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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We have the

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Speaker 1: pleasure of sitting down with Justin Mattabique and Justin, should

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Speaker 1: I injure you as a d tackle or edge now

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Speaker 1: now you're you're past rushing on point from that edge?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd just say d linman, like anywhere on the

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Speaker 2: on the line, nose tackle and yeah, wherever Michael wants

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Speaker 2: to put me on, I think I can get to work.

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Speaker 1: Well, you are your feasting this year, already on pace

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Speaker 1: for double digit sacks already, and uh, I do kind

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Speaker 1: of want to start there. It's just been you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously a big game against the Titans in London, and

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Speaker 1: it's been fun to watch your tape. Man, like you

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Speaker 1: you were eating over there. It was fish and chips

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Speaker 1: just all day. What is it that you feel like

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Speaker 1: has really gotten you off to this hot start?

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Speaker 2: I think just like the work I put in the

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Speaker 2: off season and also just being in good team like

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Speaker 2: chemistry with just linebackers and the defensive tackles be on

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Speaker 2: the same point in terms of like games and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that, and then believe it in me as well.

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Speaker 2: Just I feel like it's helped me flourish and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. But you know, I just always feel like

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Speaker 2: nothing is like good enough. I can always get better,

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Speaker 2: like on the edge and stuff like that. I'm acting

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Speaker 2: dot fait for pointers droppings, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm not accustomed to playing that position, so I'm just

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Speaker 2: trying to just get better at every like place I'm

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Speaker 2: in the D line.

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Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, so he the point in terms of you

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Speaker 3: being on the edge. You got a sack from the

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Speaker 3: edge spot in this game, and so they're moving you

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Speaker 3: all over the place. Like what was your when when

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Speaker 3: they said, all right, we're gonna try this thing out.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna put you at the edge spot here for

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Speaker 3: you know, a play or series of plays.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's been doing it's yeah the first time. You know,

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Speaker 4: you did it last game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did it in the Texans game too.

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Speaker 3: When they first came to you and they were like,

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Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna just try this out and put

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Speaker 3: you here in that spot. You'll be up against kind

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Speaker 3: of the tackle in this role. Like what did you think?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't something that I've done for the first time.

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Speaker 2: Like in college I did that too. I didn't get

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Speaker 2: like a lot of sacks on the edge in college,

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Speaker 2: like they're more like a contained rush, you know. I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: like like fall back if you're past the quarterback and

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Speaker 2: stuff like that. But now I think it's just fun

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Speaker 2: because it's something that I haven't done, Like this is

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Speaker 2: not my first time doing it, and I feel like

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Speaker 2: more more confident. Like all my boys gave me points

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that, like angles and stuff on the

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Speaker 2: edge is really about angle. When that tight ends there,

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Speaker 2: I'm just like it's about to chip the freaking hell out.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to go for that. So yeah, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I'm getting more confident as it goes on.

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Speaker 1: And it looked like on that sack he kind of

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Speaker 1: gave him like a little heavy and then power.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, talk about breakdown that side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. Like when we were on the plane back,

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Speaker 2: we'realking just laughing, like just so funny. I was like,

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Speaker 2: what's so funny. It's like this dude right here tried

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Speaker 2: to fake speed and just went straight power like the

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Speaker 2: way it look But yeah, I was just I was

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Speaker 2: on the edge and like if you really see the play,

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Speaker 2: like I was supposed to be a three, but Kyle,

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Speaker 2: he pushed me out there. He's like, I just rushing that.

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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, bet im just like what

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Speaker 2: am I gonna do? Because I had a plan for

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Speaker 2: the guard? Yeah, I just came up the ball lace.

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, I just stuttered and I got him

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Speaker 2: and I was like, all right, but that that works.

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Speaker 2: That's I can add to my arsenal.

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Speaker 1: So now the sack celebration I've been noticing has just

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Speaker 1: been the classic the flex.

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Speaker 4: Yeah are you working on it? Are you work shopping anything? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know yeah, I mean we're just talking about that.

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Speaker 2: He's like, you need to make something better. I'm just like, yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking of it. He's like, okay, okay, I

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Speaker 2: don't worry about it. I was like, as at least

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Speaker 2: your words just keep on. But yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 2: need to definitely make something. But flex is just so natural,

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Speaker 2: like I just get up and just like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: well like that it's boom yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well you're getting so many sacks now, four and a

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Speaker 3: half this year so far, so like you kind of

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Speaker 3: need to mix it up, right. I Mean it's like

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Speaker 3: it's you get the flex works if you're getting a

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Speaker 3: few of them. Now you're getting so many of them.

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Speaker 3: You're on page Okay, keep it fresh. You gotta keep

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Speaker 3: it fresh.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking of something. It's gonna be clean. Trust, Trust's

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Speaker 2: gonna be clean. No.

