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

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Speaker 1: to break down the Ravens thirty three to nineteen win

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Speaker 1: over the San Francisco forty nine Ers and turn the

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Speaker 1: page quickly as the Ravens are to set up and

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Speaker 1: preview this game against the Miami Dolphins in a win

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Speaker 1: and get the top seed game for the Ravens. So, Garrett,

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Speaker 1: let's start off with breaking down this forty nine Ers game.

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Speaker 1: I'm still kind of spinning, my head spinning about that

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Speaker 1: third quarter. It was so unbelievably great. But I think

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Speaker 1: what everybody wants to talk about and know is how

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Speaker 1: did Mike McDonald and this Ravens defense slow down the

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Speaker 1: mighty forty nine ers offense? Because we've got another good

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Speaker 1: offense come in to town with Miami. How did they

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Speaker 1: do it against the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: This really was a showcase game for Mike.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think Mike's been a great coordinator, and

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Speaker 3: that's been the secrets out on that that's been the

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Speaker 3: case all season long. But his ability to make life

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Speaker 3: really hard on brock Perty and that offense as a whole,

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Speaker 3: I think speaks to just the quality of the coordinator.

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Speaker 3: That he is, so I know we're going to get

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Speaker 3: into the tape, but I think they're like, this is

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Speaker 3: this is this is.

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Speaker 2: The resume game for Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 3: And there was the clip I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: saw it at the end of the game where he

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Speaker 3: was really fired up. Give a big high five to

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Speaker 3: Anthony Weaver. Those are two guys who are really the

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Speaker 3: key leader coaches to the leader coaches. Obviously Mike is

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Speaker 3: a coordinator, Anthony Weaver as an assistant head coach of

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Speaker 3: this team. Those guys really are the leaders of this defense,

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Speaker 3: and it was awesome to see that moment between the

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Speaker 3: two of them.

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Speaker 2: That was the most fired uf I've ever seen Mike

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Speaker 2: McDonald get.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's usually mile mannered, pretty mild mannered, but when

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Speaker 3: you just go in San Francisco's house and you get

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Speaker 3: five interceptions in that game and shut down that offense there,

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Speaker 3: there's that's reason to get a little fired up.

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Speaker 1: And he sealed it with a pick, well, exactly sealed

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Speaker 1: it with a pick. That's when he had that reaction,

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Speaker 1: so very cool moment. Looking at what the Ravens did

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Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers, there are a few distinct

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Speaker 1: changes from their mo this season, the biggest witch of

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Speaker 1: which was their use of zone coverage. So the Ravens

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Speaker 1: have been in the middle of the pack this year

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Speaker 1: in terms of zone versus man coverage. They were in

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Speaker 1: zone coverage eighty two percent of the time against the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: That's the second highest rate they've had all season. A

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Speaker 1: lot of that, and I think primarily because the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers, a diverse set of weapons, can line up

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Speaker 1: anywhere and all their pre snap motion. No team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL coming into that game use more pre snap

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Speaker 1: notion than the forty nine Ers. They can do all that,

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Speaker 1: they can move it all around, put all the window

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Speaker 1: dressing all over it. But if the Ravens are just

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Speaker 1: sitting back in zone, you don't have those busted coverages

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Speaker 1: that the forty nine Ers have gotten so many times

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Speaker 1: against other teams, right, And you don't have obviously the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: There's still a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of communicating that needs to happen, but you're just not

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Speaker 1: as susceptible to break downs on the back end when

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Speaker 1: you're playing in zone coverage versus man. It's not as

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Speaker 1: much following around needing the shadow guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the other part of it too, is historically speaking,

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Speaker 3: zone allows you in a lot of situations to come

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Speaker 3: away with more takeaways. I go back two years when

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Speaker 3: Wink McDonald wink Martindale, sorry just blends, yeah, exactly, when

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Speaker 3: Martinell was a defensive coordinator. Here, the Ravens were much

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Speaker 3: more of a man heavy team obviously blitzed the time

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Speaker 3: than Mike came in and went more zone coverage, and

