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

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Speaker 1: to be joined by running back Keaton Mitchell and Keen

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Speaker 1: I'll start here. Your your speed kind of the headline here.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that you have the two fastest speeds

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Speaker 1: of any ball carrier on the Ravens so far this season?

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Speaker 1: You did not know?

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Speaker 2: No, you went full of speed.

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Speaker 1: Ooh that's a teaser, folks, because all right, so you

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Speaker 1: hit twenty twenty point ninety nine miles per hour on

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Speaker 1: your forty yard touchdown run the Seahawks one, and then

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Speaker 1: on your Browns run twenty point nine to two. Do

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Speaker 1: you know, like, have you ever been clocked top speed?

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Speaker 1: What is your top speed?

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Speaker 3: My last year in college, I was at twenty two

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Speaker 3: point six.

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Speaker 4: Twenty it's your top speed gear, It's not twenty two

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Speaker 4: point six right now?

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Speaker 1: Two point six?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, come back in half or something like that. So, uh,

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Speaker 4: I mean twenty two point six I'd have to go back.

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Speaker 4: I mean we're talking that's one of the top speeds

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Speaker 4: in the NFL. I mean that's Tyreek Hill type level

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Speaker 4: speed right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got k metcalf, So so you know, talking

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Speaker 1: about it's always a debate in the locker room who's

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Speaker 1: the fastest guy on the team. Obviously, Lamar's really fast.

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Speaker 1: He's never been time though. Folks don't really remember that

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Speaker 1: he never did. He didn't run the forty.

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Speaker 3: Ye ain't like we got some speed in that locker room. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: some names they ain't never been mentioned. Well, Doda was

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Speaker 3: a track star, jayleenore Davis.

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Speaker 2: Okay, he's fast, Okay, he got some speed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I know you're a rookie. So you don't

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Speaker 1: go around, you know, puffing your chest out, like thumping

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Speaker 1: your chest. Do you play it low key? Like low

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Speaker 1: key I'm the fastest. I'm just not gonna say much.

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Speaker 1: How do you kind of play that?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I don't really like talk about it for real. They

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Speaker 3: just be like, nah, you got it, you got it.

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Speaker 3: Like I was talking to Nielsen, what was it during

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Speaker 3: the game, like or before the game? It was sometimes

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Speaker 3: he was like, nah, you you the fastest. I don't

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Speaker 3: really be talking about.

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Speaker 5: It though, He's like, I don't need to talk about it.

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Speaker 5: You've got the stats right there exactly.

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Speaker 1: I got the numbers.

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Speaker 5: You saw you saw the numbers.

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Speaker 2: What was the speed this year?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure who has the third fastest time. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to check the numbers on that. I don't

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Speaker 1: have that in front of me, but we can go

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Speaker 1: back and find that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, done is somebody who's had the top speed in

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Speaker 4: past years, Like he's got especially turn he can run.

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it's like when do you get to

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Speaker 1: open up? You know, like you get to the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to run full speed? That's part of that's part of it.

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Speaker 4: And is that why you feel like even on the

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Speaker 4: like that run against the Seahawks or the Browns, like

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Speaker 4: you didn't feel like you hit top speed on those No?

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Speaker 6: And why like why not?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: Like you just I mean I was battling a hamstring issue.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm good now, all right, as needed another chance?

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Speaker 1: All right, I think we can. Yeah, I'll talk the

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I think we can make that half. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I remember asking you about your speed and you

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Speaker 1: said it was a little bit later to develop. Can

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Speaker 1: you talk about that? When when did your speed come about?

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Speaker 2: I mean I always had speed, but.

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Speaker 3: Like like in high school, like I break away, and

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Speaker 3: then in college I realized, like dang, Like when I

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Speaker 3: watched film, I'm like yeah, I look faster, way fast.

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Speaker 3: It was like every year like I was getting faster

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Speaker 3: and faster. Like my sophomore year, I was talking to

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Speaker 3: Roger Harris and I bet you that faster this year

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Speaker 3: I felt. I felt good. And then my junior year,

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Speaker 3: my last year, that's when I hit twenty two to six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this is legit. But you weren't. You told

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Speaker 1: me you weren't always the fastest kid growing up. No, no,

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Speaker 1: so so yeah, so how does that develop?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So after well, in the off season, like of college,

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Speaker 3: I trained my dad, Like for the combine, I was

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Speaker 3: training with my dad, just me and him and a

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Speaker 3: linebacker that went to my school. We was just training

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Speaker 3: in the basement and then uh, we got a little

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Speaker 3: facility we went to.

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Speaker 2: We just trained it for real on speed.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty neat.

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Speaker 3: Now I feel like they running back all the drills

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Speaker 3: that's just natural, Like I mean, you gotta do them

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Speaker 3: just to get a feeling. But I was like, I

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Speaker 3: just need to get this forty times. And it's crazy

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Speaker 3: because I rolled my ankle like three days before I went.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, so I'm like, dang, what did you run?

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Speaker 1: What was your your per day or combine?

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Speaker 2: Or combine co Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And were you happy with that time?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Really, I rolled my ankle. I was I was mad, man,

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Speaker 2: we got it.

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Speaker 5: What were you aiming up?

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Speaker 6: Were you eyeing up for two?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I was. I was hitting for two h.

