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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by Draft Kings. Week one

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Speaker 1: is finally here, Garrett. Size of up season, I hope.

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Speaker 1: So I think it is a size of up season.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting. I mean, look like you can just.

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Speaker 2: Feel energy, excitement, enthusiasm. I honestly felt like a bit

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Speaker 2: of an energy shift this week as you get into

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Speaker 2: game mode and it kind of things just settle into

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Speaker 2: the normal routine, like Okay, Wednesday you get the quarterback

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Speaker 2: pressor it just feels more like it feels like a

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Well, I mean when I was watching practice,

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Patrick Leeson in our PR department,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, man, like, this is why, this

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Speaker 1: is why you do this, right, this is why you

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Speaker 1: work here. Right. It's like this is awesome, and there's

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Speaker 1: just like I love the draft, I love free agency,

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Speaker 1: I love the tea building aspect, I love all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But like, the season's here. This is what this is

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Speaker 1: what it's all about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the games are what it's all comes down to.

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Speaker 1: And it's just gonna be so much fun. You know,

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Speaker 1: like this offense is just loaded with stars. The defense

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Speaker 1: is really good. You know, you have this new offense

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Speaker 1: under Todd Munkin that I think is gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: throw the ball Mores. I think it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: more exciting offense to watch that's loaded with stars who

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Speaker 1: can make big time plays and got it. Man, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun at MPT Bank City.

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Speaker 2: And I can tell you that, yeah, I think it,

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Speaker 2: like yeah, I just think that there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: an intrigue unknowns than the.

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Speaker 3: Past couple of years.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really reminiscent to me of twenty nineteen

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Speaker 2: where the Ravens had a new coordinator exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean they were unknowns last year, but they

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Speaker 1: were like, not fun unknowns. They were like, well when

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Speaker 1: are some of these guys coming back from major injury?

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Speaker 1: Is going to be back to one hundred percent? That

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Speaker 1: was the big question. And it's so great this year

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Speaker 1: this team. You know, like we're out of you know,

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Speaker 1: COVID's not impacting the football season, yep. Right, Like there's

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Speaker 1: fans in the stands like it just feels like Lamar's

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Speaker 1: contract is done. You don't have there's no other Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's guys that are coming up for pay days,

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Speaker 1: but nobody's like whatever, hold.

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Speaker 3: Now, You're always gonna have those types of questions.

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Speaker 1: There's no like lingering non football stuff hanging over this team.

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Speaker 1: Kind of all the questions are like are they good

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Speaker 1: it's football questions. Yeah, I like football questions. I'll go

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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean totally.

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Speaker 2: And I just think that like the unknown, Like the

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Speaker 2: unknown is new offensive coordinator. That's the biggest one, Todd

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Speaker 2: Monk and new offensive coordinator. How quickly can this team

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Speaker 3: What does the offense look like?

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Speaker 2: You got all these exciting new weapons Odell's a Flowers zagalar.

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Speaker 3: How do these weapons mesh with lamars and timing?

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Speaker 2: I think that's like the g And then also like

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Speaker 2: even how much you know the Raves are big favorites

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Speaker 3: How much did they show this week?

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Speaker 1: You know Vegas there, what's the line?

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Speaker 2: I think it was ten ten recently you're mister Vegas

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Speaker 2: and so so you know they're big favorites in the game,

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Speaker 2: and so like how much do they show, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a long season, but I

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Speaker 1: Bengals on deck is what you're saying. Yeah, anything black

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Speaker 1: is what I mean. There's a lot, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: You just can't. So I mean, nah, they're playing to

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm I'm intrigued with all of that, and

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Speaker 1: in a game that you you have to win. You

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Speaker 1: have to win this opener. The Ravens have played really

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Speaker 1: well in Week ones under John Harball. What's the stats?

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Speaker 1: You got the stats?

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Speaker 3: I got the stats to a little research research department.

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Speaker 1: Done. Yes, the research department. As you pull out the PR, that's.

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Speaker 3: That's our research apartment. Our great, our great PR department.

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Speaker 1: Another hat tip to the PR department here.

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Speaker 2: Eleven four in John Harballs ten year. In Week one

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Speaker 2: games and in those fifth team games, they have the

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Speaker 2: largest point differential over these seasons.

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Speaker 3: Plus two oh six.