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Speaker 3: this was another evolution of that, going even more zone

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Speaker 3: than they typically do. But going with that zone approach

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Speaker 3: often allows you to get more turnovers, and we saw

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Speaker 3: that in this game with five takeaways. Now, I don't

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Speaker 3: think that you can expect five interceptions every single game

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Speaker 3: or anywhere close to it. Some of those were the

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Speaker 3: result of batter passes going in the right direction, but

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Speaker 3: Ravens also got their hands on those balls too, So

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Speaker 3: I think that the zone coverage did help on the

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Speaker 3: turnover front in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens also you combine that with the pressure rate

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Speaker 1: that they had. They had a fifty six percent pressure rate,

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Speaker 1: only blitz twenty one percent of time. That's not a

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Speaker 1: high blitz rate for them, and yet got pressure consistently

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Speaker 1: on Brock Purty and Sam Darnold when he came into

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Speaker 1: the game. So Rock Perdy had his second lowest completion

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Speaker 1: rate of the season, and it was below what was expected.

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Speaker 1: You know, next Gen Stats puts together these stats of

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Speaker 1: what your expected completion percentage should be. It was eight

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Speaker 1: percentage points below that. Yeah, So the Ravens did a

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Speaker 1: really good job in their zone coverage. And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the strengths of this defense that we haven't talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about is the Ravens are known for playing

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Speaker 1: man defense. That's what they generally like in their cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: Outside big physical guys who can play man. Under Mike

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Speaker 1: McDonald a, every team in the NFL plays more zone

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Speaker 1: of the pack in both categories zone versus man, and

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Speaker 1: they're doing both at a high level, which allows you

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Speaker 1: to adapt to your opponent. They don't have to play

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Speaker 1: one style of defense, and now the offense can adapt

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Speaker 1: to that and scheme off that. The Ravens are the

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Speaker 1: ones that can say, all right, what do you do well,

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Speaker 1: we can go either way. We'll play you however we want.

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Speaker 1: Because we can do both at a high level. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: and line up and game. They obviously determined that zone

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Speaker 3: So the point that you made about party, I just

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Speaker 3: think as that game went along, he just seemed really uncomfortable,

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Speaker 3: and I think it was probably like a combination factors.

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Speaker 3: By the end, he left the game with the singer.

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Speaker 3: He did have this stinger last week in last the

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Speaker 3: previous week's game, and I don't know if that affected

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Speaker 3: him at all in this game. But I think that

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Speaker 3: like when you throw four picks and even when you're

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Speaker 3: getting to that point their Halloween kids like, it rakes

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Speaker 3: your confidence. It shakes your confidence. And I think that

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Speaker 3: also with the way that the physical style of the

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Speaker 3: Ravens play. They're physical with receivers or physical with the

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Speaker 3: tight ends, are certainly physical with the offensive line getting

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Speaker 3: you have.

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Speaker 2: Pressure in your face.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens are bringing heat out from the blitz, but

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Speaker 3: they're just getting to the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: By the end of the game, the offensive line was

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Speaker 3: They're down three starting offensive linemen, so all those factors,

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Speaker 3: like your confidence is shaken a little bit because you're

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Speaker 1: I just think all of hit some plays, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't to their usual standards.

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Speaker 3: Oh, definitely not, you know, And I think I gave

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Speaker 3: the defense a lot of credit too, Like early in

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Speaker 3: that game when George Kittle, George Kittle had ninety one

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Speaker 3: yards in the first quarter and I was like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 3: Kittle looks like he could be in sore for a

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Speaker 3: monster game and he's capable of that. But they adjusted

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Speaker 3: just think that basically like the way that this defense played,

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Speaker 3: They're an intimidating group that you know, is physical, and

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Speaker 3: I think that, like brock Perty felt that as well

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Speaker 2: I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: The other big change for the Ravens defense was the

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Speaker 1: use of Marlin Humphrey. He had only lined up in

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Speaker 1: seen him thrive in that role before, yeah, but two

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Speaker 1: That really paid dividends. Also, you see Marlon, I thought,

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Speaker 1: had arguably his best game of the year. Yeah, gets

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Speaker 1: a double corner blitz. Marlon really caused the second interception

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Speaker 1: scrambling for nine plus seconds and Marlon plaster is still

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Speaker 1: George Kittle breaks up that pass, pops it up, Kyle

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Speaker 2: That was really Marlon's play.

