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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. The Ravens are

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Speaker 1: coming off a twenty three to ten win over the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans in their preseason opener at M ANDT Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Garrett and I are going to give our takeaways from

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Speaker 1: that game and what it means moving forward. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: just just a good a good win, I think for

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Speaker 1: me to start off here, Jarrett, you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the overarching the umbrella storylines of this game was, well,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens changed their their training camp kind of structure.

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Speaker 1: You know, it is more execution over exhaustion, right, less

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Speaker 1: less physicality, more of an ease in process. And I

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Speaker 1: think that there was there was a little uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: there are questions as to how that would affect this

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Speaker 1: team early on, right and including in the preseason. What

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Speaker 1: did they look a little bit different, not quite as

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Speaker 1: sharpened up as in previous years. And you know, John

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Speaker 1: Harball ever the optimist, right, he's like the master at

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Speaker 1: kind of when something a challenge presents itself where there's

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Speaker 1: a change made, he said, he looks at, well, what

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Speaker 1: are the positives that we're gonna get out of this change? Right?

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Speaker 1: And sure, you know, as a coach of dialing back

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Speaker 1: the physicality in training camp is always kind of like

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Speaker 1: a you know, I like, you know, he comes from

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Speaker 1: those old two days. You know. I don't know about this,

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Speaker 1: but the way John Harball looked at it, and of

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Speaker 1: course all the research into the injuries and all that

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Speaker 1: played a huge role, but he looked at it as

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, you know, on the flip side of well,

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Speaker 1: let's stress execution, right, Let's let's kind of make sure

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Speaker 1: that we're doing everything at a high level even though

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Speaker 1: we're kind of slowing down. And I think that that

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Speaker 1: kind of showed in this preseason when you know, when

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Speaker 1: thirty two Ravens, we're on the sideline not playing this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the backups and the backups to the backups and the backups,

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Speaker 1: the backups to the backups playing out there and still

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Speaker 1: look pretty sharp. Yeah, I definitely think they look sharp.

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Speaker 1: I think to your point, I mean that question has

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Speaker 1: basically been like, historically speaking, the Ravens under John Harbor

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Speaker 1: have been excellent early in the season. They start the

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Speaker 1: season really strong. So the question, to your point is like,

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Speaker 1: is that still going to be the case. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you still got to get to the regular season. But

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Speaker 1: I think the way that the Ravens run training camp

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Speaker 1: is part of the reason they've had that early season

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Speaker 1: success and why they've had success in the preseason twenty

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Speaker 1: one straight wins in the preseason. I also think part

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Speaker 1: of the reason for that preseason success is the way

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens build a roster, and they always have

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Speaker 1: really strong depth, and I think that's part of the

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Speaker 1: factor in the preseason success too. So I thought that

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Speaker 1: was a good positive indication in that regard last night.

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Speaker 1: I think the other big overarching storyline to me is,

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Speaker 1: let me cut you off real quick. See the way

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Speaker 1: you would build a roster, Garrett, we would get smoked

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. We'd have zero depth, the starters, all

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Speaker 1: your stars that you would trade the house for, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe resting. We would have the worst preseason winning streak

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Speaker 1: under your tenure in Ravens history. When you win a game,

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Speaker 1: we'd have a twenty one streak. If it we're up

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Speaker 1: to you, I'd be like one of those high school

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Speaker 1: teams that only has like twenty three players, you know,

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Speaker 1: on the entire team. Because I use up all my

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Speaker 1: salary cap. I'm like fifteen guys. But uh, but but

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Speaker 1: the other the other big overarching storyline to me in

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Speaker 1: this game was the fact that the players who we've

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Speaker 1: seen making plays in training camp carry that over into

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Speaker 1: the game, and that is like, I think that it's

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Speaker 1: always a little discouraging to me if you see this

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Speaker 1: guy go out there and he's playing really well in

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Speaker 1: training camp, and then all these reporters were writing him

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Speaker 1: up and saying he's going to be somebody to watch,

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Speaker 1: and then also you get the game and nothing, and

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Speaker 1: fans are like, what are you guys watching the practice?

