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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It was a

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Speaker 1: big day in Baltimore's quarterback Lamar Jackson was in the

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Speaker 1: building to put the pen to paper on a new

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Speaker 1: five year contract. He was fired up to sign that

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Speaker 1: deal and remain a Raven for the long term. He

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Speaker 1: joined head coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric Tacassa

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Speaker 1: during a press conference at the Under Armed Performance Center

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. So go ahead and check it out.

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Speaker 2: We got packed house. Thanks coming everybody. We've had some

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Speaker 2: we've had some good press conferences this year, and we've

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Speaker 2: had some bad press conferences this year. This is a

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Speaker 2: great press conference. Very very excited, thrilled to announce a

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Speaker 2: five year contract extension with our quarterback Lamar Jackson. They

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Speaker 2: say the best things come to those who wait. We

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Speaker 2: waited for a while and here we are.

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Speaker 3: John, very excited, can't wait to get started. It's it

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Speaker 3: has been a long way, but I think we're all

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Speaker 3: in the same place all along, and uh, we're all

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Speaker 3: in the same place going forward. Can't wait to get

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Speaker 3: to work.

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Speaker 4: Mark. Well, all I have to say is today I

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Speaker 4: don't have any popcorn. But during count if you guys

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Speaker 4: have great questions I'll say, I'll put it on Coach

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Speaker 4: John uh. You guys get to come to the house

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Speaker 4: with the peers, with the players and not you know,

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Speaker 4: and have a good time that everybody is that your house,

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Speaker 4: in my house, your house. Okay, only the good questions,

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Speaker 4: only the good questions invited.

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Speaker 5: La mar uh In Marsh you tweeted out chats we

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Speaker 5: wanted it. Really a month later you signed, you know,

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Speaker 5: a record deal.

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Speaker 4: What changed during that time, mister Jamison, you know what

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Speaker 4: we're gonna get, gonna be invited to the house. You

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. That couldn't avot. I got you

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Speaker 4: every But you know what, today, we're gonna keep it

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Speaker 4: about the future. You know, I'm not really worried about

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Speaker 4: what happened in the past. We gonna keep it about

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Speaker 4: these next five years and keep it about you know

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Speaker 4: what's going on today. You know, it's a great day,

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Speaker 4: great day. Just signed with the guys up here. That's

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Speaker 4: all I don't focused on right.

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Speaker 6: Now, aside from the Trader request. I mean, this is

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Speaker 6: a long process. Eric's talked about it and you guys

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Speaker 6: hadn't share details. But but how did you've been eliable

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Speaker 6: for the two years for an extension. What didn't change

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Speaker 6: that this was a turning point that you were able

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Speaker 6: to get a deal done over the last week.

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Speaker 4: H We you know, we just had some some you know,

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Speaker 4: mutual agreements and in the terms and stuff like that,

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Speaker 4: and you know it just fit, it fit to both

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Speaker 4: of us and that's why we're here right now.

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Speaker 5: So tomorrow, where are you gonna be? Uh at?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: What do you start the future?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean what I'm gonna be oh Ota,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be in. I'm'a be in soon. I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: be here soon.

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Speaker 7: Oh more?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 5: How can you describe you in your offense and services?

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Speaker 5: And you you're new all as.

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Speaker 4: Uh Actually, coach Todd Monkin reached out to me. You know,

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Speaker 4: we spoke a couple of times, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: heard from the guys that the office is looking pretty smooth.

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Speaker 4: And I just got my iPad a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 4: and from what I see, it looks it looks different

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Speaker 4: and I'm liking it so far. The more.

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Speaker 8: What is it needed to change in the office and

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Speaker 8: some of the creations Maybe then Odell did any of

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Speaker 8: that plan to swaying you to wanna restart.

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Speaker 4: The wan, well, we we been negotiating, like we really

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Speaker 4: didn't never stop negotiating, you know, we was always keeping

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Speaker 4: the contact. Ever reach out to me a lot and

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Speaker 4: you know, uh, you know coming back coach rechot to

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Speaker 4: me and we you know, go back and forth with that.

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Speaker 4: But definitely having O'Dell and you know those guys you

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Speaker 4: know reach out to me as well. It's like, man,

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Speaker 4: we need you here. And it was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: I wanna be there. It's not like I wanna leave anyways.

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Speaker 4: It was you know business the more.

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Speaker 5: What does it mean to.

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Speaker 4: You that John and Eric here never faltered in saying that.

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Speaker 5: They've wanted you back here and they wanted did you

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Speaker 2: Is there?

