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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

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Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go. This is awesome.

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Speaker 1: We are live from the Counting House here in London

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Speaker 1: and we have fans from around the globe. Whoa unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is lick. I have goosebumps

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Speaker 1: right now. Ravens are getting ready to take on Titans

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Speaker 1: and it couldn't start any better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is incredible. This shows you that love that

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Speaker 3: the past half around the world. And if you hear

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Speaker 3: a cheer behind me, that's because somebody has just made

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Speaker 3: its way over here.

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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go way Lewis.

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Speaker 6: Who all right?

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Speaker 1: Right, we were the biggest celebrities. Thanks a lot for

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Speaker 1: upstage and us. Now we're just a couple of peons now.

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Speaker 3: A man, You know how Ravens fans are. What is

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Speaker 3: it like to come here on the other side of

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Speaker 3: the world and see this type of reaction from Ravens

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Speaker 3: fans all the way in London?

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Speaker 7: Baltimore, we're in the building, baby, were in the building.

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Speaker 7: Nah man, It's it's absolutely amazing. And from Baltimore to

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Speaker 7: no matter where it is, bro ain't nothing like Purple

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Speaker 7: Love and nothing like Brople.

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Speaker 1: Had dw Have you Have you ever realized that we

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Speaker 1: have such a global fan base or is it? You know,

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Speaker 1: when you're in Baltimore, hard to kind of grasp how

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Speaker 1: big this is.

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Speaker 7: It don't matter if it's Baltimore or whatever. Maybe it's

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Speaker 7: Purple Love kind. It's different. It's different, and for the

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Speaker 7: last twenty plus years, man, it's been absolutely amazing that

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Speaker 7: this is the only culture I care about, you know,

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Speaker 7: I tell you, yeah, right.

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Speaker 3: You know these international games are something that have grown.

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Speaker 3: And you're somebody who's an advocate for the game of football.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you love the game of football, you love

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Speaker 3: what it stands for. You want to help grow the game.

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Speaker 3: What does it mean to you to see this game

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Speaker 3: growing the way it is internationally? You come over here,

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Speaker 3: you see Ravens fans everywhere, and you know it's going

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Speaker 3: to be a packed house on Sunday. What does it

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Speaker 3: mean to you to see the growth that we're seeing

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Speaker 3: in this game from an international standpoint?

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Speaker 7: I just think the game teaches so much. You know,

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Speaker 7: the game of football. It's an amazing thing when it

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Speaker 7: comes to the football, right, But the game teaches you

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Speaker 7: what manhood is right. It teaches you what fatherhood is,

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Speaker 7: It teaches you what the leaders should be right. And

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Speaker 7: so no matter where you are across the world, all

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Speaker 7: of those tangible things make sense. So every time that

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Speaker 7: the game spreads, then we have another chance to educate

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Speaker 7: our people.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got the Titans coming up here, and

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Speaker 1: you know a thing or two about the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk a little bit about this rivalry

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Speaker 5: going back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Steelers of course always here, right, but where

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Speaker 1: were the Titans kind of on your rivalry rankings?

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Speaker 7: Oh man, Actually, I think the first rivalry ever really

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Speaker 7: created in Baltimore was Baltimore Tennessee. I think it both

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Speaker 7: franchises were really trying to find each other, right and

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Speaker 7: find out who we were. Pittsburgh at that time was

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Speaker 7: already kind of established, right, so I think we both

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Speaker 7: were chasing the Stellers at one time. And so I think,

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Speaker 7: you know, we we were trying to kill each other, right,

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Speaker 7: So I think those rivalries with you know, Watchake and

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Speaker 7: I tell you, if you want to see a war,

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Speaker 7: a real battle, that's the battle of men. And I

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Speaker 7: think that that rivalry started way before any other rivalry,

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Speaker 1: Now, you and Eddie George definitely had a rivalry that one.

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Speaker 6: Now, really.

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Speaker 5: I went back and found some coats on this one.

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Speaker 1: Ray Eddie said, I was willing to die on the

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Speaker 5: Going against you.

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Speaker 1: I think you said there's never been a rivalry between

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Speaker 1: you kind of still when I talk about Eddie George?

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Speaker 1: I know you all are kind of friends now, but

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Speaker 1: do you still get that little feeling insaideia a little bit?

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Speaker 6: I just left his fiftieth birthday man with friends.

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Speaker 5: I'm not starting anything that.

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Speaker 7: Look, I think I think the game. One of the

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Speaker 7: thing about the game for me and him was you

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Speaker 7: The game is a little bit different now, right, But

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Speaker 7: when we were going at it, I think it was

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Speaker 7: the ultimate respect.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 7: We came out of college together and we had a little,

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Speaker 7: you know, little rumbling early and in my day, and

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Speaker 7: he said I didn't want to see him and I

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Speaker 7: told him he didn't want to see me. So guess what,

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Speaker 7: we ended up seeing each other for years and it

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Speaker 7: him this that his fiftieth birthday. Seriously, Eddie elevated my game,

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Speaker 7: Like you had to be ready to play football to

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Speaker 7: play against Eddie. And I still to this day like

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Speaker 7: he's one of my closest friends and one of the

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Speaker 3: You know, when I think about those old school Titans games,

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Speaker 3: I think about when Brian Billock held up the Sports

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Speaker 3: Illustrated in the locker room talking about, you know, they're

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Speaker 3: the best team in the NFL, but not today, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but not today. And you know that was a that

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Speaker 3: was a big moment for you guys as a team.

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Speaker 3: What did it mean to kind of set that stage

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Speaker 3: win that game and that in that in that playoff run.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was kind of a foundational piece of

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl. But what did it mean to get that

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Speaker 3: one as you guys were establishing yourself as the I

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Speaker 3: think everyone here would agree the best defense of all time, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean the best the best defense of all time?

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Speaker 3: And How big was that game against the Titans.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that was the That was the one thing, right

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Speaker 7: seriously that I think we knew between us and Tennessee,

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Speaker 7: whoever won that game was gonna win the super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Right. It was just it was just simple.

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Speaker 7: Because it was so physical between both of us, and

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Speaker 7: and and not that we disrespected any other any other team,

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Speaker 7: bad day for Oakland, but I think we knew that

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Speaker 7: the road had to go through Tennessee. Right the year before,

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Speaker 7: they had just won, they had just came from the

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Speaker 3: You know, I said that this that defense was the

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Speaker 3: best defense of all time. You guys were dominant, especially

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Speaker 3: in that Super Bowl. Is there any doubt in your

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Speaker 3: mind that's the best defense it's ever sets on an

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Speaker 1: Me?

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Speaker 4: Is there any any doubt in your mind?

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Speaker 6: Bro?

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Speaker 5: You're allowed to tackle him for that question? I just

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Speaker 5: go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Whether it depends whether we negotiating, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. He's a no one. I don't want

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Speaker 5: to negotiate anything.

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Speaker 4: You have no poison, I don't want to get hit.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I mean no, Let's just talk truth, right,

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Speaker 7: like number numbers don't lie, right.

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Speaker 4: You know him too, so, so.

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Speaker 7: It's like you can get into a lot of you

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Speaker 7: can get into a lot of arguments, but it's hard

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Speaker 7: to get into an argument when the entire season somebody

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Speaker 7: rushes for less than a.

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Speaker 3: Thousand yards the whole season, the whole season.

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Speaker 7: Rights, that's great, you got one guy, you got one

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Speaker 7: guy rushing for two thousand yards, right, But you got

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Speaker 7: an entire sixteen weeks where nobody sees a thousand, Right.

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Speaker 7: It's like, it's crazy, right, It's like going five weeks

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Speaker 7: those games. You know, It's like going in the playoffs

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Speaker 7: and giving up one touchdown the entire playoffs.

