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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. I am my

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Speaker 1: mink here with Garrett Downing. We're thrilled to announce a

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Speaker 1: three year extension with nose tackle Travis Jones. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: have locked up the future of one of the best

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Speaker 1: well is in the final year of his contract, was

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Speaker 1: a pending free agent, and he would have been one

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Speaker 1: of the top free agents on the market, potentially the

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Speaker 1: tippy top defensive lineman. And so the Ravens get this

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Speaker 1: deal done three years with Travis Jones for reported forty

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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter,

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Speaker 1: this is an exciting deal to get done as the

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Speaker 1: Ravens continue to really kind of secure the future.

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Speaker 2: Now, it's been a busy couple of weeks here for

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Speaker 2: Eric Tacosta in the Ravens front office. Last week it

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Speaker 2: was Mark Andrews getting the contract extension. Now it's Travis Jones,

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Speaker 2: and we all knew that, like this offseason is a

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Speaker 2: pretty pivotal offseason for the Ravens given a lot of

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Speaker 2: the contracts and the pending free agents that they have

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Speaker 2: Mark and Travis being maybe at the top of that list,

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Speaker 2: and the ability to work out extensions with the two

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Speaker 2: of them before the season even ends, I think secures

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Speaker 2: the core here. And something that we've heard from Eric

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Speaker 2: to Costa like over and over again is that we

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Speaker 2: want to be a team where the windows always open.

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Speaker 2: We want to be a team that is always competitive

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Speaker 2: and not going all in one year and that's it.

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Speaker 2: And I think that keeping a player like Travis Jones

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Speaker 2: allows you to have a core member of your defensive

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Speaker 2: front in place at a good price, that's a good

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Speaker 2: price for the rest of the season in three more years.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a quality move for the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: And Travis is a very unique player, right. Every time

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Speaker 1: we've had numerous players on the Ravens defensive line and

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Speaker 1: offensive lines come on the lounge here and you often

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Speaker 1: anytime you ask them about Travis Jones, they just rave

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Speaker 1: about this guy and how special he is and just

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Speaker 1: how strong he is and quick for being so big,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, you can't find a guy a person in

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Speaker 1: this building to say anything negative about big draft. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that even before the season started,

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Speaker 1: defensive line coach Dennis Johnson said he expects every time

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Speaker 1: that he's on the field for Big Travis to be

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Speaker 1: the best player on the field. So that was like, WHOA, Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that kind of shows you the belief that they have

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Speaker 1: much the same way that he is a special, special guy.

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Speaker 2: Well to that point, it reminds me a little bit

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Speaker 2: of some of the conversation that we heard with Nobdy

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Speaker 2: Mattabike earlier in his career. So like early his career,

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Speaker 2: guys would consistently point to him. It's like he's a

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Speaker 2: breakout candidate. He's a guy that's going to really emerge.

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Speaker 2: He's so good, he does so many things that is

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Speaker 2: going to allow him to flourish. And then that ultimately

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Speaker 2: ultimately did. And it's kind of with Travis Jones. I

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Speaker 2: think we've been hearing for players talk behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: and going into each season about this is a guy

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Speaker 2: that you should watch and he's and he's.

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Speaker 3: Like the breakout player vote for two straight years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he has that type of ability and I

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Speaker 2: They weren't good and he had to It was a

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Speaker 2: the work that he's put in coming from you know,

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Speaker 1: Not a whole lot of big time prospects coming out

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Speaker 2: That season, I don't. I honestly don't know if they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just like we talked about Mark Andrews and

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Speaker 1: what that extension said about him not only as a

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Speaker 1: a lot of that applies to Travis Jones too. You're

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Speaker 1: not going to find a guy who spends more time

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Speaker 3: There's big draft, he's in line, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And like that dude works And so that's part of it,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get banged up a little bit. But credit

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Speaker 1: then you also look at then the tape and you know, Travis,

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Speaker 1: up the numbers, the sack numbers that Nomdy did you

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Speaker 1: so many different things. I mean, it's unheard of for

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Speaker 1: So like the different positions that the Ravens can use

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Speaker 2: Well to the point about the number, so this year

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Speaker 2: he has one and a half sacks, hees thirty four

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Speaker 2: he's not a double digit sack guy. That's not what

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Speaker 2: he's asked to do, and that's just not the game

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Speaker 2: that he plays. But when you look at the Ravens history,

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Speaker 2: firmly believe that in order to be a good defense,

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Speaker 2: you have to stop the run. And Travis Jones is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in today's I think Travis is probably at the

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Speaker 2: gobbles up double teams. And if you look at the

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Speaker 2: Brandon Williams was that guy. Aloid and Noo was a

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Speaker 1: I kind of hope that Travis evolves a little bit

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Speaker 1: more into being that kind of player. You know, big,

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Speaker 2: Like those are the even you go back if they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: I think also, you know, this speaks to Nomine Matabike

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Speaker 1: Or whatever, like, this is a big deal to secure

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Speaker 1: the future of a piece, a very important piece on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you want to have somebody as as an

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think that this is like

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Speaker 2: Like that's not going to be the main topic. But

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Speaker 2: good teams are able to keep their quality ascending players.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of gms around the league

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Speaker 1: you said, Dag Gummett. Yeah, like the Ravens brought him back,

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Speaker 2: Of the different like early who are the top free agents,

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Speaker 2: Travis Jones is like one of the guys that's on

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Speaker 1: He gets to stay with the team that believed in him,

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Speaker 3: That's just the reality of it.

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Speaker 1: You can't bring back everybody, but you try to bring

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Speaker 1: all right, Well, thank you for listening. As always, you

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Speaker 2: For sure, for sure, and then again, of course, the

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Speaker 2: That episode dropped Thursday morning, So if you're listening to

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Speaker 2: Wiggans shared some insight into his development and what's allowed

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Speaker 2: So make sure you check that out. You can listen

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Speaker 2: to it wherever you get your podcasts, and also watch

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