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Speaker 1: Four two flat or what not?

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Speaker 2: Like four two seven for two eight? Wow? So my

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Speaker 2: dad bought a laser thing.

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Speaker 3: And I was just four two four three consistently, four

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Speaker 3: to three flat consistently.

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Speaker 1: Well, So, I mean we're getting ahead of ourselves here

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But I mean if you had run,

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Speaker 1: there's numbers, if you hadn't rolled your ankle, you feel

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Speaker 1: like you probably would have been drafted.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't control the offices. I don't know

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Speaker 3: what they'd be looking at, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know somebody else could have taken me. Man, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, I'm kind of glad that work out.

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Speaker 2: All. Oh good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, so I'm curious we can talk

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Speaker 4: a little bit about, you know, the draft weekend and

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Speaker 4: ended up here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Like, how how was draft weekend for you?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: Was that a was that a difficult memory? Or do

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Speaker 4: you is it end in a happy place because you

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Speaker 4: ended up coming here? Like how do you view Draft weekend.

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Speaker 3: I can't control and then I just thank God that

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Speaker 3: I'm here. But Draft weekend, I'm just sitting in the

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Speaker 3: living room with my family. Uh we just watching the

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Speaker 3: draft all these running back getting picked.

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Speaker 2: I was like, dang.

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Speaker 3: I ended up going upstairs in my room like man

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Speaker 3: watching it no more. And I was getting calls from

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Speaker 3: a lot of teams, Oh, we're gonna we're looking to

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Speaker 3: pick you up here, like at fourth round, fifth round.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, y'all got like four picks left.

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Speaker 3: Never got called. Then at the end of the draft,

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Speaker 3: the teams was calling me out. I picked up two

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Speaker 3: running backs?

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Speaker 1: Wow, right, teams that the drafted to run.

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Speaker 2: Running back or two I was like, I ain't. I

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Speaker 2: ain't going there, right yeah.

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Speaker 4: And so when did the conversations with the Ravens start,

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Speaker 4: Like when you're going through the pre draft process, did

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Speaker 4: you talk to them either at the combine or your

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Speaker 4: pro day or like I.

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Speaker 3: Talked to I talked to him at the combine. We

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Speaker 3: were going over plays and stuff and all that, and

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Speaker 3: then they were the second team.

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Speaker 1: They called me the second team that called you all

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Speaker 1: the draft that right, And at the end of the draft,

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Speaker 1: obviously I imagined for listeners who don't know. Keaton's dad, Anthony,

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Speaker 1: played for the Ravens won a Super Bowl with the

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Speaker 1: Ravens in two thousand as a safety, and so I

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Speaker 1: would have to imagine that your dad was nudging you

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Speaker 1: in the direction of going to Baltimore. Is that a

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Speaker 1: fair assessment?

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Speaker 2: I mean it was.

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Speaker 3: He was like it was like a mutual, like you

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Speaker 3: went to the Ravens, what not? I mean, but we

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Speaker 3: all we looked at all the arts. Yeah, the depth charts,

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Speaker 3: running backs, they contracts and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Ravens was the best fit.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious who else was in the running. I just

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Speaker 1: want to know who he beat out for your services,

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Speaker 1: because that will make me feel good for yours to come.

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Speaker 3: Arizona Jets. The Cowboys called me during the draft, Arizona Jets, Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: I think the Rams called.

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Speaker 1: Me, Oh, gotta show them, show them.

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Speaker 2: Those are the teams I can remember right now.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, So, like when you're going through the

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Speaker 4: process of like making decision, you're looking at the depth charts,

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Speaker 4: you are, you know, the history of your dad playing here,

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Speaker 4: Like how does all that kind of unfold? You're sitting

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Speaker 4: you make the decision that night. I'm curious, like what

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Speaker 4: that night looks like. You make the decision that night,

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Speaker 4: you got all depth charts pulled up, you're thinking through

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Speaker 4: all this stuff. You're also dealing with, like the lows

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Speaker 4: of kind of a disappointing draft weekend.

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Speaker 5: Like, walk me through that process a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was talking to coach Taggart. We're talking.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna call you back. We get the searching,

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Speaker 3: caught them back, like, look's do it like I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to come to the Ravens and then got up here.

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Speaker 3: I mean we we had a bottle. Uh, Me and

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Speaker 3: my dad, my brother, my mom, who is happy, my girl.

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Speaker 3: We was all happy because my girl from Maryland too.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it all worked out perfect.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so when you make that decision, like every

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Speaker 4: football player is confident and you're confident in your abilities,

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Speaker 4: But are you thinking at that time, oh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: make that fifty three? Are you thinking all right, you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe this could be a practice squad opportunity, Like what

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Speaker 4: is your mindset when you sign here as an undrafted

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure nobody be Like, I'm

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Speaker 3: just trying to make practice squad.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to make the roster.

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Speaker 3: So one thing my dad told me, because he was

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Speaker 3: special team was gonna do it for you. So I

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Speaker 3: came up here doing all the running back stuff, trying

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Speaker 3: to show my ability. And then special teams coach Chris

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Speaker 3: he was like, you're gonna make your money on specially teams.

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Speaker 3: I was like, let's do it. I was on all four,

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Speaker 3: L five and kickoff. I ain't never been in the middle.

