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

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Speaker 1: ultimate pleasure. I always say, we have the pleasure. We

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Speaker 1: have the ultimate pleasure of welcoming. Lamar Jackson on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: fresh off at inking his five year extension, Lamar, congratulations, man.

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Speaker 1: I think I speak for all of us around here

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Speaker 1: that we are so thankful that this thing is done.

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Speaker 2: I'm which I appreciate that, which I agree.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So my first question for you is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you use a SpongeBob meme to kind of announce that

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Speaker 1: we are getting close on reaching an agreement here. So

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Speaker 1: if you're picking a SpongeBob meme for your emotions today

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Speaker 1: after inking the contract, which one would you go? Like?

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Speaker 2: That's what I do today?

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Speaker 1: You kind of become like the meme. Lord. Man, you

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Speaker 1: your game is poppin'.

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Speaker 3: I've been I've been kind of like watching, you know,

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Speaker 3: people tweet and stuff like that, and I see like

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Speaker 3: the reactions from me, so I'm like, you know, I

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Speaker 3: got pretty good ideas washing I just threw out my gifts.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what I've been doing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can take Garrett's job anytime, you keep

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Speaker 1: your current job, But you.

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Speaker 4: Know what we'll trade, we'll trade contracts, and we'll trade jobs.

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Speaker 2: How's that sound.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Garrett do a great job. I just got my

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Speaker 3: little one pop in two pop in. You know, Garrett

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Speaker 3: is just all around three sixty five.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate no doubt.

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Speaker 4: So take me through the thought process today. When you

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Speaker 4: walk in the building, you sign the contract. I mean,

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Speaker 4: this is a life changing contract for you, Like what

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Speaker 4: are the emotions, what are the thoughts when you put

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Speaker 4: the pen to paper and everything becomes official?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: So my initial thought walking in the building was, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I was a rookie last five years, all right. Now

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Speaker 3: I'm a new player, but from the same team. That's

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Speaker 3: what I was thinking. Like, I just signed a new year,

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Speaker 3: new five year deal. Fresh start is I'm basically starting over. Really,

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Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, I'm one of the new guys now,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm OBJM.

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Speaker 2: Like I just got here. So it felt pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That is interesting.

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Speaker 4: What I'm just curious, like why you kind of went

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Speaker 4: to that place. That's an interesting way of looking at it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just like this a new sleeve, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: everything it's new now, you know, It's like I said,

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Speaker 3: it's a new start for us, and we got new

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Speaker 3: guys on our team. And you know, I'm not a

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Speaker 3: rookie anymore now, I'm a VET, you know, because like

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Speaker 3: on my rookie day, I felt like I was still

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Speaker 3: a rookie throughout the entire process. Like you know, you're

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Speaker 3: still like your rookie day, You're not a vet yet,

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Speaker 3: so certain things vets can get away with. I'm like, nah,

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Speaker 3: I can't get away with that. Like you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: still a rookie to me. You know, that's just my mindset.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think every kid you know playing football probably dreams

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Speaker 1: of the day that they get drafted into the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you did. Did you ever dream of

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Speaker 1: this day when when you sign a contract like that?

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Speaker 3: Being honest with you, Ryan, I didn't. I didn't. I

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Speaker 3: never dreamed about signing a huge contract a huge country.

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Speaker 2: I never did. You know.

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Speaker 3: It was all about me winning the super Bowl first,

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Speaker 3: if anything, Like I just want to win. Like once

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Speaker 3: and I can't wait till that day happened, like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: the contract is out the way, but I've been shooting

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Speaker 3: for that super Bowl since twenty eighteen, you know, And

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Speaker 3: I really mean that, like, once that day come, I'll

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Speaker 1: Right. So you talk about the story of coming in today.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear the story of when you kind

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Speaker 1: of felt like, all right, we're gonna get there. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get a deal done here because it's been

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Speaker 1: long process, you know. And Eric Dacasta told the story

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Speaker 1: about watching the Celtics game and all that stuff. What

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Speaker 1: was happening on your end of the phone that night.

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Speaker 2: I think I don't really remember what I was doing

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Speaker 2: that day. You know. He emailed me, and he texted

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Speaker 2: me like I'll emailed you. Yeah. I'm like, well, I

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Speaker 3: You know, I haven't spoken to him in like a

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Speaker 2: I haven't spoken to him. So I was like, dang,

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Speaker 2: I want a way he text me.