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Speaker 3: So like in terms of like just I want to

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Speaker 3: stick on that past rush a little bit because it's

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Speaker 3: been impressive just to see the way that you have

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Speaker 3: developed in that regard, Like and I remember even when

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Speaker 3: the Ravens first drafted you, like that was an element

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Speaker 3: of your game, and it's just like what stands out

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Speaker 3: to me, it's really you as a player overall, but

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Speaker 3: I think it's really shows in the pass rush department,

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Speaker 3: like you've just gotten better every year, Like you just

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Speaker 3: continue to improve every single season and we're and we're

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Speaker 3: seeing that again this season.

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Speaker 5: Why do you think that is?

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Speaker 3: And what is it about your ability as a pass

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Speaker 3: rusher that has kind of gone to another level this year.

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Speaker 2: It's a good question, I'd say, Like I think it's

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Speaker 2: like my inner hunger just to get better, like my

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Speaker 2: inner like willingness to like call justin Houston or even

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Speaker 2: Chuck or any of these guys that I know are

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Speaker 2: really really good at what they do in terms of

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Speaker 2: past rush, like to ask questions, to ask detailed questions,

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Speaker 2: write notes down like I'm doing all that, Like I'm

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Speaker 2: putting pride to the side, calling up whoever I know

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Speaker 2: that can get me better. I'm asking silly questions, real questions,

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Speaker 2: like I'm not afraid to ask a dumb question. I'm

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Speaker 2: just trying to find a way to just to get better.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's first. I feel like that's just

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Speaker 2: the internal and then the external is me just like

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Speaker 2: obviously getting right with Scott in the weight room, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean tuning up things in terms of pastors, when

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Speaker 2: in terms of like on the dots outside of the field.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like all that comes together and you

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Speaker 2: just get good product when it comes to Sundays.

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Speaker 4: So, so you called justin Houston. Who are the guys

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Speaker 4: that you've called?

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Speaker 1: And I kind of want to hear an example of

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Speaker 1: the questions that you're asking include the dumb questions.

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Speaker 5: I'm kind of curious someone who knows the thing you

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Speaker 5: hear that dumb question.

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Speaker 2: Very funny. I can't really think on top of my

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Speaker 2: head the dumb question I asked. But I don't know,

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Speaker 2: like I'll be like, hey, Justin, bro when you're like

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Speaker 2: trying to like snatch him and like, do you worry

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Speaker 2: about your like your neque collabsence of ill just ask

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Speaker 2: questions like that because I'm a heavier guy, so like

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I got to make sure

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Speaker 2: like I'm on point when my angles and stuff like.

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Speaker 2: He's like, Noah, I don't worry about that, brother, Just

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Speaker 2: like you bring him to your pocket, like when you

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Speaker 2: snatch them, bring them to your pocket. So he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be right here so you can be clear. So just

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Speaker 2: stuff like that. I'm just like trying to like not

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Speaker 2: not only take notes of it, remember and actually apply

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Speaker 2: it in practice and practice and works in practice. I

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Speaker 2: have more confidence when it comes to game.

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Speaker 4: That's cool.

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Speaker 5: And then you cool that you just justing now like

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Speaker 5: this season you're talking to Justice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I texted him like like three weeks ago. I was like, hey, man,

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Speaker 2: what do you eat before the game? Like it gives

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Speaker 2: you the best feel. He's like night games or like

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Speaker 2: noon games, and he gave me my category and all

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Speaker 2: this stuff. Like I'm writing his down, I'm sending to

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Speaker 2: the DAFE to him. Bro, We're like we're trying to

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Speaker 2: feast man, Like this is our year. I just feel it,

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Speaker 2: you know what. I mean, but just one day at

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Speaker 2: a time and just being able to be willing to

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Speaker 2: just ask questions, to be hungry and just be stepfast.

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Speaker 4: Really do you do you still talk to Klais at all?

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Speaker 4: I know he was a big mentor for you.

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Speaker 2: I call Kay has called me. I had an answer,

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Speaker 2: but I called him back a week ago. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we still keep in touch. I want to talk like

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Speaker 2: all the time, Like when he was here. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just I just saw him get his one hundred second

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Speaker 2: everybody throwing him up right now. I'm gonna wait a

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Speaker 2: little bit, like, hey, bro, I'm singing that congrats. You

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. But yeah, he was definitely a

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Speaker 2: guy that you know. I mean, I asked a lot

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Speaker 1: So one thing I would ask you about is Mike

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Speaker 1: McDonald and is in his defense, especially up front, it

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Speaker 1: seems like he does run games and stunts with like everybody,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Mike Pierce gets you know, they're clearing

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Speaker 4: You don't usually see that.

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Speaker 1: How how does that affect the mindset of defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: when you know Mike's gonna scheme up everybody to get

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, Mike is really really good at what

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Speaker 2: he does. Like we were talking about this the other day.

