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

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Speaker 1: here with Garrett Downing and it's a size them up Saturday,

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Speaker 1: after the Ravens thirty four to seventeen winner of the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers snapped the losing skids to the Steelers and

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Speaker 1: uh and pull even in the standings atop the AFC

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Speaker 1: North with two games left to go. This was a

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Speaker 1: massive win for the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 3: I think that this once again showed that the Ravens

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Speaker 3: are one of the top teams in the AFC and

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Speaker 3: they're going to be competing for They're gonna be competing

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Speaker 3: for that top spot in the conference.

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Speaker 1: More important than that, showed that we're gonna beat the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they can.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'll start with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it showed there had been a lot

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Speaker 3: of talk coming into this game, and the Ravens were

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Speaker 3: well aware of it, that they'd struggled against the Steelers

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Speaker 3: in recent games and a lot how many times did

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Speaker 3: you hear the phrase eight of the last nine that was?

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Speaker 3: That was exactly uttered multiple times Basically any media session

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Speaker 3: that this team did over the course of the week

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Speaker 3: leading into this game, eight of nine was brought up,

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Speaker 3: and so the Ravens were aware of that, but they

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Speaker 3: play they were the better team today. They played better

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Speaker 3: on all aspects of this game, and I thought it

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Speaker 3: was a really it was a statement win for this

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Speaker 3: team in a lot of ways in my mind.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's just start with where the standings are now.

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Speaker 1: So the Ravens and Steelers, as I said, are both

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Speaker 1: tied a top the AFC North at ten and five. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens still need help to win the AFC North Crown.

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Speaker 1: They need the Steelers to drop one of their final

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Speaker 1: two games in order to be AFC North champs. Now,

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Speaker 1: they could still finish tied and the Ravens win, but

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Speaker 1: the only way to do that is if the Ravens

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Speaker 1: beat the Browns in the regular season finale and the

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Speaker 1: Steelers lose to the Bengals in the regular season finale.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers before then have to play the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens play the Texans on Christmas Night. So that's

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Speaker 1: how it stands right now. The Ravens still need the

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Speaker 1: Steelers to drop one of the last two, but they

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Speaker 1: could still win the Vision if they were tied.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Ravens also officially punched their ticket into

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. It all, it seemed like the Ravens were

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Speaker 3: a really good position to make the postseason. But they've

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Speaker 3: officially punched that ticket, and that's important, that's significant.

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Speaker 2: They're in the dance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, even though they don't win the division. This team

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Speaker 1: is playing well right now down the stretch exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the big takeaways to

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Speaker 3: me is that coming out of the by they played

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Speaker 3: a dominant game against the Giants and won that one convincingly.

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Speaker 2: Now they play this team who's given.

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Speaker 3: Them all these troubles over the past several years, and

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Speaker 3: they win it by seventeen points. And so now you've

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Speaker 3: put together two really good wins going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You officially punched that playoff ticket. Now, of course, you

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Speaker 3: still got two games left in the regular season Texans

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Speaker 3: on a short week on Christmas Day and then the

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Speaker 3: Browns at Mt. BAK Stadium to close out the season.

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Speaker 3: So there's still work to be done. But to me,

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Speaker 3: the Ravens as a team are absolutely trending in the

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Speaker 3: right direction and getting hot at the right time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely agree with that, and that's what matters

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Speaker 1: most when you're going into the playoffs, can you get hot?

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Speaker 1: And we've said it all season long, the Ravens have

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Speaker 1: been you know, when they when they are not beating themselves,

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Speaker 1: they've been one of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: You look at DVOA and all those advanced metrics, right

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Speaker 1: like it says, yeah, the Ravens are the best team

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Speaker 1: or one of, if not the best team in the league.

