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Speaker 1: Welcome into lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Ink here

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Speaker 1: with Garrett Downing and we are thrilled to sit down

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Speaker 1: with running back Keaton Mitchell. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: No problem. Problem.

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Speaker 1: So I've noticed your cleats since the started training camp,

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Speaker 1: and today I came in for a closer inspection. I

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Speaker 1: was kind of I'm not gonna lie. I was talking

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I was like, those road runner cleats,

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Speaker 1: that is sick.

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Speaker 2: I got some more coming in.

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Speaker 1: More road runner cleats. You're gonna have diversity of road runners.

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Speaker 1: That's sick.

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Speaker 2: Somebody I didn't give me right.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. It's a very fitting I mean, were you

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Speaker 1: a big roadrunner fan growing up, or you're like, I'm

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Speaker 1: faster fast.

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Speaker 3: So my sister made a little highlight clipping meat and

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Speaker 3: then she put in a little run to meat meat.

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Speaker 3: She put that in there, and then it just took

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Speaker 3: off from there.

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Speaker 1: Let's say it says meat meat on the like.

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Speaker 2: Say wink.

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Speaker 3: My uh friends and college just called me wink A

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Speaker 3: no no background with it it.

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Speaker 1: Wait, there's no story with it, just just wink, all right,

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Speaker 1: we'll run with it.

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Speaker 4: What didn't you have a pendant road runner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the road Runner on there?

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Speaker 4: All right? I like it and you always had that?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that you got it at my rookie year?

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Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah run there somewhere.

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Speaker 1: That's super sick. Well, we're watching practice.

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Speaker 4: You look like the road runner again out there. You're

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Speaker 4: feeling fast.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, faster than I ever feel. I feel real good.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean how I'm just curious. Obviously we saw

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Speaker 1: how fast you were as a rookie. I mean you

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Speaker 1: look at the next Gen stats and you had some

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Speaker 1: of the top top speeds in the league. How do

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Speaker 1: you after the knee injury that you suffered, Like, how

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Speaker 1: do you get even faster than that?

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Speaker 3: I mean just grinding and then you're really just starting

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Speaker 3: from scratch, working the muscles you never thought you had

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Speaker 3: to work before on both legs, so like just getting

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Speaker 4: So yeah, interesting, is there a point where you felt like,

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Speaker 4: oh I'm faster? Like, whether it's the actual times, I

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Speaker 4: know you you'll pay attention to some of those times

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Speaker 4: that you're running too, but like, was it either a

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Speaker 4: time or a moment or a play where you felt

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Speaker 4: like my speed is back? And maybe better than ever.

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Speaker 3: So when we came back for strength and conditioning, we

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Speaker 3: were doing like fifteen yard build ups or.

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Speaker 2: Yeah build ups, and I was going with an.

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Speaker 3: He was like, I'm gonna go with Keaton so I

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Speaker 3: can hit my top speed or whatever. Now we end

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Speaker 3: up going well, he hit twenty two and then Sam

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Speaker 3: was like, oh my, and like what I get?

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Speaker 2: Did I hit my pr?

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Speaker 3: Here like yeah, you hit twenty two but keyting god Lee,

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Speaker 3: you just broke your pr Oh well, I ain't even

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know I was running that fast, but

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Speaker 3: I definitely hit twenty two point four.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, wow, I mean that has to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome feeling given everything that that you've gone through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, facts, that's cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean, fee for I'll tell you the moment for

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Speaker 4: me where I was like Keaton's back. It was actually

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Speaker 4: just a couple of weeks ago, maybe like a week ago,

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Speaker 4: when watching practice and there was a play where you

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Speaker 4: and you probably know what I'm talking about, and then

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Speaker 4: he just continues to make these types of plays like

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Speaker 4: we saw. We saw it a little bit in the

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Speaker 4: and then you turned the edge and then.

