and

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Speaker 3: I beat some of the starters on the team. And

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Speaker 3: after a while he was like, you know, hey, man,

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Speaker 3: what's your name? Blah blah blah, you know, and I

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Speaker 3: was like, he was like, huh man, he started trying

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Speaker 3: to say my name.

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Speaker 2: Was butchering it. He's like, I'm just gonna call you Rock.

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Speaker 3: And then like from tenth grade, I mean through college

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Speaker 3: and now in the NFL five years in, Like rocket

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Speaker 3: is just stuck and it's like more people call me

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Speaker 3: rock than actually called men.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so is it just when you go home?

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Speaker 2: Family, family, family, close friends I grew up with.

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Speaker 3: But outside of that, like people that haven't met me

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Speaker 3: in the last you know, five or six years, it's

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Speaker 3: just rock for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and I would assume you embraced. You're like,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, problem with that's cool?

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Speaker 4: Well, you're obviously you come here from a new team.

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Speaker 4: It's just a new start start. And you look at

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Speaker 4: the secondary talented group. You got Marlo Humphrey on the

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Speaker 4: other side, you got Marcus Williams behind you, Kyle Hamilton.

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Speaker 4: What's it like to step in and be part of

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Speaker 4: this secondary?

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Speaker 2: I mean it feels great, man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, coming in, competing with these guys, learning from them,

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Speaker 3: the chemistry we were building, I mean, the way, like

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Speaker 3: the work ethic in the room, the attitude in the room,

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Speaker 3: the effort every day, like you know, the detailed, the

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Speaker 3: straining to get better. I feel like, you know, everybody's

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Speaker 3: going to elevate their games just by playing with each

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Speaker 3: other and you know, learning from each other and competing

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Speaker 3: every day.

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Speaker 4: And part of that is also the guys on the

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Speaker 4: other side, and the Ravens made some big investments on

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Speaker 4: the receivers this year. They added you on the defensive side,

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Speaker 4: they added some big receivers, say Flowers, Odell, Beckham, Nelson, Aguilar.

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Speaker 4: How does going against those guys help sharpen your tools

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Speaker 4: every single day?

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Speaker 3: I feel like the number one thing it does is

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Speaker 3: build confidence. I mean you're going against a guy like

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Speaker 3: Ob you know, Jay Flowers, Nelson, Shot Baby when he

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Speaker 3: gets out there. I mean they have you know, pro,

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Speaker 3: I may can go down the line of really good players,

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Speaker 3: you know, accomplished players in this league, and you out

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Speaker 3: there compete against those guys, you know, winning reps, you know,

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Speaker 3: learning to getting better by the time you get to

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Speaker 3: game time. You have like a certain amount of confidence,

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Speaker 3: and confidence comes from demonstrated ability. So if I demonstrated

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Speaker 3: my ability to myself, I go out there and compete

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Speaker 3: with Ob or a Ja or Nelson or Shot or

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Speaker 2: Mean I can go down the line of all those guys.

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Speaker 3: If I demonstrate my ability that I can compete with

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Speaker 3: those guys, I feel really good about where I am.

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Speaker 1: Impressions OBJ and Z Flowers.

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Speaker 2: What's your take, Well, uh, ob.

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Speaker 3: Is ob they think that they call him the human

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Speaker 3: joystick or whatever that yeah, kind of it kind of

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Speaker 4: It's interesting here you talk about the confidence piece, because

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Speaker 4: that is so big for really any player, but I

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Speaker 4: think especially for corners, and when you're going up against Odell, Like,

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Speaker 4: something that's stood out to me since he got here

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Speaker 4: is just all eyes are on him, like every time,

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Speaker 4: and so I feel like as a corner, like you know,

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Speaker 4: if you're lined up out there on an island like

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Speaker 4: a stadium practice or out here, everyone's looking at you

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Speaker 4: for sure, and they're like and and fans want to

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Speaker 4: see him make a big play.

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Speaker 1: Like how do what he wants to have? The one hand,

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Speaker 1: like like you're you.

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Speaker 4: Know that everyone's watching that rep for you, and how

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Speaker 4: does that affect your mindset?

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Speaker 3: It's just like in the game, you know, you're out

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Speaker 3: there on the island, you're in the boundary whatever.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Playing this division, there's really good ex receivers in this division,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Just like the fans in

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Speaker 3: the state in our stadium, I wur probably want to

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Speaker 3: see the receiver win. Fans in the state didn't want

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Speaker 3: to see that receiver win, you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 3: it's just it prepares you for that, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, for those moments, for the kind of pressure moments,

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Speaker 3: like when it's a lot on the line, even though

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Speaker 3: it's just out there competing, like that stuff means a

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Speaker 3: lot to us, you know what I mean. We're just

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Speaker 3: trying to get better. Same thing in the game, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like it's high pressure, it means something.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot on the line, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: So it kind of prepares you for that.