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Speaker 2: He's like a wizard and comes to just defensive schemes

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Speaker 2: and just putting us some positions to be successful and

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Speaker 2: just uh, he got Mike cutting loose, meat, cutting loose,

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Speaker 2: off cutting loose, everybody cutting loose and just uh, everybody

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Speaker 2: doing their one or eleven. If everybody doing their job

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Speaker 2: is what makes it work, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: It's not just him. Kong gets him calling and everybody

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Speaker 2: being on the same page, right, executing like to a t.

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Speaker 2: So sure, Mike's really really good at that.

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Speaker 5: So I'm curious how it helps.

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Speaker 3: Like, the thing that's unique in some regards about your

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Speaker 3: defense in terms of the pass rush, is that it

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Speaker 3: can be a different guy every game. Like, and there's

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Speaker 3: not one dominant player who's getting at to the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Some teams have the guy and it's like, this guy's

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Speaker 3: gonna get ten plus sacks, you know. The Browns are

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Speaker 3: kind of that way. Well, but here's a couple of

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Speaker 3: guys you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, clown is Yeah, So

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Speaker 3: like it could be a different guy every game.

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Speaker 5: How does that help you as a player.

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Speaker 2: I don't really worry about it really, to be honest

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Speaker 2: with you, like you're like, I just I just do

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Speaker 2: my I just do my job. And I feel like

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Speaker 2: if I do my job and working my my ass

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Speaker 2: off on like on the field, and just stay on point,

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Speaker 2: like they'll come to you, you know, like on the sideline.

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Speaker 2: You could be at halftime with zero six like oh

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Speaker 2: what was me? Like I need a ball? But no,

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Speaker 2: I'm just like get like your banana, gets your oranges

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Speaker 2: and and halftime, get some good energy and just come

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Speaker 2: out like on fire. Just do your job and then

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Speaker 2: like when you win, like when you get a one

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Speaker 1: Well, part of it's that that twenty twenty draft class,

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Speaker 4: A huge role now, I mean Peak you, you, Malik, Gino, Brody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They they're great guys too, so it's awesome to be

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Speaker 3: Like you play, you play to the whistle, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: Very important? Yeah, even though like I'm not like super

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Speaker 2: So I'm definitely here, you know what I'm saying to

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Speaker 3: You know, they're one of the best offenses, They're one

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Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie, man, They're gonna have to show me.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have to show me. And that's just what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it. I like it, man.

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Speaker 1: That's that's one thing I like about you too, is

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Speaker 1: we respect you, but like we ain't gonna sit here

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Speaker 2: You know I'm saying. I'm being serious, Lily, is what

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Speaker 2: it is. We just put in too much work, We

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Speaker 2: And even if they happen to get their their way.

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Speaker 4: Gut feeling like they're gonna get in.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be in a war and they're gonna like

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 1: My last question for you, justin is your mentality and

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Speaker 4: How much of that is because of your upbringing with

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Speaker 2: Do you think a lot? Really? A lot? You know,

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Speaker 2: My parents came here with nothing, and I just found

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Speaker 2: So I feel like stuff like that just helped me

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Speaker 3: Man, You've been balling the season and I look forward

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, welcome back into the seat. Geeks Studio really enjoyed

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Speaker 3: You know, I said on Monday or on Tuesday when

447
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Speaker 3: we did the film breakdown, you know, Brinks Truck is

448
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Speaker 3: getting ready to back up for him, and I think

449
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Speaker 3: that he's going to keep it rolling. I think that

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Speaker 3: he's gonna I just think that when the season is done,

451
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be really impressed with what he's.

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Speaker 2: Able to do.

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Speaker 5: Have great stats, you can have a big payday, and

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Speaker 5: he's going to be a really important piece of this defense.

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Speaker 3: And I love his approach because I think he does

456
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Speaker 3: a lot of things behind the scenes that don't get seen,

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Speaker 3: whether it's diet or sleep.

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Speaker 4: Like he mentioned different guys. I thought that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like hearing from other players, like when Kalays was

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Speaker 3: here and Matty bk was, you know, a rookie second

461
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Speaker 3: year player like he was. He was following him around

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Speaker 3: every he was his shadow, like soaking up as much

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Speaker 3: information as.

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Speaker 1: He Kalis Campbell would constantly say, like I am always

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Speaker 1: in Justin's ear telling him, like how good you can

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Speaker 1: be just from an athletic standpoint, and then you see

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Speaker 1: the work ethic and all he does behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: to really maximize that athletic ability that he has, like

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Speaker 1: kind of the you know, it's cliche, but sky's limit

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Speaker 1: for that guy.