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Speaker 1: You just like you hit the you hit the turbos.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and like that play to me was like, there's

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Speaker 4: no doubt that this guy's running like he did as

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Speaker 3: When I came back last year, I came back, but

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Speaker 2: Now I got all my gears, so we rolling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about that process last year. And you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously after the rookie season that you had, it was

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Speaker 1: you know, you got that adrenaline rush, like you made it.

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Speaker 1: You were making plays, and then to suffer the injury,

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Speaker 1: it felt like last year you were just like I'll

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like you were kind of a little

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Speaker 3: It was rock bottom, lonely, just me grinding up here

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Speaker 3: every day, didn't really have an off season, ain't go home,

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Speaker 3: Then when everybody came back, just sitting in the weight

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I just went back out there. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And so you come back last year, and like you said,

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Speaker 4: you only had one gear, but you made it back.

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Speaker 4: And I think in a lot of ways, just getting

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Speaker 4: was it How did you handle it last year? Like

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Speaker 4: you feel like you can't be. How did you handle that?

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Speaker 3: Just kept praying, kept going, ignore the noises of like

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Speaker 3: all the people that was saying I'm never gonna be

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Speaker 3: the rookieyear me again, just ignoring that. It just we

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Speaker 3: So uh yeah, I just stayed down, kept praying, and

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Speaker 1: So coming off of last season, did you stay around

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Speaker 1: here the whole off season? This year too, to train

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Speaker 1: last off season? This? Yeah? This audi off?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, well deserved break.

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Speaker 2: I was gone. I took so many trips.

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Speaker 1: Overdue. You paid your dude the previous Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Going back to you know, you have this incredible start

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Speaker 1: as a rookie. Hey, what was that that journey like

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Speaker 1: as a rookie when you come on and you just

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Speaker 1: me through what that journey was like for you was

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Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie.

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Speaker 2: It was lit.

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Speaker 3: Nah, coming in as a rookie undrafted pos was like, uh,

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Speaker 3: get on special teams and from there you'll make the

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Speaker 2: And then just when you get your touches, make them count.

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Speaker 3: So they put in a little package for me versus Detroit,

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Speaker 3: the reverse that went for ten yards of my last

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Speaker 3: touch to that game, and then what was the next game?

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Speaker 2: Was it Seattle?

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Speaker 2: Settle, Yeah, now my first touches was gone. Non he

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Speaker 2: I felt comfortable and I was just doing me right.

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Speaker 1: Once you once you're out of the box, there there

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Speaker 1: ain't there's no putting you back in. Like once you

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Speaker 1: made those plays, it was like, all right, we're just

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In fact, do you uh do you feel like if

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Speaker 1: that injury didn't happen? I mean, I know you can

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Speaker 1: always play the what if games, Like I feel like

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Speaker 1: that season might have turned out differently for the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: Like that's how many plays you were making. Sure? How

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Speaker 1: tough was that? And did you feel the same way

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Speaker 2: Hey it was hard, but I always was like, just

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Speaker 3: You can control when you get back out there and

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Speaker 3: yeah we can't make that run.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, how who did you lean on during

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Speaker 4: the hard times of this recovery process?

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Speaker 3: Trent Simpson, Antavia's Robinson, my dogs, they were there for me.

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Speaker 4: What was it about your guys connection that just made

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Speaker 4: you feel like those were guys that you could kind

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Speaker 3: They was just were just always around and they was

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Speaker 2: You know, I was in the house. So uh, they

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Speaker 2: was like, come on, go get something to eat. Man's

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Speaker 2: just go hang out. Uh, let's go to the baseball game.

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Speaker 2: Let's go here.

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Speaker 3: Man. When we end up going to Camp con together,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, these my dogs for real, and yeah, we

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Speaker 1: They honestly seemed like two of the nicest guys.

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Speaker 2: Of the Yeah. They's some great guy, especially especially off

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Speaker 2: the field. Yeah, yeah, a nice dude. But on the

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Speaker 4: He actually cut a circulation about this thing the eye

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Speaker 4: black too, that's on the war paint.

