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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by DraftKings. It's a size

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Speaker 1: him Up Monday, Garrett Big win over the Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: nineteen to seventeen at the Bank on Sunday Night Football.

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Speaker 1: This is one of those mornings where you know, you

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Speaker 1: drop the kid off at Dakecare and everybody's like, hey, Goodwin,

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Speaker 1: last night, Goodwin. You know everybody's watching this one. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: Ravens are three and two and now in sole possession

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Speaker 1: of first place in the NFC North through five weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's October. We haven't won any division title yet, but

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Speaker 1: but on top of the of the pile for now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are on the driver's sheet. They have the

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Speaker 1: early lead. So I always love it's it's a new

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Speaker 1: trend that I've noticed that pretty much once the final

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Speaker 1: whistle sounds there's an immediate influx of emails to the

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Speaker 1: Lounge mailbox. It just gets like almost immediate. So last

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Speaker 1: week it wasn't so good. This week it was a

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Speaker 1: much different story. And my favorite subject line of those emails,

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Speaker 1: and you can always email us to the Lounge of

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Speaker 1: Ravens dot NFL dot net is clearly a size them

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Speaker 1: up Monday. So this from comes from Chris who's in Scotland.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's four am in Scotland. I'm feeling the

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Speaker 1: buzz right now. Having a game at the Bang on

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Speaker 1: TV is electric. I can only imagine how good it

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Speaker 1: is to actually be there. It's definitely a must do

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Speaker 1: if and when I get the chance to travel over there. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that is Certainly people are feeling

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Speaker 1: the excitement after that game on multiple levels. On one,

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Speaker 1: you played at a primetime game, and so there's that

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Speaker 1: buzz and the excitement and the whole world is watching

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Speaker 1: all that. Another another piece is the Ravens basically have

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Speaker 1: found themselves in these close games and now they now

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Speaker 1: they come out on top. Now they're in a situation

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Speaker 1: where they're the team that wins the close game and

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Speaker 1: you're not talking about a breaker that comes down to

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Speaker 1: the wire. So just all around you are you wearing

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Speaker 1: the ring this morning? I didn't put it on. I

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Speaker 1: was hoping you weren't gonna call me out. I was

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Speaker 1: kind of hustling to get in here. Should I go

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Speaker 1: get it? That's sorry, that's all right, it's all right.

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to go get it, though, because

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Speaker 1: it's not. It's a thing now, and I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that it's a thing. You know. You know what,

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Speaker 1: if this was actually a video version, I would say yes, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting it. No, no, I'm getting it all right,

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Speaker 1: b r B. You won't even know this in postcut editing.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting the ring, got it, got it, had to

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Speaker 1: oh man, woke up, woke up my wife in the

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Speaker 1: process of getting it. Rough night to sleep for her back.

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Speaker 1: extra sleep, woke her up to get the ring. Worth

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Speaker 1: it it? Sorry alright, anyway you were saying, Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: I just think that this is like, this is one

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Speaker 1: of those wins that, like, I think has a potential.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to overstay it here, but I'm feeling it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a size about Monday. I think it's

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Speaker 1: one of those wins that has the potential to roll forward.

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Speaker 1: And I think the Ravens kind of needed this. I

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Speaker 1: think they needed a game and like j K. Dobbs

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Speaker 1: actually said it after after the game, he said, I

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Speaker 1: felt like they kind of we kind of needed to

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Speaker 1: win a close game like this to get over that

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Speaker 1: hump to overcome kind of the recent struggles in the

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Speaker 1: second halves of games. You want a key game against

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Speaker 1: a really good team, and I really think this has

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Speaker 1: a chance to kind of roll forward and the team

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Speaker 1: could get hot. Well you know me, Like, I'm really

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Speaker 1: not a person that like extrapolates too much from one

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Speaker 1: week's results. I just think it's so such a week

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Speaker 1: to week league and you never know what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: But I in this case, I agree with you. I

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Speaker 1: think it wasn't so much. You know, being in first

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Speaker 1: place in names North is great, all that stuff, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's great. But I think this was

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Speaker 1: really a um, a win for the soul kind of right,

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Speaker 1: like I said, kind of coming into this one. If

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Speaker 1: the Ravens suffered in last night's game, another defeat in

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Speaker 1: which they didn't close it out at the end and

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Speaker 1: previous home losses, that would have been really crushing, would

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Speaker 1: is like thinking about the flip side was really scary

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Speaker 1: sideline out versts and all that stuff, right, and so

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Speaker 1: like a avoiding that fate, even though the Ravens necessarily

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Speaker 1: it was just a relief for that not to happen

