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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by DraftKings. We are thrilled

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Speaker 1: to sit down with tight End Mark Andrews. And Mark,

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Speaker 1: I remember last year in the locker room after we

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Speaker 1: had you on the lounge and you were talking to

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Speaker 1: a group of reporters and you said something like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I as I said on the Lounge recently, you know,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, which we haven't forgotten that. Like

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Speaker 1: you gave us the plug that we were looking for.

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Speaker 1: So you are enshrined in the Lounge Hall of fame,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: Okay, guys, you are legends.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We appreciate it. So yeah, we on

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Speaker 1: that note, you know, we want to ask you along

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Speaker 1: the same lines, you know, is the Lounge, would you

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Speaker 1: say the top podcast that you listen to when you're

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Speaker 1: coming to work? Are you listening to the Lounge And

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Speaker 1: we won't want to know if we were listening to

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Speaker 1: it then, but generally.

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Speaker 2: Speaking, anything and everything thing Ravens man, it's all maybe

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Speaker 2: a little Joe Rogan in there, but yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, that's good to know.

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Speaker 1: It's good to know.

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Speaker 3: So just how are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 3: I mean a couple of games in the season, and

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Speaker 3: I want to get your perspective on this team overall.

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Speaker 3: But just how are you feeling right now?

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Speaker 2: You know, personally, I'm feeling good. You know, obviously I'm

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm extremely focused and you know this just

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Speaker 2: being around the s build and feeling the energy, the

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Speaker 2: just the commitment to to what we have and what

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Speaker 2: we want to do. And obviously losing the first two

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Speaker 2: games wasn't exactly how we drew it up, and that's

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Speaker 2: how football goes, that's how life goes. Sometimes it's not

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Speaker 2: exactly how you think it's going to go, and that's

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Speaker 2: going to be a part of our story. So I

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Speaker 2: think everyone's extremely focused on the details and what we

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Speaker 2: such a great team, And yeah.

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Speaker 3: One of the reasons we really wanted to talk to

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Speaker 3: you this week. We want to talk to you every week,

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Speaker 3: but one of the reasons we really want to talk

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Speaker 3: to you this week was just you're a veteran player

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Speaker 3: who's seen HIGs and lows, and I think you bring

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Speaker 3: good perspective. And so when the team's sitting here at

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Speaker 3: oh and two, which nobody really expected them to be.

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Speaker 3: It's it's kind of a soul searching moment early in

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Speaker 3: a season, you know, in terms of finding yourself, how

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Speaker 3: would you describe I guess the makeup of this team

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Speaker 3: in this moment to be able to look at what

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Speaker 3: needs to change and then how you go about doing that.

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Speaker 2: I think we're well, that's a great question. I think

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Speaker 2: that we're still figuring out. You know, you know where

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Speaker 2: this team is going to go. You know, there's a

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Speaker 2: bunch of different options of how that's going to end up.

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Speaker 2: You know. I think that these next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: we've got to dive down, look ourselves in the mirror,

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Speaker 2: and you know, be able to finish these games. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've played some good football. It's not like we've got

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Speaker 2: out there and had you know, games where you know

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Speaker 2: we're just getting a butts kicked. You know, we've played

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Speaker 2: really good football, and now it's time to finish games.

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Speaker 2: It's time to you know, turn that corner and become

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Speaker 2: the team that we want to become. I look at

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Speaker 2: last year and we really weren't the team that we

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Speaker 2: week nine, and so there it's a long long time.

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Speaker 2: So now it's just about stacking wins and you know,

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Speaker 2: trying to become the type of team that we want

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Speaker 1: I remember last year it felt like a turning point,

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Speaker 1: was you know that London game right coming off the

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Speaker 1: Rough Steelers loss. That trip to London really seem like

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Speaker 1: a moment that forged this team. Do you feel are

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Speaker 1: there any similarities to this year so an early test

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Speaker 1: that you could see forging this team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm not necessarily you know, sure that

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Speaker 2: but we definitely are being tested. And you know, coach

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Speaker 2: Harpell said in every testament there's a test, and that's

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Speaker 2: what we're going through right now. And you know, for me,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, I really could I couldn't be more

