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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,

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Speaker 1: December eighteenth. The Ravens are coming off a twenty three

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Speaker 1: the seventh victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday to

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Speaker 1: improve to eleven and three on the season and clinch

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Speaker 1: a playoff spot. It is certainly a good day here

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get any easier for the Ravens as next

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Speaker 1: up they're heading on the road for a Christmas night

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Speaker 1: matchup against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. To recap

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Speaker 1: the win over Jacksonville and also look ahead to the

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Speaker 1: game coming up against the forty nine ers. We had

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk with head coach John Harbaugh on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, good seeing you guys. Appreciate those of you

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Speaker 2: guys who made it down there. It was good to

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Speaker 2: see you last night late and you made it back today,

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Speaker 2: So congratulations through the wind right. So we're very pleased

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Speaker 2: with the victory. It was a big win. It was

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Speaker 2: a big win and important, an important win and a

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Speaker 2: real tough venue against a really good team, and our

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Speaker 2: guys played the kind of football they need to play

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Speaker 2: to win that game, you know, last night and I'm

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Speaker 2: very proud of them for that. We all are as

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Speaker 2: coaches and fans, I'm sure too, So we're excited about

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Speaker 2: where we're at, and then now we're getting pointed towards

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Speaker 2: the next one, which is going to be an even

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Speaker 2: better team, you know, and probably a tougher, even tougher

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Speaker 2: environment out there on Christmas night. So you talk about

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Speaker 2: advent this is the season, you know, for sure, and

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Speaker 2: proud of the guys in terms of how they've handled

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Speaker 2: the December football part of it and how they've carried themselves,

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Speaker 2: how focus they've been, how humble they've been, and you know,

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Speaker 2: giving glory where it belongs. So we appreciate that, but

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Speaker 2: we're focused on the task at hand. What questions you have,

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Speaker 2: John in that second.

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Speaker 3: We I think we talked a little bit last night

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Speaker 3: about the running game and just really you were dominant.

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Speaker 2: But I feel coming on, yeah, when watching the film,

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Speaker 2: why why do you feel that you know that running

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Speaker 2: game was was really so dominant in that second Coffer, Well,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of the nature of the running game, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know you have a chance to you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess you could say where a defense down, but

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Speaker 2: it's harder to stop the run a lot of times.

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Speaker 2: As a game goes on, you start to pick up

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Speaker 2: first downs, you keep a defense on the field. That

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Speaker 2: was a defense that was known for getting people off

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Speaker 2: the field quickly. They were I think leading the league

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Speaker 2: So one of our goals was to to not have

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Speaker 2: that happen, you know, to get to keep him on

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Speaker 2: the field as much as we could. And I think

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Speaker 2: when the time of possession started to add up, it

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Speaker 2: made it more difficult to stop the running. I thought,

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Speaker 2: our guys really just got better and better blocking the

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Speaker 2: run and running the ball, and we popped some runs. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: Keating had some big runs for us, and that's a

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Speaker 2: that's obviously a very very heartbreaking loss for us, but

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Speaker 2: he was a big part of that as well. John.

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Speaker 4: When you were this off season where you were looking

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Speaker 4: for a new offs the coordinated looking for a new offense,

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Speaker 4: how important was it for you to still have the

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Speaker 4: ability to remain an elite rushing that elite rushing attack.

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Speaker 2: It was important. It was important in the sense also

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Speaker 2: to have elements of the rushing attack that we built

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Speaker 2: worked so hard on the last, you know, four years.

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Speaker 2: We didn't want to run away from that run game,

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Speaker 2: and our players understood it. A lot of the players

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Speaker 2: we've been running and they fit our guys really well.

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Speaker 2: So that's one thing that was an important part of it.

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Speaker 5: Coming back to the running game, I'm curious, you know,

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Speaker 5: your players talk about it picking sense whether they're wearing

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Speaker 5: guys down on the other side of the ball. Do

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Speaker 5: you sense that all those coaches as well. Can you

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Speaker 5: get a feel for that when you guys were able

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think on the field, you know, you

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Speaker 2: can't feel. You do feel that type of thing on

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Speaker 2: the field. You really close to the game. You're right

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Speaker 2: there and you can you can talk to the players,

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Speaker 6: Just to follow.