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Speaker 4: It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Is it weird when when a wide receiver catches the

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Speaker 1: ball in practice and the fans cheer and you're like,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, you know I'm on this team too,

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Speaker 1: What the heck?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: You just know it's like it's an offensive league, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like everybody everybody loves offense. Man,

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Speaker 3: Like the casual fan, like ninety nine percent of the

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Speaker 3: want to see ob dancing and stuff. So I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm not surprised by it at all.

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Speaker 4: This is kind of the time of the year where

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Speaker 4: defensive players started giving us a hard time. About posting highlights, Like,

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Speaker 4: all you're doing is posted the receiver highlights here? Can

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Speaker 4: we get some defense highlights here?

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Speaker 1: Do you only post the interceptions? And how often is

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Speaker 1: It's like you don't really want to post then interception?

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Speaker 4: Like does someone want to post the Martha in an interception?

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's you know, the deck is the deck

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Speaker 4: is stacked against you, guys.

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Speaker 3: I feel that it's kind of it's kind of what

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Speaker 3: sales though, I mean, you know what sales that's the most.

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Speaker 1: Retweets, Like, so you know how the game works.

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Speaker 2: I understand that now.

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Speaker 1: I remember when you were coming out in the draft

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. I really liked you, Like you reminded

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Speaker 1: me kind of a bigger version of Taevon Young. You know,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, man, I like this rocket scene guy,

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Speaker 1: what do you How do you describe your game? Like

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Speaker 1: what do you feel like you bring to the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's competitive, you know, like detailed, you know,

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Speaker 3: like a strain to get better every day, you know,

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Speaker 3: like a god has focused. You know, a guy that is,

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Speaker 3: like you said, scrappy, You know, physical, a guy that

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Speaker 3: you know wants to compete and win. You know, that's

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Speaker 3: kind of my mentality. It's kind of my game. That's

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Speaker 3: how it's been, you know, throughout my time in the league.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it feels like raven that is like

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Speaker 1: defines a Raven. What was it? Was it that mentality

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Speaker 1: it that that landed you?

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Speaker 3: Hear?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Just heard about the culture here, man, Like the locker

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Speaker 3: God's competitive hungry, you know, guys that will fight and

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Speaker 3: I mean the players here. I mean, I don't think

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Speaker 3: there's a better player in the lead than Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Then you got I mean,

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Speaker 3: like you said, all the investments on the offense at

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Speaker 3: the receiver position, I mean, then you got the defense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, oh my god, at all three levels, the

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Speaker 3: mean like it's star studded, you know, really accomplished players

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Speaker 2: For a long time.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited for I'm excited for the year, Excited

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Speaker 4: So, ruck, what are the last couple of years been

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Speaker 4: end up getting traded to the Raiders. It's part of

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Speaker 4: the next and you learn about the business side. Sure,

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Speaker 1: You know, like, what was that like?

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Speaker 3: So my first year of the league, I had decent

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Speaker 2: Playing pretty well? Second you seriously I was, I was

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Speaker 3: I told my mom, told my little brother, uh, I

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, And they were like, wow, you had to

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Speaker 2: your best season, Why would you get traded. I was like,

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Speaker 3: So when Chris called me and told me I got traded,

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Speaker 3: And then going to Vegas, I mean, it was a

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Speaker 3: good experience because it had me. It forced me to grow,

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Speaker 3: you know, like get out of that comfortability of being

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Speaker 3: go somewhere new, learn a new system, being around new coaches,

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, like having to not be worried about

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Speaker 3: all that. But it's the only person I've ever been.

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Speaker 3: Was it Like other places, it's like you adapt to whatever,

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Speaker 2: That's how I felt, you know, so it really it

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Speaker 4: So then you come here to Baltimore and like, what

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Speaker 4: Like I've heard about Raven's culture played like a raven.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think coach Harve's you know, is like

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Speaker 3: it's a mix between those two. You got some blue

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Speaker 3: You need energy. You got some guys who are quiet,

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Speaker 1: You know, Marcus Peters was in your position, should be

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Speaker 3: Crazy, crazy, but market. I mean, I've like Washington played

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Speaker 3: But coming here, man, they talk about him, he's like

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Speaker 3: you know, less like I'm more I'm a little bit

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Speaker 1: You don't say I've seen that You're not gonna go

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Speaker 4: It's it is funny that you say, like you're you're

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, not on the field because you have to

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Speaker 2: So it's it's it kind of brings that out of me.

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Speaker 3: Like like like I said before, like I'll speak when

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Speaker 3: it's something casual or reserved about playing football. But outside

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Speaker 1: You're talking about Vegas. I mean, you're off to a

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Speaker 1: You suffered the knee and which which obviously is really hard.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, like I was telling somebody,

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Speaker 3: it was like a year of growth for me. Like personally,

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Speaker 2: Like I grew in a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 3: You know, my faith kind of was tested, you know,

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Speaker 3: I try to battle back, but whatever whatever end up

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Speaker 2: Me, like I'm not worried about it. And you can.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, I'll be ready, you know,

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Speaker 4: You talk about your faith and uh, you know it's

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's like like through and through man,

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Speaker 3: Throughout the day, have to stop whatever you're doing, make

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Speaker 2: So I really I really enjoyed.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine growing up in Georgia where you grew

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Speaker 4: Do you have a spot here in the facilia you

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Speaker 2: I do. I do.

