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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink

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Speaker 1: here with Garrett Downing, and we are thrilled to sit

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Speaker 1: down with first round pick Malachi Starks. Thanks for joining us, Malachi,

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Speaker 1: thank you. And uh So I noticed this on you know,

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Speaker 1: as the rookies reported yesterday, you came back for training camp,

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Speaker 1: and I noticed that when you were walking in this

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Speaker 1: keen eye of mine, all right, I noticed that you

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Speaker 1: welcomed us to train camp. Like That's how nice a

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Speaker 1: guy you are, right, It's like we're welcoming you back

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Speaker 1: to training camp. You're like, hey, welcome, everybody, welcome, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: like just a nice guy.

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Speaker 2: So I figured that, like a lot of people spend

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Speaker 2: time like welcome us back, and nobody does it for

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Speaker 2: everybody else has been here. So it's nice TOI yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's nice to hear every once in a while.

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Speaker 1: What add, what's what's going through your mind as you

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Speaker 1: return for training camp for your first one?

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Speaker 2: I'm excited. I think the break was very necessary. I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of guys came back in a very

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Speaker 2: good spirit and right of mind. I think today was

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Speaker 2: a really good day. I think a lot of guys

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Speaker 2: are just excited. You know, it's our first time. We

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Speaker 2: don't really know what to expect. So just really trying

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Speaker 2: to lean on the older guys with their knowledge and

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Speaker 2: you know, the the process that they've been through already

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Speaker 2: and try to go through that with them and you know,

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Speaker 3: So as you look ahead to this rookie season, your

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Speaker 3: first training camp, what has you most excited?

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Speaker 2: Really Just to be in a new uniform. I think

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Speaker 2: I I've been in Georgia for so long. I grew

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Speaker 2: up thirty minutes from the University of Georgia and then

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Speaker 2: it felt like I was wearing red and black.

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Speaker 4: For like forever.

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Speaker 2: So just to be in you know, purple and black

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Speaker 2: and you know, like really indulge in you know what

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Speaker 2: the building around here and everybody. I think, I'm excited

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Speaker 3: So there's no doubt that there's a lot on your plate.

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Speaker 3: You get drafted in the first round, there's see a

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Speaker 3: lot that comes with that. And then soon after that, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: our Darius Washington gets hurt, he goes down, and so

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Speaker 3: you've been taking pretty much every first team reps it

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Speaker 3: is to day that you stepped on campus here. How

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Speaker 3: do you handle the responsibility that comes with all that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh just looking as it, you know,

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Speaker 2: You know, when I signed up, I knew what I

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Speaker 2: with the right head and just staying grounded in my faith.

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Speaker 2: But also uh, you know, like I said earlier, like

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Speaker 2: leaning on the older guys, like they've been here for

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Speaker 2: a while. They know they've been through what I'm about

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Speaker 2: to go through, they know how it is. And also

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Speaker 2: like the other rookies, like this is all of our

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Speaker 2: I'm a rookie. You know, I'm a It's okay to

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Speaker 2: I want to give myself that grace. But also I

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Speaker 2: still have hot standards for myself because I know the

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Speaker 2: to find a good balance within that, within that process.

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Speaker 1: Does it help that you were an instant starter at Georgia.

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Speaker 1: You like you're used to this kind of quick turnaround.

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Speaker 2: And it's funny because like it's it's actually very similar

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Speaker 2: Just like the depth that was in the room, and

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Speaker 2: just like the expectations, you know.

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Speaker 4: And I think.

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Speaker 2: My freshman year at Georgia and then how I took

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Speaker 1: So you had an interception your first college game as

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Speaker 1: an immediate start, So can you guarantee it's an interception

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Speaker 2: I said it, you know, I said. A few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: I said, Josh Allen first game. So it's it's it's coming.

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Speaker 3: What when you look ahead and you think think about

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Speaker 3: first time in Buffalo? A lot of that comes with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think just going back and looking

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Speaker 2: but I can feel it when they speak, like when

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Speaker 4: Can feel it.

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Speaker 2: Uh So just really I'm excited because I know, like

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Speaker 2: But it's also my first game as well, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I want to you know, showcase my talents, but also

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Speaker 3: So you went back and you watched the Ravens Buffalo

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Speaker 3: the team. But you've spent time watching that since you've been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean, like I watched it on TV,

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Speaker 2: then like as I was doing it, I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: let me go study a little bit, like a little

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Speaker 2: and I watched it, watch the actual tape, but also

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Speaker 1: I'm curious what the vibe is like in that room

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Speaker 1: mean in the secondary in particular, there's five first round

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what is that vibe?