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Speaker 1: and to score that team win in which everybody kind

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Speaker 1: of stepped up, right, I mean, the offense stepped up

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Speaker 1: up with the game winning field goal, the defense stepped

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Speaker 1: and let's also not forget after what the Bengals did

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Speaker 1: it was just after two home collapses this season already.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't have a third, yeah, I think, And the

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that, but there's no doubt that

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Speaker 1: this game on a night where Lamar Jackson wasn't his best.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the team is gonna run to Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: you know, and if if something happens to Rashad Bateman,

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Speaker 1: Devin Dubonne stepped up five catches for fifty four yards. Uh,

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Speaker 1: So I'll take that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good,

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Speaker 1: Devon so continues to show, you know, his versatility, like

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel light Baby. Well, you know I said something

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Speaker 1: you know, Baton was out. I mean, Ronnie Stanley is

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Speaker 1: then the fourth down, you know, I over shot Tyler

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Speaker 1: Uh pretty David, thanks for the thanks for the podcast

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Speaker 1: on a long time listener, first time messaging you guys,

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Speaker 1: and he enjoys listening weekly. Um, it's finally good to

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Speaker 1: watching a title fight. I'm glad that Ray was able

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Speaker 1: And I'm starting to feel optimistic about our defense that

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Speaker 1: making life difficult on Joe Burrow and so to that email,

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Speaker 1: to the point of the email, as the Ravens get

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Speaker 1: distance on that one? I don't know, keep talking up. Yeah, No,

427
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,639
Speaker 1: I was not. I wanted to kick the fifty eight

428
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 1: year bond because I know, justin Tuckers is money. Fourth

429
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 1: and four, fourth and four from the Cincinnati diferene. Four

430
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,199
Speaker 1: and four and fourth and one A big difference, especially

431
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 1: when you have a guy who you think can make

432
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 1: it in that situation. I don't like point. John Harball

433
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 1: said that wasn't an easy one on yer. He said,

434
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 1: that wasn't an easy one. Uh, you know, because if

435
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 1: you miss that, then there you get you get the

436
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:27,400
Speaker 1: ball at midfield are better, right, And uh so it's

437
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 1: not easy because it's not an easy decision. But when

438
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: you have Tucker like you use use that tool, use

439
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 1: that that that tool in your bag. Um. So yeah,

440
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 1: I liked the decision on the play that didn't work out,

441
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 1: the Titland Wallace. Um. And then I was saying kick it, um,

442
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was the right call. You

443
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: were trying to say, go for it, go for the touchdown.

444
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: You know, well, see, Garrett, the difference between me and

445
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 1: you is I'm a dog and I like to attack.

446
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 1: I like to make the right decision, which is what

447
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,959
Speaker 1: I which is what happened. You're a cat. You are

448
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: such a cat guy. So the dog in me was

449
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 1: coming out. I won't lie, and I was like, go

450
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,199
Speaker 1: for it, put them away. But um, I wasn't. I

451
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: wasn't as strong as I was, I admit I I

452
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: the last the Bills game, I was. I was hard

453
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 1: in to go for it. This one I wasn't quite

454
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: as much. I just thought the defense was playing really well.

455
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 1: The Bengals really had not. They get the Bengals at Bay,

456
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: You're at home, the places rocking. Uh, it was just

457
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of different factors in it for me, and

458
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: really the time, right, I mean, you had ninety two

459
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: left at that point. If you kicked the field goal,

460
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 1: it's just like what played out then, you know, even

461
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: if they score a touchdown, you're gonna get another shot

462
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 1: with plenty of clock, right, And so it was just

463
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: the circumstances were different from me that I I also,

464
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 1: while kind of my guts said immediately go for it,

465
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: I was glad that they kicked it. Yeah. And and

466
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, I've said this before, I think that, you know,

467
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens still have to improve in short yardage kind

468
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: of key situations, crucial third and short, fourth and short

469
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,479
Speaker 1: situations to keep getting those opportunities. In my mind, they

470
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: had a fourth and short earlier the game they didn't

471
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: get it. So to me, it's like, Okay, no, I'm

472
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: not in this situation, given all the history, given the

473
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: last week, I'm not kicking. I'm not going for the

474
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 1: touchdown in that situation. Obviously, obviously it was the right call,

475
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: as evidenced by the fact that the Ravens get to win.

476
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: So then justin Tucker Um, I mean, the game winner,

477
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 1: I don't think that there was any doubt in that

478
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: stadium that he was gonna knock that through. I asked

479
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins, like, what are you thinking when Tucker

480
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 1: lines that up? He's like, you don't have to think,

481
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: you just know what's going in. And I think that's

482
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: kind of a feeling that a lot of Ravens fans had.