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Speaker 3: Either I use the quiet room, you know, I praying

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Speaker 3: So I grew up on the East side of Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: homeschooled up until eleventh grade. I'm sorry, tenth grade. I started.

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Speaker 3: My first introduction to sports was like in seventh grade,

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Speaker 3: I started wrestling.

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Speaker 3: I ended up being a pretty good wrestler. I ended

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Speaker 4: You kind of downplayed it, like I was okay, I was.

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Speaker 1: I was. I wasn't a couple of scholies A couple

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because wrestling is like one on one sport and

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00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,040
Speaker 3: then playing court sometimes you know it's a team sport.

439
00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,680
Speaker 3: Sometimes you on that I you had had that that

440
00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,520
Speaker 3: that confidence to be able to go out there and

441
00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,560
Speaker 3: trust yourself.

442
00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,000
Speaker 2: One on one.

443
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,359
Speaker 3: I find something I really learned from wrestling, man, and

444
00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,560
Speaker 3: I took them with me into football. I started playing

445
00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,000
Speaker 3: football in the eleventh grade. I ended up getting a

446
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,280
Speaker 3: couple of scholarship offers, not not not really much. But

447
00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,960
Speaker 3: I went to committed to Presbyterian College in South Carolina,

448
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,760
Speaker 3: played there for three years. Then I transferre up to

449
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,920
Speaker 3: Temple University in Philadelphia, played there.

450
00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,040
Speaker 2: My senior year, end up being drafted and the rest

451
00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:07,560
Speaker 2: is history.

452
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you're you're good Presbyterian, like, are you

453
00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,480
Speaker 4: thinking at that point of NFL's I'm going to the

454
00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,240
Speaker 4: NFL one day.

455
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,919
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, And this is like I

456
00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,639
Speaker 3: didn't say. I was like because like I said, I'm

457
00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,720
Speaker 3: not like a one thing I think about, Like you know,

458
00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,680
Speaker 3: your goals and your aspirations and stuff. A lot of

459
00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,840
Speaker 3: times it better just keeps yourself because people will shoot

460
00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 3: them down and tell you like like Tony, people told

461
00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,800
Speaker 3: me all the time, like why are you working so hard?

462
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,720
Speaker 2: Brother, Like you're a Presbyterian. You're not going anywhere, you know.

463
00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,080
Speaker 4: What I mean.

464
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,760
Speaker 3: But I would just like whatever whatever, But I wouldn't

465
00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,080
Speaker 3: like put that on blast like I'm going to the NFL.

466
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,960
Speaker 3: Like it was just I do it in my head

467
00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,440
Speaker 3: because I came on my visit. I was telling the

468
00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,280
Speaker 3: strength Colde. I said, do y'all do y'all do like

469
00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,800
Speaker 3: combine prep like do y'all you know, scout how to around

470
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Speaker 3: forties and five ten fives.

471
00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,520
Speaker 2: Looked at me like huh.

472
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,080
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, cause like in twenty nineteen go

473
00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,320
Speaker 3: to the draft, he's looking at me like like okay, yeah,

474
00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,080
Speaker 3: I kind of not like it was just like as

475
00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,240
Speaker 3: an eighteen year old kid coming in there, you haven't

476
00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,119
Speaker 3: done anything. They look at you like big dreams, you

477
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,000
Speaker 3: got Conrad, you know what, I'm sure, But I was.

478
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,520
Speaker 3: I was dead serious about it. And you can ask

479
00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,919
Speaker 3: anybody that's known me man like I worked for that,

480
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,680
Speaker 3: Like you know, I prayed for it, and I worked

481
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,840
Speaker 3: for it like constantly. It was never like I never

482
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,879
Speaker 3: wavered in that. It just worked hard and hard and

483
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,080
Speaker 3: it just kept pushing. Thankfully, God blessed me to you know,

484
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:21,400
Speaker 3: make it.

485
00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:21,879
Speaker 2: To the NFL.

486
00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,800
Speaker 1: I read a story about you that said, when you

487
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,320
Speaker 1: were in high school, you would have your coach like

488
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,520
Speaker 1: turn on the car like the football field.

489
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,679
Speaker 2: A nice serious story, bro like that.

490
00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,200
Speaker 3: That kind of like I look back up that, bro,

491
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 3: because we were practice, you know, and then like you know,

492
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,800
Speaker 3: high school practice is not so much learning and stuff,

493
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,520
Speaker 3: it's more just egge rift of the game. After practice man,

494
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,239
Speaker 3: I would just stay out there. My mom she got

495
00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,120
Speaker 3: off work kind of late, you know, maybe eight or nine.