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Speaker 4: It's it's very low.

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Speaker 2: Key, like like all of the guys are like awesome,

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Speaker 2: you know, like I seriously don't think there's a better

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Speaker 2: like at a very high level. You're thinking, oh, man,

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Speaker 2: everybody's cool, Like everybody's very chill, And I think makes

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Speaker 4: Really lean in and learn.

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Speaker 2: And when you have guys in a room that are

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Speaker 1: It seems like the bar has been set like really

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Speaker 1: what is that kind of how you're framing this season?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I think I think.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, you know, where there

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Speaker 2: in football in life, you compete, you know, and when

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Speaker 2: you're around a bunch of elite guys, it just raises

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Speaker 2: that competitiveness. And I think when you look in our room,

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Speaker 2: like you just see it like everybody's elite at what

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Speaker 4: That guy.

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Speaker 3: I remember at the Combine talking with you during your

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Speaker 3: and there was there was speculation that you could end

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Speaker 3: you talked about Kyle Hamilton, the versatility and and all

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Speaker 3: that he does to affect the game. Now that you're

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Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, I mean it's there's like there's levels to

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Speaker 2: like I've literally watched all of his tape, Like us,

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Speaker 2: I trained the Temple with John Gruden and we spent

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Speaker 2: John he told me that Baltimore is gonna give me.

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Speaker 2: He's like, they're gonna come get you. And we spent

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Speaker 2: just kind of see it. It's like it's crazy because

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Speaker 2: I think just his knowledge and the way that he

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Speaker 2: the other guys in the room as well. I think

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Speaker 4: It's been awesome.

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Speaker 1: You're both kind of Swiss army knives. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can play anywhere. How do you see you two kind

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think, you know, whatever he wants

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Speaker 2: whatever I need to be. I think that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: You know, Like he he he's been in the system

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Speaker 2: for a while, like he he really knows the defense.

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Speaker 2: He's very smart, and you know he can do he

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Speaker 2: can literally do whatever like you watch on tape and

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Speaker 2: he's everywhere. And I think I have that ability and

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Speaker 2: me being able to learn as much as I can

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Speaker 4: So really, just you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Think, uh, you know, if he wants to be in

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Speaker 2: a vice versa he wants to be in the middle,

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Speaker 2: I can go down and rotate, so like it'll free

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Speaker 2: I think somebody that's true to their self, that doesn't

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Speaker 2: you know, like you got to earn that role. You

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Speaker 4: You gotta not.

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Speaker 2: Just be a great football player, you gotta be a

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Speaker 1: I think it's crazy that you're like half my age.

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Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, just being.

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Speaker 5: All right? Like tell me something, Well, what you were

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Speaker 4: Two thousand and three?

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Speaker 3: I know that, Like when you hear it out loud,

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Speaker 2: I like the FaceTime my dog like all right, because

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Speaker 2: So like when it rings, yeah, he'll like run to

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00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,360
Speaker 2: the phone and like when I answer, like he'll turn

440
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,400
Speaker 2: his head. Yeah, Like I'll talk to him and he'll

441
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:38,639
Speaker 2: like just kind of whatever, but really, like I don't

442
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,160
Speaker 2: I still watch Disney Channel.

443
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,760
Speaker 5: All right, that works.

444
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 4: I was about to say, if that helps.

445
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 1: Still, it's just so crazy, Like, have you always felt

446
00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,720
Speaker 1: like that you were older and more mature than the

447
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 1: other kids around you.

448
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 2: I think it played a role, like me having to

449
00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,159
Speaker 2: grow up pretty fast. Yeah, I think it changed the

450
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 2: way that I saw things like in life about also

451
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,760
Speaker 2: like not always having a lot made me like really

452
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 2: appreciate and understand like the little things in life. But

453
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I've always kind of felt like I

454
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 2: was a little bit more mature than like my age group.

455
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 4: I'd say, yeah, but I think I think it's a

456
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:20,360
Speaker 4: good thing.

457
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,199
Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, like people say, like I

458
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 2: miss out on a lot of stuff, but I don't

459
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 2: feel like I'm missing out. Like I love my life,

460
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,199
Speaker 2: you know, so I'm I'm very happy about, you know,

461
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:34,520
Speaker 2: the way I handle my business.

462
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:34,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

463
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 3: You mentioned a couple of times you feel like you

464
00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,160
Speaker 3: had to grow up fast. Why do you feel that way?

