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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Earlier today, new

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Speaker 1: Ravens wide receivers Zay Flowers arrived in Baltimore after the

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Speaker 1: Ravens took him with the twenty second overall pick in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. Flowers arrived to Baltimore

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Speaker 1: Friday morning and held the press conference alongside general manager

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Speaker 1: Eric Taicassa and head coach John Harbaught. Here's what they

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Speaker 1: had to say during that time with the media.

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Speaker 2: As I said last night, was earlier in the process

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Speaker 2: that we identified Saia as a guy that we thought

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Speaker 2: would bring a lot of value to this club. His

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Speaker 2: playmaking ability, who he is as a person, his greatest determination,

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Speaker 2: his background, all of those things kind of factor in

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Speaker 2: and and he's the guy, and we're fired up to

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Speaker 2: get him. I think our fan base is gonna love him,

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Speaker 2: the community is going to love him. And just welcome

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Speaker 2: Jay Flowers.

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Speaker 3: Same thing.

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Speaker 4: Just Echo couldn't be more excited on behalf of all

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Speaker 4: the coaches. Everybody's fired up to have you here. Welcome

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Speaker 4: to Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, I'm excited to be here. I want to

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Speaker 5: thank coach Hardball and E. D. C Right what he

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Speaker 5: called I'm gonna call you e DC forgive me this opportunity. Well,

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Speaker 5: I think with Lamar and the guys on the outside,

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Speaker 5: we got something special and we could build here and

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Speaker 5: we can get back to what Baltimore avers was.

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Speaker 6: Questions see last night you visit your kind of net

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Speaker 6: or had a good feeling about What was it you elaborate?

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Speaker 5: The last time I visited here, we barely even talked

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Speaker 5: about football. It was just everybody in the building was genuine.

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Speaker 5: A lot of the places I went to it I

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Speaker 5: had to put on a kind of like a front,

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Speaker 5: and when I got here, it was just everything was

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Speaker 5: just period. It was just genuine. I was playing basketball

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Speaker 5: beat a couple of people. But I joyed that visit.

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Speaker 3: So everyone read about you, compliments your card working nature,

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Speaker 3: and your drive. Where can you attribute that when most

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Speaker 3: that is stilled in you?

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Speaker 5: I got it from my dad. I used to see

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Speaker 5: him get up go to work at four am in

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Speaker 5: the morning, and he did that every day Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 5: And he'll get up Saturday, wash our clothes at the

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Speaker 5: games and then do the same thing Sunday and then

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Speaker 5: It gave me my drive.

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Speaker 7: The other weapons on the outside. We saw that you

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Speaker 7: FaceTime and you know Beckham last night Insas City.

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Speaker 3: When did that relationship start? Is he somebody that you know?

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Speaker 3: How about you looking forward to playing with him?

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Speaker 5: So my first time talking to him because we got

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Speaker 5: the same trainer back in Florida. My train my receiver

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Speaker 5: coach train them too, and he used to watch some

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Speaker 5: of my videos and like, all we gotta get together

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Speaker 5: and work out. And I think a couple of weeks

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Speaker 5: ago I called him and I was like, where you

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Speaker 5: think about going? And then he was like, either the

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Speaker 5: that's crazy because both of those teams I'm predicted to

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Speaker 5: So I could just use them as to learn because

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Speaker 5: it's gonna be my first year. I can learn everything

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Speaker 5: from him and just play with him. It'll be fun.

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Speaker 3: You back to doing you've been.

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Speaker 8: Here before, but what if you're like walking back in

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Speaker 8: here as a Raven and how.

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Speaker 3: Different is it?

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Speaker 5: I felt great walking back in the building because everybody

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Speaker 5: that that I've seen the first time. It felt like

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Speaker 5: I knew him for a couple of years and only

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Speaker 5: knew him for a day. So just being somewhere I

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Speaker 5: could be comfortable and be myself and still work hard

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Speaker 8: So last night you were watching them fire Leschel videos

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Speaker 8: of Lamar Jackson when he played to the defender locked

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Speaker 8: play with him? And did you ever think that he

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Speaker 5: I didn't think so, but they let me fall to him.

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Speaker 5: So it's gonna be a lot of plays being made

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Speaker 5: on Sunday, Monday, or Thursday, whatever day were playing on.

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Speaker 5: So just being able to play with them and have

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Speaker 6: Say, there's a lot of pressure that goes with being

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Speaker 6: a first round pick, But when you look at this

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Speaker 3: How exciting is it for you that you can be yourself?

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Speaker 6: But there isn't this expectation that you have to come

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Speaker 5: Day one, I'm gonna have the guys next to me,

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Speaker 5: so I feel like if we all do our part

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Speaker 5: and do what we're capable of, we're gonna have a

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Speaker 5: very good team.

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Speaker 3: You're known for breaking tackles yours after the catch. How

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Speaker 8: When obviously you're not one of the bigger guys, but

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Speaker 3: To do and beef this as well?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I was never one of the bigger guys,

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Speaker 5: so I always had to find a way to do it,

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Speaker 5: and I'm gonna try to continue to find a way

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Speaker 3: Who's in the picture on the medallion runner there?

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Speaker 5: That's my mom?

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Speaker 3: Why is that important to have in this moment?

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Speaker 5: Do you think she started us off playing football? So

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Speaker 5: I felt like I needed her with me last night

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Speaker 5: and have it with me today. It's just a little flower,

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Speaker 5: got my brothers and sisters and each pedal fourteen of us.

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Speaker 7: How how did that big family really kind of sharpen

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Speaker 7: you sharpen your competitives? Competitiveness and like you said, you

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Speaker 7: haven't been the biggest guy that you have been physically.

