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

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Speaker 1: the most miserable misery Monday that I can remember. Garrett

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Speaker 1: Ravens suffer a twenty to nineteen loss to the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams in a game that they led almost the

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Speaker 1: entire way. Uh and led for fifty eight minutes of

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Speaker 1: this game yep, and then wait fifty nine minutes, sorry,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, uh, And then lose another one point games,

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Speaker 1: their third one point loss during a five game losing streak, brutal,

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens playoff chances are pretty much non existent,

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Speaker 1: very small to a threat of three chance. According to

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Speaker 1: Steve KORNACKI, uh so, yeah, not a good I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: This past month has sucked. This has been a this

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Speaker 1: has been a bad month. I mean a The Ravens

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Speaker 1: haven't won a games since Novem. COVID is back. This

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Speaker 1: month sucked. Yeah, yeah, it's not good. I mean every

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Speaker 1: this to me, it was. This is the most miserable

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Speaker 1: one day. It's most deflating loss of the season. I

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Speaker 1: mean every other loss this year. I kind of felt

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Speaker 1: like even during this stretch, this four game now five

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Speaker 1: game losing stretch, every single one you kind of were like, ah,

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Speaker 1: you know, bummer, but they're still in good position or

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Speaker 1: up until this game. All right, we'll still you win

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Speaker 1: these last two, You're probably going to be in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Like there was always that kind of feeling, especially because

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Speaker 1: the Ravens had built that eight eight and three lead, Right,

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Speaker 1: you have five game lead, but but there's no way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, nobody went into these last two games being like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we'll win these last two games. I mean, nobody

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Speaker 1: felt like that going into the Rams game. But that

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Speaker 1: made it even more frustrating, was like it didn't seem

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Speaker 1: like they were going to win this game going into it, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean here's the Rams, Like, sure, I gave the

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Speaker 1: Ravens a chance obviously at home, but then to dominate,

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Speaker 1: not dominate, but to win, to control the game for

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Speaker 1: as long as they did, and then let it slip

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Speaker 1: through their fingers. It's just even more so much more painful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I honestly felt fairly, fairly decent about this game. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just felt like the I just thought the Ravens

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Speaker 1: like the Rams have some issues that they're dealing with offensively,

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Speaker 1: um and it kind of played out the way that

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Speaker 1: I thought was sort of best case scenario, which is,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we talked about it earlier in the week,

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Speaker 1: it was like, if the Ravens can get some turnovers,

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Speaker 1: which the Rams have been prone to, especially of late,

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Speaker 1: then they could turn that into points um and that

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Speaker 1: could allow them to get to win. And they everything

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Speaker 1: kind of worked in the Ravens favor for most of

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Speaker 1: the game in that regard, Like they got the pick six,

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Speaker 1: they got multiple turnovers, they had some long they had

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Speaker 1: long drives where they were kind of keeping the Rams

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Speaker 1: over there on the sidelines and moving the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field. But at the end of the day, they

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Speaker 1: were trading touchdowns for field goals and they couldn't put

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Speaker 1: the game away when they had the opportunity on that drive,

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Speaker 1: their second to last drive in the fourth quarter where

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Speaker 1: they had to settle for the field goal, and that's

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Speaker 1: basically where the game was decided, well to two points,

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Speaker 1: where this game was decided right then the Ravens, if

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Speaker 1: they score, they have second and goal from the two

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Speaker 1: two yard line. They scored a touchdown there, It's done

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Speaker 1: pretty much, uh, then, like you said, to have to

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Speaker 1: settle for the field goal. Then on the ensuing drive

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Speaker 1: by the Rams, you have a fourth and five deep

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Speaker 1: and Ravens territory. You need one play. I'm up. I

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Speaker 1: sat out on the outside of suite because I was

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Speaker 1: a little nervous sitting next to you in the press box, Mr.

