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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Friday, March thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Today we heard from the newest member of the Ravens

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Speaker 1: free agent addition, Trey Hendrickson, a dominant defensive end pass

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Speaker 1: rusher who's going to be a significant player on this

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Speaker 1: defense to Ravens. Signed to a four year contract this

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Speaker 1: week and earlier today, he was introduced with general manager

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Speaker 1: Eric Tacassa and head coach Jesse Minter.

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Speaker 2: Welcome guys, thanks for coming. Excited to be here today,

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Speaker 2: a special day for us. You know, I think I've

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Speaker 2: said before, you know, team building is a journey that

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Speaker 2: goes in a lot of different directions. We are so

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Speaker 2: excited to welcome Trey here today. Someone we've played against,

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Speaker 2: who has caused a lot of problems for us over

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Speaker 2: the last four or five years. Guy that I've always

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Speaker 2: admired as a player, relentless, a great player, pass rusher,

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Speaker 2: a game wrecker, guy that can take over games in

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Speaker 2: critical situations and help us finish. And we are just

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Speaker 2: very happy and this is a great day for the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just to echo Eric, like to welcome Trey and

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Speaker 3: his family to the organization. This is a guy again,

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Speaker 3: game wrecker as a pass rusher, game wrecker as a

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Speaker 3: run defender, one of the most dominant players in the

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Speaker 3: National Football League. One of the things that stood out

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Speaker 3: to me since twenty twenty one, Trey is second in

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Speaker 3: the NFL and fourth quarter sacks. There was a point

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Speaker 3: in time this year where he was actually first. They

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Speaker 3: missed a little bit of time and Hunter ended up

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Speaker 3: passing him up. But when we talk about being able

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Speaker 3: to have a closer mentality and finish games and dominate

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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, Tray is an epitome of that.

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Speaker 3: How he's played the last four and five years. Could

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Speaker 3: be more excited to Adam and welcome to the family.

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Speaker 4: Tray, Thank you, incredibly welcome, Thankful for the kind words.

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Speaker 4: All glory goes to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 4: Thankful to this family. Steve, Eric Jesse. We've these people

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Speaker 4: that believe in me. I take a lot of pride

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Speaker 4: in proving people that believe in me correct and I

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Speaker 4: look forward to doing that. And the standard is high

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Speaker 4: here and I'm excited for that challenge and incredible defense,

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Speaker 4: incredible people and looking forward to the season.

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Speaker 5: Gay Puess, Trey, Welcome to Baltimore. As you know, this

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Speaker 5: team is always has the role of reaching the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 5: you know, especially the lard falls about it a lot.

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Speaker 5: How do you.

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Speaker 4: Feel you can help this team get over the hurle

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Speaker 4: and get to that over goal.

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Speaker 6: Sure? I have a wealth of knowledge coming from coaches.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 4: It started with Terrence Jamison who is a D line

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Speaker 4: coach in Buffalo, Matt Edwards D line coach in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 6: Those were both at FAU.

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Speaker 4: Charlie Partridge just left the Colts, wonderful people. And then

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Speaker 4: Ryan Nielsen, Marion Hobby, you know, Jerry Montgomery. The everything

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Speaker 4: I've been poured into with those guys just in a

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Speaker 4: D line room has molded me into the player I

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Speaker 4: am today. And if I can pour that into my

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Speaker 4: D line room here, elevate the standard of what we

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Speaker 4: call as lineman and setting the tone up front, let

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Speaker 4: the rest take care of itself. You know, it starts

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Speaker 4: with one game, one win. Once you start stacking them,

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Speaker 4: nobody's gonna stop us very much.

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Speaker 7: Play.

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Speaker 8: You know, in terms of coming to Baltimore, how much

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Speaker 8: did you get into play against a former team twice

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Speaker 8: a year packing into your decision?

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Speaker 6: I mean not much.

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Speaker 4: It's something that I think it's I go into every

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Speaker 4: game like it's the most important game. And when you're

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Speaker 4: playing in the AFC North and this division specifically, it's tough,

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Speaker 4: and that was almost more exciting as to stay.

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Speaker 6: In the North.