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Speaker 7: You playing in physical Is that in part because of

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Speaker 7: having that big family?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, believe it or not? Like my brother's tall like

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Speaker 5: I got the short end, but but we was competitive

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Speaker 5: at everything. I played basketball, the little brothers play, the

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Speaker 5: meant to be that way, and it worked out perfect.

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Speaker 9: Say to your mom, say, uh, you know in this

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Speaker 9: moment on one of your brothers as well, now after

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Speaker 9: this day if you could.

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Speaker 5: Well what I said to them, thank you for always

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Speaker 5: being there for me and like and supporting me through

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Speaker 5: that and being my biggest fans.

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Speaker 3: What is that dynamic like of one on fourteen?

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's fun actually, like you never shot. You can't

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Speaker 5: be shot because you're gonna always be talking because somebody's

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Speaker 5: always in the house. You always around somebody, So everybody

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Speaker 5: gonna have their own personality, whether it's funny, quiet or

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Speaker 3: Probably you watch the NFL football.

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Speaker 6: You played good time in college football, But what do

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Speaker 6: you anticipate the next level to be, Like, how you

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Speaker 5: I just I feel like everybody gonna be smarter, faster

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Speaker 5: and working hard. So I just gotta do that times

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Speaker 5: too and continue what I was doing.

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Speaker 10: Is it being from South Florida? Obviously a lot of

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Speaker 10: talent comes out of there. This team has a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of talent from South Florida. What do you anticipate that

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Speaker 10: The atmosphere of being in this building and playing football

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Speaker 5: Guys down in South Florida. When you play with like people,

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Speaker 5: you know, it's just boosts. It's just boosts how you

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Speaker 5: want to play. It just make you make make make

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Speaker 5: make me play harder, work harder, and try to make

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Speaker 10: Some of your teammates were highly rated recruits and and

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Speaker 10: you were not.

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Speaker 3: That coming out of high school?

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Speaker 10: Is does that fill you with some sort of pride

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Speaker 10: scene them as your peers in the NFL?

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Speaker 9: Now?

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Speaker 5: I mean it. I did have a chip on my

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Speaker 5: because I felt like I was an underdog. So I

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna continue playing like that.

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Speaker 9: So last night, you know the connection that you felt

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Speaker 9: with the Ravens at the Shrine game when they were

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Speaker 9: looking you pretty extensively got Have you think you fit

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Speaker 3: Sort of?

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Speaker 9: Where do you feel you can have to think?

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Speaker 3: It's impact?

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Speaker 5: In my opinion, I feel like I could play outside,

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Speaker 5: inside special teams, wherever you need me to make a play.

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Speaker 5: If I could touch the ball any type of way

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Speaker 5: would be good. And where the jet sweeps, shadow crosses,

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Speaker 11: Because you players came back in to play Georgia. Did

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Speaker 11: you get a chance to watch a munch of tops

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Speaker 11: last year you any kind familiarity?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I know at Georgia it was a lot of running.

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Speaker 5: But I mean when you got a team like that

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Speaker 5: in college, you're gonna continue running the ball to win

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Speaker 5: national championships. At this level, you gotta be able to

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Speaker 5: do both.

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Speaker 1: to the Zay Flowers introductory press conference.

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Speaker 3: Steve Smith has spoken highly of your skills. How were

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Speaker 3: you of him?

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Speaker 6: And are you comfortable with any comparisons that people may

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Speaker 6: want to grow between you and somebody?

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Speaker 12: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable with it because he was a

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Speaker 5: smaller guy in the league that was playing bigger than

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Speaker 5: his size, and I'm I'm gonna be a smaller guy

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Speaker 5: in the league and I'm gonna have to play bigger

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Speaker 5: than my size.

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Speaker 3: Say, he's the toughest corner you've ever faced? And is

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Speaker 3: there a guy you kind of looked at for a

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Speaker 3: walk for a while and you love to match up against.

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Speaker 5: I don't think any corner gave me a problem in college,

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Speaker 5: but facing I don't really got I want to face

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Speaker 5: all of them, honestly.

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Speaker 3: So he really had four full seasons in college football.

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Speaker 3: A lot of guys don't. How much do you think

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Speaker 3: that's gonna help you? And did you give a thought

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Speaker 3: even last year to.

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Speaker 7: Come down NL?

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Speaker 5: I gave it a little thought, but I feel like

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Speaker 5: I needed to put more stuff on tape, like competitive catchers, blocking,

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Speaker 5: just all the small stuff that I didn't do the

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Speaker 5: year before that I was able to do this year.

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Speaker 12: How pleased are you with how you guys said straight

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Speaker 6: I know when you you scout a lot of these players,

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Speaker 3: Maybe it was on tape things like that. How did that?

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Speaker 3: Is your actually aches in the Boston area viview question

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Speaker 2: You know, I've been down here now for twenty eight years.

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Speaker 7: I'm curious how nervous you were getting as you're getting

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Speaker 7: You're getting nervous that they could take Is that.

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Speaker 2: You know, you always get nervous, But I've learned that,

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Speaker 3: So that's Eric as how he handled things.

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Speaker 4: How how you from an outside, how do you think, Oh, yeah, poise,

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Speaker 2: We never wish drafts of all time if I was

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Speaker 9: Enjoying your staff, was this a scenario you possibly played.

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Speaker 5: Out for him or.

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Speaker 4: Oh, man, Jerry, I mean we were really talking about

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Speaker 12: Did you ask Lamar at all about the receivers in

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Speaker 2: We talked back in January. Yeah, I went down to

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Speaker 4: Know you are.

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Speaker 2: And he gave me a list. He gave me a

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Speaker 9: He's like, what, how would you describe I.

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Speaker 3: Guess Lamar is sort of legend in South Florida.

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Speaker 1: So it was a busy day for Flowers as he

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