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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. I'm Garrett Downing,

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Speaker 1: joined by Clifton Brown. Where you're here at the NFL

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Speaker 1: Owners Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona, and Cliff, this is a big,

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Speaker 1: important week for the Ravens and for the league as

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Speaker 1: a whole. What has stood out to you about this week?

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Speaker 2: Well, on one side, you have football work and obviously

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Speaker 2: personnel and you know what team the coaches, owners, general

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Speaker 2: managers thinking about. And then there's the business side of

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Speaker 2: the sport. A lot of business is conducted here, NFL business,

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Speaker 2: club business, So we see both sides of those things

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Speaker 2: getting accomplished.

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Speaker 1: In yeah, no doubt. Well, one person who is highly

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Speaker 1: involved in all of that is Ravens team president Sashi Brown.

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Speaker 1: I sat down with him for an interview to talk

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Speaker 1: about what are the top priorities for the Ravens. And

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Speaker 1: it's been a big off season here in Baltimore. So

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Speaker 1: talk with Sashi about this offseason and also what he

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Speaker 1: sees ahead for the Ravens Ravens fans. I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: sit down with team president Sashi Brown here at the

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Speaker 1: NFL Owners Meetings. Slashi, thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 3: Good to be with you. How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 1: It's a busy week and a busy off season for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. It's been a off season of change for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens with Jesse Minter coming in as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: What has stood out to you about this entire process

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Speaker 1: getting to the point where we are today, where Jesse's

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Speaker 1: leading this new evolution.

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Speaker 3: How are the Ravens strength in our leadership starting with Steve, Eric, Ozzie, myself, Dick,

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Speaker 3: and then bringing Jesse into that group, and then a

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Speaker 3: really strong staff underneath all of us, you know, to

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Speaker 3: help support us through that process and decisions. And then

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Speaker 3: just I think the other thing that I reflect on

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Speaker 3: is organizationally, just how rooted in our kind of values

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Speaker 3: and our system and our way that we really are

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Speaker 3: so not easy. John was like a brother to all

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Speaker 3: of us, still is uh And even though I haven't

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Speaker 3: seen him, I'm going to find him here in a

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Speaker 3: little bit and he'll knuckle my head. I'll knuckle his head.

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Speaker 3: But you know, Jesse coming right into our family, you

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Speaker 3: know here at the Ravens, and you know has hit

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Speaker 3: the ground running, put together a great staff, but everybody

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Speaker 3: working really well together and really anchored by our values.

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Speaker 1: Something that stands out to me about Jesse, and he

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Speaker 1: mentioned this from his very first day on the jobs,

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Speaker 1: that he wants to be a connector. He wants to

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Speaker 1: bring people together. How have you seen him go about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, A couple of things is I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: the way that he's worked right off the bat with Eric,

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Speaker 3: will get a chance to do it in real form

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Speaker 3: as we get deeper into draft meetings. But his engagement

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Speaker 3: with players, the way he treats people around the building,

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Speaker 3: and the message is that he's sending, the way he's communicating.

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Speaker 3: He's a great partner, great teammate. I look forward to

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Speaker 3: working with him for a long time.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things on the Ravens plate

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Speaker 1: on the football field, off the football field. For you,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the big picture of the organization,

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Speaker 1: what do you see as the top organizational priorities right now?

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Speaker 1: Winning always number one?

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Speaker 3: When he is always number one. We got to get

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Speaker 3: back on top of this division and protect Lamar, run

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Speaker 3: the ball, play solid defense on the field, which I'm

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Speaker 3: confident we will do. And then I think the second

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Speaker 3: thing is just to stay relentless about you know, our

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Speaker 3: fan experience or game day experience and our fan engagement overall,

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Speaker 3: that's really the second most important thing that we can do.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of technology coming. Our stadium renovations are

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Speaker 3: really exciting. We're going to roll out the third phase

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Speaker 3: of those, which we're super excited about here, you know,

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Speaker 3: in the next several months. And so I think just

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Speaker 3: all those opportunities, a new coaching staff here that's going

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Speaker 3: to be exciting, with the team that's really compete for championships.

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Speaker 3: So it's an exciting time to be the Ravens, to

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Speaker 3: be I think in the flock, the fan base of

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Speaker 1: Well. You mentioned the stadium that has been a major

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Speaker 1: project that has been ongoing here for the last few years,

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Speaker 1: and like you said, this year we get to kind

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Speaker 1: What has you most excited about the completion of this

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Speaker 3: I think the transformation and the unveiling of the new

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Speaker 3: GA experience. Every fan that comes in the stadium is

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Speaker 3: think you get back to their seats. But then a plaza,

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Speaker 3: right that brings all of that traditional Baltimore tailgate activity

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Speaker 3: technology that's going to really be interlayed throughout the entire

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Speaker 3: of your seat, So you know, it's been a long project,

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Speaker 3: just an extraordinary amount of effort. And I'd be remiss

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Speaker 1: Something that stands out to me is, of course there's

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Speaker 1: renovations have also helped open up the stadium beyond Sundays

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Speaker 1: We have the All Blacks of OVERUS South Africa game

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Speaker 1: coming up this fall. So you have all these major

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Speaker 3: You know, it's one of the objectives. We tend to

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Speaker 3: Again partnership with the Stadium Authority of Maryland, the state

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Speaker 3: How do we make sure that our stadium maintains its

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Speaker 1: About all that.

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Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, what that

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Speaker 3: It's allowed us to bring more and more events and

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Speaker 3: That's really important for us to deliver to Mayor Scott

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Speaker 3: more events, major events, bowl events, to downtown Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting. There's going to be a lot of fun

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Speaker 3: It let me start with a little history, if that's okay.

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Speaker 3: So you know, when the NFL constitution and bylaws were passed,

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Speaker 3: And now that we're sharing those markets in Montgomery County

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Speaker 3: we have a ton of members of the flock.

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Speaker 1: so much. Always all thanks, thank you. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: Cliff obviously just had a chance to talk with Sashi

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Speaker 2: an impression on now a new coaching staff, and I

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Speaker 2: I mean for jesse Mentor. It's great as a first

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Speaker 2: the clock key's moving. Players are almost here, and then

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Speaker 2: when they come, I think the energy in the building

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, So we can't wait for that. It's

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Speaker 1: been a good week here at the league meetings, a

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Speaker 1: lot of business getting done and it's exciting to know

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Speaker 1: what's on the horizon. So as always, you can email

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Speaker 1: us at the lounge at ravenst NFL dot net sending

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Speaker 1: those emails. Thank you so much for listening and watching,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be back with you again soon