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Speaker 5: Obviously key tough, brutal injury and you're paying more information

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a it's a long term knee h

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Speaker 2: you know. I'm sure he'll be here every single day,

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Speaker 2: you know, with the team and and doing it hard

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 5: Then you you trust the guys who are gonna have

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Speaker 5: to take on more carries with him with them gone

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Speaker 5: them and you talked about it, but I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, did he bring you guys a spark that's going

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Speaker 2: to be not easy to relaze. I'm not in the

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Speaker 2: judgment business about ranking, you know all that. That's that's

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Speaker 2: what you guys can do.

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Speaker 6: John, I know Ronn would be a value ad breaking cushions.

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Speaker 6: And there's Morgan. It was much more of a slip with

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Speaker 6: him and Polly. Where was did Morgan through get through

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Speaker 3: Rotation for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always gonna be those things right now, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean this is December, you know, and there's uh,

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Speaker 2: you got he played really well and I thought Morgan

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Speaker 2: played well. I thought Ronnie played well. We're going against

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Speaker 2: two really good. I mean, obviously those are some power rushers.

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Speaker 2: they had their moments, you know, But but our tackles

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Speaker 2: his moments too. But Daniel played well, you know, that

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Speaker 2: was the thing. Daniel really took it to another level,

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Speaker 2: I thought. And since he was doing well, uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: he got more reps and it was good for us.

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Speaker 2: John After the.

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Speaker 3: Game, Marlin talked about as far as laur and he said,

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Speaker 2: Have you seen that at all with them? Yeah. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of a comparison question that you've been asking over

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Speaker 2: the years that I've never been answering, you know, just

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Speaker 2: because when you answer that question that way, it basically

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Speaker 2: other person isn't isn't is less than the person you're

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Speaker 2: comparing to the same same question you just asked me,

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Speaker 2: And that's why I stay away from mess the fall time,

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Speaker 2: because in the case of Lamar, it wouldn't be fair

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Speaker 2: to answer that question, you know, just and I appreciate

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Speaker 2: but Lamar's Mar has been a great leader in his

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Speaker 2: you know, we grow, we evolved with circumstances change, we

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Speaker 2: find ourselves in a different place. And I've always admired

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Speaker 2: Lamar for every part of what he's doing. And I

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Speaker 2: also understand like all of us, we're all we're all

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Speaker 2: dealing and we're going through things were and we're doing

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Speaker 2: our best. And he's always been that way. He's always

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Speaker 2: done his best, and he's doing his best right now.

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Speaker 2: And I would say this right and he's an A

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Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's taken the team in

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Speaker 2: that sense. You know, he's kind of he's just been.

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Speaker 2: He's been. He's been he's been glue, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: been glue for the guys, and it's it's been great

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Speaker 7: Speaking of Lamar, do you think Monday, not only with

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Speaker 7: the football game itself between two of the top teams,

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Speaker 7: but also Lamar and Party.

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Speaker 8: There's you know, the m v P talk has been done.

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Speaker 8: Could be a referendum on everything is day, not only

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Speaker 8: with your team, but with.

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Speaker 2: Him and Party. Yeah. I haven't thought about that at all.

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Speaker 2: I've given that one moment's thought.

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Speaker 7: John, as you give Charlie Kohler the opportunity on the

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Speaker 7: on the sneak of the players on your roster, and

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Speaker 7: there's a lot of talk about just the play in

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Speaker 7: general of the quarterback sneaks and like the Toush push.

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Speaker 2: Just what is kind of your analysis on.

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Speaker 7: Is that some pitch band or or any what are

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Speaker 7: your opinions.

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Speaker 2: I don't really have an opinion on tush push right now.

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Speaker 2: That's a that's a conversation for the off season. But

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Speaker 2: I was really happy with the way we executed it.