465
00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at an early age, I lost my

466
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 2: cousin he thought of a homicideal suicide, and then also

467
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 2: just we were homeless twice growing up you know, so

468
00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 2: I didn't really have.

469
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 4: I didn't really have a lot. I had. I had enough, you.

470
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 2: Know, but it's not got to go in the store

471
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 2: and want something and leave with it, you know. But

472
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 2: also I had a really great group of like friends

473
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 2: around me, but everybody life was like different, you know,

474
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 2: so like I'd see things and like I'd understand, like okay,

475
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 2: like we're not there yet, and I get it, you know.

476
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: And I think also just like my faith has been

477
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 2: like really huge. I think at my early age when

478
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 2: I lost my cousin, like I struggled with my faith. Uh,

479
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 2: Like my my dad was my dad's deacon at the church,

480
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 2: my mom's gonna choir, me and my sister were in

481
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,919
Speaker 2: church every Sunday. And then at an early age, like

482
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 2: when that happened, I like I had a lot of

483
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 2: anger and had a lot of confusion, and I was

484
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 2: lost in my faith. And I think as I got older,

485
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 2: I think maybe like maybe it took like two years,

486
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 2: so I was like nine or ten maybe around that time.

487
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 2: I think, uh, we were in church and it just

488
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,199
Speaker 2: hit me, you know, and then like I really just

489
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 2: you know, I really just sat there and had my

490
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 2: time with God and talked and then like talked with

491
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 2: my parents, and I think like me growing in my

492
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 2: faith also like kind of helped me mature as a

493
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 2: person very early, and I think, you know, it was

494
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,199
Speaker 2: the best thing that's ever happened to me.

495
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 3: You're really an open book. Like this conversation, I commend

496
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 3: you for just being you know, it's open and talking

497
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 3: about kind of hard things and challenging things that you've

498
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 3: experienced in your life, which is I think speaks to

499
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 3: that maturity that we're talking about what allows you to

500
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 3: be kind of an open book in that sense.

501
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 2: I think I think I've spent so much time like

502
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 2: holding it in, you know, Like I think like it's

503
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 2: like some of my best friends, like to this day,

504
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 2: who we're gonna be at my wedding, Like they didn't

505
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: even know any of this stuff about me in high school.

506
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 4: And then like.

507
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: It hit me, I was like, nobody really knows anything

508
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 2: about me. Like people know I'm good at sports, people

509
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 2: know like I'm a will chill God. Like nobody really

510
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 2: knows anything about me.

511
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 4: And then.

512
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: As I got the cause, I kept growing more in

513
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 2: my faith and then like I got to a point

514
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: where like it was okay for like, I feel like

515
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 2: it was okay for me to let myself express, you know,

516
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 2: like my life and who I am and what's been

517
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 2: happening or whatever the case may be. I thought that,

518
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 2: like I was very comfortable with myself. I didn't really

519
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 2: care about others opinions and you know what it might be.

520
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 2: And I think once I got to that point, I

521
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: was I was ready to go.

522
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: You were seven years old when you lost your cousin,

523
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: wasn't it, yes? And and you mentioned that you were

524
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: home was during it was around that time from what

525
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: I understand, right, can you just take us back to

526
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: that time and what was happening then? Like what what

527
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: does that life look like for you? You know, it's

528
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: just finding temporary housing or whatnot.

529
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was crazy.

530
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 2: Like the the day before where my cousin passed away,

531
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 2: he was at my house. We're outside playing football wherever,

532
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: running around, playing freez tag whatever, and we're actually supposed

533
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 2: to go to Phanopolis the next day. And then I

534
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: kept asking my dad, was like, hey, can I can't

535
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: go spend a night, can't go spend night at his

536
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: house or whatever?

537
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 4: My dad kept saying no, And I was.

538
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 2: So mad, so mad, we woke up, parents went to work,

539
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 2: dropped me off at my grandmas, went to work, Grandma

540
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: got a call. Everything that happened, and then like I

541
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 2: spent so much time being angry at my dad for

542
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 2: not letting me go, and then it's like, you know,

543
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 2: I believe everything happens for a reason, and.

544
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 4: That helped me in my faith as well.

545
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 2: Uh, just having that talk with him and just realizing

546
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 2: that like I don't know and he doesn't know, like

547
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 2: why he said no, Like but like if he didn't,

548
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 2: maybe I wouldn't be here. Maybe things could it turn

549
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 2: out differently. Who knows, But I think that was that

550
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 2: was huge. And then also just being homeless, like the

551
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 2: first time we live with my aunt, the second time

552
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 2: we live with a family friend, and just really you know,

553
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: just figuring it out as a family. I think we

554
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 2: grew very close during that time. And I think just

555
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: watching my parents work and watching how they handled everything, uh,

556
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,239
Speaker 2: did a lot for me and my sister. Right.

