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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. We are

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Speaker 1: thrilled to sit down with Nomdi mat A Bka. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us. And uh, last time you were

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Speaker 1: on the lounge with us, it was fresh off signing

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Speaker 1: your extension.

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Speaker 2: Had your family here. Very cool moment, great day, great day.

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Speaker 1: Uh and you told us that fresh off the extension

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Speaker 1: that you thought you might go to the jewelry store

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Speaker 1: pick up.

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Speaker 2: Something nice for yourself. Just wondering did that come to fruition?

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Speaker 2: Did you get something or what?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got a little you know, three little tennis change.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been seeing Day and Lamar rock and

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Speaker 4: mind and give me a little neck.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I got a little.

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Speaker 2: La Mar's got like the grill that he wears on

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Speaker 2: the gate.

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Speaker 3: Have you thought about it inspiration? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, what what has it been like since thinking that extension?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: How how has life changed for you?

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Speaker 3: You know, you know a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of people have been hitting me up and finding my

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Speaker 4: number somehow. But you know, I think I just try

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Speaker 4: to keep the main thing, the main thing, keep things simple,

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Speaker 4: just keep working hard and just keep developing as just

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Speaker 4: a player and just like more now a leader and yeah,

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Speaker 4: just trying to keep the same focus as I had,

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Speaker 4: you know, the year before the extension. So just trying

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Speaker 4: to keep the main thing, the main thing, and you know,

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Speaker 4: just keep them the tight smart circle tight and just

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Speaker 4: keeping focused.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, does it change after you get a big contract

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Speaker 5: like that in terms of people hitting you up? I mean,

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Speaker 5: you've obviously been in the NFL for a while and

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Speaker 5: so it's not like it's a secret you know that

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Speaker 5: you're in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: But but has.

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Speaker 6: That actually changed in terms of people hit you up

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Speaker 6: or ask you for things?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 4: You know, people are like I guess like nicer or

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Speaker 4: something like that. I don't know what it is, but

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Speaker 4: I don't really put too much attention to it. I

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Speaker 4: just kind of peep it, kind of noticing and just

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Speaker 4: to get it in my head. I just like to

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Speaker 4: just keep the main thing and just focus on just

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Speaker 4: being a great player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is one thing about you that it does

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Speaker 1: really stand out to me?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 1: From my perspective, Like nothing has changed about you, like nothing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you still you're one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that you know, you don't worry like, all right, he

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Speaker 1: gets the contract, is he going to work as hard?

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Speaker 1: Is he going to put everything? Like you absolutely have?

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Speaker 1: You know it was that how intentional was that for you?

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Speaker 1: That you're like, all right, this is gonna make me

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Speaker 1: work even hard because I know we talked about that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the day that you came on and and

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Speaker 1: like how did you go about doing that?

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Speaker 3: How went about it?

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Speaker 1: Was?

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Speaker 4: Like I feel like when you sign a contract with that,

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Speaker 4: a lot of people are in your ear about what

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Speaker 4: you should do, what you shouldn't do, and I think

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Speaker 4: it's upon yourself to like just focus, really are just

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Speaker 4: doing what you did to get them contract that you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, just earn it again, and like

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Speaker 4: that's the mentality. Just earn your respect in the league.

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Speaker 4: You know, Like I always have visions of like, you know,

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Speaker 4: seeing guys that looked up to like talk after the game,

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Speaker 4: I got respect your game like stuff like that that

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Speaker 4: keeps me motivated, like mentally, just you know, sometimes football

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Speaker 4: it's such a long season. You have to be able

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Speaker 4: So yeah, things like that kind of keep me. Like

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Speaker 5: It's kind of interesting because I remember sitting down with

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Speaker 5: you on that day, and of course you're happy and

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Speaker 5: but like there was a part of you that seemed

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Speaker 5: as we were talking to this to this point, like

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Speaker 5: it almost seemed like it added like another chip on

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Speaker 6: I'm even more motivated because of.

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Speaker 5: That, which I was like, wow, that is like the

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Speaker 5: next levels, like next levels three D chess right there.

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Speaker 5: And there's how you're feeling about that contract. How did

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think you know, just my story.