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Speaker 3: And then when I get the email, you know, stuff

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Speaker 3: this was a surprising email, you know. So I'm like, man,

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Speaker 3: we're getting well and all like let's let's get it

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Speaker 3: I'm liking what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: In that moment? Was that just such a what were

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Speaker 1: the emotions like? Was it just a relief? Like, man,

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Speaker 1: What was that moment like for you?

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Speaker 3: Man, I finally get not even like we finally get

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Speaker 3: because I feel like the fans, we we really meet

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Speaker 3: their day, like you know, we win or lose. It

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Speaker 3: their jobs, you know, like people I see people like.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm not having a good week.

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Speaker 1: Oh I felt like that, you know.

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Speaker 2: I know you guys in the building too.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like even though we out there performing, we got

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Speaker 3: we're getting cut out there on the field. But it's

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Speaker 3: like you guys are with us, you know, every step

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not just for us, it's for everybody.

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Speaker 2: You know, our families, you guys.

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Speaker 3: You know, because you guys got the Raven go go

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Speaker 3: you guys would a raven flocked nation? Are you guys

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Speaker 3: leave as well? So it's like we're trying to wait

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Speaker 3: for everybody, you know, the city of Baltimore. So that's why,

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Speaker 3: you know, when we finally got some up the contract,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, man, yeah, like the fans gonna love this one.

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Speaker 2: Like it was all about the fans too.

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Speaker 1: That's cool.

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Speaker 4: Along those lines, I just think that in your career,

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Speaker 5: A lot of young kids. You are somebody that a

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Speaker 4: And I think that in conversations with you, like that's

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Speaker 4: and it sounds like you wanted to maintain that, like

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Speaker 4: by signing this deal, like you're gonna be one of

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Speaker 4: the greats, one of like the icons here that people

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Speaker 4: like that is something that was really significant to you

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Speaker 4: and that was part of the reason you wanted to stay.

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Speaker 3: Baltimore is one of the you know, prim prim cities.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's like even my city, you know, but

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Speaker 3: it's like Baltimore too, cause I'm here, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: because that's that's what God want us to do.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a lot was made out of you being your

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: What do you say to everybody out there who doubted

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Speaker 2: I really don't have nothing to say to him.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't about them, you know. It never was about

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Speaker 2: the people who doubted me. You know, I was doubted.

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Speaker 2: I was a running back I received, you dealt with

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I really never cared about the doubters.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's all about me, just you know, handling my business

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Speaker 3: and then moving forward, you know, and like I handled

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Speaker 3: my business and I moving forward, I really don't worry

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Speaker 3: about them. It's not like I could throw it to

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Speaker 3: your face now. It's not about that. When I went

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Speaker 3: and I don't. We went the Super Bowl, I go

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Speaker 3: to throwing stuff and people you're like the meme, ready, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I have a mean, I'm not gonna talk trash, but

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Speaker 3: I have a meme.

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Speaker 1: Right. I can't wait for that one doubt.

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Speaker 4: Which so long signs, Like, you get the biggest contract

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Speaker 5: This game, Like what is the significance of that to you?

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Speaker 4: Like when you we're looking at the biggest contracts, like

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Speaker 4: you're at the top of that list right now. Man.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I really don't look at

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Speaker 5: It's like so interesting. That was not like that wasn't

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Speaker 3: Like I really just didn't have that on the front

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Speaker 3: of my mind. It's like, okay, I know, I know,

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Speaker 3: I feel like I know what I'm worth, you know,

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day. But it's like it

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Speaker 3: really didn't matter, Like it wasn't like in front of

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Speaker 2: That's just God. To be honest with you, is not

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Speaker 2: that's just God. Man, that God.

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Speaker 1: It seems like that was such a misconception. There's so

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Speaker 1: much stuff out there about that, and like just talking

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Speaker 1: to you today, it seems like that was totally ballooning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like, oh, he's sitting out because he's not paid.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, if anything out de side of week one,

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Speaker 3: like I was the one who cut it off, like

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Speaker 3: not Eric or coach hard Let no one like that, like, oh,

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Speaker 3: you have this dead line, And it was like me,

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Speaker 3: I said to deadline, I'm like, mancause I don't want

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Speaker 3: to talk about it, like I want to focus on winning.