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Speaker 1: You're like, I swear he's making players in practice. I

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Speaker 1: swear he's making players of practice that didn't happen this year.

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Speaker 1: So we've all been talking about Isaiah Likely and then

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Speaker 1: he came out and showed everybody why there's so much

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Speaker 1: buzz about him. Samar Bridges is somebody who kind of

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Speaker 1: a really good spring in many you know, he showed

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Speaker 1: Travis Jones, same thing. So we'll go through all those

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Speaker 1: guys individually, but I think at a big level, it's

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Speaker 1: just encouraging to see that training camp success translate into

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Speaker 1: a game atmosphere. Yeah, absolutely great. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great point. So let's start it out, Garrett here with

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Speaker 1: who who stood out the most to you? Well, look,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely. We can start with him. I think that

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Speaker 1: I've seen enough from him to think that he's going

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Speaker 1: to have a really big part in this offense once

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Speaker 1: we get to the regular season, not just the preseason.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's just the preseason, Darling. I think

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Speaker 1: that he's going to be you're ready to start resting

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Speaker 1: Isaiah likely throughout the rest. I'm not ready to start

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Speaker 1: shutting him down. But I do think that he's going

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Speaker 1: to be an important piece of this offense this year.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a little bit like Hayden

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Speaker 1: Hurst in twenty nineteen. And I think this Raven's offense

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Speaker 1: is at its best when you have multiple tight ends

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Speaker 1: it's I think it's really big for him to transfer

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Speaker 1: from the to the games. And you know, we all

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Speaker 1: he's been so good in practice that I think we

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Speaker 1: all assume that was going to happen, right, but then

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Speaker 1: to watch it play out the way it did. That's

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Speaker 1: a confidence booster for a young player who's a fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick like that. To me, last night was a

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Speaker 1: moment for him that says it was a launching point,

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Speaker 1: you know, for Isaiah Likely, and a lot of times

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Speaker 1: when you have that early success as a rookie that

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Speaker 1: can just snowball, you know. And I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I think you know. John Harwall said it himself that

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Speaker 1: he's going to have a big part in this offense

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Speaker 1: this year. This also, as as a side note, is

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Speaker 1: just more proof of why you draft the best player available. Right.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens didn't have Isaiah Likely queued up at that

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Speaker 1: spot in the fourth round. They had that wide receiver

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers draft. I don't even remember his name anymore.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to look up how he's doing. Right, They

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Speaker 1: were gonna draft a wide receiver there, and then Dealers

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Speaker 1: stop their guy right before them, and they said, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: best player who's who's at the top of the board

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Speaker 1: for us? We just drafted another tight end, Charlie Cohler

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Speaker 1: in the fourth round. But it's this dude, Isaiah Likely,

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Speaker 1: who's a baller out of Coastal Carolina leg I guess

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Speaker 1: we should take him, you know, and I think the costs.

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Speaker 1: A shouted over to to Greg Roman or Harvest, did

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Speaker 1: you know in the drafts rooms, said can you find

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Speaker 1: a spot for him? Confirm role for Isaiah Likely? He said, sure,

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Speaker 1: tight ends to Greg Roman. Are you joking? Yes, of

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Speaker 1: course I can. Right. And then turns out like if

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Speaker 1: the Ravens didn't have Isaiah Likely right now on this roster,

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Speaker 1: you'd be a little bit concerned, right, I mean, because

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Speaker 1: Charlie Cohler underwent sports attorney a surgery. You need another weapon. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And so that I think speaks to why the Ravens

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Speaker 1: draft the way they do. Yeah, I think it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's a good point. I also think that, like

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Speaker 1: as as you're looking forward to the season, I just

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Speaker 1: think the Ravens are gonna be running a ton, which

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Speaker 1: they already do under Greg Roman tight end packages. I