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Speaker 4: You know, he has all the ability of the world.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of like when he first got here,

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Speaker 3: that was kind of the the talking point. It was like,

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Speaker 3: this guy could be really good. He could be really good,

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Speaker 3: and he's just gotten better every single season and I

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Speaker 3: think he's I think he's putting it all together, yeah

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Speaker 3: this year, and yeah, I'm thrilled by what he's been

478
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Speaker 3: able to do.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot about pass rush, but his run

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Speaker 1: defense has been very, very good too. You know, you

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Speaker 1: talk about losing a guy like Klais Campbell, who is

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Speaker 1: a great run defender, you know, and Matta Bikas had

483
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Speaker 1: to kind of step up in that regard to and

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens run defense is one of the

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Speaker 1: best in the league for the for that reason.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens basically remade their defensive front to some level

488
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Speaker 3: this offseason on the edge with letting Justin Houston go

489
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Speaker 3: and the Jason Jason Pierre Paul didn't come back, and

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Speaker 3: then you know, Kalais goes, and so now you basically

491
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Speaker 3: are counting on some young players and some newcomers like

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Speaker 3: Clowny to come in and so and they've been really good.

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Speaker 3: And I think part of the reason they felt comfortable.

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Speaker 3: As much as you would love to have Kalais come

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Speaker 3: back for another year, they felt comfortable with it is

496
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Speaker 3: because they've had confidence in the young guys that they

497
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Speaker 3: had in the mix here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're seeing why.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So we want to talk a little bit about this

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Speaker 1: upcoming big game against the Lions.

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Speaker 2: Big game.

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Speaker 5: Justin made game.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can tell it. Justin Matdeek is a

505
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Speaker 4: little fired up for that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And and you know, kind of like I said,

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Speaker 1: I really do like the Ravens vibes going into this

509
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Speaker 1: because you know, they've been hearing a lot about how

510
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Speaker 1: they haven't played up to their potential and whatever. You

511
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Speaker 1: should have blown these teams out and you didn't, or

512
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Speaker 1: you've lost the teams that you should have blown out,

513
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Speaker 1: and now here comes the team into.

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Speaker 4: Your house that's five and one.

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Speaker 1: They've won what is it, thirteen out of the last

516
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Speaker 1: sixteen games, right, one of the best teams in the NFC,

517
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Speaker 1: if not the best, And it's kind of a all right,

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Speaker 1: you know, sure, Okay, we haven't blown out teams like

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Speaker 1: you think we all should have. Maybe we haven't put

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Speaker 1: it all together yet, Like we're gonna have to play

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Speaker 1: really well against this challenge, and like, I think that

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Speaker 1: that kind of.

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Speaker 4: That gets you going a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I think it kind of reminds me a little bit

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Speaker 3: a few weeks ago when they were going to play

526
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Speaker 3: the Browns and everybody was like Browns number one defense,

527
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Speaker 3: numbers number one defense, And ironically I felt like the

528
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Speaker 3: fact that everyone was talking about the Browns being the

529
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Speaker 3: number one defense, we're ouled up to defense like more

530
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Speaker 3: than the offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 3: And now so it's now you're going up against the

533
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Speaker 3: Lions who have a great offense, and you know, people

534
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Speaker 3: like me are a big point. People like me are

535
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Speaker 3: asking him, like what do you think about going up

536
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Speaker 3: against his great offense? And that's been some end great team.

537
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Speaker 3: Like that's a talking point around the locker room this

538
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Speaker 3: entire week, like measuring stick, gam whatever cliche you want

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Speaker 3: to throw out there, and I think that they're like

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Speaker 3: they they get motivated by stuff like that. Yeah, and

541
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Speaker 3: teams are always looking for ways to motivate and whatever

542
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Speaker 3: you can use as as that motivation, and I think

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Speaker 3: that you know they have it.

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Speaker 1: I think there's definitely a little edge there. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you've been on the road for three straight weeks, You're

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Speaker 1: coming back to M and T Bank. Last time you

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Speaker 1: were there, you lost kind of a stinker to the Colts. Like,

548
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Speaker 1: let's go, this is a good team coming into our house.

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Speaker 1: We defend our turf kind of territory. Like, I just

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Speaker 1: like how this is all kind of lining up from

551
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Speaker 1: like the big picture storyline and the narratives and the

552
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Speaker 1: feeling going into the game. So I want to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the more nuanced things

554
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Speaker 1: about this game that the Ravens are gonna have to

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Speaker 1: do to win. And I think part of it it

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Speaker 1: really starts with Jared Goff and kind of cloud in

557
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Speaker 1: the picture there. I mean, Jared Goff's one of the

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Speaker 1: league leaders in yards so far, and really what it

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Speaker 1: is is he's only been sacked ten times, right, He's

560
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Speaker 1: been well protected, had a clear picture, and I think

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Speaker 1: That's why you hear from Justin Mattabek like if they

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Speaker 1: can cloud that picture, get pressure on him, they're coming

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Speaker 1: off a game with six secs, that's gonna change the dynamic.

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Speaker 1: Because Jared Golf is not he's not a guy who

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Speaker 1: extends a lot of plays.

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Speaker 4: He's not a runner. He likes he's a he's like

567
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Speaker 4: you playing quarterback. He's a statue.

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Speaker 2: I'll take that.

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Speaker 5: I'll take that, and so like you.