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Speaker 1: And you saw it tonight. I mean I was talking

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Speaker 1: to the ESPN's Jameson Hensley before the game and he's like,

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Speaker 1: Ravens favor by seven. Wow, that's a pretty big line,

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Speaker 1: you know, against the team that they've lost to eight

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Speaker 1: of the last nine and play within three points a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's always close, right, it's always closed seven point line.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens beat him by seventeen. Yeah, you know, so

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Speaker 1: I just think that, like we've said, this is a

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Speaker 1: bit a big win for this team. The ball is

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Speaker 1: rolling now. They have to keep it rolling against the

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Speaker 1: Texans on Christmas short, short week, four days. They need

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Speaker 1: to keep that ball rolling down the stretch here. But

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna want to tangle with the Ravens in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that the way Lamar Jackson is playing,

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Speaker 1: the way Derrick Henry's running the ball, and the way

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Speaker 3: You Know what I really liked about the way the

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Speaker 3: Ravens won this game is that if you go back

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Speaker 3: over the last few years against this team, it feels

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Speaker 3: like when they've played the Steelers, weird things have happened,

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Speaker 3: and the Steelers have been the team in the fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter that's just found a way to get it done.

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Speaker 3: And you look at this game and it's close, it's

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Speaker 3: initially tied, it's tied in the second half, and then

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Speaker 3: it's a one score game in the second half, and

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Speaker 3: it looks like the Ravens are gonna put it away,

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Speaker 3: and then Lamar there's the interception, and then two plays later,

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Speaker 3: Marlin Humphrey comes back with.

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Speaker 2: The pick six.

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Speaker 3: But they didn't allow basically that interception to break them

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Speaker 3: at all. They responded in a huge way, and that's

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Speaker 3: the That play is the.

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Speaker 2: One that stands out.

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Speaker 3: But I think there were lots of different moments in

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Speaker 3: this game where it felt like they survived all the

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Speaker 3: counterpunches that the Steelers had and they never allowed any

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Speaker 3: miscues to put him into a hole.

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Speaker 1: Well, look what this boils down to is the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: for the first time in what feels like a little while,

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Speaker 1: didn't beat themselves against the Steelers, and the Steelers beat themselves.

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Speaker 1: The roles reversed in this game, right, the Ravens. Two

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Speaker 1: penalties for ten yards. We spent all week talking about

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Speaker 1: the penalties, penalties, penalties, penalties, two penalties for ten yards, right, none,

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Speaker 1: no defensive penalties in this game. Okay, so that's huge turnovers.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had the two biggest turnovers of the game, right,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson salty about his late interception, which yeah, you

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Speaker 1: don't want that, certainly, but Russell Wilson fumbles inside the

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Speaker 1: the board for them, and then throws a pick six.

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Speaker 1: That's ten point swing right there. Yeah, right, so the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the Steelers were a higher

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Speaker 1: penalized team as well, five for twenty nine. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. The roles reversed in this game. And now

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Speaker 1: the Ravens dodged some bullets. They put the ball on

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Speaker 1: early on in this game, we saw some of the

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Speaker 1: characteristics that have made the Ravens lose the Steelers, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you saw Lamar Jackson sack strip, Ronnie Stanley

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Speaker 1: I think twice, yeah, tonight. So the second one was

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Speaker 1: late and the game was decided by that point, but

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Speaker 1: the first one was very much undecided.

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Speaker 2: It was the first quarts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know the Ravens. The Ravens were fortunate

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Speaker 1: on some of those to jump on the ball. But

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Speaker 1: I think overall, you still step back and look at it,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers get all this credit for beating teams

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Speaker 1: their mistakes. Well, the Ravens, I thought, in this game,

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Speaker 1: stayed patient, didn't press the issue too much, didn't let

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Speaker 1: the Steelers really get them out of sync, and they

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Speaker 1: capitalized on the Steelers' mistakes.

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Speaker 3: John Harblaugh the word patience. He brought that up in

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Speaker 3: his postgame press conference, and the point that he made

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Speaker 3: the quote was basically to be patient, doing ordinary things

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Speaker 3: well as a team over and over again, and then

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Speaker 3: the big play happens exactly And I thought that was

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Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty interesting because when you do

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Speaker 3: consider the games against these this team, it's easy, I think,

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Speaker 3: in these situations to feel like, oh, here we go again.

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Speaker 2: And I felt like, if you go.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make a big play to beat the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: here we go. I got to pull us out of it.

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Speaker 3: I gotta make it right, like this is the game,

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Speaker 3: this is a rivalry, the AFCN horse on the line,

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Speaker 3: and you can you can try to do it all

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Speaker 3: at once. And the point was one play at a time.

