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Speaker 1: Bookman's a Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink here

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Speaker 1: with Garrett Downing and we are recording this as of

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Speaker 1: Monday morning at ten thirty. And I say this because

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Speaker 1: things during this time the free agency window opens, which

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Speaker 1: will open an hour and a half at noon on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Things get dated real fast.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll time stamp this at the beginning, and Garrett,

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Speaker 1: it's already been. It was a busy weekend around the NFL,

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Speaker 1: a lot of big deals, trades, signings and whatnot. And

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens, a very big odor of business got

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Speaker 1: taken care of with Ronnie Stanley agreement to a new

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Speaker 1: three year deal, reportedly averaging twenty million dollars this season,

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens check off what was their biggest to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was massive. Keeping Ronnie Stanley is a big

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Speaker 3: time move for the Ravens. They get their left tackle

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Speaker 3: and they put themselves in a position where they don't

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Speaker 3: have major holes on the team, and had Ronnie left

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Speaker 3: in free agency, they would be in a spot where

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Speaker 3: you're really reworking the offensive line for the second year

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Speaker 3: in a row. Bringing back Ronnie gives you stability. But

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Speaker 3: it's not just stability for the sake of stability. It's

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Speaker 3: one of the best left tackles in football who's coming

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Speaker 3: off of resurgent Pro Bowl seasons season, and so you're

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Speaker 3: able to keep You're able to keep one of your

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Speaker 3: best players, which is good. And you're able to keep

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Speaker 3: kind of a core foundational player who's been here with

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson throughout this entire run. And I think that

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Speaker 3: there's something to be said for that, like somebody who's

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Speaker 3: been here for a decade now, and I think there's

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Speaker 3: significance to that. Again, it's not just for the sake

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Speaker 3: of consistency, but it's he's he's been on this battle,

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Speaker 3: he's been in these he's been in the mix here

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Speaker 3: with Lamar throughout his entire career, and I think that

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Speaker 3: there's some value in having these guys who are trying

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Speaker 3: to kind of reach that mountain top together.

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Speaker 4: HM.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's, uh, you know, really five main reasons

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Speaker 1: why this is important. As you said, Ronnie Stanley is.

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Speaker 2: Just a good player. It's great to keep good players,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And he proved it. He

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Speaker 2: came back from the knee.

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Speaker 1: And there are some tough, tough times there coming back

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Speaker 1: from that and then you know, or from the ankle,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and then a knee injury that kind of

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Speaker 1: hampered him the year before last. But this past season

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Speaker 1: he played all seventeen games for the first time in

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Speaker 1: his career and proved that he could return to that

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Speaker 1: all pro form that we saw in twenty nineteen. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, it was kind of it was a proven

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Speaker 1: year for Ronnie Stanley last year and he proved it

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Speaker 1: and left tackles as good as Ronnie Stanley. You can't

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Speaker 1: just find him anywhere, you know, I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: one of the best. From a pass protection standpoint, he

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Speaker 1: had an excellent season and run blocking two, it's so

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Speaker 1: important to get Dereck Henry out on the edge, get

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Speaker 1: him rolling, and Ronnie Stanley being as mobile as he

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Speaker 1: is and as good a run blocker as he is,

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Speaker 1: was a major reason why the Ravens had so much

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Speaker 1: success in Derrick Henry. So to me, it's just you

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Speaker 1: kept one of the best left tackles in the game.

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Speaker 1: And then it's also Lamar Jackson, right, we all saw

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Speaker 1: Lamar had his best season as a pro. And having

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Speaker 1: confidence in your blind side protector I think plays a

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Speaker 1: huge reason in that right and if Ronnie weren't there, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens felt like Roger Rosengarten could move over, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's true. He could have, but now it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a question mark. There's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a question mark. I think with Ronnie staying, Lamardo's I'm

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Speaker 1: good over there and having your quarterback feel that way

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Speaker 1: when he's dropping back to pass is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: And so I think this helps Lamar Jackson continue to

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Speaker 1: build off what was an excellent season. Then, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you said, the offensive line, if you're making this

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Speaker 1: thing over for a second straight year, shifting Roger Rose

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Speaker 1: You could have a new Pat McCarey started the majority

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Speaker 1: so you could have a new left guard. It's another

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Speaker 1: shakeup right now. You bring back Ronnie and four out

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Speaker 1: of your five spots, you know, you know who the

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Speaker 1: starter is and he's a leader. I think that it

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Speaker 1: just kind of helps the offensive line, which it had

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Speaker 1: them work from kind of pick up where they left off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think for Roger Rosengarden, it's a big deal,

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Speaker 1: you know, Like I said, I think he could have

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Speaker 2: But to let him just say.