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Speaker 3: I ain't never been in the middle. Gunner left in

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Speaker 3: on punt return like usually your thing, Like I be

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Speaker 3: a returner, right, but I'm trying to get on the

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Speaker 3: field like no matter where, it just put me somewhere, right.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, he gave me my shot, so I appreciate

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Speaker 3: him for that.

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Speaker 1: At what point during the summer did you feel like,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm making plays. I have a realistic shot

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Speaker 1: of making this fifty three. At what point did you

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Speaker 1: feel like, as a rookie, undrafted, it's tough. What point

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Speaker 1: did you feel like, I can hang, I'm gonna make

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Speaker 3: But everybody was.

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Speaker 2: Even if I didn't get the ball, I was open.

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Speaker 3: Like once, I feel like because everybody here was like

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Speaker 2: It's cool.

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Speaker 3: Like it was cool, like seeing my name caught my

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Speaker 3: So I found me a little routine, so I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I think fans are always interested, like do they call you,

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Speaker 4: Or sometimes I say like I didn't get the call,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Story. Yeah. I think running back coach texted me first. Okay,

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Speaker 4: And you got the good news was it wasn't kind

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Speaker 4: it's also disappointing that you're gonna go, you know, on

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, I remember now, So that that day

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Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I gotta practice the last practice and cut.

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Speaker 3: Come up to me. Look, you gotta go upstairs. And

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Speaker 3: plan do I like that?

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Speaker 2: Am I cut? Make it?

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Speaker 3: They're like, you ain't cut, but they ain't tell me

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Speaker 3: I made it. Then, like right there, they're like, now

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Speaker 3: else to tell me. I don't know, but I thought

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Speaker 3: I was cut.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was sweating, like, man, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: I was scared.

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Speaker 1: That's funny, that's funny.

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Speaker 4: And so then you know, you you come back from

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Speaker 4: isn't too big for me, Like I can place. I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm a player. What did that mean to you once

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Speaker 2: I mean it means a lot to me. Uh, we

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Speaker 3: They just give me some good opportunities, They create some

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Speaker 2: So I create a flag. I guess I did good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But yeah, when I versus Seattle, I mean, who

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean you only had you had two

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Speaker 1: and then you just explode for this massive game and

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Speaker 3: It was good having the whole team like like you've

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Speaker 3: And that's when I really build they trust or got

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Speaker 3: they trust. I was like, dang, I feel them like

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Speaker 1: How much does that trust really kind of catapult a

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Speaker 3: I mean, lamar here, like say a little something here

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Speaker 3: I trust you, like and I feel I get that

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Speaker 3: energy like from the team, like pat Riccard come up

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Speaker 3: to me almost all the time, be like you're doing

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Speaker 3: a good job, but just keep going, like keep trusting

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Speaker 3: like mostly everybody on the line, oh line, Moses, he

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Speaker 3: come up to me, but he been so he know

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Speaker 3: he was always there like keep going, bro, you're doing

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Speaker 3: good like everybody see it.

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Speaker 2: And I like I got that energy from everybody in

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Speaker 3: Like okay, it's trying to lock in like your practice

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Speaker 4: In talking to you, like I just get the sense

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Speaker 4: that like none of this success that you're having as

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Speaker 5: Is that how you see it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, like I always knew what I can do.

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Speaker 3: I just need the opportunity. And each and every week

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Speaker 3: they just giving me the opportunity, Like every practice, Like

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Speaker 3: I treat that like game mode, like work on something

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Speaker 3: ready to get done with practice, like actually going there

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Speaker 3: I just like today is a run day. So I

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Speaker 3: just gotta you know what I'm saying, do what I do,

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Speaker 3: like trust, like get the feels of what we got

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Speaker 4: You know you're you're known for speed, right, we spend

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Speaker 4: all the time talking about your speed, one of the

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Speaker 4: fastest guys on the team, but you also play with

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Speaker 5: To your game as well.

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Speaker 1: Five ft eight one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like you're doing start away from contact and like

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Speaker 4: and it is that something that you take pride in.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you like to show people like I'm not just

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Speaker 2: People like I know you can do that.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 3: I know you Like like it's just like a trait

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Speaker 3: that nobody knew that I could do.

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Speaker 2: Like like.

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Speaker 3: Before this season, Like Kyle, be like, you ain't gonna like,

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Speaker 3: you ain't gonna be able to bounce it every time,

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Speaker 3: like you got to get them a gap.

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Speaker 2: I know I don't doing it.

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Speaker 3: I got this, but no, I'd be like, yeah, I

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Speaker 3: can bounce bouncing, you know, you can always beat them. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but no, I just trust my keys. That's what I got.

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Speaker 3: You gotta make something happen. Because you lose one yard

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Speaker 3: in the league, they're gonna be like they ain't. Let's

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Speaker 3: know what we do, like better get them three better,

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Speaker 3: getting them to at least to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: But nah, I knew that was like an underrated trait

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Speaker 1: Like, no, nobody know where did that power come from

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Is it from playing with your dad in the backyard?

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Speaker 1: Like my brother developed that for being my brother framed guy.

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Speaker 2: My brother.

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Speaker 3: We always like bumping around black I'm strong for real, Like.