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Speaker 4: I guess like my first three years here in front

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Speaker 4: So then when he left, I was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: I feel like people were like, oh, he's just another

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Speaker 3: I'm really believe himself. I'm really great. I just got

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Speaker 4: And then when I showed her Everyone's like, well, wow, congrats,

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Speaker 4: You know, people like that, I know be hitting me up,

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Speaker 4: like I said, like new numbers and stuff like that

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Speaker 4: about articles. I don't really get that too much attention.

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Speaker 4: But one of them was like one hand in Wonderlse.

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Speaker 4: I was like, man, these people don't know. I'll be

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Speaker 4: training in Atlanta off season like a hot summer. So

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Speaker 4: I'm just like, you know, I need to just stay

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Speaker 4: at a time, don't overthink it. Yeah, things kind of

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Speaker 4: went about it just about how you know, even though

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Speaker 4: I really do this, but actually speak a lot of

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Speaker 4: the words. I just have to keep showing it through it.

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Speaker 1: Well, fresh off a big time game three sacks against

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, Joe Burrow went home very sore, in part.

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Speaker 2: Because of you. He still might be having nightmares a

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Speaker 2: few days later. So what was going so right in

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Speaker 4: I think like on the sideline, like you know a

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Speaker 4: I took my time that day. I was keeping my

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Speaker 4: that night I was just like telling everybody silent, just

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Speaker 4: they were up on us by like a touchdown in

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Speaker 4: getting quet Los sideline. I think I think just saying

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Speaker 4: So you know, I did my best, and you know,

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Speaker 4: Marlin had a great play that's kind of spiked up

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Speaker 4: the whole momentum of the game, and you know, we

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Speaker 3: Is not easy. So I think just just talking to myself,

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Speaker 3: believing in what I'm doing, just and just just playing fast.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, with this football standpoint, like you made the points

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Speaker 5: to me after the game that you felt like and

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Speaker 5: I'm curious about this that like if you basically just

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Speaker 5: so like there's the I guess the mental side of things,

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Speaker 5: the emotional side of things, but like from a football standpoint,

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Speaker 5: was there was it any different in terms of your

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Speaker 3: This specific game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, So you know, bro, he likes

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Speaker 4: to you know, look back and then step up. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so if you if you if you collapse that pocket,

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Speaker 4: where is he gonna step up right right into your arms?

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Speaker 3: So you just collect.

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Speaker 4: If you don't collect, you know, Dov's gonna be a traps,

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Speaker 4: gonna be the like case's gonna be there to collect to.

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Speaker 4: We're in second down, we're on third down, you know,

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Speaker 4: So you know that was the emphasis throughout the whole week.

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Speaker 4: You know, he likes to step up and just try

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Speaker 4: to find Chase down there or one of his targets

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Speaker 4: down there. So it was like just like a step up.

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Speaker 1: It's just so comfortable right with you, I feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, because you're so talented, Like once you get

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's a point in the game,

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Speaker 1: like when you start winning matchups like you were in

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Speaker 1: that Bengals game that like, all right, I'm in unstoppable

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do feel like like, you know, like I'm

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Speaker 4: in in my mode, like I'm going you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean, Like I'm in my zone. You know, I'm

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Speaker 4: a whole sixty minutes.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I tell the whole Old line and D line, you know,

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Speaker 4: when we're a little practice warm up the game, like, man,

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Speaker 4: do y'all got sixty?

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Speaker 3: Man, They're like, yeah, I might not.

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Speaker 4: Man for really, y'all got sixty for me, Like sixty

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Speaker 4: minutes of just hard, smash.

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Speaker 3: Nose like football. Yeah tonight.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, y'all got After we're done,

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Speaker 4: we get the dog, we can go home, see your

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Speaker 4: little auntie, nephew, white kids, whatever you got to do.

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Speaker 4: But like right now, y'all, y'all got sixty. I think

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Speaker 4: that's just my mentality, Like I'm gonna bring my sixty.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I'm depending on you guys too.

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Speaker 4: I know you guys will I'm gonna win this game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know we talked earlier this season, you know,

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Speaker 1: before he had three sacks. He had two before then.

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Speaker 1: And it was a challenge, right like defense defenses or offenses,

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Speaker 1: I mean have adjusted to you. They they know who

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Speaker 1: nom The matabik is loud and clear, and you were

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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of double teams.

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Speaker 2: How hard was that for you to adjust to?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was those pretty frustrating.

