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Speaker 1: Bulcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. We are thrilled

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Speaker 1: to sit down with linebacker Patrick Queen, a friend of

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Speaker 1: the Lounge multi time guests. And I remember the last

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Speaker 1: time you were on, you were talking about how you

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Speaker 1: wanted all the smoke, you want it all from this season,

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Speaker 1: and you got it and you dished it right back right.

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Speaker 1: And now everybody's talking about all the Texans. CJ Stroud,

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Speaker 1: he's hot. You know, people, you know, they haven't seen

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Speaker 1: the Ravens play like a real game since Miami. I

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Speaker 1: think Baltimore fans are feeling a little nervous right now,

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Speaker 1: right and they saw the Texans blow out the Browns.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming it still stands that you want all the

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Speaker 1: smoke and you're kind of glad that they're playing.

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Speaker 2: Well most definitely, you know, give all those guys credit

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Speaker 2: on the next side. You know, they they earned it.

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Speaker 2: They went in there, took care in Cleveland. You know,

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Speaker 2: CJ is looking great right now. You know, the whole team,

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Speaker 2: they look like they're playing together. You know, people around

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Speaker 2: out at the stack, helping people up off the ground.

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Speaker 2: You know, all that just teammate stuff. But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, you know, you know how we come,

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Speaker 2: We coming ten toes down, locked together, orange, locked together,

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Speaker 2: all that stuff. Man, we just were ready, We were ready. Uh,

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Speaker 2: everybody's locked in, everybody asking questions, everybody is just locked

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Speaker 2: in on the tasking hand and just ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, can you talk about the vibe around this

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Speaker 1: team right now, Like, what's what's the feeling inside the

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Speaker 2: Uh, there's so much confidence. Uh almost cocky, almost cocky almost,

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Speaker 2: but it's definitely Uh, you know, everybody's movable about it.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows the tasking and what we can't accomplish and

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Speaker 2: the stuff that we can do. But it's also a

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Speaker 2: realization that we don't take care of business, you know,

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Speaker 2: well it'll be all for nothing. So everybody's locked in.

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Speaker 2: It's just electric right now.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it seems like all year the Defense has really

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Speaker 3: had this aura swagger, confidence, bravado, whatever word do you

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Speaker 3: want to use to describe it.

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Speaker 1: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's just we know how we could play, we

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Speaker 2: know what we're capable of, we know what we could do,

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Speaker 2: and everybody just want to be great. Everybody want to win,

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Speaker 2: and we all got that common goal. And when you

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Speaker 2: got the group of guys that we got to all

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Speaker 2: care about each other, don't care who make the play

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Speaker 2: as long we all make the play, and just want

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Speaker 2: to win. So when you got a team like that,

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Speaker 2: that's what we're doing right now. That's why we look

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Speaker 2: the way we look right now.

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Speaker 3: I know it's always, especially in Baltimore, it can be

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Speaker 3: a little blasphemous to compare any defense to the two

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Speaker 3: thousand defense, you know, which is widely regarded here at

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Speaker 3: least as the best defense of all time. But I

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Speaker 3: know there was the bol The Boys of Baltimore documentary

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Speaker 3: last year and it kind of focused on not just

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Speaker 3: but the personalities, the brashness, the trash talk, all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: And when you step back, you know, twenty years later,

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Speaker 3: loved all that, And I think that there I get similarities.

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Speaker 3: The play is great, but I also think that like

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Speaker 3: the way that you guys as a defense carry yourself

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Speaker 3: Do you think it's important to have that type of

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Speaker 2: You definitely do. Uh, it's one thing, Like it's just

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Speaker 2: it's just how you walk on the field, how you

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Speaker 2: carry yourself like that still all that still translates to

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Speaker 2: the game, Like you just can't be one way off

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Speaker 2: whole another way. Like they got to be just in you.

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Speaker 2: Like it has to be portrayed through your everyday life.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not saying go out and be you know,

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Speaker 2: have that in the back of your mind at all times,

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Speaker 2: just being able to know how you can flip that switch.

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Speaker 2: And I think every person on our defense has that

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Speaker 2: taking anything away from the two thousand defense, the game

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Speaker 2: is a little different now, Like it's a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: stuff that we got to deal with and we can't

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Speaker 2: So I think when you got a bunch of dogs

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Speaker 1: Now Week one against the texts. Obviously we won that game.