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Speaker 1: He saw some physical plays with him in run defense,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was really good to see Marlin again

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Speaker 1: see that all the time moving forward, but to see

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Speaker 3: The most shocking moment of the game was when Marlin

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Speaker 2: That was good. Sane bounced off. That was nuts. Marlin.

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Speaker 3: Marlin is as physical off a corners you're gonna find

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Speaker 3: Like that's one of those highlight reel tapes, highly reel clips,

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Speaker 3: and credit to Debo for shaking it off. Sales a tank,

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Speaker 3: yeah so so. But but going back to him in

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Speaker 3: a couple of reasons for him moving in that in

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Speaker 3: that way. One, Arthur will Let missed the game. He

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Speaker 3: he didn't play in the game. He has been somebody

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Speaker 3: the Ravens have used in there a good bit of

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Speaker 3: you know, for a good.

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Speaker 2: Amount of time. So that's part of it.

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Speaker 3: The other part of it, I agree with you, is

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Speaker 3: that from a matchup standpoint, it just made sense. The

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Speaker 3: but it has always been kind of base on like

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Speaker 3: tried to like put the best secondary out on the field,

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Speaker 3: and if Marlin in the slot allows him to have

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Speaker 3: the best secondary on the field, that's what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 3: And so he's missed a lot of time this year

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Speaker 3: with injuries, so there just hasn't been as many opportunities

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Speaker 3: have been in previous years. I think part of it,

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Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say is like I think part

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Speaker 3: of it is just the nature of it made sense

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Speaker 1: Do it well, and they still wanted to be able

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Speaker 1: which paid off right. Kyle Hamilton gets the interception in

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Speaker 3: That he had, which was ridiculous, He's weaving in and

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Speaker 3: No, And that's the thing that's like, you have Fred

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Speaker 1: Absolutely and some of the continuing to make off platform

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Speaker 3: It just look cool, just what it was just the

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Speaker 1: It's every week that you see these plays is being made.

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Speaker 2: You would not draw it up this way.

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Speaker 1: We got swirls, we got whooped, the whoops, it's all

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Speaker 1: Well, remember when Todd Munkin first came in, he talked

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Speaker 1: And that's not any revolutionary statement. The NFL has largely

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Speaker 2: I thought it was the right call to go for it.

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Speaker 1: also pat Rick Card. If you watch that play, really

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Speaker 1: loops outside of Nick Bosa on an inside run. Lamar

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Speaker 1: did a great job of selling the handoff to the

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Speaker 1: outside or selling the quarterback keeper.

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Speaker 2: It was an rpo.

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa completely on skates and he was on skates

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Speaker 1: and Gus Edwards charges up the middle. Good block by

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely on Fred Warner got just enough of them

447
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Speaker 1: to clear keep that lane open for Gus Edwards in

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Speaker 1: it's a one yard touchdown. When you see Nick Bosa

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Speaker 1: on the ground on his hands and knees, pounding the

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Speaker 1: ground with his face in the in the turf, kicking

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Speaker 1: himself or looking so foolish on that fake, that's always

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Speaker 1: a good sign.

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Speaker 2: It's a good sign of scheme. Yes, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I just think that like what's working the scheme

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Speaker 3: and the quarterback are and his creative ability. They're married

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Speaker 3: right now and they're working in conjunction with each other

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Speaker 3: so well, and I think that's you know, that's that's

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Speaker 3: why they're playing so well. So I know the MVP

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Speaker 3: is is certainly something that is probably gonna be in

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Speaker 3: Lamar's future.

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Speaker 2: He's leading the way.

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Speaker 3: But more importantly than the MVP.

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Speaker 2: Is the do I mean, I mean, what do you

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Speaker 2: want MVP or the dog? The dog?

