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Speaker 1: Sergio Kindle on the second round. What a swing that

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Speaker 1: is from Dez Bryant to Sergio Kindle who never played.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you ever sued up in a regular

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Speaker 1: season game. I think he did. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: it was. It was very limited, very very limited on

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Speaker 1: special teams only. Probably. Well, that's a tough one. And I,

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Speaker 1: as much as I do like listening to you wallow

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Speaker 1: into your microphone, I want to let's just move forward.

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Speaker 1: We gotta go forward. We can't just live in the

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Speaker 1: past here. So now we Zach Martin, So, Zach Martin

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Speaker 1: want to pick ahead of the Ravens. Yeah, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: take Yeah. The Ravens ended up getting c. J. Mosey

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Speaker 1: out there, so that one worked out just fine. All right,

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Speaker 1: Getting back to zeke, Yeah, do you think that the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna stop him? We just we talked about it,

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Speaker 1: strength verst strength. Here is the Ravens run defense better

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Speaker 1: than the Dallas Cowboys offensive line and c Kelly. I

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Speaker 1: always like a matchup where the team that the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are going up against their bread and butters pounding the

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Speaker 1: ball on the ground, which is obviously the case for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I hate going up against the Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: or those kinds of guys just throw the ball all

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Speaker 1: over the field. That's a terrible match always, yeah, But

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Speaker 1: I like the matchup that the Ravens have going up

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Speaker 1: against zeke and this running game. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to stop him, and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens run defense would look even better. There was

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Speaker 1: one play where as Isaiah Crowell in the second week

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Speaker 1: the season for eight yards, So take that play off

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Speaker 1: the books, and then it's even an even better run defense.

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Speaker 1: No one's really getting close to a hundred yards, so

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be able to slow him down enough.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna have ten rushing yards. I

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Speaker 1: think Zekeo probably have twenty carries for seventy yards something

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Speaker 1: like that, and that would be absolutely take that. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. You look at Brandon Williams and Michael

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Speaker 1: Pierce in the middle. That is a one to combo

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Speaker 1: that's honestly reminiscent of the Sara Goosa Sam Adams days

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Speaker 1: of the two thousand Ravens defense. I mean, both these

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Speaker 1: guys are big bodied, nasty, really really good run stuffers.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pierce is playing out of his mind. I mean

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Speaker 1: both those The Cowboys offensive line is really really good

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Speaker 1: but that interior of the Ravens defensive line is nasty.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy it now, folks, because I don't know, right I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna be able to keep Brandon Williams,

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Speaker 1: especially when you have Michael Pierce who can step into

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Speaker 1: that spot and Journe again. Don't forget Journe again. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens defensive line right now is pretty darn filthy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then you have C. J. Mosley back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a great, great linebacker. Suggs against the run game,

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Speaker 1: I agree. I think the Ravens will not shut down

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Speaker 1: ze Elliot in this running game, but I think that

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Speaker 1: they'll do a pretty good job limit limiting them, and

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Speaker 1: if they don't give up the home run, then that's

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Speaker 1: a win for the Ravens. Let's give the stats real

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Speaker 1: quick here. Zeke is averaging a hundred and twelve rushing

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Speaker 1: yards per game. The Ravens are allowing seventy one three

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Speaker 1: rushing yards, and I think they're going to be right

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Speaker 1: back in that range. Yeah, but you said seventy yards

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Speaker 1: right around that range. So breaking news here. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how we didn't leave the show with the episode,

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Speaker 1: but breaking news can I can I do my sound

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Speaker 1: effect again? And breaking news pumpkin sprice spice froo in

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Speaker 1: the cafeteria today. I know. This was the big talk

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Speaker 1: come back from the little mini by at an ice weekend.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's feeling good. And then I noticed the Frogio machine

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Speaker 1: new flavor, pumpkin spice. Had to try it, had obviously

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Speaker 1: had to try it. Uh initial reviews underwhelmed. I've been

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Speaker 1: kind of on a avoiding the ice cream as much

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Speaker 1: as I can, try and toe every time we eat

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Speaker 1: the we come back the office. Oh, I feel like garbage.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, but it's something I still all

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Speaker 1: inevitably end up getting it, you know, three times a

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Speaker 1: week when I'm trying to avoid. I am gonna go

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Speaker 1: back to what I've said before. There's nothing better than

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Speaker 1: the peanut butter for you. That's at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list, and I'm gonna hold out until that returns.