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Speaker 1: How did you come out of that game feeling about

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Speaker 2: I always believe in CJ ever since. I think me personally,

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Speaker 2: I want him to go number one in the draft. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I think he was the best quarterback in that draft.

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Speaker 2: So I'm a huge c J. Stroud fan. But after

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Speaker 2: the game, I definitely I think I might have sit

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Speaker 2: in an interview, posting an interview or something that he

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Speaker 2: was gonna be great, Like you could tell like he's poised,

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Speaker 2: just he can make every single throw in the field,

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Speaker 2: even on the run across his body, just flicking his wrists,

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Speaker 2: money and stuff, and you know you gotta gi him credit. Uh,

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Speaker 2: He's definitely not playing like a rookie right now. So

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Speaker 2: I definitely got a lot of respect, fro him.

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Speaker 1: So does that does that get you excited? Like me,

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Speaker 1: I'm always like, give me the worst quarterback. I want

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Speaker 1: the best matchup for the Ravens. Give me the trashiest quarterback.

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Speaker 3: What do you feel.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we get the worst quarterback? Bro? Stuff goes? So

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Speaker 2: what it is about us when we'll get the worst quarterback?

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Speaker 2: We don't play good? I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 2: but me personally, I think it is exciting because you

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Speaker 2: you got to go out, then that's that's the way

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Speaker 2: you gotta go out. But I don't think we're going out.

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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna, you know, up uplift the standard

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Speaker 2: of what we're doing all season and just get after them.

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Speaker 1: And people are obviously talking about all the strides that c. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud has made over his rookie season, but this defense

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Speaker 1: has also gotten better. In what ways do you see

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Speaker 2: I think when you look at from the whole season,

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Speaker 2: miscommunic miscommunication errors and that's what led to you know,

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Speaker 2: plays being made by other teams, and I think as

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Speaker 2: you look now, it's over communicating on everything. Everybody's just

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of moving pieces around our defense,

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Speaker 2: we are now.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're a huge part of the reason why this

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Speaker 3: defense has been so good. You're you've had the best

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Speaker 3: season of your career up to this point. How would

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Speaker 3: how well you think you've played.

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Speaker 2: It's been exciting. Just there's a lot of players that

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Speaker 2: I missed that I really won't back stats wise, goals

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Speaker 2: wise that I missed. But as far as like just

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Speaker 2: you know, doing everything that I wanted to do. Accolades,

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Speaker 2: be there for my team, and be a better team,

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Speaker 2: may be more vocal, be a better leader, I think

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Speaker 2: I hit all those things. So now it's just the

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Speaker 2: point of me just being there for my brothers, doing

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Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to do, being I got it. It

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Speaker 3: It's interesting, like a lot of teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 3: I think are in today's league. You kind of reference

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Speaker 3: it passing league like they're built from the outside end,

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Speaker 3: like great corners, great secondary, and linebacker is not really

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Speaker 1: I think it's changing in the past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: It's starting to change, but maybe it probably helped you.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what by point like, I think that I

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Speaker 3: think that, like you look at what you guys have

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Speaker 3: you are changing that perception or narrative that like, No, actually,

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Speaker 3: you built from the inside out and if you have

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Speaker 3: two great linebackers that can make them all the difference

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Speaker 3: in the world for your team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Uh. You can kind of see them in

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Speaker 2: the playoff with the teams that lost, like people throwing

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Speaker 2: one thing that me and Roe uh kind of stopped

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Speaker 2: it's all about a learning proces, a learning aspect of

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Speaker 2: honestly tough than today's game with all the stuff that's

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Speaker 2: do what we do. But definitely think nowadays you've got

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Speaker 2: to have two good inside linebackers that could control both aspects.

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Speaker 1: Personally, for you, what kind of I don't know, if

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Speaker 1: it's a weight off your shoulders or what was the

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Speaker 1: emotional feeling of being a Pro Bowl or being an

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Speaker 1: All Pro something that you've been striving for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first two days, I ain't a lie. It was

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Speaker 2: just like mind blowing, honestly, because it's not as much

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Speaker 2: as like, yes, like I just accolated like like a

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Speaker 2: trop for us something. It's more of like people around

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Speaker 2: of it. But after those two days, I was just like, okay, whatever,

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Speaker 2: like let's go win something. So you know, it's definitely

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Speaker 2: is enjoyable. By the same time, it's just another thing.