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Speaker 4: It's gritty football and it's a type of football I

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Speaker 4: like to play, and winning games is the most exciting

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Speaker 4: thing about being here in the Ravens building. I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's a standard of winning here that's unmatched across the league.

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Speaker 4: And getting to that and continuing to build in what

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Speaker 4: this identity for this unique season is with new coaches,

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Speaker 4: new faces, and me in a new uniform. I think

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Speaker 4: that's what's most exciting about this opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Tree.

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Speaker 9: Can you just sort of describe the whirlwind of the

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Speaker 9: last week for you? I mean, obviously the you know,

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Speaker 9: the Crosby trade here was announced at the end of

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Speaker 9: last week and then you know you're you're in touch

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Speaker 9: point with Eric. I mean when did you get the

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Speaker 5: Like for you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife and I evaluated all our options, we

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Speaker 4: prayed about it. We're in a I'm in a win

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Speaker 4: now window right being at my career has been phenomenal,

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Speaker 4: and I've been so blessed to meet great people and

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Speaker 6: With Drew Brees and Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 4: But this opportunity to hoist the Lombardi Trophy and get

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Speaker 4: up is an amazing opportunity. So a lot of things transpired.

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Speaker 4: I've always been a control what you can control type

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Speaker 4: and I'm excited for this season.

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Speaker 5: Jesse, how crazy was the week for you?

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Speaker 10: I mean seeing everything that went down, watching all the

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Speaker 10: reasons go out the door and kind of stand in

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Speaker 10: there with nothing, and you know, you had more information

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Speaker 5: But how did that all play out for you?

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Speaker 3: I mean I think you trust the process, Like building

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Speaker 3: a roster is a process.

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Speaker 5: Trust Eric, trust.

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Speaker 3: This organization, that all the decisions are made in the

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Speaker 3: best interest of us building building the best team for

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Speaker 3: now and into the future. And so it's it's it's

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Speaker 3: trusting the process. And then it's like to me, when

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Speaker 3: things happen, that you're that you're stable, that you're willing

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Speaker 3: to make decisions, that nobody panics, that everybody's in the

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Speaker 3: right frame of mind, and for me, it's always about

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Speaker 3: like adding the best players possible. So, yeah, as many

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Speaker 3: good players as we can add to this thing I

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Speaker 7: Just as you talked about how weapons on defense, how

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Speaker 7: do you do tray kind of fitity into to bat onset.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's certainly a weapon. I mean, he's proven that

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Speaker 3: the sack numbers speak for themselves, and so there's there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of different things that he can do for

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Speaker 3: how we set our fronts, and we'll try to do

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Speaker 3: as as many things as possible to create opportunities for

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Speaker 5: Eric, it's been a.

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Speaker 11: While since this organization is given out a big money,

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Speaker 5: Why didn't now feel.

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Speaker 11: Like the right time for that And why do you

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Speaker 11: think Trade Hendrickson is the right player?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, I think there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of factors that go into it. We actually this year

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Speaker 2: you know, carried over more money this year. It was

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Speaker 2: nice to have a little bit of a surplus. Normally

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Speaker 2: of the spring, and this year we actually had a

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Speaker 6: A nest egg.

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Speaker 2: Added to that. I think that in looking at the draft,

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Speaker 2: being positioned where we were strategically was going to be challenging.

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Speaker 2: You probably get a guy that we thought coming right

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Speaker 2: we felt like the guys that we would probably covert

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Speaker 2: the most in the draft would be gone maybe before fourteen.

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Speaker 2: It's typically what happens, and we felt like this was

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Speaker 2: of the main guys, And like I said, I love

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Speaker 2: when you have a familiarity with the player that you've

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Speaker 6: The terms of the game.

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Speaker 2: And Trey's always been somebody that has really impressed me

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Speaker 2: in that regard. And I was talking to Tray the

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Speaker 2: the East West practices, and you know, that's a game

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Speaker 2: where I call that a sleeper game. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot it's not like the Senior Bowl. Guys go

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Speaker 6: These big school guys.

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Speaker 2: Right, this guy was flying around and that left an

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Speaker 2: but I'm not surprised by the trajectory of his career

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Speaker 2: he's got a lot left in the tank. You know.

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Speaker 2: I think one of the things about Trey is he didn't.

