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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by Draftings. I'm Garrett Downey,

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Speaker 1: joined by Clifton Brown, and today we are so excited

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Speaker 1: to be joined by the Ravens new defensive coordinator. Friend

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Speaker 1: of the program, a long time friend of this organization,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver. Congratulations, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys. I appreciate it. I still can't believe

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Speaker 2: it all. I gotta pinch myself, make sure it's all real.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to you? Obviously you grew up

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Speaker 1: in this organization, player, coach, and you're back here as

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Speaker 1: the DC. What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Oh man, it.

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Speaker 2: Means everything to me, right, just one like this, this

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Speaker 2: place kind of it's kind of my football family first

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Speaker 2: and foremost right there. I have so many relationships here,

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Speaker 2: Like I was such a young puck. It's such a

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Speaker 2: young buck when I got here. And then when I

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Speaker 2: think about the guys that have held this position before me, right,

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Speaker 2: go back to Marvin Lewis, Mike Nolan, Rex Ryan Right,

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Speaker 2: Mink Martindale, Dean ps like Mike McDonald, and I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's just so many coaches that I have a tremendous

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Speaker 2: amount of respect for and to have that same title

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Speaker 2: just means so much to me, and I know the

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Speaker 2: way it carries and just excited to get to work.

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Speaker 1: We were walking down here from your office, we got

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Speaker 1: to stop. I don't know, Cliff, we can probably got

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Speaker 1: stop ten different times, people who are so excited to

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Speaker 1: have back in the building. Is that did it mean

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Speaker 1: more for you to come back here and come back

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Speaker 1: home to that extent.

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Speaker 3: Without question, without question.

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Speaker 2: It's It's one of those things where, yeah, you go

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Speaker 2: to another team, you're gonna work incredibly hard, You're gonna

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Speaker 2: have just pride in your work. Here, it's different. It's

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Speaker 2: more than that, Like there's a transcending feeling because I

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Speaker 2: know I'm not just working for the for the team

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Speaker 2: and for the players, but I'm working for their families

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Speaker 2: who I know right their the wives, girlfriends, like their kids,

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Speaker 3: So so yeah, it absolutely means more.

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Speaker 4: This coaching carasaw was pretty wild this year. Ten ten openings.

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Speaker 4: Your name was being mentioned immediately as one of the

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Speaker 4: guys who.

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Speaker 3: Might get a job.

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Speaker 4: Just curious, how did you've been through the coach of

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Speaker 4: Carrasol before, but how how did you navigate that this year?

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Speaker 4: And is there anything you learned all the process that

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Speaker 4: maybe was a little different this time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I entery for five of the ten jobs,

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Speaker 2: and as you guys can imagine, like after a taxing season,

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Speaker 2: there is nothing easy about that. But I thought i'd

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Speaker 2: put my best foot forward. If I learned anything, it's uh,

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Speaker 2: I'm actually just grateful. I'm just grateful for the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I'm grateful for the experience. And if I'm blessed one

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Speaker 2: day to hold that rule, then then shoot, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: jump at it and I'm gonna do the best job

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Speaker 2: I absolutely can. But I'm on divine timing, man, I

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Speaker 2: don't I don't question the plan. I just trust in

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Speaker 2: so I have complete faith that I'm where I'm supposed

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Speaker 3: Okay, great at TODE.

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Speaker 4: I'm just my I was thought somebody will be smart enough. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I just be honest, Like, So, when that didn't happen,

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Speaker 4: did you pivot immediately to thinking about coming here or

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Speaker 4: contact me through that process?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: So I actually I talked to Jess a little bit

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Speaker 2: prior to the last the last hiring that happened. So

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Speaker 2: I thought this was potentially an opportunity. Just didn't know

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Speaker 2: one of those things where was I disappointed when I

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Speaker 2: didn't get a job. Of course, I think that's natural,

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Speaker 2: but I certainly wasn't defeated, and I would hardly call

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Speaker 2: this a consolation prize, right, So it was one of

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Speaker 2: those things where you have you're a little bit disappointed

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Speaker 2: really because you thought you did your absolute best and

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I think I'm deserving of a job, which

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Speaker 2: it was certainly not a sad moment, right. It was disappointed,

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Speaker 2: not defeated, and then we were celebrating this.

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Speaker 3: So so it's been pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: So you spent the last two seasons in Miami. It's

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Speaker 1: going to a new place, new city, new coaching staff,

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Speaker 2: It was unique, right, It was unique in the fact

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Speaker 2: what I realized is like a football's football, right, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you're in Miami, you're you're in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: If you're talking about the right things, block, destruction, effort, tackling,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna play good defense. That first year

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Speaker 2: in particular, I thought we played out standing.

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 2: I thought we had a little big a little bit

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Speaker 2: But I have the utmost faith in my ability to

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Speaker 1: What's the value in getting that experience? And you go

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Speaker 1: to build it. I don't know, maybe from scratch, you know,

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Speaker 1: to a certain extent, you bring in your system, your identity,

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Speaker 1: and you you're you're run on the show that defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's the value in that? And how do you bring

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I had a tremendous amount of confidence that I was

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Speaker 2: that was a much more challenging situation than this ever

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Speaker 2: was because there I was still coaching defensive line and

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Speaker 2: you're navigating COVID right, a worldwide pandemic. So I knew

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Speaker 2: after I got through that that whenever I got my

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Speaker 4: And this time you're going to be collaborating with Jesse. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Jesse says he's calling a defensive play. So you've had

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Speaker 3: It's still earlier.

