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

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Speaker 1: pleasure of sitting down with cornerback Brandon Stevens and our

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Speaker 1: way up here. We were just talking about how you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be playing in a cold weather game here this Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and being a Dallas guy who started U C l

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Speaker 1: A transferred to s m U cold weather games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about this? Uh? You know, going

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Speaker 1: I was a little spoiled going there. Uh uh, but

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Speaker 1: you know, cold weather, that's football weather. I'm sure they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have the jackets on the sideline, so definitely see

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Speaker 1: me having one of those on. You hug those heaters

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Speaker 1: as big blasting heaters, that's kind of I will say

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Speaker 1: this all right, and this is easy for me to

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Speaker 1: say as a guy who watched the game from a

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Speaker 1: press box. Okay, so it's a little PUSHI up there, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'll preface it with that statement. But the first time

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Speaker 1: I ever got down close to the bench and realized

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Speaker 1: how powerful the heaters are and how hot the benches are,

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, let's play. They don't have it

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Speaker 1: all that bad. It's not that there, you get too

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Speaker 1: close to it, you like, you think you on fire.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever see the clip of Ed read his

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Speaker 1: jack one of those you know there's big jackets that

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Speaker 1: you wear. He got too close to heater literally caught

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Speaker 1: on fire. Really yeah. Well, and he got like, I

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Speaker 1: think two interceptions on the game. So it's like the

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Speaker 1: easiest headline ever. It was like it reads on fire.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was pretty good. That's perfect. But don't

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Speaker 1: do that. I won't get too close. Yeah. So you

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Speaker 1: know you're going into this game against Atlanta, you could

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Speaker 1: end up having a big role. Obviously, Marcus Peters goes

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Speaker 1: down last week and you're kind of next man up

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Speaker 1: there for for that spot. What are your thoughts and

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Speaker 1: expectations in that regard? Yeah, it's, uh, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple. Just go out there and playing my game,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, I've been in

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Speaker 1: this position before, you know, especially last year, uh, taking

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Speaker 1: over when you know Deshaun got hurt. Um. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you're just going out there and playing my game, having fun,

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Speaker 1: making place and you know, just just helping his team win.

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Speaker 1: I like the way that you play, like the confidence

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Speaker 1: that you have, and I feel like you have to

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Speaker 1: have that as as a dB especially, But it just

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Speaker 1: feels like, you know, everybody has balls completed on them,

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Speaker 1: the best cornerbacks to you sometimes and you make plays

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Speaker 1: of your own too. You know. How how is that

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Speaker 1: a mentality that you've always had and how do you

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Speaker 1: kind of keep that edge? Yeah? You know, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's always the next play, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And you know DV. You know, in in that fire,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have confidence, you know. Uh so, um, you

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Speaker 1: know they're gonna make plays. You just gotta make sure

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Speaker 1: that you know, you make more than the man across

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Speaker 1: from you. So that's always a mentality. But uh um,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, every every play is is a critical play.

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Speaker 1: So oppositely, you you have a pro bowler, Marlin Humphrey

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Speaker 1: exactly pretty cool. But when you go into a game

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Speaker 1: they're probably not going to throw as much at Marlin. Like,

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna go on anybody here, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: me because I'm a new guy in there. How do

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Speaker 1: you approach that? Yeah? Yeah, we should. Uh I think

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Speaker 1: it was Yeah, a matter of fact, it was last

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Speaker 1: game when MP you got hurt? Yeah, well you know

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Speaker 1: I don't. And uh, you know Marlos like best, you

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Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do. You know they're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try so uh so y'all know it's coming

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Speaker 1: um so uh and you know I'm up for the challenge,

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Speaker 1: ready for the challenge. So yeah, did they throw any

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Speaker 1: at you? Though? After you came in last week? I

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Speaker 1: feel like I thought I saw zero targets. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they threw too small in a weird way?

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Speaker 1: Is that almost like like one of the things with

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Speaker 1: your way? Right, I guess as a defensive player in general,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you can go and you know there's not

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Speaker 1: you know, to be honest with you, no matter down

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Speaker 1: we talked about this in the locker room the other day.

