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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. The Ravens are

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Speaker 1: set to face the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday at M

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Speaker 1: and T Bank Stadium, three o'clock. That's the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be the biggest game in Baltimore since

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one and over fifty years. Biggest game in Baltimore, Garrett,

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Speaker 1: and now we know the opponent. Pretty exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is a type of game that

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Speaker 2: you really dream about. If you're a fan of football,

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Speaker 2: you're a fan of the Ravens, You've been waiting for

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Speaker 2: this moment. It's hard to believe, just given all of

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Speaker 2: the great teams that the Ravens have had here organizationally,

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Speaker 2: that the franchise has never hosted an AFHC championship. But

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Speaker 2: it hasn't happened until this week. So I think that

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Speaker 2: there's Look, you can feel the excitement. The buzz around

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Speaker 2: much interest and excitement and I can't wait to see

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Speaker 2: what the atmosphere is like. And it's gonna be the

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Speaker 2: that as even another layer of excitement to this already.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. This is just atmosphere that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be incredible at making of the Chiefs. I think

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Speaker 2: as another layer to it.

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Speaker 1: You know when, as we said in the postgame reaction podcast,

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Speaker 1: sitting back and watching the other game in the AFC

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Speaker 1: Divisional round, having already punched your ticket to the championship

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Speaker 1: is the best feeling. Oh, it's great, It's amazing. Order

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Speaker 1: pizza wings, hold nine. Right. I went back and forth

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Speaker 1: during the game on who I wanted the Ravens to face,

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Speaker 1: and look, I know there's a lot of Ravens fans

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Speaker 1: and hey, I'm right there with you. Right. I think

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are the best team in the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: said it at the end of the POTT. I think

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Speaker 1: this is the best Ravens team in franchise history. And

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Speaker 1: I think they're the best team in the NFL. So

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Speaker 1: I think they should beat whoever comes in, but just

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Speaker 1: still still won the easiest road. I'll be frank. I'll

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Speaker 1: be frank because you know what that you don't get

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Speaker 1: bonus points for beaten whoever. You just got to get there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not about the bonus points. I just want that ring, baby, right,

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Speaker 1: And so I went back and forth. I went back

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Speaker 1: and forth, and after the game was done and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs won, I said, you know what, I love everything

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Speaker 1: about this matchup. I love it. And look, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are a really, really good team. They're playing their sixth

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Speaker 1: straight AFC championship. That speaks for itself. They're really good.

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Speaker 1: They were kind of down this year and took some

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Speaker 1: losses that people didn't expect and people are what's wrong

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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs and all that stuff. Well guess what,

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Speaker 1: They're right back in the AFC Championship again. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and they have one of the best quarterbacks in the league,

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Speaker 1: if not the best, and Patrick Mahomes, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: our guys the best, but we'll give them one off.

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Speaker 1: Sure the best, no doubt about that. And so whenever

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Speaker 1: you're playing against Patrick Mahomes, you got your work cut

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Speaker 1: out for you. But on paper and emotionally, I love

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Speaker 1: everything about this matchup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's I was doing the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure all Ravens fans. Were you going to the game,

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Speaker 2: You're like, do you want it to be the Bills.

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Speaker 2: You wanted to be the Chiefs, and also the Bills score,

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Speaker 2: and I'd rather face the Chiefs this Chiefs score, You're like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I'd rather see the Bills, and like

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Speaker 2: you kind of have that swing. It reminded me, honestly

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Speaker 2: want to see the Browns and Joe Flacco? Know? Okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: do I really want to see the Texans?

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Speaker 1: Right they start pouring on you exactly?

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Speaker 2: The Browns are looking rough and Joe's having thrown two

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Speaker 2: think that like that same seesaw took place in the

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Speaker 2: agree with you, like I feel like this is the

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Speaker 2: matchup that was destined to be, Like, I like the

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Speaker 2: narrative of facing the Chiefs. The team that has won

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Speaker 2: Lamar versus Mahomes, all of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah see, yeah, let's talk about it just from a

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get better than that. The Ravens love the

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Speaker 1: you're the boss, you know, going against the defending champions.

