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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink

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Speaker 1: here with Garrett Downing. Players are back in the building, Garrett.

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Speaker 1: This is exciting times. They're back for the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning program. Feels like football is getting

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Speaker 1: a little bit closer today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting. You can feel just being here in

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Speaker 2: the building. There's more cars in the parking lot when

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Speaker 2: you get here, the cafeteria is buzzing. Players are around

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Speaker 2: like charging stations for my ev all, they're all taking,

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Speaker 2: all gone, they're all gone. But like you definitely feel

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Speaker 2: a different level of excitement and energy in the building.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And I think that is only even more magnified when

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Speaker 2: you have your stars here to kick things off. And

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Speaker 2: the Ravens have that here today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. Of the Ravens that showed up for

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Speaker 1: the first day of work Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry Ze Flowers,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Linderbaum, they're kind of headlining the group here today

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Speaker 1: and it goes well beyond that. But to see Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: let's just start with him. To see him here for

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Speaker 1: the first day of workouts, a fully, fully voluntary, voluntary yeah,

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Speaker 1: really does take me back to last year where it is,

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Speaker 1: we're a very different position than we were last year

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Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. When at this time before the draft,

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Speaker 1: when he inked his extension on the first day of

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Speaker 1: the draft, you know, we all thought Lamar is going

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Speaker 1: to be a Raven but the future was very unclear.

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Speaker 1: And now fast forward a year here, day one, ready

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Speaker 1: to this is going to be a very valuable offseason

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Speaker 1: next step to get over the home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think no secret that like this is Lamar's team.

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Speaker 2: He's a franchise quarterback. He's the leader of the team.

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Speaker 2: He just won a second MVP and this team goes

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Speaker 2: as Lamargo's. That's going to be the case for a

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Speaker 2: long time. And to have him here setting the tone

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Speaker 2: on the first day of workouts, I think speaks to

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Speaker 2: his focus, his dedication, just how badly he wants to win.

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Speaker 2: The last time you know we heard from Lamar, it

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Speaker 2: was back at NFL Honors and that was when he

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Speaker 2: was accepting his second MVP and I talked with him

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Speaker 2: there and it was, you know, a week removed two

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Speaker 2: weeks removed from that AFC Championship game, and man, it

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Speaker 2: was still fresh on his mind, you know, he was

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Speaker 2: He talked at that point about how he was excited to,

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Speaker 2: you know, get the MVP honor and all that, but like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I wasn't even asking about that game. I was.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to keep it positive. I was trying

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Speaker 2: winning a second MVP award, which obviously deserves its recognition.

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Speaker 2: But Lamar in some ways kept bringing it back to

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Speaker 2: that and kept bringing it back to the feeling of

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Speaker 2: a missed opportunity and the job's not finished and there's

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Speaker 2: still work to be done, and that lost stings and

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Speaker 2: all of that. Like that was clearly in the headspace

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Speaker 2: I just like in talking with Lamar over the course

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Speaker 2: disappointments his motivation. And I think that he's going to

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Speaker 2: do that with that AFC Championship loss. And I think

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Speaker 2: that that starts even before today, but it's evident today

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Speaker 2: when you see him kicking things off here at the

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Speaker 2: setting a tone. And I think that that says to

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Speaker 2: everybody on the team. That says to everybody on the team, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson is kicking things off, and he is focused,

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Speaker 2: everybody responds to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, Lamar's typically often been a guy

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Speaker 1: who works out down in Florida and get we see

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Speaker 1: you know, and that's worked out perfectly fine. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know he's two time MVP. But to your point, I

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Speaker 1: there's no coaching on the field. It's not like you

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Speaker 1: get out there and all that stuff, but there isotball school.

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Speaker 1: There's classroom work that the players can do at this time.

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Speaker 1: And it's important in that regard to right this year

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Speaker 1: two under Todd Mounkin, this offense is going to continue

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Speaker 1: this offense. They were just kind of scratching the surface.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot more to get to. And I think

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, Like, look, I it's exciting. It's exciting

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Speaker 2: when you see Lamar Jackson here walking the building, you know,

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Speaker 1: I Mean, we just had Kyle van Noy on the couch,

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Speaker 1: yeah right, and he was just saying like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: Lamar can take it up another notch too, we all can, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: And this is an example of that, Lamar taking it

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Speaker 2: And I also, like, I don't want to, like, as

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Speaker 2: we talk about this, like I don't want to oversell it,

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Speaker 2: Like I don't think that like you necessarily being here

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Speaker 2: comes to the fall. No, it's not like I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to oversell it here, but I do think that,

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Speaker 2: And I think that, like, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: but I think that, like I commend him for kicking

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Speaker 2: And you know, in a similar vein you know, Derrick

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Speaker 2: gets his workouts in. You know, there's no question about

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Speaker 2: whether this guy's going to show ready to play. We've

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Speaker 2: seen the videos. The entire world have seen the videos,