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Speaker 1: But I've always noticed one of the cool things is that,

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Speaker 1: always noticed with you is that you're always talking to

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver coaches and Keith Williams in particularly. You're

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Speaker 1: just you're always hanging out with the receivers. Can you

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Speaker 1: tell me why? Yeah? You know, you know one of

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Speaker 1: he always he always told me, man, you your best

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Speaker 1: friends should be receivers, you know, uh, you know, because

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Speaker 1: he you know, he always stresses you know, learned, don't

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Speaker 1: are gonna go against UM. So see what new how

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Speaker 1: they set up routes, you know, how what new releases

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Speaker 1: I'm always picking the receiver's brains. Uh. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: the re siver coaches because dub you know all the time.

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Speaker 1: So and but yeah, just trying to add to my

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Speaker 1: So you're you've kind of had an interesting path and

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Speaker 1: your development. And as you're talking about kind of studying

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Speaker 1: Really did play defensive high school? None? The only actually,

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Speaker 1: DV was seven or seven in the summertime. UM low

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Speaker 1: for it. Interesting. So, so like tell me you're senior

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Speaker 1: high school, howny yard you put up on the ground. Oh,

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Speaker 1: a food. Uh. There's really nothing better than Texas football

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Speaker 1: a running back, all right, And so how did the

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Speaker 1: I definitely enjoyed my time playing running back. Uh still

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Speaker 1: Like what guys did you look up to when you

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Speaker 1: at night, as you said, like black no lights on.

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Speaker 1: Um but uh but yeah, that's awesome. And then how

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Speaker 1: willing to take that gamble on you as a corner,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you hadn't played in a game like that.

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Speaker 1: my high school coach, UH, coach mccolla, UH, great coach.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're gonna win a lot of reps this Saturday. Man.

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Speaker 1: You're rooting for you, Thank you, thank you? All right.

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Speaker 1: Really enjoy the conversation with Brandon. It was kind of

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Speaker 1: do you feeling about this Falcons game? I feel um,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna be probably another low scoring game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can use the same lines that we've

442
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Speaker 1: used like the past couple of games, you know, race

443
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Speaker 1: to seventeen, Race to fourteen. I think that's probably just

444
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Speaker 1: keep lower in that number. Yeah, race do um. I

445
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Speaker 1: think it's probably one of those types of games, like

446
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Speaker 1: I don't really see either team going over twenty points. Yeah,

447
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Speaker 1: I think it could be the fastest game in NFL history.

448
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a running clock, you know. It's kind

449
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Speaker 1: of like, Uh, I've been watching the World Cup right

450
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Speaker 1: as most people have, and like one thing that I

451
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Speaker 1: appreciate about commercials, the commercials stop it. It's just like

452
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Speaker 1: you get that first half. Get it's it's basically two

453
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Speaker 1: hours when you're out of there. Okay, it's kind of

454
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Speaker 1: a nice thing about we've got some presidents to wrap. Yeah,

455
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Speaker 1: we got some cookies to bag for Santa. I'll say that.

456
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Speaker 1: You know. Uh so getting back early, I'm out of post.

457
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Speaker 1: It could be a very fast game, lots of running.

458
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Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna be, you know, an

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Speaker 1: offensive shootout. I think that the Ravens recipe to win

460
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: this game it's gonna be run, round, run, I just

461
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Speaker 1: think that's going to be what the recipe is. Well,

462
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Speaker 1: obviously there's you know, I don't think fans are gonna

463
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Speaker 1: be upset with that after all the clamoring that's been

464
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Speaker 1: going on this past week, and Greg Roman, you know,

465
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Speaker 1: came up and said, like, yeah, in retrospect, probably could

466
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Speaker 1: have run some more, you know, and could have probably

467
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Speaker 1: went into the past script a little bit early in

468
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Speaker 1: that game with about ten minutes left or whatever, trailing

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Speaker 1: by ten. So, uh, I expect that it will be running.

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Speaker 1: You know. I don't think they're gonna throw the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirty times. I don't think they're gonna throw

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Speaker 1: it five times. But I think that it will be

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Speaker 1: heavily shaded towards the run, not only because I think

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Speaker 1: that's really a what's working best for the Ravens offense.