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Speaker 1: All right, you had a great year at right tackle,

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Speaker 1: continue to developing their big guy. Yeah, Like you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about the whole flipping things around. And

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Speaker 1: we've talked to players who said moving from right tackle

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Speaker 1: to left tackle or left tackle to right tackle feels

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Speaker 1: like writing with the other hand right, It's like, can

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Speaker 1: you ultimately do it? Sure, but it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: that you know, that would have been an adjustment for

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Speaker 1: just lock in on right tackle and get even better.

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Speaker 3: There agree with all of that, And Ronnie is somebody

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Speaker 3: It was kind of funny to see how this played

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Speaker 3: out because at the combine Eric and John indicated that, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we're probably going to get.

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Speaker 4: Something done with Ronnie.

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Speaker 3: And then in the week goes by and people start

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Speaker 3: getting nervous and Ravens Twitter is concerned and up in arms,

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Speaker 3: and you start watering, especially when you're knocking on the

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Speaker 3: door of free agency and it's like this deal gets

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Speaker 3: They agree to terms on this deal Saturday night, for

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Speaker 3: agency opens on Monday, so less than forty eight hours

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Speaker 3: ahead of that, and you're thinking, Okay, maybe he's going

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Speaker 3: to hit the market. And the reports are that he

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Speaker 3: could have gotten more on the open market. The reported

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Speaker 3: deal on this is three years, sixty million dollars or

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Speaker 3: twenty million dollars a year. That's the reported money on this,

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Speaker 3: and again this is all media reports, so you don't

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Speaker 3: know exactly what's true, but there were plenty of teams

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Speaker 3: have gone and gotten more on the open market if

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Speaker 3: all he cared about was just maximizing the contract value.

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Speaker 3: But I think it goes back to what I was

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Speaker 3: saying earlier, which is a the Ravens wanted Ronnie, and

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Speaker 3: Ronnie wanted to be here, and they've been working towards this.

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Speaker 3: Like this team has been really good throughout Ronnie's career.

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Speaker 3: He had he's had ups and downs because of injuries,

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Speaker 3: but he's been a really good player and he loves

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Speaker 3: playing with Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry and this offense,

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Speaker 3: being a leader on this team, proving it to his

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Speaker 3: to win a super Bowl here and compete and do

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Speaker 3: that with Lamar, like he has invested in this team

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Speaker 3: and the Ravens feel the same way about Ronnie, and

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Speaker 3: I think that it's that's why you see the contract that, again,

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Speaker 3: according to reports, was not as much as he could

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Speaker 1: I really didn't like those reports that were coming out that.

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Speaker 1: Oh but he would be a good target for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I really don't know those reports.

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Speaker 1: And otherwise there are teams, you know, reports of the

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Speaker 1: Patriots could be interested in teams like that, and like,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're Ronnie Stanley, Okay, the Ravens have

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Speaker 1: a better chance of winning the Super Bowl next year

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Speaker 1: than the Patriots too, you know, And so sure, maybe

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Speaker 1: you could make more money elsewhere, but Ronnie's been pretty

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Speaker 1: clear it's not it's not all about the money he's

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Speaker 1: he's made a lot of money, right And and I

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Speaker 1: you want the biggest contract out there, I don't fault you.

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Speaker 1: That's your business. Yeah, like that, do what you want

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Speaker 1: to do. But like for Ronnie, you know, he made

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Speaker 1: it clear, like I've made a good chunk of money

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Speaker 1: about winning the super Bowl and that he has. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's doing well here. He got a nice contract year,

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Speaker 1: you know. So, but it works for both sides.

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Speaker 3: But again this sel reports, so we don't know exactly

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Speaker 3: who was going to make make make any offers, but

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs were reportedly interested. Obviously they are a team

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Speaker 3: So like like, there are other potential teams where he

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Speaker 3: and the Ravens wanted him here, and and we said

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Speaker 3: Ronnie's been one of those guys and keeping him here

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Speaker 4: I do think that there's value there.

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Speaker 1: I also think there's value in the relationships, right, the

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Speaker 1: relationships between general manager player agent. You know, like Eric

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Speaker 1: cost and Ronnie Stanley have a very good relationship. Eric Toasten,

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley's agent who they came to an agreement last offseason.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't that long ago that they were kind of

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Speaker 2: So I think those.

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Speaker 1: Things, like you don't think a lot about those things

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Speaker 1: the average fan, but those things matter. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that just the relationship that has been built here

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so from a football standpoint, you touched on it,

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Speaker 3: but I think that this is just This allows the

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Speaker 1: Well, the Ravens always say, also, I mean just on

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Speaker 1: the team, it's best player available, best player available, right,

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Speaker 1: So if you didn't resign Ronnie, you were probably pretty

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Speaker 5: Find one on the market, but maybe, but that's a

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Speaker 1: The other tackles weren't going to be cheap either, if

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Speaker 1: you're looking to not take a big step back, right,

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Speaker 1: So like, yeah, tackles aren't cheap. And so my assumption

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Speaker 1: have addressed that via the draft front.