557
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that you'll grow up fast right that

558
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: way for sure?

559
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

560
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: How did how did all that pull your family together?

561
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think.

562
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting because like it's kind of like

563
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 2: it's kind of like the conditioning tests, you know, like

564
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 2: like when you're going through like a really sucky time

565
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 2: with a group of people, like it has no choice.

566
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 4: Either tells your party, it grows you together, you know.

567
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 4: And I think.

568
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 2: My family being so deep in their faith, it also

569
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 2: helped as well, just really like leaning on each other,

570
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: you know, and just kind of realizing that, like God

571
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 2: won't put us to anything that he can't get us through,

572
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 2: and you know, what we are today doesn't mean we're

573
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 2: going to be stuck here for the rest of our life,

574
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: and just really figuring it out from there, but also

575
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 2: just enjoying it still, like me and my sister, like

576
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 2: we were still outside playing basketball at basketball goal somewhere

577
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: or whatever, but just like really just enjoying life and

578
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: just really still trying to make memories and the best

579
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 2: out of the situation.

580
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 3: So when you when you come through all that and

581
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 3: then you get you get drafted and you play at

582
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 3: Georgia obviously you played at a high super you know,

583
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: big time program, and then you get drafted. When you're

584
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 3: thinking about like the emotions of draft night, are you

585
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 3: thinking about this whole journey up to this point.

586
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 2: Yes, and no, like it, like it it's weird because

587
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: like I feel like my mom is like on a

588
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:56,239
Speaker 2: constant go like even on Draft night, Like Draft night

589
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: was like probably one of the most interesting nights for

590
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: me ever because I didn't know, like my arrange was

591
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: so wide, like I could have went really earlier. I

592
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 2: could have went second round. You know, I wasn't sure.

593
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: It's been crazy.

594
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I didn't know.

595
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: You know. I took the whole days like it's gonna

596
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: be what it's gonna be, and whatever it is, I'm

597
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 2: gonna make the most out of it, you know. And

598
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: like we were sitting there and I remember I brought

599
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: Uno because I was like, I love.

600
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 4: You know, It's like it's like my favorite thing. I

601
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 4: guess that's another thing.

602
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you gotta try attack you No, by the way,

603
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: if you haven't played attacking my kids.

604
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 4: Figure you know what that is. We're gonna talk.

605
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So like I didn't know, so like I brought,

606
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 2: you know, and then like like for like the up

607
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: until like pick thirteen we're playing, you know, then I

608
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 2: sat down whatever, and then uh it's funny. Uh the

609
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: Falcons trading back in at twenty six, my fiance and

610
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: my mom looked at me and they're like and I

611
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: was like, it's probably not gonna happen. There's a good

612
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 2: chance to I know who they I know who they need.

613
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 2: Probably not happen. I get up to go grab no cars.

614
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm bored, like if I won't have it

615
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: wrong all night, like I'm watching everybody like I'm happy

616
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: because like most of my best friends are like getting

617
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: there like dream or whatever. So I'm happy, but I'm bored.

618
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I'm about to go grab no cars.

619
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: Like I get up, I'm about to get up to

620
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 2: go grab no cars, and my phone starts ringing and

621
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, for a second, I forget where I was at.

622
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 2: I was like, I guess I was like nervous, Like

623
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 2: for a second, I was like, I'm not going to

624
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: as I was like whoa.

625
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, I was like, whoa, don't do that,

626
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 4: don't do that.

627
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 2: I'll look at the phone. It's Eric and uh It's

628
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 2: like I don't even know. Like the the emotions were

629
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: like crazy. It was like a feeling I never felt before.

630
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 2: But I think I was just so ready, like and

631
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: I told him like I was just ready to get here,

632
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: like I was ready to get to work, and like

633
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 2: I think, like in that moment right now, like I

634
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: was and I am, you know, like I was sitting

635
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: in there all night, like I was watching like whatever

636
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 2: teams passed me whatever, and I was like, whoever grass me,

637
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: Like they're going to get the best version of me,

638
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: like ever, And I think you know that that call

639
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: changed my life. And you know, I want to say

640
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: he has no idea, but he does, but like he

641
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: like truly doesn't have understanding, like how much that call

642
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: meant for me?