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Speaker 1: You got to take the dog, right, I got to.

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Speaker 1: So this was a tough one, all right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's the AFC Defensive Player of the Week. How

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Speaker 1: do you not give it to Kyle Hailton. Yeah, but this,

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Speaker 1: as we said at the top, was Lamar's MVP Christmas Night,

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Speaker 1: and Kyle's already won it twice. This will be Lamar's second,

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Speaker 1: his first in of victory. We gave it to him

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Speaker 1: after the Steelers game. All these drops. It wasn't Lamar's fault.

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Speaker 1: He played a great game against Steelers. I thought this

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Speaker 1: game by Lamar Jackson, that's probably one of the MVP.

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Speaker 2: How do you not give him the Dog of the week?

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Speaker 2: What is MVP night?

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Speaker 3: I agree, he's a perfect He's a fitting dog for

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Speaker 3: this game exactly.

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Speaker 1: So we got a real contest here for top no.

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Speaker 1: Because we have multi time winners now with Kyle Hamilton

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Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a race to the finish. Yeah. Well,

483
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Speaker 2: like I said, congrats to Lamar.

484
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that this is he's putting this right up

485
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Speaker 3: there on the trophy case next to that MVP you know,

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Speaker 3: in between the future MVP that he's going to get

487
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Speaker 3: acted this season. So I'm sure he's very excited about

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Speaker 3: this ness.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's take a break. When we come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the huge, big, big game against the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: games left.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope, there's a lot more. Yeah, right, home field advantage. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's what's on the table. Game, that is what's on table.

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Speaker 2: Just so fans are aware.

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Speaker 1: If the Ravens beat the Dolphins, they are the number

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Speaker 1: one seed, home field advantage first round playoff by big time.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that's big time.

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Speaker 1: If they do not beat the Dolphins, well, hey, they

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Speaker 1: could lock up the division before then.

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Speaker 2: If the Browns lose one.

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Speaker 1: More game or the Ravens win one more game, then

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Speaker 1: the Ravens win the AFC North divisions. That would guarantee

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Speaker 1: one at least one home playoffs.

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Speaker 3: And the Browns play Thursday night against the Jets. So

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Speaker 3: if the Browns were to lose that, if the Browns

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Speaker 3: lose that game, then the Ravens or AFC North champs.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, But we got our sites set on more

529
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Speaker 2: than that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a win against the Dolphins in that

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Speaker 1: top seed. So this is another challenge against here's the

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Speaker 1: team that's one game behind the Ravens. They have the

533
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Speaker 1: best offense in the league when you look at yards points,

534
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Speaker 1: passing yards per game, number one in all three. Yeah,

535
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Speaker 1: one of the best red zone offenses in the league.

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Speaker 1: It's a similar conversation to what we just had against

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 2: That's the crazy thing.

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Speaker 3: It's like the forty nine Ers game was a propriately

541
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Speaker 3: hyped up Super Bowl preview MVP discussion two of the

542
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Speaker 3: best teams in the league, like there was a Christmas Night,

543
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 3: Monday Night Football, like all that stuff. It was a

544
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Speaker 3: warranted hype. But in reality, this Dolphins game has always

545
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Speaker 3: meant more to both of these teams, both the Ravens.

546
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Speaker 2: And the Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: This Dolphins game has meant more to the Ravens than

548
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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers game did because it's an AFC

549
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Speaker 3: game and the Dolphins are the ones right on their heels.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, you can say a lot of the same

551
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Speaker 3: stuff on the MVP conversation in this game because Tyreek

552
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Speaker 3: Hill is in that mix as well, and so like you,

553
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Speaker 3: there's there's an MVP vote. As we just spend all

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Speaker 3: that time talking about how Lamar has done a great

555
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Speaker 3: job and may have stealed it, this game will go

556
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Speaker 3: a long way into siding that, Like, if the Ravens

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Speaker 3: win this game and Lamar continues to play well, he's

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Speaker 3: probably got that wrapped up because wrapped up because he's

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Speaker 3: a number one Sea.