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Speaker 2: Predominantly they would have signed a veteran.

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Speaker 1: But I think that they definitely would have addressed that

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Speaker 2: It's not easy, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that by getting this deal done,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens truly are in best player available mode, which

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Speaker 3: The Crown is yours. So it was a busy weekend

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, I think that that obviously. Hey I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we have Ronnie Stanley back to block Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and that's a very good thing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you have seen a lot of players

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Speaker 1: sticking with their current teams, a lot of just re

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Speaker 1: signing your own free agents ahead of free agency, which

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Speaker 1: could be an indication of teams aren't really in love

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Speaker 1: with this free agent class. Now, there will be big

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Speaker 1: deals made here in the next forty eight hours. You'll

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Speaker 1: see plenty of reports but by and large, there's been

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Speaker 1: a number number of players that have stayed with their

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Speaker 1: own teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest question on that front, just to round

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Speaker 3: out the division. T Higgins now he got the franchise tag,

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Speaker 3: and Jamar Chase he's still signed for this year, but

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Speaker 3: both those guys want new contracts. And Trey Hendrickson and

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Speaker 3: Trey Hendrickson and so and.

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Speaker 1: The price just went up on Trey Hendrickson and Jamar Chase, Yes.

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Speaker 2: The price.

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Speaker 5: The price is growing for those guys.

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Speaker 3: And so none of them have received these contract extensions yet,

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Speaker 3: but they all three of them want them.

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Speaker 1: Right For the Bengals, what's going to be interesting is

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, how they improve. Right Like, right

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Speaker 1: now they're in a position of and they have a

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Speaker 1: they've been clearing calf space, so they have a fair

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Speaker 1: amount of calf space. But right now they're in a

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Speaker 1: position of it's going to take more to keep your

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Speaker 1: own guys from last year. It's going to take significantly more.

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Speaker 1: And for those three core players, and they're all great players.

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Speaker 1: But then the question is kind of, all right, if

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Speaker 1: you're resigning all of those guys, how do you also

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Speaker 1: get better? And so it'll be interesting time here in

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Speaker 1: free agency, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, And then for the Ravens, and we're heading into

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Speaker 3: again this legal tampering negotiating period for the next forty

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Speaker 3: eight hours. The Ravens have some of their own free

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Speaker 3: agents who can start talking with other teams. Brandon Stevens

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Speaker 3: is somebody on that list who the Ravens said earlier

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Speaker 3: this offseason that they would kind of let him test

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Speaker 3: the market and see what the price was for him.

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Speaker 3: Pat McCarey is another one who looks to be in

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Speaker 3: that camp. And both of those guys prove themselves as starters,

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Speaker 3: and so I would think that they're going to have

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Speaker 3: interest and they could be tough to keep, especially considering

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Speaker 3: the Ravens are going to be even tighter against the

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Speaker 3: cap now that they've worked out this new deal with Ronnie.

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Speaker 3: But those are two guys who are going to go

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Speaker 3: out there, and I expect them to draw some interest

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Speaker 3: from other teams. Again, they're proven starters, and I'll be

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Speaker 3: curious to see what the market holds for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: There's been reports that a number of teams of the

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Speaker 1: combine we're talking about Brandon Stevens and they like his

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Speaker 1: length and They like how sticky he can be in coverage,

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Speaker 1: and I think that he's gonna get some buzz. And

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Speaker 1: mccarrien too, He's proven it. Like starting offensive lineman as

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Speaker 1: we've seen in this league, traditionally, they get paid, and

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Speaker 1: especially one with the versatility that Pat McCarey has. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens would love, they'd love to have

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Speaker 1: these guys come back, but it's gonna always come down

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Speaker 1: to the price. Right player, right price. I think the

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Speaker 1: Ravens feel like they're good players. What would the price be,

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Speaker 1: you know, after they test the market. I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be tough. I think that they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get some offers. And then there's other free agents

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Speaker 1: like Pat Ricard. You know, the Ravens haven't re signed

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Speaker 1: any of their other free agents other than Ronnie Stanley,

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Speaker 1: Tretavius White, the inside linebackers, Malie Harrison, Chris Board, those guys.

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Speaker 1: So there's a number of other free agents from Nelson

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Speaker 1: Agilore Tylan Wallace that the Ravens have not worked out

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Speaker 1: deals with.

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Speaker 2: So as it.