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Speaker 8: And Eric af like never faltered in the same wealth

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Speaker 5: What does that mean to you that it never seemed to.

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Speaker 4: Question that that you could be by Yeah, it means

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Speaker 4: a lot, you know, just to have you know, guys,

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Speaker 4: your head coach and your gym w wanted you to

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Speaker 4: be here and believing in you, believing you can help

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Speaker 4: your team achieve the the almighty uh ultimate goal, you know,

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Speaker 4: and within football and the NFL football like that. It's like,

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Speaker 4: you know, I I wouldn't wanna go no other place.

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Speaker 5: And Lamart ericat some really nice things to say about

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Speaker 5: your negotiating style as your own man. What would you

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Speaker 5: say the.

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Speaker 7: People going forward representing themselves and how much did you

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Speaker 7: enjoy the process of going back.

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Speaker 5: And forth with DC?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a it's a business. Uh, it's a

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Speaker 4: business at the end of the day. And if if

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Speaker 4: you gonn if you gonna represent yourself, you know, you

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Speaker 4: gotta you gotta have a strong mind. I wouldn't say

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Speaker 4: you get out there and put your feelings in it,

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Speaker 4: cause it's not about feelings. You know. You can't take

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Speaker 4: things with a oh yeah, what you said. I don't

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Speaker 4: agree with this. You know. It's like what they feel

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Speaker 4: is how you feel.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's a grown man thing at the end

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Speaker 4: of the day. So you got to be a grown

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Speaker 4: man if you can hand a business.

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Speaker 5: At what point.

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Speaker 9: At your decisions to use a non exclusive tad and what.

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Speaker 10: Extent you were worried an office was coming and you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tough decision. I think we spent

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Speaker 2: a lot of time thinking about it, praying on it,

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Speaker 2: trying to as a group, you know, deciding what's best

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Speaker 2: for the club, and in the end, you know, we

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Speaker 2: just I guess we just kind of felt like it.

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Speaker 4: It was it was the best.

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Speaker 2: Thing for Lamar to have the opportunity to kind of

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Speaker 2: he could have conversations if he wanted with other teams

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Speaker 2: to see what his value might be. And he could

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Speaker 2: get a chance to talk to other coaches or gms

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Speaker 2: for the landscape. And I guess you're looking at the

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Speaker 2: other the exclusive you know, it's kind of binding in

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Speaker 2: a lot of ways, and so you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: free agency is a chance for players to go out

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Speaker 2: and any end, that was the decision that we made,

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Speaker 2: hoping that we would be sitting here today that at

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Speaker 2: some point over the coming months, you know, and we

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Speaker 2: have a chance to negotiate again and get a long

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Speaker 8: Well, we moral about the type of player you are,

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Speaker 8: but the agent, not many of us know what type

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Speaker 8: of what type of age Lamar Jackson is.

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Speaker 5: How would you describe Mamar and the agent?

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Speaker 4: Well, just just a business man, That's how I describe them.

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Speaker 4: You know, nothing more, nothing less, you know, because it's

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Speaker 4: different from just playing football. You know, it's you gotta

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Speaker 4: put that, you know the game outside, put put that

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Speaker 4: in one part of your life. In this. You know,

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Speaker 4: you gotta speak to a grown man, you know, with

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Speaker 4: You gotta understand what you're doing. And if you're not

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Speaker 4: doing that, I feel badesday.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you were watching the Celtics game,

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Speaker 5: but Eric was pretty down. When Trey Young hime back

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Speaker 5: in the corner. He said, then you you texted him

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Speaker 5: and said I think we can get something done here.

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Speaker 5: What led to your text and what led your SpongeBob?

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Speaker 4: Actually, when when I got my email from Eric and

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Speaker 4: you know, and I texted him. I was not watching

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Speaker 4: We can get something done. He was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: you just made it. You know, you just made my night.

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Speaker 4: You know, my Celtics just lost, so you probably just

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Speaker 4: on social media and I said, Trey Young here the three.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, this is what he was talking about.

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Speaker 5: What was that a message?

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Speaker 4: Definitely the SpongeBob message with definitely a message to the

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Speaker 8: You.

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Speaker 10: Uh, what did you learn about yourself in this process?

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Speaker 10: It's been a more probably obviously, uh that you you

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Speaker 4: Uh? It's not not anything that I learned about myself.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been knew you know, what what I

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Speaker 4: they said, they loved me. You know, I love being here.