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Speaker 3: I first of all, let me put it on the record,

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Speaker 3: I hope that you are here in Baltimore for a

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Speaker 3: very long time. Okay, long time, all right, not going anywhere.

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Speaker 3: But as you know as well as anybody, that this

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Speaker 3: is the last year of your contract, how do you

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Speaker 3: look at this playoff run? Do you view it as like, hey,

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Speaker 3: this could be it. We need to go win this thing,

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Speaker 3: because it could be it, Like how are you mentally

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Speaker 2: Everybody know how this team is and the people that

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Speaker 2: we've got in, the people that might be going and stuff,

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Speaker 2: so we definitely look at it like it's a one

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Well, thank you for joining us. Peak you best

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Speaker 1: So really fun to talk to Patrick Queen, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: the big question. Ready to hit unrestricted free agency this offseason,

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Speaker 1: Obviously, I think Justin Mattabikue plays into all of this

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Speaker 1: And so it's a tough, tough choice that the Ravens

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Speaker 1: Look, the Ravens have hit on a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: weapons put on the field together. But I just get

433
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Speaker 1: the sense that this team is really locked in, really

434
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Speaker 1: dialed in. And I do like the week of preparation

435
00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,440
Speaker 1: that the Ravens had in the week of practice, going

436
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Speaker 1: down to the stadium and simulating what it's like to

437
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Speaker 1: be in that game day mindset. I like how they

438
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Speaker 1: approach the bye week. So I honestly think I get

439
00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,560
Speaker 1: more of the sense that they're just going to explode

440
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Speaker 1: coming out of this game. Then I'm fearful of RUSS.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think one thing that would be really nice,

442
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Speaker 3: and I'm not saying it this is the end, I'll

443
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Speaker 3: be all, but it would be really nice, really nice

444
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Speaker 3: to just start the game high. Oh and you can

445
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 3: say that every single game. That's probably the case. But

446
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,800
Speaker 3: like if you come out there and you jump out

447
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 3: to an early lead, get points on your first drive,

448
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Speaker 3: like all that stuff is all that like nervousness of

449
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,600
Speaker 3: RUSS to nineteen and all that stuff, it's like, okay,

450
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Speaker 3: collective exhale. Now you can just go play the rest

451
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Speaker 3: of the game and.

452
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Speaker 1: Then it's just like all right, the Texans, you know,

453
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 1: the Textans are on a roll right now. The Ravens

454
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Speaker 1: go down the field and score on their opening drive, whatever,

455
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,440
Speaker 1: get a three and out on defense, Like okay, now

456
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 1: the Ravens are the team on the roll. Yeah, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: it can flip that fast in a game. And I

458
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Speaker 1: think that Todd Monkin's going to have it dialed up

459
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Speaker 1: early in this game. I think he's probably thinking the

460
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Speaker 1: same way that starting fast and making sure that we

461
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Speaker 1: put that twenty nineteen and slow starts and rust out

462
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Speaker 1: of the Ravens mind early in this game is going

463
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Speaker 1: to be paramount.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I also will say, in the event that

465
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Speaker 3: the team doesn't start fast, I still like this team's ability.

466
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Speaker 3: And I think this is one of the main things

467
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Speaker 3: that's different about this team is that compared to nineteen

468
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Speaker 3: is that this team has so many different avenues to

469
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Speaker 3: a victory. And if they do fall behind early, they

470
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Speaker 3: have the weapons on the outside, They have the passing

471
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Speaker 3: game to climb.

472
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Speaker 1: Afintely better equipped for a comeback. Now. I have heard

473
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Speaker 1: they've not been behind much of this season. No, really,

474
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Speaker 1: the game was against the Rams, fourth quarter, about five

475
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Speaker 1: minutes left to go, You're down five points and or

476
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Speaker 1: four minutes left to go, So they've done it. That

477
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Speaker 1: ensuing drive, Lamar Jackson went down the field scored a touchdown,

478
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Speaker 1: winning over time. But they haven't been in that position

479
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Speaker 1: a lot. I do think that they're just a more

480
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Speaker 1: mature team than they were then. You know, Lamar Jackson's

481
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Speaker 1: a more mature player. They're just more veteran. I mean,

482
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Speaker 1: you think back to how young a lot of the

483
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Speaker 1: key players were that year, especially on offense. Mark Andrews

484
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 1: was also in his second year. You know, Gus Edwards

485
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Speaker 1: second year, and so.

