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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: November ninth, and the Ravens are gearing up for a

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Speaker 1: game coming up on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns at

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Speaker 1: M and T. Banks Stadium. This is a big time

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Speaker 1: AFC North showdown, and the Ravens are in the midst

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Speaker 1: of three home games in the course of a twelve

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Speaker 1: day span. And this is big time considering the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are in first place in the division right now, but

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Speaker 1: the Browns and the Bengals and the Steelers are right

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Speaker 1: behind them. So these two games against the Browns and

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Speaker 1: then the Bengals are going to be critical and determining

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Speaker 1: where the season goes from here. As we get ready

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Speaker 1: for that game, we had a chance to talk with

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Speaker 1: the coordinators today and first up is offensive coordinator Todd Munkin.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for him.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty easy question, isn't it. You know, happy for him.

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Speaker 2: Had a pretty good preseason, then got hurt and uh,

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Speaker 2: then we started to get him a little bit involved

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Speaker 2: and got hurt again, and so it was fun to

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Speaker 2: see the guys. We're excited for him. He's a great kid,

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Speaker 2: works hard and you can see that by our guys

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Speaker 2: how excited they were for him.

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Speaker 1: We knew about his speed, but his ability to be

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Speaker 1: physical and get guys off.

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Speaker 3: The was any of that at all surprising in the

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Speaker 3: game or did.

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Speaker 4: You notice that them?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: You know what happened in the preseason a lot is

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Speaker 2: there were some plays that he showed some lateral quickness

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Speaker 2: and get to the edge, but you really didn't see

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Speaker 2: him play behind his pads like he did in the game.

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Speaker 2: Thought he did a great job playing behind his pads,

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Speaker 2: showed good vision. There were runs that should have been

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Speaker 2: four or five he got seven or eight, and runs

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Speaker 2: him seven and eight he got nine or ten besides

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Speaker 2: the one that showed his speed. But thought he did

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Speaker 2: a great job playing minus pads.

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Speaker 4: So I think what everybody wants to know is what's

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Speaker 4: that mean for him going forward?

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Speaker 6: In the he had a lot of good running.

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Speaker 2: Still early in the week, you know, I mean, we'll

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Speaker 2: see games go different ways. But obviously, how do you

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Speaker 2: want to say it?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: I think, like with any player, when you get your opportunity,

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Speaker 2: you take advantage of it, and that leads to more opportunities.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the simplest way to put in anything

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Speaker 2: in life. If you're given an opportunity and you're successful

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Speaker 2: at it, You're going to get more opportunities and you

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Speaker 2: deserve it. You earned that, he's earned that. What's going

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Speaker 2: so well in the run game right now?

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Speaker 4: You're the number one in the league.

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Speaker 7: Obviously you brought your schemes in kind of blended with

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Speaker 7: what the Rams are doing well here before?

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Speaker 4: What do you feel like is going so well to

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Speaker 4: sled Jets at dispoint?

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Speaker 2: Well, first off, our coaches do a great job of

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Speaker 2: scheming the run each week, trying to tie it into

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Speaker 2: what we want to do in all areas of the

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Speaker 2: game plan. Obviously Keaton having a forty and sixty yard

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Speaker 2: run helps that. I mean, you're not counting on that.

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Speaker 2: That's difficult to account for in any given week. You know,

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Speaker 2: Lamar adds to that. You know you're in an interesting

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Speaker 2: position to where you have a quarterback that each week

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Speaker 2: may account for fifty to sixty yards, some planned runs,

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Speaker 2: some scrambles that lead to that. So you're going to

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Speaker 2: get some of that. But as I always say, you

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Speaker 2: can't control the game if you can't run the football.

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Speaker 2: So we've got good backs, we're physical upfront. I think

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Speaker 2: we're pretty versatile and the type of run game that

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Speaker 2: we have, and Lamar is certainly a big part of that.

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Speaker 2: And the backs have been a big part of that

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Speaker 2: along with the old line, and the coaches have done

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Speaker 2: a great job. I know I mentioned that came full circle,

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Speaker 2: but they've done a great job of scheming that up.

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Speaker 3: Mosatility of having maybe a bigger back like Gus and

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Speaker 8: And them kind of a speed guy.

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Speaker 3: Like how important can that be?

