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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by a DraftKings. Clifton Brown

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Speaker 1: is stopping by the lounge today. Mink is taking his

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Speaker 1: one hundredth day of vacation this off season. I think

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Speaker 1: Cliff and I have done more podcasts. I think you

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Speaker 1: and I have done more podcasts this off season than

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Speaker 1: me and Mink.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get Mink's a vacation policy, man.

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Speaker 1: I know that this is the quiet time and Mink

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Speaker 1: is taking full advantage of that. So Gary Downing and

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Speaker 1: Clifton is joining me here today, and just as on

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Speaker 1: aside here before we get into the football talk, lots

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Speaker 1: of emails have come in Cliff about the draft that

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Speaker 1: Make and I did last week, and I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: it was a landslide victory for you boy here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was an absolute I demolished him. I demolished him.

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Speaker 1: We did the ice cream Truck draft last week. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't listened to that episode it came out last week,

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Speaker 1: go back and check it out and email us to

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Speaker 1: the Lounge at Ravens at NFL dot net. I won't

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Speaker 1: read all the emails today because he's not here to

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Speaker 1: defend himself. There's no defense really, but he's not here

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Speaker 1: to even attempt to defend himself, So go ahead and

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Speaker 1: send us an email. That'll give us time to get

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Speaker 1: some more to just embarrass him whenever Mant does decide

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Speaker 1: to come back to work. So with that preface, Cliff

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Speaker 1: and I want to kind of discuss what's been going

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Speaker 1: on over the past week and also answer some of

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Speaker 1: your questions. We have several questions here that you guys

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Speaker 1: have sent in, And the first thing that I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about is we knew that Odell and Lamar

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Speaker 1: we're going to spend some time together this offseason. Odell

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Speaker 1: told us that during Mini camp, and that's been happening.

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Speaker 1: They have gone to work on the field down in

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Speaker 1: Florida along with Day Flowers, and all three of those

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Speaker 1: guys also took part of Lamar's annual fun day down

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Speaker 1: and pomping a beach where he gets back to his

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Speaker 1: hometown and his community, which is a really special event

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Speaker 1: for him. OBJ and Zay Flowers both showed up to that.

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Speaker 1: So I just want to get your take on all

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Speaker 1: of them and what it means. You know, what you

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Speaker 1: think the significance of it is.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love to see those guys already

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Speaker 2: hanging out, you know, looking so natural doing it. I

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Speaker 2: that you know, Lamar is really happy with, you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the additions that have been made this summer,

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Speaker 2: and that they're all in a good place. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Lamar the contract thing is over a Zay bringing in him,

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Speaker 2: bringing him in another South Florida guy. You know that

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Speaker 2: they have the automatic connection. And then Odell someone who

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Speaker 2: Lamar was already friendly with and they have mutual respect

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Speaker 2: for each other. And also, like you know, I've been

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Speaker 2: commented to you that I think that this team has

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Speaker 2: a kind of a chip on his shoulder in a

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Speaker 2: good way that you know, Lamar, a lot of things

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Speaker 2: were said during his contract dispute. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: still have different opinions on you know, where he is

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Speaker 2: as a quarterback, and obviously he he wants to win

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl badly. Odell really hasn't played in a

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Speaker 2: couple of years. We know what he's done in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: but you know, people are asking, you know, is he

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Speaker 2: still that player? Can he stay healthy? And then Zay

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Speaker 2: being a rookie coming off a great college career, but

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Speaker 2: going to be the same type receiver at this level

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Speaker 2: that he was at Boston College. They all have quote

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Speaker 2: unquote something to prove. And I think that they already

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Speaker 2: have a bond in many ways. And yes, I do

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Speaker 2: like them spending this offseason time together before even camp

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Speaker 1: We're not down there watching the workouts, so it's hard

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Speaker 1: to like draw too much from the videos that you see.

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Speaker 1: I do think, like when I just watched them, man

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Speaker 1: O'Dell Beckham seems to be moving really well. Like that

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Speaker 1: really agile. He seems to be moving well. We've seen

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Speaker 1: O'Dell's had a lot of time. Like I didn't get

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Speaker 2: I agree, And even he's kind of refers to as

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look slow when I watched the videos.