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Speaker 3: It's like the cliche stuff, but it matters.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that that really came out of the

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Speaker 1: mentality of the week. The Ravens were not really into

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Speaker 1: the whole playing up the whole Ravens Steelers rivalry, and

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Speaker 1: and of course they heard eight of nine and they

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Speaker 1: were just like, look, we just got to focus on ourselves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, We're not gonna go play into this hole,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about the Steelers and how intense it

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Speaker 1: we haven't beaten them in a while. And and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff like, Look, they were confident if they played

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Speaker 1: their game, if they played Ravens football and didn't shoot

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Speaker 1: They were confident that that was gonna be the end result.

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Speaker 1: And it was. That's what played out here tonight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think there's there's other factors. The Steelers'

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Speaker 1: injuries certainly were a factor in this game. They didn't

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Speaker 1: have George Pickens both. You know, there's one of their

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Speaker 1: If they didn't come back Shawn Elliott starting safety sideline.

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Speaker 1: But seventeen points seventeen point win here. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna sit here and chalk it up and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: those Steelers lost because they had injuries, beat them by seventeen, right,

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Speaker 1: So I think that the Ravens felt like if they

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Speaker 1: beat the Steelers. They flipped the script.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think as we dive into some of the

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I just and Lamar. I think the patients to

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Speaker 1: that point. I thought Lamar was exhibited that in spades tonight.

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Speaker 1: this is not like a huge aired out game for

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. But he threw three touchdowns and I thought

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Speaker 1: he was patient. They stayed patient with the run game.

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Speaker 1: Dereck Henry established that early and kept running him over.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a patient effort all the way around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that.

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Speaker 3: I do think that Lamar put to rest for the

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Speaker 3: time being, any of the real conversation. He can't beat

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Speaker 3: the Steelers that type of stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, Steven A. Smith has been saying that he

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Speaker 2: was in the house today.

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Speaker 3: He was here, he saw first hand, he saw firsthand

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Speaker 3: just how good Lamar Jackson is.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch for staking.

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Speaker 2: He saw that, oh.

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Speaker 3: With his own two eyes, just how dynamic he is

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Speaker 3: and the plays that he can make. But I really

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Speaker 3: think we should spend some time talking about the defense,

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Speaker 3: and like this defense has taken its share of heat,

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Speaker 3: especially early in the season. But I thought tonight's game

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Speaker 1: And then later in the game, Kyle Hamilton on fourth down,

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Speaker 1: All right, last defensive points for me, the pass rush too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ravens had six quarterback hits. I like what I

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Speaker 1: see from this defense. Let's take a break and we

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Speaker 1: come back. We'll flip it over to the offensive side

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Speaker 1: and talk about some of the people that help Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson get that win over the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Lounge Podcast. We are coming to

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Speaker 3: you from the Sea Geek Studio. We also want to

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Speaker 2: The Crown is yours.

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Speaker 3: So what really got this offense jump started early in

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Speaker 3: this game was King Henry and the rushing attack. The

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Speaker 3: Ravens leaned on the ground game early and it paid dividends.

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Speaker 3: They also were able to go to Kenry Lay to

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Speaker 3: really work as the finisher in this game. Just a

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Speaker 3: strong overall game from Henry and this rushing attack.

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Speaker 2: This is what you hope to see.

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Speaker 3: He finishes with twenty four carries one hundred and six

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Speaker 3: two yards. Big day for Henry. We talked about the

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Speaker 3: difference that he's gonna make in December, and you saw

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Speaker 3: that today. This is this is a Derrick Henry game.

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Speaker 2: It was cold.

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Speaker 3: It was Anstey North football. This is what you want

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Speaker 3: from your workhorse running back.

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Speaker 1: I think this was pick your poison, right. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: just keep doing the opposite of whatever you think they

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Speaker 1: should do in every game you go into this game,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers run defense was really the strength of

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Speaker 1: their unit. Oh and by the way, both their starting

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks and a safety you're out. Yeah, it seems like

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Speaker 1: a good time for Derrick Henry to have a huge game, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean kind of crazy. Even last week.

