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

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Speaker 1: sitting down with Garrett Downing and we're getting ready for OTAs.

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Speaker 2: To kick off this week. Exciting stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm fresh off my travel draft win, feeling great, Feeling

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Speaker 1: great about that. Now excited to see some football on

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Speaker 1: the practice field.

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Speaker 3: You know it's on the travel draft. It's it's it's close,

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Speaker 3: too close now, still.

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Speaker 2: Too close to the call AP has called this racer.

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Speaker 3: The mail in ballots are coming in.

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Speaker 2: All the mail in ballots came in. We're one sided.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to those a little bit later. We

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Speaker 3: always appreciate the emails of the Lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 3: NFL dot net. But this week is about OTAs. This

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Speaker 3: week is all about OTAs. Those kickoff today. The offseason

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Speaker 3: program has been going on now for a few weeks,

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Speaker 3: but now this is the next phase. And and once

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Speaker 3: you get to the o TA phase, what happens now

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Speaker 3: is that it starts to look a little bit more

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Speaker 3: like football. Guys are on the practice field. They're going

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Speaker 3: through drills, still not full contact, still not in pad,

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Speaker 3: but they're at least in uniform going through drills. And

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Speaker 3: it looks and feels a lot more like.

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Speaker 1: Football, right Exactly, you have a little one on one stuff,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not you're not putting on the shoulder

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Speaker 1: the pads and all that stuff, but you get your

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Speaker 1: first taste of these guys playing some football and not

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Speaker 2: So it's an exciting time.

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Speaker 1: And so we're gonna break down some of the players

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Speaker 1: we're most excited to see and some of the storylines

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Speaker 1: to watch during OTAs, and let's start Garrett.

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Speaker 2: We each have picked a few guys.

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Speaker 1: That we want to point to who maybe this OTA

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Speaker 1: is really important for them or who were excited to see.

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Speaker 3: Number one for me that I'm just excited to watch

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Speaker 3: is Nate Wakens. Yeah, I'm just really fired up. First

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Speaker 3: round pick, really athletic guy. I'm excited to see how

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Speaker 3: he looks going up against NFL competition, Like, what does

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Speaker 3: it look like if he's slned up against say Flowers.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing in rookie mini camp when you're going

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Speaker 3: but like, how do you how do you look going

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Speaker 3: up against a Zay Flowers as an example, the.

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Speaker 1: Word tedes Walker. I'm excited to see that.

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Speaker 3: It got a little taste of that as some of

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Speaker 3: the clips we put out from from Working Minute. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so that was a taste, but now it's like the

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Speaker 3: like Nate Wiggans, obviously he was a team's top draft pick.

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Speaker 3: He's got all his talent. We know he's a little

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Speaker 3: bit lean, but he plays with some fire. When he

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Speaker 3: sat down and joined us on the podcast after getting drafted, like,

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Speaker 3: I was struck by his confidence. I don't think it

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Speaker 3: that like he's going to bring that kind of swag

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting for me to see that, like because

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Speaker 3: limited interactions so far. And so now when you take

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Speaker 3: Even in o TA practices.

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Speaker 1: Player I'm excited to see would be the king Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: And we don't know how many of these veterans show up.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes some of the established veterans, they'll come one week

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they come all of them.

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Speaker 1: We don't know, but I'm just telling you as soon

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Speaker 1: as Derrick Henry steps on the field, all the reporters

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Speaker 1: is otherworldly. Like, just get ready for it right now.

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Speaker 1: You can line up, you can draft the tweet right now, like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, look at Derek Henry in a Raven's uniform.

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Speaker 2: This guy looks like an alien. Tweet. Get it ready.

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Speaker 1: And so I think it's just gonna be one of

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Speaker 2: But when you see him in that purple and black.

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Speaker 1: For the first time on the practice field and you

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Speaker 3: I've said it before. We see these guys all the time.

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Speaker 3: They're big people, They're muscular at large, like you're used

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Speaker 1: And next I'll go to a guy who I think

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Speaker 1: these OTAs are really important for and you know, for

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Speaker 2: But this is the first thing, this is the first

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Speaker 2: true practice. Well he went through.

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Speaker 3: He did go through rookie mini camp, that's true. That's

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Speaker 3: I think that this is an important OTAs for Andrew

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Speaker 2: But you got to prove it in practice, right.

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Speaker 1: All that can be true and is true, But until

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Speaker 3: There's another guy who I'll be keeping a close eye on.

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. I'm excited to see quarterback Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be different about Lamar.

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Speaker 3: Way faster I'll tell you as Hey likely said that

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Speaker 3: that's what the OTA's are going to be about.