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Speaker 4: You know, I love my teammates and I love fan base.

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Speaker 4: I really loved the fan base on my teammates, you know,

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Speaker 4: So I didn't have a doubt.

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Speaker 5: Really, Mary, you said there whether you were in a

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Speaker 11: That you know, era is a Uh there was a

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Speaker 5: So what was it? What was it like you during

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Speaker 4: Oh, I had a grind.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I probably didn't wanna talk cause I was grinding.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 4: I did have a PCR injury, so I was like

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Speaker 4: trying to get that, get that all the way squared away,

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Speaker 4: you know, just fully recovering from that. And that's probably

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Speaker 4: when I wasn't return you know, text messages and stuff

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Speaker 4: like that, cause I probably be tired after workout and

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Speaker 4: I wake up late at night and you know, all

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Speaker 4: type of people texting my phone, so I probably won't

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Speaker 4: reached back out. But we got it done, So I'm

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Speaker 4: not rid about it right now.

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Speaker 6: When were you fully When were you fully recovered from

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Speaker 6: a knee injury?

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Speaker 5: And how much should it bother you?

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Speaker 6: There was so much outside shatter you?

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Speaker 5: Help you work?

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Speaker 7: Did you play?

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Speaker 5: Was a contract related?

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Speaker 4: How that bosh? I probably got better like probably a

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Speaker 4: month ago for real, a month ago, And it really

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Speaker 4: people don't know what's really going on, you know, they

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Speaker 4: they be trying to reach and pull and you know,

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Speaker 8: There were reports that you were active in them prove

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Speaker 5: Why we saw that, you know, you're giving well, mom,

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Speaker 11: Process working as your own agent and w or did.

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Speaker 5: You kind of find the most supportant fun of people around? Uh?

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Speaker 5: What was it like when you were able to talk

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Speaker 5: So that's what I meant, La, mar Are you talking

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Speaker 9: You guys had to take Flowers in first round the draft,

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Speaker 5: How say you work with him?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they reached out to me. You know, we spoke.

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Speaker 4: We were supposed to work out, but you know, I

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Speaker 5: Or you said in the video when you agreed field

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Speaker 4: I think he said.

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Speaker 9: She said, was there a misconception about these talks and

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Speaker 4: No, it was just like what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: What are you guys doing? I see people throwing shots

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Speaker 4: throwing shots at me? You don't know what you're doing?

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Speaker 4: You know, that's the he say. She say, That's what

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Speaker 12: Whether there were a lot of questions in the you know,

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Speaker 5: Proved to be able to get this plain?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I don't really. I didn't really like do this to

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Speaker 12: How did you train yourself to sort of hell that

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Speaker 4: Just keep your emotions outside of business. That's the best

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Speaker 5: Eric and John, this is a pretty historical in franchise histories.

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Speaker 5: What does the city against you.

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Speaker 4: Can say to me teach good?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm sure it does have a lot

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Speaker 3: Probably like about ten years from now on tomorrow and

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Speaker 3: you're still playing and I'm done, I'll probably give it

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Speaker 3: some thought. But my thought right now is the significance

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Speaker 3: going forward. Just like Lamar said, you know, let's let's

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Speaker 3: Go play some ball, you know, and play some great football.

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Speaker 3: Put our offense together with Todd and Lamar and the

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Speaker 3: rest of the guys, and that's as a coach Man,

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Speaker 3: that's how you think right now, That's how I'm thinking

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Speaker 5: Man. You know you always wanted to be here, to

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Speaker 5: be ray. We're just curious.

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Speaker 10: Did you get approached by other teams in this process

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Speaker 4: H teams reached out, but it was like not, I

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Speaker 5: Did you did you feel some urgency to get this

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 9: I mean did you did you want to get it

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Speaker 4: If the number wasn't what you wanted it to be,

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Speaker 4: absolutely wanted to get it done because I was just

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Speaker 8: It seems really successful and you have a lot on

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Speaker 5: Do you have a pretty much run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just have faith in the process. We have

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Speaker 2: on point my family. You know, it's a great stabilizer

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Speaker 7: Well, Mar, you mentioned uh your mother as your manager,

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Speaker 7: uh trust hers more to your relationship with her, cause

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Speaker 7: you describe your mother's influence on you getting your life,

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Speaker 7: what it means to your family to come up on

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Speaker 7: this sort of reward financially, and your plans.

