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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, and we are here to give

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Speaker 1: you our takeaways from Jesse Mintor's introductory press coverence as

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Speaker 1: the Ravens new head coach. And I think he handled

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Speaker 1: it really well, came off really well. Really excited to

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Speaker 1: have Jesse on board, and I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: be a great addition here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think the phrase that gets thrown around the time

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Speaker 3: of the year is did you win the press conference?

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Speaker 3: And I think he did win the press conference. I

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Speaker 3: think everything that I've seen from him from the time

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Speaker 3: that he walked in the building Wednesday night, which was

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Speaker 3: a really cool moment. I was here for that and

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Speaker 3: just to set the scene. If you haven't looked at

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Speaker 3: it already, go back and watch the video, and a

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Speaker 3: number of several members of the staff, the organization, a

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Speaker 3: big portion of the staff, was in the lobby of

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Speaker 3: the Unarmed Performance Center as him and his family walked

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Speaker 3: into this building for the first time and said the

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Speaker 3: head coach. And you could see the emotion of that moment,

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Speaker 3: the magnitude of it, you could feel it as he

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Speaker 3: looked up there and he saw the faces, some new,

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Speaker 3: something he was familiar with, but he could just feel

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Speaker 3: that moment. His dad's teared up, his wife did. I

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Speaker 3: think he felt the emotion of it. And from that

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Speaker 3: very moment, as he addressed the staff and he said

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Speaker 3: it's about week, he said, I wanted to make it

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Speaker 3: about us, all of us collectively, And I think that

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Speaker 3: that kind of set the tone for me over what

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Speaker 3: was gonna be the next twenty four hours of him

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Speaker 3: and his first day as a head coach. And I've

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Speaker 3: just been nothing but impressed in every interaction that I've

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Speaker 3: had with him.

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Speaker 1: You can see why Eric Decasa said that he blew

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Speaker 1: them away in the interview process. And I think beyond

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Speaker 1: the x's and o's and the schematic stuff and him

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Speaker 1: being a defensive mastermind, the thing that stands out to

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Speaker 1: me about Jesse Minner from today's press conference and really

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Speaker 1: since he arrived is the authenticity that he has. Everything

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Speaker 1: about the guy is just genuine. He's just himself. You know,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't there to seemingly put on a show at

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Speaker 1: the press conference. You know, he he didn't turn on

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Speaker 1: some persona. Yeah, he was Jesse Minterter and he just

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Speaker 1: seems like a very easy guy to get along with

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Speaker 1: and have open conversations with and open dialogue, and those

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Speaker 1: are what make the underpinnings of a great head coach.

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Speaker 1: And he talks a lot about that in today's press conference,

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Speaker 1: about building relationships with Lamar Jackson, with everybody across this

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Speaker 1: roster and in this organization, and even what he's looking

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Speaker 1: for in his coordinators, right connectors, relationship building, dive deep,

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Speaker 1: get to know the players, make it about us, We

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Speaker 1: there's buying from every aspect of this organization. I think

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Speaker 1: that's really going to define his tenure here.

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Speaker 3: I kept as I was going through the press conference

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Speaker 3: and making notes, and the words that kept coming up

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Speaker 3: to me are the things that you were saying. Cohesive together, united,

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Speaker 2: We us like.

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Speaker 3: These are all things that he said over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think it's just coach speak.

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Speaker 2: I think it's genuine.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the way that he looks at the

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Speaker 3: to be successful. I think it starts there, and I

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Speaker 3: really think that he believes that I'm with you too

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Speaker 3: on the authenticity I just think that he's not trying

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Speaker 3: to be something that he's not. He even mentioned that,

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Speaker 3: like his coaching influences, his dad's certainly a big one.

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Speaker 2: Friend of the lounge.

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Speaker 3: Go back to president, Yeah, Rick Menter, go back and

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Speaker 3: listen to the interview with Rick that we did earlier

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Speaker 3: in the week, and then he's coached for both Harball brothers,

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Speaker 3: who had really big influences on him and his coaching life.