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Speaker 1: OTAs are the time of hyperbole. Yeah, that is all that.

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Speaker 3: You have at OTAs. I do think that that will

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Speaker 1: That'll be a major storyline. We haven't gotten to the storyline.

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Speaker 3: But he is a guy that I'm excited to see it.

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Speaker 3: How does he look? Is he moving any different? I like,

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Speaker 3: how is he progressing within that? So you will be

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Speaker 2: I will be offensive lineman and.

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Speaker 3: No offensive lineman, non contact drill pads, non pads, and

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Speaker 3: get back to you on how he looks.

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Speaker 1: See, I'm grinder, I'm a big jay journalist. You're a

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Speaker 1: lowercase journalist, lowercase j journalists. All right, I'm gonna stick

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Speaker 1: with the offensive line just because I would have double down. Now,

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Speaker 1: all right, Roger Rosegarden like the mobility, you know, that's

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Speaker 2: We can kind of get a little flavor of that.

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Speaker 2: Ben Cleveland, well for the right guards.

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Speaker 3: But I actually do think all the offensive line is Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I really could go through that. I'm excited to see that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's not as that i'm excited to see it,

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Speaker 1: but like, if we're talking the topic here being who

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Speaker 1: the OTAs, who do they really matter for? It's really

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Speaker 1: important for these guys, those offensive linemen. These OTA is

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Speaker 1: not just the first one, but the series of OTAs,

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Speaker 1: all three are really important.

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Speaker 3: They are important. I think that I think it'll be

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Speaker 3: interesting to see who, like what the lineup looks like.

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Speaker 3: And and just so listeners know, like we're not necessarily

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Speaker 3: unless the coaches come out and divulge this information during

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Speaker 3: these press conferences, you're not really at this point supposed

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Speaker 3: Right, But you do it get an indication of that,

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Speaker 3: a jobo too.

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Speaker 1: I was just about to say, you know, falling into

437
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Speaker 1: the bucket of has been injured. You need to stay

438
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Speaker 1: healthy on the field and stack practices.

439
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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: David Dajaba last year during OTAs, he was the one

441
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Speaker 3: we were we were all going on. He had looked

442
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Speaker 3: great during those practices. He was healthy at that time.

443
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Speaker 3: He looked like he was going to be in store

444
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Speaker 3: for a breakout season. Everybody was doing the David Jaba

445
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Speaker 3: breakout season story and so that could could be the case. Again,

446
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Speaker 3: I think that that that hype will be tempered just

447
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 3: because he's had the back to back injuries. But I

448
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 3: think that really talented player and if he can stay

449
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Speaker 3: healthy and like we haven't seen him on the field

450
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Speaker 3: since he had that knee injury last year, correct, So

451
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Speaker 3: just if he can go through practices as he shows

452
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Speaker 3: that knee injury is a thing of the past, like

453
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Speaker 3: that would be a great sign for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that from a health perspective, he's going

455
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Speaker 1: to be fine. John Harball said as much himself this offseason,

456
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Speaker 1: so I expect that he's going to be out there

457
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Speaker 1: practicing well. And yeah, I think he is a guy

458
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Speaker 1: that the Ravens are accounting on in a big way

459
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Speaker 1: this year.

460
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Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.

461
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Speaker 1: And they drafted the dece Isaac in the third round

462
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Speaker 1: and they re signed Kyle van Noy, But Jadeveon Clowney

463
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 1: is in Carolina now and he was your leading sack guy.

464
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Speaker 1: I think they're leaning on David Ajabo to pick up

465
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Speaker 1: some of that slack from Clowney's departure.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, going back to what John Harball said,

467
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Speaker 3: you know, at owners meetings, he talked about the breakout

468
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Speaker 3: potential that for sure David Ajabo has, And so I

469
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,919
Speaker 3: know that I know that there's some concern from fans

470
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Speaker 3: about him just because he hasn't been able to stay

471
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 3: on the field because of these back to back injuries

472
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 3: his first two seasons. But the Ravens have a lot

473
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Speaker 3: of optimism around him, and he's the second round pick.

474
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Speaker 3: Would have been a higher pick if not for the injury.

475
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 3: Coming out in the draft like a uber talented player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, you know, there's there's different injuries, right,

477
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Speaker 1: There's like the nagging hamstrings and those kind of things

478
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Speaker 1: that like when those like keep always popping up, that

479
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 1: gives me more cause for concern than like a Njaba

480
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: who popped in achilles, you know before he came before

481
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Speaker 1: the draft, and then he suffered a knee injury in

482
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Speaker 1: a game last year. Like that stuff unfortunately happens, you

483
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. I guess I'm not like Dinging Ojaba.

