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Speaker 1: Welcome into Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink sitting

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Speaker 1: down with Garrett Downing and we it's break news training camps.

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Speaker 1: Hereat break news time. Nothing like a Friday four PM

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Speaker 1: signing to say training camp and the season have arrived,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right on the even training camp players get

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Speaker 2: here on Saturday, and just before that, the Raves agree

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Speaker 2: in principle on a one year deal with safety Eddie Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Bring a two time Pro bowler to Baltimore and it's exciting.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is I think it's kind of gets

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Speaker 2: you fired up for camp at the start of the season.

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Speaker 2: You bring in a guy that's got a really impressive

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Speaker 2: resume and you get him just before camp gets underway.

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Speaker 2: That's that's fun. That's exciting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean first thing you think about is, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this Ravens safety trio is incredible. You know, now you

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Speaker 1: have Kyle Hamilton, Marcus Williams and Eddie Jackson. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like you said, this is a two time Pro bowler

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Speaker 1: and he's your number three safety, right that says something

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Speaker 1: about what you have in the secondary and beyond just safety,

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Speaker 1: what do you have in the secondary I mean the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are also loaded at corner. I mean they have assembled.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's there's an argument, that a very strong argument,

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Speaker 1: that Kyle Howilton and Marcus Williams are the best duo

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Speaker 1: safety duo in the league. There is no question who

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Speaker 1: has the best safety trio in the league. That is

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Speaker 1: not an argument. So, you know, the Ravens are a

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Speaker 1: team that have played a lot of three safety looks,

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Speaker 1: especially the past two years. Geno Stone saw the field

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Speaker 1: a lot for the Ravens. He's now in Cincinnati. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens got a replacement for him, essentially, in Eddie Jackson.

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Speaker 2: He swapped Genostone for Eddie Jackson at a much a

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Speaker 2: big discount.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're not sure what the contract is, but you

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Speaker 1: can probably safely assume that it's at a big discount

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Speaker 1: considering Geno Stones signed a two year, fourteen million dollar

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Speaker 1: contract with the Bengals. I'm gonna guess, Yeah, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: didn't spend that much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the time you're listening to the contract

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Speaker 2: details could be out. We'll see. But I think that,

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Speaker 2: you know, I look at this and I think it's

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Speaker 2: impactful really in two ways. The first is the versatility

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Speaker 2: that it gives Zach Rior as he's building out the scheme.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned that the Ravens used a lot of three

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Speaker 2: safety looks last year. I think it's no secret that

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Speaker 2: they love to use Kyle Hamilton to creative packages. You

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Speaker 2: can bring him down the line of scrimmage, you can

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Speaker 2: drop him back, you can just kind of keep the

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Speaker 2: offense guessing with.

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Speaker 1: The safety Nickel Dime at corner. He plays everything.

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Speaker 2: He's a Swiss Army knife and he's one of the

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Speaker 2: best defensive players in football. And so part of his

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Speaker 2: strength is his versatility. And so when you have more safety,

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Speaker 2: more defensive backs who are who you want on the field,

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Speaker 2: that allows you to be created with how you deploy

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Speaker 2: Kyle Hamilton. The second piece of it is that it's depth.

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Speaker 2: And you know, like Marcus Williams is dealt with injuries's

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Speaker 2: first two seasons, I don't necessarily think I hope that's

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Speaker 2: not the case it but like bringing in a proven

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Speaker 2: safety and a proven Pro Bowl player in Eddie Jackson

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Speaker 2: gives you depth at a really important position, so that

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Speaker 2: you're in a good position if you were to with

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Speaker 2: standard injury in the secondary.

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Speaker 1: Right, and let's just talk about Eddy Jackson for a

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Speaker 1: minute here. I mean twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, both

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl years. I mean he had six interceptions in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and scored three touchdowns, So you know, he

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Speaker 1: was Pro football Folks's highest graded safety in the league

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. That was the second season in the league.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's been a little it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: that productive in recent years now. He's dealt with injuries

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Speaker 1: the past couple of years that have limited twelve games

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Speaker 1: each of those two seasons. When he went from the Bears,

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Speaker 1: you know, he went from strong safety to free safety.