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Speaker 2: You know, he impacted the games when he was in

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Speaker 2: And so he's got fresh. Let look at this guy,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be ready role and he's fresh, and he's healthy,

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Speaker 2: and he's strong, and he's ready to do some damage.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's a really important factor too.

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Speaker 9: Speaking of that health, where are you physically, how do

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Speaker 9: you feel and what's that process been like?

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Speaker 5: You know, from the surgery toinet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a great doctor and doctor Myers correct

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Speaker 4: wealth of knowledge there too. You know, it was cleared

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Speaker 4: in January, been fresh, been ready to go. I'm excited

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Speaker 6: And I feel great.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited for the opportunity to play football going into

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Speaker 4: year ten. Uh you know, those are those are that's

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Speaker 4: a dream come true coming out of a guy who,

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Speaker 4: like like you said, I played at the East West Game.

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Speaker 4: I was drafted the third round. It's a big it's

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Speaker 4: a big year. It's a big season for me. So

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to get it started.

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Speaker 7: Trey, what was your view of the Ravens while you

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Speaker 7: were playing with the Bengals from the other side, and

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Speaker 7: then just coming here yesterday. What's kind of your first

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Speaker 7: impression the building of the people and the culture here.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I already hinted at that with like

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Speaker 4: when you're talking about the AFC North there's history, it's uh,

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Speaker 4: it's a nasty brand of football. It's it's it's punching

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Speaker 4: a it's a phenomenal opportunity for me, phenomenal opportunity for

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Speaker 8: Sure, it feels like the last year or so, a

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Speaker 4: Well, what I can say is, I'm excited to go

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Speaker 6: That any more years you might want to know, Oh,

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Speaker 4: Has blessed me with with you know, the reps I've

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Speaker 4: Talking about defense is something I'm really excited about.

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Speaker 11: Eric, You Trace signed through his mid thirties. This is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So like what I said, you just go off

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Speaker 2: fresh about this guy. When you'll watch him. I think

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Speaker 2: he's got I don't know how many sacks in the

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Speaker 2: last three years, thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven sacks

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Speaker 2: I just watched the tape. You know, he's quick, he's fast,

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Speaker 2: he finishes, he chases me trace, Whatever you need him

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Speaker 8: Trey, instead of chasing around Lamar Jackson, now you get

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Speaker 5: What excites you've got being able to see that vantage

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Speaker 4: Yeah, MVB quarterback right, Like, there's few quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 5: You know, Jesse winning pumping back. You mentioned about the

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Speaker 9: What does it take, because you know it takes a

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Speaker 5: What do you feel is that that quality is in you?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm motivated intrinsically, like I think, you know, win,

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Speaker 9: Eric, you watched a handful of your own freeation the

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Speaker 11: Does this feel a little sweeter today that you get

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that. I mean, you listen two sepid things.

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Speaker 2: We're excited to add this guy. He's a hell of

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Speaker 2: a force multiplier. On the other hand, and I should

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Speaker 9: Jesse, I mean Eric just uses the term force multiplayer.

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Speaker 5: What does that open up for you overall?

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Speaker 8: Sure, everybody talks about your ability to get after the quarterback.

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Speaker 5: As a front stopper as well.

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Speaker 6: And it's all about doing your job right. You know,

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Speaker 4: I can be. It's going to sound like that all

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Speaker 10: Far as mentoring those ifs and Mike did, do you

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: opportunity and the quarterback will be there, and trusting that

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Speaker 4: every play is an opportunity to affect a game, and

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Speaker 4: when that opportunity comes, you close and capitalize. And that's

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Speaker 4: what excites me so knowing that it doesn't take anything special,

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Speaker 4: It doesn't take anything over the top like people think.

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Speaker 4: You know, my career is taking care of itself because

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Speaker 4: of the discipline that I carry myself on and off

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Speaker 4: the field.

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Speaker 11: There is a possibility to be able to unite you

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Speaker 11: next Crossby.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I feel felt for.

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Speaker 11: From your perspective, possibility kind of become alive for you

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Speaker 11: and what it means to see a.

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Speaker 5: Kind of all apart.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what a phenomenal opportunity.