484
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Speaker 1: He was healthy really all last summer. Yeah, pretty durable

485
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Speaker 1: guy on the practice field, was.

486
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Speaker 2: Out there like every day.

487
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I guess I'm not I'm not dinging

488
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Speaker 1: him too much on that. Like, I'm optimistic, i'mbullish on

489
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 1: David Ajabo and his ability to stay healthy and produce

490
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Speaker 1: for this team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he could be a really good player

492
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Speaker 3: this year, and the Ravens are counting on that. I

493
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Speaker 3: think that, you know what, I'll be watching with him

494
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 3: over the course of the spring practices and then the

495
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,919
Speaker 3: summer practices is like, you know, can you practice? Can

496
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 3: you practice all week?

497
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Speaker 2: And then he did that.

498
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Speaker 3: He did that last year, but I was coming off

499
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Speaker 3: the knee injury, and so like is that we're coming

500
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Speaker 3: off the knee injury. So like, if he goes out

501
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Speaker 3: there and he's out there over the course of this

502
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Speaker 3: next month every day, that'd be great. That would be great,

503
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 3: that would be a great sign. And I think that

504
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Speaker 3: that would like set the table for him to have

505
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Speaker 3: a really good training camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the biggest storylines, not just the players,

509
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Speaker 1: the storylines during the OTAs.

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Speaker 2: After the break.

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Speaker 3: So in terms of the top storylines, what is it

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Speaker 3: like the number one thing in your mind?

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is I'm really between the

526
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Speaker 1: offense and the defense. I'd probably say it's the defense.

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Speaker 2: Moving on.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have a first year coordinator in Zach Orr,

529
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Speaker 1: moving on from Mike McDonald. You know who's obviously the

530
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Speaker 1: head coach of the Seahawks. Now he lost some pieces

531
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Speaker 1: on defense, as I mentioned, Jdavion, Clowney, Geno Stone, Patrick Queen,

532
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: all those guys, Ronald Darby, those guys are all gone.

533
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Speaker 1: Ken This does this defense? How does it evolve under

534
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Speaker 1: Zach orr One? I think it'll look pretty similar to

535
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Speaker 1: what Mike ran here. It's the Ravens defense. But what

536
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Speaker 1: kind of twist does he put on it. It's hard

537
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Speaker 1: to tell during practice, but yeah, that'll be a storyline.

538
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Speaker 1: And how do these guys feel about their potential to

539
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Speaker 1: still be a top flight defense despite the losses?

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Speaker 3: I think all that is fair. I actually am kind

541
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Speaker 3: of more intrigued by the offensive side.

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Speaker 1: The offense is just sexy. It's the offense is always sexier.

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Speaker 3: It's also like tougher to tell, to be honest, from

544
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Speaker 3: a defensive standpoint, like game, but like like you, you

545
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Speaker 3: can't really get a sense of like play calling as

546
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Speaker 3: well from a defensive side, and these practices where you

547
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Speaker 3: can get a little bit more of an idea of that.

548
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Speaker 3: On the offensive side.

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Speaker 1: You see some more of the scheme tweaks, the tendencies. Maybe,

550
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Speaker 1: you know, if we see the Ravens using a lot

551
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: more twelve personnel, which has been the talk, you know,

552
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: one running back, two tight ends. How do we see

553
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah likely integrated more into this offense after the breakout

554
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: that he had last year, and Mark Andrews' absence. Now

555
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Speaker 1: you have both Mark Andrews back healthy, you would think

556
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Speaker 1: Isaiah likely might be really your primary number three receiver

557
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: right behind the Haveza Rashot Obviously, if we're talking about targets,

558
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: I mean Mark would be in that top three, but

559
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Speaker 1: Isaiah likely would be kind of the next guy.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, how much do we see that

562
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: being integrated? What's that mean for pat riccard? John Harball

563
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: said year one was really baby steps for this offense,

564
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Speaker 1: and looking back on it because it was a sea change,

565
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Speaker 1: it was a philosophical change on offense. And now they

566
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: start that much more ahead in year two. What does

567
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Speaker 1: that allow Todd Munkin to do and how he shapes

568
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Speaker 1: this offense. That's what's going to be interesting.