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Speaker 1: You talk about finishing games right and and and that

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Speaker 1: is that's the name of the game. Are you a

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Speaker 1: player that goes into the fourth quarter with a different mentality?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's required in the NFL to finish

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's levels. There's always levels to everything

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Speaker 2: you do in life. And you know, you go to

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, that the level of what you need

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Speaker 2: details and just playing and not missing assignments, and everybody's

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Speaker 2: at fault for that. Everyone has a play in that,

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Speaker 2: you know, with within our team and so we need

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Speaker 2: to fix those corrections. And you go to look at

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Speaker 2: the playoffs and how that gets amplified, and so I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think it's it's interesting you bring

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Speaker 3: up the London game last year, like and even if

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Speaker 3: you look at last season, nobody after the Colts loss

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Speaker 3: the top seat in the AFC. Like that wasn't a

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Speaker 3: conversation on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday of that season,

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Speaker 3: but of course it happened. Even I go back to

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, I think the team was two and two

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Speaker 3: after the first four games of the season, if I'm

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Speaker 3: not mistaken. And so you know, like there's these in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. I think everything gets magnified because you know,

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Speaker 3: you have a week to talk about every single game.

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Speaker 3: How do you like there's so there's this conversation outside

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Speaker 3: where it's going to go, and what this loss means

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Speaker 3: and all this stuff. How do you I guess, block

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Speaker 3: that out or use it as fuel or use anything

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Speaker 3: any part of that conversation or not at all as

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Speaker 3: you prepare for an upcoming game.

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Speaker 1: He only listens to the lomb That's true. That's true.

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Speaker 3: Weird, that's your point. That's true. And I don't think

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Speaker 3: Joe Rogan is talking about the Ravens right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's a good question, you know, obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: being in this position we're in, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: uh and it's grown throughout the years of you could

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Speaker 2: look at you know, like kind of the hate mail,

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Speaker 2: hate dms, right, you know, how might a player deal

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Speaker 2: with those type of situations personally? I don't. I don't

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Speaker 2: you know, check them. I don't deal with it. I

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Speaker 2: don't really care what anybody else thinks.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I take a lot of pride in myself and I'm

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Speaker 2: very honest to myself, and so I don't need somebody else,

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Speaker 2: you know, chiming in and putting that in my head. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, for me, it's just you know, just being

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Speaker 2: true to myself, knowing knowing what to look at, knowing

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Speaker 2: what not to look at. And I've you know, been

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Speaker 2: pretty good with that, you know, throughout my career and

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Speaker 2: never wanting to get too high or too low and

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Speaker 2: just being incredibly focused is a good way to be.

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Speaker 1: You said that, you know, it remains to be seen

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Speaker 1: what direction this team goes from here with this early test.

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Speaker 1: What are the factors you think, like what goes into

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Speaker 1: play to make sure it's in the right direction, right like,

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Speaker 1: or what goes wrong and it doesn't go in the

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Speaker 1: right direction, you know what I mean? Like, what do

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Speaker 1: you need to see from this team you feel like

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Speaker 2: I think just limiting, limiting mistakes and playing together throughout

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Speaker 2: we really could have you know, kind of put an

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Speaker 2: And obviously Chiefs game was a close game, and there's

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Speaker 2: just things that we went back. But just limiting the

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Speaker 2: mistakes and yeah, I think we'll be all right. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've been able to focus on the details, and we've

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Speaker 2: been forced to be able to be in this position

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Speaker 2: that's what's so exciting. But you know every week coming

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Speaker 3: So I want to get your your perspective on. You've

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Speaker 3: had two pretty significant incidents over the last two years

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Speaker 3: some degree. Like last year you had the injury that

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Speaker 3: this year, you know, right before the season starts, you

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Speaker 3: did have the car accident, which you were fine from,

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Speaker 3: but I'm sure it's a really scary moment. Did those

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Speaker 3: things at all change alter effect your perspective that you

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Speaker 2: You know that's uh, those type of things kind of

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Speaker 2: definitely mold you into you know, what you are. But

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Speaker 2: the work ethic. You know, I think that my perspective

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Speaker 2: I've been able to you know, see things for what

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Speaker 2: they are a little bit better. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: personally feel like I was very fortunate to be raised

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Speaker 2: and you know, I think that I've always kind of

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Speaker 2: I feel really good. I'm excited about just getting better

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Speaker 2: each and every week, and I know that I will.