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Speaker 1: Be the weather is another factor in that. You know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be in there too. The Falcon's defense, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. I mean they have been great against

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Speaker 1: the past either, I think they've been worse against the past,

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Speaker 1: and they have the run. But um, but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that that's the formula for success. And then you

481
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Speaker 1: given all the other factors, Lamar Jackson being out, you know,

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Speaker 1: I obviously do you have the Durnade goes down one

483
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Speaker 1: of your top wide receivers. You know, I think the

484
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Speaker 1: script here is running the ball a lot until they

485
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Speaker 1: can stop you. Um, and I expect that the Ravens

486
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Speaker 1: will probably go down that path, just like the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons are third in the league running the ball,

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Speaker 1: so like we're saying, they're gonna run the ball a

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Speaker 1: lot too. Yeah. And the difference there, although the Falcons

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Speaker 1: have a good running offense, is that the Ravens have

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Speaker 1: a really good running defense, you know, So while the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have a great rushing offense, Falcons don't have a

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Speaker 1: great rushing defense. Um, you know, if the Falcons are

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Speaker 1: gonna try to run the ball, which I would expect

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Speaker 1: that they do. They got a rookie quarterback making a

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Speaker 1: second start on the road, tough environment in the place

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Speaker 1: that historically has been very unfriendly to rookie quartering, single

498
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Speaker 1: digit temperatures, howling wind. Yeah, I think that that is

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Speaker 1: not gonna be a game where they're gonna have Desmon

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Speaker 1: Rutter throw the ball forty times, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: going to be their recipe. So I think that this

502
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Speaker 1: is gonna be kind of like an old school who

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Speaker 1: wins the battle in the trenches type game and a

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Speaker 1: lot of it honestly when it comes. And this is

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Speaker 1: what we've seen over the last several weeks, is in

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Speaker 1: a low scoring game like this, what matters is do

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Speaker 1: you convert in the red zone? Right? And can you

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Speaker 1: get some turnovers? Right? Those two things matter a lot.

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Speaker 1: And and that's like we've been talking about for the

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Speaker 1: Ravens offense right now. You know they're moving the ball okay, right,

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Speaker 1: But if you're not going to score in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: if you're kicking field goals all the time, we're even

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Speaker 1: worth turning the ball over. That really hampers you when

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Speaker 1: you're not a quick strike offense. Well, and like it's

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Speaker 1: the game is shorter. If you were possessions, you have

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Speaker 1: to maximize. If you're having a seven minute possession that

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Speaker 1: ends with you getting stopped at the tan yard line

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Speaker 1: of four town, well then that's not good. Now all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, every possession takes on even more significance.

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Speaker 1: And I think that I think that the vibe I

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Speaker 1: got in listening to John Harbon and Greg Roman this week,

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Speaker 1: It's like they go down ten and it was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: with the way this is going, you gotta last week,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to change something up to score quickly

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Speaker 1: because of seven you know, you don't have time for

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Speaker 1: to seven minute drives. Um, obviously it didn't work, But

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Speaker 1: I think that was the thought process behind that, And

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Speaker 1: so I think that in this game, yeah, you can't.

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Speaker 1: I of course, getting turnovers is always good. Like if

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Speaker 1: you can get turnovers, great, I don't think getting turnovers

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Speaker 1: is as important as not the ball away. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that's for sure their favorite team in this game, right,

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Speaker 1: So generally speaking, when you're the favorite team, don't turn

534
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Speaker 1: the ball over, you should probably win and then of course,

535
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Speaker 1: like but but all of a sudden, if you get

536
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Speaker 1: you know, stopped in the rosent a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: and you get into the twenty and you get holding

538
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Speaker 1: penalty and you whatever, you know, those things happened. You

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Speaker 1: get stopped on fourth down, like, then that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: where you find yourself in trouble. But you know, Gregor

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Speaker 1: Roban also said this week that we're kind of moving

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Speaker 1: towards j K and Gus, you know, like basically riding

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Speaker 1: them in a big way down the stretch here, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of move sign and I think that that's I

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Speaker 1: think that's gonna be the rest of I mean JK

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Speaker 1: has been one of the best running backs in the

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Speaker 1: NFL the last two weeks, maybe the maybe the best,

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Speaker 1: and he's still not all the way there as runs

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Speaker 1: over expected average. I think he's been the best and

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Speaker 1: like he would have a couple of touchdowns uh in

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Speaker 1: the stack column if he could get that top top gear.

