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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. The start of

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Speaker 1: free agency is upon us today at four o'clock is

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Speaker 1: when the legal tampering window begins, when agents can start

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Speaker 1: communicating with teams about the perspective of signing their free agent,

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Speaker 1: and then the league, the new league year and freency

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Speaker 1: officially opens Wednesday. It's for today's the official start of

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Speaker 1: the pre start of the real start exactly or pre eating. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: uhc is here, that's the that's the takeaway. Free is here,

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Speaker 1: and we are going to discuss today what you should

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Speaker 1: expect from the Ravens. We got every move already charted out.

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Speaker 1: We already know what's gonna happen. The full breakdown is laminated. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't laminate, Okay, Wednesday at four o'clock. Yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's let's dive into it here, Gary, I would I

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Speaker 1: would start by saying, probably shouldn't expect any major moves, right,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Williams was age or move last year. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that that's probably gonna happen this season. I agree. However,

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Speaker 1: here we go. He's got the finger up, he's got

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Speaker 1: the point. Did you the big point? When we did

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Speaker 1: the free agcy Prime. We're gonna go back and listen

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Speaker 1: to the tape, the tape from last year. Did you

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Speaker 1: have Marcus Williams as your prediction for the early days

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Speaker 1: of free agency? I believe it did. No, he did not.

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Speaker 1: He did not. I think everybody missed on that one.

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Speaker 1: So all I'm saying. All I'm saying is that stranger

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Speaker 1: things have happened. Oftentimes everyone has like this is how

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Speaker 1: it's gonna play out. They're not gonna make any big moves.

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Speaker 1: And like the old notion of like the Ravens never

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Speaker 1: make a splashi free agency, people always say that's that's

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Speaker 1: been false. Like they have gone out there and they've

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Speaker 1: made moves. They've got Marcus Williams last year, they've got

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Speaker 1: I mean not that Kevin Sliler was a big splashy move,

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Speaker 1: but it was a fairly expensive move. Morgan Moses was

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Speaker 1: a fairly expensive move. Um, you know, moderately, um Earl

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Speaker 1: Thomas was a very immensive move. So like they've one

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Speaker 1: out there. What's safety? Yeah, what's safety? Right? I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's I can confidently say that, Yeah, there will

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Speaker 1: not be a big time safety that comes in. Certainly

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Speaker 1: everyone wants to know about wide receiver. I would not

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Speaker 1: rule out the addition of a wide receiver. The tricky

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Speaker 1: thing here is the salary cap space. Ravens don't have

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Speaker 1: a ton of it. They're pressed tight against the salary

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Speaker 1: cap space. Lamar Jackson is under the franchise tag. And

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Speaker 1: if you did you want a full in depth breakdown

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Speaker 1: on Lamar and the tag and where that stands, go

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Speaker 1: back and listen to the episode that dropped on Friday.

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Speaker 1: We dive into all of the details on that, but

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Speaker 1: just at a high level, one is that Lamar cannot

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Speaker 1: negotiate with any teams until Wednesday. Okay, so I know

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Speaker 1: the free agencies open except for the players who are

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Speaker 1: a franchise. So free agency opens for them on Friday

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Why, I don't know, But but he could.

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Speaker 1: He could negotiate with teams starting on Wednesday and sign

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Speaker 1: an offer sheet with another team and then, of course

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Speaker 1: the Ravens still have the ability to match. But Lamar

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Speaker 1: this year, as it stands currently, will count against a

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Speaker 1: salary cap thirty two million dollars, so plat for two

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Speaker 1: point four big number, but still under market value for

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Speaker 1: a player of his caliber. To a certain extent, but

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Speaker 1: in terms of what that entire cap hit hitting this year,

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Speaker 1: it's a big number, and so the Ravens have had

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Speaker 1: to make moves in order to get under that cap,

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Speaker 1: and so they don't have a ton of money to

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Speaker 1: go out and sign on Marcus Williams esque player right

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Speaker 1: this year. So I do agree with you. The other

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Speaker 1: challenge is going to be the players who are currently

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Speaker 1: set to become free agents for the Ravens, who are

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Speaker 1: currently on the team. All, I got the list for

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Speaker 1: you here, Okay, I'll run through it quickly. Marcus Peters,

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Speaker 1: Justin Houston, Kyle Fuller, Juwan James, Sammy Watkins, Trey von Mullen,

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Speaker 1: Jason Pierre, Paul Stephen Means, Josh Oliver, Kenyan Drake to

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Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson and Vince Beagle and Ben Powers. You missed

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Speaker 1: one of the base ones. Yeah, Ben Powers? How did

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Speaker 1: I miss him? Yeah? Ben Powers and Justice Hill. Sorry

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Speaker 1: it was it was organized poorly, Ben Powers and Justice Hill, Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Ye. There's some exclusive rights of restrictive free agents.

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Speaker 1: The most notable in the restricted free agent front is

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Speaker 1: think we've said all along. It seems like the writing

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Speaker 1: He's gonna, I think, get a pretty darn good contract. Um.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, they have been cleveland. They have

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Speaker 1: I think Marcus Peters is not going to go particularly quick.