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Speaker 2: I think if he plays well in this game and

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Speaker 2: the Ravens win this game, it's wrapped up.

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Speaker 3: Yep. But if Tyreek Hill has a big game also,

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Speaker 3: and it might be another conversation.

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Speaker 2: Right if he puts up two hundred or something and

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Speaker 2: they win, Right, Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 1: These two offenses have a lot of similarities in terms

567
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Speaker 1: of where they were born, right, These are Mike Shanahan

568
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Speaker 1: style offenses.

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Speaker 3: That you're talking about forty nine Ers and the Dolphins exactly.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan's son, Mike McDaniel, the head coach

571
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Speaker 1: of the Dolphins, who's an offensive you know, mastermind, and

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Speaker 1: the air quotes came from that coaching tree. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of some similarities. I talked about the prestat motion

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Speaker 1: that the forty nine Ers use. The Dolphins now have

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Speaker 1: surpassed them. They used the most in the league and

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Speaker 1: so they're at nearly an eighty percent clip. So we

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Speaker 1: talk about the Ravens high use of zone coverage against

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Do they do that again his Dolphins?

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Speaker 1: Is it a similar game plan? Did we see a

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Speaker 1: preview this past week the Ravens got practiced their game

581
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Speaker 1: plan for what they're going to use against the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: I would think that Mike McDonald's going to switch it

583
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Speaker 1: up in different ways. You can't just try it out

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Speaker 1: the same exact thing.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. There's similar offenses. Now.

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Speaker 1: What I do think is different about the challenges the

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers and the Dolphins pose is the nine

588
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Speaker 1: Ers really had four guys in the passing.

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Speaker 2: Game that you had to be worried about.

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Speaker 1: Brandon how you Kittle, Deebo Samuel, and Christian McCaffrey all

591
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Speaker 1: big time receivers that you had to really be concerned with.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins have too, and one of them might not

593
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Speaker 1: play the Tyreek Hill is the best wide receiver in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Jalen Wattle is really really good too. He's

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Speaker 1: over a thousand yards as well already receiving yards. He's

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Speaker 1: dealing with high ankle sprain. They're not rolling him out.

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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's not rolling out, but we'll see. If he's

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Speaker 1: not playing, that changes.

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Speaker 3: A lot for them, right and even if even if

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Speaker 3: he is playing, speed is one of his greatest assets,

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Speaker 3: Like is he Hotwall is totally.

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Speaker 1: So whereas you had to worry about a lot of

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Speaker 1: different guys against four nineers. It's really locking in and

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Speaker 1: keeping a cap, keeping a lid on Tyreek Hill and

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Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle if he plays, it's two guys in the

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Speaker 1: passing game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in the passing game and then obviously in the

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Speaker 3: running game is for him most.

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Speaker 1: Right, So the running game they are thriving their fifth

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Speaker 1: in the league. And rushing where he most is has

611
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Speaker 1: been a touchdown monster this year and he's over a

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Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards. And you have the rookie Devon ah

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Speaker 1: Chaine who is a big play threat waiting to happen.

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Speaker 2: They can hit a huge play. It's just like just like, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, they're a track team, like the Dolphins are the

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Speaker 3: track team totally. They've got Tyreek Hill, who's the fastest

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Speaker 3: guy in the NFL, and you have Jalen Walla who.

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Speaker 2: Has great speed. Chans ridiculously. Yeah, he's he's probably fast

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Speaker 2: moster as fast.

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Speaker 3: So you have all the speed out there on the

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Speaker 3: field and Mike and then you have a you have

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Speaker 3: a great mastermind putting it all together, Mike McDaniel who's

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Speaker 3: the head coach, and build that offense, so like they

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Speaker 3: are a dynamic, dangerous offense. The Ravens, as a show

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Speaker 3: last week, feel like their defense can hang with anybody.

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Speaker 3: They can they cannot physical people. They can play, you know,

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Speaker 3: a type of defense that, as Patrick Queen said after

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Speaker 3: the game, the Ravens feel like they play a brand

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Speaker 3: of football that people don't want to play well.