486
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Speaker 3: You had Hollywood Brown was Hollywood Brown was a Rason,

487
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Speaker 3: he was a rookie exactly.

488
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Speaker 1: You had a lot of really key young players on

489
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Speaker 1: that team that I think against the Titans, when the

490
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: Titans jumped out, it was kind of like, what the heck,

491
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Speaker 1: we have not felt this because the Ravens just kept

492
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Speaker 1: jumping out to these huge leads, Which is another difference

493
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Speaker 1: between this team and twenty nineteen. Right, the forty nine

494
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: Ers and Dolphins games both got out of hand, but

495
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Speaker 1: they were pretty close for at really the first half

496
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Speaker 1: of the forty nine Ers game, and then the Ravens

497
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Speaker 1: had this incredible third quarter and that was a close

498
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Speaker 1: game at halftime. Yeah. Yeah, the Dolphins game, it was

499
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Speaker 1: midway through the second quarter when the Ravens stomped on him.

500
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Speaker 1: But it was a really close quarter twenty nineteen, they

501
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Speaker 1: were just getting up fourteen twenty one. Nothing on teams. Yeah, first, yeah,

502
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Speaker 1: boat racing.

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Speaker 3: I look, I think there's I agree with all the

504
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Speaker 3: differences that you mentioned, and like, I'm not going to

505
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Speaker 3: hold it against and I know you're not saying this,

506
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 3: like the fact that the Ravens haven't had to come

507
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,880
Speaker 3: from behind very often this year, Like that's not a negative,

508
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 3: that's a positive. But I think that they're better equipped

509
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 3: if they need to do that. They have a more

510
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 3: complete passing game, they have better weapons, and they have

511
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Speaker 3: more avenues to win, and this defense is much better.

512
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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: And Patrick Queen is going to be a huge piece

514
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Speaker 3: of that. The other thing too, that I think is

515
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Speaker 3: worth mentioning, it's just some injury updates. So we have

516
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Speaker 3: some clarity on the injury front. It's never crystal clear,

517
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 3: you know, going into a playoff game, but we have

518
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Speaker 3: a little bit more clarity based on the team's practice

519
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, Zay Flowers was back at practice, which I

520
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Speaker 3: thought was a great sign. He was a limited participant,

521
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 3: but he was on the field and so he did

522
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 3: not practice at all last week, did not play in

523
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Speaker 3: the season finale against the Steelers. Say Flowers had a

524
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Speaker 3: huge game in Week one against the Texans, so he's

525
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Speaker 3: back up the field, which I think is a really

526
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Speaker 3: good sign. A dafe Oway also back on the field

527
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Speaker 3: and he said that he's playing.

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Speaker 1: He told reporters that there's no way he's going to

529
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Speaker 1: miss miss the playoffs. So I like the news. Yep,

530
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Speaker 1: who else do we got?

531
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Speaker 3: Marlon Humphrey was not on the field on Tuesday. We'll

532
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Speaker 3: see how the rest of the week it progresses for him.

533
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Speaker 1: Well, Malie Harrison also returned to action, So Marlon Humphrey

534
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Speaker 1: del Sean Phillips were still out in Tylan Wallace. Those

535
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Speaker 1: are the three Ravens that were not practicing on Tuesday.

536
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Speaker 1: Marlon Humphrey, obviously that's a big deal. We'll see it

537
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Speaker 1: as of taping this. We're taping this before Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 1: If we see him out there on Wednesday, that would

539
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Speaker 1: be a big deal. And then the other guy is

540
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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, the big Dog, the big dough and so

541
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Speaker 1: Mark return to practice for the first time on Friday,

542
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Speaker 1: was again out there on Tuesday, and John Harball said

543
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Speaker 1: he took a big step forward in Tuesday's practice. Again

544
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Speaker 1: a limited participant, but you see him moving around during

545
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Speaker 1: the portion of practice open to reporters, and it looks

546
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Speaker 1: like the same old Mark. And I seriously, he made

547
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Speaker 1: a lead being catched in front of reporters and you're like, okay,

548
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Speaker 1: Like this guy doesn't look limited at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was. I was sitting there with with

550
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Speaker 3: Cliff on uh if Yeah, there you go. I was

551
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Speaker 3: sitting there watching practice with Cliff and I said, you know,

552
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Speaker 3: if if you didn't know, and I said, which guy

553
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Speaker 3: is coming off ankle surgery? Who would you guess? I

554
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Speaker 3: don't think Mark would be high in that list. No,

555
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Speaker 3: Like you wouldn't say, oh, clearly he's walking with a limp,

556
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: and like he.