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Speaker 3: He's not trying to be John Harball. He's not trying

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Speaker 3: Rick mintor his dad. He's trying to be himself. And

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Speaker 3: I think he's comfortable in his own skin, which is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right, So let's talk about how Jesse

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Speaker 1: Minter came to be the Ravens head coach. In the

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Speaker 1: hiring process, and we know already that it was an

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Speaker 1: exhausted process for Eric to Costa. You know, he said

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Speaker 1: And Eric in today's press comments really had a moment

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Speaker 1: thought process when thinking about Jesse Minterter, it was hard

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Speaker 1: And then also in talking having conversations even before he

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Speaker 1: with Joe Ortiz, another friend of the lounge, and Ravens.

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Speaker 2: All three more friends at the lounge, Joe, former.

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Speaker 1: Ravens, all three of them, right, So having like kind

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Speaker 1: getting rave reviews about Jesse Minter and then once he

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Speaker 3: this was it was kind of a two full process.

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Speaker 3: He didn't you know, he's he's.

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Speaker 3: Right and also reportedly the Raven the Raiders were really

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were more interviews beyond that. He was a

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Speaker 3: And then during that interview, Eric said there was a

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Speaker 1: I want he envisioned it right. He was hard at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's clear that the Ravens got a

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Speaker 3: And what stands out to me, like when I hear

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk about like you know, he says the

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Speaker 1: He's not a guy that comes off with He's not

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean When I say fired up,

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Speaker 3: I don't mean that. I'm like I'm coming out of

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Speaker 1: So really they are kind of establishing and building that relationship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he honestly has been saying some of those

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Speaker 1: Right like that, it's not around right time the Ravens

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Speaker 2: Give me a couple of decades here. That's the hope

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Speaker 1: And they rolled out the purple carpet. They didn't roll

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the coordinator search, and that is what

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Speaker 3: which is his background that's his strength.

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Speaker 2: Made that point.

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Speaker 3: It's no surprise he made the point that he feels

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Speaker 3: like that's a strength of his and that's a big

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Speaker 3: reason he's sitting in the chair that he is today

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Speaker 3: because he's been a great defensive place caller over the

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Speaker 3: course of his career in college and the pro. So

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Speaker 3: he's got plenty of experience doing that. No surprise that

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Speaker 3: that's going to be the way that he goes about it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, you have seen some guys from defensive

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Speaker 1: backgrounds not take play calling duties because they feel like

447
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Speaker 1: it's important to kind of be in that overseeing CEO

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Speaker 1: kind of role. Aaron Glenn of the Jets, who last

449
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Speaker 1: year did not call the defensive plays, regretted it afterwards,

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Speaker 1: and now this season said that he does plan to

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Speaker 1: do so in twenty twenty six. There are other examples

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Speaker 1: of head coaches who are also a defensive play caller,

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald being one of them, going to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: close friend of Jesse Mentors and of course former coach

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Speaker 1: here in Baltimore. So that's kind of the example right

456
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Speaker 1: now of yeah, this can work, and it can work

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Speaker 1: pretty well when you have a high level defensive mind.

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Speaker 1: You know, like Jesse and like Mike, why would you

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Speaker 1: take away one of their strongest attributes, which is dialing

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Speaker 1: it up on game day? Right? So you know, Demiko

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Speaker 1: Ryans also calls plays, Dan Quinn for the Commander's uh,

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowles Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: Even of course there's plenty on the offense.

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Speaker 3: It just seems like there there's more of a trend

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Speaker 3: in the head coach being also a play caller on

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Speaker 3: one side.

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Speaker 2: Of the ball on game day.

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Speaker 1: There's more of a trend of kind of hiring somebody

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Speaker 1: that has expertise on one side of the ball, which

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Speaker 1: then leads to you when you're an expert, Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: also call the plays like you you.

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Speaker 3: Look at the championship games from last weekend. Of course,

473
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Speaker 3: in the AFU have the Patriots, you have the Bronco.

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Speaker 3: Sean Payton's the offensive play caller. Rabel doesn't call plays.