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Speaker 3: I want everybody to know I'm touring down what's going

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Speaker 3: all season to get that situation.

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Speaker 2: It's not situated right now. So I just want to

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Speaker 2: focus on winning with the guys. And that's just what

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Speaker 2: it was. And I got hurt and the injury was significantly.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't go out there and play, like I couldn't

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Speaker 3: pay to the best of my ability ability, I couldn't

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Speaker 3: go out there and I wasn't ninety eight percent like

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Speaker 3: I don't really know, like it was. It was bad

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Speaker 3: it would I couldn't get out of tackles, like I

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Speaker 3: can't trust Jackson exactly. I can't trust the old lines

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Speaker 3: just going out there and blocking every single play because

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Speaker 3: somebody gonna mess up. I mess up out on the field.

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Speaker 5: Like, bro, you're almost one of those videos people say

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Speaker 2: He like, you know, that's part of the game. I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 3: I mean, uhh when it happened, because uh, I test coach,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, is it possible for us to land d

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Speaker 3: We can't get both of them, you know, we have

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Speaker 3: a I'm like, I'm not taking anywhere away from Babeman,

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, we can just be loaded. That's how

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Speaker 2: I think, like man turned like man, we can do

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Speaker 3: It really don't matter. You know, one year deal, it

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Speaker 3: And then I see something coming out like oh lamarsa

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Speaker 1: Bro, you're saying, uh, you know Todd Monk and you're saying,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, you know, how the hours I

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Speaker 3: I love throwing touchdown passes. Yeah, twenty nineteen, I think

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Speaker 2: Touchdowns a game like the NFL. Yeah, like every other week.

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Speaker 3: And I rather celebrate my teammates because like, okay, me

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Speaker 3: And I like those guys they busting the tail like

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Speaker 3: And I'm happy with the sign of course, top Monkey,

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Speaker 3: because we can, you know, show our offense and.

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Speaker 1: Skills level right for you personally. You know, we've in

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Speaker 1: you're like, you know what, Like y'all been putting me

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I can't wait. Like Jack in the box, you.

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Speaker 3: Gotta pop out. That's what I'm on this year. And

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Speaker 3: We got JK and Guz.

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Speaker 1: Right, we don't want to make Jose guys. You know.

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Speaker 3: JK he passionate, you know, passionate, and I love it.

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Speaker 3: You know, we gotta have a running back like that.

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Speaker 3: Gus He's passionate. Justice, He's passionate. Like I love our

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Speaker 4: You know. Something that came up during the press conference

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it, dude, because I'm a man of my

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Speaker 2: That out there, like they're gonna get a super Bowl

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Speaker 3: So every year we fail twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty one,

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Speaker 2: Soon now later, we got five fingers on this hand,

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Speaker 2: we got five, Yeah, five more, a couple of super

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Speaker 1: Yeah. My biggest takeaway, Lamar from your press conference was

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: We was going up you know, we were going up

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like when I look at your career, like that

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Speaker 4: a disapointing game against the Titans, and you got to

435
00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,760
Speaker 4: go through the last two years. You got hurt, you know,

436
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,520
Speaker 4: at the end of the season, and so that was like,

437
00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,960
Speaker 4: you know, just disappointing. But it feels like in hearing

438
00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,760
Speaker 4: you talk, like you feel like this team is right there.

439
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,280
Speaker 4: Like you add these pieces, you add Odell Beckham, you

440
00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 4: Addsa Flowers, obviously you're here for the long haul and

441
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,960
Speaker 4: like nothing to worry about there, right, and so it's

442
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,520
Speaker 4: like it just feels like that.

443
00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,560
Speaker 5: You also see the team is right on the cusp.

444
00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:41,920
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I feel like we were at there.

445
00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,760
Speaker 3: You know, our defense was great defense, what tremendous last year,

446
00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,159
Speaker 3: and like I said, I was ticked off. I couldn't

447
00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,879
Speaker 3: play in that playoff game. It's like, bro, defense is

448
00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,320
Speaker 3: playing light side. They holding teams to like thirteen points.

449
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,160
Speaker 3: I know we could go to any eight points.