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Speaker 1: That really did kind of unlock him more. He had

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Speaker 1: a rebound season in twenty twenty two when that happened.

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Speaker 1: He had four interceptions that year and two forced fumbles

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Speaker 1: as two seasons ago. So not that long ago, right right,

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Speaker 1: And I think that that would be really the position

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Speaker 1: that he would project to be, kind of the genostone

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Speaker 1: fifteen career interceptions and he's gotten them in bunches one year,

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Speaker 1: AFC with seven interceptions last year. Can Eddie Jackson fill

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Speaker 1: that kind of role, Yes, I think he can well,

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Speaker 1: But I mean geno in part because he saw a

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Speaker 1: ideal world, Eddie Jackson doesn't see the field that much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't project him to, but he's gonna get time.

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Speaker 1: And when he's on the field, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: who has proven himself to have a nose for the.

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Speaker 2: Football a ball Yeah, he's a ball hawk. Fifteen interceptions

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Speaker 2: in his career, He's got six force fumbles. He also

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Speaker 2: has six defensive touchdowns. So like, when he gets the

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Speaker 2: ball in his hands, two good things had to happen.

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Speaker 2: He's ten force fumbles over his career, you changed them,

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Speaker 2: six fumble covers, six fumble recovery, and so like, this

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Speaker 2: is a This is a player who, again when he

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Speaker 2: gets ball in his hands, good things happen.

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Speaker 1: He's a ba hawk.

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Speaker 2: And I think that, like, you know, using the geno

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Speaker 2: stone in comparison, I think it'll be if you're looking

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Speaker 2: at it from a year ago, I think it will

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Speaker 2: be most similar to when you had all three safeties healthy. Like,

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's I just I don't see him,

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Speaker 2: barring an injury, necessarily putting up those big numbers.

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Speaker 1: The question to me is, I guess really wasn't healthy

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Speaker 1: at any point. You know, Gino still saw a fair

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Speaker 1: amount of that rotation because Marcus was Marcus will never

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Speaker 1: say it, but he was playing severely hampered with one.

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Speaker 2: Arm by the end, by the very end, by the

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Speaker 2: very end, he was. He looked a lot more like himself.

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Speaker 2: But no, I think that's a good point. My question.

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Speaker 2: So if you're if you're if you're putting all three

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Speaker 2: safeties on the field, like, what does that look like

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Speaker 2: to you?

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Speaker 1: Well, then Kyle Hamilton's playing slot. I mean Kyle Hamilton

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Speaker 1: played more snaps at slot last year than he did

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Speaker 1: anywhere else by a significant margin. Now, I do think

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Speaker 1: that you know, Arthur Mullett will see snaps in the slot.

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Speaker 1: I think Marlon Humphrey is going to see more snaps

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Speaker 1: in the slot. It always comes back to the number

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Speaker 1: three slot quarterback here, and I keep telling you it's

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Speaker 1: your favorite position on the field, and so there's more

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Speaker 1: contenders I think for that. Even if Pepe Williams is

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Speaker 1: healthy right like Ardarius right, Ardarius who's sitting here, sat

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Speaker 1: and I think he will still have a role in

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Speaker 1: this defense. Some of that could be playing in the slot, right,

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Speaker 1: and so like the Ravens have a lot of candidates

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Speaker 1: to play slot cornerback, and when that happens, that's an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for the Ravens now to use Eddie Jackson as

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Speaker 1: more of a roving, deeper free safety.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting move because I don't think for.

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Speaker 1: Strong safety he doesn't have to be you know, he

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Speaker 1: could be there if he's next to Mark Marcus Williams

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Speaker 1: as a ball hawk too, so he plays more of

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Speaker 1: that back center fielder role. I mean, the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: kind of interchangeable between free and strong safety. But my

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Speaker 1: point is when Kyle Hamilton is playing slot, I expect

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Speaker 1: we're going to see Eddie Jackson on the field a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, It's it's interesting because you wouldn't I don't think

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Speaker 2: many people would say that like safety was a big

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Speaker 2: position of need for the Ravens because you have so

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Speaker 2: you have two great ones already.

