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Speaker 1: Warner does. You've been watching it all season for many seasons,

431
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Speaker 1: what do you think of kind of of Greg Roman

432
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:14,360
Speaker 1: scheme and the complexity of it. Okay, so all offenses

433
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: have times when their routes are too close together at

434
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Speaker 1: some point during the play. And one of the easiest

435
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: things you can do as a film analyst or film

436
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:29,080
Speaker 1: guru and putting that a quotes is that you can

437
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 1: you can pick I play that proves your point no

438
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 1: matter what. But we could go back and forth, Kurt

439
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: Warner and I or Steve Smith and I, and each

440
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 1: exchange plays until guess what we happen to get to

441
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 1: the entire body of work, which is the highest scoring team, uh,

442
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: you know in the legal last years. So I don't

443
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't really think that picking on that specifically is

444
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: a reasonable thing to do. Like, Jackson has deficiencies as

445
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I mean, he's he's not great at making, um,

446
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: the eye deal read or even looking for a read

447
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: that is not his first normal read which is going

448
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: to Andrews or Brown usually. You know, I wish he

449
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 1: did threaten more of the field. It's not like there

450
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: aren't ways he can grow. It's not like the scheme

451
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: is perfect either, but you know, the scheme is good

452
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 1: enough to be all that it has been for these

453
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: last three years. And the notion that we have to

454
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: deconstruct it because of what's happened on one incredibly windy

455
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,959
Speaker 1: night in Buffalo or even a couple of playoff losses, Um,

456
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm just not there yet. M I totally agree with you,

457
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you. And the funny thing too, is

458
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: that you know, the people who look at just the stats,

459
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, well, you know the Ravens had

460
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: the thirty second ranked passing offense. Well, they also attempted

461
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: the fewest passenger league. Right. When you run the ball

462
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 1: as much as the Ravens do, guess what, You're not

463
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna put up as many yards through the air. Like, sure,

464
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: I I understand, I understand the balance and all that stuff, right,

465
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like you're saying,

466
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: it's about scoring points, it's about getting yards regardless of

467
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: how they happen, and and the Ravens it's more about

468
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: passing efficiency. That is the key word here for all

469
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: you stats people out there. It's efficiency. And the Ravens

470
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: can be a more more efficient in their passing game.

471
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 1: They certainly can. Like you're saying, Cliff jeezs ken Uh

472
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: that Lamar Jackson can improve as a pastor and he

473
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: needs to, and the and the targets around him and

474
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But let's not just sit here and

475
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 1: cherry picks stats that make the Ravens offense look like

476
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: they can't throw the ball at all. It's just it's

477
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: just absurd. I mean, this was the largest point differential

478
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: of any team in the NFL. There are people who

479
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: would have told you go into the playoffs, this was

480
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: either the hottest or even the best team in the

481
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: NFL in a lot of waste, a lot of Kansas

482
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: City didn't have all that impressive a season. They didn't

483
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: even look all that impressive against Cleveland. The truth of

484
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: the matter is, I think they're probably better than what

485
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: they've shown. I think the Ravens are a lot better

486
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: than what they showed in Buffalo and that loss. Yeah, alright,

487
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: so let's talk about something better. Let's let's get to

488
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: the defense here. Ken a great phenomenal game by the defense.

489
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you give up ten offensive points. Who was

490
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: it that stood out for you defensively in that game?

491
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: Lots of good things going on and some good things

492
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: for the future. To start with de Sean elliott I

493
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: thought looked great on the back end for starters, that

494
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: the Ravens had a lot of bracket coverages that were

495
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: set up. I have to kind of temper what I'm

496
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: seeing here because the Ravens don't. You don't see that

497
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: many times where a quarterback actually throws into a bracket,

498
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: that a bracket arrives on time that that the other

499
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: defender arrives on time. May have been something to do

500
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: with wind and distance and some of the chances he

501
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: was willing to take, and and frankly the fact that

502
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: he was overthrowing these receivers anyway, and it was probably

503
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: you know, in some ways he saw the bracket and

504
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: me threw it away anyway. But DeSean Elliott has just

505
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better. That we saw the range e

506
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: free safety guy that we really have wanted to see.

