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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We have the

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Speaker 1: pleasure of sitting down with j K. Dobbins, one of

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Speaker 1: our favorite dudes. I gotta say, and uh, j K,

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Speaker 1: I just want to start here, Like, you must be

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Speaker 1: having a blast right now, you know, like you're back,

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Speaker 1: you're healthy, you're running the ball really well. The team

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Speaker 1: is running the ball really well in general, Like you

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Speaker 1: gotta be having a blast. Yeah, I am. I'm having

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Speaker 1: a big blast. You know. Um, I'm healthy, but not

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Speaker 1: all the way healthy. It's with Asterix. It's healthy Asterix,

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Speaker 1: not all the way back to pre but you're good.

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Speaker 1: My knee is good. I just gotta get my knee

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Speaker 1: back in shape, all the way back in shape, you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's good though I am having a blast. You know,

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Speaker 1: everyone else on the team is having a blast as well,

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Speaker 1: so it's been good. Yeah. How happy are you that

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Speaker 1: you had that scope procedure in the middle of the season,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you're coming back from the major injury

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Speaker 1: and then in the middle of the season you made

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Speaker 1: a decision like you didn't have to do it. You

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Speaker 1: made the decision to have the scope to kind of

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Speaker 1: clean things up and get some more range emotion in there, right,

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Speaker 1: and now it looks like it's pain dividends. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I was like a lot of people don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I got woke up. I got woken up out

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Speaker 1: of my sleep by God to tell me to do that.

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Speaker 1: Like I was sleeping. Um, I can't remember which gaming

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Speaker 1: middle of my sleep, you know, I've been talking to

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Speaker 1: God about it. And I walked up out the middle

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Speaker 1: of my sleep and scope was on mylne like, so

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Speaker 1: I got woken up to tell the doctors that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do the scope, you know. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of people didn't want me to do it, you know,

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Speaker 1: but I just got put on my heart and told

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Speaker 1: me that I needed to do it. And I did

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Speaker 1: it and the first game back, I go for one twenties.

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Speaker 1: So he was the right decision. What does God sound like?

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Speaker 1: Because the booming voice, get the school because all different

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Speaker 1: dresses and that what was what was you said people

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Speaker 1: that some people didn't want you to do it? Like

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Speaker 1: what was the hesitation? Like why not? A lot of

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Speaker 1: people didn't want me to sit out? A lot of

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Speaker 1: people weren't informed on it. You know a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: I thought it would be bad for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: so um, a lot of peop will trying to persuade

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Speaker 1: me not to do it. But I stuck with it.

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Speaker 1: I had to stick I had to stick with it

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Speaker 1: because I wouldn't like me. I wasn't myself. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: myself mentally, my personality wasn't the same because I just

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Speaker 1: wasn't me. Like. Um, it was tough. It was a

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Speaker 1: tough time because I knew my knee wasn't right. I

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Speaker 1: convened and I was out there running like it's kind

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Speaker 1: gotta do this right. How much better do you feel now?

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Speaker 1: Like if you're you know, grading your percentages everybody you

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Speaker 1: know zero? Like what were you before the scope and

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Speaker 1: what do you feel like you're at now? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Before the scope, I was like I play like I say,

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Speaker 1: like se seventy summer somewhere in there. But now I'm

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Speaker 1: probably in the nineties right now. Yeah, in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: right now, I would say, you know, I just gotta

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Speaker 1: it's coming now. You've been pretty upfront about how you

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Speaker 1: feel like you're not at top speed yet, right, But

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Speaker 1: I pulled the numbers on this, okay, because you're still

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Speaker 1: pretty dumbfast, and I'm trying to convince you that I

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Speaker 1: think you're faster than you think you are right now, right,

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Speaker 1: all right, So the seventy two yeard touchdown in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: your rookie year, the season finale, regular season finale, you

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Speaker 1: hit twenty one point to three miles per hour, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're forty four yard or in Pittsburgh you hit twenty

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Speaker 1: point seven, so it's not as fast, right you were

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Speaker 1: one point one six mile prier difference. Can you feel

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Speaker 1: Like you know you've seen it, yeah right, yeah, you've

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Speaker 1: I gotta get back to make me me again, you know,

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Speaker 1: because that's what that's what made me. I could take

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Speaker 1: it eight seventy. It was seventy. Yeah, I don't do

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Speaker 1: that well. I mean I think like a lot of

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Speaker 1: things make you. You You write, and like we're seeing that

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Speaker 1: even since you've come back, like you're like I've said

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Speaker 1: several times on the podcast, I'm like, that's a professional runner.

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Speaker 1: Like that is a professional running back. Like all the

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Speaker 1: finding the right the right lanes, all that stuff, setting

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Speaker 1: my eye, looks like you're doing those little things, seeing

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Speaker 1: like so you wanted to make plays all the time.

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Speaker 1: It seems like you're The mental side of being a

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Speaker 1: running back is better now than it was then. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I definitely more more mature as a runner, you know.