483
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: I mean, it was so down the middle, it was

484
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: it was dead center, down the middle and kind of classic.

485
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: And well then did you see that? Did you see

486
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 1: that stat that if lepore half of half a yard wide,

487
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: it would have split the upright there, exactly right down

488
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: the pipe. You can't get any any more down the

489
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: middle in that. But yeah, it's like you're that looks

490
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: like your drive in golf exactly. Never break out the driver,

491
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: You use your putter off the tea down right down

492
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: the fairway, down the fairway for about thirty yards. Um.

493
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I think, um, it was just really impressive. Um,

494
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: you know, the game winner was great. I think I actually,

495
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: to be honest, the player I was like a little

496
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: bit more concerned with was Jordan's stout because he's a

497
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: rookie holder in a key situation, a primetime football and

498
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: it's been good this year but that's kind of been

499
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: the question with Jordan's stout, like he how how do

500
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: you handle that key situation when the games on the line,

501
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: And he passed the test and that was big for him,

502
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: and you could tell, you know, I talked to Jordan's

503
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: and Justin and Nick Moore, the three those guys coming

504
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: off the field, and and Jordan sal might have had

505
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: the biggest smile of any of them. And I just

506
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,479
Speaker 1: think he was kind of relishing in that moment and

507
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: just just so happy that he was able to get

508
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: that down and Justin was able to knock it through

509
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: and what a weapon that guy is. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely,

510
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: Just a couple last points for me. Do you think that, uh,

511
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: you know, one thing the Ravens need to kind of

512
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: clean up a little bit the next mission, because it's

513
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: that's what the NFL season is. It's putting out one

514
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: fire after another, right, You're just addressing different things that

515
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: crop up. Is run defense is gonna have to stiffen

516
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Twenty one carries for a hundred

517
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: and one yards. The Bengals were kind of gashing the

518
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: Ravens on the second half of this game. You know,

519
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: the Bengals came into the game not running the ball well,

520
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: one of the worst in the league. And Joe Mixon

521
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: goes for fourteen and seventy eight. And now you're going

522
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: into a game against the New York Giants and see

523
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: Kwon bart Barkley, who leads the league and rushing. You

524
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: know that run defense is going to have to tighten

525
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Now, you know, maybe the Ravens

526
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 1: were saying, Okay, we don't think you're to beat us

527
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: running the ball, but we want to keep the top

528
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: on the defense. And that's fine. They did. Mission accomplished, right,

529
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: no wide receiver for the Bengals win over fifty yards.

530
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: Mission accomplished. But just saying like that run defense is

531
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: going to have to be strong to win next week

532
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: in New York. And and last one other one, this

533
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: last point for me, and we already talked about Lamar

534
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: and the overthrows and all this stuff, but here's what

535
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: here's what that game said to me about Lamar Jackson.

536
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: And it's not anything new, but it's just it just

537
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: shows it once again, is the dude is a winner.

538
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: He's just a winner. Right, there's a reason why Lamar

539
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: Jackson has the record that he does over his entire career. Right,

540
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: It's because he wins games like that, right, And it's

541
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: not by accident. I mean, the guy's forty and fourteen

542
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: in his career, pretty darn good, and you just know,

543
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, I had almost as much confidence that the

544
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: offense was gonna get moved the ball down for a

545
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: field goal as I did in Justin Tucker lining that

546
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: one up. Maybe not quick, Yeah, that's a little embossing,

547
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: but like I honestly, when when the Ravens are getting

548
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: the ball back in two minutes, I was like, plenty

549
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: of time, this is happening, you know, well, and I think, yeah, totally,

550
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: I think that he deserves obviously a lot of credit

551
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: for I mean, he was just kind of methodical on

552
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: that last drive. And then you know, obviously the difference

553
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: with him compared to any other quarterback is like when

554
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: you need when when they found themselves and like, all right,

555
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: you need a yard just to extend to get a

556
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: fresh set of downs here and put yourself kind of

557
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: line up the kick. He just keeps the ball. You

558
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: just keep the ball in his hands, and he goes

559
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: and picks up the first down and there's not really

560
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: probably any other quarterbacks, but probably that any other that

561
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: are running as much as he is on that last drive.

562
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: But he was methodical. He was delivering the ball sharp, sharply.