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Speaker 4: The whole playoffs, one whole playoffs.

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Speaker 6: Super Bowl included, Right, super.

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Speaker 5: Bowl should have been a shutout, defensive shutout.

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Speaker 6: Shut out.

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Speaker 7: I don't care what else that I want to y'all

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Speaker 7: said it. It was a shutout for sure, yeah, man,

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Speaker 7: but it was it was meant what me and Rob

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Speaker 7: was talking about earlier.

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Speaker 6: That that defense.

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Speaker 7: That defense was special because of what we was willing

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Speaker 6: You know, it was built.

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Speaker 7: It was built with a mix of men that were

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Speaker 7: I'm telling him still to this day, you know, every

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Speaker 7: I love you because of what we sacrifice for each other,

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Speaker 7: you know. And not that no other team didn't sacrifice that,

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Speaker 7: but we had the right mix. It was the right time,

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Speaker 7: The only people believed in us was purple love, you see.

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Speaker 7: And so that's it takes. It takes a lot of

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Speaker 6: What we did.

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Speaker 1: Now now, you can never compare another defense, Garrett, to

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Speaker 1: the the Super Bowl champion defense. But our defense this

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Speaker 1: We got a good team, right, they're playing well. Ray,

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Speaker 1: just kind of what do you see from this Ravens

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Speaker 1: defense led by a guy that you talked to not

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Speaker 1: too too long ago, Roquan Smith.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think the exciting part about when

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Speaker 7: I watch this defense now, Roquand is kind of what

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Speaker 7: I told him when we did this interview, right, And

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Speaker 7: so I sat him down and I said, look, I

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Speaker 7: those plays cannot happen, right, because even though you may

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Speaker 7: know what's going on, you may have a great game,

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Speaker 7: but if your defense don't know what's going on, that's

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Speaker 7: a bad game.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 7: So everybody, what I challenge Rokuan to do is go

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Speaker 7: communicate with everybody, bruh, like half open conversation that everybody

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Speaker 7: should know, right, two tight ends in the backfield, two

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Speaker 7: whatever it is, right, that needs to be screamed out.

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Speaker 6: And he has to understand that, right. And I think

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Speaker 6: when you see.

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Speaker 7: Us play, we're starting to we're starting to kind of

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Speaker 7: tweak into that, right, Like it's hard to move the

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Speaker 7: ball on us right now, Right, it's because we're communicating

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Speaker 7: through that.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 7: A solid defense is a dead defense, right in a

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Speaker 7: defense that's not talking. If you watch the National the

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Speaker 7: Football League, everybody defense head like this. The worst defenses

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Speaker 7: And I'm telling you that's what it's really gonna take

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Speaker 7: Someone that has one voice, right, and everybody else rallies

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Speaker 6: Think they have it. I don't know. I'm not in

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Speaker 7: It looks like they're they're brewing something, right, It's something

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Speaker 7: There's a difference between a superstar and a rock star, yep, right,

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Speaker 7: And so for me to watch this play out this

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Speaker 3: When you're watching the games, and I know you watch

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Speaker 7: You know, some people, some people play the game because

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Speaker 6: Right. He's not gonna play it the way you want

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Speaker 7: And that's what makes him so dynamic, right, It's because

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Speaker 7: I think, over time with everything that he learns, maturity

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Speaker 6: Maybe I'm dynamic with.

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Speaker 6: I get better. I get better, I get better.

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Speaker 7: And that's why I think his I think it's he

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Speaker 6: So he's so dynamic. Right, we're just like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 6: that's the most amazing run ever.

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Speaker 7: Right, But when you're the fastest kid in the park

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Speaker 6: Of that, I just think he has to hit it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he will and yeah, this is the

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Speaker 9: Ray.

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Speaker 3: When you you're gonna be in the game on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: what do you what do you expect? You know, what

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Speaker 7: I think it's an unfair expectation for me to tell

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Speaker 4: We did Astro. I think he feels forty about it.

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Speaker 7: I will tell you I think they're up for the

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Speaker 6: George and the huh.

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Speaker 5: You got a little Eddie George and them Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 6: There George him for sure, Yeah, he's.

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Speaker 2: A little ray and.

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Speaker 6: A little ray.

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Speaker 5: I gotta ask you one more ray.

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Speaker 1: I mean, not many people get to ride off in

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever still pinch yourself and look back on

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Speaker 3: One place, the whole time, one team.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, look, I'm statue and everything.

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Speaker 7: I tell you this, right, A lot of people, a

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Speaker 7: You see, It's just it's not right because the MVP

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 7: The game the game was exciting, but on this side

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 5: Man, this is amazing to.

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Speaker 7: We could come take over London. Now, we take over

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Speaker 3: Ladies, the gentleman, give it up for ray Lewis one

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Speaker 2: Right, Lewis.

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Speaker 5: That's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's crazy. I mean I grew up.

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Speaker 5: When you watch ray Lewis in the way he plays the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, ray Lewis is somebody who's is

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Speaker 4: And now you know, we.

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Speaker 3: Spent a good amount of time talking about Roquan Smith.

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Speaker 1: My favorite part really was when you asked Ray whether

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Speaker 1: You know, and he looked at you, like, what do

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Speaker 4: You know that the best?

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Speaker 3: You know what we call that? We just called that

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Speaker 4: The goods out right here, give me the gains stuff

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Speaker 1: Well, this Ravens defense is ranked second pretty much across

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Speaker 3: But overall, I think this is a great defense. I

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Speaker 3: don't see many teams putting up a lot of points

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Speaker 3: on this defense. What are you guys saying, are many

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Speaker 3: team's gonna score on the Ravens this year? I mean,

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Speaker 3: now it's like maybe field goal, Like you said, maybe

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Speaker 3: field goal.

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Speaker 4: Maybe may say may field goal, But like.

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Speaker 3: I just don't see many teams scoring on the Ravens

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Speaker 3: that much this year.

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Speaker 5: No, no. I And and really the.

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Speaker 1: Offense as we've seen, you know, there's been some hiccups,

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Speaker 1: there's been turnovers and stuff. But I really like the

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Speaker 1: potential of this offense. And you've seen it in spurts, right,

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Speaker 1: you see what this offense can be, especially as they

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Speaker 1: get healthier, and so, you know, just having Ray here,

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Speaker 1: you kind of compare it to the teams in the past, right,

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Speaker 1: and and now defense is going to be as dominant

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Speaker 1: as the two thousand defense, obviously, but I think that

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Speaker 1: this year's offense, if they can kind of put the

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Speaker 1: pieces together, they can be better certainly than the two

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Speaker 1: thousand offense was and I think they can be better

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Speaker 1: than the twenty twelve offense was.

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Speaker 5: I mean that wasn't like that offense was light in

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Speaker 5: the world on fire.

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Speaker 1: Joe got on a heater in the playoffs, right, and

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Speaker 1: they Bolden was a dog. Bolden always a no senior dog,

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Speaker 1: that red senior dog. But you know, I think this offense,

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Speaker 1: this is the best collection of playmakers the Ravens have

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Speaker 1: ever had, bar none. They need to get healthy and

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Speaker 1: stay healthy, but I really think that once they put

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Speaker 1: the two pieces together of this defense, in this offense,

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Speaker 1: I genuinely feel in my gut that this is going.

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Speaker 5: To be a special team.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't think the Ravens feel like they've played

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Speaker 3: a complete game yet.

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Speaker 4: I feel like they've They've had elements of it.

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Speaker 3: You've seen flashes, and there's been times when the offense

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Speaker 3: is good and you've seen there's been times when the

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Speaker 3: defense is really good. But they haven't completely put it

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Speaker 3: together to the level that they think they can. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's coming. I think I really believe that

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Speaker 3: that is that's going to be here before we know it.