496
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,439
Speaker 3: She wouldn't get me to maybe like nine o'clock. And

497
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 3: you know, like and coming to December and stuff, the

498
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,440
Speaker 3: days get shorter, so it's dark outside now.

499
00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:56,120
Speaker 2: So I would do it all year.

500
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Speaker 3: But then, like you know, once the day started getting shorter,

501
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,640
Speaker 3: you know, I would just be out there sometimes I'll

502
00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,000
Speaker 3: be out there to be kind of dark almost. And

503
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 3: Coach Rollerson, man, he he would he saw me doing that.

504
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:07,120
Speaker 2: One day.

505
00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 3: He just stayed ever since day and every day after

506
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 3: probably he was just stay and leave his lights on

507
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,160
Speaker 3: and let me work until my mom came and got me. Man.

508
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 2: It was like that was crazy, bro.

509
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,159
Speaker 1: Where's that work ethic come from? For you to grind

510
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 1: like that?

511
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 3: I think both my dad and my mom. Man, Like

512
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 3: see my dad work even though like I saw him

513
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,400
Speaker 3: he was like my parents were together when I was young.

514
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,159
Speaker 3: They did divorce me like six or so, but like

515
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 3: when I was young, my dad took me to work

516
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,600
Speaker 3: with me own like a slaughter house or like a

517
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 3: meat plan or whatever. I saw, like the hours he worked,

518
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 3: how hard he worked, man like, day in day out,

519
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 3: like he was like, he's probably the hardest work I've

520
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,200
Speaker 3: ever been around. And then you know, growing up seeing

521
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 3: my mom like work hard, you know, like never complain,

522
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 3: never ask for a handout, just put her head down

523
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 3: and work, you know. So I could see my dad

524
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 3: in his older years or him you know, working his profession,

525
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 3: and then my mom doing the same, like you know,

526
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,000
Speaker 3: it was only right that I do the same, you know,

527
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 3: especially as a younger person, you know what I mean,

528
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 3: like and to take care of them as they took

529
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 3: care of me, you know what I mean.

530
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Speaker 4: So you said you were the oldest of five, I

531
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 4: was the older son son, but of six six okay,

532
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 4: of six okay? And so as you are, you know,

533
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,640
Speaker 4: working and work for these scholarship offers, like I gotta

534
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 4: believe that you are. You're hopeful, you know, to your

535
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,119
Speaker 4: point about like I knew I was going to go

536
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 4: to the pros, but like you're you're hopeful. But that

537
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 4: work ethic like has to kind of shape everything that

538
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 4: you do. And just during that time when you're in

539
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 4: high school, as you're working in whether it's in wrestling

540
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,719
Speaker 4: or football, how did that work ethic, I don't know

541
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 4: materialize And I guess whether it's watching them or whatever

542
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 4: it is.

543
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, in a lot of ways,

544
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,399
Speaker 3: I feel like it translated over to like me, like

545
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 3: working actual jobs.

546
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,160
Speaker 2: In high school, always had a job, and then what was.

547
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: Your first job.

548
00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,440
Speaker 2: My first job was working with a long cair company.

549
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: Man, that's hard work, that outdoor time right there.

550
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 3: But then when I went to college, I ended up

551
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: like I had like in the summertime, I worked like

552
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 3: three jobs man bro. Yeah, because you know we were like,

553
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 3: this wasn't.

554
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: N IL money, Yeah a little different.

555
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a Presbyteria in college, no rent checks, nothing,

556
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 3: so you know, I needed that to you know, help

557
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 3: my mom and then also take care of myself. But

558
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 3: I worked at UPS, i worked at LOWS, and I

559
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 3: also was a certified nursing assistant.

560
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I did a little bit of everything.

561
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did at everything, but it's awesome. I feel like,

562
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: you know, like I always had good grades, I worked

563
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 2: hard in the classroom, yeah, you know.

564
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 3: And then like even when I was in college, like

565
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 3: I was a premid bio major my first three years

566
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 3: of college knowing like okay, like I'm working for the NFL.

567
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen I have to have like a backup

568
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 3: plan to still be able to, you know, take care

569
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 3: of my family, help myself, you know, heavy course.

570
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 2: But I ended up. My sad thing is my transfer.

571
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 3: I lost I think twenty seven of my biology credits,

572
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 3: so I had to change my majors psychology of the Temple.

573
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,479
Speaker 3: But graduate, graduating from Temple with a psychology degree, got you?

574
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: Gotcha?

575
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: Well?

576
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: I think that the incredible part of your story in

577
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: part is you know, you go from Presbyterian to Temple, right,

578
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: and then you have one year there and then you're

579
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: the thirty fourth overall pick, right, And I think I

580
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: read that you said that when you went from Presbyterian

581
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 1: to Temple you went with like twenty dollars in your pocket,

582
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: like like it was not and then to go to

583
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: the thirty fourth pick and you're getting a signing bonus

584
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. I mean talk about a massive

585
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: life change in eight months. I mean incredible.

