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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We have big

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Speaker 1: Easter Sunday news with the Ravens agreeing to terms in

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Speaker 1: principle with wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've heard of him, Garrett, you heard of that guy?

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Speaker 1: I have heard of him. I have heard him. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty big news, pretty awesome. Yeah, you know, sitting there

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Speaker 1: Easter Sunday watching the Masters. Nice relaxing Sunday. Nope, not anymore.

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Speaker 1: Emergency podcast time, baby, emergency podcast. Try get up and

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior is worthy of an emergency podcast because

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Speaker 1: this is big news for the Ravens. Monster signing. They

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Speaker 1: get some serious firepower on this offense. You know, a

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Speaker 1: player who is one of the most iconic players in

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Speaker 1: the league over the course of his tenure. Obviously super productive,

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Speaker 1: huge name, huge presence, just super exciting to land him

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Speaker 1: on a one year contract, agreed in principle on a

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Speaker 1: deal and just Ravens fans should be fired up about

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Speaker 1: this one. Oh and I think they are just judging

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Speaker 1: by this social media reaction so far already. I mean,

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Speaker 1: to me, this is almost it's so big in terms

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Speaker 1: of what it signifies about the Ravens kind of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, just even off the football field, what it

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Speaker 1: means about the direction of this franchise and kind of

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Speaker 1: what it says from a big picture standpoint. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest wide receiver that they've that they've

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Speaker 1: you know, you go back to Steve Smith, you know, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, a potential Hall of Fame wide receiver, you know,

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Speaker 1: but he was older than Odell Beckham is, you know

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Speaker 1: right now, Odell being thirty years old. You know, obviously

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Speaker 1: it's a one year deal like we talked about. But still,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the this is a big fish and the

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Speaker 1: Ravens haven't landed a big fish wide receiver in a

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Speaker 1: number of years now, and I think it really signifies

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Speaker 1: the direction that the Ravens offense is heading. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's been a lot of talk in recent

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Speaker 1: years about the Ravens inability, uh inability to recruit wide

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Speaker 1: receivers free agent wide receivers, and and also a lot

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Speaker 1: of just talk about the Ravens unwillingness to quote unquote

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Speaker 1: pay them, you know, suppose it unwillingness to pay them well,

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Speaker 1: both those things are out of the water. You know,

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Speaker 1: that got blown out of the water today with you know,

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Speaker 1: you Land the biggest name really even if you you

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Speaker 1: back up and go before free agency opened, the biggest

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Speaker 1: names receiver name on the market was Adell Beckham. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right before the first understrict a guy went off the board.

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Speaker 1: He's been like the biggest name on the market for

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Speaker 1: like the last you know, yeah, a year of fourteen

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Speaker 1: months or whatever. It's exactly exactly. And then and then

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Speaker 1: you talk about, well the Ravens have been unwilling to

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Speaker 1: invest and all this stuff. You know, the reported deal

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Speaker 1: here about a fifteen million up to eighteen million dollar deal.

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Speaker 1: They weren't on they weren't afraid to uh invest, and

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Speaker 1: they had to get creative to do it with the

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Speaker 1: salary cap restrictions that they currently have. But they got

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Speaker 1: it done. And I think that really is a feather

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Speaker 1: in the cap to Eric Tacasa and this organization in

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Speaker 1: the direction the significance of the signing and what it

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Speaker 1: shows in the direction that it's headed. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I agree with all of that. I would also say

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Speaker 1: that it just shows like at a big picture level

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Speaker 1: to stick there for a second like it's win now

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Speaker 1: to a time like this is an organization and a

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Speaker 1: team that's like this is win now mode and you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're adding a big, a big fish to this

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Speaker 1: offense which is going through a major overhaul right now.

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Speaker 1: With Todd Munkin coming in and Todd Munkin was you

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Speaker 1: know at his press conference, uh, you know a month

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Speaker 1: Beckham junior from their time together in Cleveland, had great

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Speaker 1: things to say about him. Yeah, he's well. Quote here,

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Speaker 1: I got the I got the quote here. Oh you

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Speaker 1: did research, even on Easter Sunday. You got the research.

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Speaker 1: I'd write story. So I had to go back and

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Speaker 1: find that one. Uh. Tom munkasai quote, I really like Odell.