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Speaker 4: You know. I have talks with like kV and all

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Speaker 4: these guys that played along with I'm like, damn man,

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Speaker 4: I playing like Noah, Bro, you're getting slidered a lot.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, sure, I don't know, I ain't

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Speaker 3: getting sacks like I was last year. But you literally

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Speaker 3: asked you that not Well yeah, I was.

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Speaker 4: Like, is this something wrong? Like I like, no, Bro,

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Speaker 4: just you're agatst slide. Just don't overthink it because put

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt Robins. Yeah, Robins is one.

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Speaker 6: Of our defensive coaches. And you're saying to him, give

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Speaker 1: How do you view a game against the Steelers? Everybody

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Speaker 4: it comes with smash mouth talking, trash, physical like, showing

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that you say showing no weakness, Like both

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Speaker 6: Did you like watching old tapes?

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Speaker 5: Are you pulling up any old school Ravens, Steelers, Ray

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Speaker 3: But you know if you play like that, now you're gonna.

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Speaker 4: It's just like just a different game that was just fine.

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Speaker 4: Different game now, different game it is, and you just

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Speaker 6: I want to go back to you when you talk about.

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Speaker 5: Eating right, sleeping right, training right, Like you to me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Brea. I'm just like dang, like that just can't

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Right, it's really like really

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Speaker 5: Are you like regimented about during those times that you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I eat like pancakes and like eggs, like

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Speaker 4: I try to keep a smooth regimen, like try to

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Speaker 4: Now I'm playing like a two ninety two eighty eight okay, yeah, like.

441
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Speaker 3: Like ten to fifteen.

442
00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think just not eating like in the

443
00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:21,120
Speaker 4: morning immediately, like kept my weight like down and kept

444
00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,320
Speaker 4: my torchiness there. Still my strength is still there. So

445
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Speaker 4: as long as I'm still strong and still able to

446
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Speaker 4: take those old teen and stay stout, and I feel

447
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,240
Speaker 4: like I can keep shedding. But when it gets too

448
00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,919
Speaker 4: shady where you're getting right over, it's like, okay, you

449
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,000
Speaker 4: gotta put some more.

450
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Speaker 1: Get a problem exactly right right now? How do you

451
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Speaker 1: schedule in it? It's jolliffe, is I pronounced juel rice?

452
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Speaker 4: Yes?

453
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Speaker 2: Yes? How do you schedule that into the regiment?

454
00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:47,160
Speaker 3: Yeah?

455
00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,880
Speaker 4: As long as I got some some chicken or something

456
00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,280
Speaker 4: like that, I'll be good. It's some suspinach, but yeah,

457
00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,639
Speaker 4: that can be like the carb and like you know,

458
00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,880
Speaker 4: like sweet sweet potato fried like sweet potatoes.

459
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

460
00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:03,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I find those like smooth, like healthy, like energetic

461
00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,040
Speaker 4: like carb and stuff like that. Chickens always good. Yeah,

462
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,400
Speaker 4: Beef maybe once a week, you know me, Beef kind

463
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 4: of like feels weird in my system, but chicken for sure.

464
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,560
Speaker 3: And Shydre is huge. Yeah.

465
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I do want to talk for listeners who

466
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Speaker 1: might not know. Jolliff Rice is a Nigerian dish and

467
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Speaker 1: now the obviously with the name change this year, you know,

468
00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,720
Speaker 1: really kind of embracing more of your Nigerian heritage and uh,

469
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Speaker 1: and it's really cool that you're also doing that alongside

470
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Speaker 1: of Odafe and David Ajavo. And so how has that

471
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Speaker 1: process been, Like do you feel not just with your

472
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Speaker 1: name change, but that brotherhood that you have that uh.

473
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Speaker 2: You're more true to your natural self? Do you feel

474
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Speaker 2: that way now?

475
00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:45,320
Speaker 3: I do?

476
00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,520
Speaker 4: I do for sure, you know, Dafe and Jabi always

477
00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,879
Speaker 4: been my brothers. But you know, I think like just

478
00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,200
Speaker 4: being real with yourself. I feel like as I started

479
00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,960
Speaker 4: elevating my career, every year, I just got better and

480
00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,040
Speaker 4: better and better. And as I got better, I started

481
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Speaker 4: like shed away things are just stripped things from me

482
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 4: that didn't mean much like oh, like friends that I

483
00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:09,520
Speaker 4: ain't doing much like video games, like girlfriends and stuff

484
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,719
Speaker 4: like just trying to just really just dial and and

485
00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,920
Speaker 4: see how great I can be in this thing. And

486
00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 4: like I just realized it. Just being real with myself

487
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,080
Speaker 4: just really got me there. And I was just like anyway,

488
00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 4: like you know, in the building, people call me beaks.