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Speaker 2: It makes you wonder, like his top gear. Yeah, say

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Speaker 2: week one. And that's the thing. I mean, Odell expects

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Speaker 2: a guy who's out there making plays and doing pretty well.

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Speaker 2: He expects to be great. Lamar expects to be great,

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Speaker 2: and Zay was a great college player and has great

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Speaker 2: new offense with Todd Monkin. So yeah, it's just all

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Speaker 2: positive right now. I mean again, you look around the

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Speaker 2: league and a lot of teams right now, everybody's underfeed

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Speaker 2: and a lot of teams are optimistic. But when you

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Speaker 2: think about where the Ravens have been the past couple

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Speaker 2: of off seasons, particularly when you consider the injuries that

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Speaker 2: so many of their players have had. To me, this

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Speaker 2: team's in a lot better spot going into training camp

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think it also

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Speaker 1: just shows me it's another example of how like these

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Speaker 1: putting in the work. He put in the work here

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Speaker 1: I think that them getting together, Like I don't know.

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Speaker 1: does it make? I don't know, But I think what

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Speaker 1: it says to me is two things. One is what

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Speaker 1: I know Zay's from South Florida too, so it's not

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Speaker 1: like he's coming very far to spend spend time. But Odell,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Monaco or you know, we've seen that. But

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Speaker 1: working with Lamar and then also to go back for

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Speaker 1: I think that that relationship matters, and they're all those

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're going to be spending a lot

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Speaker 2: be really good for Day to be a young wide

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna speed up Zay's learning curve. And

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Speaker 2: everyone you talk to about Zay, I mean, had this

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Speaker 2: nothing new. But in college he was he was a

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Speaker 2: help him as a rookie wide receiver who because of

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Speaker 2: Odell's presence and Rashid Bateman and others. Zay doesn't have

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Speaker 2: get a thousand yards. He can just play well, fit

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Speaker 2: in and learn really quickly. I think it's a really

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Speaker 2: good situation for Zay to be in as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Zay did miss little bit of time during

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Speaker 1: like he's on the shelf. And so again it's not

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Speaker 1: like we're watching these workouts in their entirety. We're watching

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Speaker 1: change of direction, that agility. I think that Todd Muncken

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Speaker 1: I think he can make people miss. I think he's

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Speaker 1: add like such a new element to this offense as somebody. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he could take the top off, but like that ability

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Speaker 1: I just think he's going to be able to get

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Speaker 2: That's the hope. You know that he's going to open

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Speaker 2: up the playbook even more and that the Ravens as

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Speaker 2: I mean, imagine if those those things you're talking about,

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Speaker 2: We know what Odell can do. You get Bateman back healthy,

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Speaker 2: you have Duverney. We haven't even talked about the tight

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Speaker 2: ends yet. I mean, you've got Mark Andrews serious problem

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Speaker 2: for the defense. And then you know Isaiah Likely we

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Speaker 2: saw what his potential is last year and Charlie Coolo

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Speaker 2: expect to see him, you know, make some players this year.

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Speaker 2: And then we haven't talked about Lamar either. You know

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Speaker 2: the dual threat he brings. So if they're clicking on

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Speaker 1: the conversation going into that season. I think there were

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Speaker 1: more questions than there were high expectations. So like I

432
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Speaker 1: it's fine. I think that like that's that's fine, Like

433
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Speaker 1: those teams deserve the deserve the conversation. Like that doesn't

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Speaker 1: bother me that people are talking about the Bengals and

435
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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Chiefs. I think that that conversation

436
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Speaker 1: and that focus on those teams is warranted. But I'm

437
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Speaker 1: not at all writing the Raves off and saying like

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Speaker 1: they can't win the conference, they can't go to the

439
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Speaker 1: super Bowl, they can't win a super Bowl. Like I

440
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Speaker 1: think that they are going to be firmly in that

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Speaker 1: in that mix, and I think that it's just a

442
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Speaker 1: really difficult AFC, Like I yesterday when you and I