643
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to tee my awn horn, but

644
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: I did say I called it in February that you

645
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: were coming to the Ravens. Like, so we make our

646
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 1: mock draft picks, right every year, we pick every all

647
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: seven rounds we think the Ravens are gonna take. And

648
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: I said in February, I was like, Malachi Starks is

649
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: my guy. I'm playing my flag.

650
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 5: So I knew it. You just didn't know.

651
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 4: I didn't.

652
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 2: And I saw like I saw a bunch of stuff

653
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: and like I saw like ball, Like towards the end

654
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 2: of it, I kept seeing Baltimore as Baltimore's Baltimore and

655
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: like at the at the beginning. I didn't see that,

656
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: and like I talked to him, want to come by,

657
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: and that was it. So I was like, there's a possibility,

658
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: but like they don't even really like they don't really

659
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: even like really know me, like they have they don't,

660
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: they don't, they don't have no interest to me. Yeah,

661
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 2: and then my combine interview went very well and then

662
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: you know, I guess the rest was history.

663
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 4: But no, it's been. It's been awesome, it really has.

664
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy because I was there was so

665
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 3: much smoke around the rave was drafting you and typically

666
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 3: speaking like you haven't probably paid attention to this, but

667
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 3: Eric he is a tough guy to read just in general, Okay,

668
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 3: so he doesn't want any information getting out right, and

669
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 3: so the fact that there was so much smoke around you,

670
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 3: I was like, they must not want him because there's.

671
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 4: So much there's so much smoke, and of course they did.

672
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: I think they just couldn't hide it. Everybody knew that

673
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: they might be interested in you and just the fit

674
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: on all that stuff. So it's kind of interesting, like

675
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 3: you weren't you were kind of thinking almost in the

676
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 3: way that I was at the end, that you're like

677
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 3: they only talked to me one time. That doesn't seem

678
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 3: like that's going to be the right fit.

679
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: Right, And I like I knew like it was a possibility,

680
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: but I was like I was talking to so many other.

681
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: People, who do you think you were gonna get it too?

682
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: Then I thought, I thought there was a few places.

683
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: I thought I could either end up in uh in Miami.

684
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 5: I heard that.

685
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 4: I did too.

686
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: I thought I could end up in Atlanta. I heard Seahawks,

687
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 2: I heard I heard Tampa. And it's funny because after

688
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: after Ericar called me, my agent showed me a text

689
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs were about to like if he didn't

690
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: get me, the Chiefs were going to get me. So

691
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 2: so that was another possibility. So like I really didn't know,

692
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: like it was my range was so wide. But I

693
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: was like, man, like I would love to go there,

694
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: but they've only talked to me once, like they don't

695
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: want me, like they it's not gonna happen. And like, uh,

696
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: I remember John, like I remember Grewden, Like he was like,

697
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: Waltimore is gonna get you. Waltimore And I was like,

698
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: you don't know what he's talking about.

699
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Speaker 5: Had a good.

700
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Speaker 4: We did. We did but it's truly a blessing. It

701
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 4: really is.

702
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Well, I think that I knew it because you check

703
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: so many boxes. You check practically every boxer is except

704
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: for too. Okay, so well number one.

705
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 5: Number one, you.

706
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: Don't really like picking crabs. I found that out a

707
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: few weeks ago.

708
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not even it's not the fact that

709
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 2: like I don't like picking crabs.

710
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 4: I just feel like.

711
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 2: I'm also I'm very like I'm not lazy, like well,

712
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: I don't need to be active.

713
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: I'm not active.

714
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: Okay, you're chilling right, like you're on your downtime. You

715
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: don't want to be putting that much effort into crabs.

716
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 2: It's just like I feel like you put a lot

717
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: of effort and you don't get a lot of food

718
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: out of it. You know. It's like now, like if

719
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: somebody were like to like do all the work and

720
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 2: then lay the crab on the table.

721
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 5: It's already picked for you.

722
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, but I just don't like the work. This

723
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 4: is too much, all right, all right?

724
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 1: And number two, you're a Troy Palm oh guy. I

725
00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: mean that's the only other parts. As a devoted guy

726
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: growing up who had many debates ed Troy just saying.

727
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me, let me, let me put

728
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: this out there. I think it is the best you

729
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: ever played a game. I don't disagree with that. Adults.

730
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: I think I grew up watching Troy. Yeah, like when

731
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: I went to the living room, like for some reason,

732
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: they were always on the TV. Like it's just like

733
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: the only game that like my parents were what everybody

734
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: was watching. And I think like the way that I

735
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: watched him like move.