489
00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, only really called me justin

490
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 4: that justin Tucker gets got just if somebody says Justin,

491
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 4: like I don't even turn around. I'm never talking to

492
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 4: just talker. People call me beaks. I'm just like if

493
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 4: that's gonna be the case, I'm gonna go like my

494
00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,920
Speaker 4: real name. You know. If my dad calls me like

495
00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,159
Speaker 4: how hey, you know, how did they go, I'm like

496
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 4: good chilling, like try to get that quarterback saying my mom,

497
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,000
Speaker 4: but hey, now how you feeling?

498
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,679
Speaker 3: I'm doing good, mom, I'm doing good chilling. You know.

499
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Speaker 4: So those are my people, and they've always called me

500
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Speaker 4: that since I've been a kid. So I was like,

501
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Speaker 4: you know what, this is my real name. I'm just

502
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 4: Gonta Braced what I really am, and I don't care

503
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Speaker 4: anybody thinks about it.

504
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Speaker 3: It's on mysid, it's my brothertificates though.

505
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Speaker 2: Is how good does it feel like? Does it? Does

506
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Speaker 2: it feel better to you?

507
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,120
Speaker 3: It does? Yeah, it was like it feels true.

508
00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 4: It feels like that thing that we're all missing mentally,

509
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:06,200
Speaker 4: like something just like that.

510
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,119
Speaker 3: Don't feel that void. You know.

511
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Speaker 4: I'm still trying to be hungry and fight for my

512
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,159
Speaker 4: my respect and in my career and all that stuff

513
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 4: and just little things like that. But I think changing

514
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 4: my name to like my real name that I believe

515
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,159
Speaker 4: in my heart is my real name. So I've been

516
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,399
Speaker 4: a kid just really just just kind of like a

517
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 4: liberating feeling.

518
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really cool.

519
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Speaker 4: Was it?

520
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Speaker 5: Did you recognize it when you ran out of the

521
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Speaker 5: tunnel with Nomdi being called out over the PA for

522
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Speaker 5: the first line, Like when you run out of the

523
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Speaker 5: tunnel you hear Namdi mata bk for the first time.

524
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Speaker 6: Did that strike you?

525
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,879
Speaker 4: You know, it's so crazy and in that tunnel, like

526
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 4: the crowd is so loud. I just go out there

527
00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 4: and just fighting. I'm just ready just to go and

528
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 4: just to fight and just to go to war. So

529
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, I think for like the fans

530
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 4: and like my family, they enjoy it, but for me,

531
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Speaker 4: I don't hear.

532
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Speaker 3: I'm just locked in, ready to go.

533
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.

534
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Speaker 5: Last last thing for me is obviously this you know,

535
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 5: this defense. You guys are getting ready to play this

536
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 5: divisional game. I know this defense is not played to

537
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 5: the level overall that you guys as a whole, you

538
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 5: got high expectations. So talk to me about the confidence

539
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 5: that you guys have as a unit that you can

540
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 5: write the ship. You know, there's a lot of good

541
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 5: players on this team, a lot of good coaches that

542
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 5: you guys can write the ship and get the thing

543
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 5: back on track.

544
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Speaker 4: High confidence, you know, as I see it as that

545
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 4: we have like the same guys as we had last

546
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 4: year for the most part, you know, so it's us,

547
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. We are in our own way.

548
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 4: So I have high confidence that you know, if you're

549
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 4: great and you have great inn City, you can find

550
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 4: a way to turn around despite you know, going through

551
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,120
Speaker 4: shortcomings and just not playing that you believe you can.

552
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 4: So it just starts to practice, starts supposed to be

553
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 4: on the same page. And I believe in the guys

554
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 4: because I believe in the last year, the same guys

555
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 4: believing that this year. You know, I believe them as

556
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 4: long as we're playing with each other. So you know,

557
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 4: that's just what it is. We shouldn't put in the

558
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 4: work in practice, all right.