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Speaker 1: And that's his comment after the game about, oh, these

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Speaker 1: teams you want to play basketball on grass. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're going to smack him in the mouth and whatever.

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Speaker 1: We don't care about all that stuff. Yeah, thats certainly

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Speaker 1: applied to the four nine ers. There's an element of

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Speaker 1: that that I think applies to the Dolphins as well.

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Speaker 1: And I think Patrick Queen knows that fool well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of window dressing, a lot

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Speaker 1: of pre snat motion, and a lot of this gimmicky

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Speaker 1: kind of all offensive stuff.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens say.

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Speaker 1: Whatever, we don't care about all that. We're just gonna

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Speaker 1: out physical you and and break your your will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, like the other subplot of this game

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Speaker 3: is just go back to last year against these guys.

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Speaker 3: Early in the season, the Ravens jump out to a

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Speaker 3: big lead and you're feeling great about take a runaway

647
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Speaker 3: and you're like, all right, okay, Miami comes here and

648
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Speaker 3: the Ravens are handing it to him.

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Speaker 2: It's a twenty one point lead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then all of a sudden in the fourth

651
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 3: quarter things fell apart. And it was for the first

652
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Speaker 3: three quarters. You keep a lid on Tyreek Hill and

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Speaker 3: you feel pretty good about that, and then all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden they start hitting the big plays, with Tyrek

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Speaker 3: being the leader in that regard, and they end up

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Speaker 3: losing that game.

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Speaker 2: And Tyreek Hills throwing up the deuces. It's not good.

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00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: It's never good. It's not good. And that's what happened

659
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: in that game. Yea.

660
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Speaker 3: Now you know that was that was early in Kyle

661
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 3: Hamilton's career. He has talked about it, you know, he

662
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 3: got he played some wrong coverages there and just mental musts. Yeah,

663
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: was not his best game, probably his worst game as

664
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Speaker 3: a pro, and he learned from that. He's obviously a

665
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,239
Speaker 3: much better player now than he was, you know what,

666
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: his second game into his career last season. And I

667
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: think the other Ravens probably that that game probably still

668
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: sticks in their crawl a little bit. I would guess

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Speaker 3: for the guys who were here now. Of course Rocon

670
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 3: wasn't here, But I think that for guys like Hamilton,

671
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 3: for Marlin, other players on this defense, especially in the secondary,

672
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 3: they're gonna want to avenge that one.

673
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Can Mike Florida say that the Dolphins are going to

674
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: beat the poo out of us again.

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00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: Well he already he already said that, Yeah, tongue of

676
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: cheek that the Ravens would do that. So you know,

677
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's trying to like speak a

678
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 3: loss into existence or what.

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00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you.

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00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: I think that they probably will say last year was

681
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: last year and whatever.

682
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: But they say that and then after the game, Oh yeah,

683
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: I'm sure exactly. I'm sure that that's ringing true with them.

684
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: And this is the defense is playing with their chess

685
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: puffed out, very prideful right now, and this is the

686
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: top dolphense, so they're going to want to prove it

687
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: again that they are the top now.

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00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: Well, to be honest, like to me, it's less about

689
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: the motivation aspect of like, hey, they beat you last year,

690
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 3: like that's we.

691
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: Owe them one.

692
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 3: Sure, that is an element, but you can use that

693
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 3: plenty of times you can use that. They use that

694
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 3: against the Jaguars and you can use that against the

695
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 3: Steelers or whatever. That is kind of consistent. To me,

696
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 3: it's more of the learnings from that game. Like from

697
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: a schematic standpoint, it's like, Okay, what did the Dolphins

698
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 3: do in the fourth quarter of that game that allow

699
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 3: them to score twenty one points and overcome a huge deficit.

700
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 3: Don't let that happen again, Like, you got to really

701
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: look at that. To me, it's like more of the

702
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 3: learning opportunity there rather than just the motivation piece.

703
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: The Ravens have done a.