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Speaker 2: Sure? I think when you have, for instance, when you

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Speaker 2: have three running backs that are up on game day,

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Speaker 2: it is nice to have players with different skill sets

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Speaker 2: that you can utilize. Sure, would you like three backs

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Speaker 2: that are short yardage back, receiving back. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like that didn't do at all? Sure, but

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Speaker 2: at least you know, from Gus's standpoint obviously from a

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Speaker 2: and then having some other guys can do some other

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Speaker 2: things I think is helpful in terms of when you're

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Speaker 2: game planning certain matchups, certain parts of the field, certain situations.

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Speaker 2: As we all know, Mark.

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Speaker 3: Andrews continue in your offense to do basically what he

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Speaker 3: did before in terms of production. How is he had

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Speaker 3: to evolve though and change maybe what you wanted him

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think he's changed much. I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's just sometimes he has a way of the ball

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Speaker 2: finding him, just has I think you guys asked before,

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Speaker 2: you know, because it's what's the deal with Odell? You know?

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Speaker 2: And I said before, and I'm not bringing Odell into this,

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that the history that they have together

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Speaker 2: when Aaron Aaron Rodgers went to the Jets, there were

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Speaker 2: certain guys he wanted with, and there's certain guys that

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks when they get to a certain part in their career,

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Speaker 2: they have trust and skill guys around him. And you

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Speaker 2: can see that that's been built over time.

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Speaker 4: Lamar saw a lot of man coverage the last time

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Speaker 4: you guys played, or I guess what, having that kind

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Speaker 4: of base line of expectations going.

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Speaker 8: To that point.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean some of that was we saw a

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Speaker 2: and we've seen a decent amount of man. So I

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Speaker 2: don't know what it really does to him other than

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Speaker 2: it from us from a game planning standpoint, like any

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Speaker 2: any game we go into, we have to have, you know,

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Speaker 2: a plan where Lamar feels comfortable where to go with

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Speaker 2: the football, no matter whether they're playing man zone types

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Speaker 2: all And I think that's that's the part of it

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Speaker 2: is having enough skill guys that make it difficult to

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Speaker 2: play man. The more guys you can have that can win,

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Speaker 2: the better job you do of uncovering those guys, the

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Speaker 2: more fun it is. The fewer guys you have of that,

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Speaker 2: and the worst job you do have uncover them. Then

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Speaker 2: and you hope he runs around makes play. And that's

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Speaker 2: where we're trying to avoid. Obviously, obviously quarterback back in

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Speaker 2: the day, there we go. Did you look back to

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Speaker 2: Knox College Division sixteen football? Did you go all the

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Speaker 2: way back to that? I appreciate that, Like the.

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Speaker 4: Home are.

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Speaker 2: Just cricking that bad boy up?

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Speaker 4: What is what do you make of the evolution of.

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Speaker 9: It?

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Speaker 2: Is so cool? You know that the game has evolved

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Speaker 2: from what would have been considered years ago quarterbacks. Well,

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Speaker 2: the offenses have changed, right, so there was pocket passers.

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Speaker 2: You were either running quarterback or you were a throwing quarterback. Right,

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Speaker 2: you were one or the other. Uh More, I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: say statue is probably a strong word, but more of

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Speaker 2: a pocket passer. Where now you've gotten to the point

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Speaker 2: where you've got really athletic guys with arm, talent and

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Speaker 2: has changed forever in a good way. It's to me

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Speaker 2: it's more fun to watch. I mean, it's hard to

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Speaker 2: consistently hang in the pocket and distribute the ball unless

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Speaker 2: you're really elite on the outside. I mean, you need

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Speaker 2: the ability to extend plays and allow guys to uncover.

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Speaker 2: That's really the number one pass play we've had every

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Speaker 2: year that I've been in coaching. When you have quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: like Lamar is scramble. There's not one other pass play

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Speaker 2: is gonna be scramble. So we've got to continue to

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Speaker 2: be elite at our scramble rules. Because when you have

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Speaker 2: athletic quarterbacks, when you see them making plays off schedule

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Speaker 2: all the guys you mentioned, the guys that are elite,

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Speaker 2: you talk about the Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes Lamar, Like,

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Speaker 2: those off scheduled plays are hard to defend. There are

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Speaker 2: two play quarterbacks, and I might have gone off in

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Speaker 2: a different direction not even ask answered your question about

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Speaker 2: Knox College. And you know, back in the day.

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Speaker 4: You maybe we're discouraged from even attempting just with his

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Speaker 4: kind of elasticity.