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Speaker 1: Mr Covid. I don't I'm just kidding, but I was

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Speaker 1: out there stopping. But it was kind of nice not

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Speaker 1: being in the press box. I'm gonna say I could.

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Speaker 1: I was getting into it, my friend. I was banging

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Speaker 1: on everything. I good. I was like, what more? Stop?

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Speaker 1: I was giving it the Radars. Then gosh, that Odell

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Speaker 1: Beckham junior catch fourth and five right at the sticks

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Speaker 1: to hang onto that with Tavon Young right on his back.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, So two chances to close out the game.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens don't get either one of them. And it's

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Speaker 1: just I mean, gosh, that's been the story of the

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Speaker 1: five game losing streak, right, I mean they had both

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Speaker 1: two point conversions. You know, at Pittsburgh versus Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: you get either one of those. Either one of those,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are in the playoffs most likely, right, You

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Speaker 1: get either one of these ones. Yesterday, the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, like one of those things. You would

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Speaker 1: just think in so many situations where it goes down

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Speaker 1: to the wire that the Ravens will get one of them,

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Speaker 1: and they got zilch none. And it's just it's just

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Speaker 1: so so frustrating, uh, to constantly have it go against you. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, fans of other teams will say, well,

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Speaker 1: you got lucky in getting the season. Well, you know what,

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Speaker 1: Detroit wasn't lucky. When you have the world's best kicker.

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Speaker 1: That ain't luck. I mean, it wasn't lucky. It was

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Speaker 1: you had. What I do think is true to that

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Speaker 1: that notion like a lot of times close games, Like

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Speaker 1: a team that wins a lot of close games, then

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Speaker 1: that often kind of evens out, either from year to

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Speaker 1: year or the course of a season. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: win every close game, but you also don't expect to

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Speaker 1: lose three straight one point games. You don't. You don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, now it's gone too far in the other direction.

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Speaker 1: I know it probably, I mean, honestly, probably even out.

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Speaker 1: Like the Detroit game was not really a game that

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Speaker 1: the Ravens should have won. I mean, Detroit Frands are

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Speaker 1: still probably talking about that delay a game that could

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Speaker 1: have been called that wasn't called in the fourth and

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Speaker 1: nineteen that got him in position to kick that field goal.

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Speaker 1: So there was just a lot that happened that game.

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Speaker 1: And then even like you know the Colts Monday night

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Speaker 1: football game where you're down you get all those two

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Speaker 1: point versions blocked field goal. There's a lot that like

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Speaker 1: and so I do think there was kind of an

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Speaker 1: back to the the offensive drive, second and goal from

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Speaker 1: the two. So you have first and goal from the five.

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Speaker 1: You get three yards on first down on a run

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Speaker 1: from Murray, second and goal from the two. Then they

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Speaker 1: try Murray again and he gets stuffed minus two. Then

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Speaker 1: delay of game, then a sack. It was you're you're

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Speaker 1: yards like that never happens, And like sure you can

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Speaker 1: critique to play calling, Like you know, I would have

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Speaker 1: been interested to see a Huntley run there. I think

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Speaker 1: just went backwards and maybe they would have run Huntley

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Speaker 1: on on that delay a game. I know Huntley made

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Speaker 1: looked at that. I mean, the clock is clearly zero

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Speaker 1: and he's called for the ball, and so I don't

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Speaker 1: see any fault. I'm calling that penalty unless the game clock,

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Speaker 1: which I highly highly doubt. I mean, looking at the broadcast,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that it was a delayed game penalty.