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Speaker 3: And with the offense, like I talked about, the situational.

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Speaker 4: Stuff in the defense.

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Speaker 3: I really think that, like on the offensive side, that's

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Speaker 3: the case too, and like maybe even more so, I

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Speaker 3: think that there's some sky situations where this offense needs

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Speaker 3: to be able to come up with some a first

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Speaker 3: down weave to change that type of thing, and and

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Speaker 3: and then they'll be Okay.

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Speaker 5: We got we got Poe firing up the crowd.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Poe is always firing up the crowd, which

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Speaker 4: I love.

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Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, the cheerleaders pretty sure if we have

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Speaker 1: any more injuries, Poe's coming in.

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Speaker 5: Poe's always righty, He's ready, he's healed.

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Speaker 4: Up, he's healed, he's recovered, he's recovered. Don't bring up out,

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Speaker 4: don't bring up injuries with Poe. Sore subject.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, we talked about this offense, and

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Speaker 1: the good news too is it's getting healthier. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: just to bring it to the news section of the day,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens really are the healthiest that they've been all

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Speaker 1: season long going into this London game. Who likes a

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Speaker 1: healthy Ravens team? I mean, goodness gracious, right, and so

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Speaker 1: I mean right now, Morgan moses no injury designation, right,

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Speaker 1: He's good to go.

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Speaker 5: For this game.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like the offensive line is gonna be

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Speaker 1: at full strength. Pat McCarey's back. The only guy who's

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Speaker 1: been rolled out for this game is Da f Ayoway

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Speaker 1: and so this is the healthiest the Ravens have been

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Speaker 1: all year long. And I think that that really gives him.

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Speaker 1: Plus you have Marlon Humphrey's one game more under his belt,

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Speaker 1: He's a little bit more comfortable on that foot. You know,

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Speaker 1: he only played about half the snaps last week, and

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Speaker 1: you have other guys who've kind of broken in. Now

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Speaker 1: Odell you know, he said he feels a lot better

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Speaker 1: this week. So I think from an injury standpoint, the

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Speaker 1: puzzle pieces are also starting to come together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Marcus Williams as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Marcus played last week and you could tell

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Speaker 3: he was still favoring that arm a little bit. And

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Speaker 3: that's gonna be something that he works through. When John

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Speaker 3: Harbaugh said this week, you know that's something that you know,

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Speaker 3: you'll just get more comfortable with it, it'll feel better,

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Speaker 3: you'll get more used to it, it'll continue to heal.

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Speaker 3: And so that's you know, like you expect him to

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Speaker 3: see progress there. And so like we spend a lot

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Speaker 3: of time talking about this great defense. Okay, now add

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Speaker 3: in Marlon Humphrey, now at and Marcus Williams. Whoa, Okay,

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Speaker 3: It's like, now this defense has been playing really well.

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Speaker 3: You get those guys playing kind of at full strength

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Speaker 3: and they can be even better. Yeah. And then on

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Speaker 3: the offensive side, I mean, this offensive line has been

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Speaker 3: banged up on and off over the course of the

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Speaker 3: seas Ronie Stanley's miss time, Morgan Moses' miss time, and

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Speaker 3: so now they're going to be getting healthy and I

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Speaker 3: think that that's going to open up a lot of

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Speaker 3: things for this team.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm excited, Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 5: All right, now we want to welcome in our next guest,

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Speaker 5: another Hall of Famer safety Rod.

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Speaker 2: What's ro Let's go.

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Speaker 6: What's going on? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 9: Man, good to be here. Ah, you got some Guinness?

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Speaker 9: I have no guinness.

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Speaker 4: You need to get. One needs to get this man

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Speaker 4: of beer. So one needs to get this man of

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Speaker 4: beer over here.

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Speaker 9: I gotta have a Guinness got to happen to come

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Speaker 9: over exactly.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he just doesn't even know how to do

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Speaker 5: it here in London.

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Speaker 4: You know, I said I would.

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Speaker 3: I had to keep a clear mind during the podcast,

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Speaker 3: you know, and make sure to keep him in line.

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Speaker 4: So that's really the main reason.

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Speaker 9: Okay, I hear you.

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Speaker 5: I got you so, Roy, What do you think of London? Man?

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 9: I've been here five six times.

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Speaker 8: Love the area, love the culture, loved the architect the

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Speaker 8: old buildings, the old limestone, just the way that history.

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Speaker 9: You don't get that in the States. You know, it's

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Speaker 9: very rare to find something like that in the States.

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Speaker 8: So to see that on a consistent basis, going around

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Speaker 8: seeing all the old cathedrals, that it's it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Well, we checked into our hotel. They told me it

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Speaker 1: was built in the fourteen hundreds. I was like, huh,

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Speaker 1: how old is that?

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Speaker 9: This is the hotel that we're in.

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Speaker 5: Nothing, you're good dass told me it might be haunted.

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Speaker 9: I have issue with is the size of an elevators.

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Speaker 9: They're like, they're about that, can't get nobody in there.

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Speaker 5: Just thinking about how the time, what are the signs

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Speaker 5: of linemen would.

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Speaker 9: Feel they're not getting in there. Only one deepest lineman

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Speaker 9: can get in the elevator design.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: I was on the bus tour with you earlier today

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Speaker 3: and it was fun to ride around London and and

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Speaker 3: you know, you see Ravens fans here and obviously you

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Speaker 3: see Ravens fans here at the Pube tonight.

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Speaker 4: How awesome is it to see the love here we go.

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Speaker 9: I gotta let us do its work. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 9: gotta wait to drink it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, as you see right there, there's no

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Speaker 4: better fans.

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Speaker 1: You know, what is it?

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Speaker 3: What does it mean when you see Ravens fans all

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Speaker 3: around town, coming across the ocean and being here for

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Speaker 3: this game, all over the world to be here.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's I've seen the growth of the raven nation, right,

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Speaker 8: I've seen that like coming in. When I got there,

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Speaker 8: it was a third year, and each year has gotten

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Speaker 8: bigger and better and better. I remember the first year,

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Speaker 8: the fans would cheer when the offense had the ball, right,

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Speaker 8: and the band would be playing when the offense had

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Speaker 8: the ball.

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Speaker 9: And they learned, now you can't do that, so they go.

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Speaker 5: From the Cleveland days. They brought that from Cleveland.

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Speaker 8: So to see that, to see the growth on a

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Speaker 8: consistent basis, it's been amazing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really cool.

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Speaker 3: And for you, you know, we were talking about with

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Speaker 3: Ray about how great the defense was that you guys

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Speaker 3: had obviously having.

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Speaker 4: Great Was you ever heard that he was?

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Speaker 9: All right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, young buck, he took under your way, Yeah he was.

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Speaker 9: He was a baby when I got there, but very talented.

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Speaker 8: The one thing I loved about Ray is that anything

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Speaker 8: that I would talk about he implemented. I mean, he

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Speaker 8: was the leader. Because they looked at me like I'm

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Speaker 8: like Grandpa, I'm like uncle Uncle Rod. They saw me

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Speaker 8: as like the older guy, so they wouldn't listen to me.

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Speaker 8: But everything that Ray said his contemporaries in the room,

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Speaker 8: they knew that he was going to be serious.

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Speaker 9: And the way he grew and I arguably say all

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Speaker 9: the time, I.

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Speaker 8: Think he became the best leader of men on the

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Speaker 8: field and off the field that I've ever been around.

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Speaker 1: We were asking Ray about, you know, the Roquon. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of comparisons going around right now.

