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Speaker 1: The biggest thing for me. I think they don't care

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Speaker 1: if you make plays, you're gonna you're gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the field. Do you want to talk to little chiefs?

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Speaker 1: I think the key for this is it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Matthew Tudn game. Welcome into the lounge. It's Monday

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Speaker 1: night football week. Maybe. Oh my god, I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: You got that down pretty well. You know a few

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Speaker 1: years ago we had hardball do the time, but you

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Speaker 1: add ins an extra pizzazz. I think you added a

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Speaker 1: You gotta get it right. Yeah, that one gets left off.

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Speaker 1: You know. Everyone knows that. But I can't sing at all.

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Speaker 1: That's about the extent of my musicality right there. Oh musicality.

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing it this week. I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: it is, it is. It is all right. Musicality. Musicality Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we are super psyched for the Chiefs to come to

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Speaker 1: last two years is obviously a challenging place to play.

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Speaker 1: but from a football standpoint, like when when the game

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Speaker 1: gonna be right with the world. Absolutely, absolutely, So before

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Speaker 1: Walter Payton. With the way he's running the ball back

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Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns. So we're we're excited to talk to l J. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: take a quick break before we do, so when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we'll be joined by l J. Ford. Ravens fans,

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Speaker 1: You're fresh off touchdown, so you've gotta be feeling pretty

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Speaker 1: good this week. I mean, it's not often the defensive

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Speaker 1: good Morning Football clip. You know, Kyle Brandt said, I

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Speaker 1: Like when when am I ever going to get my chance?

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Speaker 1: little bit about the games over the last two years.

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Speaker 1: LJ wasn't there for those games. Juice Man wasn't there

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Speaker 1: for those games either. Having him on this defense sometimes,

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you play Patrick Mahomes, you need something

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Speaker 1: to go your way, like you need a break, and

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Speaker 1: Marcus Peters can provide that when you least expected, Like,

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Speaker 1: no one saw that pick coming. Deshaun Watson certainly didn't.

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Speaker 1: I think he was the most shocked guy in the

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Speaker 1: stadium when Marcus came out of nowhere to snag that football.

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Speaker 1: If he can put come up with play like that, uh,

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Speaker 1: that could be the difference in the game totally. And

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Speaker 1: I also got to give a shout out for biggest playmaker.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about biggest playmakers. Marlon Humphrey got it the

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Speaker 1: interception off Baker on the Brown's first drive, which I

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Speaker 1: think just totally set the tone for that whole game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously with the punch out that set the

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Speaker 1: tone for that game too, you know. I mean that

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Speaker 1: really turned the tide in that game. So Marlon Humphrey

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Speaker 1: just I mean, he was a playmaker last year to

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Speaker 1: return touchdowns. Uh, but he's just picked up right where

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Speaker 1: he left off, if not better, and now he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be probably more in the slot, so that's gonna add

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Speaker 1: to his plate. So uh, I mean he's a critical,

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Speaker 1: critical player in this defense obviously. Yeah. I think that

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Speaker 1: Chris's email is a good one because and I'm not

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Speaker 1: just saying this because we just had LJ on but

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked to him a little bit about this.

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Speaker 1: Like when the Ravens drafted Lee Harrison and Patrick Queen,

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Speaker 1: it was kind of like, Okay, these are at least

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Speaker 1: the future, if not the present, answer in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the defense. And LJ was a bit of a

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Speaker 1: forgotten man, I think, extern only, but he just quietly

457
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Speaker 1: went to work and continue to show the coaches that hey,

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Speaker 1: I can still play. I can be an important piece

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Speaker 1: in the middle of his defense, regardless of what the

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Speaker 1: role is. Uh. You know, we knew that Queen woul

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Speaker 1: step into the starting role, but regardless of what the

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Speaker 1: role is for Harrison, that fort was going to be

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Speaker 1: an important piece of his defense. And like, he has

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Speaker 1: just made the most of his opportunity. Like, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's kind of his point where he talked about

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Speaker 1: here with the Ravens, if you play and you make plays,

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Speaker 1: and you seize your opportunity, you'll continue to get more.

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Speaker 1: And that's what he's done since he arrived here. And

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Speaker 1: I think that, like he deserves a lot of credit

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Speaker 1: for continuing to play at this level, uh, knowing that

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Speaker 1: he's got the young buck nipping at his heels right

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Speaker 1: behind him. And and that says a lot about LJ.