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Speaker 1: Wow, and the largest smokes some people.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple that really stand out, the Miami one

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Speaker 2: a tough one right there in those fifteen games. And

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Speaker 2: then Lamar Jackson has been really good in Week one

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Speaker 2: three on one of those games, twelve touchdowns, one interception.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the Miami game again kind of skews the

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Speaker 1: Agree. Yeah, I mean, I think it speaks to the

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Speaker 1: way that the Ravens prepare. You know, the training camp

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Speaker 1: Now they've you know, he's I think evolved as a

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Speaker 1: preseason has definitely changed since the JK injury. The pre

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like some teams obviously the league has shifted.

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Speaker 2: been you know, Lamar Jackson talked this week like it's

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Speaker 2: But I do think that like there could be some

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Speaker 3: I think it a little bit of that early on.

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Speaker 1: Just hearing from Lamar and Odell specifically, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they're not the only ones. You know, they're really ramped

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Speaker 1: up for this game. You know, there's different guys who

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Speaker 1: light it up week one. You know, like there's just

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Speaker 1: individual things. And one thing that John Harbaugh has really

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Speaker 1: You don't want to burn out this week. But hearing

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Speaker 2: Well, Odell Beckham Junior walked off the field on Wednesday

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Speaker 3: Also you know, don't peak too soon. The game's not

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Speaker 2: All of that stuff was kind of part of that conversation,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I definitely got the sense and listening to

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Speaker 3: If you haven't done.

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Speaker 2: So we have the full press conferences, all the full

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Speaker 2: press conferences posted there, including the one from Odell and

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Speaker 2: Lamar on Wednesday and and Harbaugh. But I just got

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Speaker 2: the sense from him like this guy can't wait to

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Speaker 3: This sense, but he does. But I think he feels that. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I think that he wants.

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Speaker 1: To show everything that guy still.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think he wants to show that.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's had some different motivations, you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe then earlier in his career, but I still think that,

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Speaker 2: Oh but rolling Yeah, But I think that I do

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Speaker 3: Be one of the best receivers in the game for sure.

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Speaker 1: Here's a scouting report here, Garrett.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's a really great quarterback. He's

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Speaker 2: Like that's not his game. Yeah, but he's got great

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Speaker 3: It's like they have.

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Speaker 1: That the receivers that he threw to at Ohigo State

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, just beyond this isn't the

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Speaker 1: Right if they were in the NYT now any probably

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Speaker 1: I completely agree. I actually think that the Texans might

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, if you have a it's like.

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Speaker 3: Like there's the same Holds trip. If you got a

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Speaker 1: Like pack your run game, take the heat off a lot.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that the Texans will be able to run.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean Michael Pearce is healthy. I mean

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the questions are the backers.

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Speaker 1: Exactly like I like their ability.

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Speaker 1: I think a Jabo is a guy that we, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And let's not judge a guy off one game either,

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Speaker 1: Let's look at this Texans defense. Will Anderson high first

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Speaker 1: Yep. I think that the Texans defensive strengths are Will Anderson,

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Speaker 1: what's he what's he going to show? You know? That

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Speaker 1: that I think is the question. And really that's the

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Speaker 1: question across the board. It's not only what's their defense

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Speaker 1: looked like under Damiko ryans I'm sure the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: watching San Francisco forty nine ers tape, you know, to

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Speaker 1: try to get a good feel for what his scheme

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Speaker 1: is and what he likes to do. So that's a

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Speaker 1: big question mark, kind of another unknown, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: And then of course on the offensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: you have rookie quarterback and all that that's an unknown.

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Speaker 1: You know, what kind of scheme are they going to have?

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Speaker 1: So that's in a way now the Ravens have that

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Speaker 1: too with todm. Munkin. Nobody really knows what it's gonna

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Speaker 1: look like. But the whenever you're in Week one, there's

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Speaker 1: the element of surprise, and when you have a rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback and a rookie head coach who's a defensive minded

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Speaker 1: background guy, you have on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 1: these question marks and these unknowns for the Ravens going

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Speaker 1: into this.

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Speaker 2: Game and the first time coordinator and Bobby Slow because

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Speaker 2: their offensive coordinator, So you basically just have I think

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Speaker 2: it's a good point, Like I think that that is

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Speaker 2: a factor here that like is like that unknown factor

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Speaker 2: I think is you know, it's something that you just

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Speaker 2: have to be careful about. I guess I don't know

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Speaker 2: how you're careful about that, but like that's just something

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Speaker 2: that like could come up and bite you. Like you

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Speaker 2: just don't Oh, we weren't expecting.