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Speaker 8: And I know that you know well who Well, I've

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Speaker 8: said it too, right, he's in the room. He ain't

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Speaker 8: Ray lewis all right, he but he's moving in that direction.

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Speaker 8: So bringing I mean when Roe Kranna came over, what

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Speaker 8: he did to the defense after he got there is

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Speaker 8: in the same category kind of where Ray is gone

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Speaker 8: with it, and the way if you listen to all

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Speaker 8: the other defensive players, the way he's elevated their play

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Speaker 8: in the meeting room, you know, on the practice field,

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Speaker 8: in the workouts, he's made them better. That's what I'd say. Hey,

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Speaker 8: he's in the room with Ray, but Ray Lewis is

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Speaker 8: at another level. I think I'm one of the best linebackers,

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Speaker 8: the individual best defensive player ever, right, that's one, and

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Speaker 8: then ourly the best linebacker ever played in a national football.

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Speaker 5: Leagu Yeah, absolutely, absolutely so.

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Speaker 6: Rod.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're with the team all the time, you know,

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Speaker 5: doing the broadcasting gig. You're doing a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 5: By the way, you keep yourself busy.

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Speaker 8: My man, you I don't like being idol. So way

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Speaker 8: back in the day, Dan Rooney, he was the owner

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Speaker 8: of the Steelers. The one thing he told me is

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Speaker 8: that be very careful of retirement. Yeah, And it didn't

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00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 8: sink in until I retired, and I said, Man, I

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Speaker 8: hate sitting wround.

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Speaker 9: I love my wife, Freda, I love my wife or kids.

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Speaker 9: I don't like being around the house. I like being out,

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Speaker 9: so I love being active.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So you were in Pittsburgh and Obviously that was a

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Speaker 1: tough one. You know, how does a team come back

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Speaker 1: from a loss like that? How do you handle it

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Speaker 1: and just kind of shake it off and turn the page.

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Speaker 8: I mean, that's a great question, because Mike, when I

665
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Speaker 8: always look at teams, I see leaders on the defense.

666
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 8: So my question for the Ravens is that who is

667
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 8: that leader on the offense? Who's going to be that

668
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 8: guy when things were kind of going sideways like it

669
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 8: did last week, right drops and bad throat, all those

670
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 8: things were happening last week, Who's going to be that

671
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 8: individual player on the offensive side to say, come on, man,

672
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 8: snap out of it, get your butt, get your head

673
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 8: out of your butt, let's play the way we're supposed

674
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 8: to be playing.

675
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 9: Let's play Raven football.

676
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 8: I'm looking for that individual player on the offensive side,

677
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 8: and I'm still trying to fix. Is there going to

678
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 8: be Lamar, Is it gonna be obj, is gonna be

679
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 8: Mark Andrews? Which one of those guys are gonna be

680
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 8: Ronnie Stanley? Which one of those guys are gonna step

681
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 8: up in a game when the Stets kind of going

682
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 8: sideways on the offensive side and correct it on the

683
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 8: sideland coaches can't do it all the time.

684
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 9: Coaches can't always come over and.

685
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 8: Say get your head out of your butt. Players got

686
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 8: to do that. I mean Ray did it quite often

687
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 8: when we were playing together.

688
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeah, back in the two thousand days,

689
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: did you guys ever have to go up to the

690
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: offensive sailings stop out?

691
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 6: No?

692
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 3: You know O.

693
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 9: You know what we used to do.

694
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 8: So every every Friday, me, Ray and Shannon will get

695
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 8: in the sana and we would be talking about what

696
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 8: we're gonna do. And they will look at Shannon and say, Okay,

697
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 8: how many points you got for us? And Shannon would

698
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 8: be like, hey, we got like thirteen in a possible

699
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 8: We're like, if you give us thirteen, we're gonna win.

700
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 6: We'll win.

701
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 9: We could wear okay with that one.

702
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 5: What Shannon was kind of that guy. He really want

703
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 5: that guy back in the day.

704
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 9: Well, he talked a lot.

705
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 8: He did talk a lot, you know, but he was

706
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 8: you know, it was to the point where you know,

707
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 8: having a guy like him, because remember when Shannon came in,

708
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 8: he made some plays during the year, but once a

709
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 8: postseason hit, he made one big play and every single game.

710
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 8: So that becomes and that's what leaders need to do.

711
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 8: We didn't need him during the season, but we needed

712
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 8: him during the postseason. And then when you look at

713
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 8: all those big plays when we played Denver and that

714
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 8: ball bounds up in there and he catches it and

715
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 8: he goes the other way he made the Raiders and

716
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 8: and how nobody called him because Shannon's not real fast.

717
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 8: It's like, none of these guys can't Shannon Shark. But

718
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 8: he made another big play. And that's what leaders do.

719
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 8: They make big plays when they're counting upon him.

720
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 3: You know, you to the point of you knowing this team,

721
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 3: you're you're obviously around him. And so I'm just curious.

722
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 3: We were just spent some time talking about this defense

723
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 3: and how they're on the they're one of the best

724
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: in the league early on.

725
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 4: Now in certain.

726
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: Situations, they need to get better, and obviously they can't

727
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: have the big play they gave up on Sunday in Pittsburgh.

728
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 3: But what are your bresis of this defense as a whole,

729
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: And do you think that they're one of the best

730
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 3: in the league that you've seen so far?

731
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 8: They're definitely one of the best defenses in the league.

732
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 8: I think the Ravens roster He's one of the best.

733
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 9: Rosters in the league. It's young. It is young, you

734
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 9: have younger players.

735
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 8: So bringing in a debian Clowney that was a huge pickup,

736
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 8: huge pickup. I don't think people really realize he's been

737
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 8: in the backfield every single game, like, causing havoc for

738
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 8: the quarterback. He hasn't got I mean, he's got a

739
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 8: sack or so, but I mean he's been back there

740
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 8: making the quarterback very uncomfortable, you know, getting you got

741
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 8: to get a job. All back always has to get

742
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 8: healthy when everybody gets healthy again, bringing in van Ney

743
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 8: and everybody's like, well, what can van Neu do? I'm like,

744
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 8: you don't need to learn a lot to say, I'm here.

745
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 8: The quarterbacks there, go get it. That's all you gotta do.

746
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,959
Speaker 8: And he played twenty five plays thirty plays the first

747
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 8: that's all. And that's what you get from veterans. So

748
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 8: having those guys around, I think they're gonna keep growing.

749
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 8: Mike McDonald's done a really good job, you know, obviously,

750
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 8: you know Marlin coming back.

751
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 9: Can't give up the big plays. You can't give up

752
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 9: no teams, no postal goals. You can't do that.

753
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 8: That's not Raven defense. But overall, collectively, they've made it

754
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 8: tough for offenses. They made quarterbacks very uncomfortable. They made

755
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 8: them normally, you know, one sided where they had to

756
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 8: have one running back to get over one hundred.

757
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 9: Yards this year.

758
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 8: That's not normal for a Raven defense. So I know

759
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 8: they'll correct that. But to see where they're growing. It's

760
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 8: a young football team and to see this Todd munkin

761
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 8: offense grow each week, that's going to be the key

762
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 8: as they keep growing as the OBJ and I think

763
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 8: I think in Nelson, Aguilar, all those guys, Ronnie getting back,

764
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 8: all those guys and everybody gets healthy and watch them

765
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,959
Speaker 8: this kind of develop. One thing I think they can't

766
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 8: ever lose is the run game. Keep the run game

767
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 8: going and play pass off of that, and that's what

768
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 8: they can be their best on the offensive side.

769
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think like that.

770
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: We put so much into every single game win loss, and.

771
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 9: You know, you win a game overreact, Yeah.