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Speaker 2: But Peyton does.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you go to the NFC side, Mike calls plays

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Speaker 3: for the defense. In Seattle, Sean McVay calls the offensive

478
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Speaker 3: place So like any Reeds called pretty darnwell in Kansas City,

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Speaker 3: Like there's there's plenty of examples of this, and so

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Speaker 3: I think that this kind of fits the trend of

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Speaker 3: what we're seeing in the NFL, especially on somebody who's

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Speaker 3: really established himself as a great excess and O's play

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Speaker 3: caller just makes.

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Speaker 2: A lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, to no surprise there. I think that it

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Speaker 1: was interesting. One thing that got kind of cleared up

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Speaker 1: the reporting structure of how things are going to work

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Speaker 1: now with Eric Tacosta and jesse Mentor, you know, Eric

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Speaker 1: talked about how they've had a really good system over

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Speaker 1: the years during his tenure with John Harbaugh and even

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Speaker 1: before that, of head coach and general manager both reporting

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Speaker 1: to the owner. And so the indication certainly is that

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Speaker 1: that structure is going to continue.

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Speaker 3: Right, and that's how it's been throughout this organization's tenure.

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Speaker 3: Was that way, as you mentioned, with Ozzie to John,

496
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Speaker 3: Ozzy to Ted Marshall, Broda, Eric to John. So that's

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Speaker 3: been the way that this organization has operated, and so

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a massive surprise there that that's

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Speaker 3: the way that the Ravens would continue to operate.

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Speaker 2: So let's take a quick break.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll share some other final thoughts

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Speaker 3: from this press conference and where the Ravens go from here.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Lounge podcast. We are coming to

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Speaker 3: So one endorsement that Jesse Minterer got for this job,

508
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Speaker 3: and he got a lot of them from coaches, from players,

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Speaker 3: as we mentioned earlier, actually is.

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Speaker 2: From John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 3: He said that they did talk a little bit during

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Speaker 3: the process and John said to Jesse that he thinks

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Speaker 3: the raven should hire him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that he texted him that, ye. Well, and you

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Speaker 1: wonder too, you know. Steve b Ashatti said that after

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Speaker 1: John Harball and the Ravens part of ways, they had conversations,

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Speaker 1: Steve's telling John where he thought he should go, and

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Speaker 1: John talking to him about where what he thought the

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Speaker 1: Ravens should do. You wonder if John said at that

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Speaker 1: point you all should hire Jesse mentor you know. And

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Speaker 1: so I think that there's this weird thing that exists

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Speaker 1: out there of like people saying, you know, wondering if

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Speaker 1: Jesse's going to be too much like Harb's or whatnot.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that he will be. He's his

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Speaker 1: own man. I think learning from one of the best

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Speaker 1: head coaches in the league is a positive thing. I've

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Speaker 1: said this before. Two of the best coaches in the

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Speaker 1: league in both Harvall brothers, John and Jim are really

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Speaker 1: good coaches. I'm glad that Jesse Menser learned from both

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Speaker 1: those guys, and he cited them as two of the

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Speaker 1: biggest coaching influences on him. Mike McDonald's another big one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's really good. I think that

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing that John Harball thought that Jesse

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Speaker 1: should be the guy to get the job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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Speaker 3: I also it was fun hear and from Jesse today

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Speaker 3: about his path and we'd heard this before, but that

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Speaker 3: decision for him to leave here back after the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty season to go to Vanderbilt. He described it today

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Speaker 3: as a shoot your shot moment. Yep, and like he

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Speaker 3: bet on himself, he said. Clark Lee, the head coach

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Speaker 3: of Vanderbilt, called him up and said, Hey, would you

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Speaker 3: be interested in coming here? Let's talk about this, And

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Speaker 3: that was he was stepping outside the familiar territory. He

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Speaker 3: was leaving the NFL and like, can you call a

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Speaker 3: defense of the SEC? A lot of questions, and he

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Speaker 3: took the chance and he shot a shot, and a

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Speaker 3: year later he was at me.