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Speaker 2: And being able to throw what's that again.

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Speaker 4: Like you see attempting throws that you know, maybe you

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Speaker 2: His arm angles that it's impressive, isn't it. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to see those old YouTube videos and

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Speaker 2: see old you know those arm angles with me. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even know those existed. That's awesome. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: he's got a unique ability to you know, still be

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Speaker 2: accurate with multiple arm angles, which you're seeing with a

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Speaker 2: lot of these quarterbacks. You're seeing the ability with arm angles.

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Speaker 2: Some of it comes from guys that, in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: played baseball like Mahmes. Like if you're a middle infield

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Speaker 2: arm angles still be inaccurate. That's my opinion, maybe not

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Speaker 2: everybody's opinion, but I do think that he has a

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Speaker 2: unique ability with a lot the athletic corpus. And the

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Speaker 2: other thing is twenty years ago, fifteen years ago, you

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Speaker 2: didn't have nearly as many quarterback coaches and I'm not

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Speaker 2: talking about in the building. I'm talking about outside to

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Speaker 2: train young kids at an earlier age, and they're because

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Speaker 2: of their athleticism, they're working a lot more off scheduled throws.

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Speaker 2: You just watch your showing YouTube and they're all over

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Speaker 2: just more ready and available to play. Because it doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to be perfect. It used to be everything was

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Speaker 2: training being in the pocket. Now that's just evolved in

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Speaker 3: You said before how game day is stressful for yourself?

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Speaker 1: What's two and five days time?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 2: What is what? What is two games five days timeline

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Speaker 2: for next week? It's actually better, there's less time in

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Speaker 2: between host we played every day I mean, right like

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Speaker 2: baseball is like you go for four to get to

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Speaker 2: go play the next day and you get to get

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Speaker 2: it out of your syst right now. The good news

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Speaker 2: is when you play well, it's actually nice. You have

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Speaker 2: a week right, like, okay, feel pretty good. Actually there's

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Speaker 2: not as much stress play like just the way it is,

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Speaker 2: So do I prefer to play the next day? Of course?

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Speaker 2: It's the funds in playing, you know, it's getting out

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Speaker 2: there and going and seeing what you do. So to me,

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Speaker 2: it is what it is. Luckily we played them before

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Speaker 2: they played us before. You know, it's you know, get

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Speaker 2: the first one that's the most important. Is what we

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Speaker 2: do this weekend, how we prepare for this team, and

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Speaker 2: then take care of the Bengals when that comes after

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Speaker 2: He made a hell on Indy. You know, there was

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Speaker 1: That was offensive coordinator Tom Munkin. We also talked with

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Speaker 3: How different your prep from I mean, we prepared for

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Speaker 6: So that's the way we're kind of approaching it.

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Speaker 10: Like people who watched your defense watch the film, I

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Speaker 5: Mullette was late. How did you get guys to buy in?

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Speaker 6: That's set up this guy. So this guy made a great.

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Speaker 6: If that makes sense.

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Speaker 9: We're talking about him too much as measure. But for

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Speaker 7: There's a lot that goes into it, right, I mean,

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Speaker 8: Good to see all you guys today. You know, it's

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Speaker 8: Advantage of It's one of those things where we talk

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Speaker 8: about young guys all the time, right, Uh. In order

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Speaker 8: through through our room first as a special teams player.

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Speaker 8: And and once we find out and give those guys

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Speaker 8: and establish a role for those guys. You know, I've

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Speaker 8: stood up here before. I told you the things that

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Speaker 8: he does well, right, he can run, Uh, he's a

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Speaker 8: he's a for a for a guy that some would

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Speaker 8: say he's a small guy, he's a physical guy and

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Speaker 8: and those things do show up on special team. So

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Speaker 8: we get an opportunity to put him out there, man,

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Speaker 8: and just to watch him go play gunn or watch

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Speaker 8: him run down the field on kickoff, watch him hold

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Speaker 2: It's just been it's.

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Speaker 8: Been amazing to see and then the watch him get

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Speaker 8: his opportunity on offense, I mean, and then do what

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Speaker 8: he's do what he did in the game, is I mean,

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Speaker 8: I couldn't be more proud for the kid.

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Speaker 1: That was Special Team's cordator, Chris Horton. Now, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: will take on the Browns at one o'clock on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens are looking for a big time home

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Speaker 1: field advantage. To make sure that you are there and

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