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Speaker 1: underdog in air quotes, right, So they love that. The Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: they're three and one against the Ravens in the during

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Speaker 1: You know, all that goes surrounds the Chiefs as the darlings,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore is the underdog. We're the gritty. You know, look

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well look rokwand Smith. As we've said all season long,

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Speaker 2: he finds any little, any ankling to provide to create

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Speaker 1: It was like a minor clip that like somebody said

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he'll find anything, and so I am sure

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Speaker 2: that all week he's going to be telling these guys

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Speaker 2: you know, the NFL doesn't want to you guys in

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. The NFL, the the media doesn't want

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Speaker 2: want the Chiefs, the media darlings. This is the team

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Speaker 2: that has been been there multiple times. Like, they don't

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Speaker 1: And look like the Ravens, regardless if it was the Bills,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens were gonna have some narrative and they were

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't get juiced up for the

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Speaker 1: kind of to the Mike Florio's point, righteah, like, if

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Speaker 1: you need this stuff, you've already lost. Well. No, that's

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Speaker 1: also not how it works though, because even athletes at

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Speaker 1: just it just fuels them even more. Right, they are

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Speaker 1: It's real. It gives them a different edge on game.

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Speaker 2: Den Well, anybody who watched like the Michael Jordan Last

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Speaker 2: honestly don't think Lamar Jackson is thinking in those terms

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Speaker 1: Margin focus doesn't change at all.

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Speaker 2: His His focus, I think, is much more just on

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Speaker 2: him and no matter who the Ravens are playing that

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Speaker 2: he feels like, I need to be locked in. It's

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Speaker 1: Right, It's like I need to I need to get

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Speaker 1: I need to get us there. Yeah, I feel it

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Speaker 1: doesn't I think the opponent nameless, faceless opponents to Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it matters to him that piece. But

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Speaker 2: I do think the defense will use the narrative stuff

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely agree with that, and and look I

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Speaker 1: just you certainly could say he's a better quarterback than

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Speaker 1: He's the wild card in this whole thing scares you.

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Speaker 2: Going into the Texans game, like the thing that that

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Speaker 2: but he was a young player going into his first

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Speaker 2: lot of people over the course of his career. I

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Speaker 2: So that's what that's in terms of, like what you

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Speaker 2: don't like about this matchup. It's Mahomes. It's the fact

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Speaker 2: like maybe there was a chance, but ended up not

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Speaker 2: being activated. The expectation for him this week is to practice.

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Speaker 2: That's the hope, John Harbaugh said, and if he's good

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Speaker 2: enough to play, he'll play. Did not give any clear

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Speaker 2: inde on the broadcast.

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Speaker 1: On Rwal's not making any decorative statements about injury.

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Speaker 2: On the broadcast. You know Troygmann and Joe Buck did

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Speaker 2: indicate that, you know, they in talking with Ravens it

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Speaker 2: sounded like there was real hope that Andrews would play

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Speaker 2: in the championship round. So hopefully that's the case. I

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Speaker 2: think that basically, if Mark was a full participant at

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Speaker 2: the end of last week, if he practiced two straight days, yeah,

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Speaker 2: if he practices fully throughout this week, I would be

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Speaker 2: surprised if he doesn't play, but his practice status will

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Speaker 2: certainly be one of monitor throughout the.