507
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: And if Elliott's gonna become a good turnover guy, he

508
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: needs to have that. He needs to have the good

509
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: anticipation to go where the ball is gonna go. And

510
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: I thought that was very positive. Um, Matthew Judan had

511
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: a big pressure game. Clay Campbell had a big pressure game.

512
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 1: I use a three second standard instead of a two

513
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: and a half for judging pressure, and Campbell by my

514
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: system had five pressures. I've seen it at a much

515
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: lower number of other places. The other guy, L J.

516
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: Fort Um, he was a Ravens defensive m v P

517
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: y a wide margin. He knew exactly where he was

518
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: supposed to be on the field. I went to moved

519
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: up on on completions quickly to make tackles. Uh cut

520
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: off the sideline on a key third and four, third

521
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: and eight play for a four yard game in the

522
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: backfield for a one yard lost. He just understands better

523
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: than any of the other Ravens young linebackers what's going

524
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: on in the game. And also more importantly, he's really

525
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 1: the only one who understands anything about what's going on

526
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: behind him in the passing game. And it really just

527
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: stands out in such stark contrast from what we've seen

528
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: so far this year. And for to the Ravens credit,

529
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: to Martindale's credit, he sat Chris Board on snap said

530
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Speaker 1: he would have normally played this year. Board only had

531
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: eight snaps, but for took a lot of his snaps

532
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: off the field. Queen didn't play every snap. They got

533
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: a very limited amount of play out of Harrison, just

534
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: on some rundowns, most of it late. Uh So, So honestly,

535
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: they went to the guy who could do the best

536
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: job for them, which is what I really thought they

537
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: need to do in these playoffs. Yeah, and for it

538
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 1: is somebody who's signed through next year. Obviously, de Sean

539
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: Elliott is too. I thought I thought that Elliott his

540
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: story kind of flew under the radar a little bit

541
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Speaker 1: this season. You know, you go all the way back

542
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: to training camp and and you have the Earl Thomas situation.

543
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: The Ravens cut him and they say, all right, we're

544
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: gonna go with to Sean Elliott. And the question was

545
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: whether you could stay healthy. You stayed healthy all season,

546
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: played every game and played at a high level. Um.

547
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,239
Speaker 1: And and like you're saying, had one of his best games. Um,

548
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Speaker 1: I think that as you look ahead, I think the

549
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: positive for this team as a defense, secondaries, intact line

550
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: linebackers are intact. The questions obviously are inside inside. The

551
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: inside linebackers are intact. The pass rush of the outside

552
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: linebackers that's the wild card. And and who knows what

553
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: happens jude On free agent, Bowser free agent, and Gockway

554
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: free agent, And that's a complete guess. If one to

555
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: non of them are back, it's it's hard to say. Yeah,

556
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: I agree, and I think they really need to get

557
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: one of Bowser or Judon back. That's where I staff

558
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: to start. So they need one of their sam linebackers

559
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: because that coverage ability is too important to Romans Roman

560
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: scheme to Martindale, scheme to to rush the pastor So

561
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: that's that. That's the one one thing I wanted to

562
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: ask you guys about. Okay, you have six players that

563
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: are very key to the team in year three. Okay,

564
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: so you have three obvious ones are Jackson Brown and Andrews. Okay,

565
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: so they're all reaching their first chance to be resigned

566
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: right now. Any of those three guys be very expensive,

567
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: and I kind of think about the difficult with the

568
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: COVID cap. Their agents are probably just tell them wait

569
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: a year, we don't want to do this. But the

570
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,479
Speaker 1: other the ones I want to ask you about are

571
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: the other guys on the team. There's three key ones

572
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: that I see. Do you think the Ravens might make

573
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: an early signing of any of Bozeman, Elliott or Averett?

574
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: Who are three guys. I think after year free they

575
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: could sign to maybe some attractive visible benefit deals. I know,

576
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: you know what it is crazy looking at that draft class,

577
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: it's gotten even better. Like you think about those guys

578
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: at the top and you're like wow, But then once

579
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: you start factoring in the Bozeman's the favorite, it's just

580
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: like wow, Man's left. Last draft was Elliott? I know, unreal,

581
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: unreal last draft. I mean Zack Steeler got a big

582
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: deal from Miami. So so anyway to answer your question,

583
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. I just I message Garrett maybe

584
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: a week ago, and I said, it would not surprise

585
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: me at all if the Ravens try to sign Bozeman early.