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Speaker 5: From mother's there helping with her.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, She's a huge influence on my life just

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Speaker 4: by you know, her just raising four of us, you know,

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Speaker 4: me being the oldest. And just see how she grind

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Speaker 4: and work without complaining, not wanting me to get a job,

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Speaker 4: gonna take care of everything else. Just seeing that and

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Speaker 4: her own, not aksing for a handout, not reaching out

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Speaker 4: to people like she, oh, I need this right here

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Speaker 4: to pay my bills. I never heard her complain about

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Speaker 4: anything like that. I just see her go go to work,

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Speaker 4: back late at night from working, or I'm dropping her

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Speaker 4: off the or stuff like that. It was like, man,

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Speaker 4: this woman's a superhero like to me. You know, that

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Speaker 4: was part of the influence right there. And what was

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Speaker 4: your other question? What was your other question?

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Speaker 5: What it means to your mother or you say, and

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Speaker 5: your family to to be rewarded in this way. You

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Speaker 5: can again the mother's day playing.

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Speaker 4: It means a lot to my family and myself, you know,

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Speaker 4: just from you know, being being in a place where

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Speaker 4: we wasn't before. You know, just you know, another step, uh,

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Speaker 4: another step in stone of anything for Mother's Day. Uh,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I think I I I got a

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Speaker 4: gift already. I think she's satisfied right now.

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Speaker 2: Or something.

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Speaker 4: Uh. I probably give your car, cause give us some

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Speaker 4: flowers or something. Some flowers. Women love flowers. They can't

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Speaker 4: go wrong with flowers.

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Speaker 8: Is that true? Oh?

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Speaker 4: No, you know these days, you know, one on them shows,

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Speaker 4: she was like, I don't know, does.

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Speaker 5: It mean to you? I mean, it was five years

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Speaker 5: ago when you went through the old your housets and beating.

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Speaker 5: People were questioning whether you could even play. We're back and.

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Speaker 2: Now today you're the highest peed player.

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Speaker 5: What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Like I said before, you know, they're just proving, you know,

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Speaker 4: proving myself right. You know, it's not about what people

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Speaker 4: say and this and that. You know, he says, she

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Speaker 4: say back to that. You know, it's it's about believing

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Speaker 4: in yourself at the end of the day, you know,

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Speaker 4: keeping God first, because you know, without him there's no

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Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson. I'm gonna tell you that now you know,

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Speaker 4: I kept him first at all times, no matter what

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Speaker 4: than ever. You know, I just kept kept my faith

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00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,280
Speaker 4: with him. And now we're here.

443
00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:44,000
Speaker 5: Do you an'll have any impact on your negotiatings.

444
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,080
Speaker 4: I'm not. I didn't worry about Jaylens deal.

445
00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:47,399
Speaker 7: You know.

446
00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,920
Speaker 4: It was like you know, we came to terms. We

447
00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,359
Speaker 4: we came something both both of us mutually agreed on.

448
00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,119
Speaker 4: Like I said, now we're here, John, this offense now

449
00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,520
Speaker 4: with Lamar signed and get say Flowers after the draft, Obj, how.

450
00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 5: Excited argued about.

451
00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,119
Speaker 12: This real thing?

452
00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,640
Speaker 5: Doesn't be maybe one of the more explosive offenses you've had.

453
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 3: Oh sure, you know Nelson. Nelson's in here working hard.

454
00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 3: The rest of the receivers. I'm sure. I think Mark's

455
00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,360
Speaker 3: coming in next week or the week after.

456
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 4: He'll be in here.

457
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,120
Speaker 3: A bunch of the linemen are in it. It's gonna

458
00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,280
Speaker 3: be a lot of fun. You know, Lamar's already looking

459
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,200
Speaker 3: at the playbook even probably before you know, you probably

460
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,119
Speaker 3: gotta sneak peak at it before I'll bet if I

461
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 3: know you at all. But it's got a chance to

462
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,680
Speaker 3: be it's got a chance to be exciting and fun.

463
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,639
Speaker 3: It's got a chance to be a winning offense. That's

464
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,960
Speaker 3: what we always want to be. But you know, the

465
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,040
Speaker 3: expectations are always high. Like Lamar said, you go back

466
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,960
Speaker 3: to twenty eighteen, that's all. That's all you think about.