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Speaker 1: That kind of it kind of seems like, yeah, in

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Speaker 1: week one, there's always some I don't know if trickery

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Speaker 1: is the right word, but wrinkles.

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Speaker 3: There's some wrinkles that could be thrown out there, and

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Speaker 3: like you know.

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Speaker 1: Demiga, Ryan, you don't have tape.

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Speaker 2: He wants he wants to his first NFL game. He

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Speaker 2: wants he wants to go out there and like get

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Speaker 2: a win. I mean obviously like he like he he

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Speaker 2: wants to come out and prove something in his first

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Speaker 2: game as an NFL head coach. So like there can

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Speaker 2: be an element of kind of throwing the kitchen sink

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Speaker 2: a little bit in his first game, and I think

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Speaker 2: that that can happen, and so the ravesy to weather

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Speaker 2: that storm. And I think that like, as you get

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Speaker 2: into the flow of the game, that's where I think

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Speaker 2: that then then you can kind of settle in and.

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Speaker 3: Just get back to sort of what you do best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: But part of that on offenses, raves are figuring that

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Speaker 3: out themselves.

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Speaker 1: When you combine the nerves, the russ factor of not

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Speaker 1: playing in the preseason and going against you know, a

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Speaker 1: new head coach, new rookie quarterback, new offensive coordinator, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. I think that the first quarter of this

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Speaker 1: game will be kind of that feeling out period, and

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Speaker 1: then second quarter is going to be really important. You know.

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Speaker 1: All right, we kind of have an idea here, let's

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Speaker 1: turn it on, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if we're talking about at the end of the game, like,

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Speaker 2: oh man, this guy had a big game, Like who

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Speaker 2: do you feel off the bat that were talking about

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Speaker 2: like he was the player of the game.

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Speaker 1: Lamar okay, I think the Week one, how did you.

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Speaker 3: Come up with that one breakout player this year? He's

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Speaker 3: your guy?

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Speaker 1: Smart guy? Who do you got? Odell Vickham? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna say it. I can see it.

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Speaker 3: I think I think it is Odell. Actually I knew,

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Speaker 3: I knew it.

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Speaker 1: That was the guy who popped into my head too,

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Speaker 1: but that I was like Week one Lamar. I just

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Speaker 1: love Week one Lamar.

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Speaker 2: I'd like I like Week one Lamar too. I think

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Speaker 2: it is Odell, Like like when they come out of

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Speaker 2: the gate, Like it wouldn't surprise me, was.

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Speaker 1: That fet Odell right out of the gate.

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Speaker 3: It would surprise me if.

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Speaker 2: Found the opening driving catches a couple of passes, it

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Speaker 2: would not surprise you. The first pass of the game

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Speaker 2: goes so Odell, Like what would it surprised you if

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Speaker 2: first past the game it's fifteen yards of Lamar or

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Speaker 2: fifty yards of Odell?

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Speaker 1: No, not at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think that.

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Speaker 2: Like he he's gonna have the jitters and that all

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Speaker 2: going on as well, considering the road that it's taken

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Speaker 2: to get back to this point, and so I think

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Speaker 2: that like getting him just into the game early and

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Speaker 2: getting him involved and getting some of that out of

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Speaker 2: the way. I think it's going to be important. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I could see him having a very big game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really excited about Todd Munkin and his offense

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Speaker 1: and just to see the shots they take and get

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Speaker 1: our first real good look at it. I am really excited.

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Speaker 1: I think the game ends with the players carrying Todd

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Speaker 1: Munkin off on their shoulders, so they have to come

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Speaker 1: up the elevator. They'll get him from the booth, They'll

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Speaker 1: put them on their shoulders, go back down the elevator

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Speaker 1: with him on the shoulders in the elevator, back onto

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Speaker 1: the field and out in the tunnel.

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Speaker 2: Well, I know you're working on a cover story on

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Speaker 2: Todd Munkin which is going to drop on Saturday Saturday,

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Speaker 2: so it kind of details Monkin's history and his path

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Speaker 2: to this point.

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Speaker 3: Really interesting guy.

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Speaker 2: But did you pitch this concept to him and everyone

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Speaker 2: going off the elevator, putting him on their shoulders, then

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Speaker 2: getting back on the elevator and parading around the field.

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Speaker 1: I did not.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you can ask Hi about on podium.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to ask him today anyway. Thank you

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