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Speaker 1: think I think that's definitely going to be the case,

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Speaker 1: even more so because you know, the receiving core is thin,

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Speaker 1: and the truth is, I think it's getting a little

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Speaker 1: over training camp. You know, James Brochet didn't play in

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Speaker 1: John Harball said after the game that he's got a

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Speaker 1: soft tissue thing, could be a week or two. Tyland

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Speaker 1: time he had the the thigh bruise, and then Rashad

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Speaker 1: Bateman has missed not a lot of time, but a

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Speaker 1: so where is that going to be offset? I think

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Speaker 1: in large degree it's gonna be offset by the tight

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Speaker 1: unlikely is it honestly reminded me on third down, especially

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's lined up in the slot. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: this ball's going to Isaiah likely, Like watch him, watch

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Speaker 1: then he would like he just he just has that

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Speaker 1: like there's like one thing that I could put my

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Speaker 1: that's why he's so good, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: reminds me his like body movement reminds me of Tory

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Speaker 1: know it's gonna be interesting. Like he and he obviously

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Speaker 1: But if likely keeps Burnham early in the year. It's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna make it tricky because he's got that same

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Speaker 1: on the lounge we give you the full picture. We're

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Speaker 1: talking with life being a great game that he had,

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Speaker 1: which is true, but also he knows he's got to

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Speaker 1: clean up the penalty. He's got two holding calls potentially

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Speaker 1: clean up. You know, that blocking aspect of his game,

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Speaker 1: which is an important piece of making that transition from

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Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina, where you know he's playing out in space

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Speaker 1: part of the equation him at Coastal. Well, he blocked

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Speaker 1: something he's going to learn. Oh completely, I mean ay

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Speaker 1: to that point. The Ravens knew that he was a

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Speaker 1: an area of his game that he was going to

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Speaker 1: like we're talking about, the opponent can't you can't just

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Speaker 1: knows he's a high level backup. But there was a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a little bit of a storyline there

428
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 1: because he's coming off the shoulder tend the night, as

429
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, and he came out there and and and

430
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: played really well. You know, there's people again talking about, oh,

431
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 1: because the Ravens trade Tyler Huntley because he's playing so well.

432
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: To that, I would say it would take a mighty

433
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 1: good offer, because you know, you gotta have a good

434
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: number two in this league. We saw it last season obviously,

435
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 1: and Tyler Huntley is a commodity, and so you know,

436
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: teams called ERICCSSA with with some some sweet offers that

437
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: maybe they would listen. I don't know, but like I'm

438
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: just saying, I'm not when I see Tyler Huntley play, well,

439
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: I'm not like get them out of here, you know,

440
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: Like it's this is a much different situation. Like we

441
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 1: had this conversation past preseasons when the Ravens had RG

442
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: three and Trace McSorley and Tyler Huntley. I was like, oh,

443
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,199
Speaker 1: do they trade? Do they trade RG three? Do they

444
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: trade one of those guys? It's like, okay, that that

445
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: made sense when you had other players who you felt

446
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 1: really good about potentially stepping in, Like Trace McSorley is

447
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 1: no longer here, obviously RG three is no longer here.

448
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 1: You trade Tyler Huntley in you're going with Anthony Brown

449
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: or Brent Huntley. And we saw last year how important

450
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: a number two quarterback is. I'm not interested in trading

451
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley. I mean, I'm just not unless unless it's

452
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: a really good offer that comes the Raven's way. But

453
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: now I think he's too important of a player, you know,

454
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: to try to move for something that would not blow

455
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: you away. I agree, And then quickly, you know the

456
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: running backs, that was a position group that a lot

457
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 1: of eyes on that, you know, because it's really going

458
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: to be sighted in the preseason and the stats don't

459
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: show it. But I thought Justice still had the best

460
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: night of the group. Looked really explosive getting to the outside.