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Speaker 4: How do you envision you and Jesse that collaboration, working

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 2: Uh. I come into this with no ego, and I

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Speaker 2: whenever you have that and you get a bunch of

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Speaker 3: Gonna find a way. So I'm just excited.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to pick his brain and talk defensive x'es

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Speaker 2: and o's and play your skill sets and all those things.

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Speaker 2: And I truly believe that the combination of us both

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Speaker 1: So we've You're known as just a great guy a

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Speaker 1: lot of I mean, I talked about walking down the

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Speaker 1: hall and everyone business side, football sides excited to see you.

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Speaker 1: But you also have this nasty issue. You had this

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Speaker 1: quote in Miami during a press conference. Uh, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. You know the quote I'm talking about. Viral, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: viral quote talking about how all of our problems can

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Speaker 1: be solved with violent on the football field.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm old school, I may sit up here, I'm

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Speaker 2: But all of our problems that we need to solve

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Speaker 2: can be soft through violence. Yeah, they want to legislate

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Speaker 2: it out of the game, but we played defensive football.

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Speaker 2: And in defensive football, at some point you draw line

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick my helmet under this guy's chin and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna set the edge. I'm going to violently take.

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Speaker 3: The ball away.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we need to do with a steely

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Speaker 1: People talk to me about that aspect of you and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell guys all the time, like off the field,

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Speaker 2: on field you want to carry that with you. But

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Speaker 2: there also has to be a switch, right. It is

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Speaker 2: So at some point when you cross those those white lines,

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Speaker 2: If you're going to do that in this game, the

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Speaker 2: If you want to take the ball away, Like nobody's

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Speaker 2: trying to convey in that particular moment that that we

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's one of everyone will remember that question.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I'm just to me now, you know, you're at the

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Speaker 4: stage where especially guys this generation, they know you as

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Speaker 3: You know, older.

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Speaker 4: Cats like myself remember both when did the switch flip

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Speaker 4: for you as far as like, hey, this is something

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Speaker 4: some ex players just are like, no, I'm never coaching. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you obviously chose another path. What was it for you.

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Speaker 3: I gotta be honest.

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Speaker 2: For a lot of my playing career I felt that

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Speaker 2: for the majority of my career, I just had incredible coaches, right,

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Speaker 2: and then I just went through a phase of my

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Speaker 2: and I was like, I need to do that to

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Speaker 2: make sure I never see that happen again. So for me,

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Speaker 2: it was a lot of just paying it forward back

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Speaker 2: me to ensure that guys maximizer god given ability, and

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Speaker 2: I thought I could deliver that for players.

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Speaker 1: We have something that Cliff and I just had this

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Speaker 2: I think whenever you're practicing, you want to you want

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Speaker 1: Again, So something a focal point for this team going

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Speaker 1: And that's been something that's been talked about here and

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Speaker 2: We just got to make sure we finish. And I

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Speaker 2: I think schematically, you're always trying to attack protections and

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Speaker 1: What about taking the ball away?

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Speaker 2: It's critical for every football game, so to me, that

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Speaker 3: Ball mentality where I'm going to I'm.

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Speaker 2: Going to strike, rip, rake it, do whatever we can

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Speaker 3: To belong to us.

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Speaker 1: Last one for me is just when you knowing the knowledge,

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Speaker 1: the knowledge you have of this team, this program, what

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Speaker 1: it means to play like a raven all the things

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Speaker 1: that like are kind of foundational to this organization. How

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Speaker 2: Man, So I'm gonna age myself a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you guys remember the mid nineties Nolan richardson Arkansas

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Speaker 2: you're gonna know like you left, you left the fight,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to try to hit everything, move and

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Speaker 3: A hell, it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right around through that wall. Hey man, we really

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Speaker 3: Thanks to you.

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Speaker 2: Free now again, I would have just just better if

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Speaker 3: Nobody told me. Nobody told me, I was gonna be

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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely anytime.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the last podcast we are coming to

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Speaker 1: you from the Sea Keek Studio. We also want to

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Speaker 1: The Crown is yours. Well, big thing. Anthony Weaver, he's

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Speaker 1: the the football mind, the attitude, the like, all that stuff,

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Speaker 3: Agreed.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Weaver he oozes with charisma and yeah, he

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Speaker 4: I mean so yes. For the Ravens to have Anthony

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Speaker 1: Well, if when the Ravens started the process of looking

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Speaker 1: I just think that for all those reasons, it's just

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Speaker 1: something that Ravens fans should be really excited about, right.

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Speaker 4: And you know Jesse Minner, first year head coach, he

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Speaker 4: says he's going to be calling the defensive plays, but

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Speaker 4: he have a lot on his plate during the week.

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Speaker 4: He has a lot on his plate seven days a week.

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Speaker 4: To have someone like Anthony Weaver who can run the

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Speaker 4: defense at practice, who can weigh in heavily on the

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Speaker 4: defensive game plan, is such a help to have someone

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Speaker 4: like that on your staff, so that on Sunday as

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Speaker 4: the play caller, so much of the heavy lifting can

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Speaker 4: be done by Anthony Weaver. So however they want to collaborate,

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Speaker 4: they'll figure out the best way. But when you have

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Speaker 4: as a first year coach, you look down the hall,

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Speaker 4: he comes into the room, or you're in a meeting

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Speaker 4: with Anthony Weaver, to me, that has to be a

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Speaker 4: huge help to you as a first time head coach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree, so couldn't be more excited to

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Speaker 1: have him here involved. It's more great to catch up

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Speaker 1: with him as always. You can email us at the

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Speaker 1: lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for watching and listening, and we will be back

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Speaker 1: with you again soon