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Speaker 1: other offers, his agent gets some other offers. They really

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Speaker 1: There's Justin Houston, who's ever understood free agent not very

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Speaker 1: quick in his mind is like August. Yeah, quicker than that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the immediate first wave of free agency. Yeah, it could

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Speaker 1: be the second way. Mark Marcus Peters is a guy

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Speaker 1: course for every player, money matters a lot. Yeah, But

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Speaker 1: I don't know that Marcus is just looking to all right,

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Speaker 1: which eight, which is the highest offer? Yeah? That one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's in the situation that he's

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Speaker 1: is you look at it, You're like, it'd be great

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Speaker 1: I do think that the salary cap situation puts the

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Speaker 1: Is it? You know, two years for twenty you know,

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Speaker 1: like what And so my point there, you don't have

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Speaker 1: It might not. Yeah, I don't know if it's gonna

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Speaker 1: a cornerback class that is loaded, as they've said multiple times,

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Speaker 1: you're going to certainly have options in the draft. Now

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Speaker 1: take both, right, But I think they feel confident that

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Speaker 1: don't have to bring Marcus back. I don't think you

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, what where are we going

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Speaker 1: think they'd like to bring Marcus back because they like

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Speaker 1: the competitor all that with Marcus. But um so, I

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Speaker 1: depends on, you know, a lot of this. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be pretty aggressive in the wide receiver market.

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Speaker 1: I think that they're going to try to sign a

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Speaker 1: the top guys. Well, if that happens, they ain't bring

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Speaker 1: markets back we started. That doesn't bring back to the

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Speaker 1: start of this. You already say you don't expect them

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Speaker 1: to make the splash signing like of Marcus Williams last year.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be that big. You've already been that,

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Speaker 1: but we're already changing your two and halfway through. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be that big, but it's gonna be it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be medium. You expect them to be in the

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Speaker 1: market for the top three agent, Okay, I should retract

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Speaker 1: my top it's gonna be medium, Okay, medium, the high medium,

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Speaker 1: that wide receiver market. But if that doesn't happen, then

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Speaker 1: the chances of bringing back Marcus I think, will you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I really don't know. As the most listeners

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Speaker 1: he his desires are unknown to me. Does he want

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Speaker 1: how that plays out? Like a guy at this stage

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Speaker 1: dive into some of the guys here just as a

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Speaker 1: All right, Before we completely closed the book on the

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Speaker 1: you want to go into the draft feeling like you

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Speaker 1: don't need to take a position, not pigeon holing yourself

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Speaker 1: into any position, and so keeping those guys would give

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Speaker 1: you some flexibility there for sure. Could you see either

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Speaker 1: of them coming back? Yeah? I could. I mean Justice

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Speaker 1: Hills a valuable special teams player as well. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know he's he's a different kind of back than

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Speaker 1: what the Ravens have already in JK. Dobbins and Gus Edwards. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, there's value there certainly. The

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Speaker 1: other thing too, and that's what he played pretty well too.

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Speaker 1: I think he had a good year last year coming

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Speaker 1: off the Achilles. He looked fast. I thought he had

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Speaker 1: a good year. Yeah, yeah, I mean he filled in nicely,

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Speaker 1: especially early in the year when he was the guy

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Speaker 1: they rode him in some games. I liked him when

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Speaker 1: he was on the pot too. I liked sattitude yeah yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: The other the other talking about Kenyan I was talking

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Speaker 1: about Sorry sorry I don't remember, all right, but Kenny Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ken Kenyan when they had to lean on him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had some good games. The other the other guy

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Speaker 1: that I'll just we've talked about him before, but Justin Houston,

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Speaker 1: DaCosta said at the combine, like, he's probably not going

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Speaker 1: to make a decision anytime soon. I mean that could

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Speaker 1: be in the draft, that could be after the draft.

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Speaker 1: I mean that might be call him up in August potentially,

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Speaker 1: if he's still sitting out there now. The caveat, of

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Speaker 1: course is gets a rush, calls him up and said,

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Speaker 1: I got a prescription for just I'm gonna it's all

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Speaker 1: gonna be all year long. You will be I have

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Speaker 1: no doubt. But if another team does, say, look, Justin

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Speaker 1: Houston had almost double digit sacks, you know, let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get this guy. Like, if another team comes calling,

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Speaker 1: then he may end up taking that big deal. But

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Speaker 1: there's the potential for that. Of course, there's there's always

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Speaker 1: the potential. You know, it only takes one so could

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Speaker 1: that happen. Sure, um, but I think that there's a

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Speaker 1: chance that Justin Houston ends up back on this team

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Speaker 1: in June. Yeah, totally agree with that. You know, the

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Speaker 1: defensive line would be the other position that do they

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Speaker 1: sign something. I think I think all those other ones

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Speaker 1: are any other position they are going to address via

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Speaker 1: free agency, which I don't think is going to be

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Speaker 1: a lot would be in the second or third waves

