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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Ink

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Speaker 1: here with Garrett Downing, and we are in full swing

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Speaker 1: free agency mode. The moves are coming fast and furious,

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Speaker 1: and for the Ravens, they're big fish that they landed

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Speaker 1: wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. It's now official that the Ravens

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Speaker 1: have agreed to terms with the veteran proval wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Eric DaCosta put out a statement about that earlier today, saying,

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Speaker 1: we are happy to bring DeAndre Hopkins to the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: D hop is a player whom we have competed against

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Speaker 1: and admired for a long time. He fits our style

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Speaker 1: of play and is another weapon for our offense. We're

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Speaker 1: excited to watch him play and congratulate DeAndre and his family.

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Speaker 2: So officially official.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great to have that. We surely talked through

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Speaker 3: the benefits and what we think of adding DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 3: and just to reiterate that, as I thought about it

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Speaker 3: a little bit more over the past twenty four hours,

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Speaker 3: I think that this is a move that it makes

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Speaker 3: sense for what the Ravens are looking for to add

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Speaker 3: to the team. And when I look around the league

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Speaker 3: and see some of the deals that have been given

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Speaker 3: out to other wide receivers, none of whom have DeAndre

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Speaker 3: Hopkins resume. I think that it may I feel even

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Speaker 3: better about it. You just look at some of these deals,

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Speaker 3: like DeMarcus Robinson, for example, got a two year, ten

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Speaker 3: million dollar contract he was here, of course a few

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Speaker 3: years ago. Mike Williams goes to the Chargers. He goes

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Speaker 3: back to the Chargers on basically the same reported deal

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Speaker 3: what DeAndre Hopkins got, And so like, I just when

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Speaker 3: I look at the deals that other receivers are getting

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Speaker 3: and the quality of the player that DeAndre Hopkins is,

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Speaker 3: both in terms of what he's done in his career

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Speaker 3: and what I still think he has left in the tank,

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Speaker 3: I think the Ravens are getting a proven player who

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Speaker 3: still can be an impact difference maker for this offense,

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Speaker 3: and at a really good price. And so like, I

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Speaker 3: just feel really good about this, this contract and what

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Speaker 3: the Ravens are able to add to this team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he compared it to the Derreck Henry move of

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Speaker 1: last year to a degree, yes, And I know that

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Speaker 1: was the comparison you made. What do you think of

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Speaker 1: this comparison? And again there's differences right, like where they

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Speaker 1: were at in their career and whatnot. What about an

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Speaker 1: Kwon Bolton, Okay.

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Speaker 3: You just want to get that Super Bowl. You're just

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Speaker 3: trying to You're trying to talk to you stuff into

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Speaker 3: the Super.

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Speaker 1: Well, what I'm saying is like what he brings to

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Speaker 1: the offense, Like an Quon was not a burner when

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Speaker 1: he came here, you know, was never a burn He

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Speaker 1: was never a burner, right, but he was a guy

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Speaker 1: who gave Joe Flacco that reliable, trusted weapon, contested catches

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Speaker 1: like auld go up and make a play for you

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Speaker 1: when you needed it.

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Speaker 2: And he was to a degree what put them over

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Speaker 2: the hump.

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Speaker 1: And uh, like I think in terms of what DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl team had Tory Smith, they had the Burner, right,

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Speaker 1: and like they had other weapons that complimented and Kwan.

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Speaker 1: And I think this time it's DeAndre compliments the raven

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Speaker 1: his weapons that they already had kind of reverse it.

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Speaker 1: But like you know, in terms of what he can

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Speaker 1: be for this offense, I see some similarities there.

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Speaker 3: I think it's when I brought up the Derrick Henry comparison.

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Speaker 3: You made the point, like the big difference is that

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Speaker 3: Derek Henry was brought here to be the workhorse and.

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Speaker 2: He their role in their.

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Speaker 3: Role in the offense is different. I kind of feel

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Speaker 3: the same way in comparing Hopkins and Bolden. Bolden was

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Speaker 3: what he was during his time here. The Ravens added

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Speaker 3: Tory Smith in the second round of twenty eleven, and

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Speaker 3: obviously in the offense during that Super Bowl run. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're right, An Kwan was like he was the go

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Speaker 1: That's what Shane Moover he contested catch, tough catch, clutch play.