443
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Speaker 1: were talking about it, you know, we spent like ten

444
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Speaker 1: minutes talking about it, and then it's like, oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we haven't even mentioned Miami. You know, Miami

446
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Speaker 1: is going to be a really good team. They went

447
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I think Pittsburgh is going to be

448
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Speaker 1: a better team this year. They're always They're always right there,

449
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Speaker 1: and that is not going to be easy. So it's

450
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Speaker 1: like the conference is hard, the division is difficult. The

451
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Speaker 1: Bengals are really good. I just mentioned I think Pittsburgh

452
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Speaker 1: is going to be good. It gives me a hard

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Speaker 1: time because he always say I'm scared of Pittsburgh. But

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Speaker 1: I just think they're incredibly well coached, tough team and

455
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Speaker 1: generally speaking over the past, you know, history of the franchise.

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Speaker 1: When you're when you're doing the game the Dubs game

457
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Speaker 1: win loss, win loss, you often end up splitting that.

458
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Speaker 1: You typically end up splitting that rivalry, all right. And

459
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Speaker 1: then the Browns, I'm not completely overlooking them, Like with

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Speaker 1: Shaun Watson in the second season full year there, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not dismissing them.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't see how you could. I mean,

463
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Speaker 2: he played six games last year, so assuming he stays healthy,

464
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Speaker 2: they almost have to be better than they were last year.

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Speaker 2: A tougher team to beat, certainly tougher offensively. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: to me, the unusual schedule the Ravens have, having those

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Speaker 2: three division road games that early, I don't know if

468
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen that before, And that to me means that, yeah,

469
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Speaker 2: the Ravens need to be ready to go early, that

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Speaker 2: they don't have the luxury of kind of cruising up

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Speaker 2: to speed. You always want to be a better team late,

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Speaker 2: peaking at the right time. If you can put those.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be climbing out of a hole

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Speaker 1: for the whole season either.

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Speaker 2: Those games are really important, all division games are, and

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Speaker 2: they have them stacked up early, the ones on the road,

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Speaker 2: they will have the advantage of having all those teams

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Speaker 2: come to them later. But as you said, no, you

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Speaker 2: don't want to you don't want to dig yourself an

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Speaker 2: early holes.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean the schedule is tough, Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: Texans Week one home opener, that should be a win,

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Speaker 1: but then then then you go to Cincinnati, then you

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Speaker 1: come back home, you're playing the Colts. Ravens will gain

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Speaker 1: be favored in that game, that should be a win.

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Speaker 1: But then then you go Browns, Steelers, then London. That's

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Speaker 1: a tough stretch, and so you just you want to

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Speaker 1: be in a situation early on where you are. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: if you can win those games, if you can steal

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Speaker 1: two out of the three there on the road, if

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Speaker 1: you could steal all three, that'd be amazing. But like,

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Speaker 1: if you can steal a couple of the road games

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Speaker 1: there in the division early on and build up a nicely,

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Speaker 1: that would be a good place to be, and then

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Speaker 1: you can play from you know, you can play from

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Speaker 1: in front. So it's a good question, Brent. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the email, and I just you know, don't get mad.

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Speaker 1: Don't get mad just because there's all this talk on

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Speaker 1: d SPAN or NFL Network about these other teams. It's

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Speaker 1: okay to be under the radar right now. If once

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are piling up the wins, then the conversation

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Speaker 1: will come. So just wait, just be patient. Okay. Here's

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Speaker 1: an email from Greg. Greg says, I'm so stoked for

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Speaker 1: the season to begin. After listening to the episode of

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Speaker 1: the Random Questions, I can't stop thinking about how the

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Speaker 1: Ravens for the first time in the while have great

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Speaker 1: depth a wide receiver. We've seen what good depth at

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Speaker 1: the position looks like, but the Bengals having three guys

509
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Speaker 1: who seem to be impossible to cover. I get excited

510
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Speaker 1: thinking about that. The Ravens are going to be in

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Speaker 1: a position like the Bengals at the receiver spot and