586
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: I mean, here's a guy who I think it's turns

587
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: into a really good guard. You know, is he the

588
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: best guard in the league. No, but he works well

589
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: for their scheme and pulling all those things. He just

590
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: really works well for them. He's the he's exactly. He's

591
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: a great guy off the field, like good. His teammates

592
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: love him. I think Eric de Costa loves him in

593
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, just the all around package like that.

594
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: I think that matters. That matters to the Ravens in

595
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: their culture. So it wouldn't surprise me to see him

596
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: get resigned. I think I think de Sean Elliott has

597
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: a chance to I think you bring that up, Aver.

598
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: It is the tough one. I think he's a great player.

599
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: I think you know only because the guys ahead of

600
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: him have we not seen other than during injuries. You know,

601
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 1: he paid every snap for a couple of games late

602
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: in the season. But I don't know, you know, you

603
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: just signed Jimmy back to another one year deal. You

604
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: have Humphrey and Peters for you know, Peters for what

605
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: a couple more years, and Humphrey obviously long term. It's

606
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: hard to see them spending the money there when you

607
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: have it covered already pretty well. But I don't know.

608
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: I think the key is divisible benefit is is this

609
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: is a COVID year. Obviously Aver it's not making any

610
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: significant amount of money this year is a fourth round

611
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: draft pick in his fourth year. Then he's gonna come

612
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: to next year and he's not gonna know whether you

613
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: can make a living at the game or not. If

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00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: you offer him, you know, two million dollars a year

615
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: now for three years, so it's six million for three years,

616
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: say something very marginal. Does that represent value to both teams?

617
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,959
Speaker 1: And Wou'd be something similar for Bozeman, but it might

618
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: be nine million in his case instead over three years, right,

619
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get if you can get

620
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: Avorite for three years at six million, totally you can

621
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: probably do that. But I think that Favorite probably I

622
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: don't know, if Favorite is looking for me to be

623
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: his Asian, I would probably say you try to play

624
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: that out but it's tricky because how much is he

625
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: gonna play next year with Marlon, with Marcus, with Tavon

626
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: Young coming back. But Jimmy Smith on the mix. You know,

627
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: he's potentially the fifth cornerback out of those guys, so

628
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: he may not play much. UM to me, you'd like

629
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: to assign him to be the long term answer to Jimmy.

630
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: You say, all right, we want him to replace Jimmy

631
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: when Jimmy's done, probably after next year, so you could

632
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: be the fourth corner in that in that case, and

633
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: you also are planning for the possibility that, uh, you

634
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: don't get a good year next year out of Peters

635
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: and you have to release him from the last year

636
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: of his deal. So I think there's I think there's

637
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: multiple potential ways it works out for you to keep

638
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: avorite around the building. I would like that. It was

639
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: very nice here my cash. My question Unique, he only

640
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: had what twenty two snaps I think in the loss

641
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: twenty snaps up in Buffalo? Why so low for Unique

642
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: and what does that say about his future? You said

643
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: the Ravens need to keep one between Judon and Bowser.

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Speaker 1: You didn't mention Unique, right, So I like Yunick and

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Speaker 1: got way. I really think he'd be a good player

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Speaker 1: to still have around. But the problem is that I

647
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be priced out, and I just I

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: don't I don't think he can fit in the plans.

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Speaker 1: And if you have to make a choice between a

650
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Speaker 1: rush linebacker and a same linebacker, you gotta take a

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00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: SAM linebacker the way the Ravens play, because they can

652
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Speaker 1: generate pass rush by scheme, but I don't think they

653
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: can they can do as well with their past rush

654
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Speaker 1: if they're entirely dependent on a on a rush linebacker

655
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Speaker 1: on the other side, with not the same flexibility at

656
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Speaker 1: the SAM. So I'm concerned about that. It's, by the way,

657
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: very hard to scout college same linebackers because they're almos.