461
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: A couple holding penalties brought back his best runs, but

462
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: the dude is rolling. Yeah, I liked. I mean I've

463
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: been saying for why not, I think Justice hillsman and

464
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: having a great training camp and the like. Yes, if

465
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 1: it doesn't count on the stat sheet, but the coaches

466
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: saw it, the tape saw it, you know, they saw

467
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: like the burst that yelding. The holding penalty doesn't change

468
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: the speed that we saw from him on those runs. Yeah,

469
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: and he looked he was running hard too. Like one

470
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: other run that just stood out to me with him

471
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,199
Speaker 1: was it was just a run off the left side

472
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: and there was nothing there, and I saw Justice Hill

473
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: just kind of lower the shoulder pads and just to

474
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: get his stick his foot in the ground and get

475
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: one yard. He just plunged for just stuck it and

476
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: just all right, I'm gonna take what I can get,

477
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: And like I just thought in my head, I was like, coaches,

478
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: like that, right, he's not a big body dude. He's

479
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: known for his speed, but like he needs to be

480
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: able to do run between the tackles a little bit

481
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: and show some physicality. That's what it takes to be

482
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: a running back in the NFL. And like, to me,

483
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: even just that play, I was like, all right, Justice Hill,

484
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: you know you look, if I know we're gonna do

485
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: our fifty three man you know, also if you if

486
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and make your submissions for

487
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: your fifty three man player, you picked the team contest.

488
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: It's you know, a lot of people do that. It's

489
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So you have your chance to

490
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: beat Mink, which everybody always does. But get him in.

491
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: You gotta get him in early too. So yeah, that's

492
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:13,479
Speaker 1: the way that thing works. If there's injury, it's tricky.

493
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: It's a tricky, tricky situation. Yeah, the way it works,

494
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: like if there's ties, you know, if two people have

495
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: fifty two guys, well then you take the one that

496
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: that submitted it early. And so um you ever submitted

497
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: it first? Yes, so um. Anyway, right now I'm putting

498
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: Justice Hill on the fifty three, like it's to me

499
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: that it's j K, it's Mike Davis and Justice Hill

500
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: or three. Now, then it becomes you're cutting a rookie

501
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: if you're draft pick, well, you know, then then it

502
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: comes down to the fourth. Then it comes down to

503
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: the fourth spot. Um, if you're assuming you're keeping four

504
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: running backs, and that's the thing, right, I have to.

505
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe maybe Gus starts some pop right,

506
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: that's yeah a possibility that would open up a roster

507
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: spot at least until he's activated him back. So maybe

508
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: that's your fourth running back. But do you have the

509
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: do you have the luxury keeping four running backs? I

510
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: think you might have to. I think you might have

511
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: to keep four running backs because just because JK Dobbins,

512
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: you're not gonna, like, even if he's ready to go

513
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: for week one, there's gonna be there's gonna be a

514
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: pitch count on him. So I think that you probably

515
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: have to keep four running backs. And but if you're

516
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: if you were keeping three right now, I would put

517
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: Justice Hill on there with Mike Davis and JK plays

518
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: good special teams too. Yeah, I would like he's shown

519
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: enough to me. Now, I would agree with that. I

520
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 1: know you said on the last podcast, I always grew

521
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: up the running back situation, so this is the year.

522
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to avoid doing that, but you

523
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: might have a bet on this song. All right, let's

524
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: flip it over to the defensive side. I started to

525
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: mention Travis Jones. The guy has played well all summer

526
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: and he got a sack where he showed off his athleticism,

527
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: had to you know, chase down the quarterback, and you know,

528
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: he just continues to be kind of a wrecking ball

529
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: in the middle of that defense and have some good

530
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: pass rushability. Like I think he's going to be a

531
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: as a third round pick. I think he's gonna be

532
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: one of those guys like, man, how did he The

533
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: raby said, A great job scouting this guy and Yukon

534
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: who didn't win a game, and you know all that

535
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: like that. I just really like Travis Jones. Yeah, I agree.

536
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: I thought that it was a very strong night for him.