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Speaker 1: I thought we were all saying, yeah, coming out of

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Speaker 1: the by Giants, man, they're really, you know, not a

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Speaker 1: great run defense. They're going to get the King role

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Speaker 1: in Lamar through the air with five touchdowns, and so hey,

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Speaker 1: that's pick your poison, right. I mean, the Ravens can

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Speaker 1: go either way. If you're really playing them to do

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Speaker 1: one thing, they'll say all right, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: paying the pass. If the Steelers are just saying, all right,

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Speaker 1: we got to kind of help help out our corners

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Speaker 1: and leave those safeties back, all right, we'll run Dereck

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Speaker 1: Henry at you. You want to play late light boxes, cool,

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Speaker 1: We're game, you know. And so that's their ability to

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Speaker 1: say if an opponent dictate, take what the defense is

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Speaker 1: giving you totally.

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Speaker 3: And the guys who put up like the big numbers

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Speaker 3: from a volume standpoint, it was Derek Henry with one

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two yards on the ground. Zay Flowers

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Speaker 3: had five catches for one hundred, but neither from scores

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Speaker 3: a touchdown. It's other guys, and that goes back to

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Speaker 3: the pick your poison thing. Isaiah likely gets in in

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Speaker 3: the end zone. That was a really beautifully designed play

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Speaker 3: there that the defense was all going one direction. Now, Isaiah, Likelely,

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Speaker 3: was wide open for the walk in touchdowndowns the tight end.

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Speaker 3: The tight ends, I mean Mark Andrews. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if he's ever been more wide open than that in

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Speaker 3: the middle of the field and looked like there was

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Speaker 3: communication issues on that. In the sealer secondary and Andrews

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Speaker 3: was just so wide open. And then versa Bateman. That

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Speaker 3: was a perfect passion Lamar. A nice job from him

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Speaker 3: by Bateman to get open and then toe tap there

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Speaker 3: in the corner of the end zone. It's encouraging that

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Speaker 3: Bateman scored there and so just encouraging that he play

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Speaker 3: He pops up on the injury report on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Limited on Friday. It doesn't practice on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Reporter seem in the locker room with the boot and

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Speaker 3: you're thinking, oh, this could be a problem, A little

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Speaker 3: nervous about this, but he plays and he scores a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: That's big, right, one catch for fourteen yards. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree, that was a great It was a very

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Speaker 1: good touchdown catch, you know. And whether the foot was

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Speaker 1: bothering him and all, we don't know, but yeah, good

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Speaker 1: stuff from this Ravens offense. Save Flowers, with his five

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Speaker 1: catches for one hundred yards, surpassed the thousand yard marker

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Speaker 1: for the first time in his career in his second season.

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Speaker 1: So bravo Tozay Flowers. I think we all thought that

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Speaker 1: that was certainly within the realm of possibilities this year

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Speaker 1: for Zay, with the way that he just keeps maturing,

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Speaker 1: getting better. And it's funny after the game, it mattered

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Speaker 1: to Jay Flowers to get over a thousand Tyler Wallace

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Speaker 1: is like, yeah, he was talking about this week, Fairmount.

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Speaker 1: We knew, we knew, and Zay knew even before his

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Speaker 1: last catch, the long forty nine yard aer down the sideline.

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Speaker 1: He knew how many yards he needed and he was like,

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Speaker 1: come on, comell man, come on, let's get this done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he said that when he saw that ball coming

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Speaker 1: in the air coming for him, he was like, I

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Speaker 1: have to make this catch. And it's funny that, you know,

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Speaker 1: he kind of pooled away from the defender, dragged a

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Speaker 1: defender for a few yards and got loose. He wants

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Speaker 1: every single one of those.

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Speaker 3: He made sure that there wasn't any doubt that he

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Speaker 3: was taughing that he needed like thirty on that play

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Speaker 3: and ended up getting forty nine.

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Speaker 2: Yep, So that was that was That was big for

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Speaker 2: say and he has.

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Speaker 3: Really come into his own in the second year, proven

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Speaker 3: to be a great draft pick by Eric Taicassa. He

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Speaker 3: told me after the game that you could tell that

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Speaker 3: the thousand yards meant something to him. And he also

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Speaker 3: he also said, well, he brought up the whole point,

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Speaker 3: you're not a Raven til you beat the Steelers. I

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Speaker 3: guess I'm officially a Raven now.

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Speaker 1: So he was.

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Speaker 2: He was very excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. The one downside for the offense is

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Speaker 1: Justice Hill suffered a concussion in the first half of

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Speaker 1: this game, just fell really hard on the sideline. Scary play.