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Speaker 1: And he's not there yet and he's been open about that.

553
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Speaker 1: So but he his vision, his ability to find the whole,

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Speaker 1: his ability to break a tackle and get eight yards

555
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Speaker 1: instead of two, Like, all of that is really significant

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Speaker 1: and I love what I'm seeing from j K right now. Yeah,

557
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Speaker 1: So I think obviously a big storyline and going into

558
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Speaker 1: this game is how do the Ravens replace Stephen Duvene.

559
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: You know, they lost him to a foot injury. John

560
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: Hardball said it's a broken metatarsal um, and so how

561
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: do the Ravens adjust to that? And obviously they brought

562
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Speaker 1: in Sammy Watkins on the same day. What are your

563
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: thoughts about. I think Sammy's gonna like he knows the playbook,

564
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: he's been here, like, I don't think it's like this

565
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: long ramp up period. Like I think there's potential for

566
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Speaker 1: it to be like, you know, the Rave assigned JPP

567
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: that one week earlier in the season, then he played

568
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Speaker 1: like you knows. I don't know that that Sammy's gonna

569
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Speaker 1: play that like, but wouldn't Spurrice should be snaps? Um.

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Speaker 1: So I think that he's gonna be kind of thrown

571
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Speaker 1: right into the fire and then um and then I

572
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: think that, you know, they're going to run the ball

573
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Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, they could try to call somebody

574
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Speaker 1: after the practice squad, you know, they could try to

575
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Speaker 1: call up from our bridges. They could try to call

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Speaker 1: up any Isabella. Um, those are other options that are

577
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: they are already here. So maybe the Ravens go that

578
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: route to try to help out in that regard. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the James Prochet takes on a larger role played what

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Speaker 1: three snaps last? Right, Well, really, what you're missing a

581
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Speaker 1: lot with du Rene out of the offense is that

582
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Speaker 1: speed kind of option. You know, the jet sweep threat.

583
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Speaker 1: You know that the Ravens have used with success, even

584
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Speaker 1: when they don't hand it to him. You know, it's

585
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: been that threat that holds a linebacker or whatnot, moves

586
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Speaker 1: the linebacker out of that gap. And so if the

587
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Speaker 1: opponent doesn't respect whoever is coming on that jet sweep

588
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: as much, because obviously everybody around the league there was

589
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Speaker 1: Devin Dune is one of the fastest dudes in the league,

590
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Speaker 1: you know, if they don't respect that as much, you

591
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Speaker 1: lose a little bit, right And John Harwell said today

592
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Speaker 1: the Ravens aren't taking any players out of play, but

593
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Speaker 1: so they feel confident whoever is going to be running

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Speaker 1: that jet sweep or whatever this is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: respected dude. So it's kind of I thought that was

596
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Speaker 1: a little interesting interesting wrinkle. Yeah, look, I think I

597
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: just don't know who who that is. Um. I mean,

598
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Speaker 1: Devon is a kind of a special talent in that regard,

599
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Speaker 1: and he's a Pro Bowl or know that he went

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Speaker 1: a second straight Pro Bowl, the best terment in the league.

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Speaker 1: So when he gets the ball in space and he

602
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: can get up to top speed, like that's that's a

603
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: threat that is hard to replicate. Yeah, so I don't know,

604
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: like they may not take anything out, but I'm curious

605
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Speaker 1: if they run that a little bit less. Yeah, certainly possible,

606
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: and maybe the tight ends, uh take on a little

607
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: bit of a larger role. That was a question I

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Speaker 1: got in mail bag, is like are the tight ends

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Speaker 1: gonna We got that questions a lounge too. I think

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Speaker 1: our guy proud. Yeah, the tight ends are already pretty

611
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: darn important on this team. Like the Ravens run more

612
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Speaker 1: multiple tight end sets than any other team. That's been

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Speaker 1: like the staple of this offense. So like, can you

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Speaker 1: get much more tight end? Can you lean more on

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Speaker 1: the tight ends, like you're gonna have wider speed? Don't

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Speaker 1: think they're saying I think a guy who I could

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Speaker 1: see maybe get a few more targets, is Isaiah likely? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I think you more Oliver. You know, like you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have Oliver in the game a lot because you're

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Speaker 1: running the ball so much. Is he that kind of

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Speaker 1: the play action? You know, the play action passing game

622
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: hasn't been good. Maybe Oliver gets one or two more

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Speaker 1: throws his way because you're setting up that runs so

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00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: heavy with him in that in there, and then you

625
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Speaker 1: throw dump it off to him and take him by surprise.