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Speaker 1: Know, it's play action protect him well. And he's not

571
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Speaker 1: like a gun slinger. He's not gonna take a lot

572
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Speaker 1: of chances. He's a make your reads, go through your

573
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Speaker 1: reads and make this throat. That makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: Like he's been in the system for a while. If

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Speaker 1: the Ravens can disrupt that, disrupt that timing, like that's

576
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Speaker 1: when you can really kind of get Jared Goff off

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Speaker 1: his game.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've always felt like a way to disrupt that timing.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing to have the pressure off the edge,

580
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Speaker 3: but even more than that, it's right up the middle. Yep,

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Speaker 3: Like that's the problematic thing for a quarterback, really, any quarterback,

582
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Speaker 3: but I think a quarterback like Golf, who who has

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Speaker 3: that good protection's got good tackles. You know, it can

584
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Speaker 3: be protected back there, but if you have a guy

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Speaker 3: like Justin madebke Yep in the middle, he can force

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Speaker 3: his way into the backfield and create problems. I think

587
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Speaker 3: that that can really disrupt a quarterback like golf. And

588
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Speaker 3: so the Ravens are going to be leaning on Madeka

589
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Speaker 3: to have a big game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And Jadavion Clowney said, that's you know, maybe he's

591
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Speaker 1: a little biased. He's you know, in that front seven,

592
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Speaker 1: but he says he feels like this game is going

593
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Speaker 1: to come down to Ravens defensive front versus Lions offensive line,

594
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Speaker 1: and as always, it always starts to stopping them run.

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Speaker 4: For the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Now part of this game is Dave Montgomery, the Lions

597
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Speaker 1: leading running back. So far, looks like he's not going

598
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Speaker 1: to play. He's injured. Jamiir Gibbs though, first round pick,

599
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Speaker 1: speedy guy, really talented guy. To me, you can't give

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Speaker 1: up any home runs to him. You know, that's kind

601
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Speaker 1: of been the Ravens run defense. If there's anything to

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Speaker 1: nitpick them for, it's been long place, right and Zach

603
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Speaker 1: Moss hits you know, it was like, well, you know

604
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Speaker 1: they did well except for these three plays, right, and

605
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Speaker 1: then you had Derrick Henry hit the long one against

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Speaker 1: him in London, you know, and that was kind of

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Speaker 1: a trick play.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 4: Spears that wasn't a run, but it was a running

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Speaker 4: back screen. But you can't give it. Gibbs has the speed.

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Speaker 4: Gibbs is that.

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Speaker 1: Kind of threat for them, and he's gonna get a

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Speaker 1: full workload. You can't give out any big ones up

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Speaker 1: to him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, that's it's kind of interesting because Gibbs,

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Speaker 3: like when I've watched the Lions play this year, like

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Speaker 3: I think he's had more juice, Like I think that

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Speaker 3: he's like a really dynamic running back and they've.

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Speaker 4: Had runner as Davidomery.

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Speaker 3: He's a rookie, you know, he's played six games, so

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Speaker 3: like he's he's but he's got he's got serious use.

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Speaker 3: He's the first round pick. He's also really good out

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Speaker 3: of the backfield. You can catch them all out of

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Speaker 3: the backfield. That could be a difficult thing to handle.

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Speaker 3: So he poses some serious problems.

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Speaker 4: I think now speed verse speed. I like the Ravens

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Speaker 4: defensive speed.

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Speaker 1: You look at Patrick Queen, Roquin Smith, those guys can

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Speaker 1: fly like I think way, you know, if the Ravens

630
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Speaker 1: are able to get him back for this game, that

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Speaker 1: really helps. He's just and he practiced on Wednesday in

632
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Speaker 1: a limited capacity. I think that, you know, he's a

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Speaker 1: guy that kind of can string out some of those

634
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Speaker 1: running back screens, can get to the edge fast, dude.

635
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Speaker 1: So I think that would definitely help. But Jamiir Gibbs

636
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Speaker 1: is a challenge and so that they have to be

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Speaker 1: very careful that. And then they have I'm on Ross

638
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Speaker 1: Saint Brown, Sam Laporta, the rookie.

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Speaker 5: Tight end and its weapon is all over this offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they have a lot of challenging weapons.

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Speaker 1: So it's uh again, you know, we're not gonna sit

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Speaker 1: here and bow down before the game starts.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to do that. I want Matta Beeks

644
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Speaker 4: coming back in. But you know, it's definitely a stiff

645
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Speaker 4: challenge for the stefense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm on Ross Saint Brown. I think

647
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Speaker 3: he's one of the best receivers in the game. I

648
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Speaker 3: think he and the numbers is the top ten guy.

649
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Speaker 3: And he's he's got great hands, he's got a home

650
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Speaker 3: run potential, he can move the change, he makes tough

651
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Speaker 3: catches like he is going to be a difficult guy

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Speaker 3: to deal with for the secondary. I mean, they face

653
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Speaker 3: some good guys Jamar Chase certainly, and T Higgins, you

654
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Speaker 3: know with the Bengals, and they've they faced the good guys.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I think that this overall is the

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Speaker 3: biggest test for this defense, and I think that he

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Speaker 3: in particular, is gonna is kind of another level than

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Speaker 3: they faced so far this year.