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Speaker 1: So it's just like that to me is how does

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Speaker 1: that happen in that situation? Can't like that? Can't that

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Speaker 1: can't happen in that situation. It just it just can't happen.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the mechanics are of getting

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Speaker 1: the play down to the player. I mean, Huntley obviously

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Speaker 1: is making what his third career start. Tristan Cologne was

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Speaker 1: he was six. So that's a challenge. You know, you

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Speaker 1: have another another like freakish thing that happens to the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: whether it be injuries or COVID yep, yep, you have

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Speaker 1: Bozeman who's active but was not on the field because

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Speaker 1: that situation, that's a tough spot. It's just so it's

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Speaker 1: it's just so frustrating. I don't know, again, I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what went wrong in that delay game situation,

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Speaker 1: but it's something that can't happen in that moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I mean the Ravens offense really the story

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Speaker 1: of this losing streak has been an inability to finish.

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Speaker 1: That has been the story of the season. Like we said,

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Speaker 1: you get out to eight and three record, and you're

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Speaker 1: not able to finish, not able to get two more wins,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want the Ravens to be on

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Speaker 1: take the one. I'll take the three. I'd rather have

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Um I mean, it's just unbelievable, the inability

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Speaker 1: need to to finish around there. It's been I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you a Garrett, it's been the most amazing and most

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Speaker 1: annoying season that I can ever remember in Ravens history. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good way to look at it.

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Speaker 1: I also think that, like it's not often I would

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Speaker 1: year kind of played out exactly like we all said

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Speaker 1: the final seven eight games, that is a really difficult stretch,

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Speaker 1: where you need to build up a nice lead, and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens did that. They jumped out to an eight

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I thought they would get that done.

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Speaker 1: back when this team was eight and three's this team

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Speaker 1: going to the playoffs, everyone, I think would have raised

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Speaker 1: and now they're probably on the outside looking in of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is just kind of a a ridiculous

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Speaker 1: turn of events. Here. Well, there's just that, it's there's

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Speaker 1: so many what ifs. I mean, let's not also forget

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Speaker 1: suffered like the second avalanche of injuries of the year, right,

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Speaker 1: in these games without Lamar Jackson? Nobody going into the season, right, So, like,

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Speaker 1: It's kind of how it played out, right, Like they

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Speaker 1: you know, one thing I want to say about this

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Speaker 1: score in their offense hadn't done anything and been turning

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Speaker 1: rough one for Huntley. But I don't I don't put

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Speaker 1: that one, honestly, I don't like put that one too

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Speaker 1: much on Snoop. That one gets shared between he and

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Speaker 1: some banter, you know, Oh, well, what does this say Snoop?

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Speaker 1: be a whole lot of chatter about this topic, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that, like Snoop also did enough to

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Speaker 1: light the world on fire. We're like, all right, you

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Speaker 1: know what, let's just roll with Snoop moving forward, you know,

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Speaker 1: so anyway, we'll have a lot of time to talk

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Speaker 1: about that. Uh, just just a disappointing loss. But it's

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Speaker 1: not over yet. It's not over, okay, right, Ray was

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Speaker 1: still a three percent chance of getting in. That'll be

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Speaker 1: what John Harball preaches his team. He'll say, even if

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Speaker 1: we barely have a chance, you want to win. You

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Speaker 1: want to win, and you certainly don't want to see

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger go off the M and T Bank Stadium

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Speaker 1: field a winner and what is most likely his last

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Speaker 1: game as a pro. You can't let that guy celebrate

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Speaker 1: going off, No way, Yeah, I mean, I think that's

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Speaker 1: I think that as much as the playoffs, like there

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Speaker 1: is that that thin sliver of hope that they can

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Speaker 1: make it if all things play play out the way

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Speaker 1: bigger than that is like just the rivalry factor, the

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Speaker 1: Ben's last game factor, And you just say, look, this

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Speaker 1: is a game against our arrival at our home stadium.