450
00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:56,840
Speaker 2: I know we can do this.

451
00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,600
Speaker 3: Like so like, yeah, we rapped there and then we,

452
00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,280
Speaker 3: like you said, we got pieces to add to our guys,

453
00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,560
Speaker 3: you know, to the guys we already have. And it's like, man,

454
00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,440
Speaker 3: I feel like the Scott's the limit. We just gotta

455
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,840
Speaker 3: we just gotta lock in and believe in that.

456
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:09,159
Speaker 4: You know.

457
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,280
Speaker 3: Don't let no outside know as bothered us, like try

458
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,080
Speaker 3: to distract us, because it's gonna always be that. You know,

459
00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:14,760
Speaker 3: it's gonna be entertainment at the end of the day.

460
00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,000
Speaker 3: So people got to just say what you got to

461
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,280
Speaker 3: see it, but at the end of the day, it's

462
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:18,639
Speaker 3: on us.

463
00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,359
Speaker 4: When you during the press conference, when you talked about

464
00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 4: your mom and her impact. That struck me because you know,

465
00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,919
Speaker 4: you guys are so close. She's your manager, you were

466
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,520
Speaker 4: your own agent, and so you guys have just been

467
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,719
Speaker 4: really kind of joined at the hip, not just as

468
00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,119
Speaker 4: like business partners and obviously family, but it's significant, like

469
00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,280
Speaker 4: your relationship is special.

470
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,399
Speaker 5: I'm curious what the moment was.

471
00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,440
Speaker 4: Like when you get this contract done and it's just

472
00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,119
Speaker 4: the two of you and you think about all those times,

473
00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,720
Speaker 4: like you talked about doing the press conference, of her

474
00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,760
Speaker 4: going to work early and staying late and raising you

475
00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,800
Speaker 4: and your siblings, Like, what was that moment like for

476
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,879
Speaker 4: you to enjoy and kind of relish in that with her?

477
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:56,159
Speaker 2: Man, it was like.

478
00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,159
Speaker 3: That's when I got her gift. Like I'm like, bro,

479
00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,080
Speaker 3: you deserve this gift. Like she moved on this one

480
00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,240
Speaker 3: item is like I'm gonna get it for you. You

481
00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,560
Speaker 3: deserve it, like and she was like at first she

482
00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,840
Speaker 3: was like you can wait the next year. I'm like, nah,

483
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,359
Speaker 3: I'm getting this shit, and she was like stuff was happening,

484
00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,080
Speaker 3: like it was like trying to prevent me from getting

485
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,119
Speaker 3: it for I'm like, man, I don't care no matter what,

486
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,000
Speaker 3: I'm not leaving here with audit. And you know she

487
00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,679
Speaker 3: got it, and then she just called me the other

488
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,320
Speaker 3: day she was like, man, I'm happy you got it

489
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,080
Speaker 3: for me. Like I said, I wait the next year,

490
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 3: but I'm so happy you got it for me. I'm like, yeah,

491
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,440
Speaker 3: cause she like other I feel like other other players

492
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,320
Speaker 3: or you know, players at my status parents like digging

493
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,560
Speaker 3: that pocketing out all but some might you know, reaching

494
00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,240
Speaker 3: try to dig in their child's pocket and stuff like

495
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 3: that just because they feel like they raised them and

496
00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 3: stuff like that.

497
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 2: But my mom is not like that, you know, she

498
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:44,679
Speaker 2: totally different.

499
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,600
Speaker 3: Like she'll be on me if she if she think

500
00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna spending too much, like oh I just bought

501
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,120
Speaker 3: this or something, what what are you doing? Like that's

502
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,880
Speaker 3: how she come at me. So it's like she's gonna

503
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,439
Speaker 3: always be my mom at the end of the day.

504
00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 3: And it was like, I need to get you something.

505
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,720
Speaker 3: You know you deserved this cause you never asked me

506
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,399
Speaker 3: for My siblings never asked me for nothing, but it

507
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 3: would be like other people and the outside asked me

508
00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 3: for stuff.

509
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 2: So it was like Mom deserved everything.

510
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 5: That's awesome.

511
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 1: I don't know what the gift is, but I'm sure

512
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot better than the gift I don't

513
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,879
Speaker 1: give my mom. You're making the rest of us. No.