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Speaker 3: I told him, you gotta have to go full sleeve

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Speaker 3: tag it up. Way you can be dangered for Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's cut his circulation.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's I'm gonna have to ask about that.

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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of people, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: watching you practice and we're like, man, Keaton's back, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch you get the ball, But how

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Speaker 1: you get the ball is the question mark? Right, you

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Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry in there and Justice Hill and those

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Speaker 1: guys are both awesome also, so like, how do you

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Speaker 1: look at that situation? I think Todd Mounkin the other

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Speaker 1: day was like, it's a fight for snaps in that

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Speaker 1: room because you're also good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, it's a great room. Start off by Kit return,

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Speaker 3: get the ball like Kit return, and just whenever I

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Speaker 3: guess man or whatever you know, Derek going his twenty

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Speaker 3: five thirty carries just is gonna get his and man

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Speaker 3: man Shane will get whatever they don't.

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Speaker 2: Get, make it count.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's the same exact scenario you

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Speaker 1: were in as a rookie too. That worked out pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, I ain't gonna say too much, but it's happening.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, one of the things I think that

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Speaker 4: to the house. And so I've always kind of said,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, give me ten ten, Just come in there and

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Speaker 2: Du hit bombs. Oka. Yeah, you're down.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel single.

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Speaker 3: Whatever ones I get, make them count. Yeah, you might

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Speaker 1: How good do you feel as a kicker? Turn good.

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Speaker 2: They ain't let me? Why not? I ain't want me

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Speaker 2: In college, you know, they don't be blocking for real NFL.

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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, I'm good. Good.

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Speaker 1: what what influence does that have on you? And does

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Speaker 2: He got the ring. I'm trying to get a ring.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to match him, but.

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Speaker 1: They get bigger. Every years of his will be yours

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Speaker 1: Does he bustes out?

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Speaker 4: Ever?

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Speaker 3: Every time he come up here, he wearing it. He

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Speaker 2: He showed me some highlights. He cold. I ain't know

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Speaker 4: What's it called VHS.

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Speaker 1: Or whatever, the VHS tapes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like I got it. You turn it on

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Speaker 2: He was trying so hard to find it, and then

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Speaker 1: Like you was all right, universe, you and him. He's

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Speaker 4: Was that ever?

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Speaker 1: Was when you were growing up?

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Speaker 3: Everybody in my family played football. He, my brother, pops,

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Speaker 1: So, so, who gave you your speed?

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Speaker 2: My mom was pretty fast. Yeah yeah, she ran track

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Speaker 4: So and and was that Did you have conversations with

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Speaker 3: I was just out there having fun, and it's a

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh I might got a chance. Man.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like you still have that same attitude,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got to you gotta have fun.

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Speaker 3: Once you get born, then you ain't gonna be the

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Speaker 2: You gotta have fun.

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Speaker 3: We up here getting up at six am, five thirty

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Speaker 2: You gotta love it. You gotta have fun. Can't be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I looked at your knee and I

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Speaker 1: that's like part of your this one No, I had

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Speaker 2: Everybody think it was just the A C L. It

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Speaker 1: And hamstring tour. Yeah, and so who told your career ending?

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Speaker 1: The people like when did they tell when you went

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Speaker 3: They ain't want to like tell me, oh that's career ending.

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Speaker 3: They were like, yeah, that was a career ending.

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Speaker 1: They thought, like, this is kind of what was running

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously it's not career ending because you're you're still

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody built different man.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to my colleagues running back coach, coach foster Man.

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Speaker 3: They always tell as we built different. Just got to

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Speaker 2: Get to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do the scars make you a stronger person? Has

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, it taught me a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I never really had adversity like this for real, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would.

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Speaker 3: People were saying I should get tattoos, but like, nah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was long lonely nights. People go ghosts.