658
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: All the good ones you want are all good pass rushers,

659
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: and they spend a lot of time rushing, and so

660
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: you have to do this trade based scout and you're

661
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: trying and figure out who's got the speed who maybe

662
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: you could drop the cover and figured out, and you

663
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: really don't have a lot of college reps to go on.

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Speaker 1: So so one more question about these outsidle linebackers with

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Speaker 1: Bowser and Judean. The thing with Judon. I mean, what

666
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Speaker 1: kind of contract is he gonna get? I think he's

667
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: in that eighteen and twenty million dollar range, right, I

668
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: mean he's been to the Pro Bowl the last two years.

669
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Speaker 1: Sadarius Smith got sixteen and a half million, and Judan

670
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: has been more productive than Zadarius was during his time.

671
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Speaker 1: And it's a couple of years later. Who knows what

672
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Speaker 1: the COVID cap all that. I understand that, but I

673
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Speaker 1: would think that Judan is in the eighteen to twenty

674
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: million dollar range. And that's that's a tough pillar swallow

675
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: there if you're the Ravens and trying to pay that, right,

676
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: I agree, And and the the COVID cap is the

677
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: key phrase there, because if everything is normal in terms

678
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: of contracts and he's a twenty million dollar year guy,

679
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Speaker 1: you know, good luck, Matthew. We hope, we really hope

680
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: you do well in your next stop. If if he

681
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: if the Ravens say, hey, Matthew, take it to the market.

682
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: Love to have you, but we can't pay you what

683
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: we pay you what we think you would have made

684
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: last year. We can pay you what the market will dictate.

685
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: Now and he comes back and you know, his best

686
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Speaker 1: offer is like something like Clowney got last year with

687
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: twelve million or whatever. He may say, well, I don't

688
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: want to do that. I want to wait it out.

689
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: Obviously COVID is affecting this. Let me sign here for

690
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: twelve million for one year, or let me sign a

691
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Speaker 1: three year deal for forty million, and that's maybe the

692
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Speaker 1: best available option at this point. And I think that

693
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Speaker 1: a lot of players are going to be dissatisfied what

694
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Speaker 1: they have because the aggregate total free cap and across

695
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: the entire NFL's under twenty million dollars. That's the total

696
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Speaker 1: about a free cap. So a lot of players have

697
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Speaker 1: to get cut. Is that official? Is that official? Looken

698
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Speaker 1: or is that just projections? That is the projection And

699
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: so there could be borrowing if you're if you're saying yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree with okay, because that's you know, I think

701
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Speaker 1: that's what kind of a great unknown is what the

702
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Speaker 1: NFL does in terms of how they adjust the cat

703
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: potentially to say that this is a crazy year. We

704
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: don't want it to drop down. Um, and maybe you

705
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Speaker 1: borrow it. I guess if you do. The point point

706
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: I would make about that is all the players currently

707
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: are still going to struggle with being in a period

708
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: where there were lower revenues, and it really should be

709
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: them that takes the hit and not a future generation

710
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: of players, honestly. But if they borrow for let's say

711
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: four years, well that might be the extent of a

712
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: of a contract for Judean and the COVID cap will

713
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: still be reflected over that four year period in reduced

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Speaker 1: available aggregate league dollars. All right, that's a that's a

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00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: fair point. So well, can have you you know make

716
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Speaker 1: And I are still kind of sorting through mentally, you know,

717
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 1: the emotional toll that this game took on us. Have

718
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: you recovered you know what? Looking at it is good,

719
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: but then when I have to write about it again,

720
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: that's where it kind of takes its hole again. And

721
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: it's just it is, it's mentally draining. And I always

722
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: take about a week and a half off before I

723
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: get into the off season looking at the roster and

724
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: you know what, where do we go from here? Kind

725
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: of thing. It is just the last question I have

726
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: is is in your mind, is this team set up

727
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: to be AFC contender again next year? Or do you

728
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: feel good about that? Are you nervous about kind of

729
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: the projection for them next year. Where do you stand

730
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: going into I think they're in They're in good shape.

