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Speaker 1: free agency. That was the buzz last year, Um that

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Speaker 1: they were off to a great starter free agency and

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Speaker 1: and that they were gonna they won free agency, and

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Speaker 1: so um, I mean I think that they've gotten better.

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Speaker 1: Like I definitely think that the Browns have gotten better,

431
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Speaker 1: which makes which I don't like. I don't think any

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Speaker 1: Ravens fan likes that. And I think that they're doing

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Speaker 1: it in a way that's not as flashy as they

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Speaker 1: did last year. Like you you address the trenches and

435
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Speaker 1: you get Jack Conklin, which is not gonna not going

436
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Speaker 1: to create a tenth of the buzz as an Odell

437
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Speaker 1: Beckham trade does, but could make a huge difference. Figure

438
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Speaker 1: offense might have a similar we might have a bigger impact,

439
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Speaker 1: uh than a big play receiver if you're if you're

440
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Speaker 1: really being honest about it. So I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be better. Um, and you know, not to do the

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Speaker 1: whole waves you north breakdown yet, but I think that,

443
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Speaker 1: you know, the last year, if we were when we

444
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Speaker 1: were having these conversations, I kept Sam, let's see how

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Speaker 1: they do with expectations. Next year, they're gonna go into

446
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Speaker 1: the season, the expectations won't be the same as they

447
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Speaker 1: were this year, where I feel like they're better suited

448
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Speaker 1: to succeed in that kind of a setting versus being

449
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Speaker 1: like the darling of the NFL. Uh. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's concerning when you see a team

451
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Speaker 1: in your division definitely get better. I mean the Bengals

452
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Speaker 1: are are quiet as you'd expect there. I feel like

453
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Speaker 1: they're always quiet, you know, during free agents they're supposed

454
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Speaker 1: to this offseason, that was the word on the street

455
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Speaker 1: from Cincinnati was they're gonna be they get to moves.

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Speaker 1: But I haven't seen them yet, right, Uh, I know, So,

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Speaker 1: I look, I I think the Browns are gonna be

458
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Speaker 1: better next year for sure. Now this is coming from

459
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Speaker 1: a guy who kind of bought into the hype a

460
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Speaker 1: little bit last year, right and thought they're there. It

461
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Speaker 1: was gonna be the Ravens and the Browns battling for

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Speaker 1: the division. Um, and it did not turn out that

463
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Speaker 1: way obviously. But Baker Mayfield is a better quarterback than

464
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Speaker 1: he was last year. I have no doubts about that.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be better protecting him. It starts there,

466
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Speaker 1: uh now, giving him a security blanket in Austin Hooper

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Speaker 1: where it's not that you just have to push the

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Speaker 1: balls to the wide receivers as much. You still have

469
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Speaker 1: a really good running back in Nick Chubb, and the

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Speaker 1: ground game should be should be solid again. A lot

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Speaker 1: of it boils down to you once again, I mean,

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Speaker 1: new head coach Kevin Sifanti. How does it work? You know,

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Speaker 1: you had a new regime, change their general large or everything.

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Speaker 1: You know, Ken, the Browns finally get on the same

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Speaker 1: page where they don't have this all the inner turmoil

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Speaker 1: and drama the rains to be seen. Um, I don't

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Speaker 1: know a ton about the fancy and you know it's

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Speaker 1: another coordinator that people are hoping turns into a good

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Speaker 1: head coach. I I can speak from, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: once again the Ravens perspective, But it doesn't always work

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Speaker 1: that way, right, I mean, the best coordinator is not

482
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Speaker 1: doesn't make for the best head coach. It's a different

483
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Speaker 1: job description, it's a different job entirely. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they have a lot of pieces and

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Speaker 1: I think that these have been good moves. They also

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Speaker 1: brought in Kase Chenum on a three year, eighty million

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Speaker 1: dollar deal, which really makes me appreciate the contract that uh,

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Speaker 1: Robert Griffin, the third is on right now. Um, when

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Speaker 1: you got Kate Keena making an average of six million

490
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Speaker 1: of deal a year. So, uh, yeah, good moves for them.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers they lost Javonne Hargrave, which was a he

492
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Speaker 1: was a really good nose tackle defensive tackle for them

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Speaker 1: last year. Uh. Going to Philadelphia and they're as usual,

494
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Speaker 1: they are always in cat purgatory. They're renegotiating everybody's contracts

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Speaker 1: under the sun. Ben did you see Ben Roethlisberger's cat number? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What is it? What is it? It was dollar good news.

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Speaker 1: I was just like when I read that the first time,

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Speaker 1: I was like, is that it type. So it's thirty

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Speaker 1: three point five. Yeah, yeah, um, I mean yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think the Steelers will still be good,

501
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Speaker 1: you know, but they're not in a position to be

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Speaker 1: making a lot of music cree agencies. They are all

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Speaker 1: they're very tight against the cat um. And then we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens with the Bengals. I mean, they're big movies.