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Speaker 1: O'Dell's super athletic, twitchy, he really likes football. I really

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Speaker 1: on to talk about how kind of you know, Odell's

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Speaker 1: it comes to like personalities. You know, he is a

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Speaker 1: many people know, you know, very few NFL players like

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Speaker 1: who that guy is. He's a star amongst stars, and

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Speaker 1: Beckham's going to be I think on like the shortlist

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Speaker 1: he is, the flair you know. I remember when um

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Speaker 1: he was at and Marlin asked him about players that

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Speaker 1: second year player in the league. After he had that catch,

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Speaker 1: to land him in Baltimore and inject that talent to

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Speaker 1: this offense, I just think it's it's huge. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at what the Ravens have done, you know

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Speaker 1: coming back. You know, they have high hopes for him

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Speaker 1: being healthy this year. Devin Duverne and we all should

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Speaker 1: not forget about Mark Andrews. I mean, so when you

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Speaker 1: but the talent is obviously there. You know, Nelson agilor

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Speaker 1: compare it to last year, you know, once avement went down,

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Speaker 1: like we've checked him out and seen where he is

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Speaker 1: the reports, I mean people have seen some of the

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Speaker 1: and that's obviously why the Ravens feel comfortable working out

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Speaker 1: putting up a thousand yards a pop every single year. Right,

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Speaker 1: So we talked about Todd Munkin. I mean he last

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Speaker 1: playing in a Todd Munkin led offense in Cleveland. Right,

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Speaker 1: So had seventy four catches for a thousand and thirty

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Speaker 1: within twelve minutes, You're like, come on, are you guys asleep?

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Speaker 1: Are you doing anything? What's happening? And now three weeks later,

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Speaker 1: biggest fish on the free agent market signed. And you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't happen right away. It takes a little

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Speaker 1: to get Odell Beckam on that first day of free agency,

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Speaker 1: but you got them a month later here. So it's

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Speaker 1: just kind of funny that like all that frustration that

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Speaker 1: being for not Yeah, for sure. You know. One thing

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Speaker 1: I think that also just occurs to me is, you know,

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Speaker 1: a Raven in twenty twenty three. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: do you spend fifty if you're gonna if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a restart at quarterback? Do you spend fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars for Adelle Beckham junior for one year? Probably? Not right?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I mean it says to

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Speaker 1: me that, yeah, we we think we're gonna have Lamar here,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a sick defense and we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: all out to put the weapons around Lamar and uh

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Speaker 1: and say let's let's make a run at this thing.

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Speaker 1: Right That's what it says to me. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it goes back to what I said earlier,

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Speaker 1: like this is a win now mode. This is this

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Speaker 1: is a move that shows we're trying to win right now.

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Speaker 1: This is not a okay, you know, hopefully we can

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Speaker 1: put some pieces together and make a run here in

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Like, No, this team, Eric the

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Speaker 1: Costa is trying to build a roster that's capable of

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Speaker 1: winning this season, and obviously the Ravens hope Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: is the key piece of that, as they've said many times,

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Speaker 1: And when you add a player like Odell Beckham, it's

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Speaker 1: just more of it. It's more evidence that they are

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Speaker 1: doing everything they can to build the best possible roster

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Speaker 1: to maximize every single dollar they have. I know that

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Speaker 1: salary cap to put a great team on the field

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Speaker 1: to go out there and try to win a Super Bowl. Yep, yeah,

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Speaker 1: totally so enjoy it. Ravens fans, You've this is the

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Speaker 1: day that I feel like we've been talking about for

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Speaker 1: a long time. When are the Ravens gonna get number

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Speaker 1: one wide receiver? This is the day, folks enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: This is the Easter egg. You found the golden egg,

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Speaker 1: all right? Yea, I wish I thought of that earlier.

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Speaker 1: This is the ultimate golden egg find. So pretty exciting stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know. The hope is that Odell will be making

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Speaker 1: official and putting pen to paper later this week. To

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Speaker 1: make sure you stay here for all of that. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big week ahead, exciting. I'm back from Vaca, Garrett.

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Speaker 1: You're not on Vaca. It's also big because we're in

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Speaker 1: a podcast. We're hosting an episode. It's gone forever. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good to see your first podcast in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three together. It feels like it anyway. Lots of good stuff.

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