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Speaker 2: so you knew that this guy was going to show

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Speaker 2: to when he was here and he joined us on

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Speaker 2: the podcas and he talked about how, you know, just

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Speaker 2: I think that, like culturally, that stuff matters, And it

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Speaker 2: seems like the fact that he's here on the first

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Speaker 2: as a as a veteran trusted guy on this team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And sometimes you don't see players who just signed

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Speaker 1: And for him to be here day one when everybody

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Speaker 1: like we're saying, nos, look the guy, he doesn't he's

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Speaker 1: in shape, he's all right, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Like he's got like the most like legendary workouts of

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Speaker 1: But for him to be here and in the classroom

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Speaker 1: it's just it's a good sign that some of your

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. Also, you know Zave Flowers,

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Speaker 2: I think you can see his excitement as he walked

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Speaker 2: I just think that like that sort of speaks to

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Speaker 1: And Tyler linimbaw, I'm walking in saying, all right, I'm

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got it covered. He's got it covered, no

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Speaker 2: question about that. All right. So I want to get

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Speaker 2: into some of the players who could really stand to

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Speaker 2: really dive into some of the specific guys who have

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Speaker 2: a big opportunity in front of them this offseason. You're

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Speaker 2: I want to take a look at some of the

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Speaker 2: them during these off season workouts. Who stands out to you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll start my list with Zay Flowers, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's a guy who is coming off a

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Speaker 1: that kind of guy. But like you often see a

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Speaker 1: Flowers is already pretty rocked up, like he's a workout guy.

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Speaker 1: He works really hard. But I think he still is

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Speaker 1: he admitted it throughout the season, like there were times

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Speaker 1: Right exactly, And and sometimes the coaches, even on the bench,

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Speaker 1: you're just saying, just hit it, man. You've got the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a good one. A guy that

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Speaker 2: I'll point to at the top of my list, another

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Speaker 1: Oliver was not a blocking tight end when he came

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Speaker 1: who coming out of Iowa State was a really good

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Speaker 1: So and he has developed already as a blocker significantly

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Speaker 2: The last guy on my list, and honestly he was

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Speaker 2: debated to put him at the top of my list,

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Speaker 2: would be the Ravens. John Harbwall said, they're going to

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Speaker 2: give him a chance to win that job. They traded

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Speaker 2: Morgan Moses. Part of the reason you make the Morgan

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Speaker 2: make the move because you have confidence. And Ravens could

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Speaker 2: still draft a first round tackle who could step in

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Speaker 2: there at right tackle, and then they're competing for a

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Speaker 2: chance right now to prove that you know, he can

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Speaker 2: of an NFL season, and that he has the playbook down,

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Speaker 2: he knows all that all that work, endurance, I mean, durrance, mental, everything, everything,

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Speaker 2: every aspect of the game. I think that this is

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Speaker 2: ramp up conversation that we had with Trenton Simpson, I

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Speaker 2: And you know, the guy is he's one of the

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Speaker 2: he's six foot eight, three hundred eighty pounds. He's a

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Speaker 2: drafted him for this opportunity, and so I think that

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Speaker 1: Andrew voor He's in a similar boat, except he's coming

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Speaker 1: off the red shirt year of injury and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's been in the weight room, he's been doing strength

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Speaker 1: more for him, it'll be I think OTAs when he's

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Speaker 1: on the field practicing for the first time. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: in a similar boat to follow Lele young guy who's

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Speaker 1: looking to potentially win a starting job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's going to be exciting. And as he

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Speaker 2: players are back in the building, we're gonna be chatting

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Speaker 2: with them, and so we're gonna be you know, talking

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Speaker 2: with some of these players, get them on the lounge

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Speaker 2: here of the course of the next few weeks. The

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Speaker 2: off season program basically runs now until the middle of June.

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Speaker 2: It's it goes from the voluntary workout program to OTA's

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Speaker 2: working mini camp there in the middle of it. Then

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Speaker 2: it's mandatory mini camp. So there's a whole process here

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Speaker 2: over the course of the next couple of months, and

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Speaker 2: it's exciting to have players in the building to have

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Speaker 2: that energy. And of course the draft is next week,

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Speaker 2: so we're also on the podcast here going to be

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Speaker 2: talking with some draft experts. Getting you ready for the draft,

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Speaker 2: which is what ten days away down Yep, crazy wait,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. So, as always, make sure you leave

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Speaker 2: a rating and a review. You can send us emails

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Speaker 2: to the Lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net and

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Speaker 2: also head over to the Ravens Press Pass podcast feed

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Speaker 2: so you can listen to every press conference that we have.

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Speaker 1: And it's Wednesday, we'll have a press conferences of select

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Speaker 1: players and the Ravens Strength and conditioning coach will be

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Speaker 1: speaking about the off season program.

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Speaker 2: Ye stay tuned for all of that. Thanks for listening,

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