736
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 4: Around and like trying was awesome, And I think I

737
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 4: think that's what it was.

738
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: But I think, like, like I will stand on the

739
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: table like it is the best safety to ever played

740
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 2: the game.

741
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: Before the doubt totally redeemed.

742
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: It's crazy because like I knew, I knew about like

743
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 2: the whole Pittsburgh thing and Baltimore, Like I knew about

744
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: it because like we had some guys that played at

745
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: Georgia that played at Pittsburgh or for some reason, like

746
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: it didn't really click. Like my first interview here the

747
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: media team was hilarious. My first interview here, they had

748
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 2: like these cards, right, and I had to read off

749
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 2: the cards or whatever, and I think you were you

750
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 2: and they were like, how do you feel about the

751
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: I was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan growing up or whatever,

752
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: and like it didn't hit me.

753
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 4: Until I got here and I was like, oh no, dang,

754
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 4: I love you guys. I was a kid. I was

755
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 4: a kid.

756
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 5: Let let it go.

757
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 4: You let it go. It was it was years ago.

758
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 5: That's awesome.

759
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: I forgot to ask you one question, and speaking of

760
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: Ed and interceptions, because honestly, like part of the reason

761
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: why I thought you were going to become a Raven

762
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: is because when I watched your college tape and some

763
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: of these picks that you made, I was like, oh

764
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: my god, Like I was like, this reminds me of

765
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: my favorite player of all time growing up, Ed Reid, Right,

766
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: Like that's how I was like, this dude just meant

767
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: to be a rap. I'm just curious, like, do you

768
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: think that there's a chance that you are even more

769
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: productive as a playmaker ballhawk in the NFL than you

770
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: were in college or you had but six picks three years? Like,

771
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: do you think that like your game and especially if

772
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: you play more free safety, potentially it's supposed to moving

773
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: around all over the place that you did to Georgia,

774
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: right that like you could be even more productive as

775
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: a ballhok in the NFL.

776
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think without a doubt, and I

777
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 2: think I love also like I had a good bit

778
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: of ball production, but I left a lot in college

779
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: as well. But I think it's different like here, Like

780
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: it's like really like how much knowledge do you have

781
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 2: about the game of football? Yeah, And I think me

782
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 2: being around a bunch of guys who are like great

783
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: at football, have a bunch of knowledge, and me being

784
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 2: able to want to learn, I think it's only going

785
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: to help. But also, like like the dimensions, like the

786
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 2: hass is six six yards and six inches, like it's

787
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 2: so much closer than it is in college, So like

788
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: my range will help me a lot. And I think

789
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: just being able to like pick up on the ten season,

790
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: pick up on like learn our defense and sign it out.

791
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: And I think that's going to help me a lot.

792
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: But I think I think for sure I have more

793
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: ball production. No, no, I did in college.

794
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: Awesome, All right, well, now that you've cleared all that up,

795
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: now you check every single Yeah, okay, cool.

796
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 5: Well, thank you for joining us, Thank you, thank you

797
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 5: appreciate it.

798
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 4: Man, thank you.

799
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: Welcome back into the Lounge podcast. We are coming to

800
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 3: you from the Sikiek Studio. We want to mention our partners,

801
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: the Draft Kings sports Book. They are an official sports

802
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 3: betting partner of the Baltimore Ravens Draft King Sports Book.

803
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 3: The Crown is yours. Well, thank you to Malachi for

804
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 3: joining us. Every time I talk to him, I come

805
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 3: away more impressed, and that was the case again today.

806
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 3: I think that he obviously has a great head on

807
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 3: his shoulders. I think that is like the understatement of

808
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 3: the year. But he's he's really impressed me on the

809
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 3: field too, And just every time you talk to him,

810
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 3: I think I get a little bit more insight into

811
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 3: how he's wired, the work that he puts in the focus,

812
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 3: all that stuff, and I just think he's going to

813
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 3: be a really good fit for this team for a

814
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 3: long time.

815
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's an unusual rookie, Like you don't come

816
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: across many rookies that are just that mature, you know.

817
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: And I think he's also going to be an unusual

818
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: player in a very good way.

819
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 5: Just a special dude.

820
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 3: Like I like to hearing him say he went him

821
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: going back and watching the Buffalo game, like it's a

822
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 3: small thing, like but part of it's learning the defense,

823
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 3: but also part of it's like learning the history and

824
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 3: like what where this team has been in order to

825
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: get work to where they want to go. I think

826
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 3: he wants an understanding where this team has been, and

827
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 3: those are the types of things that I don't think

828
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 3: everybody does, but he's doing those little things and I

829
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 3: think it's going to pay dividends for him as a rookie.