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Speaker 4: A little wrinkle.

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Speaker 1: Sam Laporta, the rookie tight end out of Iowa, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna I think he's gonna be the best tight end

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Speaker 1: that they faced so far this season. You think back

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Speaker 1: to the opponents the Ravens have faced so far, hasn't

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Speaker 1: really been a real dominant tight end. Laporta is among

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Speaker 1: the league leaders so far, so that'll be an interesting,

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Speaker 1: different kind of new challenge for the Ravens defense. I

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Speaker 1: think Kyle Hamilton, I.

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Speaker 5: Was gonna say, is this the Hamilton matchup against him?

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Speaker 5: All day long?

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Speaker 4: Would and surprise me, but not surprise me.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you're talking about who plays that nickel,

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Speaker 1: who plays in that slot, who who's defending that guy.

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Speaker 1: Arthur Mallett's been playing a lot of snaps, but in

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Speaker 1: this matchup, it wouldn't surprise me if Kyle Hamilton gets

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Speaker 1: some some Laporta matchups.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting too because Marcus Williams is dealing with

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Speaker 3: a hamstring injury, so he may not play right And

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Speaker 3: so then you're looking at Geno Stone and who's.

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Speaker 1: Another Iowa guy Laporta and Gino I asked you know

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Speaker 1: about that in locker room. He said, you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: see him on Sunday. I said, I was like, I

682
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Speaker 1: was giving him a hard time. I was like, because

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Speaker 1: he said Alan Saint Brown's their best offensive player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, dang, you didn't even give your

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Speaker 1: other Iyowa.

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Speaker 4: Guy a little shot, no love for the other Hawk guy.

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Speaker 3: He was like, I'll see him on say, yeah, yeah, Well,

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Speaker 3: Gina's been playing really well too. Even if marsh Williams

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Speaker 3: isn't in the game. Then, Gino, I think I feel

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Speaker 3: confident in his ability to hold down that spot.

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Speaker 4: And then you flip it over the other side of

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Speaker 4: the ball.

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Speaker 1: The Lions have the number one run defense in the NFL, right,

694
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Speaker 1: and the Ravens have one of the best run offenses

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now, I do think that that stat

696
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Speaker 1: could be a little bit skewed to make the Lions

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Speaker 1: look a little better than they might be.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, they've been on a lot of blowouts.

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Speaker 4: Generally speaking, you're in a.

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Speaker 1: Blowout, the other team's throwing the ball a lot, they're

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Speaker 1: not running, so thus your yards allowed per game in

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Speaker 1: rushing is not great. Yep, right, you know you're not

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Speaker 1: giving up a lot of rushing yards because guess what,

704
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Speaker 1: they're not running, but still a very stout defensive front.

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens have to establish establish the run,

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Speaker 1: which then sets them up for the past game. They're

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Speaker 1: they're acute sealed their eighteenth in the league, and pass

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Speaker 1: the defense. And again that might be because in part

709
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Speaker 1: opputents are throwing against them a lot late in games

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Speaker 1: to try to catch up. But I think that that

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Speaker 1: is kind of a little bit of where their weakness lies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I'll i'll be with this raising Ravens passing offense.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think that they've they're still trying to

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Speaker 3: put it all together, as they've talked about this week,

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Speaker 3: and if you know, Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh and

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Speaker 3: multiple people talk this week about how it's kind of

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Speaker 3: a work in progress. So far, yep, And I think

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Speaker 3: that they're gonna keep making strides. I would like to see,

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Speaker 3: you know, I thought we saw you know, we saw

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Speaker 3: the big catcher un from Odell Beckham Junior last week.

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Speaker 3: You know, Zay Flowers gets his first touchdown. I just

722
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Speaker 3: think that, like, you know, putting more of that together

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Speaker 3: consistently is what the Ravens are probably gonna need.

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Speaker 5: Like they've played a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of their their red zone defense twenty first in the league,

726
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Speaker 4: so hey, here we go, we.

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Speaker 5: Got a good matchup zone.

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Speaker 3: It all comes back to the red zone. I think that, like, yeah,

729
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Speaker 3: what what is your what is your sense on the

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Speaker 3: on like what the score looks like for this game?

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Speaker 4: But we all know this is going to come down

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Speaker 4: to Justin Tucker versus the Lions.

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Speaker 3: Well, the last thing, like twenty thirteen, he had six

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Speaker 3: field goals, including the sixty one yarder to beat him

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Speaker 3: in that game, and then twenty twenty one it was

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Speaker 3: it was the sixty six yarder to beat him, So Lions.

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Speaker 4: Right in Detroit.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Still it's still plus Lions fans are like, I don't

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Speaker 3: want to see Justin Tucker even suit up in this game.