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Speaker 1: Is they're going to draft uh Joe Burrow, so that's

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Speaker 1: they're a big one and uh, we'll see where it

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Speaker 1: goes from there. Um. This has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: the a f C North, but as we're looking around

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Speaker 1: the league, a player that called my I who got released,

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Speaker 1: um in terms of what the Ravens need is Leonard

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Speaker 1: Floyd from the Bears. Uh he pass rusher, lean pass

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Speaker 1: rusher farmer first round pick has been okay, not great,

513
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Speaker 1: but as the Ravens are looking to add pass rushes

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Speaker 1: to this team, he's somebody that I thought, could he

515
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Speaker 1: be a fit? You know, he gets released, so that

516
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Speaker 1: falls into into uh, you know Compic territory where you're

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Speaker 1: not worried about signing him because it's gonna mess up

518
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Speaker 1: the COMPIC formula, which obviously the Ravens love. Uh. It

519
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Speaker 1: just seems like a move that I can see them making.

520
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Speaker 1: Former first round pick. Uh. Yeah, so you get a

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Speaker 1: former former top ten pick, no uh cop pick. You know,

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Speaker 1: consequences as a result of it, position of need as

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Speaker 1: a pass rusher. And the question I have with him

524
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Speaker 1: is like what would the market hole for him? Like,

525
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Speaker 1: what kind of deal is he going to get? Uh

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Speaker 1: hasn't been hugely productive the past few years. Three sacks,

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Speaker 1: four sacksen, So it's not like this is uh Jenevy

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Speaker 1: on Clowney we're talking about here, But could fill a

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Speaker 1: need at maybe a decent price. Yeah, I think it

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Speaker 1: remains the ban what that price is. Like you're talking

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Speaker 1: about how much interest two other teams have because the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are the only person, you know, team has figured

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Speaker 1: out this complex thing. So um, but I mean, here's

534
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Speaker 1: the guy who came out of the gates and got

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Speaker 1: seven sacks in the rookie in twelve games, and then

536
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Speaker 1: every year since his numbers have dropped in terms of

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Speaker 1: stack production four and a half four three, So not

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Speaker 1: the trajectory is certainly that you want to see now

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Speaker 1: you know, I've watched tape on him and uh, I

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Speaker 1: imagine the Ravens pro Scouts have so we'll see, you know.

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Speaker 1: But uh, one thing that also to me when I

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Speaker 1: look at him is physically he just doesn't strike me

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Speaker 1: as a Raven. I can't think of another pass rusher

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens have ever had that will built like him, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's like a speed speed rusher six ft

546
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Speaker 1: five and forty pounds and that is leave that is

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Speaker 1: leaves Matt J. John six three two two inch or

548
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Speaker 1: shuts heavier, heavier. I mean, that is a lean guy.

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Speaker 1: So to me, I'm interested. I am definitely interested. He

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Speaker 1: has a ton of talent, But is he Is he

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Speaker 1: that much better than entire frow here at this point

552
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Speaker 1: right right now? I think that's yeah. I think that

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Speaker 1: the The other thing that you that should be taken

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Speaker 1: into account is he's playing opposite of clil Mack, So

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Speaker 1: even even well yeah, but even playing clil Mack, it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's getting clil Mack draws a lot of attention,

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Speaker 1: and even on the other side of him only seven sacks.

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Speaker 1: That's the that's the downside. But look, I think whenever

559
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Speaker 1: there's a guy like that, like if you can get

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Speaker 1: a guy for a bit of a bargain. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason that he's a bit of a bargain um, and

562
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Speaker 1: maybe it's because it was scheme or maybe because they

563
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Speaker 1: weren't using him effectively or whatever. And if the Ravens

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Speaker 1: were to go down that path, maybe they feel like

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Speaker 1: they could get a really talented guy who four years

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Speaker 1: ago people thought was gonna be a great pass rusher

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Speaker 1: um and and maybe a chance to revive his career.

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Speaker 1: And yep, that would be interesting again, depending on what

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Speaker 1: the market holds. Yeah, I mean just five stacks. Last year,

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Speaker 1: sixteen games played, zero start lender Floyd started all sixteen

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Speaker 1: games and that three sets. Yeah, yeahs interesting it is.

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Speaker 1: But for the right price, I'm I'm intrigued, I'll say

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Speaker 1: that officially. Yeah. Um, so a lot more to happen,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. There's gonna be a lot more moves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there's gonna be a ton more

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Speaker 1: Ravens moves than what's reported and what we cannot talk

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Speaker 1: about once again, I cannot wait to talk about this,

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Speaker 1: which which we will be doing tomorrow. Um. Once once

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Speaker 1: the four pm hit, we can talk about what you've

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00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: been reading and uh, you know, for all the latest.