537
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 1: And again in the you know mold or the storyline

538
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: here of players who have done well in practice transferring

539
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: it to games. Really good to see from him. Nick

540
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: Malik Willis is a shifting dude, I thought, yeah, I

541
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: thought Malie Willis looked pretty dark good out there. Uh

542
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: and for for a big man of Travis Jones's size

543
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: to wrap him up near the sideline for a sack,

544
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: says something about Travis Jones. M totally. I mean we

545
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: saw it on the play. You know that there was

546
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: like to have back when the lague Willis, you know,

547
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: snuck away from Kyle Hamilton in the backfield and then

548
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: and then put on a juke move in the secondary

549
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: and ends up scoring a touchdown. You know about twelve

550
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. You know that kind of showed you seven. Yeah,

551
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: So so that that one kind of shows you his

552
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: ability to evade defenders. You know, he make he juked

553
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: out Kyle Hamilton, but Travis Jones on another player was

554
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: able to chase it out. So that that's that should

555
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: we start sending Travis Jones off the edge edge blitzer

556
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: Travis Jones and he could play in his face, the

557
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: big man could play in space. Yeah, I mean, you know,

558
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: since you bring up Kyle Hamilton, I thought, you know,

559
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: it was an up and down night for him. I

560
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: thought mostly up, you know, I mean jumping on that fumble,

561
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: the way he was moving around the field just covering ground.

562
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you certainly saw the tracks there. But even

563
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: though he's the fourteenth overall pick and he even though

564
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: there's a lot of excitement about him, he's a draft

565
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: steal and all this stuff, I've said it to you.

566
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: I've said it a bunch of times. Playing safety at

567
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: the NFL in the NFL is a tough jump to make.

568
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: Like there is a lot of thinking, a lot of scheme,

569
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: a lot of diagnosis, a lot of communication. There's just

570
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: a lot that goes into that position, like more than

571
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: some other spots on the defensive line, like no shade

572
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: to Travis Jones and the defensive lineman. But I guarantee

573
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: you that there's more on the plate of Kyle Hamilton,

574
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: especially when he's learning like ten different roles in this

575
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: defense right to be the versatile player that because athleticism

576
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: certainly lents him to be right. And so I just

577
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: think we have to be a little bit patient with

578
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton, not expect perfection right out of the gate,

579
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: because it wasn't perfect, you know. I mean he blits

580
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: off the edge, miss that you got that's a you

581
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: can't miss that tackle, right you can't. You can't let

582
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: him escape it like that. It's just not a good play.

583
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: And you know, he's not an experienced blitzer. He didn't

584
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: have a single sack in college. He's looking for his

585
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: first career sack in the NFL. So he'll learn from that. Um.

586
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, Malie Harris is gonna make

587
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to this league. So Kyle

588
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: Hamilton ain't gonna be the last look. I think. I

589
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: think on that play. Yeah, look, I think on that play,

590
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: he just he got wide eyed. He saw he saw

591
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: the blind side sack. I'm Alik Willis and he was like,

592
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: let's go, here we go. This is gonna be that sack.

593
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: This is the big hit. And Malik Willis is a

594
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: shifty guy, like he's a good player who has who

595
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: can make plays with his legs, and that's what he

596
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: did on that play. And sometimes, like you know, you're

597
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: you're thinking you can, You're you're eyeing up that sack

598
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: and you just don't think that the quarterback is going

599
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: to have that type of ability to evade the rush,

600
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: and he did, and so you know that was kind

601
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: of it. That was an eagerness play. I think from

602
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton. I will say there was a play I

603
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: think it was earlier on that series he was playing.

604
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: He was playing the deep safety spot and Malik Willis

605
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: got out in some space and man Hamilton closed ground

606
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: in a hurry. And I was like, that is what

607
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: makes this guy such a weapon on this defense, Like

608
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: he just covered a ton of ground. He big strides,

609
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: just you know, picking up five yards. It seemed like

610
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: every stride you talked about Isaiah lay not being a

611
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: long strider, Hilton is one percent a long strider. Yeah,

612
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: and he eats up ground in a hurry and he

613
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: was on the leak Willis on that play in no time.