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Speaker 1: I like maybe that, maybe that's it. I'd like likely

627
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Speaker 1: his ability to add a little bit more juice to

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Speaker 1: the passing game. He's definitely more a receiving threat than

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Speaker 1: Josh Oliver, is what I'm just saying. You're gonna be

630
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Speaker 1: putting out a lot of packages that make that you

631
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Speaker 1: can run the ball out of or throw the ball

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Speaker 1: out of, or at least think make them think that

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Speaker 1: you're going to run the ball, and that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Oubt Isaiah like the ability as a blocker.

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Speaker 1: Remember when his press conference was that Jacksonville or I

636
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Speaker 1: think Josh Oliver is a better blocker right now? Likely

637
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Speaker 1: came in is that he had the top block to

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Speaker 1: game said the man was giving a hard time and

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Speaker 1: practice about my blocking ability. I think, um, I think

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Speaker 1: that a hard time. I just saying I think Josh

641
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Speaker 1: Oliver is ahead of him right now in that department.

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Speaker 1: I think I think that likely can add. I maybe

643
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: I'll be wrong here, but as the Ravens look for

644
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: a way to jump start their passing offense, they're considering everything.

645
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: You know, and now you lose Duvene. You can insert

646
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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. Maybe he can make some clutch plays like

647
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Speaker 1: he did earlier last season. Maybe Deshrown Jackson can hit

648
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: a big player too. Um. It gets harder and harder

649
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Speaker 1: the later we get into December. Man, Yeah, I I

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Speaker 1: just I just think I think Likely could be kind

651
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Speaker 1: of an AX factor as you look to derive some

652
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: juice in the past game. I have some strong feelings

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Speaker 1: about the Sammy Watkins. We've okay, okay, and there's been

654
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: Twitter is not a very nice place right now to

655
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Speaker 1: be just in gender generally speaking, it's a dark place

656
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: right now, Ravens Twitter. But and and obviously I know

657
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Speaker 1: that Sammy Watkins isn't the receiver that fans have wanted

658
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: for a long time, right and like and adding Sammy

659
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: Watkins only seems to pour more salt in the wound

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Speaker 1: to the notion that the Ravens didn't do enough to

661
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Speaker 1: fortify their wide receiver corps this season or the off season. Right.

662
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: I understand all that, and I'm not arguing against that

663
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Speaker 1: at all. All I'm saying is, in the Ravens current circumstances,

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Speaker 1: I think that we and the Ravens should all actually

665
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Speaker 1: feel quite lucky that Sammy Watkins became available, right, Like,

666
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Speaker 1: who else is out there? It was pretty much like

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Speaker 1: the best case scenario of somebody that could just fall

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00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: in your lap, right when you have another another wide

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Speaker 1: receiver go down with the potentially season ending injury, right like,

670
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: that was pretty much the best case. Already knows the playbook. Okay,

671
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Speaker 1: I know Sammy Watkins hasn't been, you know, the thousand

672
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: yard guy that he was his first two seasons, but

673
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Speaker 1: like an accomplished receiver in this league to some degree

674
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Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call that, right, Uh, the guy's literally

675
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: nicknamed playoff Sammy. Okay, he's made some clutch play. That's

676
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: because he helped the Chiefs win a Super Bowl. You

677
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: know how everybody's talking about Odell Beckham Jr. And how

678
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Speaker 1: he helped the Rams win a Super Bowl last year

679
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: because he got hot near the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: That's what that was. What Sammy Watkins did for the

681
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs was two or three, four or five. I don't

682
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: know how he did that, right, The guys earned playoff.