731
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned the biggest fear at all is outside

732
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Speaker 1: linebacker and how they're going to deal with the pass

733
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Speaker 1: rush and get that stabilized. You know, they've got other goals,

734
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: but every team has those every year. They need to

735
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: get younger on the defensive line, so they need to

736
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: expend a draft pick there. Even though people won't see

737
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: that as a need, it's a need. Because Mattabek great

738
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: fine this year, they didn't get the kind of result

739
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: out of Broderick Washington. I think that says he's going

740
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: to be a staple going forward, so they're gonna have

741
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: to draft a new lineman and kind of work through that.

742
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: Have you guys heard anything new about Derek Wolfe anything

743
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: going on on that? Not heard? Ken? We're the last

744
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: people to find out. Man, we don't get we don't

745
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: get nothing. All right? What are we here? Yeah? Playing

746
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: pool up at Adam Schefter and see if anyway? Can

747
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us everybody out there listening.

748
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: You can find Ken on Twitter at Film Study Ravens

749
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: and find his work also at Film Study Baltimore. Dot com.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Ken, You're always awesome. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: So good stuff from Ken. We obviously got a little

762
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Speaker 1: bit into the uh the offseason conversation, which we're gonna

763
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: be discussing a lot over the course of the next

764
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: few weeks and months. So that was a little primer

765
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: on what to expect in terms of free agency, um,

766
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: and how the Ravens will try to build a roster

767
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: over the course in the next few weeks or next

768
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: several months. Um. Well, we didn't even talk about wide receivers,

769
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: which I know everybody wants to talk about. I know

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00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: that we are going to spend a lot of time.

771
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna spend a lot of time on the next podcast.

772
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined by Clifton Brown, and we're gonna

773
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: kind of give our big picture look at um where

774
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: the team stands going into the off season, off season moves,

775
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: off season blueprint. We're gonna talk about all that wide receivers.

776
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like every how many times have

777
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: you heard Allen Robinson's name in the past forty eight hours? Um,

778
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: I've got a wide receiver that I would love to have. Um,

779
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: we'll say that for the next conversation. Um, really that's

780
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: a team different from Allen Robinson. Yeah, that's what they

781
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: call in the business. A tease for next episode. Interesting.

782
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited. I might have to listen to

783
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: the lounge next week. You know what else you're gonna

784
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: have to do? What's that You're gonna break? Water break

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00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: Crowd Royal wants to remind all of our listeners to

786
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: take that Crown Royal water breaks, stay hydrated, Stay Royal,

787
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Speaker 1: Crown Royal Canadian whiskey. All right, let's get into some

788
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: of these emails here, Um, because like I said, we

789
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: got a number of them, and you guys can email

790
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: us at the launch at ravens got NFL dot net.

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Speaker 1: This is from Eric, Eric writes from silver Spring Costa. Yeah,

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00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: that's your guy. This is from Erris is Eric da

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Speaker 1: Costa Eric to Costa. Erica Costa sends in his question

794
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Speaker 1: to the launch all right now, but Eric Sewell from

795
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: silver Spring rights, Um, given the need to transform the

796
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: passing attack and the shortage at tight end, is there

797
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: a chance that we give Myles Boykin a shot at

798
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: tight end? Give him the Darren Waller treatment. I've heard

799
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: this question before, this is the first time I've seen this. Um.

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Speaker 1: My perspective is that when you look physically at Myles

801
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: Boykin and Darren Waller, they're much different makeups. Like Waller

802
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: was skinnier when he first came into the NFL, but

803
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: Boykin is much more slender than Waller was. Waller was

804
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: always physically bulkier, big dude. He's big, tall, but he's

805
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: lean and and it just felt like Waller's frame always

806
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: had the ability to pack some more muscle on. Waller

807
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: is just a freak athlete, a freak physically, um and

808
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: it's freaky pretty freakish athletically too. I mean he blew

809
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: up the combine bak did he is? But he's not

810
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: as you know he's He's not as to me, his

811
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: frame couldn't pack on as much bulk as Wallers good

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00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: or do you like this idea? Do you think that

813
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: they should move into tight end? I'd be interested in

814
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: what based on what happens this offseason and seeing it interesting,

815
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I mean give a shot? Why not? Right?