586
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 2: And that's that's like a real story. Man.

587
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 3: I really I drove up the Temple with I remember

588
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: getting there, right, and I was I drove it simple

589
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 3: like on the way, you know, you're buying gas and

590
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 3: stuff whatever. Man, I was like, sold, I had nothing, man,

591
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 3: and the guy named Ranil Renel Williams. He was like

592
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,479
Speaker 3: a graduate assistant. He's a he's a coach for the

593
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 3: for the Eagles. Now, really good dude, man. He took

594
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 3: me a Walmart and like he bought me a lamp,

595
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 3: you know, like just bought me a couple of things

596
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 3: I needed.

597
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 2: You know.

598
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 3: It kind of looked out for me my whole time.

599
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 3: Really a templately looked out for me. Man, A really

600
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: really good dude out at dude, you know everything. But

601
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 3: he just you know, he looked out for me. But

602
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 3: I really like I really drove up there with twenty.

603
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 3: I looked back on him like, wow, that's crazy. Yeah,

604
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: Like let's talk about like a leap of faith. Yeah,

605
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 3: pay dollars in your pockets in Philadelphia.

606
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: Seriously, bro, I look back on it like it's no way, man.

607
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 2: But I really did that. That's crazy.

608
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: That's incredible.

609
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 4: And did you, like, did it register to you at

610
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 4: that time, like this is crazy or did you not

611
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 4: think you just were going because this is the opportunity,

612
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 4: Like what was your mindset of that time?

613
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 3: I was just going because of the opportunity. I don't

614
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 3: even think twice about it. Man like it was like

615
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 3: I was, like.

616
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: It's now or never, like I have I feel like

617
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 2: I had.

618
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 3: To do that, you know what I mean, Like it

619
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 3: was no other options, Like that's that's kind of how

620
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,959
Speaker 3: I am. Like I look at a goal, I just

621
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 3: go for the goal, like I do whatever it takes

622
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 3: to to reach that.

623
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

624
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 3: I have like put the blinders on. I don't hear,

625
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 3: don't see any distraction, anything going around. It's just just

626
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 3: that goal.

627
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: And that's kind of how that situation played off.

628
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 4: So then when you're the thirty fourth pick and you

629
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 4: get a signing bonus and a big payday, like, how

630
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 4: does your life change?

631
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: Well, I was in My life didn't change so much, ma'am.

632
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 3: I feel like my family's life changed, you know what

633
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 3: I mean. My mom I retired, my mom, you know,

634
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 3: take care of her, take care of my family memberge

635
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 3: and stuff with myself.

636
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 2: I still live in a pretty regular life, you know

637
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: what I mean.

638
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 3: I live in a regular house, drive a regular car,

639
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 3: you know, wear regular clothes.

640
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: I live a pretty regular life.

641
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 3: It's just you know, throughout the week I practiced and

642
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 3: on Sundays play football. But outside of that, like I

643
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 3: mean I still be going. I still go to the

644
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 3: mosque and pray and hang out with the people. And

645
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I just my life didn't change as much,

646
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 3: you know what. I maybe, like the way people looked

647
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 3: at me and viewed me changed, but like my how

648
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 3: I viewed myself and how I carried myself, it didn't

649
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 3: really change.

650
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: I'm curious, like, when you've had the success that you've had,

651
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: you know, not only being drafted thirty fourth, but you

652
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: know now the career you've had in the NFL since,

653
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: how do you still tap back into that grinder mentality

654
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: of practicing on you know, your coach's car lights on

655
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: the field in the darkness.

656
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 3: I feel like it's just in me, man, I feel

657
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 3: like it's in my DNA just to be that kind

658
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Speaker 3: of way because I know, like just how you know,

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Speaker 3: God blessed me with it, He can take it back

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Speaker 3: from me, you know what I mean. So like me

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Speaker 3: working hard and doing right is like you know, me

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Speaker 3: showing my appreciation for what God's blessed me with, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. So like, you know, if if

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Speaker 3: I were to just almost be a terrible person, that's

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Speaker 3: like that would be wrong, you know, because God blessed

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Speaker 3: me with such a great blessing, and then likewise God

667
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Speaker 3: gave me this opportunity, and I just I'm lazy. I

668
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Speaker 3: don't work hard, I don't take it serious. That's again,

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Speaker 3: that's that would be wrong, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like that's just like part of my DNA,

671
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Speaker 3: just to be that that way, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: So that's one for me. Rock, You goals are clearly

673
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Speaker 4: something that are on your mind. You know you talked

674
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Speaker 4: about having that laser focus. Do you have any goals

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Speaker 4: you want to share.

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Speaker 1: With us for what you see, I'll tell all the

677
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: team goals.

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Speaker 3: You know. You don't want to win, you know, I

679
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: want to win. I want to be a product great secondary.

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Speaker 2: You know. I want to I want to dominate.