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Speaker 5: It's probably gonna come down to him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm gonna guess. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a close game. I think this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a really good game, close game. And sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll go for Justin Tucker for.

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Speaker 4: The walk off.

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Speaker 5: Oh how long? How long?

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Speaker 2: How long?

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Speaker 4: You're right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, before you just keep ahead, breath deep, breath and

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Speaker 5: night before I get I'll go to the walk off.

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Speaker 1: Fifty five yarder. Okay, it's not a sixty yarder. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, if it was in Detroit, we're talking sixty

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Speaker 1: plus sixty five is still it's not a chip shot.

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Speaker 5: No, not a chip shot.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 3: Uh, before we wrap up here, Okay, we got an email.

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Speaker 3: We got a ton of emails from listeners who were

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Speaker 3: there at the pub last week in London or just

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Speaker 3: watched and listen to the episode.

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Speaker 5: We love those emails. We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: We've said it before, but it was awesome to do

763
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Speaker 3: that incredible experience, just meet people from literally all across

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Speaker 3: the world who'd been listening or watching the podcast for years.

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Speaker 4: I loved that. It was fun, so much fun.

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Speaker 3: It was great, and so anybody that was there or

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Speaker 3: emailed us thank you so much. We really do appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: You can always email us at the lounge at ravensot

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Speaker 3: NFL dot net. We got an email here from Ashley

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Speaker 3: who said so she she loved everything we were able

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Speaker 3: to do in London. She was not there, but she

772
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Speaker 3: loved just watching it and taking it all in. And

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Speaker 3: she said her favorite thing was the reaction from the

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Speaker 3: of the win from the back of the team bus.

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Speaker 3: Don't get used to that.

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Speaker 4: That's a little it was a little bit awkward.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie podcast the other people on the

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Speaker 1: bus and you're just it's totally silent.

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Speaker 4: You're shouting in the back. Yeah, a little bit strange,

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Speaker 4: but you know.

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Speaker 3: So, don't get used to that. But I'm glad that

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Speaker 3: we can provide some entertainment for you. Actually, she said,

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Speaker 3: her question here is does this team make a trade

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Speaker 3: before the deadline? Right, we've just become accustomed to the

785
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Speaker 3: deadline trades.

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Speaker 1: Cost has done it three out of his four years

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Speaker 1: as general manager, right, Marcus Peters, Yuni and Way and

788
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: then he took a year off and then Rokuan Smith. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: uh so I'll never bet against Eric making a deadline deal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that, Like, they don't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of salary cap space, so that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an impediment. But like they obviously have a team

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Speaker 1: that is a contender, I think to win it all.

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Speaker 1: And like, uh so, yeah, I would never bet against

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Speaker 1: Eric making a trade. The two positions I would look

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Speaker 1: at that I think are most likely would be a

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Speaker 1: pass rusher. Can never have enough. That's kind of the

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Speaker 1: Niue mode. You know. The Ravens have really been relying

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Speaker 1: on this pass rush by a variety of different sources. Right,

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Speaker 1: Like we said, eleven different guys with one sack with

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Speaker 1: at least one sack. That's the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And that's awesome, that's great. I'm not going to pass

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Speaker 1: up a stud though, Like you know, you were like, well,

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Speaker 1: they don't really have that stud ten plus sack guy

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Speaker 1: out on the edge. If there's one available at the

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Speaker 1: right price, one sign me up.

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Speaker 4: I'll take one. I'm not going to turn him down.

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Speaker 1: Like, think of what Mike McDonald and this defense, all

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Speaker 1: of them together can do with that guy. Right, And

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Speaker 1: and you know, even you have Jenevian Clowney, Kyle Vannoy,

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Speaker 1: They've been kind of carrying, especially Clowney, a pretty heavy

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Speaker 1: load here early in the season. This is two veteran

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Speaker 1: guys that I think you want to manage their snaps

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Speaker 1: as the course over the course of the season. Right now,

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Speaker 1: daphe is coming back. I think that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge Boosey was playing really well Week one

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Speaker 1: against the Texans. I'm excited about what he brings. David

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Speaker 1: Ajabo is a little bit more of a question mark

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Speaker 1: at this point. When is he going to come back?

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Speaker 1: You know John Harball and he said he is going

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Speaker 1: to try to come back from the ankle and knee,

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Speaker 1: But what.

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Speaker 2: When is that?

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Speaker 1: How much can you count on? You know, is how

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Speaker 1: soon is the one hundred percent? So, like there's still

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Speaker 1: some lingering things there. And I think adding another by

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Speaker 1: to that room, another not just a body, but a playmaker, huh,

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Speaker 1: would be a pretty nice addition.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that. Like, you know, it would be

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Speaker 3: nice if you can get a stud pass rusher. Like,

831
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Speaker 3: that's one of the most premier, premier positions in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: So if you have that opportunity, it's tough to turn

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Speaker 3: that down. However, I like and I agree with like

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Speaker 3: the load management thing with Clowney and Kyle van Noy,

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Speaker 3: But like you're getting a Dafeo way back, You're you're

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Speaker 3: getting David Ajaba back eventually, Like those are the guys,

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Speaker 3: Like that's that's your mid season acquisition. In a lot

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Speaker 3: of ways, the sure that and those are two high

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Speaker 3: draft picks, So the Ravens have a lot of faith

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Speaker 3: in and so you I would think that like if

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Speaker 3: you bring in somebody else, that kind of limits the

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Speaker 3: opportunities for them, assuming they get back and they're fully healthy.