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Speaker 4: That would have been nothing but respect for him and

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Speaker 4: the way he carries himself on and off the field,

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Speaker 4: the adversity that he's overcome in his personal life. And

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Speaker 4: another guy I met at the Pro Bowls and stuff

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Speaker 4: like that, great person. You know, at some point you

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Speaker 4: know that this was going to be something that I

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Speaker 4: knew from myself and my family that this was a

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Speaker 4: tremendous opportunity to rush on a great defense.

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Speaker 6: Whoever's on the other side of the ball.

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Speaker 4: You know, you got guys that have been in this

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Speaker 4: building that I'm excited to play with as well, you know.

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Speaker 4: And that's what's special about this is it seems so

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Speaker 4: defensive minded, and.

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Speaker 6: That opportunity for me and my family is very special.

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Speaker 7: Sure, the Ravens don't typically go out and sign X

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Speaker 7: year or free agency to big contracts like they did

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Speaker 7: with you. I know you were seeking that kind of

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Speaker 7: long term contract. What does it mean to you for

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Speaker 7: the Ravens to kind of break character a little bit

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Speaker 7: and choose you.

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Speaker 4: As that guy that talks about family right like you'll

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Speaker 4: hear it a lot this year. It's faith, family and football.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I had faith that God would open

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Speaker 4: doors for me. My family is tremendously humbled by the

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Speaker 4: opportunity to be Ravens and football. Man, if you can't

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Speaker 4: get excited to play here, you need to check your pulse,

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Speaker 4: you know, because this is a tremendous opportunity for my family.

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Speaker 4: We're excited and completely blessed and blown away by the welcoming.

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Speaker 11: Right excited you to ingratiate yourself in the community and

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Speaker 11: be around the city and kind of.

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Speaker 5: Get to know this area at one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's exciting to start something fresh.

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Speaker 6: I think that was overdue for me.

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Speaker 4: My family probably took a lot of things more personally

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Speaker 4: than I did, which is saying something. So, you know,

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Speaker 4: for everybody to just kind of get a fresh start

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Speaker 4: and build on this opportunity, it starts day one. I'm

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Speaker 4: excited to get to work. I'm excited to embrace this city,

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Speaker 4: embrace this culture and build from the ground up.

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Speaker 5: Eric, You know, free agencies and fluid situation, stuff changes

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Speaker 5: so quickly. What's next for you?

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Speaker 6: Guys?

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Speaker 4: Everyone knew you were wanting to take a big swing

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Speaker 4: in a pass for Rusher.

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Speaker 11: What do you view as kind of a priority Sere

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Speaker 11: as you get into the second week of free.

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Speaker 2: Agency, Well, we had a you know, we had a

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Speaker 2: flurry of activity this week and want to thank you

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Speaker 2: know that some of the people here today that helped

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Speaker 2: with a lot of that paperwork and things is over

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Speaker 2: the last week. Uh, Nick and George and Mark and

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Speaker 2: Jen and Sophie and everybody that have done a great job.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It takes a village and free agency and it's technic

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Speaker 2: because you guys know, you have to cover it right.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a lot of moving parts and things change quickly.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend actually

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Speaker 2: with my wife, who hasn't probably seen me since the

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Speaker 2: season ended in a lot of ways, with all the

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Speaker 2: stuff we've had going on with the coaching stuff and

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Speaker 2: then you know, free agency and the combine. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've always been a draft focused team, draft centric. We

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Speaker 2: have eleven picks, We've got a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that we're not going to be looking

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Speaker 2: at some some some players over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: We will be certainly probably have some players visit. We'll

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Speaker 2: look at some guys. Are we going to go out

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Speaker 2: and break the bank? Probably not. I think we've broken

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Speaker 2: the bank in some ways over the last week. But

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Speaker 2: you know, we have opportunities to get better as a

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Speaker 2: team with the draft. Excited about where we stand. I

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Speaker 2: think we've filled some holes in a depth chart, which

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Speaker 2: I know coach Mentor likes. We don't have quite as

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Speaker 2: many open boxes, and we've added a lot of talent

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Speaker 2: at different important positions, which should make us more strategic

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Speaker 2: and be more focused in the draft, which I think

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Speaker 2: helps any decision maker just in terms of targeting certain

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Speaker 2: players and positions and just not having quite as many

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Speaker 2: holes in different things. So, you know, I think we'll

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Speaker 2: get into the later part of this month. Our coaches

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Speaker 2: are going on pro days and working guys out, which

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Speaker 2: is important. Our coaches is doing a lot of work

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Speaker 2: on the draft and free agency. Still, our scouts are busy.