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Speaker 1: maybe even be better. I can't wait for the revenge

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Speaker 1: games this year. Love the lounge and thanks for the

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Speaker 1: content throughout the dead part of the offseason. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Greg for the email. I mean, I'm with him, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the receiver position and the depth.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Ravens added top and talent, and

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Speaker 1: I think they added death at that spot. And then

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Speaker 1: there's something that you're you know, will wait and see,

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Speaker 1: like Zay Flower and I think he's got tremendous potential,

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Speaker 1: but his rookie, so it's hard to say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean to me, Lamar has never had that

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Speaker 2: kind of depth at that position. Yeah, sure to work with.

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Speaker 2: And they're meshing into an offense that we all expect

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Speaker 2: to be a little less run oriented, So those guys

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Speaker 2: are going to have opportunities, I feel to get the

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Speaker 2: ball in their hands. And yeah, I think that opponents now,

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Speaker 2: particularly early, nobody really knows what the Ravens are gonna

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Speaker 2: look like offensively, and that could be an advantage for

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Speaker 2: them early.

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Speaker 1: I think it was in nineteen.

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Speaker 2: It definitely was no one knew exactly what they expect

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Speaker 2: and when they saw it, they weren't ready for the Ravens. Well,

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Speaker 2: hope that that's the same situation this year, a different style,

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Speaker 2: but oh man, we weren't ready for that. We weren't

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Speaker 2: expecting that being a half step behind. That could be

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Speaker 2: an advantage for the Ravens coming out of blocks, particularly

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Speaker 2: if they're healthy, which they're gonna go into training gam healthy.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, we all know how John Harball and his

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Speaker 2: staff get the team ready for the regular season. They

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Speaker 2: could have an advantage early with this new system that

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Speaker 2: no one has seen with these players in this system

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Speaker 2: with toym Mockt and Hoopefully for the Ravens out being advantage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just in terms of really kind of dominating

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Speaker 1: Greg's point, like a the receiver spot, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think like there's been the Bengals have probably been the

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Speaker 1: class in terms of having those three guys you know

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Speaker 1: everythingk most most teams in the league would love to

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Speaker 1: have a trio like Jamar Chase and t Higgins and

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Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. But and I think that the Ravens now

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Speaker 1: have some really good players at that spot. There's questions,

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Speaker 1: you know, guys come back from injury and all that.

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Speaker 1: But I think that the potential of this group, I

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Speaker 1: think it's as good as a receiving corps that we've

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Speaker 1: had here in a long time. I think, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it on health, of course, but

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Speaker 1: I think that if these guys are healthy, this could

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Speaker 1: be the best receiving core that I've seen here in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: I think the best that I've seen is probably it's

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Speaker 1: probably twenty twelve. And that was Tory, that was Jacoby,

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Speaker 1: that was Ankwan, and you had pittas a tight end.

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Speaker 1: That was probably the best. You know that group there

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Speaker 1: fourteen You had Steve Smith, Tory, she still had Dennis

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Speaker 1: who had been coming off the injuries at that point

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Speaker 1: at tight end, and you had Jacoby. But I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I think it was Wit twelve. I think this group

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Speaker 1: on paper could be even better than that group.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you think about that twenty twelve group

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Speaker 2: you can easily in your mind see you know an Kwan,

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Speaker 2: Tory and Jacoby making huge plays in the playoffs, like

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Speaker 2: different making plays.

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Speaker 1: That Hi miracle is pretty good play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and without any of them, even yeah, the

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Speaker 2: catch Pita made know in that game, you know, to

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Speaker 2: keep it, keep its eye going.

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Speaker 1: This is that this is memory and I think about

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Speaker 1: a Kuon going up and just ripping the ball away

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Speaker 1: from people that entire postseason, or Tory ending Champ Bailey's

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Speaker 1: career in that game.

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Speaker 2: Right, I.

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Speaker 1: Know.

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Speaker 2: And without that, the Ravens don't want to sup. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean they needed all of those guys to make

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Speaker 2: really huge plays. That's what you want, and that's what

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Speaker 2: the Ravens hope they will see this year. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: instead of having just one guy or two guys, now

588
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Speaker 2: they have multiple players in my opinion, who can make

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Speaker 2: huge plays, and that makes them more difficult to cover.