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Speaker 1: You know. I want to talk.

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Speaker 2: I want That's all I.

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Speaker 4: Got for you.

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Speaker 1: That's fair. That's as much as you're getting fair. I understand. Well, Ron,

685
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Speaker 1: we're really excited about it, man, You're you're looking grand

686
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: on the practice field. Excited to see you play this year.

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Speaker 2: Man, appreciately, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it Man, Well big thanks to Rock your scene

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Speaker 4: for stopping by the seat. Geek Studio really enjoy the

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Speaker 4: really just enjoy the conversation with Rock. I think that

702
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 4: he's a guy that is huge signing. Is going to

703
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Speaker 4: play a massive role on this team.

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Speaker 1: This year, starting corner. That's a pretty big role, very

705
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Speaker 1: big role.

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Speaker 4: And I think that, you know, hopefully Ravens fans got

707
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Speaker 4: a chance to just know who he is a little

708
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Speaker 4: bit more. I thought it was interesting just to learn

709
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Speaker 4: his mentality, his make up, his faith, all of that.

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Speaker 1: See why the Ravens are interested in signing him. I mean,

711
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: this dude screams raven right. I mean just like a worker, grinder, physical, tough,

712
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: you know, the mental mental side of it. Just like

713
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Speaker 1: you see why why they were so interested in bringing

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Speaker 1: Rocky Scene in here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and to get him for you know when they did,

716
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 4: like he this is a guy who was at ascending player.

717
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 4: Then he gets traded and then hurt right, and then

718
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden he's just available and it's kind

719
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Speaker 4: of under the radar a little bit. But I think

720
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Speaker 4: that like this is going to be a move that

721
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Speaker 4: when we look back on it at the end of

722
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Speaker 4: the season, you're like, man, how did the Ravens get

723
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 4: him for such a good deal? Like that was a

724
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Speaker 4: home run, home run acquisition. And I think the early

725
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 4: returns have been very positive. I like what I've seen

726
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Speaker 4: from him. He practices hard, He's high energy on the field.

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Speaker 4: I just I just think it's going to be a really,

728
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Speaker 4: really good addition to this defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. So you have some fan questions, yes.

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Speaker 4: As always, you can email us at the lounge at

731
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Speaker 4: Ravens dot NFL dot net. Got some fan questions A

732
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 4: couple different people who have been here at training camp,

733
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Speaker 4: which if you're here at training camp. Always enjoy listeners

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Speaker 4: Nick and Nick here. Nick said hello, Yes, I said,

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Speaker 4: it was super nice to meet both of you. Actually

736
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Speaker 4: taking time. So he is his question is who's going

737
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Speaker 4: to lead the Ravens and touchdown catches catches this season?

738
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Speaker 4: This is tough. We've debated, like we've said this before

739
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 4: in past years where we've talked like, you know, catches, receptions, yours.

740
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 4: You've just gone the clean sweep for Mark Andrews. I

741
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 4: don't know that I'm going to go clean sweep this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, I might go Odell. Touchdown catches. I think

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Speaker 1: if there's one category where Mark could be usurped, that

744
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: one will be the one I would point to.

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Speaker 4: You think that catches over yards? You think you think

746
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 4: Mark still the.

747
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: Later yards, still might be the leader in yards?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Interesting, Yeah, I think it's I think it's between Odell

750
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Speaker 4: and Mark. Yeah, that would those would be the two

751
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Speaker 4: guys at the top of my list. I'm gonna go Mark,

752
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 4: but I could, like it would not shock me at

753
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 4: all if you if the season ends and Odell has

754
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 4: eight touchdowns like that, I could see that being the case.

755
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 4: And actually during the stadium practice, the live show.

756
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Speaker 1: We talked a.

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Speaker 4: Little bit about Odell's ability in the red zone. He

758
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Speaker 4: had the touchdown red zone target. He also had another

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Speaker 4: one where he made a great kind of extended catch

760
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 4: caught about the five yard line. I just think that

761
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 4: he's he's shifty, he's got great hands, of course, but

762
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Speaker 4: he's got like a feel and that shiftiness which is

763
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Speaker 4: going to pay dividends around the red zone. I mean,

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Speaker 4: that's really like when he was at the Rams, that's

765
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Speaker 4: where he was making a huge impact.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well really, I mean there's there's no denying the

767
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Speaker 1: fact that the Ravens have to make pretty big strides

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Speaker 1: in the red zone as compared to last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I really like the assortment of weapons that they

770
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Speaker 1: have generally speaking, but particularly when you really look at

771
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Speaker 1: how good are they going to be in the red zone?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: And I really like Odell for the reasons you're saying,

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Speaker 1: just that that fuel for the game getting open, making

775
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Speaker 1: clutch plays. I mean, dudes made a lot of clutch

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Speaker 1: plays in his career, totally big. As we were talking,

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00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: uh this circumference to land comforts of race Catus, that

778
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: was a joke. I remember his big catcher radius, you know,

779
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: you can throw it high to him, you can throw

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Speaker 1: it anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: And then I also like Zay in that he's so

783
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Speaker 1: quick and to get separation in tight spaces. I think

784
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Speaker 1: that he's going to be really good in that way.