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Speaker 2: But no, it's it's just something that I always had.

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Speaker 2: It's just like.

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Speaker 3: Natural, like, yeah, I can fall forward, I can get

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Speaker 1: Right, And I imagine that just puts a chip on

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Speaker 1: your shoulder. Whenever people think you can't do something. Has

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Speaker 1: that been a driver for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can get it. Put me on in thirty one,

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Speaker 3: thirty two, I can get to blessed on small so

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Speaker 3: like a little crease to go along a way from me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, Well, do you feel like people sometimes they

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Speaker 1: can't even see you?

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Speaker 6: Do you?

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Speaker 1: Do you try? Is there anything that you can do

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Speaker 1: to try to help with that? Is it setting up

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Speaker 3: Try to hide sometimes? Do you really if pre that

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Speaker 3: if I see a linebacker like staring at me, like

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Speaker 3: he trying to kill me so high when he snapped

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Speaker 3: in the alignement like stand up and block, I try

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Speaker 3: to try to lose him or whatever, or like show

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Speaker 3: them going this way and come back out of this hole.

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Speaker 2: It's just instant. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I like that. That's cool.

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Speaker 4: So when you when you're dad played here and was here,

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Speaker 4: you weren't even born yet. No, So do you have

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when he went to Jacksonville Cincinnati. I only remember

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Speaker 3: the only game I remember was Cincinnati was in the stands.

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Speaker 3: They were playing the Stellers. It was a wild game.

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Speaker 3: Oh remember too much?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's not like you grew up like your

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Speaker 4: you necessarily grew up around the NFL, because that chapter

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he retired two thousand and six, like six, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean two thousand and eight. He retired two thousand

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Speaker 3: and eight. Yeah, like six.

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Speaker 2: I remember a little bit, just a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I remember.

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Speaker 1: How many times have you watched the highlight of his

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Speaker 1: of the blocked field goal ninety yard touchdown return, Like, honestly,

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Speaker 1: How many times have you seen that clip?

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Speaker 2: Too many? Too many times?

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Speaker 1: Well, that play, I mean that play is in Raven's lore.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a legend. I remember watching that play

446
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Speaker 1: as a kid.

447
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Speaker 3: I was surprised everybody like knew that one play, Like, oh,

448
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 3: your dad made that.

449
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Speaker 1: Oh that play was lit? Hey, that play was lit.

450
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Speaker 1: I was watching fuzzy TV Bunny Years Antenna, and I

451
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Speaker 1: remember being a kid and like jumping up and down.

452
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Speaker 3: A lot of people here remember that play. I ain't

453
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Speaker 3: really think everybody knew.

454
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Speaker 1: That play oh yeah, that play was lit. So I

455
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Speaker 1: mean when you when you grow up the son of

456
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Speaker 1: a father who made a play like that, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: what does that do for you as a kid? Do

458
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Speaker 1: you feel like, oh man, my dad, man, look at

459
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Speaker 1: this these legend you know, like, what was that childhood

460
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Speaker 1: like for you?

461
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Speaker 3: No, So, me and my brother always joked with my

462
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Speaker 3: dad like here, bring it up. He'd be trying to

463
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Speaker 3: like find some film and footage.

464
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Speaker 2: He wasn't like that for he wasn't like that for really,

465
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Speaker 2: always joke.

466
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Speaker 3: On and then he finally on the highlights, him getting picked.

467
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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, man a little bit, but I still

468
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Speaker 2: like like that.

469
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Speaker 3: I can hit like I hit you like competition in

470
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Speaker 3: the house, like you ain't ready for it. But nah,

471
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Speaker 3: We'll always be like, man, you wasn't like that for real. Nah,

472
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Speaker 3: he showed us on highlights. Okay, you got a little

473
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Speaker 3: something to him, Yeah, yeah, a little You wanted.

474
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Speaker 1: Quite a speedy though he didn't have to speed though

475
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Speaker 1: he was fast.

476
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Speaker 2: A little bit, not twenty six.

477
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and and for you like, but do you think

478
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Speaker 4: that his experience in the NFL, like it's interesting you

479
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 4: tell the story about you called him till you made

480
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 4: the team, and he's basically you can't make the club

481
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Speaker 4: and the tub and kind of like always reinforcing I guess,

482
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Speaker 4: good habits and what is expected of you. How does

483
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Speaker 4: that experience from him shape you as a player as

484
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Speaker 4: you're making it in the league right now?

485
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Speaker 3: I mean he always told me since I was you know,

486
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Speaker 3: since I started playing football. I ain't never really think

487
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 3: all that stuff mattered, Like like he was like, you

488
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 3: gotta take care of your body, like you gotta get

489
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Speaker 3: in the cold to I hate the cold.

490
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Speaker 2: I hate getting in there, like you got to. You

491
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Speaker 2: gonna see, like one day you're gonna make it in

492
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Speaker 2: the league. You're gonna see.

493
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Speaker 3: Just watch all the older guys how many times they

494
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Speaker 3: getting the cold to getting the hot tub. But nah,

495
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Speaker 3: I see it now, But I ain't. He always kept

496
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Speaker 3: me in the loop of like being a pro. He

497
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Speaker 3: was like, don't wait to do what pros do, Like

498
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Speaker 3: do it now, like when I was in middle school,

499
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Speaker 3: do it now.