816
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: They need I do think the Ravens need another receiving

817
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: tight end, Like could he not be physically like Hayden Hurst?

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Speaker 1: Right right? I mean, like he doesn't have to be

819
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: like Aaron Waller? It was huge. I mean, Mark Andrews

820
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: is like our day Darren Waller. But could he be

821
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: kind of receiving there? I mean, he's a great blocker,

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Speaker 1: you know, so I think he he brings something as

823
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Speaker 1: a blocker. Uh, It's not like that would be totally

824
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: for to him. And if the Ravens get another number

825
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Speaker 1: two wide receiver or number one wide receiver on the outside,

826
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Speaker 1: you also have Devin Dubernet, who's gonna get more snaps

827
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Speaker 1: next year? Like, what is Boykin's role as a wide

828
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Speaker 1: receiver moving forward, If the Ravens add some kind of

829
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Speaker 1: big time either draft pick or free agent, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you know, like sure, give him a shot. Maybe it's

831
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Speaker 1: like a way to kind of jump start his career.

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Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be interested in seeing some snaps and

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Speaker 1: O t a s at least. Yeah. So, I I

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Speaker 1: mean I get it, um, And there's lots of questions

835
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Speaker 1: about it, and make his on his on your side, Eric,

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Speaker 1: so I can understand the Silver Spring brotherhood. Yes, um,

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Speaker 1: all right, So do you have any final thoughts here

838
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: as as the morning commences? Yes, yes, I do. Uh.

839
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Speaker 1: I feel bad for Lamar Man, and I mean not

840
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: too bad. The guy's a superstar and he's gonna be

841
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: super rich, you know, um, But but I feel bad

842
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: that he didn't even get a shot to like come

843
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: back in this game, you know. I mean, everybody says

844
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: Lamar can't lead to come back and all that stuff,

845
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: and the Ravens fell down TOI nothing early against Sennesseini did.

846
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: But like you know, it's just here, he throws a

847
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: pick six, and that's how his season is going to

848
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: really end, right, Like that's his last throw other than

849
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: a throwaway trying to scramble after a bad snap. That's

850
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: his last real throw of the year as a pick

851
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: six going the other way like that stings and to

852
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: not even get a shot to come back after that

853
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: is painful. Uh So, I don't know what that does

854
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: for a guy. I don't know how Lamar could want

855
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: it anymore. He wants it as bad as he you know,

856
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: as anybody, um but you know only Sneed had some interesting,

857
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: some interesting comments after the game about hey, this is

858
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: this is a moment for Lamar to to look at

859
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: and say, I have to get better. And he did

860
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: last offseason. I think that this offseason is critical for him,

861
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: and I really hope that the Ravens the COVID situation

862
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: is better because I think like Lamar needs those reps.

863
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: He needs those practice reps and O T A s

864
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: and minicamp and all that stuff to like see deep

865
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: different defensive looks and and adjust to them. He got

866
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: he got kind of rattled, I think early in this

867
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: game by what the Bills are doing with the pressure,

868
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: with what they were throwing at him schematically with the

869
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: zone and and and all that stuff. And he needs

870
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: more reps, I think to be able to to adjust quicker. Mhm,

871
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: I think, um, I don't know. You and I were

872
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: going back and forth on this during the game. I

873
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: don't really I don't really think that they got rattled.

874
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: They moved the ball. They moved the ball. They they

875
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: they like they they I'm pulling up the play by

876
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: play right now. The first half they moved them all.

877
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: On the first drive of the second half, well, they

878
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: got into they got into field goal range twice and

879
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: Tucker missed two field goals in the first half. Then

880
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: they got down to the field again and they hit

881
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: the field goal in the final possession of the third

882
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: of the first half. So it's not like they first drive.

883
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: The first drive was great. Second drive they went three

884
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: and out. Third drive they went three and out, They

885
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: got one yard. Then they moved into field goal range.

