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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge for zenaby A DraftKings. I'm Garrett Downing.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by Clifton Brown, and the Ravens have announced

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six coaching staff. This has been an

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Speaker 1: ongoing process over the course of the last month. Of course,

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Speaker 1: after the Ravens moved on from John Harbaugh, hired jesse Minzer,

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Speaker 1: and then he has been hard at work going through

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Speaker 1: the process of filling out this coaching staff. We've been

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Speaker 1: out some of them up to this point, but now

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Speaker 1: the full coaching staff is finalized and this group is

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Speaker 1: going to work building for the upcoming season. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to run through the whole list here for you, Cliff,

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to break it down in a

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Speaker 1: little bit more detail. But this is the full list,

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Speaker 1: of course, jesse Minzer as your head coach, Deckln Doyle

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Anthony Weaver defensive coordinator, Anthony Levine as your

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Speaker 1: special teams coordinator. Now, as we get into the specific

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Speaker 1: position coaches, you have Harlan Bauer outside linebackers, Marcus Brady,

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Speaker 1: pass game coordinator, Randy Brown. He's a holdover from the

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Speaker 1: previous staff. Of course, Senior special teams coach really special

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Speaker 1: in working with the kickers and punters. He's got a

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Speaker 1: great track record over the course of his career. Wide

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Speaker 1: receivers coach is Kirie Colbert. The chief of staff to

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Speaker 1: the head coach is Kristin de Ruter. The defensive line

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Speaker 1: coach is lou Esposito. Eddie Faulkner is a running backs coach.

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Speaker 1: Sean Flaherty is the assistant offensive line coach. Charlie Gellman

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Speaker 1: is assistant wide receivers coach. Zach Grossie is his tight

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Speaker 1: Patrick Kramer, Offensive quality control coach Dwayne Ledford offensive line

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Speaker 1: coach and running game coordinator. Joe Lombardi senior offensive assistant,

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Speaker 1: Mike Mickins, past game coordinator and secondary coach. Rick Minter,

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Speaker 1: football analyst Andrew Rogan, defensive quality control coach Tyler Santucci

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Speaker 1: in sidelinebackers coach Miles Taylor, assistant DB's coach p J.

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Speaker 1: it is. I ran through the whole list that is

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Speaker 1: your roster, your coaching staff for the upcoming season. So

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Speaker 1: what's your initial take as the Ravens make this announcement.

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Speaker 2: A lot of new faces, a lot of young, energetic coaches,

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be really interesting and very impressive list.

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Speaker 2: I think Jesse Minner, Yeah, one of the first things

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Speaker 2: when you become a head coach is to put together

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Speaker 2: your staff. There were so many openings this year, coaches

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Speaker 2: getting hired at different times that I think that Jesse

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Speaker 2: went right to work and had a really good idea

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Speaker 2: even before he became a head coach that if and

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Speaker 2: when I become a head coach, these are coaches I'm

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Speaker 2: going to target. And it's a mixture of people he's

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Speaker 2: worked with before. It's a mixture of people who I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he had heard great things about and wanted to

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Speaker 2: target them right away. And then it's also bringing in

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Speaker 2: experienced coaches who have been around before who could help

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Speaker 2: him as a first time head coach. Well, yes, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's a really impressive list on paper. It's a

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Speaker 2: fresh start really for the organization after eighteen years with

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Speaker 2: John Harbaugh. I mean he obviously made changes during his

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Speaker 2: coaching staff during his tenure. But now from starting with

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Speaker 2: really interesting to see it come together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with your point. Like when I look

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Speaker 1: at the list, the collection of names is impressive, and

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Speaker 1: it's from a variety of different places. This is not

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Speaker 1: one staff coming from a previous location. This is not

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Speaker 1: one system, This is not one track I mean. And

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Speaker 1: so that's like when you hire a first time head coach.

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Speaker 1: I think that then immediately a question becomes what's the

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Speaker 1: that exists, but he has cast a wide net and

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Speaker 1: it's not again and it's not like it just came

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Speaker 1: and so what's that staff going to look like? Well,

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Speaker 1: then he gets like this all star staff with some

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Speaker 2: I mean, one of the first points he made was

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Speaker 2: think that's the way he approached putting this staff together,

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Speaker 2: And when you talk to people about jesse Mentor, they

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Speaker 2: often talk about how forward thinking he is and how

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Speaker 2: flexible he is. Yes, he has basic philosophies, he plays

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Speaker 1: Now we've talked about the coordinators previously, but again Deklan

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Speaker 1: I know Sean Payton runs the offense there and calls

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Speaker 1: That's a good example. Marcus Brady pass game coordinator. He's

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Speaker 1: perfect way of going about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. I mean, Declan will have a lot

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Speaker 2: is really going to be fascinating. Three young people working

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, if they can unlock Lamar with

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Speaker 2: You saw what Deck Lindy was a part of with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that dynamic is going to be imperative, obviously. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably pretty obvious here that the coordinator

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Speaker 1: That puts an even bigger emphasis on like these off

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Speaker 1: And I go back to Jesse Mentor's initial press conference

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Speaker 1: going to be a huge thing for all of these coaches.