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Speaker 1: How much did that car accident, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: in the hours afterwards, what was your mind like, you know,

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Speaker 1: your head had to be spinning, and even in the

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Speaker 2: It was scary? You know, that's a I've never been

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Speaker 2: nothing like that. And it was definitely an aggressive you know,

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Speaker 2: to be hit, but that was that was really different,

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Speaker 2: that moment. But you know, after it's done, you know,

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Speaker 2: a little shaken up, little all that stuff. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I came back in here and went to the meetings

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Speaker 2: and act like nothing happened, and just being resilient. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's times on the road where you just you know,

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Speaker 2: I can kind of recall it, and that's just a

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Speaker 2: little bit of trauma going through that. But I feel great.

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Speaker 2: I feel good. There's nothing, there's nothing hindering me. And

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Speaker 2: I'm just thankful to God and that he was able

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Speaker 2: to protect me and totally put my seatbelt on and

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Speaker 1: Wow. So you're still driving and you're watching those other

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Speaker 1: drivers like I got my eyes on you.

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Speaker 1: Why do you feel like it's going to escalate week

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Speaker 3: You mentioned young guys. You're in year seven, Like, do

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Speaker 1: You talk about young guys to Isaiah likely just what

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Speaker 2: Well, he's going to have that. I think that he's

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Speaker 2: And I'm excited for him. Awesome.

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Speaker 3: Well, you guys are dangerous tandem, and I can't wait

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Speaker 3: to see what else you guys have in store for

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Speaker 3: this year. So Mark, appreciate the time, and as always,

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Speaker 3: we appreciate you spread the good word about the Lounge.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: They are an official sports betting partner of the Baltimore

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Speaker 3: appreciate Mark coming by and opening up and sharing some

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Speaker 3: about the you know, scary moment of the that car

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Speaker 3: accident and that he went through. Obviously glad that he's okay,

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Speaker 3: But I think he's, as I said to him, veteran

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Speaker 3: player who's a leader of the team. I think that

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Speaker 3: his perspective on how the Ravens get out of this

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Speaker 3: early hole was valuable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean this is this is an

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Speaker 1: early test, and you know, you talk about locking in

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Speaker 1: on the details and and I think that that's going

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Speaker 1: to be what John Harball is talking a lot about

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Speaker 1: in practice this week. You know, I mean, you always

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Speaker 1: are doing that, right, Like there's a reason why offensive

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Speaker 1: line were running laps when they fall started and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But I think that this is kind of a reminder

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Speaker 1: and early season reminder of just how much all those

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Speaker 1: things matter, right and playing with good technique and all

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Speaker 1: those things. And you know, they're a good team, they

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Speaker 1: have a lot of talented players. But if you're not

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Speaker 1: dialing into those details in the most critical of moments,

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Speaker 1: like the Raiders made the plays when it mattered most

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Ravens did not right and

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Speaker 1: and and they stubbed their toe along the ways with

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Speaker 1: different penalties and whatnot. If you're not locked into those details,

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Speaker 1: you can be a very, very talented team, more talented

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Speaker 1: than the other team, like the Ravens are, I think,

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Speaker 1: more talented than the Raiders are, but you lose games,

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Speaker 1: you know, So I think that it's it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: definitely something that's harped on in practice this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he and he made the point, you know,

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Speaker 3: the whole finish conversation and what does it mean to finish?

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's hard to drill down on

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Speaker 3: what exactly that entails, but I think it goes back

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Speaker 3: to like the details that you're talking about. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's not getting it's it's not jumping off sides, it's

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Speaker 3: making a play in the fourth quarter, it's whatever. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of a lot of aspects of that,

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Speaker 3: and that I think is going to be a real

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Speaker 3: critical point for this team is those details and then

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Speaker 3: finishing games. And there's been times over the past few

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Speaker 3: years where finish has been kind of a buzzword and

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Speaker 3: closing out games. And you know, I think that that's

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Speaker 3: going to be a focal point. And the Ravens are

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Speaker 3: clear I mean, Mark's clearly talking about it, and the

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Speaker 3: Ravens need to keep their foot on the gas. And

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Speaker 3: I think that, you know, I said, it's a hit.