467
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,000
Speaker 3: It's being as good as you can in every single way,

468
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,560
Speaker 3: and this year is no exception. But you know, I

469
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,920
Speaker 3: understand it's kind of ramped up a little bit, you know,

470
00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,159
Speaker 3: But Mike McDonald sitting back there, it's ramped up for

471
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 3: the defense too, right, Mike and Chris Horton for the

472
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 3: special team. So it's a team thing. You know, we're

473
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,359
Speaker 3: gonna go out there and fight and work to be

474
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,239
Speaker 3: the best team we can be. And now we got

475
00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,640
Speaker 3: a quarterback you know, locked up. We always knew we would,

476
00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,280
Speaker 3: but now it's official and it's time to get to work.

477
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:03,000
Speaker 4: Mark.

478
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,639
Speaker 5: I want to get kind of your thoughts on that too.

479
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 13: You've seen guys like Dings go to Buffalo and you know,

480
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 13: top be good mind and what weapons have done for quarterback?

481
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 13: Having three new guys, how eager are you to work

482
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,440
Speaker 13: with them, And how much of a jump do you

483
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 13: think you and all can make working with those three

484
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,160
Speaker 13: guys together.

485
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm very eager. I'm very eager. Left to

486
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,879
Speaker 4: be honest with you know, are I told? I think

487
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 4: I told someone like man, I wanna throw for like

488
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 4: six thousand yards with the weapons we have, like you know,

489
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 4: and I'm not an individual or type of guard stat watcher,

490
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,440
Speaker 4: you know, I just wanna do that, you know, cause

491
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 4: no one ever done, and I feel like we have

492
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 4: the weapons to do it. You know, we got explosive

493
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 4: guys man like co said no saying you know, the

494
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 4: new addition say obj and we got bait man gonna

495
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 4: be one hundred percent healthy thieves gonna be healthy, you know.

496
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,680
Speaker 4: So it's gonna I can't forget about Mark. I can't

497
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 4: forget about my boy Mark, and you know likely so

498
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 4: it's just can't wait to get rolling.

499
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,160
Speaker 11: Maren uh Eric's Ben asked a lot of questions about,

500
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,400
Speaker 11: you know, with you and this these negotiations.

501
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 5: Like it's what did you learn about you know, Eric

502
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 5: as a negotiator or the you know where the opposite

503
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 5: art news two years off.

504
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 4: I didn't have to learn anything about Eric man he's

505
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 4: a business man. You know, I already knew that about him.

506
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 4: I knew it. I was, you know, f gonna be

507
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 4: you know, going through you know we where Eric. It

508
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 4: was nothing to learn. You know, he's like I said,

509
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 4: he's a business guy. You know, he meant business the

510
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,399
Speaker 4: whole time of process. You know, was a professional of

511
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 4: the whole process. I was cool with it right during.

512
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,360
Speaker 9: During these negotiations, these players here, and you can put

513
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 9: out a big message a legging collusion in the league

514
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 9: relative to paying players like Lamar. If you're on the

515
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 9: front lines of these negotiations, there will.

516
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 5: Be more coming forward. What can you say anything about

517
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 5: such a congrogation?

518
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 2: Not much, you know, Uh, I speak to Lamar, Lamar

519
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: speaks to me. There's no collusion when it's me and

520
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 2: Lamar speaking together. I think the conversations were great. I

521
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 2: always understood where he was coming from, and I always

522
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: think he understood where I was coming from. Certainly we

523
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 2: always didn't agree necessarily, or we would have got a

524
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 2: deal done a lot sooner. But the respect has always

525
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 2: been there, the appreciation has always been there. You know,

526
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 2: we both love the Ravens, and we both love this community,

527
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 2: and it took some time. In the end, it was

528
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 2: really two people, you know, and I was dealing with

529
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson the agent, very impressive, patient, demanding on a

530
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 2: straightforward you know. It wasn't always easy, you know, I'd

531
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: rather deal with Lamar Jackson the player, I think, But

532
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 2: in the end it was just Lamar and I talking, texting,

533
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 2: emailing each other, trying to get a deal done that

534
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: we really know other factors involved.

535
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 5: We weren't rally of all these weathers in the passing game.

536
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 12: But as a running quarterback, there an older lightning the

537
00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 12: industry in the league.

538
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 5: A coach, do you anticipate a conscious effort to have

539
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 5: you along the last this year?

540
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 4: But that a how will you.

541
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 5: Whether that money counts the senior league?

542
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 3: That's really that's a great question, bo I know, it's

543
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 3: something that we get asked all the time, Lamar, you

544
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 3: get asked it all the time too, And it really

545
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 3: is no conscious decisions along those lines. In the sense

546
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 3: that Lamar is a unique player. He plays you know,

547
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 3: why say it? Sometimes you called Lamar ball, right, Lamar?