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Speaker 3: I think like from a from a type of receiver standpoint,

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Speaker 3: like they what they are, body type, track play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think all that is says yes, like there's

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Speaker 3: I think that will probably happen for some games this year.

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Speaker 3: Even though the Ravens have to say flowers for sab

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Speaker 3: shock me if there's a game we're also in DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 3: This is a guy that has six FO one hundred

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Speaker 3: I think that will help him as a player who's

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Speaker 1: So in the middle of the field, it's not just

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Speaker 1: I think it could unlock more back shoulder throws to him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think that's it's big. It's big. We

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Speaker 1: How about this one last question on this topic for you.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we talked in the last episode when

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Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry at NFL Honors after the twenty nineteen season,

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Speaker 1: in which he asked the question, how many touchdowns with

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Speaker 2: Prediction time, big boy?

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Speaker 3: Are we are we counting my touchdowns?

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Speaker 1: Is this?

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Speaker 1: Score, right, and if Lamar throws one to DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm that's all right. So how many touchdowns

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Speaker 3: Or something like sixteen touchdowns? Sixteen last year? Lamar? I

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Speaker 3: They brought him back. So like, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: Yep. So the other big news from yesterday was Michael

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Speaker 2: That's quite a story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then on top of it, the cherry on

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Speaker 1: So just an amazing, lifelong memory that he'll go out

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Speaker 1: a fumble recovery for a touchdown. Yeah, it's big, big play, Mike,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Just in terms of Michael Pierce, He's a playout

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Speaker 3: this was so unique, but he made the point like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's he's a man who has a lot of other interests,

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Speaker 1: you know, just life interests, like wants to go out

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Speaker 1: just to explain these tenders to fans. So, once signed,

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Speaker 1: then the player is locked into that one year deal.

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Speaker 1: But until they sign that they have there's a period

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Speaker 1: of time I can't remember how long. It is a

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Speaker 1: month or so in which the player can and their

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Speaker 1: agent can negotiate with other teams to basically as as

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Speaker 1: if they were unrestricted and they can negotiate any deal.

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Speaker 1: And so if another team offers Art Areas Washington a contract,

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Speaker 1: then the Ravens have the opportunity to match that contract

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Speaker 1: or not. If they choose not to match that offer,

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Speaker 1: then art Areas would leave and the Ravens would get

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Speaker 1: nothing in return. If the Ravens would put a second

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Speaker 1: round tender on them and Ard Areas worked out a

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Speaker 1: contract for more money with another team and left, then

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Speaker 1: the Ravens would have gotten a second round pick in return.

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Speaker 1: So basically, the Ravens are saying, we don't think that

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Speaker 1: that Art Areas would get a contract on the open market,

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Speaker 1: a contract offer of more than whatever five point three

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Speaker 1: four to six, which would have been the second round tender.

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Speaker 1: Like they think that his they estimate his value. This

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Speaker 1: is all about trying to assess the market, right, That's

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Speaker 1: what the Ravens are doing here and they feel like

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Speaker 1: the market is somewhere between that three point two and

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Speaker 1: five point.

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Speaker 3: Three right basically, and they still have again the ability

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Speaker 3: to match the offer, so if he gets a contract

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Speaker 3: offer from another team, exactly to match it. It's similar

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Speaker 3: to a couple of years ago. This was a big

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Speaker 3: conversation related to Lamar Jackson and the Ravens put the

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Speaker 3: non exclusive franchise tag on him, which gave him the

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Speaker 3: ability to match an offer from another team.

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Speaker 1: Same thing, and basically teams like see that and they're like,

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna match it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, They're just gonna match it.

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Speaker 1: Like I am very very confident that Ardarius Washington's gonna

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Speaker 1: be playing in Baltimore this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And the Ravens have done this with other restricted

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Speaker 3: free agents in the past, and so I think that

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Speaker 3: our Darius, I'm with you. I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 3: playing here next year and going to be really important,

476
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Speaker 3: a really important piece of this defense. The other news

477
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Speaker 3: on the safety front is the Ravens did release Marcus Williams.

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Speaker 3: This was a move that we all kind of knew

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Speaker 3: was coming, and the Ravens talked after the season about that.

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Speaker 3: This was the direction that they were likely they were going.