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Speaker 1: But I really look at that on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: even though not everybody who's here. When Anthony Weaver is

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree that. You know, this season or

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Speaker 2: this year OTA's training camp, preseason, not so much the games,

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Speaker 2: I mean, for all the reasons you just mentioned, new coach,

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Speaker 2: by the talent you have. I mean, when you have

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, you want an officer system that is comfortable

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Speaker 2: for him and that brings out his best. When you

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Speaker 2: have Derek Envy, you want a running attack that brings

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Speaker 2: which is be one of the best running backs ever.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, when it comes to wide receiver, they have

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Speaker 2: a two time Pro bowler in say Flowers, But if

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Speaker 2: they're looking for other targets, do you prefer bigger body types,

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Speaker 2: do you prefer speed? Will you eliminate certain guys if

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Speaker 2: they're not fast enough or not big enough? So yes,

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Speaker 2: all those type things have to change a little bit

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Speaker 2: from one head coach to another, because no two head

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Speaker 2: coaches are like and yeah, you want to draft towards

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Speaker 2: you know your players and your coach and what do

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Speaker 2: you want. So yeah, those are all discussions that you know,

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Speaker 2: Eric Dakassa and Jesse Mentor will have for the next

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Speaker 2: year is going forward, I mean going to the combine.

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Speaker 2: The last eighteen years, Eric de Kassa has been going

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Speaker 2: with John Harbaugh. Ye, now he's going with Jesse Minter yep.

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Speaker 1: Great point. The other part of the combine, And this

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Speaker 1: agents and teams, and everybody's in one place. Everybody's having

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Speaker 1: those those conversations, and also team to team trade talks.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff goes on at the combine. And the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have some high profile free agents Tyler Linderbaum at

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Speaker 1: the top of the who are set to hit the market.

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Speaker 1: I got to believe that if the Ravens want to

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Speaker 1: for keeping multi time pro bowler, I think that those

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Speaker 1: conversations could definitely take place at the Combine between the

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Speaker 1: just for the Ravens, but league wide movement after the

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Speaker 1: Combine like this is. You see it every year. It

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Speaker 1: seems like every year when to Costant talks of reporters there,

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Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I'm meeting with such and such his

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Speaker 1: agent here. And last year they were talking about Derek Henry,

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Speaker 1: you know, meeting with his agent and those things. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens worked out an extension there. So I think that

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Speaker 1: the combine pushes a lot of action on the contract front.

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Speaker 1: Linder Maom's the big one, the other obvious big one.

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Speaker 1: It's not a free agent situation, but it's a contract situation.

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Speaker 1: Is Lamar Jackson. Now his agent's not going to be

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Speaker 1: at the combine because he is his agent. So the

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Speaker 1: getting the Lamar extension done is the clock is ticking there.

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Speaker 1: Obviously the Ravens have time still to do that, but

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Speaker 1: Steve Bushatti indicated to his press conference the hope would

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Speaker 1: be to get that done prior to free agencies, so

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Speaker 1: the Ravens know what they have available, right and so

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Speaker 1: you know, we're getting basically to a month out, you know,

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Speaker 1: from from free agency, and I wonder what conversations are

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Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes between Lamar and Nerrick Ticasa and

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Speaker 1: if they're making progress on that deal. But that is

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Speaker 1: a huge, huge domino that could follow this offseason and

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Speaker 1: open up a lot of other things for this team. Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, everyone knows the timeframe and that it is

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Speaker 2: getting close to free agency. Everyone knows that, Yes, Lamar

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Speaker 2: and the Ravens of the Ravens want to get an

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Speaker 2: extension done with Lamar to give them the flexibility they're

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Speaker 2: looking for. So yes, I mean over the next three

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Speaker 2: four weeks, we're either going to hear news that that

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Speaker 2: has happened or not. And yes, it definitely is going

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Speaker 2: to affect the Ravens off season plan, whether that happens

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Speaker 2: the extension with Lamar or not. And then Linderbaum, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't think any question the Ravens want him back.

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Speaker 2: It comes down to money, and he's gonna be as

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Speaker 2: sought after person if he hits theree agency as a

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl center in his prime. So yes, if they

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Speaker 2: can find a happy medium for Linderbaum to stay, I

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Speaker 2: think that you know, Ravens fans will be rooting for

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Speaker 2: that to happen, because if linder Burnbaum does go elsewhere,

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Speaker 2: then an offensive line is probably gonna be you know,

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Speaker 2: retooled in some ways. That leaves another domino, a huge

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Speaker 2: domino that has to be addressed. If Linderbaum is in back.

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Speaker 2: So yes, it's gonna be a very interesting time and

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Speaker 2: an off season that already got far more fascinating with

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Speaker 2: the head coaching move. Well, the big moves aren't aren't

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Speaker 2: quite over yet. I mean we still don't know exactly

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Speaker 2: or even you know, in some positions, who's going to

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Speaker 2: be on the field for the Ravens starting in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. It's not last year was kind of a

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Speaker 2: run it back year twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: is not running it back. It's moving in a different direction.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. So all of these things are going to

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Speaker 1: unfold over the course in the next few weeks, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of exciting stuff happening. So we're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to break down all of it as the

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Speaker 1: Ravens move towards the upcoming season. Built the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: is complete, but as I said, the work is just

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Speaker 1: really beginning for this team, in this organization, and it's

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Speaker 1: an exciting new chapter of Ravens football. So as always,

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Speaker 1: you can email us at the lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 1: NFL dot net. Let us know what questions you have

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Speaker 1: and let us know your thoughts about the combine, coming

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Speaker 1: up with questions you have leading into that, and any

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Speaker 1: players or guys of interest that you have going into

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Speaker 1: the combine. So we'll break down all of that over

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Speaker 1: the course in the next couple weeks. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: Talk with you again soon