569
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Speaker 3: That, like those comments from from Harball after the season,

570
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Speaker 3: really we're enlightening to me, and that like he felt

571
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Speaker 3: like there's still a pretty big evolution that's going to

572
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Speaker 3: take place on the offensive side of the ball. And

573
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Speaker 3: he talked about basically the day of the season ended

574
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Speaker 3: meeting with the offensive coaching staff to talk about like

575
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Speaker 3: what worked, what did and lamar and yep, what works,

576
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 3: what didn't, and what needs to change moving forward, And

577
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Speaker 3: so it was certainly not like, I mean, the offense

578
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: is pretty darn good last year, won a second MVP,

579
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Speaker 3: they made some major strides in the passing game, they

580
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 3: went to the AFC Championship game, So like, pretty darn

581
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 3: good offense for Tom Munkin in his first year. But

582
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Speaker 3: John Harball was not at all saying like, hey, look

583
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Speaker 3: we've got a great offense, don't need to change.

584
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Speaker 1: This was a couple of days removed from a pretty

585
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Speaker 1: tough AFC Championship performance.

586
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Speaker 2: Also for that, I don't think that.

587
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: Was the result of that game, Like, I don't think

588
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 3: it was just a result of like, hey we lost.

589
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Speaker 1: You do self evaluation after every season, even if you

590
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: That's part of the process.

592
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Speaker 3: But they felt like that there were some there was

593
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 3: some things on offense that like that dogged them throughout

594
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: the year and they need to make tweaks to that.

595
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 3: And there's their scheme to that. There's there's in gameplay calling,

596
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 3: there's personnel. All of it is part of the equation.

597
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 3: I think that like they they felt like they needed

598
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Speaker 3: to make some changes to that. And I think this

599
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 3: is going to be the first time we start to

600
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Speaker 3: see those changes in action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

602
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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see what this offense has in

603
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: store for for it in year two under Tom Monkin,

604
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Speaker 1: because he's I thought Tydy did a great job last year.

605
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Speaker 1: There won't be as many stories about Todd and his

606
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: on field demeanor and and you know, colorful language as

607
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: we saw last year. We're all a little more accustomed

608
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: to that now it's gonna be a little bit more

609
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: And honestly about how Lamar feels in it, right, Like, yeah,

610
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: year one was a big deal for Lamar and getting

611
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: comfortable in this offense. But year two, how much further

612
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: along does he feel now? And what they can open up?

613
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: You know, what level of the playbook can they get

614
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: to now? And where does Lamar feel about? How does

615
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: he feel about that is a big deal.

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00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 3: I mean, like last year, to OTAs is when Lamar basically

617
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 3: got the playbook, Like that's basically he started going to

618
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 3: work in this offense, Like he signed right around the

619
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Speaker 3: draft and so like this was all new to him

620
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 3: at this point. So where he is compared to a

621
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Speaker 3: year ago, it's night and day. And I do think

622
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Speaker 3: that I do think that's gonna make a difference in

623
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Speaker 3: terms of he already had the keys to the offense

624
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways. But I think that he's

625
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 3: gonna he's gonna be driving everywhere. He's gonna be driving

626
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 3: everywhere this year with those kids.

627
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Speaker 1: So and Lamar we spoke about it a little bit.

628
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: Lamar's way will obviously be a big one. I'm gonna

629
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 1: I'm gonna predict it right now. How that's gonna go is,

630
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be three questions off the top about Lamar

631
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: and his weight, and he'll give he'll give good answers

632
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: about that, and then it's gonna be like, all right, guys,

633
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: come on like it. How many questions we got about

634
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: the weight here? Yeah? You know, and then he's gonna

635
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: laugh and he's gonna make some joke along those lines.

636
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: We're all gonna chuckle, and then we're gonna move off

637
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: the weight subject. But it's gonna be it's gonna be

638
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: fast and furious off the top.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I think it's a pretty good prediction. The

640
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: thing I'm just most curious about is does he plan

641
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 3: to I care less about what he wastes to day

642
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 3: versus what he plans to play at Week one? That

643
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 3: is the question.

644
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: Well, and to me, it's what's the intention here, Like

645
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: do you feel like you need to get faster? Yeah,

646
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: what's the thought process behind the weight loss? That's what

647
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm interested in.

648
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

649
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: So when we do get a chance to talk with him,

650
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 3: not sure if that's gonna be this week or another week,

651
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 3: what we'll see, but we we'll get to the bottom

652
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 3: of those questions. So those are the top story lines

653
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Speaker 3: to me. Another one, no, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna roll right into getting to the bottom

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Speaker 1: of something else. And that's who won the travel draft call.

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Speaker 1: And the emails are pouring in. I'll just read you

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Speaker 1: the subject line of a few here. Okay, Eric Voles,

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Speaker 1: this one is Garrett embarrassed himself. Couldn't agree more. Kai Dagner,

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Speaker 1: the subject line is just trounce Alec A Sorry, Alec,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce your honest, that's my

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Speaker 1: b Alec mink with the dubs, all right. Jeff host Hostetter, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: uh says he's got he's got barbecue waiting for me.