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Speaker 1: Stands right now, as I said, all right, it's now

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Speaker 1: ten to fifty. You know, as a time of recording,

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Speaker 1: they have worked out deals with those players, and so

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Speaker 1: they're all set to hit the market. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: that that some combination of them will come back to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and hey, that could happen soon, Like they could

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Speaker 1: just get out there.

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Speaker 5: Ronnie was the first domino to fault.

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Speaker 2: That was the first domino exactly.

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Speaker 1: And those guys might be out there for who knows

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Speaker 1: eight hours, twelve hours and say, all right, my phone's

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Speaker 1: not ringing off the hook. Let's go take that Ravens offer,

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Speaker 1: you know, And so we'll have to see. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine that some of those guys certainly recard.

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Speaker 2: I think it would be high on my.

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Speaker 1: List in terms of players that I would expect have

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Speaker 1: a good chance of returning.

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Speaker 3: I just think the Ravens were they were working towards

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Speaker 3: this Ronnie deal, and there's that affected so many different things,

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Speaker 3: and so they were able to get that done and

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Speaker 3: then then you start working your way down the list.

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Speaker 3: Is probably the way I think of that they approached

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Speaker 3: it and would not surprise me and those guys I

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Speaker 3: don't necessarily expect them to be Like the first ten

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Speaker 3: minutes of free agency, there's the Adam Schefter tweet about

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Speaker 3: one of these players signing elsewhere necessarily, and so I

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Speaker 3: think that I think that the Ravens can continue conversations

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Speaker 3: with them and get that back, even if honestly, for

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Speaker 3: some of them, like it could take days into free agency,

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Speaker 3: not just like Monday, Tuesday, but Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it

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Speaker 3: could be next week. Like I think on some of them,

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Speaker 3: the potential exists that they could sit out there and

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Speaker 3: then still work out a deal and extension to come

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Speaker 3: back and get a new deal with the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: And just to get ahead of this ahead of Ravens

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Speaker 1: fans on X and social media, don't expect the Ravens

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Speaker 1: to go out there and you know, as soon as

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Speaker 1: the window opens, oh man, Baltimore, Ravens are bringing in

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Speaker 1: player X for you know, big deal money like big

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Speaker 1: money deal. Don't keep your hope, don't get your hopes

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Speaker 1: up on that happening. I think Ronnie Stanley, that was

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Speaker 1: the deal. That was the deal, Like last year was

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Speaker 1: nomine Madamik. It was a big deal to keep Nominee.

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Speaker 5: Well last year. If you go back to last year though,

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Speaker 5: then they went or signed Derek Hannick exactly.

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Speaker 2: But that wasn't.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't like right when it was, But a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other running backs came off, and then they still

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Speaker 1: got Derek Henry and I think that they.

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Speaker 5: Can There's another Derek Henrick Gale out there. I'm on

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Speaker 5: board with all.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, Like I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not ruling that out. Like do I think the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna bring in somebody?

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Speaker 4: Huh?

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it's only gonna be Ronnie And

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Speaker 1: maybe they keep a couple, you know, a few of

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Speaker 1: their other players, like they will add somebody I expect.

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna be in the first hour of free agency?

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Speaker 1: Probably not, It's probably you know, we talk about the

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Speaker 1: waves of free agency.

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Speaker 2: I think the first wave.

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Speaker 1: Is gonna come and that one's gonna crash and then

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Speaker 1: it's gonna fizzle.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that segways looking pretty nice, though, What about that?

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Speaker 1: That third wave is look a nice too, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, look beyond the first wave and

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Speaker 1: remain patient before you start blowing up Garrett on social media,

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Speaker 1: you know, saying what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Where are you all at?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I could see it. And Tacosta, I go back

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Speaker 5: to what he said at.

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Speaker 3: The combine like they're looking for veterans at a lot

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Speaker 3: of times veteran minimum.

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Speaker 5: Deals and they've got a great track.

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Speaker 3: Record of finding those kinds of place, so they will

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Speaker 3: absolutely be in that market. So this is not going

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Speaker 3: to be the last podcast that we have this week.

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Speaker 3: There's going to be a lot that's happening between just

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Speaker 3: over the course of the entire week, So make sure

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Speaker 3: that you're checking back on the Ravens website, download the

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Speaker 3: straight to your phone as students news breaks, and of

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Speaker 3: course follow us across social media.

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Speaker 2: And the Rumor Mill.

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Speaker 1: We'll have the free agency Rumor Mill on the site

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Speaker 1: and app, so if you want to just kind of

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Speaker 1: keep updated on all the reports in one one stop shop, that's.

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Speaker 2: The place to go.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, So we appreciate you listening. You can email us

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Speaker 3: at the Lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net and

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