548
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 3: I mean I tell him all the times he play

549
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 3: like you play you you style because you are so

550
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 3: unique to your point there's nobody that plays like you.

551
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 3: There's nobody that ever will play like you the way

552
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 3: you can do. That's that's your God given gift. Like

553
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 3: Lamar said, he's there's nobody like him and there never

554
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 3: will be as a player. So let's go be the

555
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 3: best Lamar Jackson that you that God intended you to be.

556
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 3: You know, so when he feels like it's time to

557
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 3: take off and run, he will when he feels like

558
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 3: it's time, you know, based on what he sees. Nobody

559
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 3: sees the field. I think Lamar's unique in the way

560
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 3: he sees the field. He sees it in a snapshot.

561
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 3: He doesn't necessarily see it in a in a in

562
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 3: a connected Dodts progression. He takes big picture U view

563
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: of the field and you ask him after a play

564
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 3: what you see out there, and he'll say, hey, I

565
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 3: saw He'll give you the names of the players where

566
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 3: he saw him and what spots and where our players

567
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 3: were and why he did what he did. And then

568
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: you go back and you look at the tape and

569
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 3: you're like, that's exactly what Lamar said he saw it.

570
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: So you trust that as a coach and you let

571
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 3: you allowed. You don't let you you you you encourage

572
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 3: him to play the way he plays. So I think

573
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 3: he's gonna throw when it's time to throw, and he's

574
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 3: gonna run when it's time to run. And we're gonna

575
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 3: we're gonna, we're gonna play play that kind of football

576
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be great.

577
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: L maar.

578
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 5: Doing this process, we've heard a lot of Lamar and

579
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: he's an agent. Now you've gotten this deal done. Do

580
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 5: you plan to continue to represent yourself even going forward.

581
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 11: To your career?

582
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 4: I do, well, I do. I wouldn't put my trust

583
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 4: in anyone else but myself.

584
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 12: Mark, You're you're adored from the Multiplex beauty and the

585
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 12: little kids wearing your jersey everywhere.

586
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 11: What does it mean to you to remain in his community?

587
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 2: Man?

588
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 4: That means a lot to me. I love the fan

589
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: base like like crazy, like I can't even explain it,

590
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 4: like how much I love the fan base. You know,

591
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 4: I was getting messages from them, like like people crying,

592
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 4: like sad and my DMS. I'm like, man, like they

593
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 4: got me sad. I'm like bro, like y'all don't know

594
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 4: what's going on, Like just calm down, man, like we

595
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 4: making progress. I want to tell them we're making progress,

596
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 4: but I don't want to tell them because don't want

597
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 4: to spoil what's going on, you know. So it's like, man,

598
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 4: just be patient. If anything, be patient with me because

599
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 4: like I'm not trying to go nowhere, you know, No

600
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 4: matter what you guys see, like the finan say so

601
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 4: is what's gonna be printed out when I'm signing and

602
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 4: stuff like that, don't worry about what everyone else is.

603
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 11: Saying, you know.

604
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 4: And I mean I love it. I love the community

605
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 4: so much.

606
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:40,479
Speaker 8: Man.

607
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 4: It's like I tell everybody it's my third home because

608
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 4: Florida Louisville, they ain't here, like, but I'm here for

609
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: five years, so like this's my home home right now.

610
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 5: And you were your own agent.

611
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 13: Were there are other agents that actually reach out to

612
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 13: you for trying to represent you?

613
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 4: Absolutely, every every week it was somebody new texting me.

614
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 4: I don't know how he was getting my number. I

615
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 4: guess they were sending it to each other, like, man,

616
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 4: you know, I got this client right here. I'm like, man,

617
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 4: I do not care about your client. But yeah, every

618
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 4: week it was a new agent.

619
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 5: Did you have any contact with Steve his time and error?

620
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 10: He said it was you and Lamar, what was Steve's

621
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 10: his what during this time of then you asked.

622
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 4: Me no questions because he was talking to me. Then

623
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 4: he went to and went to looking at I was

624
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 4: confused a little, but okay, no I didn't I was

625
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 4: talking strictly to Eric.

626
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, you know, I think I'm blessed mark that

627
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,959
Speaker 2: you know Steve. I think John would say the same thing,

628
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: Like Steve gives us a chance to do our jobs.

629
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 2: He'll provide advice and guidance. He's great at that.

630
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: You know.

631
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 2: He's got a great perspective on negotiation and just basically

632
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: on life in general, the nature of people, on various things.

633
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 2: And he would give me feedback and he would give

634
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 2: me ideas and suggest and different.