683
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: Sammy nickname for a reason. So, like we're all sitting

684
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: here talking about Odella had more of it. I mean,

685
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: Sammy's made. Sammy had like over a hundred yards in

686
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Speaker 1: the a f C Championship game that year and then

687
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl made like the biggest player the game

688
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: to win it. He Sammy's made. Look, I think that

689
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: he shows up in big moments. He did that for

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Speaker 1: the exactly and that and that's the other thing, Like, look,

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Speaker 1: no receiver that you're bringing in, And I know maybe

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Speaker 1: people who really want Odell Beckham might disagree with this,

693
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: but no receiver the Ravens are bringing in right now

694
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: is gonna catch eight to ten balls a game. That's

695
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: not the Ravens offense. Right now, we're all saying run

696
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: the ball, run the ball, run the ball, like that's

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00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: what they're gonna continue to do. Right, So, really, all

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00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: you're asking of Sammy Watkins. It's a low bar. We're

699
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: asking to make one to two plays a game, you

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00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And like I think Steve Watkins

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Speaker 1: can do that. Like I I kind of trust the

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00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: third and seven, third and seven, and I need to

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Speaker 1: move the chains. Sammy Watkins is kind of high on

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Speaker 1: my list of of the Ravens receivers of who I'd

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Speaker 1: be throwing the ball to. Yeah, Mark Anson is probably

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Speaker 1: number one, absolutely, yeah, and then and then Sammy is

707
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Speaker 1: de Marcus Sammy. I mean, you know he's up there,

708
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Speaker 1: and so like I just feel like it's it's a

709
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: a good move. You know that the Ravens claimed him

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Speaker 1: off of waivers, and like I said, I'm not expecting

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Speaker 1: him to light the world on fire. But like I

712
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: think when all is said and done, we could all

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Speaker 1: be sitting here saying, like, man, Sammy didn't put up

714
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Speaker 1: you know, he didn't top fifty yards, but he made

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Speaker 1: a couple of big time he could have He could

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Speaker 1: have four for fifty. And then you're like and you're like,

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Speaker 1: that was a great day and one one of them

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: is yards on third down exactly, Like Okay, that that

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00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: was a great move exactly. That's what I'm saying, that's

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Speaker 1: success for Sammy Watkins in the Ravens offense right now,

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Speaker 1: just like I we talked about this year with Sean

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00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, is like, you know, you got him to

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Speaker 1: make like three fifty yard play exactly like you basically

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00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: these like specialists and You're like, you play your role

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00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: and just do it once a game or twice a game.

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00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: I'll be cool with that. You do yours, you do

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00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: if everybody plays their role in this passing game, because

728
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a high octane like, there's no

729
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: trade that the Ravens can make right now, there's nobody

730
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: that they can sign. You can argue Odell Beckham aside

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Speaker 1: or whatever, but his health is very much of The

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00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys haven't signed him for a reason, right right. You know,

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Speaker 1: look like Odell is a dynamic player, but he hasn't

734
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Speaker 1: signed anywhere yet, and there's reports that he may wait

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Speaker 1: until the next year to sign exactly. So that's very

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Speaker 1: much up in the air. It's very much a question mark.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm just saying, like nobody out there is

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Speaker 1: gonna all of a sudden, any receiver is gonna come

739
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: solve the Ravens passing offense. So like getting these guys

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00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: that you can plug into certain roles. If they can

741
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: fulfill that role and it's not like a huge role,

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00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: you're not asking a ton of them, then that is

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Speaker 1: I think can be a successful enough passing offense that

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00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: it compliments what is an outstanding rushing attack. Right now,

745
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: the passing game just has to compliment it. It doesn't

746
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: have to be the driver. It just has to be

747
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: proficient enough to be a compliment and keep the defense

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00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: on their toes a little bit. Yeah, totally. So as always,

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Speaker 1: you can email us to the lounge at Ravens dot

750
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: NFL dot net. We did get one email, uh that

751
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: we want to read about playoffs, seating and situations. If

752
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: you're not, I'm not gonna run through all of them. Here.