514
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 2: Man, That's why I'm not saying what I do. You know,

515
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,200
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do y'all like that.

516
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, you know. I'm sure she went through this,

517
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 1: these whole negotiations. You know, it was a long time, right,

518
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 1: and she felt the weight of that too, absolutely, and

519
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure you felt.

520
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 2: It definitely without her.

521
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 1: And I've seen it, right, like, what does it feel

522
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 1: like a weight off your shoulders getting this done? And

523
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 1: it's just like, man, I can just be me. I

524
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that for five plus years,

525
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 1: you know, like, what's the feeling?

526
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 2: Not even like weight on my shoulders. I never felt

527
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 2: like weight was on my shoulder.

528
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,879
Speaker 3: It was about people can finally just mind their business now,

529
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 3: doing what they're supposed to do now because we're good.

530
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 2: You know, we did what we were supposed to do.

531
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 2: You know, we handle business and we fine.

532
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 3: You know, like I said, it's not about the daughters,

533
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 3: and then they said, you know, it's about us just

534
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,639
Speaker 3: Puva proving ourselves right, right, I feel like we did

535
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 3: right now.

536
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but when Joe

537
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 1: Flacco signed his big contract to session his first one.

538
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: His first purchase was McDonald's drive through. I believe it

539
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 1: was right.

540
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 2: Found faster right now. I can't. I can't eat.

541
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 3: You're faster, faster, spiritual, faster than I'm like. Ok I'm

542
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 3: more than four.

543
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 1: Days in Okay, So all right, no big max today? No?

544
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:29,919
Speaker 4: No, you know.

545
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 2: A big mac dude?

546
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: How long is the fast for?

547
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 2: Twenty one days? Seventeen days?

548
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 1: Good luck to you, sir. I don't have that much

549
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: will power.

550
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 4: No I do. I do.

551
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:40,639
Speaker 1: I respect it.

552
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 2: I feel like I do.

553
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 3: You know, I've been doing pretty good without it. You

554
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 3: just know what you're not supposed to eat, and you know,

555
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 3: you ask questions like what is this?

556
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 2: Like, what do you have?

557
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 3: What the ingredients in it? They telling you know, just

558
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 3: find something that's good, that's suitable for you. And that's

559
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 3: what I've been doing.

560
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: Well, you know the saying, you know, treat yourself. You

561
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 1: know you sometimes you got to. It's a treat yourself

562
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 1: that absolutely well you eventual made. It's not food, it's

563
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: not gonna be big man, But will you eventually treat

564
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: yourself after getting the steal done? And what do you

565
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: think it'll be, uh, be.

566
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 2: Honest with you.

567
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 3: I'm cool, like like I don't learn so much about

568
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 3: like spending and stuff like that. Like I really don't

569
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 3: have the urge to spend, you know. Yeah, only if

570
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 3: I have to go somewhere. That's probably when I have

571
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 3: I go buy something. But me just going and buying

572
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 3: a house, only I could I can afford it, Like

573
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 3: I've been could afford the house.

574
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I've been handling, I've been managing my money right.

575
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 3: But it's like I don't need to go do that. Yeah,

576
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 3: you know, rainy days come to everyone. You know I feel,

577
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 3: but I'm good, Like I'm good.

578
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny. It's like you know, you have

579
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,719
Speaker 1: your like Ravens like shield, like your your necklace and uh,

580
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: it was always funny over this whole thing where fans

581
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: would be like he's wearing his change, He's still wearing

582
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 1: his chain like he wants he wants to come back.

583
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: This is so funny. That always cracked me up.

584
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 4: This guy that we don't have to read into, you know,

585
00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 4: a meme or the chain picture and it be like,

586
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 4: all right, what does this mean.

587
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 5: Let's dissect the picture? Everyone in your DMS.

588
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 2: I was seeing that, like like cause my chain, like

589
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: I have the rave the raven shield.