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Speaker 1: So I'm with you in terms of Marcus and Marlon,

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Speaker 1: I'm playmakers, I mean. And then also Claius clais is

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Speaker 1: a playmaker in his set in his own right. He

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Speaker 1: got three passes defense to week one, got a sack

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Speaker 1: in week two. So Calais has been every bit as

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Speaker 1: good as advertised, and he's another guy that I'm glad

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Speaker 1: that he's on the team. Discs I'm around when you're

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Speaker 1: going to face my homes, definitely, definitely, I think, uh

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Speaker 1: and we, I guess we whatever. We'll get to another

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Speaker 1: question here in a minute, but I do want to

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Speaker 1: talk to little Chiefs. I think the key for this

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Speaker 1: is it's gotta be a Matthew Judon game. Okay, jud

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Speaker 1: Judon is gonna have to get on the scoreboard with

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Speaker 1: the sacks this game, because I think if you look

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Speaker 1: at what the Chargers were able to do to the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and frustrate them for four quarters. Unfortunately they let

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Speaker 1: up in overtime, but it was that pass rush up front,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't sending a ton of blitzes. They weren't

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Speaker 1: blitzing a lot, and I know that's very against what

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Speaker 1: Wink usually does, but they were winning up front with

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, No Nick Bosa, right, No Joey Bosa. Which

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Speaker 1: Bosa is It's Joey, it's it's is Nick No. No,

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Speaker 1: but it was no the Chargers man. Sorry, Yeah, that's Joey.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm getting my Bosa brothers mixed up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa was feasting up there. I thought you were

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Speaker 1: going all way back to the Super Bowl last I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about what the Chargers did last week, and so

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Speaker 1: I think that this is a Jude on prove my

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Speaker 1: franchise worth player kind of game. M that's an interesting one. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I we got a question in Raven's mail bag

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Speaker 1: earlier this week about whether Wink would send more blitzes

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Speaker 1: or try to do some delayed blitz is, or what

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Speaker 1: the pressure packages could look like. And pressure on the

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Speaker 1: homes is such a difficult thing because not only can

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Speaker 1: he just if you give him time, he'll pick your

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Speaker 1: part and you can deliver it anywhere on the field,

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Speaker 1: but when you bring pressure, he can wiggle out of

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Speaker 1: the pocket and he's as good as there is on

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Speaker 1: a broken play. I mean, now you got one on

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Speaker 1: ones versus Tyreek Hill deep down the field. You know

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Speaker 1: it's tough. Yeah, I mean I still have visions of

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Speaker 1: that fourth down play in Kansas City two years ago

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Speaker 1: where he hit Hill shutter it you shutter at that one.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was a broken play. That was just

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Speaker 1: a great player making a great That's all that was.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know that sending a ton of blitz

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Speaker 1: pressure is necessarily the answer. And so yeah, Jude would

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Speaker 1: have to to make some plays. What about I think

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Speaker 1: Klais too. I think Klais is going to have a

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Speaker 1: really important piece. Get those those big old pause up there,

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Speaker 1: not downs football's um and also provide interior pressure and

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Speaker 1: move home homes around. I totally agree it. Also, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is obviously gonna be a test on the secondary

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Speaker 1: for a million different reasons. But this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the first game without Tavon Young and how really the

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Speaker 1: majority of the Texans scheme was with But so what

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Speaker 1: do they do? Do they just move Humpree inside like

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Speaker 1: they did last year? Yeah? Yeah. What really bugs me

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Speaker 1: about this is that I really like Jimmy Smith against

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey in the prospect of that matchup. They did

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Speaker 1: that last year pretty much too, right, Yeah, and Kelsey

534
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Speaker 1: had made some plays, But you know, I think I

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Speaker 1: think that Jimmy did a pretty good job and and

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Speaker 1: I think Jimmy's even better at that kind of assignment now,

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Speaker 1: and so it just really bumps me out if that

538
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Speaker 1: if that gets kind of ruined because of this, because

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Speaker 1: Marlon has to go inside and then Jimmy has to

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Speaker 1: go outside. So it makes me think that the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are still gonna rotate guys around that It's not going

542
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Speaker 1: to be just strictly okay, now Marlon you're in the

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Speaker 1: slot for a pent of the game, you know, and

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Speaker 1: Jimmy you're outside. I think that the Ravens still want

545
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Speaker 1: to play the matchups game, particularly against these guys. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And so I I think that it's gonna be a rotation.

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Speaker 1: It's you bring up a good point about you couldn't

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Speaker 1: they just put Jimmy on Kelsey pretty much the entire

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Speaker 1: game and then use favorite, you know, And that could

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Speaker 1: be the option to like they basically just say Jimmy

551
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Speaker 1: versus Kelsey, you know, match him up for whatever of

552
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Speaker 1: the time. Am I seeing Sammy Watkins is kind of

553
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: banged up for this week? Anyway, It's gonna be interesting,

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Speaker 1: all right. To another email, Tyler Gross writes, Uh, what's

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Speaker 1: up Ravens flock wanted to know what you guys think

556
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Speaker 1: of your rookie projections before the season. After two weeks,

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Speaker 1: you're still sticking with your picks for the Ravens standout

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Speaker 1: rookies and what their contributions will be. Second, how big

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Speaker 1: of an impact do you think the tape on injury, uh,

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00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: tape on young injury will have on our team? Just

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Speaker 1: talked about that. Uh all right, thank you Tyler for

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Speaker 1: the email. Uh. So, I think our projections for the

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Speaker 1: rookies are pretty spot on. I mean we both said

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Speaker 1: that Patrick Queen is going to be a playmaker. Check

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Speaker 1: both said j K. Dobbins is going to be a

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Speaker 1: stud check. What else was there? I mean where? And

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Speaker 1: I think we talked about this last week of the pod.