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Speaker 1: Week, agreed. Then the other one is Marlon Humphrey. Again,

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Speaker 1: John Harwall didn't really tip his hand there, said over

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Speaker 1: the course of the week it sounded like he's going

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Speaker 1: to practice. John Harvill said, over the course of the week,

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Speaker 1: it'll kind of show itself. You know, his availability will

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Speaker 1: be made clear by how much he practices. Nobody. You know,

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Speaker 1: he talked about how badly Marlon wants to be out

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Speaker 1: there playing. Uh, and so anybody whoever doubted that is

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Speaker 1: just you're just people doubting that. It's just people people

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Speaker 1: on social media, you know, oh trip whatever, Yeah, people

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Speaker 1: chirping Marlon wants to get back out. They're really bad,

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Speaker 1: the good, the really The positive news for the Ravens

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Speaker 1: is that Ronald Darby has played so well stepping in

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Speaker 1: for Marlon Humphrey that it's not an urgent, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: you know situation. Ronald Darby targeted four times, gave up

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Speaker 1: two catches for twenty eight yards, had a pass break

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Speaker 1: up on the second play of the game that kind

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Speaker 1: of helped set the tone a little bit for the Texans,

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Speaker 1: who went three and out on their first series on offense.

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Speaker 1: So Ronald Darby's playing really well. John Harball talked about that,

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Speaker 1: But of course you want Marlon Humphrey out there.

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Speaker 2: I honestly wonder, let's just say, fingers crossed at both

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Speaker 2: Marlin and Mark Andrews are able to play if the

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Speaker 2: Ravens activate them and they basically get a limited snap count.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. It Also I thought where you were

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Speaker 1: going to go with this is I'd be interested in

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Speaker 1: seeing Marlon Humphrey against Travis Kelcey a little bit too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want you don't want to lock

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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton into one position. That's not who he is.

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Speaker 1: You want to be able to move that guy around. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: I think he'll have his one all on reps with

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Speaker 1: Travis kelcey. But with the way that Darby's playing, can

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Speaker 1: you move Marlon Humphrey inside a little bit? He played

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Speaker 1: in the slot of fair amount his highest percentage of

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Speaker 1: the year against the forty nine ers and Deebo Samuel

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Speaker 1: Diebo is a much different player than Travis kelcey, but

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Speaker 1: the physicality that Marlin plays with could be a good matchup.

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Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, that is interesting. And I said, for like Mark,

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Speaker 2: you know, could he get say it first, came back,

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Speaker 2: give him fifteen to twenty snaps? You can be third down,

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Speaker 2: could be resone that type of situations. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: there's a similar approach with Marlin. Maybe it's you know,

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Speaker 2: because he's coming off a cat and it's like you know, again,

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Speaker 2: it will depend on how he feels. And I'm just guessing,

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Speaker 2: but like, are you ready to come back from a

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Speaker 2: calf and play seventy snaps?

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Speaker 1: Right? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think that that will depend on how he progresses

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Speaker 2: over the course of this week. But maybe you work

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Speaker 2: him in in some situations over the course of this week.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of tight end and Mark coming back in

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Speaker 1: a potential limited role, Isaiah likely just continues to prove

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens offense is doing quite well with him.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Isaiah likely has been. He's been a beast. He's

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Speaker 2: been dogging, he really has, and I think he continue.

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Speaker 2: Like early in that game, he wasn't getting much action.

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Speaker 2: I thought that getting him evolved helped the offense open

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Speaker 2: up a little bit. He had the big touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Arms stiff Farmers another dimension.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like the stip farm kind of got lost, but

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Speaker 2: that was a great play. I think that likely as

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Speaker 2: likely as somebody who at this point has established himself

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Speaker 2: as like, let's get likely rolling, Let's get him the ball.

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Speaker 2: You want the ball in his hands and good things happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. Then, on some other notes from John Harwell's press,

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Speaker 1: Carvers talked about Justice Hill being a difference maker. Really

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Speaker 1: raved about Justice and the job that he's done this year.

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Speaker 1: He continued, you know a lot of attention on Dalvin Cook,

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Speaker 1: and understandably so. I think he's a good player. It's

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Speaker 1: exciting to have him here, and the Ravens were fortunate

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Speaker 1: to be up big and able to give him some

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Speaker 1: snaps late in that game. His first carry went for

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Speaker 1: nineteen yards. Look prett darn good. But let's not forget

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Speaker 1: Justice Hill has really kind of become the Ravens lead

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Speaker 1: back at this point, and he's running very well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah totally. You have any other points in the presser,

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Speaker 2: because I have an email that I want to read.