590
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 3: Like I thought that was unique right there, because a

591
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 3: lot of people who have changed like mine, they have

592
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: like circles and stuff like that, so I might thing

593
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 3: I'm used the raven symbol, but I just put like

594
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 3: the city I'm from, like c B County, like the

595
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 3: area I'm from, and like know your boy like pumping

596
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 3: no and boy like stuff like something simple like I

597
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 3: just want to be different. But people were just going

598
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 3: out of proportion like oh, this means you want to

599
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 3: stay and stuff like that. But it was like I

600
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 3: never said I wanted to go for real, like okay,

601
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 3: the trade, I request of the trade, but it was

602
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 3: nothing serious for her, like like I was just getting

603
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 3: the ball ruler. Yeah's business man, that's part of business.

604
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 3: But I'm happy, man, I'm satisfied. That's in the past.

605
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 3: I'm glad that's over it. You know, I'm happy to

606
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 3: be here.

607
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: Ye well, we're very happy to you tomorrow. Thanks man, graduation.

608
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 2: Appreciate you cool.

609
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,480
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00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 4: him here on the lounge, the press conference, what stands

629
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 4: out to you?

630
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: I think it was that he really had no doubt

631
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: in his mind that he wanted to be a Raven. Yeah,

632
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: you know, and he kind of slipped it in right

633
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: there at the end of our conversations, like the trade

634
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: request that was just a bunch of nothing that was

635
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: nothing else games, Yeah, you know, and that was really

636
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway that, like, you know, even when other

637
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: teams were kind of sniffing around, he was like, ah,

638
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: not really interested, you know, and like and and it

639
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: really does shine through, and it feels very genuine that

640
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: he feels like there's unfinished business here and that he

641
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: made a promise to Baltimore into Ravens fans and that

642
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: he was going to win a Super Bowl, you know,

643
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: when he was first drafted, and he wants to deliver

644
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: on that promise. Yeah, I think that really does mean something.

645
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I even during this entire process, like I would

646
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 4: oftentimes go back to what he said before last season.

647
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 4: He was asked, do you expect to spend your career

648
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 4: in Baltimore, and he said, yes, that was that's his expectation,

649
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 4: that was his belief. And it seemed like at times

650
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 4: during the negotiation, and I don't know if that's gonna happen, right,

651
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 4: but like but.

652
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: What's funny is, you know, he said with us, he's like,

653
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Speaker 1: you know, if I'd won a super Bowl or two

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Speaker 1: or something, maybe it would be a little bit different. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, so it really does kind of come back

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Speaker 1: to like that promise and being a man of my word,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, I was going to do this

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Speaker 1: and I haven't done it, and we've been really close,

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Speaker 1: and then I was injured you know, last year, and

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Speaker 1: like we got to do it. Yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: like I think a lot of it does kind of

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Speaker 1: hinge on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was interesting, like that he mentioned in

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Speaker 5: the presser.

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Speaker 4: I asked him about it here, and I think you're right,

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Speaker 4: a lot of it does come back to that promise

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Speaker 4: that he declared on Draft night. And like something that

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Speaker 4: I've always said with Lamar is like integrity and like

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Speaker 4: keeping your word, Like those are things that mean a

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Speaker 4: lot to yes, very high, and like yeah.

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Speaker 1: He values those trust, he values those.

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Speaker 5: Very highly, yep.

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Speaker 4: And he carries himself that way and he expects others

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Speaker 4: to do the same yep. And so like it's clear

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Speaker 4: that like that is something that means something to him.

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Speaker 4: And I also thought, you know, it was it was

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Speaker 4: awesome hearing him talk about how the fan base, Ravens

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Speaker 4: fans like he that was a group of people he

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Speaker 4: wanted to maintain that relationship, Like he didn't want to

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Speaker 4: leave this city. He didn't want to leave this fan base.

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Speaker 4: And despite all the negotiations, like negotiations can be difficult,

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Speaker 4: as Erica said, but like he wanted to be here.

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Speaker 4: The Ravens said all along they wanted they wanted him

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Speaker 4: to be here, and it worked out. So it was

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Speaker 4: just it was a very historic day in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and another big takeaway for me was kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, the money aspect of it has been

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Speaker 1: talked about a lot, yeah, nauseum, and what Lamar wanted

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Speaker 1: and what he didn't want. There's reports all over the place, right,

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Speaker 1: and like you know Lamar in talking to him today,

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Speaker 1: money matters to everybody, sure, you know, matters to you,

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Speaker 1: matters to me, matters to everybody, right, And so it's

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Speaker 1: not saying like, oh my gosh, it doesn't matter, I

695
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Speaker 1: would have played for a dollar, you know, but like

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Speaker 1: he said, you know, I wanted to feel like it

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Speaker 1: was fair. I knew my worth and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: feel like I was getting paid what I'm worth, right,

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Speaker 1: And obviously that's kind of when things changed, is you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens made that offer. You know, he got the

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Speaker 1: email from Eric Cossin was like, I like this offer. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: it was being portrayed right that, Like, you know, there

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Speaker 1: was he was stuck on this and the fully guaranteed

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff, like certainly coming away from today

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Speaker 1: that seemed like that wasn't really true, right, well, and like.