614
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, I thought it was good. And then obviously

615
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: he jumped on the fumble, which is great. You know,

616
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: you want to be around the ball. So I thought

617
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: it was I thought it was a strong debut for him. Yeah,

618
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: I thought it was good. Uh, you know, he overran

619
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,239
Speaker 1: another tackle on the long run that there was a

620
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: couple of miss tackles. On that one. He actually did,

621
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: I think, get his arm on him. He overran it

622
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: and then had to kind of lunge back and he

623
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: slowed him up a little bit. But I think you know,

624
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: he said it in his postgame interview with Evan Washburn

625
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: that like he was amped up. You know, I think

626
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: that there was a little over eagerness at times, but

627
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna learn from all this, and you know,

628
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: to me, I wrote this in my breakdown, is like

629
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams and Chuck Clark were given the night off.

630
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: We know who the starters are at this point. And

631
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: that's not to say that Kyle Hamilton can't work his

632
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: way into that or whatever, but like we know who

633
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: the starters are, and so I don't think Kyle Hamilton

634
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: kind of has, you know, time to develop a little bit.

635
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: And still he's still gonna play a big role. Trust

636
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: that big trust, but like we don't have to sit

637
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: here and like expect him to be the Week one

638
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: starter like Tyle a little bomb, right right. That's interesting. Yeah,

639
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: I guess I hadn't really thought about that. I don't know,

640
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Speaker 1: I if he may not be the Week one starter

641
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: to safety. I mean, Chuck Lark has been taken those

642
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: those first team reps there, and obviously Marcus Williams is

643
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: going to be I would agree that it seems like

644
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be chuck. But you know, so what what

645
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: what would the expectation be for the percentage of snaps

646
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: that Kyle Hamilton plays a week one? To your mind,

647
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: sixty seventy, fifty forty five, maybe we'll be one hundred.

648
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean I could see fifty, Okay, I could see

649
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: I would say between forty and sixty. Okay, all right,

650
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: we'll go fifty right there, strength dab in the middle. Yeah,

651
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: all right. So another player on the on the back

652
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: end of this defense who played one hundred percent of

653
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: the snatch right or close to it, was Pepe Williams.

654
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And we talked about him before the game,

655
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: and I'll give you on pepe E, I'll give you

656
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: the hour guy, Pepe Williams. Yeah, even though I think

657
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: I was on before the pod. Once we interviewed him

658
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: on the pod, then you were all born. Yeah, everybody, everyone,

659
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: if you haven't listened to an interview, I'm telling you're

660
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: back and listen to it. And everybody's gonna be saying

661
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: our guy, Pepe Williams. And he told us in that

662
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: interview and in the conversations we had just before it started,

663
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: like I can't wait for the preseason. He looked like it,

664
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: Like he looked like a guy who was just fired

665
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: up to be playing football. And I said to you

666
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: during the game, like, if he's coming out of this game,

667
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: one of the coaches is just gonna have to hide

668
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: his helmet because I don't think he wanted to play

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00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: every snap and he was so fired up about playing

670
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: the preseason, he played corner, he played safety, and like, yes,

671
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: he's an undersized guy, but he does not shy away

672
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: from contact. He will run up there and make a hit.