704
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: Really good job of keeping a lid on big passing

705
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: place this year. Yeah, they've been one of the league

706
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: in general has skewed in that direction. The league as

707
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: a whole has said, we're just we're not going to

708
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: give up as much of that now. Tyreek Hill, you

709
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: watch his highlights for this year that you think otherwise

710
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: he's the exception. Yeah, you think otherwise, But that's what

711
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: they've done so well. Uh, Tyreek Hill can turn any

712
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: play into a big play. It doesn't have to be

713
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: a long throw. It can be a five yard slant,

714
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: it can He's so good over the middle of the

715
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: field and then can just turn on the jets and

716
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: run away from you. So it's not just that, all right,

717
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: play deep, don't let him over the top. It's it's

718
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: more nuanced than that.

719
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: Right.

720
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: The Raves have done a really good job of keeping

721
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: a little on big plays this year.

722
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to do that against the Dolphins.

723
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then what's your take. Do you feel like

724
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 3: this game has like shootout potential? Do you like because because.

725
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: Ravens defense is good too.

726
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about their offense, and again, like the

727
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, their defense is one of the best.

728
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean this is a Dolphins ranked fourth

729
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: and total defense in the league.

730
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 3: The Dolphins, the Ravens, and the forty nine Ers, those

731
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: might be the three best teams in football. Yeah, you

732
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: can make a strong argument those are the three best

733
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 3: teams in football.

734
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dolphins would be in the or the Cowboys would

735
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: be in that conversation.

736
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: Eagles would be in the conversation.

737
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think that, like, yeah, but you can

738
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 3: make that argument teams, right, And so when you look

739
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 3: at the rankings, it's just be like, all right, well

740
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: they're good on offense, they're good on defense. And this

741
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 3: is going to be a tough game. Like that's they're

742
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 3: not weak, Like they're not they're a good defense.

743
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: Well, the other challenge for this for the Ravens is

744
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: you're coming off a West Coast trip on Monday night football.

745
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: You didn't land until seven am on Tuesday. Yeah, so

746
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: you're behind the eight ball a little bit when it

747
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: comes from a rest standpoint and game planning and all

748
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: that stuff. Now the coaches will catch up on the

749
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: game planning. I'm not worried about that. But it's a

750
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: tight turnaround.

751
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: They did adjustice schedule slightly this week, so.

752
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: Practice we don't have a player in this exactly because

753
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: players aren't here until later in the day here on Wednesday.

754
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, so later arrival on Wednesday, walk through on Wednesday

755
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: rather than a typically speaking, the Wednesday practice is like

756
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 3: the most intense, most physical practice.

757
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 2: Of the week this week.

758
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 3: However, it's a walkthrough as they're getting back their feetback

759
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 3: onto them after getting back so late on Tuesday morning.

760
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: And they should have additional rest because the fact that

761
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: this game is kicking off at one o'clock is ridiculous,

762
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: by the way.

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00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just call it what it is. Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We're keeping the Chiefs against the Bengals, two teams that

765
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: just got beat last week. We're keeping them at four o'clock,

766
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: the big time, you know, mid afternoon game for the

767
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: whole nation to watch.

768
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 2: Look, I have no issue with it.

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Speaker 3: Sunday one o'clock that day, it was gonna be day,

770
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Speaker 3: I had no issue with it. Oh on New Year's

771
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 3: issue with it? I know on New Year's Eve, I

772
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 3: have no issue. This allows everybody to.

773
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Speaker 1: Party boy, all right, party boy. I have a big

774
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: issue with it. I want to be partying at MTT

775
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium night.

776
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: Game, lights flashing on and all. That would be great.

777
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: That would be great.

778
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 3: But this allows you to make a full day out

779
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 3: of it. Hopefully it's a it's a big Ravens win,

780
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: and then you can just carry that into the rest

781
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 3: of the evening for your New Year's Eve flans.

782
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Speaker 1: Mister Champagne. There, you're mister Champagne. I'm salty about it.

783
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: This is the biggest game in the NFL this week,

784
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be a really good game.

785
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: For the biggest game, you got to get the

786
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: Let's go