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Speaker 4: One of the challenges with this entire negotiation, and he

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Speaker 4: kind of talked about it like there was just a

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Speaker 4: void of like there was an absence of information from

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Speaker 4: both sides. Both sides were keeping it as quiet as possible,

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Speaker 4: and so then the speculation runs rampant, and then the

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Speaker 4: guessing game begins, and then you're trying to piece together

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Speaker 4: reports from different people over the course of the last

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Speaker 4: two years. And well, on this day in August seventeenth,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, this was sat like all these different things,

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Speaker 4: and it was difficult to determine like what was fact

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Speaker 4: and what was fixed.

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Speaker 1: When it makes me think about the NFLPA and this

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Speaker 1: whole thing, and you know, Temuri Smith was pretty darn

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Speaker 1: clear about his intentions, you know, and that he wants

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed contracts and felt like Lamar was kind of,

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Speaker 1: uh an inflection point for the league when it comes

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Speaker 1: to that, and like where was all that coming from?

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Speaker 1: That that that's what Lamar wanted.

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Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, I have no idea, but it was.

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Speaker 4: It just is the whole thing, Like it was an

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Speaker 4: interesting process obviously, and it's I don't know, I just

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Speaker 4: think that like the word that stands out is just

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Speaker 4: like it just feels like it's a deep breath, It's

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Speaker 4: a cyb relief and like and like everybody looking forward

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Speaker 4: now it's like all right, it took a while, but

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Speaker 4: it's done. And that also stood out. And we actually

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Speaker 4: got an email here's from Kai Danger. This is to

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Speaker 4: the Lounge at.

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Speaker 1: Ravens on NFL Loyal listener.

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Speaker 4: Loyal listener, thank you for the email, Kai, And Kai

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Speaker 4: says that the main takeaway from him is not about

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Speaker 4: the negotiations. It's his musing about being the first to

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Speaker 4: throw for six thousand passing yards. He just kind of

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Speaker 4: mentioned that casually during the press conference, like, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: be nice to over six thousand.

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Speaker 5: No one's ever done that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he talks to some guys about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like this what a different mindset for him and

745
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Speaker 4: the team. Even if he doesn't get close, it's clear

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Speaker 4: he sees more opportunities in this passing game.

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Speaker 5: This is here's the question.

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Speaker 1: Here's the question for you, okay, because every year when

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Speaker 1: we do our preseason predictions, we always say over under

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Speaker 1: a thousand rushing yards for Lamar Jackson, and you always

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Speaker 1: go over. I'm always the under, and then I'm always

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Speaker 1: higher on the passing yards. That's been the trend. Right

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Speaker 1: I'm supposing it to you right now, big Bow, I

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Speaker 1: would say, right now.

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Speaker 4: My thought is that he's going to go under a

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Speaker 4: thousand rushing yards. He's gonna run run less. This is

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Speaker 4: a new offense with Todd Munkin.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: I think that Lamar will run less this year. I

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Speaker 4: think they have more weapons around him with the addition

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Speaker 4: of Odell Beckham Junior and Zay Flowers yep, and a

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Speaker 4: healthy Nelson and Nelson Aguilar thank you. So like they

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Speaker 4: have more weapons around him, Isaiah likely. I think it's

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Speaker 4: going to be a really important piece along with of

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Speaker 4: course Mark Andrews. So like they've got they've got weapons

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Speaker 4: in the receiving cores, and I think that they're going

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Speaker 4: to have kind of a high powered offense. And I

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Speaker 4: don't know that Lamar is going to get to six thousand.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go on a limb here and say, I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure if that's going to happen, but I do

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Speaker 4: think that he could absolutely have a career high in