785
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: And then Nelson Aguilore, I mean we saw him elevate

786
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Speaker 1: in practice on Monday and go up really climb the

787
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: ladder on Brandon Stevens and catch one. And the Ravens

788
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: have you know, Ravens fans, I feel like have been

789
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: talking for so long about we need that big bodied

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Speaker 1: receiver to go up there and win jump balls and

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Speaker 1: be that red zone guy. Nelson Aglore isn't like the

792
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Speaker 1: biggest body guy. He's got some height to him, but

793
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Speaker 1: he can elevate.

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Speaker 4: I'm always I've always felt like that's a bit of

795
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 4: a misnomer that like you need the just the jump

796
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Speaker 4: ball guy, Like of sure, if you can have all

797
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 4: of the tools, like there was a reason that Julio

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Speaker 4: Jones was one of the best receivers in the game

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Speaker 4: throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: Or aj Green, like sure, sure you got Randy Moss

801
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: throne fades all day.

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00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's great. But like uh, Antonio Brown was

803
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Speaker 4: pretty darn good in the red zone. And he's not

804
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Speaker 4: a big guy. Odub Beckham and his career has been

805
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 4: excellent in the red zone. Not a huge guy. So like,

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Speaker 4: I think that the ability to get open, having a

807
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Speaker 4: feel for just what the moves to make and how

808
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 4: to set up defensive players, and then the ability to

809
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Speaker 4: make a catch in traffic. I think that is what

810
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Speaker 4: really makes a good red zone player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, and shout out to Nick. Nice to meet you,

812
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: great farmer. Yeah, his backs are great farmer. Yes. Remember

813
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: when so he and Marlon have a little bit of

814
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Speaker 1: a relationship. Yeah, humphrey.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

816
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,959
Speaker 1: And do you remember last year when like Marlin like

817
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: sent out a message to the whole company. It was like,

818
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: I have a million grapes and either in the cafeteria,

819
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Speaker 1: come down anybody who wants to take some grapes, So

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Speaker 1: come down here and get him. And of course I sprinted.

821
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Speaker 1: I took a ton of grapes home. Yeah, my kids

822
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Speaker 1: ate grapes for three weeks long. It was all thanks

823
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Speaker 1: to Nick. Yeah, Nick sent him a bunch of great

824
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,239
Speaker 1: I have too many grapes on bringing him in.

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00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 4: Yeah they were great grapes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so thank you. Nick, great to meet you, Thank you.

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Speaker 4: And all right, here's another question. This one was from

828
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Speaker 4: Aris says, Hey, guys, is Aris a long time says,

829
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Speaker 4: I have email, but I haven't stopped listening. Given that

830
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 4: there's still some uncertainty in terms of the health status

831
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Speaker 4: of current running backs, in the state of the running

832
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Speaker 4: back market overall, do you think that there's any chance

833
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Speaker 4: or doesn't make sense for the Ravens to bring in

834
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Speaker 4: Zeke Elliott on a one year prove it kind of deal.

835
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Speaker 1: Well, they already made this kind of edition with Melvin Gordon, right,

836
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Speaker 1: So no, I don't think they're going to sign another

837
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Speaker 1: running back. I mean, right now, they're really full at

838
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Speaker 1: running back. I mean we all of course assume at

839
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Speaker 1: some point JK is going to start practicing here during

840
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Speaker 1: training camp is the assumption, Gus Edwards, Melvin Gordon, Justice Hill,

841
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: who they just resigned this offseason, and then you have

842
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: a pretty talented undrafted rookie and Keaton Mitchell. So you

843
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: know that's five. Yeah, great, there already And so no,

844
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to bring in another veteran.

845
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: That was really the Melvin Gordon thing.

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Speaker 4: I think the only way it happens is if all

847
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: of a sudden you get start to get injuries or

848
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 4: something like that. But I don't see it. I don't

849
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 4: see that being the move. I agree. I think Melvin

850
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Speaker 4: Gordon was the veteran free agent acquisition. Yeah, and that's

851
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 4: why I think it's gonna play out. All right, One

852
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 4: more question here. As always, you can email us at

853
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. I got

854
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 4: the chance to come out there to the Castle and

855
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: be in attendance for training camp practice. Whether it was

856
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 4: insanely hot and humid. Last week it was insanely hot

857
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 4: and human. Thankfully this week they've turned down the temple.

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Speaker 1: It was very nice.

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00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 4: It's been very nice. So I liked what Edc and

860
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 4: Scotts have put into place on both sides of the ball.

861
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 4: If everyone stays healthy this year, it could be a

862
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 4: size them up year for the team. I think we'll

863
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 4: add a few more pieces before the start of the season.