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Speaker 3: Remember everybody was there when Ricky season breaking the long run.

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Speaker 3: But once it's over with, you see all the people

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Speaker 2: There was no light. They just stayed down.

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Speaker 1: What was there one moment that was the darkest, the.

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Speaker 3: Darkest moment probably like when I wasn't really I want

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Speaker 2: It was like two weeks, three weeks when nobody checking

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Speaker 3: Uh, I couldn't I couldn't walk, I couldn't walk, I

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Speaker 2: And it was just they figured it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's tough, like and I'll just speak

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Speaker 2: Like I try, I try to.

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Speaker 3: I try to keep a smile on my face and

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Speaker 2: But definitely when I lead this building, yeah tough, yeah

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Speaker 4: And and but you worked your way through it. Facts

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Speaker 4: and and if there's one thing that that you take

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Speaker 4: away from that whole experience and being able to come

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Speaker 4: out of it, like the motivation of anyone else that's

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Speaker 4: going through a tough time or going through injuries, and

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Speaker 4: that's just part of what happens in the league, but

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Speaker 4: going through tough times, Like what is the motivation that

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Speaker 4: you take from that whole experience?

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Speaker 3: Just laying on God He gonna be there with you.

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Speaker 3: You're up here and when you down there, just laying

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Speaker 3: on him, taught to him every day and just no,

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Speaker 3: it can happen, Like if you want to come back

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Speaker 3: from that injury or whatever you're going through. You can

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Speaker 3: get through it. You just gotta leaning on gud because

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Speaker 3: he got all the asses and just trusting them.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, I got only one thing left to say,

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Speaker 1: that's meat. Meat. Are you out doing this clean? Certain games?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. These next ones. I might be able to,

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Speaker 2: but I doubt it. I might want on pregame. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I got some, I got some more coming in.

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Speaker 1: All right, we can't wait to see him. Hey, Keating,

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Speaker 1: thanks man, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back into the Lounge podcast. We are coming to

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Speaker 4: you from the sea geek Stitio. We want to mention

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Speaker 4: our partners at Draft King Sportsbook. They are an official

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Speaker 4: sports betting partner of the Baltimore Ravens Draftking Sportsbook. The

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Speaker 4: Crown is yours. Thank you to Keating. I like sitting

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Speaker 4: down and talk with him, also plot him and thank

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Speaker 4: him for being so open and forthcoming and talking about

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Speaker 4: his injury and the tough times that he that he

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Speaker 4: went through during that, and it's really good to see

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Speaker 4: him on the other side of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm really excited about Keaton. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: lie like that's been one of my biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 1: the OTA's mini camp and now into training camp is

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Speaker 1: how good he looks. I didn't know, you know, man,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to find keating some snaps. That's

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Speaker 1: how kind of I was thinking, oas, how are you

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Speaker 1: gonna do this? You know, how are you gonna get

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Speaker 1: him something? And like now I'm like, we have to

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Speaker 1: find a way to get him enough touches, you know,

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Speaker 1: and like he said, it's not fifteen twenty, but like

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Speaker 1: he can do some damage with some touches. But to me,

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Speaker 1: seeing how well he's running in training camp, like that

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Speaker 1: numbers bump but up for me.

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Speaker 4: Well, as he said, kick return is gonna be a

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Speaker 4: big piece of that, and I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a lot of action on kick returns that I'm not

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Speaker 4: just gonna.

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Speaker 1: Give the ball, not just a touch back every time.

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Speaker 4: It's not just touch back territory, and so he's got

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Speaker 4: to get opportunities there. But I do think that he's

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Speaker 4: gonna like he can catch the ball out of the backfield.