772
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 3: Every everybody does. It's overaction Monday. You can there's the

773
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 3: swings throughout the season. You know, even go back to

774
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 3: when the Ravens went fourteen and two in twenty nineteen,

775
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: they were two and two after the first four games,

776
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 3: and they rotted off of the twelve straight wins and

777
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 3: they went fourteen and two.

778
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 4: No one was saying that when they were two and two.

779
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 4: I'm curious for.

780
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: You when you go back to the two thousand team, like,

781
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 3: at what point did you feel like it was a

782
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 3: special team. It's because obviously that team had its ups

783
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 3: and downs, and most of the downs are really on

784
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 3: the offensive side, obviously, But at what point did you

785
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 3: feel like that was a special team that could go

786
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 3: on and do what it did.

787
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 8: I knew it that, Like, I saw the growth each year.

788
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 8: So in ninety eight, where we're six and ten, we

789
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 8: weren't that good. Then the next year, Brian Billy comes in,

790
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 8: we're eight and eight. You can kind of see the

791
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 8: growth each year. And then when we got to training

792
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 8: camp and the first year, you know, one of our

793
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 8: goals was in practice on defense, everybody was gonna run

794
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 8: to the football. The first year, some guys did, some

795
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 8: guys didn't. The second year everybody started buying into it.

796
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 8: The third year, everybody, I'm talking big Tony, Sarahgusa, Sam Adams,

797
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 8: all those big guys.

798
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 9: All those guys.

799
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 8: Were running to the football and touching the ball and

800
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 8: then that kind of when that when I saw that consistently,

801
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 8: that's when I'm like, we're gonna be pretty good, and

802
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 8: not really knowing how I'll go, we're gonna be But

803
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 8: then once we just started playing, realizing ain't nobody moving.

804
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 8: Tony Sarah Goose and Sam Adams in the middle of

805
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 8: those guys were massive, and I know Goose had the

806
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 8: biggest personality, but Sam Adams was a beast.

807
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he was.

808
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 8: I mean, I've never seen a guy that big be

809
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 8: that quick and almost tackle quarterbacks before he handed the

810
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 8: ball off multiple times throughout a year.

811
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 9: I'm like, like, ma'am, how you get that?

812
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 8: You're that big, but you're quick as you feel like

813
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 8: it looked like he was quick as I was getting

814
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 8: back there making plays. So seeing that and realizing as

815
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 8: a defensive back, I don't have to worry about the run.

816
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 9: We just take care of the past, they take care

817
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 9: of the run, We're gonna be really good.

818
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 8: And then we started realizing as the year went on,

819
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 8: you get, if we can get seven points, we're gonna win.

820
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 9: We really believe that if you got if our coffins

821
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 9: gives us seven, we're good.

822
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 5: That's awesome.

823
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 6: Ron.

824
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm curious for your take on Kyle Hamilton from one

825
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: safety to another.

826
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 5: You know, and he's a different kind of cat.

827
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 8: I mean, man, he's long, he's way bigger. He's way

828
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 8: bigger than me, longer than I am. He went to

829
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 8: a terrible school of Notre Dame. But I'm gonna let

830
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 8: that go because that's right down the street from my

831
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 8: hometown to Fort Wa, Indiana.

832
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 9: So he's South bend. But I mean, he's so long.

833
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 8: And you know what I love seeing is that Mike

834
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 8: McDonald used it in what he does well. He can

835
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 8: get to the quarterback and what what It doesn't really

836
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 8: look like he's running really fast because he has long

837
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 8: strides and his one stride is probably three of my steps,

838
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 8: and he's covering ground. So like his blitzing, he's gotten

839
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 8: better blitzing he's got He's a really good open tackler.

840
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 9: He's good at covering tight ends. That's the one.

841
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 8: I think Mike has done a wonderful job of seeing

842
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 8: him grow. And the way he has grown in a

843
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 8: year and a half is really impressive because I know

844
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 8: my second year I wasn't that good. He's played way

845
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 8: better than I did my second year. So his growth

846
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 8: where he's at is as surpassed where I was at

847
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 8: at a young player.

848
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 9: So he's still growing. I know, he's still learning.

849
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 8: I think I love to see him be a leader,

850
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 8: like start being more vocal, but I think that will

851
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 8: have come along with this positive play that he's been

852
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 8: having so far.

853
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, you know you talk about the past rus

854
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 5: that he provides.

855
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't have a single sack in college,

856
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: so that just shows Notre Dame didn't know how to

857
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: use him, right.

858
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 9: Right, that's right.

859
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 2: Yah, you know what I'm saying.

860
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm just helping you out here. Yeah, I mean what

861
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: were they doing? Uh no, that that's pretty awesome. I

862
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: mean this defense it is pretty remarkable giving all the injuries,

863
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: how good they're you know, how good they've been, and

864
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: Tyas Bowser's coming back too. Right, What is it about

865
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: what Mike does? Like, how do you think he empowers

866
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: the players? What stands out to you about how Mike

867
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: structures things?

868
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 8: Well, he's done a good job of making the what

869
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 8: the disguise has been really good?

870
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, so showing one thing and doing another.

871
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 8: Last year he was more single high defense and then

872
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 8: at the end of the year, he started going to

873
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 8: like a two shell defense, but still blitzing from that look,

874
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 8: and he had a lot of success, and I think

875
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 8: he realized it's like, if we can blend this defense

876
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 8: where we we bring our our defensive front is going

877
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 8: to be physical and at the end of the day,

878
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 8: the interior front have to be good. So Michael Pierce,

879
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 8: all those guys, they have to be solid. If they're solid,

880
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 8: the defense is solid. If they're not solid, they're gonna

881
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 8: have some interior runs. That's when you kind of break

882
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 8: everything down. But Mike has done a really good job

883
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 8: of seeing individual players. Like you look at Patrick Queen.

884
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 8: He'll bring Patrick Queen quite a bit on blitzes. And

885
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 8: Patrick Queen is ext he became. He's become a really

886
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 8: good blitzing linebacker, which is it's hard to find.

887
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's double a gap blitzes that they show

888
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 5: all the time.

889
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 9: And then with him and then ro Kwan Smith is

890
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,479
Speaker 9: ro Quwan is that old school guy.

891
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 8: It was two games ago where he cleaned up a

892
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 8: pile on the outside where the receiver called a little

893
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 8: quick pass and he went from the middle of the

894
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 8: field all the way to the sideline and cleaned them

895
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 8: all up.

896
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 9: And I was like, that that's old school football on.

897
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 3: That one that is I mean, that is old school football.

898
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 3: The other old school football. I feel like we talked

899
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 3: with Ray about this little bit. But Titans Ravens, I mean,

900
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 3: this is like an old school kind of game.

901
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 9: And then that's what that's ray'sed breakout game.

902
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 3: That was his.

903
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: That was his.

904
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 8: Because I used to tell Ray, like, what what big

905
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 8: play to have you made in a big game? Well,

906
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 8: that was his first time getting in the playoffs, right, well,

907
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 8: he knows that so well. You know when I first

908
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 8: got through, he was like, yeah, you know, I let

909
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 8: the team attack. Was I'm like, well, there's thirty two

910
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 8: other guys have done that one other guys because there's

911
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 8: thirty two teams thirty one of the guys had with

912
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 8: the leading tackler team and the growth that he had

913
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 8: and then that play when the ball was throwing Eddie

914
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 8: George and the bounced off Eddie George and Ray got

915
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 8: it and running in.

916
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 9: To steal the victory.

917
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: That was his.

918
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 8: In a big, big, big game, critical play in a

919
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 8: big moment. That was his coming out part. That was

920
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 8: his genesis of the Ray Lewis that you saw for

921
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 8: the rest of his career making those big plays.