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Speaker 1: Do you really want to go into the off season

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Speaker 1: having lost six straight games, six straight games and watching Ben,

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Speaker 1: you know, right off into the sunset with a victory

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Speaker 1: on your home turf. You don't want that. You don't

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Speaker 1: want that at all. And I think that I'm not

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Speaker 1: worried about like as we've seen here over the past month,

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Speaker 1: like this team is not gonna quit. That's been well established.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about that plenty of times. This team is

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Speaker 1: not gonna quit. John Harp was gonna have the team

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Speaker 1: ready to play. And the Steelers like, it's not like

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Speaker 1: you just you when you have a chance to beat

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Speaker 1: your rival, you want to take it. And and this

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Speaker 1: is a game that both teams, is there any chance

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Speaker 1: to steal? Have they officially been eliminated yet the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: So I mean it's they're also probably gonna be hanging

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Speaker 1: onto a very lim playoff hope margin. It depends on

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Speaker 1: it depends on if they win tonight against the Browns,

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Speaker 1: which I think they will. But whatever, we'll see, um

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Speaker 1: and I just you don't want them to clench a

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Speaker 1: potential playoff spot with all these scenarios going their direction

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Speaker 1: on your home turf. Absolutely not, yeah, definitely not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So it'll be very interesting before we before we go,

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Speaker 1: I do wanna give a round of applause to Mark Andrews.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget rays new receiving leader franchise history. Six

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Speaker 1: catches for eighty nine yards for May and Drews. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just an unbelievable year. It's been fun to watch him. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Ramsey didn't match up one on one

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Speaker 1: against him. I'd have to go back and watch the

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Speaker 1: film like I always do. Garrett particulously, um, but from

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Speaker 1: what I saw, Ramsey wasn't like matching up one on

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Speaker 1: one with him a lot of game. But Mark still

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Speaker 1: lead the team eighty nine receiving yards. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was pretty appropriate that he set the record, uh, with

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Speaker 1: just getting lasted in the back on a fourteen yard

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Speaker 1: catch that was a tough play to make. Was very Uh,

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Speaker 1: it was very Mark Andrews and Todd Heap esque, I

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Speaker 1: would say. Um, and so congrats to Mark. Well deserved this.

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Speaker 1: It's been fun to watch him emerge as not only

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Speaker 1: the top tight end of the league, but a leader,

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Speaker 1: a team leader this season and that I think will

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Speaker 1: carry over the next season and a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of very good things to come, uh for this team.

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Speaker 1: Yard Yeah, Like with Mark, you know, he gets the

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Speaker 1: big contract right before the season and in a year

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Speaker 1: where a lot of players unfortunately who have who have

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Speaker 1: perceived the big contracts just got hurt or weren't able

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Speaker 1: to play. Like for Mark to go out there and

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Speaker 1: play the way he did, I mean it's almost like, man,

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Speaker 1: this guy, this guy's underpaid. He's playing so well. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, he gets the big contract, he lives up

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Speaker 1: to it, and he shows himself to be not only

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Speaker 1: one of the Ravens best players, but but maybe the

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Speaker 1: best tight end in all football. He just seems to

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Speaker 1: maybe better maybe Yeah, the the undoubtedly, without question this

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Speaker 1: season undoubtedly has been the best sight end. Yes, oh,

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Speaker 1: he has been this season. I mean the numbers on

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Speaker 1: it are clear. He's got the most receiving yards, got

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Speaker 1: the most catches, he's got I think most touchdowns exactly.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, this year he has been UM, yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: he's been an absolute monster and he just like he

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Speaker 1: keeps elevating his game. That's what I love about Mark,

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Speaker 1: Like he just seems to every single year take his

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Speaker 1: game to another level. And as we've talked about before,

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Speaker 1: like what what what makes it so impressive this year

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Speaker 1: is that he's done it with three different quarterbacks. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter who's throwing on the ball. He just continues to

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Speaker 1: put up numbers. And I don't think he's showing any

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Speaker 1: signs of slowing down. Guy's a beast, total beast. Absolutely anyway,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening. As always, you can reach us at

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Speaker 1: the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the mail bag this week will be full of grief. Um,

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Speaker 1: we can help you, but talk you through those tears.

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Speaker 1: Actually we can try our best at least uh and

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with you later this week. Thanks for listening.

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