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Speaker 3: So Marcus gets another chance. We'll get another chance to

482
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Speaker 3: catch on with another team. Obviously, last year did not

483
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Speaker 3: go the way that he of the Ravens wanted. You know,

484
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Speaker 3: his career Baltimore started off red hot after he got

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Speaker 3: that contract and he was on fire. He dealt with

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Speaker 3: some injury game.

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Speaker 2: He had two picks in his first game day.

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Speaker 3: I think four picks in his first three games. I

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Speaker 3: guess guy fine crazy coming out of the gates. And

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Speaker 3: then then injuries happened and they struggled to stay on

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Speaker 3: the field, and then last year just just struggled. So

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Speaker 3: hopefully he get catches on somewhere else and plays good football.

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Speaker 3: But that's the end of his time. Spent three years

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Speaker 3: here with the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Yep, we'll take a break. When we come back, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the work still left to be

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Speaker 1: done for Eric ta Cosa in this front office, as

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Speaker 1: well as.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers are.

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Speaker 1: They've been active, they've been spending some money, so we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the Ravens, AFC and North rival as well.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the last podcast. We're coming to you

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Speaker 3: from the Sea Geek Studio. We also want to mention

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Speaker 3: our partners with Draft King Sportsbook. They are an official

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Speaker 3: sports betting partner of the Baltimore Ravens Draft King Sportsbook.

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Speaker 3: The Crown is yours. So as always, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of stuff happening around the NFL and the Steelers have

508
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Speaker 3: been a busy team in free agency and as of

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Speaker 3: this recording Thursday at eleven am, they have not brought

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Speaker 3: in a quarterback yet, but there's reports that they could

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Speaker 3: bring in Air Rodgers. Russell Wilson is still out there.

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson has probably taken a visit to the Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 3: so not sure where Wilson's gonna end up. But they're

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Speaker 3: still looking Giants and the Giants, so there's there's uncertainty

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Speaker 3: about what the Steelers are going to do at quarterback.

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Speaker 3: But they have brought in DK Metcalf, They have brought

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Speaker 3: in Darius Slay, so they've added some big name veteran

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Speaker 3: players to their team and that their roster has kind

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Speaker 3: of been shaken up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they also signed running back Kenneth Gainwell, who was

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Speaker 1: a backup last year in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: They've lost a bunch of players also, brought in, of course,

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Speaker 3: Milike Harrison to a two year contract to put next

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Speaker 3: to Patrick Queens.

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Speaker 1: So it's that's a sizable move for them. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: So lost They've lost Dan Moore, one of their offense tackles,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Justin Fields, guard James Daniels, corner cornerback Dante Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Now he's replaced by Darius Slay. They lost defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Larry Ogunjobi, wide receiver Mike Williams who played half the

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Speaker 1: year for them, Nogie Harris who was their lead running back,

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Speaker 1: Landon Roberts the linebacker. Basically he got replaced by Malie

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Speaker 1: Harrison and Van Jefferson a backup wide receiver, so very

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Speaker 1: active for the Steelers. And you know, I think the

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Speaker 1: big obviously the big ticket item here is did they

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Speaker 1: land Aaron Rodgers quarterback, because if they don't land Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: it is an interesting quarterback field for them, like and

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Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. I mean, really, what would be quite

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Speaker 1: entertaining would be if Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson both

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Speaker 1: go somewhere. Russell Wilson signs with the Browns or something

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Speaker 1: like that, and Aaron Rodgers goes in the New York

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Speaker 1: Giants and the Steelers are left in this game of

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Speaker 1: musical chairs with nowhere left to sit, no chair, so

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Speaker 1: that that would be quite interesting. But they could we're

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Speaker 1: all on Aaron Rodgers watch basically, yeah.

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Speaker 3: They could look to the drafts certainly, yep, and they.

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Speaker 1: I mean, could they take a shot to Shanor Sanders

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Speaker 1: like a lot of you know, he draft stock where

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get draft that seems to be all over

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Speaker 1: the place. Could he fall far enough for the Steelers

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Speaker 1: to get in the first round? That'd be interesting.

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Speaker 3: That's the tricky part. I mean, should Or Sanders you

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Speaker 3: have seen him. There's there's stuff of him going to

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Speaker 3: and then and then there's stuff of him going at

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Speaker 3: the end of the first round exactly. Not that I'm

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Speaker 3: the draft board expert here, but it was surprised me

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Speaker 3: if he last at the end of the first round,

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Speaker 3: as we're sitting here, that would surprise me.