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Speaker 1: my rookie year, I didn't know I was gonna get

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Speaker 1: I was kind of pricing a little bit. But it

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Speaker 1: But like you said, that now more mature as a runner,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, when you have that long speed

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Speaker 1: you know, like and you're just kind of setting things

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Speaker 1: that at patients in that vision like something that you

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Speaker 1: feel like has elevated. Yeah, yes, uh yeah, definitely. You know,

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Speaker 1: just getting used to the NFL game, you know, um

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Speaker 1: just you can see it, you know, and um the

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Speaker 1: and um, I appreciate those guys. So it's been it's

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Speaker 1: been fun. You know, I'm gonna keep getting better though,

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Speaker 1: I know. Yeah. Well, it's it's like you know, with

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Speaker 1: giving credit to the guys up front, Like that's one

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Speaker 1: of the things that you often do. Every everybody does,

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Speaker 1: and you're smart smart man for that. And with that said,

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Speaker 1: the way you and Gusts are running. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, I don't know who's stopping this running

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Speaker 1: the coach calls, We'll try to make the best of it. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: so I want to go back You've been really transparent

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Speaker 1: what was going through j K's mind in that moment? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest. What was going through my mind? It

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Speaker 1: it would have been a lot better that last year.

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Speaker 1: We would have been better as a team, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Just think about that. I would have been better as

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Speaker 1: it was the hardest year of my life. Not not

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Speaker 1: what was the first step, you know, like, obviously you

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Speaker 1: then like the rehab process I had. I never had

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Speaker 1: And so that was tough and everything, every little step

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Speaker 1: after we're hearing from JK. I always enjoy talking to JK.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just like a straightforward lots of emotion.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's got a great personality. Like it's easy

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Speaker 1: I bet he would have said Ohio State's gonna win,

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Speaker 1: game breaking ability from the time he was a freshman

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Speaker 1: places as a freshman. He was like, oh, this guy

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Speaker 1: is the next grade Ohio State running back. And then

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Speaker 1: he lived up to that, and I think that, like

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Speaker 1: he's just always been a player, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: why it's tough for him to not have that top

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Speaker 1: end speed right now. It's like when he sees green grass.

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Speaker 1: His entire life, it's been households, and so now that

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Speaker 1: he's not there quite yet, I think it's difficult. But

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Speaker 1: I think he's on his way. I mean, I'm just

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Speaker 1: really encouraged. Why everything that I'm seeing from him, I

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Speaker 1: think that's like, you know, his ability to kind of

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Speaker 1: work on the It's like, you know, he worked basically

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Speaker 1: on a short game. You know, it's like he worked

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Speaker 1: around the screen and he has the vision and he's

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Speaker 1: reading defenses, and he knows how to have patience and

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Speaker 1: he k knows when to hit the whole And I

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Speaker 1: think that that is going to take his game to

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Speaker 1: another level. And then once that spee comes back, he

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Speaker 1: knows how to run, like he knows how to break

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Speaker 1: things open once he's in the open field. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just really encouraged by hearing from him that he feels

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Speaker 1: like the doubts, you know, I felt bad for him

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Speaker 1: just on a personal level. I think, oh gosh, heartbreaking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think everybody in the organization. Everybody felt really bad

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Speaker 1: for him. I mean, I drafted the guy on every

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Speaker 1: single one of my fancy teams last year. He was

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Speaker 1: gonna have a monster season. He was gonna have a

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Speaker 1: I was like a million times convinced that he was

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Speaker 1: going to have a monster sophomore season. And Uh, to

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Speaker 1: see that all dashed, you know, right before the season starts,

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Speaker 1: was a tough pill to swallow. And I just think

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Speaker 1: that I'm happy that he's going to get a chance

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Speaker 1: to you know that he basically has gotten back to

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Speaker 1: this point, um, and I think that as I sold him,

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a He is going

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Speaker 1: to be a huge piece of this team's success. Slice

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Speaker 1: if the Ravens go on a run, Okay, if the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: if we're sitting here talking about the Ravens in the

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Speaker 1: n f C Championship or the Super Bowl, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be talking about j K. Dobbins rushing for a hundred

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Speaker 1: yards every game. I really think that. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't think it has to be that, but I think

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Speaker 1: we're absolutely going to be talking about him being a

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Speaker 1: star as Gus rush for hun exactly. That's what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: like if each of them rushed for night, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty darn good eighty whatever, and Lamar puts up

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Speaker 1: fifty sixty, that's pretty darn good rushing attack. Like, but yes,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely think that like as j K only gets stronger, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think all Ravens fans are looking at

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Speaker 1: team right now and saying, how can we get to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl? Like, and you know they're not scoring

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Speaker 1: many points right now, and but you never know what's

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Speaker 1: gonna get you hot. I mean the most important piece

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Speaker 1: of that is Lamar's return, right, and if if the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna make it's the super Bowl that I

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Speaker 1: think it means Lamar comes back and Lamar plays really

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Speaker 1: well in this offense catches fire a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: And a big piece of the offense catching fire and

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Speaker 1: getting better is also j K. Dobbins being cut the

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Speaker 1: leader in in some regard. Uh in that way, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. So I'm I'm optimistic about him and both

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Speaker 1: short term and long term. So you know, big game

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Speaker 1: this week against the Steelers. Um, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, I think everyone has kind have been like

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Speaker 1: a Steelers gonna miss the playoffs. They're gonna finish the

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Speaker 1: losing record. The Ravens have a chance to guarantee that

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Speaker 1: they had their first losing record under Mike Tomas hasn't happened.