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Speaker 4: passing yards and you know, Rush, I'm not sure what

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Speaker 4: his career lows and rushing yards. I could look that up,

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Speaker 4: but you know, I think that I think that the

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Speaker 4: scale's going to be exactly injuries like, I think the

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Speaker 4: scales are going to tip there and it's going to

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Speaker 4: be a much more past heavy offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly a takeaway from today is just how excited

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Speaker 1: he is about all these weapons. You know, how pumped

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Speaker 1: he was to get OBJ, you know, how excited he

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Speaker 1: is about Zay Flowers. And certainly in talking to us,

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Speaker 1: I thought he revealed a little bit more about kind

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Speaker 1: of breaking out of that box that he's been put in,

784
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Speaker 1: you know, and now having the weapons around him and

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Speaker 1: the scheme around him to kind of help him take

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Speaker 1: that next step in evolution in his career that he

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Speaker 1: feels like all along I've been able to do this,

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Speaker 1: you'all just haven't seen it yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And like I mean, like he did win the

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Speaker 4: MVP in twenty nineteen, he led the league in passing touchdowns.

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Speaker 5: Like he's done it.

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Speaker 1: It's just well, I think it's I think it's more

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Speaker 1: like yards.

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Speaker 4: I think yard fishing. I think efficiency was there certainly

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Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen. Absolutely, you can't get any more efficient

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Speaker 4: than he was that season. And so I just think

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Speaker 4: that it's gonna, like I said, the tip the skills

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Speaker 4: are going to tip a little bit more in that

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Speaker 4: direction when I think.

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Speaker 1: Just fewer design quarterback runts. Yeah, it's not that Lamar

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Speaker 1: is not gonna run anymore. He's still gonna Like he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, if there's not an open option, which this

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Speaker 1: year with all the wide receivers, you hope there's always

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Speaker 1: an open up. Yeah, but if there's not the rare

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Speaker 1: instance that there's not, he'll take off and run. You'll

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Speaker 1: still see him juke guys out of shorts and break

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Speaker 1: ankles and do all that stuff that we all the

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Speaker 1: highlights that we all love. Yeah, but and and I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that there will be zero design quarterback runs.

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Speaker 1: I think in critical situations, you know, and whatever. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that that's something that will evaporate from the

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Speaker 1: Ravens offense, but I think it'll certainly be scaled down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would theramatically.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I think that the weapons, the shifting offensive coordinators,

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Speaker 4: and also the running backs are healthy too. That's another

816
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Speaker 4: factor here. JK. Dobbins Gus Edwards a year removed from

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Speaker 4: the injury, so they can carry, you know, more of

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Speaker 4: a workload as well.

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Speaker 5: So it was just a good day.

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Speaker 4: It was. It was really good to hear from him.

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Speaker 4: If you want to listen to the full press conference,

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Speaker 4: we'll go ahead. Check out the Ravens Press Pass podcast feed.

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Speaker 4: We have that posted for you in its entirety as

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Speaker 4: well as, of course, if you want to watch the video,

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Speaker 4: we have it posted on our YouTube channel, our app,

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Speaker 4: our website, our Facebook page, and if you haven't done

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Speaker 4: so already, subscribe to this channel, the Lage podcast feed,

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Speaker 4: and also subscribe to the press Pass podcast feed.

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Speaker 5: Leave a rating and a review for both of those

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Speaker 5: as well, so you know, it's one thing after another here.

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Speaker 1: Well, we thought we were going to have Eric Takasa

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Speaker 1: on this week yes, and we had to reschedule because

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Speaker 1: Lamar press conference. But you know you you reschedule for Lamar. Yeah, sure, sorry, No,

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Speaker 1: there's no shadey e DC of course, but you know,

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Speaker 1: so we're pushing that to early next week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to you with Eric and then and

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Speaker 4: then rookie Minnie campus this weekend. And football school is ongoing,

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Speaker 4: so boom boom boom. It's one thing after another. So

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Speaker 4: there's going to be a lot more coming over the

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Speaker 4: course of the next few weeks, and we're going to

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Speaker 4: here to analyze it, break it all down, and give

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00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 4: you an inside scoop to everything that's happening inside this building.

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Speaker 5: So thank you for watching and listening, and we'll talk

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Speaker 5: with you again soon