673
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: He did that on a play the running back caught

674
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: over the middle and stuck him. Like, I just love

675
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: the way the guy plays. Now, he did let a

676
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: pick six basically go through his hands, which I'm sure

677
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: he's still mad about this morning. But he had an opportunity,

678
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: but he was in the right spot. I just gotta

679
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: make that catch. I think you know that was early

680
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: in the game and he was probably just a little

681
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,479
Speaker 1: too fired up talking about over eager. So I liked

682
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: what I saw from him. I think that he continues

683
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: to be someone that like, I think he's gonna he's

684
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna play important snaps this year. Now the

685
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: Ravens have a loaded secondary, and they have a lot

686
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: of talent. But I think there's gonna be there's gonna

687
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 1: be times this year where Pepe Williams would be counted

688
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: on in big situations, and I think that he's you know,

689
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: he's somebody who could rise to that occasion. Well, you know,

690
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: you start out in the slot and breaking on that

691
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: past the one that you dropped, the interception that you dropped,

692
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: that was a nice break, read that route, broke on

693
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: it very quickly. You know. That's what he offers in

694
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: the slot. And and the versatility is safety, you know,

695
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: is awesome too. I mean he was also returning punts,

696
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, he's doing a little bit of

697
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: everything out there. Um. And so I agree with you.

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00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: I mean, especially you know who's gonna Who's gonna be

699
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: the slot corner? Is it gonna be Marlon Humphrey for

700
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: a lot of the season. Could very well could be,

701
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: but you know, we haven't seen a ton of Brandon

702
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: Stevens playing in the slot. Um. Now, he certainly could

703
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: you know, match up against some bigger guys there as

704
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: a physical corner. Um. But you know, Pepe, I think

705
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: is in the mix certainly for for some of those

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00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: slot snaps. Yeah, well, the secondary is interesting because you've

707
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: got some guys who are banged up right now. Brandon

708
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: Stevens has missed some time, Marcus Peters has you have

709
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: to take the field, Jalen armor Davis who is having

710
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: a strong camp, and then all of a sudden he's

711
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: missed a few practices, did not play in the game.

712
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: So you're looking at the secondary in practices and it's like,

713
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: oh man, that all of a sudden, you know, it's

714
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: like this the super deep secondary, which is always what happens.

715
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Speaker 1: It feels like you start to have guys missed some

716
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: time in the secondary, and then it's like, oh man,

717
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: is it kind of thin? It's not thin because I

718
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: think that like they're being cautious with these guys, which

719
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: is what you do at the time of the year.

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00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: But there could be an opportunity for Peppe to play

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00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: himself into some significant snaps. And I thought that, like

722
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: his versatility is a valued asset there, Emilidy to go

723
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: in the slot, can drop back at safety. The Ravens

724
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: got a million safeties so that I don't all think

725
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: they would need him to do that very often, but

726
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: he can. We should also mention Gino Snow who had

727
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: an interception. Ye, he you know, safety is the deepest

728
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: spot on this team. But Geno Stone, like he's one

729
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: of those guys that he just makes you say like

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00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: can we cut him? Can you can you not have

731
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: him on the team, Like I feel like he just

732
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: makes him up plays and he's always in the right spot.

733
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: And he's done this in the preseason where he comes

734
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: up with catches and you're just like, I think, I

735
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: think they're keeping five safeties is what I think. And

736
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: he plays special teams You're just like, yeah, he talked

737
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: about step being and Tony Jefferson when we had him on,

738
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: I asked him, you know, could you step into that ANTHONYA.

739
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,479
Speaker 1: Levine role, the coct role as a special teams leader,

740
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, yeah, yeah, you know

741
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: Geno Stones kind of you know, he's kind of on

742
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: that job too, you know, like Tony kind of was like, Nah,

743
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: that's how gonna be me, That's gonna be Gino, right,

744
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: And and Gino said it, you know, last night when

745
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: I asked him, he mentioned Levine and how much he's

746
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: learning from him, and I just flat up asked, you know,

747
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: flat out ass him, Is that the job you're looking

748
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: to get? And he said yeah, and so that is

749
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: an important job to me, Like that is a you know,

750
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: red alarms go off. Geno Stones on team, you know

751
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, I know how much John Harball

752
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: and the Ravens value special teams players and a leader

753
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: like that who's also playing well and it just has

754
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: proven it in games that he can be a good

755
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: player on defense too. Like to me, Geno Stones on team, Yeah,

756
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I mean, he's making enough

757
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: plays that makes you say that he's gonna earn it.