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Speaker 1: I did strike out. I'm leek Harrison and his early impact.

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Speaker 1: I thought that he would not have his big impact

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Speaker 1: or be a starter at least from the get go.

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Speaker 1: Uh and he's been very very good. Yeah. But I

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Speaker 1: mean we're also sitting here talking about how l So

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Speaker 1: it's not like we really missed on that one exactly.

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Speaker 1: We said all along it doesn't matter who actually starts

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Speaker 1: at that position, that both those guys would play. And

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Speaker 1: that's what's been the case. And both of them have

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Speaker 1: played really well. I mean LJ has made more splash

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Speaker 1: plays obviously. Really what really what it is is, I

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Speaker 1: was just predicting that l J. Fort was going to

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Speaker 1: be amazing, get off to an amazing start. Check check cheer.

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Speaker 1: You know you know who he did. I think everyone

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Speaker 1: kind of slept on this summer. Was was Tyree Phillips.

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Speaker 1: That was that would be the one guy that I

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Speaker 1: would say. It wasn't until really late in the game

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Speaker 1: that I think everyone started to look at him and say, wait,

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Speaker 1: could he meet the starter at right guard? Um? And

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00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: obviously he had he has moved into that role. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that was the one guy that I think people

589
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: kind of slept on. But yeah, we said all along

590
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Speaker 1: that this rookie class was gonna be good, and early

591
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: on they look fantastic. I mean, it's it's pretty remarkable

592
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Speaker 1: when you think about we were all excited about last

593
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Speaker 1: year's rookie class and Hollywood Brown what what he could do?

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Speaker 1: This rookie class seems to be significantly more impactful in

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Speaker 1: terms of the number of players. This is looking like

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Speaker 1: that class. Yeah class, its seriously is yeah, it's seriously,

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Speaker 1: You've got starters on both sides of the ball. Multiple

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Speaker 1: guys rookies and week one in a weird offseason that

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Speaker 1: says the time about this group so and and you

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Speaker 1: know it's funny about the class is also you can

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Speaker 1: practically insert j K. Dobbins in there because Hayden Hurst

602
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Speaker 1: was traded for that pick that was used on j K. Dobbins. Right, yeah,

603
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: so let's let's see lamar j K. Dobbins, Mark Andrews,

604
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Speaker 1: or Lando Brown, and I think Bradley Bozeman crazy. Yeah. Anyway, Uh,

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Speaker 1: last email here comes from Daniel Mills. He says, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm honestly shocked that I haven't realized this sooner, but

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Speaker 1: there's a local brewery here. Now this is that, And

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Speaker 1: now we're talking, we're talking of the week local brewer

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Speaker 1: here in Abbotsford that is named Ravens Brewing, And I

610
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: think it would only be right if I sent you

611
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: guys some beer from there. Now we're talking. I'm on board,

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Speaker 1: I'm on board. He says. Now, they don't have a

613
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: pumpkin beer yet, but he reached out to them to

614
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Speaker 1: see if there was one coming out soon. So he

615
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Speaker 1: says he's gonna send us a four pack four pack too.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what that means? It's always good beer?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's always true. But four pack.

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Speaker 1: He's sending it to the facility here, I'm guessing. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I guess, so I think it's facility.

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Speaker 1: So good luck getting Annie. Oh boy, well, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to swing it when I come in for testing.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to swing in swing by. I swear

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Speaker 1: if you drink my beer. I swear if you drink

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Speaker 1: my beer, you're a dead man. Well I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: you were tapping into a four pack at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of that L. J. Ford interview. Well need I need

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Speaker 1: to restock then? And I will also say for Daniel Mills,

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Speaker 1: so thank you for that. Maybe that's just payment because

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Speaker 1: I beat them in our fantasy football league. What you

630
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: bailed out on? Beat him this week? One seven to yeah?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Handed it to Daniel just a

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Speaker 1: solid wind, had it measured solid solid wind? But kicking

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Speaker 1: I picked up I picked up bed Rose is for

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Speaker 1: your off waivers this week? By the way, I'm just shameful.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have you have no no limits. I

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Speaker 1: had to do it off the two start. I can't

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Speaker 1: falter now anyway, Thanks for listening. Get ready for Monday Night,