830
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 4: Yeah.

831
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 1: Well, getting the rookies together for a walk through in

832
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: the you know, ballroom at the hotel speaks for itself. Yeah, yeah,

833
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: so really exciting.

834
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 3: We're doing the water bottle assignments in your hotel room.

835
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.

836
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 3: It's a little easier when you have other players, I

837
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: guess for the full walk through the water bottles. But

838
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 3: I think all that, all of that just tells you

839
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 3: a little bit about who he is and I'm excited

840
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 3: to see what he can do this year. So now

841
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 3: as we talk about that, it's interesting that the one

842
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: thing we get more commentary about than anything related to

843
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 3: what's going on in the football field is whenever we

844
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 3: do a draft. Yep, we did it draft recently, we

845
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 3: did a fruit draft. We drafted a whole bunch of

846
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: different fruit and the results have come in from the listeners. Yep,

847
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 3: and it is a hotly contested no, it is very

848
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: hotly no bait here amongst the listeners in terms of

849
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 3: who won the Fruits raft. We had landside thousands of emails,

850
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: thousands of emails, and they are very much split as

851
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 3: to who won a draft.

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00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: You cherry picked a couple literally, you picked cherries, and

853
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: you cherry picked a couple of emails here that are

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Speaker 1: on your side.

855
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 5: But let me start with this one.

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00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 3: This is this is an email that I didn't my

857
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 3: first email that I'm going to read here, and as always,

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00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 3: you can email us at the lounge at ravenst NFL

859
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 3: dot net. This isn't even one that has me as

860
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: the winner, but it was just a great email. The

861
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Speaker 3: subject line is ultimate Insult, Ultimate Teas for the AFC North.

862
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 3: So I was surprised to see an episode titled Big

863
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 3: Us Remaining Questions Entering Training Camp, and even more surprised

864
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 3: that it was a fifty six minute episode. We don't

865
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 3: really have an hour's worth of big Questions, do we?

866
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: And so I thought about a Browns fan stumbling across

867
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Speaker 3: the title, thinking, wow, even the Ravens have an hour

868
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 3: worth of questions. Maybe a'll tune in and make me

869
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: feel better. Now, imagine this Browns fan clicks into the

870
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 3: episode with hopes of filling an emotional empty hole with

871
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: the Raven's biggest vulnerabilities. He quickly hears you both say

872
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 3: there aren't really that many questions. You start talking about

873
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: third or fourth string positions and maybe Malachai Starks having

874
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,959
Speaker 3: some rookie assignments in his first game. By minute thirty,

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Speaker 3: you're considering the O line being a top five unit,

876
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 3: which are guaranteed. Lamar another MVP.

877
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 5: What a tease. That's bad enough.

878
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: But then to poor salt in the wound of this

879
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 3: Browns fan, the host start drafting fruits for twenty one minutes.

880
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: One host can't remember the draft order, the other one

881
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 3: is smirching watermelon. What a luxury an insult to hopeless

882
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 3: AFC rival fans. That's from Kai Diagner, So, Kai, thank

883
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: you very much for that email.

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00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: All right, This one comes from Cameron McLoughlin. Cameron says,

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00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: longtime listener, first time emailer. I've thought about reaching out before,

886
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: but have never been compelled until I listened to this

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00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: fruit draft on my commute this morning. Overall, I thought

888
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: this was a pretty even draft. Yes, you each had

889
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: half of my top two, four, six, eight, and ten choices.

890
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: Both of you put together some very good combinations of

891
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: your picks. With that being said, the tiebreaker was undoubtedly

892
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: Ryan choosing mango with the sixth pick. Bonus points for

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00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: the mention of a mango lassie. Probably don't even know

894
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: what it is.

895
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 5: Do you even know what a mango lassies?

896
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 3: I do not know what. Wow, this man is so

897
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 3: uncold's unbelievable. It wasn't my pick. You took the mango,

898
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 3: so I don't know what.

899
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 4: To worry about.

900
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: Go eat it an Indian restaurant, order the manga lassie

901
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: and you can thank me later, all right.

902
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 5: Garrett had the.

903
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: Most ignorant, inane take of the whole pod shortly after

904
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 1: when he said, who drinks mango juice?

905
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:53,760
Speaker 5: Only?

906
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: Billions of people around the world carrot. Just because it's

907
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: not grown around you doesn't mean that it is fantastic.

