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Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. It's NFL Combine week in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and both John Harbaugh and Eric da Costa have now

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Speaker 1: met with the media. Now before we jump into coach Harbass,

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Speaker 1: presser Garrett Downing and Ryan Mink will be giving their

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Speaker 1: takeaways from these press conferences as well as what else

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Speaker 1: has been going on at the combine, So make sure

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Speaker 1: you check out the Ravens Lounge feed soon for that episode.

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Speaker 1: You can also find Eric da Costa's Combine press conference

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Speaker 1: in the Ravens Press Pass feed. So with that, here's

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Speaker 1: what John Harbaugh had to say at the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three NFL Scouting Combine. All right, good to see everybody

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Speaker 1: appreciate you being here. Been a great combine. What question

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Speaker 1: do you have, Yeah, it's yeah. We've been texting back

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Speaker 1: and forth here and there over the last ever since

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Speaker 1: the season was over. So I feel like Lamar's doing

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Speaker 1: really well. It's it's uh, it's just what it is.

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Speaker 1: Part of the business, you know. It's what you expect

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Speaker 1: when you have a great quarterback, when you make a

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Speaker 1: great decision in the draft, you know, and I think

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Speaker 1: we I think Lamar has done a great job in

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Speaker 1: and competing and doing all the things that he does.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've done a great job in terms

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Speaker 1: and UH, and it's just evident the way he plays,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so he's my quarterback, he's my guy.

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Speaker 1: I love him, and UH as a coach, I just

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing it get done. But it's

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Speaker 1: Not very much, you knows, as little as possible, for sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, our plans are for Lamar. One of the

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Speaker 1: things we did and I think some of it was

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Speaker 1: written about. But when we we had all these UH

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Speaker 1: went through a process with the the offensive coordinator position.

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Speaker 1: We we interviewed fourteen candidates. We had twenty one different

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Speaker 1: different interviews. They were extensive interviews on zoom and in person,

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Speaker 1: talking about how we're going to build an offense, and

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Speaker 1: all those interviews were based on Lamar being in the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Lamar's the quarterback. How we're going to build the offense.

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Speaker 1: So that's the direction that we're planning for per se

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? What what is? What is

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Speaker 1: that mean exactly? I've heard different words about it. Lamar

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Speaker 1: and I had great conversation after the season about every

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Speaker 1: all by text back and forth. It's a fast moving process.

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Speaker 1: As you know, there's no way anyone person besides the

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Speaker 1: But I will say this about Lamar Jackson. There's no

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Speaker 1: bigger better competitor in football than Lamar Jackson. Lamar is

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking to the guys. My good friends in Philly.

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Speaker 1: we're a team. Yeah. Well, you know, that's a great question,

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Speaker 1: Coach Carroll said him more he was. He's a great guy.

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