922
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: Now, I know you remember this moment from Brian Billick

923
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 1: in the locker room after the playoff.

924
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 5: Win, and we can't repeat the word that he used here.

925
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but uh you know he said

926
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: the Titans, right, bleep yeah, bleep the Titans after that one,

927
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: and I mean the emotion in his voice.

928
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 5: I mean, what was it about the Titans that you

929
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 5: guys just didn't like.

930
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 8: They thought they were better than we were. No, I mean,

931
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 8: just to be honest, I mean, they thought they were better.

932
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 8: They were all that in the back of chips. They

933
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 8: were one of the better teams, you know, coming into

934
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 8: the regular season. They had a really good regular season.

935
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 8: They didn't think we were good enough offensively, you know,

936
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 8: and they had that first March and they went down

937
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 8: the field and they scored and we were like and

938
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 8: I remember Brian Billick went over the Ray and Ray

939
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 8: was like, not now, don't do it.

940
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 6: I got it.

941
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 8: And he came over and basically talked to everybody like,

942
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 8: get your heads out your butt. We need to make

943
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 8: sure we played the way we were supposed to play.

944
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 9: The rest of the game. We played the way we're

945
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 9: supposed to play.

946
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 8: But it was that like leading up to Jeff Fisher

947
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 8: saying little mark remarks in the in the media, the

948
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 8: guys making comments in the media or throughout the whole week,

949
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 8: and we're like, you know, okay, we're just waiting. So

950
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 8: we really waited to make those comments after the game

951
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 8: was over. And then Brian kind of tapped it off

952
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 8: with the cherry on top and said, you know, f

953
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 8: these dudes, how.

954
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 3: Much does that in the course of a week kind

955
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 3: of motivate you? The stuff that's out there? You know,

956
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 3: the guys say, how much did you pay attention to that?

957
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 3: It's the old thing of bulletin board material, and you know,

958
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 3: Rookwan Smith is he's not been afraid to provide that,

959
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 3: and he just says, hey, I'm just gonna tell you

960
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 3: what I think and if you don't like it, too bad,

961
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 3: I being a matter of fact, I'm not trying.

962
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: To try to beat you in front of your wife

963
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: and kids, like that's how it talks, you know, But

964
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: how much did.

965
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 4: You use the bullets and board material?

966
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 9: And you know I didn't.

967
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 8: I didn't need somebody to tell me level right, Like

968
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 8: I stepped on the field. I'm like, listen, you think

969
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 8: you can get open, Okay, let's try. I don't. You're

970
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 8: not gonna get open. And if you do catch it,

971
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 8: I'm well. Back in the day, we could body slam

972
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 8: the race.

973
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 9: We could sue flam. We can't do that anymore.

974
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 8: But you know, did you know what happened that? I

975
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 8: think there's a really fine line that being a strong

976
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 8: belief in who you are. I had great belief in

977
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 8: who I was. I wasn't arrogant, I wasn't cocky. I

978
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 8: did try to have a swagger when I stepped on

979
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 8: the field, but I was like that when I was

980
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 8: a skinny little fark in fort in Indiana, and I

981
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 8: used to go down to the park. I had nappy head,

982
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 8: I weighed probably eighty pounds, and I thought I was

983
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 8: that guy. I wasn't, but I thought I was that guy.

984
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 8: So it was always there, and then I kind of

985
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 8: grew into it. And then but when I played, I

986
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 8: didn't need anybody to tell me to go out there

987
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 8: and play my best. I had some great games and

988
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 8: I got some games where you know, it's always saying,

989
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 8: where hey, you're gonna get the bear, the bear's gonna

990
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 8: get you. As long as you get the bear more

991
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 8: than he gets you, you're playing really good football.

992
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 9: And that's what I believe. And so, yeah, did I

993
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 9: get beat sometimes?

994
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 2: Yeah?

995
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 8: Did I get too played by an offense a lineman

996
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 8: my rookie year, Yes I did. Is that like learning

997
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 8: how to play in the National Football League?

998
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 9: Yes it is, but you learn. And I always say,

999
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 9: you never lose. You always learn.

1000
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 8: If you don't, if you don't learn from the mistake

1001
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 8: you made inside of a play, then you did lose.

1002
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 8: So for me, it was never a loss. It was

1003
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 8: always a learning experience. And I took that each week.

1004
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 8: And as a co you you charged telling your guys,

1005
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 8: and I when I became a coach, I realized what

1006
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 8: they're really saying. You can't be that repeat offender. I

1007
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,760
Speaker 8: told you not to do something, dude, don't do it again.

1008
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 8: And if you do it over and over and over,

1009
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 8: those are the guys that are going to be normally

1010
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 8: sitting on the bench.

1011
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,240
Speaker 1: Right now, you you're like the og ballhawk of the Ravens,

1012
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: right What what is it that you're looking for before

1013
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: you get an interception? What's going on in Rod Woodson's head?

1014
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 9: Well, when they threw the ball, it was mine.

1015
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 8: Because they say they well, they say that the quarterback

1016
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 8: is throwing it to the receiver. But I always said, listen, well,

1017
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 8: the only way I can get the ball as a

1018
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 8: defensive back is to get an interception, and if he's

1019
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 8: throwing in my direction, I'm My first thing was in

1020
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 8: my mind was interception, knockdown tackle. Most of the guys

1021
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 8: think tackle, knockdown, interception right now. My mindset was I'm

1022
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 8: going to the ball. I'm going through the receiver to

1023
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 8: the ball, because if you make contact, the same kind

1024
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 8: of ball gains there. It's not past interference. So I'm

1025
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 8: getting to the ball as fast as I can. So

1026
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 8: I was always trying to get to the ball. I

1027
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 8: remember Tony Dungee told me when I was a rookie,

1028
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 8: if you catch the ones that come.

1029
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 9: Come your way, you'll lead the league. It's just hard

1030
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 9: to do when your defensive back.

1031
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 8: Sometimes sometimes you get kind of lazy and you like

1032
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 8: look up there and the ball hits you right there,

1033
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 8: and next thing you know, it's on the ground. So

1034
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 8: for my mentality was always when the balls throw in

1035
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 8: my direction, that's my ball, that's not the receiver's ball.

1036
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 5: How did you get such good hands?

1037
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 1: Because you know, there's a saying in football, you know

1038
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: he plays dB for a reason, right, but you was

1039
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 1: did you always have good hands? Or you're a receiver

1040
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: growing up?

1041
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 3: What was it?

1042
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 9: I played dophins growing up. But the same thing with

1043
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 9: Ed Reid?

1044
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 8: Right, So, like the Ed Reids, the Troy Polamalous, the

1045
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 8: Ronnie lots of the world, those type of players, those

1046
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 8: type of players are great athletes that chose to play defense.

1047
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,399
Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure that Troy could have played offense. I'm

1048
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 8: pretty sure that Ed Reid could have played offense. They

1049
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 8: chose to play defense. I chose that played defense. I

1050
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 8: was All State, All American on offense, but also an

1051
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 8: All American and defense. And then when I got to Purdue,

1052
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 8: they were like, and there were schools recruiting me to

1053
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 8: play offense?

1054
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 5: Was it running?

1055
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: Was?

1056
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 8: It was like slot receiver running back, that hybrid. And

1057
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 8: then when I got to Purdue, they're like, are you're

1058
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 8: going to play free safety?

1059
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 9: You're like, yes, sir, w And I was like, okay,

1060
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 9: let's play free safety. And then then when I got

1061
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 9: to the league, they're like, how fast are you?