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Speaker 2: In a year after that, he's win a national change.

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Speaker 1: Like Steph Curry shots.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, dad was that was deep three point

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Speaker 3: He hit them and he hit it, and so I

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Speaker 3: thought it was kind of cool to hear that.

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Speaker 2: So like, yes, you he had the.

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Speaker 3: Experience of learning here and getting a sense of how

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Speaker 3: the hardballs operate and seeing how this program here in

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Speaker 3: Baltimore operates, and then he goes with Jim and had

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Speaker 3: a ton of success obviously at Michigan and in LA

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Speaker 3: But I think that all that experience is valuable. But

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Speaker 3: I also like his his willingness to be himself. Like

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Speaker 3: both those things are true, and and I thought that

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Speaker 3: that really stood out to me.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just interesting to see how the path

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Speaker 1: is forged and how these two things came to be. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's like the Ravens haven't had a head coach opening

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Speaker 1: in eighteen years, and suddenly when they do, the hottest

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Speaker 1: guy on the market is a former coach from here

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Speaker 1: who learned from your former head coach and one of

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Speaker 1: the best right who uh like has a defensive background

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Speaker 1: for a defensive franchise. That that's its like, it's just

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy how these two things aligned and it

572
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Speaker 1: was the right time for Jesse Minter. Also, Jesse talked

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Speaker 1: about how over the past year in LA that's when

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Speaker 1: he started to feel like, you know what, I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for this. And that's important too, Like it's you don't

576
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Speaker 1: want a candidate who just like whatever, they have a

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Speaker 1: great year and their offense or defense thrives and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they're hot name and like they're just

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Speaker 1: not ready to be a head coach yet that that happens, right,

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of young, up and coming candidates out there,

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Speaker 1: including ones that Ravens talk to it, and maybe they'll

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Speaker 1: end up being great head coaches. They very well might,

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Speaker 1: but like it's important also, like are they ready? Jesse

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Speaker 1: Mintor feels like he has felt for the past year,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, Yeah, you know, and and it's wild that

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Speaker 1: like these two things came together at the same time. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I also give Justice is a guy who's worked his

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Speaker 2: way up.

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Speaker 3: You know, he like you look at Pull up the

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Speaker 3: Wikipedia page and look down the bios of all the

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Speaker 3: places he's been assistant defensive assistant at Note and he

592
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Speaker 3: worked at Tennis or Cincinnati, he worked at Indiana State.

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Speaker 2: Like he's been in.

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Speaker 3: All these different places, Georgia State, Like he's worked at

595
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Speaker 3: small schools, big schools, College, NFL, across the board.

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Speaker 1: Across the board, small schools, and what he did there

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Speaker 1: even in knocking all some some titans, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So like he has been a lot of different places,

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Speaker 3: has worked his way up. And that was kind of

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Speaker 3: the point that Eric's Costa made too, is like when

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Speaker 3: he was here, like he's a low level assistant, he's

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Speaker 3: a young staffer, he's shared an office with three other guys,

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Speaker 3: and like he's paying his way, He's he's he's proving himself.

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Speaker 1: That's the path Eric DeCosta took to. So I have

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Speaker 1: to believe that that that resonated with Eric too. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't work your way up in this organization. Guy who

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Speaker 1: had a lot of success and earned it, jesse mentor

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Speaker 1: just the same as earned it in part outside of

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Speaker 1: this organization. But he worked his way up in the

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Speaker 1: coaching profession and within this organization to go from a

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Speaker 1: defensive assistant with the Ravens, you know, for for four

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Speaker 1: years essentially, you know, became a position coach there at

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Speaker 1: the to now the head coaches is pretty awesome to

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Speaker 1: see the video that we shared. If you haven't gone

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Speaker 1: out and done this, go check out all the clips

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Speaker 1: that we posted on social media from his like first

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Speaker 1: tour walking around the building as the head coach with

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Speaker 1: his family, which his family, by the way, is like

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Speaker 1: the cutest family of all time, three young kids, his

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Speaker 1: wife Rachel.