581
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Speaker 1: We do have the rumor Mill up on the site

582
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Speaker 1: you so that that is we are passing along with

583
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Speaker 1: the media is reporting that the Ravens are doing. We're

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Speaker 1: not confirming such moves, but we're passing this on so

585
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: you can check that out for all the latest. And

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Speaker 1: what I'm interested to see is when are we gonna

587
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Speaker 1: start hearing some buzz about Michael Pierce and Jimmy Smith,

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Speaker 1: some of the Ravens top three agents. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: anything on them yet, which surprises me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: That does surprise me too, I mean I thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but well as of now, Yeah, I thought Michael Pierce

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Speaker 1: would be a guy that we would hear about fairly quickly.

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Speaker 1: You can see some of these defensive linemen get big contracts.

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Speaker 1: Uh and Jimmy too. Like now, the thing with Jimmy

595
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Speaker 1: is is he's testing the market for the first time

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Speaker 1: of his career, so he doesn't Not hearing anything about

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Speaker 1: him immediately doesn't shock me because this is his first

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Speaker 1: foray into this and so he may be kind of

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Speaker 1: taking his time, and I don't think that he's in

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Speaker 1: a rush to make a decision. Um, I'm sure. I mean,

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Speaker 1: his agents to rosenh House, So I'm sure that they're

602
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: having plenty of conversations with teams. Um. Yeah, it is

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Speaker 1: a little bit surprising, But I don't know. I guess

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've learned over the course of free

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Speaker 1: agency that it seems like all is quiet, all is quiet,

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Speaker 1: you know. I just think back to last year on

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Speaker 1: the other side of things, UM and Uh, and it

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Speaker 1: was like, what are the Ravens doing? One of the

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Speaker 1: waves doing, what are the Ravens doing? And then boom

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Speaker 1: worl Thomas mark Ingram and there hadn't been too much

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Speaker 1: talk about either of those guys. So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I agree with you. It does't

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Speaker 1: surprise me. But there's probably those conversations happening behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes and they're just not leaking it out there, and

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Speaker 1: it might happen in a matter of twenty minutes that

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Speaker 1: one of both those guys UH have reporter deals somewhere. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think it's hard to I

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Speaker 1: don't think that silence in free agency is necessarily an

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Speaker 1: indication of lack of action. Action. Yeah, I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of defensive alignment on the market this year,

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good ones. That doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: You know, where Pierced ranks in that pecking order, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say he was in the top five. So usually

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have the top guys fly and and I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna take much longer than get that

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Speaker 1: get to peers. You can't say that much. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: So with that said, we will be back with you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to discuss all these things. Uh and and definitely

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Speaker 1: stay tuned to the Ruver Mill, as I said, and

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Speaker 1: stay in central with us. You can always reach us

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Speaker 1: on the email at the lounge at Ravens NFL dot net.

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Speaker 1: Send us your thought and we'd be happy to uh

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00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: answer your questions or whatever. We'll be answering the mail

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Speaker 1: Bag for those who watch mail Bag, will be doing

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Speaker 1: that in a written version tomorrow, so all too go

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Speaker 1: to the state for that. Also. Yeah, that's the main thing.

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Speaker 1: Like we said yesterday in the podcast, we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to keep you guys informed up to date and uh

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Speaker 1: provide a little bit of entertainment and the you know,

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Speaker 1: a chance to pass the time as we're all dealing

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Speaker 1: with uh, you know, self quarantining and social distancing and

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Speaker 1: all that. So thank you so much. What are you?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing over there? Derek? What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: How are you spending your time and being quarantine I'm

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Speaker 1: over here, plain about my time. I'm I'm spending my

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Speaker 1: time in quarantining. Working. You should give it a shot

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Speaker 1: every once in a while. You should try to mix

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Speaker 1: that in, you know, I try to get ahold of

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Speaker 1: you can find you nowhere to be seen? Are you

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Speaker 1: on the beach? Are you? I think it's just like

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Speaker 1: a real convenient this is the old. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: my kids are crazy. Those the waves crashing behind you?

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Speaker 1: Is that what I hear? You're sitting down here with

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Speaker 1: the private island count is Yeah, you're you're down there

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Speaker 1: hanging out and hanging out on the yacht in the

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Speaker 1: private island. I'm over here grinding keeping things up to date. Man,

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Speaker 1: you sent me. We sailed away together, nice and Steve.

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Speaker 1: We're just enjoying and watching Eric and the work he's doing,

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Speaker 1: you know, having some cigar. Great, do me a favorite.

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Speaker 1: I wish he got the invite, but do me a favorite.

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Speaker 1: Get him on the podcast for tomorrow. We'll get his reaction.

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Speaker 1: So well, you guys while you guys are sharing a

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Speaker 1: cigar and a drink on the on the island. All right,

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Speaker 1: yeah again. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. Email us at the lounge at Raven's on

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Speaker 1: NFL dot net. Thank you so much. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow. It spats pass