557
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Speaker 1: Mark maybe better physically than some of the guys had

558
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Speaker 1: been playing the whole time that are just coming banged up, Like, yeah,

559
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Speaker 1: he might be a little fresher than those guys.

560
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Speaker 3: Like he looks he looks good. Now, what we don't

561
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Speaker 3: know is how it feels after practice, and we don't

562
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Speaker 3: we have no idea how much pain Mark is in

563
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Speaker 3: at practice. He would never admit to it. You know,

564
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Speaker 3: even I think if he was in pain, but so

565
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Speaker 3: we don't know that. Like there's questions of course that

566
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Speaker 3: are that are up in the air. And at this

567
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Speaker 3: point the Ravens, John Hardball, Mark Andrews have not said

568
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Speaker 3: whether he's going to play on Saturday. We're guessing we

569
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Speaker 3: don't know. At this point. He looks good well. He

570
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 3: has not yet been moved to the fifty three men roster.

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Speaker 1: They have cleared spaces. They cleared two spots on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man rosters. So take that for what it means.

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Speaker 1: What do you think it might mean.

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Speaker 3: The other thing I do think is worth mentioning on

575
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Speaker 3: the two spots that are now open on the fifty

576
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Speaker 3: three men roster. The other one who is back at

577
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Speaker 3: practice who's really kind of flown under the radar is

578
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Speaker 3: Devin DuVernay. He went down with a back injury during

579
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Speaker 3: the season and the game that Tyland Wallace against the

580
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Speaker 3: Rams ended up returning that punt he went on ir

581
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Speaker 3: He has returned to practice and they do have two

582
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Speaker 3: spots Tylan Wallace did in practice, so they might just

583
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Speaker 3: be in a situation if Thailand is hurt and not

584
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: able to go, they could just do the flip exactly,

585
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Speaker 3: and then move Thailand to IR and activate Devin Duperney.

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Speaker 1: Or or Thailand just doesn't play an there, or he

587
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Speaker 1: just Descritch put Thailand on IR. Yeah, you haven't use

588
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Speaker 1: that roster spot right now. And then Dalvin Cook is

589
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Speaker 1: on the practice squad with three elevations that you can use.

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Speaker 1: He could remain on the practice squad for the remainder

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Speaker 1: of the season. You'll need three, yeah, and so he

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Speaker 1: could be elevated that way for game day. He looks

593
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Speaker 1: good too, so so we'll see it. But Mark Andrews,

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Speaker 1: that news is huge for the Ravens and in the

595
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Speaker 1: in the spirit of Mark Andrews.

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Speaker 3: This is a bonus, right, So.

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Speaker 1: You still got to give the bye week no go

598
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Speaker 1: the week and this is the comeback no of the

599
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Speaker 1: year Mark Andrews honorary.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 1: Also notice I left enough space for three more dogs.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I noticed. I noticed that that puzzle is not

603
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 3: complete exactly. I noticed.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, congrats to Mark on the comeback. We haven't

605
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Speaker 1: heard from him, but it'll be really cool to hear

606
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Speaker 1: from him this week, hopefully if he speaks two reporters

607
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Speaker 1: about just what it took to come back. Yeah, and

608
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Speaker 1: I hopefully comments on being the comeback dog and I

609
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Speaker 1: hope that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is obvious, but I really hope that

611
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 3: he's able to play. Yeah, he hit his recovery getting

612
00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 3: back to this point, I think says a lot about

613
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Speaker 3: who he is and that's why he's a comeback dog.

614
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: But I hope he's able to play this team. These

615
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 3: games mean so much to him, so if there's any

616
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,719
Speaker 3: way that he can play, he is not missing playoff

617
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 3: games if he's able to get out there.

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Speaker 1: So let's remind listeners that we have a live lounge

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Speaker 1: episode coming up next from High Tops Grill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is gonna be Thursday night, Thursday night, seven pm.

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Speaker 1: We're going live, Yes, so that's gonna be really exciting,

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Speaker 1: and make sure you tune in for that or come

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Speaker 1: that place. Pack so thrilled to be doing that. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening. As always, you can reach us at the

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Speaker 1: lounge at RAVENSTOTNFL dot net and we'll see it Thursday

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Speaker 1: night