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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. It is Friday,

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Speaker 1: November tenth, and the Ravens are getting ready for an

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Speaker 1: AFC North showdown coming up on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. Today,

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Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk with head coach John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: Good seeing everybody appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 3: Really focused on the task at hand in front of us,

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Speaker 3: which is a big challenge, but we're up for it.

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Speaker 2: We're looking forward to it. What question did you.

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Speaker 1: Have, John, you mentioned earlier able that I'll just because.

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Speaker 2: As any easy to add to that myself. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: look at the calendar going into week ten?

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Speaker 3: How bim makes you feel to have all fifty three

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Speaker 3: players and they work through it makes me feel good. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's happy, But people haven't given it that much thought.

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Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I'm just focused on the

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Speaker 3: next game and having a good practice today. But the

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Speaker 3: fact that the guys are out there practicing, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a big, big plus for us.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that. That was easy on get my

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Speaker 2: easy button.

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Speaker 4: How do you see you guys are gonna deal with

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Speaker 4: mental physical physics.

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Speaker 3: How we're gonna deal with mental and physical fatigue? That's

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Speaker 3: like the best question we've had right here, by the way.

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Speaker 3: Nice nice job. I think I think we're dealing with

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Speaker 3: it right now. We've we've done a good job of that. Uh,

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Speaker 3: we've been on the road, we've been on the you know,

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Speaker 3: different very tough teams, very physical games, and I feel

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Speaker 3: like our guys have handled it very well. And we've

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Speaker 3: got to continue to do it because you know, we've

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Speaker 3: got this game against the Browns then, which is a

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Speaker 3: division game and it's gonna be a physical game that

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Speaker 3: always is another physical game against Cincinnati on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: So that's probably probably the main point.

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Speaker 3: Right now is how we handle that and how we

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Speaker 3: approach it, and our job is to handle it better

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Speaker 3: than our opponents.

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Speaker 2: To you, guys can learn a lot.

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Speaker 4: What you're about, just young guys kind of buddy.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's how it always works. You know, you're

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Speaker 3: always growing, it's always a process. You're always putting new

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Speaker 3: guys in and well, I don't care if it's offense,

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Speaker 3: defense or special teams. It's always a growth mindset and

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Speaker 3: a process. So it probably wasn't as bad as as

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Speaker 3: you thought it was early in the year, and it's

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Speaker 3: probably not as good as maybe you're making it out

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Speaker 3: to be right now, but I think we're playing good

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna have to play our best, and we're

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Speaker 3: playing a really good special teams unit coming in here

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Speaker 3: tomorrow or Sunday, and another good one on Thursday. And

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Speaker 3: our division has four great special teams, uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: operations and they always have So that's another reason that

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Speaker 3: makes this division good. And we're gonna have to be

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Speaker 3: at our best to you know, to.

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Speaker 2: To help our team.

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Speaker 1: We also had a chance to talk with some of

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Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room. Here's what they had

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 2: I can put up the VIP.

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Speaker 4: Wrote that that was Morgan. You know.

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Speaker 5: We just there's a ton of medios over here for

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Speaker 5: Gino and all the pacey's being is so we kind

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Speaker 5: of need to separate to get our space back a

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Speaker 6: What's your mindset going into this Browns game? Obviously the

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Speaker 6: big matchup with Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a battle, it's gonna be a war.

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Speaker 5: We know it's gonna be a physical game. We know

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Speaker 5: the type of teams that are in our conference, and

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Speaker 5: the Browns are a physical team, and we got to

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Speaker 5: bring our our a game.

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Speaker 6: Oh, well, do you feel like this offensive line is

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Speaker 6: gelling together right now? Obviously you're running the ball really well.

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Speaker 6: What do you think is kind of in behind that?

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Speaker 5: I just think we have great chemistry, you know, uh,

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Speaker 5: be able to have the same guys in the room

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Speaker 5: the last couple of years and uh, just having a

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Speaker 5: great room of guys, and we just have the mentality

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Speaker 5: and attitude and you know, we're still not where we

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Speaker 5: want to be, and we just you know, are not

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Speaker 5: getting complacent and what we're doing, and we're just always

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Speaker 5: working to get better.

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Speaker 7: Nie Hole's Garris having one of our best seasons or

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Speaker 7: defensive player in the league in the first half. Do

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Speaker 7: you relish these these kind of battles against the best

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Speaker 7: players in the league.

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Speaker 5: Definitely, you know, you look forward to these opportunities and

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Speaker 5: uh in this game and these are one of those

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Speaker 5: games where you know there's something an opportunity to uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, to prove you know, the type of player

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Speaker 5: I am and the type of offense line that we are,

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Speaker 5: the type of offense that we are, the type of

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Speaker 5: team that we are, and you know, we look forward

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Speaker 5: to opportunities for you.

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Speaker 7: You're sitting here on seventy two and you have two

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Speaker 7: back and back division games. You know, what's the mentality

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Speaker 7: of the team knowing you know what he could do

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Speaker 7: with over these next couple of weeks in terms of

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Speaker 7: this division race.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we we know where we are as

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Speaker 5: a team and where we lie in this league. But

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Speaker 5: like you said, we're just trying to take this one

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Speaker 5: game at a time. We know I'm pouring these division

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Speaker 5: games are and uh, we're turning this game like a

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Speaker 5: super Bowl, So you know, we're trying to make sure

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Speaker 5: that we're putting our best foot forward and you know,

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Speaker 5: leave everything out there. N you've etually what a couple

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Speaker 5: of other offensive guys have said that the offense is

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Speaker 5: trending in the right direction, but it's not where you

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Speaker 5: want to be get what what are you looking for.

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Speaker 2: To get to that next time?

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Speaker 4: I mean, for us, it's perfection.

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Speaker 5: For us, it's making every blog for the perfect technique

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Speaker 5: and uh for seventy five.

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Speaker 4: Plays a game.

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Speaker 5: And you know that's a hard feat to do, but

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Speaker 5: that's that's our goal, that's our mentality. And you know,

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Speaker 5: maybe we won't, maybe we won't get there, but you

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Speaker 5: know we keep that, keep that mindset.

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Speaker 4: We're I think we're getting pretty close.

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Speaker 5: Where you're playing like super like nine games where you

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Speaker 5: can do all and I guess you know, for yourself,

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Speaker 5: there's any you know we've been trying to get to.

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Speaker 1: What do you feel like, Oh, things are really good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's the same standard I hope for myself.

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Speaker 5: You know, I try to be perfect out there. I

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Speaker 5: try to make sure I not only get the job done,

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Speaker 5: but I'm doing it with great technique and every play

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Speaker 5: of the game, you'd be consistently, you know, I think

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Speaker 5: I'm getting better.

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Speaker 4: Definitely, not where I want to be at the.

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Speaker 1: The Sundays game against the Cleveland Rowls will kick off

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock. It's airing on Fox. But if you're

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Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of cool stuff planned pregame, including

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Speaker 1: the US Navy leap Frog parachute jumpers who are going

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Speaker 1: to be flying into the stadium so check that out.

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Speaker 1: Get to your seats by twelve forty PM to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you see all the action. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the game on Sunday