864
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Speaker 4: But I loved what I saw during the installation process

865
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 4: of camp. This team is only going to get better.

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00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 4: This is from pretty deep, so not a question, but

867
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Speaker 4: just a very optimistic email. And I look, I like,

868
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 4: I know it's easy to say we're drinking the purple

869
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 4: cool a. But I think that, like the optimism is

870
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 4: real around the team. I think I feel out around town.

871
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 4: I think you saw that, you know, strong attendance to

872
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 4: the stadium practice, and it's been high energy out here

873
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 4: every day. And I think that that optimism is justified.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. I mean I wrote this

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago that I think this is the

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Speaker 1: most talented roster the Ravens have had in quite some time.

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Speaker 1: And you would compare it against twenty nineteen. Is the

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Speaker 1: natural one fourteen to two, pretty dark good team? Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and you had multiple I mean, the offensive line was stacked,

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Speaker 1: you had Ronnie Orlando Marshall all went to the Pro Bowl. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so but like you look at the weapons outside

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Speaker 1: in particular, drastically better when compared to that team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: on defense, you have a lot of studs at every level,

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Speaker 1: and I think, like Rock was kind of saying, there's

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Speaker 1: also this good mixture of young players who are kind

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Speaker 1: of on the verge of breakouts, right, like like at

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Speaker 1: Justin Mattebek, Broaderck Washington, guys who have had good years,

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Speaker 1: But like, man, are we gonna be looking back in

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Speaker 1: four years whatever next off season, could these be some

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Speaker 1: of the highest biggest contracts given out this I mean

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00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: rock could rock young ascending player who now coming off

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Speaker 1: the injury is kind of like his star isn't as

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Speaker 1: bright as it was two years ago because of the

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Speaker 1: injury and whatnot. But like, yeah, another good example of

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Speaker 1: a young player who's really on the up right. So,

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Speaker 1: like I was saying, Matta b Kay broaducka Washing Patrick Queen,

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Speaker 1: I mean entering a big year four where he could

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Speaker 1: just explode, uh, Kyle Hamilton on the back end, the

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Speaker 1: pass rushers David Ajabo uh and and Adoway. So like defensively,

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Speaker 1: I think especially you look at it and you're like, man, like,

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Speaker 1: if some of these guys boom, not all of them

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Speaker 1: are probably gonna just boom, but if most of them do,

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Speaker 1: what's this defense? This defense could be really nasty additions

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Speaker 1: to just the ro Quan's you know, the Marcus Williams is.

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Speaker 1: You already know what they are, right like you have

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Speaker 1: the Michael Pierce in the front. You know, like you

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Speaker 1: know what those guys are. But if some of these

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Speaker 1: other young ascending pieces really blossom like special unit, and

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Speaker 1: then you flip to the offense side. Tyer Linderbaum, same

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Speaker 1: kind of thing, right, you have some young pieces of flowers.

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Speaker 1: What if he goes off this year, certainly possible.

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Speaker 4: JK.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins young player who could completely go off, you know,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah likely you know, go down the list like it's

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Speaker 1: not You have some really good star power veterans, but

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Speaker 1: you also have this next tier of young players in

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Speaker 1: their upper twenties, you know, who are like on the verge. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so it makes me really think that this roster

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Speaker 1: could be the best in a long time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I also think and it's hard to put an

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Speaker 4: exact measurement on this, but I think it's a hungry

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Speaker 4: team for different reasons. Like I think that Lamar is

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Speaker 4: still seeking that super Bowl in that playoff success that

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Speaker 4: is alluded him in his career, and like he has

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Speaker 4: talking about that, you know. I think, as we said,

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Speaker 4: the contract is.

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Speaker 1: Done and so it just seems like he's in a

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Speaker 1: good place.

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Speaker 4: Yep, totally. I think Odell Beckham coming back, like you know,

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Speaker 4: coming back from the injury, he's got questions, you know,

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Speaker 4: the running backs, and if every running back in the

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Speaker 4: league has questions these days, like something to prove, you know,

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Speaker 4: Rock he as we talked to him, like he's got

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Speaker 4: something to prove. So I just think that there's a

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Speaker 4: there's individual feelings of something to prove, and there's also

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Speaker 4: this hunger that the team has. You know, last year

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Speaker 4: ending the way it did, where you're so close and.

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Speaker 1: Knowing you have a good team, but then Lamar gets

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Speaker 1: hurt and you fall short. You should have beaten the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: but you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: I just think that, like there's just this there's this

943
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Speaker 4: hunger that exists on this team, and I think that's

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Speaker 4: going to serve them.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, I mean I'm pulped. When when do

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Speaker 1: we start playing games here?

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Speaker 3: Right? Well?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean pre preseason is right around the corner. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 4: then obviously you know it's going to be here before

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Speaker 4: we know it's.

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Speaker 2: Preseason.

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Speaker 4: The streak so emails of the lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 4: NFL dot net during camp. By the way, any press

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