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Speaker 1: I mean, wasn't really wasn't moving when he first hit

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Speaker 1: the ground. And good news is he was able to

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Speaker 1: get to his feet and walk off. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens have a short week now coming up in

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Speaker 1: this Texas game, and John Harball kind of alluded to that,

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Speaker 1: you know, it could be tough for Justice to be

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Speaker 1: back in time for that game, but good news at

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Speaker 1: least to see him get up and walking around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was the major injury coming out of

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Speaker 3: this game, which which is always important when you're playing,

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Speaker 3: when you're playing the Steelers, that these are such tough,

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Speaker 3: physical games and you know, you don't want to see

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Speaker 3: a bunch of guys get down and go down. As

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Speaker 3: it looks right now coming out of the game, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't seem like there was really anybody else that landed

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Speaker 3: on the injury report. So that seems, at least now

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Speaker 3: as we're sitting here, to be an encouraging thing. So

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Speaker 3: it is a short week for this team, though.

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Speaker 1: I thought. I thought another big point in this game

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Speaker 1: was justin Tucker and his fifty one yard field goal

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Speaker 1: in the first half. When this game was still really

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Speaker 1: really tight. I mean that that was basically the kick

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Speaker 1: that he missed in Pittsburgh and when the Ravens were

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Speaker 1: kind of was neck and neck early in that game,

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Speaker 1: he missed it and the Steelers came back ended up

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Speaker 1: going on to win that game. And I thought that

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Speaker 1: that was just a really big kick. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was windy, it was it was very windy, cold and windy,

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Speaker 1: cold and windy, and that and a fifty one yarder.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's been all this talk about Tucker in general,

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Speaker 1: and then especially on top of that from plus fifty

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Speaker 1: to nail that kick, and kudos to Jordan's stout for

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Speaker 1: getting that a hold down on that one too, because

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Speaker 1: it was not an easy hold to get down. I

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Speaker 1: thought that that was a really big point in this game.

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Speaker 3: It was a big kick, even if it was a

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Speaker 3: perfect snap in perfect hold, a hole being a little

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Speaker 3: bit wide and then Jordan made a good catch and

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Speaker 3: got it down. Yes, so the snat was a little

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Speaker 3: bit wide and Jordan made a great job of snagging

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Speaker 3: it and then getting it down. So then for Justin

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Speaker 3: to deliver a kick right down the middle with the

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Speaker 3: snap and hold operation being a little bit off, I

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Speaker 3: think was significant, and then the conditions themselves big moment.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: He talked after the game about it, and he said

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Speaker 3: that he made the point that his confidence is the

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Speaker 3: same now as it was even after the Eagles game,

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Speaker 3: that his confidence has a waiver. However, he's not going

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Speaker 3: to diminish how meaningful it is to be able to

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Speaker 3: contribute in that way.

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Speaker 2: It was it.

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Speaker 3: It means a lot to him, and that was the

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Speaker 3: point that he made, is that it is really meaningful

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Speaker 3: to be able to make that kick and to be

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Speaker 3: able to help this team when it needed it. And

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Speaker 3: you could feel that, and I'm just really happy for

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Speaker 3: Justin today.

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Speaker 1: You know what means a lot to me is that

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Speaker 1: he stole my boots, My Nike boots that are so

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Speaker 1: nice that I've gotten some compliments on Justin. Tucker has

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Speaker 1: a pair now, same color, same boots. He was wearing

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Speaker 1: in the postgame locker room. Wow, he stole my boots, man, he.

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Speaker 2: Must is that the key?

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Speaker 1: He feel proud because he's got some style? I have

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Speaker 1: no style?

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Speaker 2: Was that was that the key to the kick? Today?

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Speaker 2: He was wearing those boots.

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Speaker 1: And I think did it so Yeah, that made me

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Speaker 1: feel pretty good.

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Speaker 3: All right, there you go, well done, well done. Uh

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Speaker 3: So the Ravens short week here. They played the Houston

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Speaker 3: Texas on Christmas Day and this is a big win.

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Speaker 3: This is an exciting win for this team. So I'll

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Speaker 3: make sure you enjoy this one. As always, you can

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Speaker 3: email us at the Lounge at Ravens Die at NFL

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Speaker 3: dot net. Its a size them up Saturday. Thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for listening. We'll be back with you again

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Speaker 3: later this week. M