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Speaker 2: So when we was in high school, like yeah, we

501
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Speaker 2: got to.

502
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Speaker 3: We had like a little cold to routine that every Thursday,

503
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Speaker 3: the day before a game, we were getting like a

504
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Speaker 3: little hot tub. People put some EPs salt so rubbing

505
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Speaker 3: alcohol in there.

506
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Speaker 2: I just felt good. Now.

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Speaker 3: He always gave us some little tips every day to

508
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Speaker 3: this day.

509
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Speaker 2: He always kept me in the loop.

510
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Speaker 1: When did your NFL dreams really start to? Kind of father?

511
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Speaker 1: It follow in father's footsteps.

512
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Speaker 2: Like when I wanted to be in a leite?

513
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well when you thought you right? When did you

514
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Speaker 1: want to Did you have that dream as a as

515
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Speaker 1: the son of an NFL player or did you think

516
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Speaker 1: you were going to play another sport? How did it

517
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Speaker 1: work for you?

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Speaker 3: I always wanted to be in the NFL. I played

519
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Speaker 3: other sports. I played basketball and track. Basketball couldn't shoot,

520
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Speaker 3: so I let.

521
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Speaker 1: That good idea.

522
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Speaker 3: But high school I only ran track and played football.

523
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Speaker 3: I always wanted to be in the NFL and see

524
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Speaker 3: what that was like. But yeah, this is a dream

525
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Speaker 3: come true.

526
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Speaker 1: It's cool and in East Carolina. You know you you

527
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Speaker 1: ran for twenty five hundred yards and like twenty three

528
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Speaker 1: touchdowns your past your last two years declared early after

529
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Speaker 1: your junior season. Can you take us through what went

530
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Speaker 1: through that decision and ultimately brought you here? Still it

531
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Speaker 1: was a good decision?

532
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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh no, I just believed in myself. It was

533
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Speaker 3: a hard decision. I was in Mexico when I posted it,

534
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 3: though I was no vacation. I couldn't even enjoy because

535
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Speaker 3: I was so in.

536
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Speaker 2: My head or what should I do? I had schools.

537
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Speaker 3: Calling me like, are you gonna hit the portal into

538
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Speaker 3: the draft? And that's when n Il was jumping like

539
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 3: they were doing crazy money. I was like, man, I

540
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: don't really like I can get that money now, but

541
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Speaker 3: I don't know if.

542
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Speaker 2: The dream, like if I ever had his chance again.

543
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Speaker 3: So I just trusted, believe in myself and answer the

544
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Speaker 3: draft and things worked out.

545
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Speaker 1: And what does it? Does it feel like a dream

546
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Speaker 1: right now? I mean, the story is just incredible. The

547
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Speaker 1: son of an NFL player comes to his dad's childhood team,

548
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Speaker 1: makes a team as an undrafted rookie. Now he's you know,

549
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Speaker 1: you were the leading running back this past week, this

550
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Speaker 1: past game against the Charger, going into a stretch run

551
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Speaker 1: about to make the playoffs, finger scross knock on with

552
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and you could be a huge part

553
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: of that whole equation, the offensive. The story is incredible.

554
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: How how do you approach all that? How are you

555
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: handling that?

556
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Speaker 3: I mean it's crazy, like at first, when I when

557
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 3: I uh, when I was with the team, it was crazy,

558
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 3: like damn with all these guys, all these superstars.

559
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 2: But now it's like.

560
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 3: You you like you're in the NFL too, Like don't

561
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 3: get too caught up of like who in the locker.

562
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Speaker 2: Room, like like cause they.

563
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Speaker 3: Expect me to do like the things I've been doing,

564
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Speaker 3: and it's like like I.

565
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Speaker 2: Can't let them down.

566
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Speaker 3: Like like I hear them talking about like our goal,

567
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Speaker 3: like our goal and goal and it's like, dang, they

568
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Speaker 3: really like this the year. Like I gotta lock in cause,

569
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Speaker 3: like like I said, I'm getting a lot of experience

570
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 3: right now, like I'm in the water fast, like I

571
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: you got it, keep going, Gotta lock in, and like

572
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: you can't be caught up of the glory and I'm in.

573
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Speaker 2: The NFL, like it's crazy. No, right, Okay, you're here,

574
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: let's go to work. Yeah.

575
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Speaker 1: Well, well, you know who the Ravens running back was

576
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: in two thousand when they won the Super Bowl, right who?

577
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: It was a rookie Jamal Lewis.

578
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 2: Jamal Lewis, And my dad talks.

579
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Speaker 4: About rookie year, a little differ running style, a little bit,

580
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Speaker 4: a little bit different build.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying the rookie running back Super Bowl.

582
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Speaker 1: There's a connection. There's a connection there.

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Speaker 5: Well, I hope that that's the direction this is headed.

584
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 6: Well, we'll let you lock in, get out to practice,

585
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Speaker 6: key and.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 6: Thanks all right, thank you, well.

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Speaker 1: great stuff from Keaton. You know, he's just a he's

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Speaker 1: a wide eyed rookie, you know, and he's like going

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Speaker 1: through a lot and it's been it's a whirlwind. But

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Speaker 1: he's such a like mild manner even killed guy that

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Speaker 1: it's just it seems like he's just like yeah, yeah,

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00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, yeah it's happening.