563
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: He was picking up straight completions to Mark Andrews to

564
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: start that driver was huge. Yeah, just like boom boom. Okay,

565
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: now we're off and rolling. Okay, here we go, and

566
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 1: now we're off to the races. And then and all

567
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like you were there were like the

568
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: forty five and you're like, okay, you need like seven

569
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: more yards like for like for Tucker to attempt to bomb,

570
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: you know. And I just think that, like, um, that

571
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: just kind of when you when you have also in

572
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: the back of your mind. I think when you're like,

573
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: all right, we don't need much more for Tucker, it

574
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: just makes the dry. It just makes the dry feels

575
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: so much more manageable. You're like, all right, all we

576
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: need is a little bit more and then we can

577
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: just from there. Then it's like you're playing with house money,

578
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: And I think that helps the offense overall when you

579
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: kind of have that that comfort in the back of

580
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: your mind. YEA, a couple other kudos before we wrap

581
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: this up. I think Patrick Queen deserves deserves a round

582
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: of applause for catching that ball. I mean, that's that's

583
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: a big play for him, you know, after dropping two

584
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: interceptions that uh, you know, one of which obviously would

585
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: have changed the game dramatically against the Bills. Uh, and

586
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: he went to work, you know, he was catching tennis

587
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: balls after practice and kind of working on that hand

588
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: eye coordination and just making sure, you know, the hands

589
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: are right. And to see that that work kind of

590
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: payoff and to see him make a big play in

591
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: a big situation, shan that you hope. You know, he

592
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: still has things to improve on and he needs to

593
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 1: show up some of us tackling, you know, when they

594
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: were checking down to the running backs and all that stuff.

595
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: You know, those are plays that he wants to make

596
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: right and um, but you hope that this is this

597
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: game can kind of be a little bit of a

598
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: springboard for him. And seeing the Ravens postgame locker celebration,

599
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: locker room celebration kind of have her that home for me,

600
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, just seeing guys kind of loving on him

601
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: and they want to see him going because Patrick Queen

602
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: is a very important player in this defense. Yeah, two

603
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: quick points on that one. First of all, I do

604
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: think he should have I'll say a preface this by saying,

605
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: I think he should have caught those interceptions the past

606
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: few weeks that he dropped. But I also think that

607
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: the narrative the pendulum swung a little too far in

608
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: the direction of those were gammes in the bread basket.

609
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: They hit him in the hands, they were right in

610
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: his hands, but those were Ricochet's and at close range there.

611
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: I was talking to Tory Smith about this before the game,

612
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: and he's like, I think that Patrick Queen's gotten dogged

613
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: a little too unfairly because those are at full speed.

614
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: When you see the slowdown and you see it bounce

615
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: off his hands, the slow moo is never favorable, never

616
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: flattering in that situation. Yeah, and it hits the right

617
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: in the hands. Oh this guy can't catch. But like

618
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: in full speed, it was deflected. Both those balls deflected

619
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: right in front of him, and so it was like

620
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: not quite as easy. I think as everyone made it out,

621
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: I think you should have made it, But I also

622
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: don't think it was a gimmick play um. And then

623
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: secondly I think that I just think on that real

624
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: quick I don't think Patrick Queen has a hands problem.

625
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: I think what you're what this play last night did

626
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: was help with the head. You know. It's like you

627
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: dropped too many of those and all of a sudden

628
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: it gets in your head and you're thinking, oh, you know, yeah,

629
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: am I gonna make the play the next time? You

630
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And so I think mentally it

631
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: was a mental thing more than it was at this

632
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: point a physical thing. Yeah, but I don't think that

633
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: he dropped those because he was thinking about him. Know

634
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm saying. I'm saying I could have

635
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: become a mental thinking And if you didn't make that left, Yeah,

636
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: like you worry about like a Hollywood situation in Detroit,

637
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: you know where he was. Um, But obviously that didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: pepe um, you know, and how much of that is

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Speaker 1: a matchup kind of thing. Um, Whether they just thought

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Speaker 1: but it'll be interesting to ask about that this week. Yeah, totally. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: so look, it's it's uh, this is when you enjoy

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Speaker 1: it because these are the types of winds, uh that

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Speaker 1: you know, the the adrenaline to get you through today.

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Speaker 1: It'll get you through the first days. This week, you

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Speaker 1: know is the worst. This morning, Get up, come down,

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Speaker 1: get the coffee. No creamer had run out of creamer

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Speaker 1: this morning. Oh my god, just drinking coffee black. Come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: what are you? Are you a Barbarian black coffee the

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Speaker 1: way it's meant to be drank anyway, Good size ab

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Speaker 1: up Monday, Glad I got the ring that really gave

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Speaker 1: me the juice this morning to get her over the

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Speaker 1: creamer situation. I'm feeling great and we'll be back with

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Speaker 1: you later this week as it was emails at the

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Speaker 1: lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: track down a player have a great interview this week.

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