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00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: There's ten different scenarios. Okay, there's ten scenarios, nine of

754
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: which the Ravens have to win or tie. Yeah, I

755
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: don't think the one in which they lose is probably

756
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: gonna come. There's like fifteen things including like a tie

757
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: or something like the Browns are involved, the Chargers I

758
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: have involved. It's like all this stuff exactly. Uh. This

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00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: one comes from Brian Schultz. He says, Uh, fellas looking

760
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: for Salas in a dismal stretch. It's so funny dismals

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00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: lost one game. Um, it's I feel you, though, I

762
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: feel you. Brian been on Ravens Twitter dis like I said, Uh,

763
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: it's unlikely the Ravens win the North, but all things considered,

764
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: the fifth seed looks like the prize. I'll take the

765
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: Titans any day over casey the Bills, Dolphins or Bengals.

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Speaker 1: So let's all hope the Jags don't give us any surprises. Uh.

767
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: Maybe the Ravens figure it out by the divisional round.

768
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: Trying to stay positive, but it gets harder each week

769
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: of lackluster offensive output. Keep up in good work. Well

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Speaker 1: I've seen this. He's out there, by the way, I

771
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: think this a fair amount. Um. And my take on

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00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: this is, first of all, I wouldn't be the Chiefs

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00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for you know. Yeah. What he's saying is

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00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: he doesn't feel like even if the Ravens don't win

775
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: the division, if they get the fifth seed, they would

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00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: play the fourth seed. Right, they will play the division

777
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: winner with the worst record, which looks like it would

778
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: be the Titans or the Jacks. He's basically saying right,

779
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: he's saying like, Okay, even if we don't win the division,

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Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take the Titans in the wild card

781
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: round or Jacksonville. You know, but he's he's rooting for Tennessee, said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want any surprise by the Jacks, which is possible, right,

783
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: that's not um, Jack's playing good football. Depending on how

784
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 1: the Ravens finished, you know, they wouldn't necessarily be locked

785
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 1: into the fifth seed. Um. You knows how the season

786
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: plays out right now, that's where they are. But UM,

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Speaker 1: I also think it's fair to ask what would you prefer?

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Speaker 1: Would you prefer home against the Chargers or the Bengals,

789
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: or the Dolphins or Patriots or road against the Titans.

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00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: I think that's a fair question. I think it is

791
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: too UM. I generally like the home playoff game. UM.

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00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: I mean home playoff games are very fun. Yeah, home

793
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: playoff games. The whole reason is because the Titans have lost,

794
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: went three straight and four straight, well, and they faded

795
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: like hard. Some people are like, maybe the Titans. I'll

796
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: take the Titans in the first That's the whole reason

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00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: this conversation. I also think that part of it is

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00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: like they don't have the dynamic offense like they're run

799
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: heavy offense. Ravens have run you know, it's Derrick Henry focused.

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00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: The Ravens have a good run two like the thing

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00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: that we've talked about. You know that could be. Yeah,

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00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: I think that's a matchup. The matchup there is better

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens then probably let's say the Chargers, who

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00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: are a high passing attack. Um, you know the Dolphins.

805
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 1: Obviously we've seen that. Um. Now, let's not forget the Dolphins.

806
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: The Ravens had a pretty sizeable lead on the Dolphins,

807
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have been in a scuffling a little

808
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: bit as of late to anyway, I don't know, I'm

809
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: not going into the whole seating thing quite yet. Let's

810
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: lock it up first, lock up the playoffs. Yeah, just

811
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Speaker 1: get in first, and then once we're in there, then

812
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: I'll start talking about it is it better to lose

813
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: with that team? Is a better you know? And the

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00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: vision is still very much up and play. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know you, Hey, you guarantee that we're gonna win the

816
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: vision like three weeks ago, guarantee stamped it. Um, you

817
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: give you the big point, the big point. Um, I

818
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: still think that's very much in play. I also think

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Speaker 1: it's not outlantish to think that the Ravens could win

820
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: the next two. I know the Bengals are hot. They

821
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: could lose the next two. They play the Patriots and

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00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: then the Bills. Not out of the possibilities, and they

823
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: could drop next they drop next to, and the Ravens

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00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: win next to. And you're going since it feels good,

825
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: feels good, got locked up, that's what you're like going to.

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Speaker 1: I would love that. That would be a nice feeling.

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Speaker 1: Oh that'd be a wonderful feeling, and that would change

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00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: the our bravest Twitter, Yes, it very much would. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening, and get ready for though win

830
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Speaker 1: over the Falcons. Let's get it, lock it up, it

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Speaker 1: up