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Speaker 5: Like I'm doing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I like I said to him, Like it

617
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Speaker 4: does not seem like it's too big for him. Like

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Speaker 4: you're almost sometimes like the beauty of young players having

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Speaker 4: success is like you don't know what, you don't know,

620
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: You're not like being naive is almost a benefit, you know,

621
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Speaker 4: and you just go out there as a young player

622
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 4: and just play and not try to like make too

623
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Speaker 4: much of the circumstances. And like all of us are

624
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 4: talking about like the narrative and the story and the

625
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 4: pressure and the expectations and the Super Bowl all that stuff.

626
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Speaker 4: But I think he's just like, yeah, man, like I'm

627
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 4: just I'm just going out there playing.

628
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 5: I got a good line.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of veteran players. I'll learn from them,

630
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Speaker 4: and I'm just playing football.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 4: I think that's the He is kind of shrinking the

633
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 4: magnitude of it, yeah, which I think is a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's a lot of buzz around him. Ravens

635
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: fans have been really kind of on the Keating bandwagon

636
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Speaker 1: since the summer, since preseason games started. They saw it,

637
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Speaker 1: and there's just been this upswell of excitement around him,

638
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Speaker 1: and it is good to see him kind of play

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Speaker 1: it cool. It's also wild to me just the domino

640
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Speaker 1: effect of how things come to be right. If JK.

641
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Speaker 1: Dobbins doesn't go down with his season ending injury in

642
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Speaker 1: Week one, does Keaton Mitchell ever get a shot or

643
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Speaker 1: does he just spend his entire rookie year on ir

644
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Speaker 1: you know? Is it a red shirt year for him?

645
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 1: And then the Ravens are sitting there rumored to be

646
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: very much in the running back sweepstakes at the trade deadline.

647
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Speaker 1: To that point, Keaton Mitchell had two offensive snaps in

648
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Speaker 1: his career at the deadline, the rumors of them being

649
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Speaker 1: interested in Derrick Henry and making a move that doesn't

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. The first game after the deadline, he

651
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: blows up, yeah, and now it's like, well, we got

652
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: we have something here that it's confirmed in a game,

653
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Speaker 1: and so had the Ravens made a move the deadline,

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Speaker 1: we might not have seen Keaton Mitchell all. So it's

655
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: just the stars aligning kind of for this kid with

656
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: his childhood team that his dad played for. It's wild.

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is wild.

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Speaker 4: And I think that, like the trade deadline thing is

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00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 4: really fascinating. And sometimes the best dealers are the ones

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Speaker 4: that you don't make. And I think that you know,

661
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 4: you give Eric DaCosta. They always talk about right player,

662
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 4: right price, and trusting the guys and giving the opportunities

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00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 4: to the players you have on the roster, and balancing

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Speaker 4: the benefit of giving up future assets for a player

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Speaker 4: that you can get right now and contracts and all

666
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 4: this stuff. It's like it's all a puzzle, and part

667
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 4: of that puzzle is giving an opportunity to a young

668
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 4: player now John Harball did say after that Seattle game, like,

669
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 4: it's not like they made the decision in the room.

670
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 5: Well we've got Keaton Mitchell. We don't even trade for.

671
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 6: Derek Henneck right for example.

672
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Speaker 4: But like, you take all those factors into consideration, and

673
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 4: they ultimately decided not to make a move. They ultimately

674
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 4: did not make a move. And now this opportunity presents

675
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 4: itself for Keaton to go out there, and you feel

676
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 4: pretty good about the decision to not give up future

677
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 4: assets and let him get this chance. So he is

678
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 4: electric when he gets the ball in his hands. He

679
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 4: has home run potential everything. It's fascinating to hear him

680
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 4: say like, oh yeah, I haven't even top speed.

681
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 6: I didn't even open it up yet.

682
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: We got another gear like that that.

683
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Speaker 4: Is impressive, and I think that we may see some

684
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Speaker 4: top speed runs from him over the course of the

685
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Speaker 4: rest of the season.

686
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Speaker 1: Well, it's also interesting to look at his role beyond this,

687
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: As he said, when he was looking at which team

688
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: he wanted to sign with as an undrafted rookie, he

689
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: looked at contracts involved. JK. Dobbins is in the last

690
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: year of his contract. This was the last year he's

691
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: going to be a free agent Gus Edwards. Same thing.

692
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: When you look at who's under contract at running back

693
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: for the Ravens next year, it's Keaton and Justice Hill. Yeah,

694
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: and so you know he has a shot even beyond

695
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: next year to or beyond this year to really take

696
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: the reins. And I'm sure the Ravens are going to

697
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,959
Speaker 1: add more people to that room. And who knows if

698
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: they bring Gusts or JK back, or they bring another

699
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: free agent or what. But the way that Keaton Mitchell

700
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: finishes this season and in the playoffs and whatnot could

701
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: really set him up to be the Ravens number one

702
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: back for years to come.

703
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 5: Yeah.