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Speaker 2: Awesome family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like, we are spoiled to have this family here

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore. I think there's gonna be a lot your

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Speaker 1: social media guy, well.

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Speaker 3: Jesse made the joke during his press conference like his

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Speaker 3: kids are social media famous after all the clips that

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Speaker 3: went exactly they're.

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Speaker 1: Adorable, and he said, you know, his family and his

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Speaker 1: kids are his inspiration really at this point of his coaching.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I just think that it's it's really

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Speaker 1: cool to see somebody work their way up like that

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Speaker 1: and now take your family into the big office and

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Speaker 1: be like this is where I am. And and Jesse

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Speaker 1: even said it's a good example to his other coaches

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Speaker 1: on his staff of like you you put it pay

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Speaker 1: your dues, work hard, like you can climb the ranks

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Speaker 1: just like I did. It's it's a really good message.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's very cool. I do want to

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Speaker 1: circle back to one note, and when I talk about

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Speaker 1: like the timing of things and how this all worked out,

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Speaker 1: and I think that there's just been a lot of

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Speaker 1: Ravens fans who are like, man, the timing didn't work

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Speaker 1: out with Mike McDonald and he left two years ago

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Speaker 1: and all this stuff and what you know, what could

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Speaker 1: have been or whatever. You know what, maybe the timing

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Speaker 1: worked out just right for Jesse Minterer and that's going

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Speaker 1: to be our guy. I get this good feeling about that,

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Speaker 1: you know, deep down inside me like that timing didn't

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Speaker 1: work out necessarily, but for Jesse Minner it could have

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Speaker 1: been perfect timing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally agree.

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Speaker 3: And then the other point too, my last one is

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Speaker 3: in hearing from Jesse Eric and Sashi Brown today saw

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Speaker 3: she made the point that this team is built to

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Speaker 3: compete for championships right now.

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Speaker 2: Yep, everybody feels that way.

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Speaker 3: That's the expectation, that's the standard, that's the way that

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Speaker 3: the raven that's where the Ravens think they should be,

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Speaker 3: and coming off a season when they didn't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: you know, came within a whisker of making it. But

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Speaker 3: the the belief is that this team can be right

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Speaker 3: back into it. This is not a rebuild. This is

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Speaker 3: not like let's go back to square one and start

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Speaker 3: things over from scratch. No, this is get the right

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Speaker 3: coach who can take this team with a lot of

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Speaker 3: vetteran talented players. And Jesse made this point too, like

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Speaker 3: there's all pros on the team. There's Defensive Player of

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Speaker 3: the Year type players on this team, There's an MVP

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Speaker 3: on this team. This team is ready made to go

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Speaker 3: compete right now, and they have a belief that they

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Speaker 3: can go do that. And I share in that belief.

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Speaker 3: I think that this team, with this coach is going

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Speaker 3: to be able to go out there and compete right away.

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Speaker 1: Let's not just look at this. I know we're excited

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Speaker 1: because it's you know, Jesse's first day here and he's

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Speaker 1: being introduced, but let's not look at this in a vacuum.

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Speaker 1: The AFC North has three new head coaches, right Jesse

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Speaker 1: Mentor Todd Munkin with the Cleveland Browns is now official,

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Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tho's the guys

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Speaker 1: you know. And then of course in Cincinnati, y Y

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Speaker 1: Taylor's still there, right exactly. Those are the guys that

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Speaker 1: we're competing with for championships, yep. And it's a major.

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Speaker 2: Major change in this division, nature change. I like our guy, yeah,

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Speaker 2: no doubt.

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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be really good and excited to

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Speaker 3: see where this team goes. So, as always, you can

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Speaker 3: email us at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net.

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Speaker 3: If you're watching on YouTube, make sure you subscribe to

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Speaker 3: our YouTube channel for all the great content that we

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Speaker 3: have from this time with Jesse and throughout the entire year.

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Speaker 3: So thank you for watching and listening. We'll be back

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Speaker 3: with you again soon