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Speaker 1: So Steelers aren't drafting all the way at the end

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Speaker 1: of the first round, but.

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Speaker 3: They're not all the way at the end. But but there.

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Speaker 1: You're saying it would surprise you if he got to

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Speaker 1: the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Surprised me if he got to the Steelers, Yes, that

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Speaker 3: would surprise me. Now they could go up, of course

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Speaker 3: I agree with that, But like they they look, they

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Speaker 3: drafted a first round quarterback a few years ago and

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Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett didn't work out, but he was somebody that

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Speaker 3: was there in that spot like the Steelers are.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the same a similar quarterback class. People

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Speaker 1: are saying. I mean, there's cam Ward who probably will

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Speaker 1: go pretty high, but people are like that Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 1: class was not a very good quarterback class and they

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Speaker 1: were able to get the air quotes top quarterback, you

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Speaker 1: know that class at the time, or what people consider

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Speaker 1: to be the top quarterback. Could this be a similar

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Speaker 1: kind of thing for them. Potentially they could.

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Speaker 3: Take a shot. It would not surprise me, I think

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Speaker 3: honestly either way if they end up with bringing back

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson or bringing in Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: Like, they can still take a shot exactly.

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Speaker 3: Did not think that precludes them from taking a first

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Speaker 3: round quarterback. So that'll be their situation is certainly interesting,

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Speaker 3: and then just kind of rounding out the rest of

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Speaker 3: the division. As we talked about, Russell Wilson is still

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Speaker 3: in the mix for of the Browns, So we'll see

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Speaker 3: if he ends up going to Cleveland, he could end

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Speaker 3: up in one of those two teams and the and

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Speaker 3: the Bengals are very much kind of in a holding

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Speaker 3: pattern here on like their big time free agents, There's

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Speaker 3: been no movement on that front. Te Higgins is still

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Speaker 3: they put the franchise tag on him, no movement on

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Speaker 3: a new contract for Jamar Chase, Trey Hendrickson asked for

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Speaker 3: the trade, and no movement on a trade or a

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Speaker 3: new contract for him. So we're all just kind of

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Speaker 3: like and wait and see mode on those those big

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Speaker 3: three for the Bengals, who are all in some sort

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Speaker 3: of contract limbo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and Trey Hendrickson was, you know, granted

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Speaker 1: permission to seek a trade, but apparently the reports are

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Speaker 1: that the Bengals are asking for way too much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, I mean, it's an interesting offseason for them.

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Speaker 1: They basically have to just shell out a bunch of

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Speaker 1: big time deals or or not, and those players are

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Speaker 1: not going to be very happy about it if they don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting. Now moving on to the Ravens and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the work that they have to do,

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Speaker 1: you know, we did. This isn't at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list, but we just got done talking about quarterback situation.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens do need a backup quarterback. I mean they

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Speaker 1: have Devin Leary, who served as their number three last year.

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Speaker 1: I would certainly expect that the Ravens are going to

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Speaker 1: bring in more competition than I would expect a veteran

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Speaker 1: and so who could that be?

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Speaker 3: Well about Josh Johnson, He's so available.

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Speaker 1: Certainly, Yeah, I mean they could bring back Josh Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and you and I both talked about that. Seems like

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Speaker 1: a good option, a fairly likely option for them. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Some other backup quarterbacks on the market right now would

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Speaker 1: be Gardner, Minshew, Jamis Winston, have this name, Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 1: Trail that name, Trey Lance, Snoop, Drew Locke, Taylor Heineke.

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Speaker 1: Those are some of the other names that are out

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Speaker 1: there right now. Snoop would be that'd be interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously a history there.

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Speaker 1: And so I still feel like my gut tells me

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Speaker 1: the most likely route is a reunion with Josh Johnson.

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Speaker 1: But it remains me seen that as an item on

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Speaker 1: the to do list.

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Speaker 3: It is interesting we look at some of these quarter

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Speaker 3: backup quarterbacks get paid, like Marcus marriot To just signed

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Speaker 3: an eight million dollar contract.

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Speaker 1: Going to spend that amount of money on a backup.