704
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 4: And with all of that said, I also still think

705
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: it is I think the Ravens are going to find

706
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 4: ways to get Keaton the ball. We did a podcast

707
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 4: earlier this week talking about where things stand at the

708
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 4: bye weekend. Both of us said, we think that Keaton

709
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 4: is going to be a guy who the Ravens prioritize

710
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 4: getting the ball in his hands, get him the opportunity

711
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 4: to go make place. While also knowing that Gus Edwards

712
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 4: is a really good running back who's going to get

713
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 4: his carries and touches as well. Like I still think

714
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,719
Speaker 4: this is going to be a shared workload down the stretch.

715
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 4: I actually think that's best for everybody involved. You keep

716
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 4: everybody fresh. You have different running styles. You have the

717
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,959
Speaker 4: big bulldozer and Gus, and you have Keaton who can

718
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 4: hide behind the offensive lineman and then look for the

719
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 4: home run.

720
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Speaker 2: Literally.

721
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Speaker 4: I think that that balance is good for this team.

722
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 4: They can work in different situations. So all that I

723
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 4: think is a really good mixture for this defense.

724
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Speaker 1: You know, kind of what you're getting from Gus, right,

725
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he's averaged what five yards carry consistently over

726
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: his entire career. You know, almost every time that Gus

727
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: touches the ball, you're getting positive yardage. That's the part

728
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: of Keaton's game that he needs to eliminate is there's

729
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: been too many negative runs. It's been a little bit

730
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: of a feast or famine at times, you know. And

731
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: he kind of talked to you reference that. He said,

732
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you get that negative yard run bounce,

733
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: you try to bounce outside and you get tagled for

734
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: a one yard loss. The coach is like, nah, yeah,

735
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: we don't do that, yeah, yeah, right, And so you know,

736
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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about Keaton, but he's still a young

737
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: guy that can get even better and polish his game more.

738
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: And as he does with more reps over the course

739
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: of the season, I think he's just going to get

740
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: better and better and better and better, and it's it's

741
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: really exciting.

742
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 4: The other thing I do like about Keaton a lot

743
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 4: is his vision. He just seems to have a great

744
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 4: feel for when to turn it up field, when to

745
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 4: bounce outside weaving it not the total package. He's really

746
00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 4: got a ton of a great vision.

747
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: Get the skill set, the whole package is there. We

748
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: saw that in the Seattle game. The power running, ability

749
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: to break tackles, breakaway speed, the vision, the patients all,

750
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: it's all that. The backfield, Yeah, that's one. That's one

751
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: way I think that he could become even more involved

752
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: down the stretch without Mark Andrews as a checkdown option.

753
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: Now we saw some of that from Isaiah Likely. I

754
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: think that he's good run after catch as well. But

755
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: Kean Mitchell, I mean, you forget, he had a chance

756
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: he could have caught a touchdown in the end zone

757
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 1: against the Browns, and he had that one. He missed

758
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: that opportunity. He didn't make the catch, by his own admission,

759
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: just dropped it. But that was designed for him. That

760
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: was a real route, touchdown, long pass designed for him.

761
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's more of that in the playbook.

762
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we'll see if there's any of those plays

763
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 4: that Tom Mulkin draws up when the Rams come to

764
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 4: town this week. This is obviously a huge game. You

765
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 4: got five games left in the regular season, you're fighting

766
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 4: for a playoff spot. Feel pretty good about the playoff

767
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 4: spot right now, but nothing is locked up yet, really

768
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 4: fighting for the number one seed in the division.

769
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Speaker 1: Title, division title and the number one seed, and so

770
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: if the.

771
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 4: Ravens went out, they're going to be the number one seed.

772
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 4: And none of these games were easy. All five could

773
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Speaker 4: end up being against playoff teams, including the Rams. Who

774
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Speaker 4: I think that a month ago you see this game

775
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 4: on the schedule and you're like, ah, the Rams, they're

776
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 4: they're having a down season and.

777
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: YadA, YadA, YadA, kind of in a rebuilding year.

778
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: Yeah.

779
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 4: Now all of a sudden, they've won three straight and

780
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 4: they are right in the hunt in that NFC playoff pitcher.

781
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 5: So the playoff spot two.

782
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. This is a six and six Rams team.

783
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: Like you said, three game winning streak, they had a

784
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: three game losing streak before that. But they're playing good

785
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: ball right now. And when you look at their offense,

786
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: they have playmakers. I mean Matthew Stafford at quarterback. Right,

787
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: He's thrown for five hundred yards, seven touchdowns, one pick

788
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: over the past two weeks. He's playing good ball. This

789
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: is a veteran quarterback who's done it right. And so

790
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: he beat the Ravens here previously.

791
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 6: We've seen that before, right, they won here last year exactly.

792
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: They won't here last year with the Odell Beckham making

793
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: was it two years ago? Okay, two years ago, Odell

794
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,959
Speaker 1: Beckham making a very clutch catch, right. Odell was out

795
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: last year late in that game, you know, Cooper Cup

796
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: was a problem. Odell caught that late touchdown in a

797
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: two point conversion, and so, yeah, we've seen it. They

798
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: came over here and beat the Ravens. So they still

799
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: have Cooper Cup, they still have Matthew Stafford, and now

800
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: they have the rookie wide receiver Pookin Nakula who's over

801
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: a thousand receiving yards already. And so you look at

802
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: those weapons and it's a challenge for this Ravens defense.