635
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 4: Things if I asked.

636
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: But he's really kind of hands off, which I appreciate.

637
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 2: You know. That's what makes this place, I think so

638
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: special to work. And he supported me, as did John,

639
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: and as did Ozzie and Dick and Sashi and Nick

640
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: and Pat and George and Joe and all those guys

641
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 2: supported me. But in the end it was really me

642
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: and Lamar and we got it done.

643
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 11: How would you kind of evaluate these kinds four or

644
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 11: five years as duty around Lamar. How does I guess

645
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 11: how Lamar's has to jure, he compete, He waits for

646
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 11: what he's done, what people.

647
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 4: Were to build it.

648
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, i'd probably give us, give us a B.

649
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 2: I mean, we've done a lot of good things, but

650
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 2: we haven't achieved what we said we would, but Lamar

651
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 2: said he would.

652
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 4: We're not there yet.

653
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, Lamar stood up there and he said,

654
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 2: what we were going to do it. We're not there yet,

655
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 2: but we're going to get there and right away. The

656
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 2: team's not set yet. We still have a few months

657
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: to build the team out. But I think you can

658
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 2: feel the energy, you can see the rocks stre It's

659
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 2: a strong roster. We got a lot of really really

660
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Speaker 2: good players in place, excellently coaching staff, and we've got

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Speaker 2: the mindset and the culture that John built. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I think we're we're a B, but we're on our way.

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Speaker 4: To be in an A.

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Speaker 5: Well, Laura, I ask something that came up in the

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Speaker 5: lust question. I want to make sure are you fully

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Speaker 5: medically kid?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I passed.

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Speaker 8: Everything's I'm great, yea, Lamar, do you think you'll get

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Speaker 8: some of these players together on your own in.

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Speaker 5: Florida before yet.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, hopefully you know what guys. You know, some

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Speaker 4: guys like to work out with with their personal trainers

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But hopefully I can get the

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Speaker 4: guys together and we you know, we started building right

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Speaker 4: our chemistry right then and there.

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Speaker 8: As the process wow down and you know, how did

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Speaker 8: you balance Lamar the agent and being a businessman that

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Speaker 8: you wanted to be a Lamar the player the human

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Speaker 8: that you know, just wanted to be rated getting healed up?

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Speaker 4: Oh that was easy, you know, And it was time

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Speaker 4: for me to be Lamar Jason the agent. I was

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Speaker 4: Lamar Jason the agent. But you know I really didn't

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Speaker 4: have to be the player because I wasn't on the field.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I was doing with training, So it

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Speaker 4: was pretty easy for me.

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Speaker 5: You and General will sit best. I will find themorrow

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Speaker 5: we're back and that's gonna work out.

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Speaker 12: One will give to the confidence in two with the

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Speaker 12: times when I believe you might not have been played as.

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Speaker 5: Confidence, was it a way that wouldn't go?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean I just think you know, we were trying

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Speaker 2: to build the best team we could. Lamar's in our minds,

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Speaker 2: the best quarterback in the league. And you know, uh,

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Speaker 2: I just believe, you know, when I think about challenges

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Speaker 2: that I faced, you just can't quit. You gotta persevere.

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Speaker 2: You got to try to find solutions, you know, And

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Speaker 2: so I kept trying to find different ways of coming

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Speaker 2: up with some solutions. And you know, talking to Lamar communication,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the toughest thing and the worst thing you

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Speaker 2: can do in any kind of situation is just basically

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Speaker 2: shut off from everything and not engage.

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Speaker 4: And just give up.

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Speaker 2: And you you know, we just didn't.

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Speaker 4: We didn't.

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Speaker 2: We didn't want to do that. It wasn't the best

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Speaker 2: thing for the club, it wasn't the best thing for

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Speaker 2: the city, for the NFL. We believed it wasn't the

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Speaker 2: best thing for Lamar. So we just kept trying to persevere.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there was some dark days. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to you and say every

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Speaker 2: day was great. It's been a long stretch. But we

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Speaker 2: know Lamar, we know the kind of person he is,

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Speaker 2: and you know he's in the phenomenal football player. But

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Speaker 2: you don't make a phenomenal football player the highest paid

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Speaker 2: player in the league. You make a phenomenal football player

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Speaker 2: who was also a phenomenal person, the highest paid player

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Speaker 2: in the league, and so we had a lot of

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Speaker 2: conviction that this was the right thing to do. It

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Speaker 2: made a lot of sense. It just took a lot

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Speaker 2: of patience.