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Speaker 2: the execution of the snap, you know, and he's a

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Speaker 2: big dude, you know, he's an athlete. We had some

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Speaker 2: big dudes pushing him in there, which was nice to see.

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Speaker 2: In our our table, our center and guards are really good.

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Speaker 2: So we've kind of got the tools to run that,

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Speaker 2: you know. And uh, it's the first time we did

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Speaker 2: it in the game, you know. So that's why you're asking, right,

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Speaker 2: And it was really it was great to see because

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Speaker 2: that was a big conversion for us.

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Speaker 3: It was Mark.

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Speaker 2: You did with Mark a few times as well. We

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Speaker 2: did Yep, yep, that's right, that's right, John.

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Speaker 5: Going back to Keaty for one second, there are a

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Speaker 5: couple of reports that it's a cl chair. He just

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Speaker 5: confirm that that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean say, there's there's like

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Speaker 2: ament Teriant, I don't I don't want to get I

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Speaker 2: don't really feel the need to get into all that.

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Speaker 2: You know. If he wants to share that with you,

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Speaker 2: he can, you know, and maybe he will. Going back to.

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Speaker 8: Lamar, do you feel it's legitimate he should be a

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Speaker 8: part of the MVP conversation.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Going back to my other answer, Jerry, it's like I

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Speaker 2: don't really care, you know what I mean, I could

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Speaker 2: care less about any of that, you know, And and

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Speaker 2: the beautiful thing is Lamark and that's either you know.

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Speaker 2: What we care about is the game. On Sunday. That's

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Speaker 2: one thing is for sure. We're gonna be We're we're work.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to try to be one to oh this week,

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the most important week of the season,

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Speaker 2: uh to us and uh just like all these last

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Speaker 2: weeks have been when they've come up, you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's really our it's a singular focus that our guys

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Speaker 2: have that I love, and you know that's the way

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be. You mentioned to leave last night

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Speaker 2: that Melvin Gorton was likely to join the fifty three

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Speaker 2: and play some Keaton Mitchell, I know you he was

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Speaker 2: a couple of games during the year.

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Speaker 4: At this point in career, What does he bring to

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Speaker 2: It's just and with it's a week comparison. You're right,

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Speaker 8: You guys can move to Colleenston all around the field

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Speaker 8: He's done all very well. Is it always? Uh challenge

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Speaker 2: Know, yes, yes, that is really something that is really

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Speaker 4: John, you always say the next game is the most

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Speaker 5: Is that the two best records in the NFL right now?

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Speaker 4: How do you view this matchup and just what are

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Speaker 6: Against the NS.

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Speaker 2: Well? I view it as a really tough game, you know,

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Speaker 2: There'll be a big challenge for us on your offense

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Speaker 7: The last three games have been just tougher sledding. Is

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Speaker 2: and uh, and that's That's that's part of it too.

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Speaker 2: for us, you know, that's something that really is really

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Speaker 5: Before we've talked to when he mentioned Isaiah likely a

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Speaker 3: Since you know, Mark went down, he has been very productiveve.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his body language has been a little

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Speaker 2: Nobody's more coachable. He always when you when you when

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Speaker 8: We're not your film, but from from whether you have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be very interesting. Me

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Speaker 2: Like that baseball that's really important. I mean, that's that's

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Speaker 2: and uh yeah, that's a big part of who we are.

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Speaker 2: Extended plays, what did you see I guess like the

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Speaker 8: But it seemed like most of the gamers that he

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Speaker 2: Perchere setting, wasn't there. Yeah, well, I mean you like

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Speaker 2: great play by both those guys. Other times he just

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Speaker 2: the defense, you know, And that's that's good too. You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you need to be a purist all

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Speaker 2: lot of ways to move the ball and make plays

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Speaker 6: We started up by saying we played the kind of

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Speaker 6: you feel like this team has been particularly good at

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Speaker 2: I do, Yes, That's that's right. That's the thing about

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Speaker 1: team sits at this point of the season and he

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Speaker 1: and then the Dolphins and then the Steelers to close

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Speaker 1: but the Ravens are focused on taking a one game

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