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Speaker 3: I think that, like I recognize it right now, Like

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of consternation and concern around the team.

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Speaker 3: But I think that can change if you go down

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Speaker 3: to Dallas and you win that game and you look

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Speaker 3: good doing it.

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, so different.

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Speaker 3: We're having a much different conversation a week from now,

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Speaker 3: and if you don't, then okay, now now there's a week. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But like I think that, I just think that I

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Speaker 3: get it. But we've seen it. We've seen When I

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Speaker 3: got on that plane to go to London last year,

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Speaker 3: I was not feeling like, all right, let's get this

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Speaker 3: flight over to London and then we come back. Man,

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Speaker 3: this team is going to be uh cruising to the

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Speaker 3: top seed. That was not the vibe that morning when

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Speaker 3: we got on that flight to London twelve hours after

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Speaker 3: the Steelers game, and so I just think that that

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Speaker 3: perspective of going through those things is important to keep

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Speaker 3: in mind when you're kind of when the fan base

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Speaker 3: is at a low point after a tough loss.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it takes all of those players to

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Speaker 1: play well, and some of those players that are in

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Speaker 1: new positions like these offensive and not to stub their

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Speaker 1: toes in critical moments. Right. But like, I think that

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Speaker 1: the Ravens have the horses to get over this hump

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Speaker 1: and to your point in Dallas, you know, yeah, if

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Speaker 1: they go like, they're a good enough team to beat

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Speaker 1: any team in the league. Yeah, I think they showed

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Speaker 1: that against the Chiefs Week one, Right, that's the back

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Speaker 1: to back depending Super Bowl champions. They came within a

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Speaker 1: tow of having chance to beat them on a two

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Speaker 1: point conversion, right, Like, they are very capable of going

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Speaker 1: on a run, just like we saw last year, just

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Speaker 1: like we saw in twenty nineteen when they got off

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Speaker 1: to a slower start. Like, is this team capable of that? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Because I don't look at the schedule and say, are

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Speaker 1: there tough games remaining? Yeah, including the next three, But

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Speaker 1: are there any on there that aren't winnable for this team?

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Speaker 1: Heck no.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I think that I think the Ravens

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Speaker 3: can beat anybody on the schedule, and I think that

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Speaker 3: are they capable of rattling off several wins in a row.

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Speaker 3: I really believe that. Yeah, now they have to go

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Speaker 3: do that, and they have to improve on the things

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Speaker 3: cost them, you know, in these first two games. But

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Speaker 3: I think that that's what they're working on, that's the focus.

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Speaker 3: And I don't I just don't sense I know, again,

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Speaker 3: I know that there's concerned amongst fans, but I when

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Speaker 3: you sit down with Mark, I don't sense the guy

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Speaker 3: who's panicked about the situation. I think that like they're

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Speaker 3: focused and they know, you know, the gravity of it,

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Speaker 3: but they're also not panicked. I think that they're they're

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Speaker 3: going to work to improve those thinks and I think

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Speaker 3: that that's kind of the tenor of the team right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely agree. I think we're going to see

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Speaker 1: a good showing in Dallas. This is kind of the

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Speaker 1: Ravens DNA, right if you're back against the wall, go

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Speaker 1: on the road against the good team like this just

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Speaker 1: feels very Ravens to me. And then and then you

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Speaker 1: go out and like just have a really strong game

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Speaker 1: and surprise people with how good you play? Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: like that just is so Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think this team, probably for throughout its entire history,

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Speaker 3: has been a team that plays great with it's back

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Speaker 3: against the wall. Yep, and hopefully that's the case this week.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: We are going to have another podcast coming out tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We're going to dive into that game against Dallas, talking

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Speaker 3: about that in a little bit more detail, as well

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Speaker 3: as some of the other talking points of this week

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Speaker 3: that we've heard in locker room and during the press conferences.

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