908
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: In short, this was the version of the Ravens picking

909
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson at the end of the first round. Ryan

910
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: managed to take the best option on the board much

911
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: later than it should have been available. Well, Garrett perfectly

912
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: played the role of all the teams who passed on

913
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson.

914
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: Well, that's one man's opinion here. We appreciate that email.

915
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 3: But Danillo writes, I'm very disappointed that watermelon, which I took,

916
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: by the way, the second best fruit after banana, so

917
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 3: I get banana and I got watermelon, was taken so low.

918
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 3: I'd have to give it to Garrett because he had both.

919
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: He had both of those. Mink hating on watermelon and

920
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: banana was the last straw your only good pick with strawberry.

921
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: That's what I double doubt about watermelon, is like, it's

922
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: impossible to eat watermelon and come away with a clean shirt.

923
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 5: So you eat watermelon? Did say that you're you're signing

924
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 5: up to look like a slob.

925
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 3: You're just you're a mess, So I can't help the

926
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 3: fact that you're a mess.

927
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: And if you do the whole bend over, you get

928
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: like the sticky fingers.

929
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 5: There's just no good way to eat watermelon really clean.

930
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 3: I'm with him, I'm with dmac here. I don't know

931
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 3: what your issue is with watermelon. It's great another one.

932
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 3: Just listen to the fruit draft. How is it possible

933
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 3: to be so dominated for me. It's an easy choice. Garrett,

934
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 3: you want yet again, even though Orange, Uh yeah, I

935
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 3: think you guys, I have to lose the next draft

936
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: just to keep Ryan continuing to draft. That's from Benjamin

937
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 3: in Sweden.

938
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 5: So another one Swedish.

939
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 3: Swedish people don't know fruit.

940
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's what is coming up to Sweden.

941
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: Look, this is this isn't just because I have Norwegian

942
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: relatives in Norway and Sweden bitter rivals.

943
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 4: But Sweden.

944
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is this is this is.

945
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: The best email, uh that you know in your favor

946
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 3: says I'll be bl I'll be honest here, I'll be

947
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 3: blunt as a dedicated and avid listener. You both deserve

948
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 3: to lose. That's the best case, best case for you.

949
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 3: He said, you didn't crelude the best fruit of all

950
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 3: the avocado. This is from Pierre.

951
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: That was that was a common point and emails that

952
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: we got, which I agree with. Hey, I didn't even

953
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: know that, Like, okay, technically avocado is a fruit right now,

954
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: if avocado was on the list very high on my board,

955
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: Alvacada say it past.

956
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 5: Yes, but it just feels like so it should be

957
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 5: a different category. Yeah, more savory. Yeah, I agree. All right,

958
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 5: here's the same with tomatoes. Like tomatoes a.

959
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 3: Fruit, right, that's hotly debated.

960
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

961
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 3: This email comes from Ky Frasier, London Ravens fan. He says, hey, guys,

962
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 3: I never laughed so much in a draft, so I'm

963
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 3: glad that we can provide some entertainment for you. When

964
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 3: I when Garrett jumped the gun on strawberry and nearly

965
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 3: nearly had to pull over. If the best draft moment

966
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 3: of all banana first pick was crazy to me, I

967
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 3: still stand by banana first overall pick. Ryan absolutely killed

968
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 3: it in this draft. Mango so late was insane. A

969
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of profits, a lot of a

970
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 3: lot of props. Also, Garrett's cherry pick was very good.

971
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 3: So good job Ryan, is what he says. So there

972
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: we go.

973
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there was one that was talking about the undrafted. Uh,

974
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: he's got a whole squad of undraft did fruits?

975
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the tomato and the avocado and the

976
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 3: olive and all of Yeah, he had.

977
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 5: A like stacked undrafted squad.

978
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 3: Well, look, Ravens love undrafted prospects. So if you have

979
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,439
Speaker 3: an undrafted list of fruits, that's a good thing as well.

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00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 3: True uh so again, as always, you can email us

981
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 3: at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. We

982
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: always love hearing from you. Thanks again to Malchi for

983
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 3: joining us and training campus year. Right as you just saw,

984
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 3: rookies around the building. Quarterbacks are in the building, and

985
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 3: the Vets report next week. The first full practice is

986
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 3: coming up next Wednesday, so stay tuned for that. We're

987
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 3: going to be bringing to bringing you all the coverage

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00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 3: throughout training camp. Thank you so much for watching and

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Speaker 3: for listening. We'll be back with you again soon.