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Speaker 1: of free agency. We're talking like after the you know,

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Speaker 1: when they don't keep count against the compenstory formula. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about free agents, the Ravens are gonna lose,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we always have to keep the compic

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Speaker 1: just because the Ravens don't have a Compic this year.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget that they like compics. We always spend

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Speaker 1: so much time talking about this, so like it would

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Speaker 1: not surprise me at all if they went after a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver that was released by another team. That would

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Speaker 1: not surprise me at all. Um. The same goes for

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Speaker 1: like filling out their positions of need. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a you know they signed Brent Urban last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a later wave of free agency, like

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Speaker 1: there's there's gonna be that too. Yeah, absolutely, I could

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Speaker 1: totally see. I mean that's gonna be the case, and

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Speaker 1: they'll continue making like some of those kind of under

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Speaker 1: the radar type signings. That's something that they've done. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like Kyle Fuller was a guy who like was now

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Speaker 1: of course you got hurt in the first game, but

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Speaker 1: he ended up being you know, basically a starter, you know,

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Speaker 1: as a third cornerback. So there will be guys that

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Speaker 1: are in that mix as well. So I think Josh

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Speaker 1: Oliver is an interesting free agent for the Ravens to watch,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he ended up crafting a pretty

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Speaker 1: good role for himself in this offense. Is a blocking

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Speaker 1: tight end. How much does Todd Munkin really use that

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Speaker 1: kind of tight end, you know when you have these

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Speaker 1: other two young tight ends Charlie Kohler and Isaiah Likely

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Speaker 1: and of course Mark Andrews. You know, So is there

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Speaker 1: any what's the market look like for Josh Olivers? Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna sign up a decent deal somewhere else? I

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Speaker 1: mean Eric Tomlinson signed a pretty decent deal with the

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Speaker 1: Broncos last year, you know, So, like, does Oliver get

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Speaker 1: picked up by somebody m or is he somebody that

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Speaker 1: sits out there for a while and eventually the Ravens

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Speaker 1: like we like Josh Oliver, you know, but in Todd

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Speaker 1: Munkin's offense, I don't know it's a lot different from

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Speaker 1: than Greg Grammont. You need you already have three tight

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Speaker 1: ends exactly. The other thing I'll say too is things

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Speaker 1: change rapidly during free agency, So there's reports that are

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Speaker 1: coming out at all times, yep, checking our phones throughout

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Speaker 1: this podcast because things are constantly changing. So you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully as you're listening to this it's it's not dated here.

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Speaker 1: You know, you got to listen to these things quickly because,

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Speaker 1: as I said, things change quickly. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: be doing more podcasts this week just as free agency

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Speaker 1: unfolds and we're talking about all the things that are happening,

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Speaker 1: players signing or leaving. Of course, the Lamar situation is

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Speaker 1: still hanging out there, so we're going to be following

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Speaker 1: up with more podcasts this week. Also, make sure you

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the Ravens Press Pass podcasts. If the Ravens

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Speaker 1: signed a big free agent, then that guy I'll be

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Speaker 1: here in Baltimore at some point for a big press conference,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure of it. And that press conference and it's entirety,

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Speaker 1: along with all of our press conferences, will live in

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Speaker 1: to that also subscribe to the Lounge if you haven't already,

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Speaker 1: leave a rating and a review. We always love those.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be a fun week. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's free. Agency is one of the most exciting times

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Speaker 1: of the year, and there's this year, probably more so

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Speaker 1: than ever. Yep, I turned on the Twitter alert some

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Speaker 1: of you gotta show me how this works because I'm

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Speaker 1: not getting these alerts. I got the rabbit port, the

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Speaker 1: chef alerts turn on. I don't have the fake cheft.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to have. Oh yeah, this give me Last

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Speaker 1: year was the last year. Yeah yeah, I've got got before.

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Speaker 1: You've got got like a dozen times. Like no, I

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Speaker 1: don't know anybody that has been got by the fake

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Speaker 1: accounts more than you. And also like you, I think

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Speaker 1: it's borderline like you kind of you kind of like it.

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Speaker 1: You kind of like the thrill of getting got. You

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Speaker 1: like to retweet it, and then you're like, oh wait,

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Speaker 1: that was a fake and then everyone starts making fun

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Speaker 1: of you. Then like all the enjoy all the emails,

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Speaker 1: all the emails come in, and it's like I think

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Speaker 1: Ortiz was making fun of you last year, Like all

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Speaker 1: these people were clowning on you. Last Year'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: Didcasta was clowning on you last year, so I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there will be a there will be a fake chef

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Speaker 1: or fake rabbit port. No, not this year. That's that

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Speaker 1: is my uh that's your number one priority for free

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Speaker 1: agis yes, not to got got. Well, we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that happens. There's always you can email us with the

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Speaker 1: lounge at Ravens loot NFL dot net. Let us know

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Speaker 1: how you think this week will play out. Let's know

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Speaker 1: any questions you have. Thanks for listening, Talk to me

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Speaker 1: again soon