803
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: It's a week that I'm really happy that the signs

804
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: are pointing in the right direction for Marlon Humphrey to

805
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: get back on the field. When you have Cooper cup

806
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league when he's healthy

807
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, and Pookin Takua, that's that's two top

808
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: level receivers. The Ravens have played against some very good

809
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: receivers in recent weeks. Keenan Allen, Jamar Chase, you know,

810
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: Amna Saint Brown, you know, but T Higgins was missing

811
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: for the Bengals. I would say this in terms of

812
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: a one to two punch, is one of the better

813
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: once you punches the Ravens have seen all year.

814
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

815
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean the the Rams are a really

816
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 4: good offensive team. Sean McVay is one of the best

817
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 4: offensive mines in football. He's a great coach, and so

818
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 4: they're gonna be a difficult offensive stop. I think that

819
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 4: this is another test they've had a couple of them.

820
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 4: Going into the Chargers game, we were talking to kind

821
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 4: of similar stuff. This could be the best offense the

822
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 4: Ravens have face with Justin Herbert as a quarterback. And

823
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: so now you face the other LA team and some

824
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 4: of those same narratives can exist. You have a now

825
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 4: you have a veteran quarterback, and you've got these two

826
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: weapons at wide receiver. They have a good running game,

827
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 4: good offensive coaching.

828
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Kyra Williams is a very good running back,

829
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: very good running back. Yeah. It went for a buck

830
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: forty three and two touchdowns two weeks ago.

831
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he's he's going to be difficult to stop.

832
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 4: Like, they are a complete unit offensively, and then on

833
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball, they still have a

834
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 4: future Hall of Famer an Aaron Donald in the middle.

835
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 4: So like a loaded talent team, they are going through

836
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 4: a rebuilding process to some extent, but they're still right

837
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 4: in the playoff picture, right.

838
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: I mean, really their roster construction by virtue of southp

839
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: and whatnot, they had to kind of purge, but they

840
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: have some superstars remaining. And then they have a lot

841
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: of young players that you probably wouldn't recognize their names,

842
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: to be honest, And that's just kind of how they're built.

843
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: And it's a young team that's coming together right now

844
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: at the right time. And and you have young players

845
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: like Hiram Williams second year player out of Notre Dame.

846
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: By the way, I wonder if Kyle Hamilton's going against

847
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: him a few times in practice, that'll be a good matchup,

848
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: to be honest. And yeah, when you have kind of

849
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: like we're just talking to Keith Mitchell, you have this

850
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: young guy that's having all the success and just kind

851
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: of can get on a roll, right, you're a little oblivious,

852
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: And so I think that this is this is going

853
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: to be a tough challenge for the Ravens. It's one

854
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: they need to win. When you look at obviously, like

855
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: you said, you have to run the table, but you

856
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: don't have to, but probably have to run the table

857
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: to get the number one seed most likely, and you

858
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: have some of the best teams in the league still

859
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: remaining after this game. This is kind of the you

860
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: gotta win this one at home, and the Ravens have

861
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: trude done that. They've been really good after the bye

862
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: under John Harball, the second best mark in the league

863
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: after in the first game after a buye Under John Harball,

864
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: they've been really good against West Coast teams coming to

865
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: Baltimore to play, except for two years ago when the

866
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: Rams came in here and beat us but you know,

867
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: other than that, Yeah, this is this is a game

868
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: that I think the Ravens win and and need to win.

869
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you can, when you to your point after

870
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 4: this is Jacksonville forty nine Ers Miami Pitts Steelers. Okay,

871
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 4: So the Ravens new coming out of this buy that

872
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 4: the schedule was going to be a difficult stretch going

873
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 4: into the playoffs. That's just the way it's worked out.

874
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 4: And so you can't, like, you don't want to drop

875
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 4: one of those at home. And I don't think any

876
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 4: of these games are gimmis at all, certainly not. But

877
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 4: this one coming off of the buye at home is

878
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 4: the most favorable matchup on paper at least. And so

879
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 4: you I like, I like the time for the Ravens

880
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,919
Speaker 4: to kind of get away, regroup, get healthy. The buye

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Speaker 4: was much needed, much needed for this team given the

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Speaker 4: challenges that they had through the first twelve weeks. But

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Speaker 4: now you have to get the benefit of that, and

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Speaker 4: you actually have to deliver on that by coming out

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Speaker 4: of the buy and getting the win.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I mean the Ravens are a better team

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Speaker 1: than the Rams. The Rams, you look at the rankings,

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Speaker 1: they're middle of the pack offense and defense, in pretty turnovers,

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Speaker 1: pretty much every category, they're in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: pack in the league, and so the Ravens are at

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Speaker 1: the top of the heap when you look at their

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Speaker 1: effectiveness on both sides of the ball. So a healthier

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Speaker 1: Ravens team coming off the buy motivated, I think to

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Speaker 1: show people, Yeah, yeah, you're all talking about it's a

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Speaker 1: tough stretch and the schedules really hard. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: playoff mode engaged. As we talked about, let's go get

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Speaker 1: it done and finish strong here in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: go into the playoffs hot. I think they're going to

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Speaker 1: be very motivated to do so, and I expect them really.

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Speaker 2: Home.

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Speaker 1: Wait, let's go