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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by the DraftKings. I'm right

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Speaker 1: mink here with Garrett Downing. Following the Ravens twenty six

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Speaker 1: to twenty four loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, which eliminates

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Speaker 1: them from playoff contention. The Steelers win the AFC North

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Speaker 1: on a missed forty four yard field goal by Tyler

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Speaker 1: Loop as time expired. Just a brutal way for the

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Speaker 1: Ravens twenty twenty five season to end.

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Speaker 2: Garrett, Yeah, this is a heartbreaker. This is one that

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Speaker 2: it was an up and down game, and there's plenty

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Speaker 2: of things that you felt like, we're opportunities that were missed,

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Speaker 2: and the Ravens could have done this and could have

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Speaker 2: done that. But at the end of the day, you've

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Speaker 2: got a relatively short kick for a chance to win

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Speaker 2: it and get to the postseason and win the division.

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Speaker 2: And I think everybody was just totally stunned. That was

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Speaker 2: the word that Lamar Jackson used after the game, was stunned.

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Speaker 2: And that was definitely a collective sense that you could

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Speaker 2: you could feel even just watching the reaction to the kick,

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Speaker 2: but then and hearing from John Harball at the coach

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Speaker 2: and the players after the game. I think everybody was

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Speaker 2: shocked that it ended the way that it did. When

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Speaker 2: the Ravens had an opportunity to go win it and

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Speaker 2: to keep the season alive and to go and see

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Speaker 2: what happened in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It could have been an epic finish for the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar Jackson makes a spectacular play splitting two

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Speaker 1: Steelers defenders to avoid a sack and throws a fifty

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Speaker 1: yard touchdown to Jay Flowers, Then a sixty four yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown to Jay Flowers on fourth on fourth down on

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Speaker 1: a fake or not on fourth down, but on a

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Speaker 1: fake run outside, and then the throw to Isaiah likely

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Speaker 1: to set up the game winning kick what could have

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Speaker 1: been the game winning kick on fourth and seven. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just miraculous plays after miraculous play down the stretch for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens offense. Lamar Jackson really kind of put this

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Speaker 1: team on his back in the fourth quarter after what

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Speaker 1: had been a pretty tough game for the Ravens passing

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Speaker 1: attack to that point. And that's what just makes it

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Speaker 1: even a tougher pill to swallow, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's the season has been really a slog from the start.

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Speaker 1: One in five finish, all that stuff, you go through it,

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Speaker 1: you battle back even within the game, you battle back Steelers.

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Speaker 1: You know, take the lead in the final minute, fifty

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Speaker 1: five seconds left, take the lead, you come right back down,

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Speaker 1: you're in position to win it, only to drop it

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Speaker 1: like this. I mean, it's as Lamar Jackson said, it's

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Speaker 1: a devastating end to what has been a very frustrating season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that fourth quarter was one of the best quarters

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Speaker 2: of football that I've seen Lamar Jackson play. And he's

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Speaker 2: played a lot of good football in his career. But

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Speaker 2: the play where he had two defenders, he was in

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Speaker 2: their grasp and he wiggles out of that and then

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Speaker 2: throws a fifty yard touchdown to Jay Flowers. There's one

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Speaker 2: guy in the league who can make that play. It

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Speaker 2: was ridiculous that he was able to make that happen.

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Speaker 2: And so you had moments like that. You had that play,

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Speaker 2: you had the Isaiah Likely fourth down catch, you had

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Speaker 2: the other Jay Flowers touchdown. You have these plays that

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Speaker 2: had the Bait Henchel to be iconic moments. And like,

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Speaker 2: even coming into this game, Kyle Hamilton talked about how

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be replaying clips of this game afterwards, because

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Speaker 2: that's what happens in Ravens Steelers games that you get

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Speaker 2: basically added to the highlight reel. And those were all

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Speaker 2: moments that are like iconic, the Tory Smith catch in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: like those types of moments, and now they're all kind

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Speaker 2: of for for nothing. They're kind of wasted because you

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Speaker 2: know how the game ended, and there's just so much

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Speaker 2: disappointment around not being able to get it done, and

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Speaker 2: it feels like a wasted effort. And I think that's

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Speaker 2: that's one of the many reasons there's so much disappointment

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Speaker 2: on this team after this loss.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it could have been a legendary Ravens

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Speaker 1: win in Pittsburgh for the division, would have been a

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Speaker 1: third straight AFC North title, which nobody's ever done, would

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Speaker 1: have been just a legendary game for all time in

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Speaker 1: Raven's history. And yet it's just another bill bitter pill

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Speaker 1: to swallow. Were a team that has swallowed the whole bottle,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, that's what it feels like during

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Speaker 1: this this era of Ravens football, just crushing loss after

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Speaker 1: crushing loss. And of course there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: great moments, right and a lot of great wins to

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Speaker 1: in these big time playoff games, and this was one

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Speaker 1: just such brutal finishes for the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like every every like loss is in

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking fashion. And you know you could go through it.