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Speaker 5: Well, the structure of the deal you a little more

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Speaker 5: wiggled him to, you know.

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Speaker 10: Make some of the movies that you've talked about, continue

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Speaker 10: adding to the team over the next three months.

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Speaker 2: Well, we will get a little bit of relief. We

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Speaker 2: needed it, quite honestly, you know. Uh, you know, Lamar

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Speaker 2: joked a few years ago that d C stands for

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Speaker 2: every dollar counts, And that is how how I think

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Speaker 2: about it, because every dollar does count this year, and

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Speaker 2: we need every dollar we can because we've spent you know,

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Speaker 2: we've spent on some players and we signed some guys back,

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Speaker 2: We signed Odell, we signed Rock yesterday, we have our

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Speaker 2: draft class, and so you know, we spend a lot

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Speaker 2: of money and we do it every year because we

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Speaker 2: want to win. This does give us a little bit

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Speaker 2: of relief, but it's not like it's not like we're

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Speaker 2: leading the league in cap room.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I can't. But with the deal done, have you

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Speaker 5: treated you alt that anything nice? Well, you treat your

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Speaker 5: sult anything nice.

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Speaker 4: No, I haven't. Like I said, I got my mom

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Speaker 4: something that's you know, my manager. I feel like she

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Speaker 4: deserved anything because I seen she was getting uh she

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Speaker 4: was getting her name called out a lot, you know,

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Speaker 4: getting her number called out a lot. So I, you know,

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Speaker 4: I felt like she deserves something, if anything. Oh, I'm cool.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm cool for nowe.

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Speaker 5: Lamar under the he said she said there was a

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Speaker 5: report that you went to the Ravens and said, uh,

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Speaker 5: you wanted O'Dell and DeAndre Hopkins?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that?

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Speaker 5: Is that true?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: It was a question like can we like basically like

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Speaker 4: can we get Oldell and dr? Like it was a

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Speaker 4: question and it wasn't like oh I want them or

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00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 4: nothing else, like nah, that's not how you conduct business.

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Speaker 5: So how do you how do you when they when.

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Speaker 4: You'll get Odell? Wh When does that? What does that

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Speaker 4: mean to you?

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Speaker 5: When they already were good, you know, a yell and

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Speaker 5: after you kind of being that suggestion.

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Speaker 4: Uh, I was hyped, like we we got O'Dell. Man,

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Speaker 4: there was a super Bowl Winter Receiver. I felt like

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Speaker 4: before it's injury, he was gonna be the Super Bowl MVP.

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Speaker 4: You know you don't take away from Cooper Cup cause

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Speaker 4: he bought it up, you know, out of control. But

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Speaker 4: I felt like O'Dell Beckham was on the version of

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Speaker 4: When the MVP, you know, so I'm hyped about it.

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Speaker 8: Last last one guy, John, Uh, we heard the reaction

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Speaker 8: and where Eric was when the steel started to come together?

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Speaker 5: Where did you hear when this heel was coming together?

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Speaker 5: Multi reaction?

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Speaker 4: Such an embarrassing question. Actually I was. I I was

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Speaker 4: in and uh it was early.

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Speaker 3: It's about five forty five or so in the morning,

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Speaker 3: and uh, I all of a sudden, I'm in my

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Speaker 3: closet getting dressed, and I hear Johnny you in there.

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Speaker 4: You know, It's like like it was Eric's voice.

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Speaker 3: It's like, oh, it was just like Eric, it's kind

782
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Speaker 3: of early.

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Speaker 4: Man, and give me a second.

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Speaker 3: So I came out and he told me the story

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Speaker 3: that you guys heard from the night before, and that

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Speaker 3: he thought that that something was gonna happen. And of course,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of a lot of a

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Speaker 3: lot of joy at that moment. So then I held

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Speaker 3: my breath for a couple of days, obviously, and then

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Speaker 3: here we.

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Speaker 1: Are, all right, pleasure get here, You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Rape Press Pass podcast. That was quarterback Lamar Jackson, head

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00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh, and general manager Eric Decasta. Lamar was

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Speaker 1: fresh off signing a new five year contract to keep

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Speaker 1: him here in Baltimore. You can tell he was excited,

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00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: and Ravens fans certainly are as well. We actually had

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Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with Lamar for an episode

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Speaker 1: of the Lounge Podcast, So if you can't get enough

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson content, will go ahead and listen to that interview.

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Speaker 1: You can also watch it on our app, our website,

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