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Speaker 1: The only other one was John Harwal tuck out speaking

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Speaker 1: about running games Isaiah Pachecko the way he runs for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I think so much attention gets put on

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes that you forget that they've been a pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good running team this year and Pacheco runs extremely hard.

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Speaker 1: He's the dude's fun to watch play. He just is

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Speaker 1: because he just is. He's the energizer bunny. He just

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Speaker 1: goes and he goes full speed all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now I think Rokwan Smith goes full speed all the

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Speaker 1: time too, and so I'm looking forward to that collision.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a high speed collision, and I think

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Speaker 1: that'll be another thing that gets this Ravens defense a

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Speaker 1: little fired up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah totally.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: As always, you can email us of the Lounge at

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Speaker 2: Ravens dot NFL dot net. We always love reading your emails.

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Speaker 2: This is one that got my attention. The headline. The

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Speaker 2: subject line was sleevegate. So I mentioned I mentioned in

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Speaker 2: the postgame podcast on Sunday that on a very cold night,

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Speaker 2: very cold day, temperatures wind chill in the single digits,

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Speaker 2: that I was impressed. Lamar Jackson went, no, sleeves.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you kind of made it like one of your

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Speaker 1: lead points. That was your biggest take that I just said.

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Speaker 2: I thought it showed his out locked in. He wasn't

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Speaker 2: gonna let the weather deter him at all, even as

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Speaker 2: a Florida guy who does not like the cold. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, in the interview that I did with

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Speaker 2: him after the game, I said, what are the emotions

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Speaker 2: of winning this game? He say cold? That was the

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Speaker 2: very first thing that he said. But anyway, this email

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Speaker 2: from Sam says, hey, Ryan and Garrett. I got to

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Speaker 2: give Garrett's sleevegate point. I got to say that that

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Speaker 2: point wasn't all Timer correct me if I'm wrong, But

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Speaker 2: I believe Steve's got the Lamar sleeve stats here. He said,

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Speaker 2: I think Lamar has Warren sleeves twice in his career,

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Speaker 2: at Kansas City as a rookie and at Buffalo the

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Speaker 2: following year, where he ended up taking him off at halftime,

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Speaker 2: so one and a half times. Not to say that

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Speaker 2: this point is in valid. The cold weather in this case,

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Speaker 2: in the hot weather in seasons past, has never had

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Speaker 2: an impact on him though, But to say his lack

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Speaker 2: of sleeves proves his toughness is funny? Has he not

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Speaker 2: proven that? All? Right?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think is laughable. Really is what he wanted

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Speaker 1: to say. But he's trying to be respectful.

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Speaker 2: However, this is the best part he said. However, I

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Speaker 2: gotta give Garrett's gotta give Garrett his flowers for the

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Speaker 2: crisp dabt with Lamar following the postgame question. That was clean,

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Speaker 2: So thank you, Sam.

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Speaker 1: You've been working on that. Yeah, in the do you

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Speaker 1: have good chemistry on the debt?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been working on that. You know, guys have

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Speaker 2: their their handshakes. That's the next level. So we're gonna

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Speaker 2: we're gonna finish one of the post game and then

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Speaker 2: do the whole extended You.

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Speaker 1: Are way too goofy for extended handshake.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna work on this, keep it, keep it clean

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Speaker 2: and clean. That all right, But as always, you can

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Speaker 2: email us at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have a guest for you coming up later

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Speaker 2: this week. It is It's gonna be busy, there's lots

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Speaker 2: of attention, it's the AFC Championship, there's four teams left.

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Speaker 1: It's excited and it's exciting.

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Speaker 2: So we are really excited to bring you content throughout

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Speaker 2: this week, so stay tuned. Also, head over to the

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Speaker 2: Ravens Press Pass podcast feed for all of the press

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Speaker 2: conference availabilities throughout the week. Thanks for listening. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: with you again, Stid