886
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: Six plays. It was the Dobbins lamar like kind of

887
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: scrambled around and found Dobbins up the left side for

888
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: the third or one yard game game. It was really

889
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: one play, to be honest, it was a thirty one

890
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: he made that play. I mean that was just yeah,

891
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: that was a good play. Yes, I don't want to

892
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: take anything away from him. You're doing the classic you're

893
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: doing the classic. Well, if you take away the great

894
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: play that he made, then he really was rattled. He

895
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: made that what I'm saying. What I'm saying though, is

896
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: like on that play, I mean, yeah, that's kind of

897
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: what makes Lamar Jackson special is that like broke down

898
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: and he like ran backwards and running all over the

899
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: place and found the guy. But like, what I'm saying

900
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: is the next progression for Lamar Jackson is to not

901
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: getting so many of these situations. And we've seen it

902
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs three years straight where it's like he

903
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: looks like he's running around with the chicken with his

904
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 1: head cut off, right, like being able to read a defense,

905
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 1: make that quick read a little bit faster, and deliver

906
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: the ball where it needs to go. I think that's

907
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: that's the next step that a full offseason would really

908
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: help Lamar take. I understand. I understand that point. I also, though,

909
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: do feel like part of the reason he was running

910
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: around so much is what you know Ken talked about,

911
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: which is the offensive line had had you know, maybe

912
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: it's worst game of the season, um, and so he

913
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: had pressure in his face, you know, for for much

914
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: of the day and the only reason they moved the

915
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: ball in some of those drives. Is just his incredible

916
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: playmaking abilities. So the other thing too that I will

917
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: say is from a big picture standpoint and I and

918
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: I understand that. I do think that this team as

919
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: they're leaving, they have a feeling of optimism. They play

920
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: the season and a really difficult circumstance um the COVID impact,

921
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: the COVID factor impact of this team probably more than

922
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: any other team in the league. And when you consider

923
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: the outbreak that happened and they want a playoff game,

924
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: they got that. You know, they crossed that hurdle or whatever.

925
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: We got rid of that monkey on their backs and

926
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: now they feel like that was I just feel like

927
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: there's optimism because of what they were able to do,

928
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: and that is a different feeling where they were last year.

929
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: I think that that was clear and hearing for players

930
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: this weekend. Well, let's be honest, this wasn't the year

931
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl. I mean exactly, it's

932
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: a COVID year. You go down to Tampa, you fly

933
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: in and out day a game, you don't get the

934
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: week down there, COVID, COVID ruins everything. This wasn't the

935
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: year Yeah, yeah, you wouldn't have been able to. There's

936
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: not like the big parties. The bars aren't packed in Baltimore.

937
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: People aren't storm and fed Hill. Yeah. So look at

938
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: it this way. If you look at it this way,

939
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: you don't get a lot of Super Bowl appearances as

940
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: a franchise. As a team, you don't go very often.

941
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: You gotta chairs him, you've gotta be great. So you

942
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: didn't get it this year. You get it next year

943
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: when thanks are back to normal and really make it count.

944
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: That's the better way to look at it. This year,

945
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: that's it. Where is it next year? I'm looking it up?

946
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: Where is it next year? Super Bowl? Or is it Florida?

947
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: Don't even tell me it's New Orleans because it's not.

948
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: It might be l A. It's l A. It's l A.

949
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: Take that five Stadium in l A. This is this

950
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: Islen where the super Bowl was an Indianapolis. Who wants

951
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: a who wants a February in Indianapolis? So better that

952
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: we didn't better le Evans did us a favor. Okay,

953
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: So we didn't go to that super Bowl, and then

954
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: we went the following year in New Orleans. And that

955
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: was a time of your life. Yes, yes, so that's

956
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: this is that I'm with you. Let's do it, love it.

957
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: Size him up next year, next year. Well, thanks for listening, everybody,

958
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: as ow as you could reach us that the lounge

959
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: at ray Than dot NFL dot net. There's a lot

960
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 1: to talk about this offseason and we'll be bringing it

961
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: all to you. Make sure you keep subscribe. Keep subscribing

962
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: to this end our other podcast, Black in the NFL,

963
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: and go back and listen to what Happened to that

964
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: Guy too, because there are some really great episodes this year.

965
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Speaker 1: So thanks for listening. We'll be back with you next week. Yeah,