559
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Speaker 1: Last one for me is take me inside of that

560
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 1: brotherhood that you have with Doffin Jabo and what that

561
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: looks like when the three you know, Nigerian guys are

562
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 1: hanging out off the field.

563
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 2: What's that look like. It's cool.

564
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 4: It's just so much relatability, you know, just in terms

565
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 4: of growing up, we go through like our parents like

566
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 4: the same things to us.

567
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Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, your mom.

568
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 4: Said that to Sa to me too, she told me

569
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 4: to leave like and go back home after the lights

570
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 4: was off, and if you don't, you know, you're gonna

571
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 4: get spaced.

572
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 3: All that time.

573
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Speaker 4: I'm just like, man, this is just so funny how

574
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 4: we're just so similar, we're so different at the same time.

575
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 4: So those are my DAGs, those like, those are my dogs,

576
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 4: those are my guys. And being on the same team

577
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 4: in the NFL, like definitely is gonna bring our relationship

578
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 4: to a whole different level after football and just a

579
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 4: beautiful thing. So I'm happy that get to play with it.

580
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 2: And his food, music. What else is it that gets

581
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: rolled up here?

582
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, food for sure, like you know they're there.

583
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 3: It's funny.

584
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 4: They're more heavy on like eating Nigerian food and finding

585
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 4: like Nigerian cuisine out here. I'm more like, man, give

586
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 4: me like a nice burger. Gave me like some popcorn,

587
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 4: Like give me like it's like some ice cream COOKI

588
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 4: you know, I'm straight. I still eat like my Nagerian food,

589
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 4: like you know what I mean. It's just not it's

590
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,439
Speaker 4: not like my automatic go to. But I do have

591
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 4: times where I'm like, man, I'm craving like some old

592
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 4: mom's cooking. I'll find like a nice cruisin out here,

593
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 4: because there's a bunch out here in Maryland. So yeah,

594
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 4: I think that's our music and stuff like that. We

595
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 4: listened to this usually the same music. There's a lot

596
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 4: of guys like burn A Boy and like with like

597
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 4: you know, whiz Kid, all these Nigerian you know, artists

598
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 4: that we we share songs with and stuff.

599
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 3: Like that, and like the beat. But I saw that, man,

600
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 3: just just a smooth brotherhood.

601
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Speaker 2: That's really awesome, awesome cool.

602
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Speaker 1: Well, hey, thanks for joining us and you'll get that

603
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 1: quarterback somewhere man appreciate it.

604
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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're listening to the Lage Podcast. We're coming to

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Speaker 5: you from the Seakiek Studio. We also want to mention

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Speaker 6: The Crown is yours.

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Speaker 5: So enjoyed sitting down with because I think this is

611
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Speaker 5: a guy who's been productive, had a huge game obviously

612
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Speaker 5: against the Bengals, and I think you asked him about

613
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Speaker 5: I think this thing could snowball a little bit for him.

614
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Speaker 5: I think he's got five sacks right now in the season.

615
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Speaker 5: I'm still not ruling out double ditches for him at all.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean he's a supremely talented player, and

617
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Speaker 1: once he heats up, yeah, I think he's going to

618
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Speaker 1: be really hard to stop. And he already has heated up,

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Speaker 1: so yeah. I mean sometimes sacks can come in bunches,

620
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Speaker 1: and maybe you know, we saw it with k Venn

621
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Speaker 1: earlier this year, right he went on a tour in stretch.

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Speaker 1: Is this the beginning for Nomde? I'm certainly not going

623
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Speaker 1: to rule it out.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he could be really good. And also

625
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Speaker 6: getting Travis Jones healthy on that defensive line.

626
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Speaker 2: And that's a big deal.

627
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think it's going to help, and

628
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Speaker 5: I just think he's going to be a really He's

629
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Speaker 5: already a huge player for this defense, but I think

630
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 5: his production is only going to continue to go up

631
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Speaker 5: from here. So the Raves are gonna need him against

632
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Speaker 5: the Steelers this week. They need this defense to play

633
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Speaker 5: at a top level. They need to get after Russell Wilson,

634
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Speaker 5: and a lot of that starts with Matabek.

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Speaker 6: So as always, you can.

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Speaker 5: Email us as a lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Beeks for joining us here today

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Speaker 5: and we will be back with you again later this week.