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Speaker 2: We don't need to do the whole low lights reel right.

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Speaker 1: Now, but yeah, please don't please don't like we.

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Speaker 2: All know the moments and the plays, and this one

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Speaker 2: It's a kick that I I think the Ravens expect,

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Speaker 2: certainly expect Tyler Loop to make. He's capable of making

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Speaker 2: that kick. He's a rookie kicker in a tough spot.

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Speaker 2: Chris bos Will obviously just had missed an extra point,

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Speaker 2: but that that's a kick that that he needs to make.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And the forty four yard attempt and Tyler Lup

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Speaker 1: said afterwards that he just hit it thin. He said

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Speaker 1: ball that it was not going to be good and

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Speaker 1: went wide right from the start. Hitting it thin means

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Speaker 1: he kind of hit it too low on his foot,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we had he and Randy Brown on

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Speaker 1: on the lounge and they explained that the minute details

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Speaker 1: that they go through with every kick and and with

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Speaker 1: that one, he just mishit the ball, hit it too

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Speaker 1: low on his foot, and hit it thin, as he said,

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Speaker 1: and so that's what caused the miss. And you know,

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Speaker 1: this was his first game winning attempt of his career,

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Speaker 1: to have to get over because that's that's a tough,

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Speaker 1: tough way to have your first game winning attempt to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that that's that's a tough moment

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Speaker 2: for any player, and especially him as a rookie who

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Speaker 2: had you know, he had a really good rookie season.

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Speaker 2: He was solid, but he had certainly no kick as

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Speaker 2: the season, and they don't get much bigger than that.

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Speaker 1: I always wish that he had more leading up to this,

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Speaker 1: up to this point, you know, I mean, I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine what was going through his head before attempting that

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Speaker 1: an amount of pressure that is hard to really wrap

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Speaker 1: I mean afterwards, you know, he sat at his locker

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Speaker 1: their support. We saw John Harball walking into the locker

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Speaker 1: and try to help him through this. But as great

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Speaker 1: as it is to see that, it doesn't help take

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Speaker 1: something that obviously he's gonna be thinking about all off

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no no doubt about him. And you

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Speaker 2: can see the disappointment on his face before the kick

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Speaker 2: his helmet and the emotion was was I'm sure running high.

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Speaker 2: As soon as that kick sailed, why right? And like

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Speaker 2: So I certainly feel for him, But it's it goes

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Speaker 2: It speaks to the frustrating tone and nature of this

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Speaker 2: at this game and we just talked about the miraculous

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter that Lamar Jackson had. He gave the Ravens

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Speaker 2: the Ravens had opportunities to get off the field and

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Speaker 2: do that. And Roquan smith Man, he was pretty emotional

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Speaker 2: made the point like, I don't really have an answer

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Speaker 2: But it's a it's a really disappointing, bitter reality that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the defense did not play well enough tonight. You know,

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Speaker 1: I thought they started the game pretty well, but it

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Speaker 1: too many chunk plays down the stretch. You know, just

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Speaker 1: the injury to Kyle Hamilton was a tough one to

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Speaker 1: that was against our areas Washington, Pat Firemuth, you know,

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Speaker 1: the field. Marlon Humphrey after the game said, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to quantify how much of a loss it

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Speaker 1: You know, the interception bounces right into t J. Watt's hands.

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Speaker 1: You know, crucial penalties against the Ravens, you can go

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Speaker 1: it felt like everything that could go right went right

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Speaker 2: I think the game script kind of played out, largely

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Speaker 2: speaking until the chaos of the fourth quarter, the way

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Speaker 2: a close game. They were keeping Lamar Jackson and Derrick

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Speaker 2: It felt like there was an hour and a half

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Speaker 2: Just was like, man, this offense is ice cold right

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Speaker 1: we'll give you closing thoughts from the Ravens loss to

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Speaker 1: the future as the Ravens could be undergoing some change

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the last podcast We're coming to you

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Speaker 2: So now, whenever you go into an offseason, you know

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Speaker 1: Yep, well tough one here in Pittsburgh. Thank you all

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, and we'll be back with you soon.

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