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Speaker 4: He's good. He has good hands in that regard. If

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Speaker 4: you get him in a mismatched situation out of the

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Speaker 4: backfield on a linebacker, Like that could be a house

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Speaker 4: call and then if you just give him the ball. Like,

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Speaker 4: something that stands out to me about him is, Yes,

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Speaker 4: he's got the speed around the edge, that's where I

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Speaker 4: think he's at his best. But he's not afraid to

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Speaker 4: run between the tackles either, And that's what That's what

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Speaker 4: separates him in my mind as like a as a

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Speaker 4: difference maker, is that he can do a lot of

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Speaker 4: different things. He's not just he's not just a guy

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Speaker 4: who can catch out of the backfield. He's not just

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Speaker 4: a guy who you got to use around the edge.

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Speaker 4: You can use him in different ways.

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Speaker 1: And he runs tackles too.

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Speaker 4: He runs between the tackles, and so he has the

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Speaker 4: whole playbook is open when he's on the field, which

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Speaker 4: is important for a guy like him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, and Justice Hill had forty seven carries. I believe

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Speaker 1: it is last season. No, maybe Keaton eats into that

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Speaker 1: a little bit. The thing about Justice is like Justice

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Speaker 1: was so good on third down as a receiver and

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Speaker 1: as a pass protector and all those things. So I

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Speaker 1: think some people think, oh, well, Keaton, like he can

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Speaker 1: be kind of your third down back guy, and like

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Speaker 1: Justice is a very good, very good third down back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know, does Derrick Henry have as many carries

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Speaker 1: as he did last year? Maybe that declines a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You know, Dereck Henry's a machine. But the fresher you

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Speaker 1: can keep him for the playoffs, I think the better,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so now that you have Keaton in

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Speaker 1: the mix, maybe that he takes a little bit off

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Speaker 1: of Derek's plait also with Derek obviously still being the workhorse.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's tough to see exactly where those carries

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Speaker 4: come from because there's so much I think the Ravens

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Speaker 4: probably have the best running back trio in the game

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Speaker 4: when you really look at it, and and continues to

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Speaker 4: play the way that we think that he can. And

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Speaker 4: I'm with you, like I think I think the Ravens

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Speaker 4: may win the Super Bowl two years ago if he

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Speaker 4: stays healthy for that stretch. And now you inject him

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Speaker 4: back into this offense that already has so many other pieces.

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Speaker 4: My three point shooter analogy better.

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Speaker 1: I think that's better than the DH. Well, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: fit the date. I mean, he's exactly think of like

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Speaker 1: Prince Fielder. They just like Cecil Fielder, go way loafs

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Speaker 1: out to the field and just hacks the ball. Like

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Speaker 1: I think of him as instant offense, coming in off

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Speaker 1: the bench and providing a spark. Yeah, yeah, three point works.

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Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. Yeah, I give it to you.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Actually his his thing talking about college,

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Speaker 1: how he wouldn't let him return kicks or what that

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Speaker 1: run me of was Hollywood Brown as a rookie. Remember

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Speaker 1: when he got thrown out there for punt returns, the

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Speaker 1: first first one, he dropped it and he got fat

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Speaker 1: and they were like, never again, that's enough, that's enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember that one.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm I'm I'm excited. I think we both

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Speaker 4: are about keeping and he's one of my favorite guys

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Speaker 4: to talk to. Just he's he's very authentic and uh,

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Speaker 4: I hope listeners viewers got a chance to see him

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Speaker 4: in his personality and got to see him doing well

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Speaker 4: and certainly rooting for him this year. So as always,

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Speaker 4: you can email us at the lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 4: NFL dot net. We love hearing your emails, reading those

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Speaker 4: emails of sending those questions, comments thoughts that you have

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Speaker 4: about the team and where the team could go. Also,

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Speaker 4: Coming up on Sunday is the stadium practice we're going

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Speaker 4: to be practicing at Mtybak Stadium. That is gonna be

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Speaker 4: carried live on our YouTube channel as well as our

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Speaker 4: app on our website to make sure you check that

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Speaker 4: out on Sunday as well. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: watching and listening, and we will be back with you

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Speaker 4: again soon