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Speaker 3: So that's the one thing that I'm like, would they

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Speaker 3: make that move knowing that you got adafe coming back

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Speaker 3: and you got a Joba right around the corner, you

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Speaker 3: hope certainly?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a luxury.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's something that they have to have,

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Speaker 1: right and thus I don't think it's something that like

851
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: the Ravens have to spend a premium to go get,

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Speaker 1: but like it'd be a nice luxury.

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Speaker 4: It'd be a really nice luxury. You know, you're already

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Speaker 4: tied for the league lead in sacks with twenty.

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Speaker 5: That's the funny thing is get pass rushers, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: the most sex.

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Speaker 4: Of the league exactly exactly, but I'm not gonna turn

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Speaker 4: them down.

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Speaker 5: What was the other position? Running back would be the

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Speaker 5: one that would that was the one that I was

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Speaker 5: wondering about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked to Justice last week, friend of lounge, like,

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Speaker 1: he's running well, Gus is running well. It's it's been good.

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Speaker 1: You know, another game changer in that backfield, kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, a playmaker, game changer kind of guy could

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Speaker 1: take him to another level. And the other the other

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Speaker 1: thing I think of is, you know, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a buyer's market at running back right now, right you've

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Speaker 1: seen the values come down, does it?

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Speaker 4: How does it take a lot to pry a really

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Speaker 4: good one from another.

873
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Speaker 1: Team who might not be wanting to spend the big

874
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: money on them, you know, to get either a rental

875
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: or maybe you know.

876
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 4: The other thing is the Ravens.

877
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: You look ahead the next season, they don't have a

878
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: running only running backs on a contract or Justice Hill

879
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: and Keith Mitchell.

880
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, beyond this year, j K.

881
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: Dowams is going to be a free agent, Gus Edwards

882
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: is poised to be a free agent, and so sure,

883
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: maybe it's a maybe it's a rental or maybe you

884
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: get to the end of that and say, hey, we're

885
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna work out a deal with this guy and still

886
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: in potentially a buyer's market where you're like, we can

887
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: get this guy at a cost that we don't think

888
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: is that prohibitive.

889
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

890
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 5: Well, like, I mean, this is probably the extreme example.

891
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 3: You saw the impact of Christian mccafrey made on the

892
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 3: forty nine erslast He's probably the best running back in

893
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 3: the game. So like it's hard to compare you know there,

894
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 3: and he's not available, you know, so so like, but

895
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: but I do think that that could be a spot.

896
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 3: I mean the Raves even did that. You know, this

897
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: was this was not anywhere close to that level several

898
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 3: years ago. They brought it, like Ti Montgomery right right

899
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 3: around the trade deadline, was it. Yeah, going back, gotta

900
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 3: check the notes there, all right. Yeah, you know, so

901
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: that was a you know, I think they traded like

902
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: a six or seventh round pick for him that year.

903
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 3: But you know, so they brought some depth in, you know,

904
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 3: another quality player to that mix. Maybe it's that approach

905
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: rather than like the Christian McCaffrey type.

906
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, approach.

907
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 4: I just think that you know, JK.

908
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: Dobbins got injured in Week one, and we've all kind

909
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: of lost focus of like that was a big time

910
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: playmaker that got eliminated from this offense. Yeah right, and

911
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: like to get another guy of that kind of caliber

912
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: on this offense, I think could take the offense to

913
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: another level, an offense that, you know, like we said,

914
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: has been kind of inconsistent.

915
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 4: Like if you're you know, you talk about pass rusher

916
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 4: being a luxury on one of the.

917
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Best defenses in the league that's tied for the league leading,

918
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: sex well, the offense is not, you know, it could

919
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: use a little help. And so maybe that's the piece

920
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: that Eric to Costa looks at and says, let's let's.

921
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 4: Kind of lean into this ground game a little bit more.

922
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: Let's let's give it another weapon and to kind of

923
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: try to get this offense that next level, because we

924
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: see the potential there it can be. I think a

925
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: top tier offense just hasn't gotten there yet.

926
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

927
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 5: Well, the one thing we know for sure is that

928
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 5: the GOSP will turn over every stone for sure. So

929
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 5: if there's a trade to be had, I'll make it, yep.

930
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: But before we get to that point, trade deadline is

931
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: still what two weeks away, yes, okay, before that point,

932
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna.

933
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 4: Go get Mere.

934
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: Lions.

935
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 4: Roar, let's come.