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Speaker 1: Pause one second. I just want to correct myself too.

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Speaker 1: I also think that Kyle Hamilton can also play dime.

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Speaker 1: He can play kind of linebacker, a linebacker ish role,

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Speaker 1: which he did some last year, and Marlon or somebody

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Speaker 1: else being slot and Eddie Jackson be on the field right,

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Speaker 1: Like you can get Marlon Kyle and Eddie Jackson and

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Speaker 1: Marcus Williams on the field at the same time.

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Speaker 2: And Ardarius and Brandon Davis and anyways.

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Speaker 1: I would Wiggins, Yes.

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Speaker 2: You basically can have ten DB's and then you just

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Speaker 2: put Michael Pearson the middle.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you laugh, But it's not like inconceivable.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens could be very dB heavy in personnel because

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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton is, like you said, the ultimate Swiss Army Knife.

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Speaker 1: He can play linebacker. He did played the inside and

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker last year. Yeah, and especially with Patrick Queen

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Speaker 1: now going in Pittsburgh, like he could see more of that.

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Speaker 1: So you're not putting you know, is Trenton Simpson at

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Speaker 1: it even start? I don't even know. He played a lot, right,

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Speaker 1: But like Trenton Simpson hasn't been a starter yet in

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Speaker 1: his career, I don't know. That you immediately make him

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Speaker 1: He was a first round pick. So like what I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is Kyle Howlson can play some of that Patrick

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Speaker 1: Queen role. You still have a slot corner Marlon Arthur

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Speaker 1: Malett and you use Eddie Jackson. Makes the Ravens. This

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Speaker 1: signing makes the Ravens much more multiple.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they already kind of were that.

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Speaker 2: It just adds another even more more potential to it.

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Speaker 2: It adds depth so that you can do that if

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Speaker 2: you were to have an injury to any of those right.

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Speaker 1: And Ardarius has been banged up over his career too,

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Speaker 1: so you know, counting on our all knock on wood,

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Speaker 1: you know, you hope he stays healthy, but he has

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Speaker 2: I just think it gives you. I think it gives

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Speaker 2: you insurance really if you have again injuries at any

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Speaker 2: of those positions. Like you mentioned Marlon, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: an option to play more in the slot this year

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Speaker 2: as you have your you have Nate Wiggins now in

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Speaker 2: the mix, and so like if I know it's a

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Speaker 2: different position here, But I'm just saying like.

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Speaker 1: It adds depth to all across the world across because

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Speaker 1: you can shuffle so many different guys in different spots.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and so you have you have that, you have

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Speaker 2: that versatility. And even if everybody is healthy, Okay, everybody's healthy,

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Speaker 2: that's what the hope is, and you deal with no injuries, well,

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Speaker 2: you're still gonna find ways to get Eddie Jackson on

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Speaker 2: the field because he could be a difference maker. And

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Speaker 2: so I think that you know, it's it's The Ravens

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Speaker 2: clearly were interested in this third safety conversation. They had

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Speaker 2: Jamal Adams and for a visit, like there was there

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Speaker 2: was interest.

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Speaker 1: They play this. They played this really well because the

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Speaker 1: safety market ballooned with like number of quality safeties that

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Speaker 1: sat on the free agent market. You didn't have to

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Speaker 1: go and jump in and get one right away, right

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Speaker 1: like they They let Genostone test the market. He found

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Speaker 1: a very good deal in Cincinnati. Cincinnati was desperate to

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Speaker 1: add a safety. The Ravens weren't desperate to add a

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Speaker 1: third safety. They knew what they had in Ardarius and okay,

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Speaker 1: it's a backup, right like, so they could stay patient,

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Speaker 1: and this is just another classic Ravens move. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you look at these laid editions that panned out last year.

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Speaker 1: Is this the next Javon Clowney move? Is this the

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Speaker 1: Once again, I absolutely agree with that a side point,

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