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Speaker 1: That this is an opportunity to the Ravens win this week,

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Speaker 1: then the Steelers have a losing record and their playoff

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Speaker 1: hopes are done. I don't I don't think that the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are really thinking about that. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: are really being like, of course we want to make

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Speaker 1: sure tom One has his first losing season. They don't

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Speaker 1: care about that. They just always want to be the Steelers. Well,

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Speaker 1: they also want to win the division. And yes, so

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Speaker 1: the best first and foremost is like I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Ravens don't necessarily just lay it all out there, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens don't necessarily have to beat the Steelers. Still

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Speaker 1: when the division. If the Ravens lose and the Bengals lose,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals play the Bills this week, Monday Night on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, Right, So going into the game, the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: we have to win because we don't know what's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen with the Bengals. Um if both teams are to lose,

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Speaker 1: then the NFC North title will still be determined in

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati in the regular season finale. But like we just

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals win, then it's done. Then it's done exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta handle your business and and then hope

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Speaker 1: that you still have a shot. If they do handle

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Speaker 1: their business, they will have a shot. The other thing

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Speaker 1: to just to get kind of in the weeds of

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Speaker 1: playoffs seating, Like you've seen some fans out there to say, like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I kind of want the five, you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like the matchup against the Tennessee or Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: You finishes the wild card, you go on the road,

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Speaker 1: but you play one of those teams versus playing at

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Speaker 1: home as the three and then welcoming Miami or the

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Speaker 1: Chargers or the Bengals to town. Okay, well, I understand

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Speaker 1: that I get elements of that, but it's not a

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Speaker 1: guarantee that the Ravens would end up as a five.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Chargers potentially could. If the Ravens lose.

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Speaker 1: I think if they end up tied with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: the Charges are one game behind the Ravens right now,

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Speaker 1: then the Chargers would win the tiebreaker and get the

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Speaker 1: high higher seeds. So if the Ravens lose one of

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Speaker 1: these last two games and the Chargers don't and they

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Speaker 1: have I think who do they have? Yeah, they not

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Speaker 1: MS and the Broncos and the Rams exactly, and so

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Speaker 1: like they'll be favored him to win both those games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so it's all I'm saying. You know, now, if

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Speaker 1: Jenna is a sixth seed, you're playing the Bengals on

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Gosh, that'd be crazy back to back weeks

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Speaker 1: or whatever. The Bills are the Chiefs potentially, Um So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just think don't like that scenario. Yeah. I like

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Speaker 1: winning out Yeah, Yeah, Like I just think it's always

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Speaker 1: it's always like easy, like with a month left of

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Speaker 1: the season to like project out the rest of the

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Speaker 1: way and be like, Okay, this is we're gonna play

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Speaker 1: like I'd rather Tennessee. That's whatever we're saying. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: like you know now why Jacksonville actually Okay, now it

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Speaker 1: might be tending the Bengals, like it's easy to play

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Speaker 1: things out with them. What I've been saying, it's like

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see when we get there kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, exactly. So in terms of this week's game, Um, look,

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Speaker 1: I think the this is gonna be my expectation, classic

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Speaker 1: Ravens Steelers hard funk game. Probably decided by three points

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Speaker 1: or less. Probably that's the that's fourteen. The last time

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Speaker 1: these two teams played, the Steelers moved the ball like

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Speaker 1: they had some success moving the ball. What the Ravens

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Speaker 1: did well was opportunity to turnovers. Now, the big difference

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Speaker 1: this week will be that, you know, Kenny Pickett was

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Speaker 1: knocked out of that game early with a concussion. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's playing well, just led him to a comeback win

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders. So you know, I think their offense

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Speaker 1: is feeling pretty confident right now coming into this game.

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Speaker 1: Pickets playing You know, how will the Ravens with a

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Speaker 1: full game against rookie, how will this defense fair? Mr

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Speaker 1: r Whisky was playing pretty well outside of the picks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's a big you know, but they're three interceptions.

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Speaker 1: But like he was slinging the ball around. You know,

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Speaker 1: do the Ravens uh this Strabisky or not pick it?

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Speaker 1: You know, throw it as much as as Strubisky was. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be really interesting both teams feeling good.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tight type battle, I think. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course, the big question that everyone wants to know

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Speaker 1: is lamar Jack's gonna say, We'll see. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: the how practice goes over the course of this week,

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Speaker 1: and that's probably gonna be a question mark. We're taking

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday before practice, so we're not sure if he's

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Speaker 1: out there for practice yet today, So I don't know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. What I do know is that J. K.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins is going to be a future part of it.

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Speaker 1: So is the gust Bus. And I think the Ravens

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Speaker 1: will continue to lean heavily upon this rushing attack. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as always, you can email us with the lounge at

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Speaker 1: Ravens dot NFL dot net, send us your questions, your thoughts,

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Speaker 1: and we look forward to this game against the Steelers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get ready for the