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Speaker 2: We will meet in April with our coaches talk about

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Speaker 2: the draft, which is probably our most significant set of

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Speaker 2: meetings that we have. We'll get the board set up

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Speaker 2: and we'll be ready to go. So I think we're

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Speaker 2: excited about that. I can't wait for the offseason program

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Speaker 2: to start in a few weeks. I think it's what

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Speaker 2: April six or seventh, something like that. It can be

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Speaker 2: exciting this year, a new change with with Jesse and

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Speaker 2: the coaches and players. I know we're excited. I've heard

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Speaker 2: from a lot of players so that's exciting as well.

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Speaker 2: So I think this team's gonna look different come September.

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Speaker 2: We're excited about it. A lot of opportunities for us

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Speaker 2: to get better, and we plan to do that.

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Speaker 11: Tracy, to follow on Eric, you talked about Jalen. John

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Speaker 11: Simpson terms my obviously for you guys, that brave.

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Speaker 3: Fanthal Jalen had a great season this year, was a

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Speaker 3: starter for the Patriots, who obviously went all the way

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Speaker 3: to the super Bowl. Played really well deep safety, does

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Speaker 3: a lot of different things, plays with a lot of versatility.

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Speaker 3: Guy that are really excited about. I would say Durham

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Speaker 3: again has has a lot of familiarity with Decline from

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Speaker 3: last year in Chicago. Man just like a great human being,

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Speaker 3: a great guy that also fits what we were looking

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Speaker 3: for at that tight end position, which we'll continue to

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Speaker 3: add to as we go. And then John Simpson plays

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Speaker 3: with an energy and a passion that I'm really excited

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Speaker 3: adding into the offensive line room. Had a great season

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Speaker 3: here and one of the most successful seasons in recent

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Speaker 3: and recent memory here in twenty twenty three. As kind

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Speaker 3: of a force multiplier from an energy. It's very contagious

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Speaker 3: how he operates and couldn't be more excited to add

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Speaker 3: those three guys.

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Speaker 5: Eric, what do you.

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Speaker 9: Make of John taking for free agents?

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Speaker 7: Obviously with the Ribbons after you know the handful that

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Speaker 7: you lost, you talk to.

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Speaker 10: John at all about that?

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Speaker 2: Coach Arbora, I mean, I think it's listened. People want

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Speaker 2: our players. It's flattering, means we're doing a good job.

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Speaker 2: I wish coach the best. Thank he's a great coach.

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Speaker 2: He's a special friend of mine. As I said, he's

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Speaker 2: currently still my neighbor. I love those guys, you know,

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Speaker 2: and those players that he's gotten. I love those players,

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Speaker 2: fact guy, as I said, I've been texting a few

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Speaker 2: of those guys. I wish him the best. But again,

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Speaker 2: I think it's hard to lose players. But it means

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Speaker 2: you're doing a good job. And the credit goes to

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Speaker 2: the scouts and the coaches and George and Mark and

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Speaker 2: Nick and all those guys that had a huge part

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Speaker 2: in bringing these guys here. It means we're doing a

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Speaker 2: pretty good job. The challenges to continue to do that,

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Speaker 2: and we've talked a lot about that this week.

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Speaker 12: Football fans know that traditions matter. They're what inspire us

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Speaker 12: to make our massa in Tostedo's the traditional way, starting

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Speaker 12: with whole corn colonels, no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives,

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Speaker 12: all to give you that perfect crunch. Discover your next

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Speaker 12: tradition this football season. Head to the store, grab your

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Speaker 12: Tostito's team bag and scan the code for a chance

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Speaker 12: to score an epic experience with the Baltimore Ravens. Tostitos

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Speaker 12: tradition matters.

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Speaker 1: That was new free agent addition Trey Hendrickson. Clearly he

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Speaker 1: is excited about being here in Baltimore and the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are fired up to have him wearing the purple and

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