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Speaker 3: Quarterback, they're not, But it's just some of these guys

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Speaker 3: get paid. And so I think it's assuming Josh Johnson

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Speaker 3: wants to keep playing, I could still see a reunion

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Speaker 3: there to Huntley is another interesting one, just considering the history.

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Speaker 3: So both those guys, they've got history here, so like

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Speaker 3: they seem like they could it could be a logical

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Speaker 3: fit if they wanted to come here, and that's the

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Speaker 3: direction the Ravens wanted to go. But yeah, the Ravens

641
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Speaker 3: need to add there the other spots too, Like I

642
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Speaker 3: think inside linebacker has become a need with the departure

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Speaker 3: of Malie Harris.

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Speaker 1: And I think with adding Humble it's I wouldn't probably

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Speaker 1: not expect another veteran inside linebacker signing. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: certainly going to draft one at some point, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I see another veteran signing maybe later

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Speaker 1: in this off season, potentially for depth and competition.

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Speaker 3: Yep, cornerback I think is always in the mix, and.

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Speaker 1: Just going back to inside linebacker, they could also bring back.

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Speaker 3: Christian Welch Huh, Yep, totally. And as we've talked about previously,

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Speaker 3: both of us still think that Trent Simpson could end

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Speaker 3: up being a good player for this team, and probably

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Speaker 3: when that starting job next to Roque and then cornerback,

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Speaker 3: I could I could see an addition at cornerback, whether

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Speaker 3: that's a veteran from another team or bringing back someone

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Speaker 3: like Tredavious White who is currently still out there on

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Speaker 3: the market.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think that cornerback is definitely a a big need.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: veteran and it's going to be a highest draft pick there.

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Speaker 2: You need, you need a lot of cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: You can never have too many, So that's probably cornerback

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Speaker 1: and safety are at the top of the list, I

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Speaker 1: would say for the Ravens right now. I mean safety

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Speaker 1: you really have well, I mean you do have. You

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Speaker 1: have SNUSI and bow braids, so you have four under contract,

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Speaker 1: assuming as we said, that Ourt areas Washington stays, which

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Speaker 1: we very much anticipate will be the case.

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Speaker 2: So I'd probably.

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Speaker 1: Say corner is the top need in terms of filling holes.

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Speaker 1: And we've spent a lot of time talking about outside linebackers,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the desire to get some more juice

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Speaker 1: at that position, but you have all of your outside

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Speaker 1: linebackers turning and so there's not a hole to fill there.

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Speaker 1: There's just like you want to upgrade, you want to

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Speaker 1: add some more.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like that's a draft approach.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's a draft approach.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, could there be a veteran

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Speaker 1: that's like still hanging out there on the market. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how they got Jadeveon Clowney in August a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, they got Kyle van Noy midway through the season.

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Speaker 1: You know, like sometimes there just seems to be these

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Speaker 1: veteran pass rushers that hang around. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: that there's a move anytime soon on that front. You know,

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Speaker 1: like maybe somebody shakes loose after the draft that could

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Speaker 1: be of interest something like that. But with such a

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Speaker 1: rich pass rusher draft class, I think that that's the

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Speaker 1: more likely route address addressing it there. Like, if there's

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Speaker 1: one position where you see the Ravens still spending let's

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Speaker 1: say decent money, what would that.

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Speaker 2: Problem corner corner?

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Speaker 3: That would be the one as it stands right now,

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Speaker 3: corner would be the spot that I can see, but

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Speaker 3: like over safety, Yeah, I think that I could see it. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I could see corner over safety as we sit here

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Speaker 3: right now, and I think they will still out of safety.

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Speaker 3: Draft could be a way to get that done. They

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Speaker 3: try to go the free agent route at safety. Last

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Speaker 3: year they could go that route again.

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Speaker 1: They said, signed Eddie Jackson. That was a little bit

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Speaker 1: later later in the free.

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Speaker 3: And he wasn't like a big time break the bank guy,

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Speaker 3: but was They did go the veteran route last year,

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Speaker 3: so I could see that happening in the draft. And

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Speaker 3: they've had some success at plucking some really good corners

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Speaker 3: at good value and who are on the market for

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Speaker 3: one reason or another, like tradevious White well he was

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Speaker 3: a trade or Ronald Darby a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 3: So like, could there be a guy in that category

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Speaker 3: that they could find and bring in? I think that

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Speaker 3: they still could.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: So still more.

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