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Speaker 1: And his wife is from Dallas too, so you know.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, that's just a homer pick like that, that's true.

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Speaker 2: He's a little compromise.

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Speaker 1: See my wife from Dallas, so you win. Yeah, good logic.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's the one from Kai. Dagner says, Ryan

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Speaker 1: trounce Garrett in the travel draft as bad as Garrett

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Speaker 1: has ever trunced Ryan in any draft. Brutal Eric Bowles,

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Speaker 1: this is the best one. Garrett embarrassed himself. Oh, my lord, Garrett,

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Speaker 1: Ryan completely cleaned your clock this year. Wow, I lived

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Speaker 1: near Dallas. Oh I should have read that part. I

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Speaker 1: should have stopped alec Alec. Here he goes one year later,

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Speaker 1: same story. Mink got the best away games by far,

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Speaker 1: and it's not particularly close. Barbecue divisional games and a

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Speaker 1: little Tampa retreat. Come on, Garrett picking the Christmas game

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Speaker 1: was a nail on the coffin for his chances.

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Speaker 2: Of a late draft upset. I mean, just you picked it.

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Speaker 2: You picked it.

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Speaker 3: It was the only game left. I couldn't just pass it.

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Speaker 3: I got I got stuck with it. That's all.

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Speaker 2: You should have done better rock papers this. You should

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Speaker 2: have better pat this.

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Speaker 3: When I'm hanging out on the beach for a week

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Speaker 3: in l.

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Speaker 2: A, A week really got extended.

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Speaker 3: Huh Oh yeah we're going out early.

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Speaker 2: Oh, but a full week.

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Speaker 3: We're going out. We're going out early. We're gonna spend

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Speaker 3: a full week there. I'm just gonna be able to

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Speaker 3: be up surfing, surfing every day.

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Speaker 2: You don't know how to surf. I actually do know

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Speaker 2: how to surf.

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Speaker 3: You sure you do?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 3: I have a surfboard, a.

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Speaker 2: Surfboard I can serve. I surfed a little like four

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Speaker 2: footers in Myrtle Beach.

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Speaker 3: Well, I might need to borrow that surfboard for the week.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm going to be in LA And even if

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Speaker 3: I don't know how right now, I'm going to be

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Speaker 3: out there so long that by the time I get back,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be an ex.

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Speaker 1: You're a banana biite guy, that's what you are. You're

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Speaker 1: a beach banana bike guy.

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Speaker 3: I'll be It'll be everything for me. I'll be hanging

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Speaker 3: out on the surfboard, I'll be hanging out on the boardwalk,

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Speaker 3: whatever it is. I'm going to be enjoying the beach

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Speaker 3: out in LA for a couple of weeks, and I'll

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Speaker 3: be enjoyed in Tampa, Nah, an hour away from the beach.

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Speaker 3: Down there.

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Speaker 1: I talked to Simon Simon Gilan, who kind of oversees

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Speaker 1: their travel or works with Joan with their travel He said,

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Speaker 1: Tampa is going.

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Speaker 2: To be nuice.

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Speaker 3: You're just saying that.

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Speaker 2: No I talked to yesterday. I talked to him yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I scoped it out, I did my research, your research.

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Speaker 3: All right? Well, we uh, I know there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of people who are waiting to hit send on emails

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Speaker 3: backing me up on the travels draft. So you can

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Speaker 3: do that at the Lounge at Ravenslot NFL dot net.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead and get those in. Also, the last thing

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Speaker 3: I want to mention here is we've got a very

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Speaker 3: special episode of The Lounge is gonna drop Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna have Coach Harball.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're just gonna come out with it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I'm just gonna come out and just let

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Speaker 3: everybody know we're gonna have Coach Harball on the podcast

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Speaker 3: and really excited about this conversation. We also got some

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Speaker 3: new digs. Okay, We've got some new digs that you're

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Speaker 3: gonna be excited to see.

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Speaker 1: You're not the only one with a new office. Got

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Speaker 1: a new podcast office.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a new office yourself too.

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Speaker 2: Look, we'll do a full breakdown, all right, and.

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Speaker 3: We got a new podcast studio here which we are

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Speaker 3: really fired up about. So you'll be able to see that,

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Speaker 3: you know, the video of that, of course on our

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Speaker 3: Apple website and our YouTube channel. And again that episode

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Speaker 3: with Coach Harball is gonna drop Wednesday mornings. To stay tuned.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening, and we'll talk with

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Speaker 3: you again on Wednesday