1062
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 8: Oh, You're gonna play corner. I'm like, oh, I can't

1063
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 8: play corner. Wait a minute, I don't know how to

1064
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 8: play corner, but growing to do that. And then when

1065
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 8: I got back when I first got to Baltimore, I

1066
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 8: played corner and I played the nickel. And then when

1067
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 8: I moved to safety that third year, it was like

1068
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 8: you know how when you go home and you get in.

1069
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 9: Your couch and you go oo yeah. I was like,

1070
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 9: I'm back home. This is where I'm supposed to be

1071
00:49:59,080 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 9: the whole time.

1072
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 8: I mean, my interception rates went way up my last

1073
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 8: five years, and playing safety than playing corner.

1074
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 9: Just the comfortability.

1075
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,720
Speaker 8: But it's a little easier fighting a ball playing safety

1076
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 8: than it was playing corner.

1077
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 9: But that mindset was always.

1078
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 6: There for me.

1079
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 3: It's interesting that, you know, there's not too many guys

1080
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 3: that make the transition to corner when they get into

1081
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:21,439
Speaker 3: the NFL.

1082
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 4: But that's what you did.

1083
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 9: That's what I did.

1084
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 8: I played safety my whole life. From nine years old

1085
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 8: all the way through Purdue, I played corner. I ran

1086
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 8: my forty at the combine, They're like, you're a corner.

1087
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 8: Yeah you're four to three oh four two eighth, Yeah,

1088
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 8: you're gonna be a corner and learn you were that

1089
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 8: fast for two eight Yeah, I got it.

1090
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 6: I was I ran scared. I ran scared, but.

1091
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 8: I had I was blessed though my first two and

1092
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 8: a half three years to have Tony Dungee.

1093
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 9: Yeah, great human being, great man.

1094
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 8: And he was a coach that didn't yell at me

1095
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 8: because I didn't like coaches yelling at me.

1096
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 9: He didn't yell at me.

1097
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 8: He just kind of loved on me because asking me,

1098
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 8: what are you doing, son, what are you doing out here?

1099
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 9: And now sometimes I'm like, I have no idea what

1100
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 9: I'm doing out here. I'm just out here. And he

1101
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 9: just kept loving on me.

1102
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 8: And then that third year click and my third year

1103
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 8: everything clicked for me and I went to seventh straight

1104
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 8: Pro Bowls before my injury.

1105
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 9: I got.

1106
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 8: I kept playing corner until I got to Baltimore and

1107
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 8: then I got to.

1108
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 9: Move to my real home, the safety position.

1109
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 4: It worked out pretty well well.

1110
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 8: Rod.

1111
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 4: We really enjoyed talk with you.

1112
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 3: It's been awesome to catch up and get your take

1113
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 3: on this team and also your take online. And so

1114
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up one more time

1115
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 3: for Rod Woods and Hall of famer in the house

1116
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 3: and big shout out to the guy that got you

1117
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 3: the beer. That's the real that's the real champion.

1118
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 4: Thanks Roy.

1119
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: This is gonna be really fun, pretty cool to have

1120
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: two defensive goos.

1121
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on the lounge.

1122
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: I mean, look, both those guys are they're two of

1123
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 3: the best players to ever play the game. Yeah, and

1124
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 3: it's it's it's awesome to see him embrace Ravens fan

1125
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 3: and embrace the organization. And you know, Rod does the

1126
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 3: play by players the color analyst on all of our

1127
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: radio games alongside Jerry S. Dusky, so he knows this team.

1128
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 3: He's at every game watching it closely. And I think

1129
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 3: that both those guys just have an incredible perspective and

1130
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 3: it's just fun.

1131
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 4: You know, it's fun. I think it's awesome to see

1132
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 4: the reaction they got for the fans here. So I'm

1133
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: fired up.

1134
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is this is a lot of the fun.

1135
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 5: Thanks for coming out and thank everybody for being here.

1136
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 5: This is awesome.

1137
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: It's it's really humbling. I mean this podcast started.

1138
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 5: Gosh, how long ago was it?

1139
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was twenty seventeen. I think at

1140
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 3: twenty seven or maybe sixteen. The years will kind of

1141
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 3: run together.

1142
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 4: But it's in that range.

1143
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: And we're over five hundred episodes now, and the sea

1144
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: fans come out here like this and say, oh man,

1145
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: I've always been listening.

1146
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 5: I've been there from the beginning.

1147
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 1: And especially our international listeners. That's what's been really cool.

1148
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: It's like I feel like they were like our first lounge.

1149
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 5: Listeners, you know, like all the emails. Here we go,

1150
00:52:55,920 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 5: We've got the German flag, the German block here, amazing, amazing.

1151
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 6: Wait.

1152
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: I want to go around and just get where some

1153
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: of these people are from, because, like I said, the

1154
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: international lizards are OG's all right, where are you all from?

1155
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 5: I think I'm in the off course all over Germany, Campton, Rose,

1156
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 5: Ravens flock. Let's go.

1157
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 4: God's go ask where are you?

1158
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 5: Where are you from? Tell us where you're coming from.

1159
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 4: I've come from Glasgow.

1160
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 3: My mom's from Baltimore, though, so Baltemore, Vancouver, Canada, let's go,

1161
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 3: oh Vancouver, all right?

1162
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 5: All right, I know we got some the Netherlands. Netherlands,

1163
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 5: all right, all right?

1164
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 10: S six England, Oh there we go, all right, local

1165
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 10: Oland Oland, here we go, we have Cork, Ireland's let's

1166
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 10: go let's.

1167
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 5: Go all right, we had Italy before Baltimore.

1168
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 2: Hun Nice, Nice, Austria, Austria, Austria.

1169
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: It's it's so cool, just all over the globe. It's

1170
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: it's pretty heartwarming.

1171
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 4: That's great, I've got you did that.

1172
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 3: I Mean, one thing I've always said about our international

1173
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 3: fans is that I admire it takes a lot more

1174
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 3: to be a fan in England or Austria or Poland

1175
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 3: or Ireland than it does in Baltimore.

1176
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 4: It's harder to find the games. It's got to stay

1177
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 4: up late.

1178
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: It's like I found that out with the Orioles playoff games.

1179
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: You're waking up at one, two o'clock in the morning

1180
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: watching the things. I was like, man, these international fans

1181
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: are hardcore. They're committed.

1182
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 2: They're committing.

1183
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 3: I mean, really, they're committed. And uh, I think that's

1184
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 3: one been one of the great things about the podcast.

1185
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 3: Like we found early on when we started doing this

1186
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 3: that the podcast was away for a lot of our

1187
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,879
Speaker 3: international fans to stay connected to the team because it's

1188
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 3: hard to watch games.

1189
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 4: It's not on TV locally and all that. It's just

1190
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 4: not as much coverage.

1191
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 3: And so we when we started having people email us

1192
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 3: as always, fans can email us at the lounge at

1193
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 3: Ravens dot NFL dot net. But we had we would

1194
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 3: have fans email us. Also, we kind of realized, like,

1195
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 3: none of these are from America. They're all from all

1196
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 3: over the world, and it was and so that's one

1197
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 3: of the things that like, I think it's awesome that

1198
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 3: the Ravens are playing here in England and there's a

1199
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 3: chance for people who don't get to see this team

1200
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 3: play hardly at all and they get to see him

1201
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 3: play this weekend and you can feel that energy and

1202
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 3: that excitement and I think it feels kind of like

1203
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 3: a homecoming. It kind of feels like a homecoming for

1204
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 3: a lot of people this weekend.

1205
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, it absolutely does. In this game.