758
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, real quick. Just a couple other couple of shoutouts.

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: I thought Josh Ross, an undrafted rookie linebacker out of Michigan,

760
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. Played fifteen snaps on special teams, got

761
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: his hand on that pass that led to the Geno

762
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: Stone interception. He Ross has looked good in pass coverage

763
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: and practice. Yeah, he's one guy during one on ones,

764
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: which that is a tough assignment for linebackers covering running backs.

765
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: You line up what's the name us as hill one

766
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: on one in space against a linebacker with no nobody

767
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: else around. It's an almost impossible task. Josh Ross has

768
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: played pretty well in those and those situations in practice,

769
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: and we saw some of that in the game. I

770
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: thought he looked good. I think Stephen means the veteran

771
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: came off the edge, had got a sack. He looked

772
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: good in terms of adding another rusher. I thought, those

773
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: are two guys that stood out all right. Before we

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Speaker 1: just kind of closing thoughts from me, um, I think

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00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: this week is going to be your Ravens have today off,

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00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: they're back on the practice field on Saturday. First thing

797
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: I'll be looking at on Saturday is who's out there Sunday. Yeah,

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00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: they're out there Saturday, Saturday and Sunday. They're out there

799
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: all week The first first thing you're gonna be looking

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00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: at that you will be out there on Saturday. Oh yeah,

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00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm always I'm ready to go. You're gonna says I'm

802
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,959
Speaker 1: the first one out there, first one out. You will

803
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: not be out there this weekend, first first out there,

804
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: last leave. Now, the first thing you're looking at is

805
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: who is out there? To be honest, because when you

806
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: come off of a preseason game and you have a

807
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 1: couple of guys get banged up, sometimes you know, players

808
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: come in the next day and they say, hey, this

809
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: is about me or whatever. So it's a little bit more,

810
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, like I just want to see who who's healthy,

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00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: where things stand. Also, to any of the players who

812
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: are coming back from injury get back on the field,

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00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: I would think. You know, John Harball did an interview

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00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: with Serious Radio last week and you talked about some

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00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: of the vets who were coming back from injury, Marcus Peters,

816
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley, Tias Bowser, you know, those guys, and basically

817
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: made the point they difin they're gonna play week one,

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00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: you probably want to get two to three weeks to

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00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: practice in with them before that point. If naturally, you

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00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: kind of look at the calendar, the Ravens go, well, yeah,

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00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: you're a month out. The Ravens go to Arizona at

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00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: the back end of this week and they get a

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00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: couple of days out there before playing the Cardinals in

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00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: the preseason. So you know, my mind says, those guys

825
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: could probably get back after that trip. You know, that's

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00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: kind of the natural one, you would think. But I'll

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00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: give him three weeks, but do any of them return

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00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: this week so that you know, I'm not rolling that

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00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: out either, so I'll be keeping an eye on that.

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00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: And then of course the players who have been dealing with,

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00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, minor things over the course of camp, you

832
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: want to see if they're out there. So that's kind

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00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: of the first thing, you know that that I'm gonna

834
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: be paying close attention to him. JK. Dobbins. I had

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00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: him on that list. That's somebody to watch this week

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, does he start to look

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Speaker 1: a little bit better than he did he you know,

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00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: in those first couple days that he got out. John

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Speaker 1: Harball in that interview said, the first one two weeks

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00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: for JK. Dobbins are going to tell tell the story

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00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: as to you know, where his knee is at and

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00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: how ready he is for how big a role, And

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00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: so that'll be He'll be another player certainly that I'll

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00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: be watching closely. Awesome, all right, Well, thank you everybody

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and leave us a rating you haven't done

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Speaker 1: so already. Well, if it's gonna be a five star rating,

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Speaker 1: only if it's gonna be a five star rating it's not.

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Speaker 1: Then then you can leave your rating to yourself. You

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Speaker 1: can take your one star ratings the other podcasts. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: But thank you so much for listening. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you again, Sarah