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Speaker 2: You're playing the Ravens. Now, you put your best corner

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Speaker 2: on Odell, then you've got to deal with Bateman, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you've got a deal with Zay and do it

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Speaker 2: and so on. You know, Andrews, he always during his

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Speaker 2: career has drawn huge attention him.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes even a corner has covered him. Yeah, so like

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Speaker 1: if you do it because because now if you do

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Speaker 1: that right, okay, well now you're leaving Odell out there

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Speaker 1: right on the edge.

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Speaker 2: It's problem. They cause a matchup problems now in ways

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Speaker 2: that I don't think they were able to do before.

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Speaker 2: And the health is huge, but health is huge with

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Speaker 2: all teams. But hopefully these guys will be healthy, and

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Speaker 2: then if they are, I have no doubt that they'll

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Speaker 2: be a good offensive team, but with the potential to

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Speaker 2: be a great offensive team if things come together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, this one is a little bit more

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Speaker 1: nitty gritty here, but this is it's a good question.

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Speaker 1: This is from Will and Pittsburgh, which I appreciate. Will

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Speaker 1: you know in Steelers Country listening to lounge and writing,

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Speaker 1: He says, can you give an update on trayvon Mullen,

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Speaker 1: the cornerback and how he has looked so far? Former

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Speaker 1: second round pick y a size and speed to be

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Speaker 1: really good. There's been talk about adding another corner, but

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Speaker 1: is trayvon Mullen a sleeper at that spot?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that he and a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of corners are gonna get they have an opportunity. I

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Speaker 2: think it's a little too early to say how the

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Speaker 2: corners shake out beyond Marlin and Rock is scent. That's

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Speaker 2: one of the big I think question marks or talking

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Speaker 2: points in training camp Ravens. And first of all, they

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Speaker 2: may and they may sign another corner. And then how

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Speaker 2: are they gonna rotate the corners? How often they're gonna

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Speaker 2: play three safeties instead of maybe three playing three corners? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: who's gonna play the majority of snaps that Nickel?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all a quest. I actually think he is

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Speaker 1: a sleeper though. I think that, like to to the

627
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Speaker 1: question there from Will, like I do think that people

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Speaker 1: are sleeping on treybon ull want a little bit in

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Speaker 1: that conversation. I think the two starters are gonna be

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Speaker 1: Marlin and Rock. That's gonna be your two starting corners.

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Speaker 1: But I think that from what I have seen, Like

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Speaker 1: if the Raves are playing a game today, I think

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Speaker 1: that and and Marlin are rock how to come out

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Speaker 1: and got hurt? I think about Mullen would be the

635
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Speaker 1: guy that steps in there. Now, maybe it's Brandon Stevens,

636
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Speaker 1: but he's been playing a lot of safety, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that's what John Harbot said. They want to you know,

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00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: kind of put him in safety, Mullen is I you will.

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00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: I like the potential of Jalen Arbor Davis and Pepe Williams,

640
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: but they really didn't practice Harley at older in the offseason,

641
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Speaker 1: so it's hard to know exactly what you have there.

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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: And Mullen is a talented player, as he mentioned as

643
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Speaker 1: a former second round pick. Could the Ravens still as somebody, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think it's still possible. But I do think that

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Speaker 1: like he has, he has a chance to make this

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Speaker 1: you know, put somebody in that spot. But I think

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Speaker 1: I do. I like his I think it's a good question,

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Speaker 1: he if he plays well, then he could very well

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Speaker 2: He'll have an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: He's got an opportunity. That's for guys like that.

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Speaker 2: That's all you can ask for it, that's all you

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Speaker 2: can ask for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as always, you can email us to the

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Speaker 1: next week on Monday, we're gonna have an interesting episode.

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Speaker 1: We are looking back at some of the top twenty

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Speaker 1: Also make sure you keep an eye out for that

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Speaker 1: poll coming out next week. It's gonna be a bracket

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