1206
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's just talking about the Ravens Titans rivalry

1207
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: from back in the Day's got me a little fire

1208
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: up cash game And really, you know, I think rivalries

1209
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: are built out of how many times you face each

1210
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: other and in what stakes, right, and there for a while,

1211
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens Titans rivalry kind of you know,

1212
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: it died down to a degree. I mean, there's some

1213
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: big playoff games. When Steve McNair was playing for them

1214
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But then it felt like it got ratcheted

1215
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: up a little bit in twenty nineteen. You know, the

1216
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: Titans knocked the Ravens out of the playoffs early after

1217
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: that majestic season. Come back in twenty twenty, they win

1218
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: at M and T Banks Stadium on a Derrick Henry

1219
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,760
Speaker 1: walk off, and then the Ravens go back to Tennessee

1220
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and Marcus Feeders seals it.

1221
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 3: You also left off like in the midst of all that,

1222
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 3: there was like all the logo stuff, you know, oh yeah, yeah,

1223
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 3: you let.

1224
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 4: That one out. You know, we're out kind of in

1225
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 4: the middle of the you.

1226
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,760
Speaker 5: Would go to the Ititians.

1227
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 3: Like the whole logo thing was also a big part

1228
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 3: of the conversation too. And these two teams, like they're

1229
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 3: built similar lily played physical football.

1230
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 4: They have kind of physical minded.

1231
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 3: Head coaches that want to play the game tough, and

1232
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 3: I think all that factors into some of that, you know,

1233
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 3: that animosity. But yeah, so there was a logo stuff,

1234
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 3: and then when the Ravens won after the playoff game,

1235
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 3: obviously they went out there and they returned the favor

1236
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 3: and they're danced all over the logo after winning that game.

1237
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 5: That was pretty great.

1238
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 4: That was pretty great.

1239
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 5: That was pretty great.

1240
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, and since then haven't had

1241
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: any meetings against the Titans, but to go back up

1242
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: against him now, it still feels like, all right, yeah,

1243
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: you kind of feel a little bit of that coming back,

1244
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: you know, in a big international stage.

1245
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 3: Well, we talked to Roqwan Smith about it a little

1246
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 3: bit earlier this week on the podcast when he joined us,

1247
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 3: and he made the point like he wasn't on the

1248
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 3: team during those games in nineteen twenty. He heard about him,

1249
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 3: but he's like, yeah, there's been some talk about that.

1250
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: You know.

1251
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 3: I think there's been some conversations around that. And I

1252
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 3: think that, you know, he really has that mindset in

1253
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 3: terms of physical football, like that's how.

1254
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 4: We're gonna play, that's how we're gonna operate.

1255
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 3: We're not gonna be scared, we're not gonna back down,

1256
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 3: We're gonna play a physical.

1257
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 4: Style of football.

1258
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 3: And I think the Titans had that same mentality and

1259
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 3: I and I think that that's what's gonna make this

1260
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 3: game feel like it's gonna feel a little bit more

1261
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 3: like a game that Ray and Rod played in than

1262
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 3: today's NFL. I just think guess how it's gonna feel

1263
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 3: on Sunday.

1264
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: Well, I think it was kind of interesting that Roquan

1265
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: specifically said, you know, I'm excited to bring some physical

1266
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: football to London.

1267
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 5: Right, this is gonna be a physical football game.

1268
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: It's not you know, that's roque One's kind of excited

1269
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: to show the world just kind of what that kind

1270
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: of style of football looks like.

1271
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I feel good about, you know,

1272
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 3: going into the game. So the Ravens, you know, they

1273
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 3: made the decision this week to come out early just

1274
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 3: to kind of set the stage.

1275
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 4: So we've been out here since Monday. So we came

1276
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 4: out here Monday with the team.

1277
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 3: Uh, the team had a chance to kind of recover

1278
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 3: from I'm a sleep standpoint Monday night, had the day

1279
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 3: off on Tuesday. Then once Wednesday arrived, they hit the

1280
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 3: ground running normal practice routine. So they were practicing out

1281
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 3: of the Titenham practice facility practice on Wednesday, Thursday and

1282
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 3: then today and then basically you know, just from being

1283
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 3: here myself, like your your transitions, you're caught up, You're

1284
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 3: not jetlaged anymore.

1285
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 4: And I think that like physically you just feel way.

1286
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: Better well, and they're the subplot to this game is

1287
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: obviously the Titans took a different approach, right They flew

1288
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: out Thursday night, landed Friday morning, similar to what the

1289
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: Ravens did in twenty seventeen, And like, I I remember

1290
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: how I kind of felt like getting off that plane

1291
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and then you go straight to hotel

1292
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: practice the same day.

1293
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 5: That's what the Titans did today, and you're just kind

1294
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 5: of like, oh, you just I.

1295
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 4: Mean, it takes a couple of days.

1296
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 3: It takes a couple of days to transition to Mark

1297
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 3: Andrew said today, and he was very complimentary of the

1298
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 3: decision to come over early and just felt like, you know,

1299
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,479
Speaker 3: this is something that has been really good for the team.

1300
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of the other element too,

1301
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 3: Like I can just tell you from being around the

1302
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 3: team and being in the team hotel this week, like

1303
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 3: there's interactions and camaraderie and guys hanging out and spending

1304
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 3: more time together. They're living together for a week, so

1305
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 3: it kind of feels like going away to summer camp

1306
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 3: to a certain extent, like it has that element. Of course,

1307
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 3: there's a business trip component of it. But these guys

1308
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 3: are just around each other twenty four to seven, and

1309
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 3: I think that helps from a camaraderie standpoint. You're trying

1310
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 3: to turn the page from a bad loss at Pittsburgh,

1311
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 3: and so it's like, this is the way you're around

1312
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 3: each other. I think all that helps build up to

1313
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 3: a good performance on Sunday.

1314
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, I kind of at the end of

1315
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: the day, honestly feel like the things that usually dictate

1316
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: which team wins and which one loses will take precedent.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right, Like it's kind of like a talking point.

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Speaker 1: You want to do it the right way, and the

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Speaker 1: Ravens research what's the right way, what's the right approach.

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Speaker 5: At the end of the day, it's making place right.

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Speaker 1: And I kind of think that to a degree, the

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Speaker 1: whole subplot here, is that going to really decide the winner?

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Speaker 5: Not really?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And that's not the biggest factor. I think

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Speaker 4: it's a factor.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's the biggest factor, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I think that it's it's a factor in the conversation,

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Speaker 3: and so you know, it'll be interesting to see just

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Speaker 3: how it kind of plays out this week. I think

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Speaker 3: the biggest thing you know, really is that this team

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Speaker 3: as a whole. You know, I mentioned the situational stuff.

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Speaker 3: I just think that, like, the Ravens are right there.

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Speaker 3: I think the Ravens feel like and I'm sure a

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Speaker 3: lot of people in this room feel like.

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Speaker 4: They should be five and L. You know, you feel

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Speaker 4: like they should be.

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Speaker 6: Five and L.

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Speaker 4: They're that good of a team.

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Speaker 3: And so I think that if they clean up the

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Speaker 3: little mistakes that have cost them those two games, and

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Speaker 3: they're gonna win these games. And and like there's no

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Speaker 3: reason I could not. I could see this team rattling

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Speaker 3: off a whole bunch of wins.

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Speaker 4: I really could.

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Speaker 3: And I think that, like, yeah, I just think you

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Speaker 3: have to clean up those little mistakes and then that's

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Speaker 3: gonna put you on a much better path.

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Speaker 5: I absolutely agree.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm feeling, Garrett. You know what I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling going Tennessee. And I need a little help with this.

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Speaker 10: You know what I'm feeling going into this game. I'm

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Speaker 10: feeling all win, let's go, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Big.

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Speaker 2: When did you give me a bag?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? All right, thank you.

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Speaker 5: For everybody watching it home, Thanks for this listening.

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Speaker 2: This is a blast. Let's go let's go right as