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Speaker 1: Pumpkin flavors should be held for desserts. It's just pumpkin pie.

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Speaker 1: That's the only pumpkin flavor you can have in desserts.

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Speaker 1: No pumpkin spice for you. It's pumpkin pie, coffee and beer.

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Speaker 1: Those are the pumpkin flavors. It's just the pumpkin crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know. I love my pumpkin beer, but it's gone.

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Speaker 1: It's gone a little mad. They're crazy. Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 1: There's pumpkin spice candles, there's pumpkin spice everything. Everyone's got

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Speaker 1: a pumpkin flavor to it. It's it is a little

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Speaker 1: bit much. You gotta reel and back. Ad By the way,

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Speaker 1: I had a really good pumpkin beer. As we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the evolution of punk beers here uh freaked Toberfest.

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Speaker 1: It's like a it's a pumpkin beer kind of also

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Speaker 1: has some coffee hints to it. When my buddies, when

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Speaker 1: I I can't remember who makes it, a buddy of

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Speaker 1: mine introduced it to me. It's great A plus alright,

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Speaker 1: So we'll say one thing I'm getting a little salty

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Speaker 1: about is the pumpkin beer is coming off the shelves

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Speaker 1: and my local, my local shopper, I get on my beer.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't find a pumpkin beer. I was seriously trying

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Speaker 1: to find one to bring to your birthday party that

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Speaker 1: didn't come to it out your call, uh, and I

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Speaker 1: cannot find one. No pumpkin beer uh, and that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's crazy. How like, you know, you start

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Speaker 1: getting winter beers in here in November early November, you're

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Speaker 1: getting summer beers in March. I mean, it's way their

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Speaker 1: way off, I said, I said before on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: Pumpkin beer season extends to Thanksgiving. Then you roll it forward.

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Speaker 1: Then it's you started talking about the Christmas ailes and

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Speaker 1: those things, which, by the way, once that happens, I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna have to really do a deep dive

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Speaker 1: into some of the Christmas beers that are there. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start on the podcast. I'm gonna ye taste test.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start putting our list together for winter beers.

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Speaker 1: So if you guys have suggestions, go ahead and send

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Speaker 1: them in a Philagic Ravens dot NFL dot net agreed.

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Speaker 1: All right, we gotta have another audio question. We're going

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Speaker 1: double audio questions. We've never done this before, the doubling

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Speaker 1: up today. Go ahead, roll here. Hi, this is Renee

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Speaker 1: from Baltimore. I'm just listening to the podcast that was

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Speaker 1: released on Tuesday after the Steelers win. Hey, and it

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Speaker 1: is now Friday, so a flak. I I expect you

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Speaker 1: to bear on the show. Since we did beat the

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Speaker 1: Browns and be Ryan and Garrett, I want to know

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Speaker 1: why it sounded like you were buttering us up for

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Speaker 1: a loss on Thursday Night. Guys seem to make every

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Speaker 1: explanation of why it's possible for the wrong team to lose,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. That wasn't an option for us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks well, thank you very much. Renee appreciate the question. Uh.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm sorry for kind of giving you

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Speaker 1: some doubts about the Browns game. We were absolutely off

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Speaker 1: on that one, but then and we both said that

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Speaker 1: they were gonna We both said they were gonna win.

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Speaker 1: We were saying, like Thursday night football sometimes weird things.

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Speaker 1: But now on the other side of things, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's bad luck now because we basically well

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Speaker 1: I have, I've gone all insane. Ravens are gonna so

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Speaker 1: if if it goes wrong, then Renee's gonna blame me

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Speaker 1: for justifiably. So just five. So but to your other point, Renee, yes,

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Speaker 1: Flacco better be coming on. I can't say that he's

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Speaker 1: absolutely coming on, but after the game he gave us

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Speaker 1: a yes. We've gotten multiple soft yes. Is from Joe,

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Speaker 1: So where you are going to let him know that

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Speaker 1: you're all also putting the pressure on him. He needs

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Speaker 1: to come on the podcast two back in later this week.

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Speaker 1: And we need to get on the podcast Bump. It's

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Speaker 1: worked out for Brandon Williams, it's worked out for Timmy

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Speaker 1: Journ again, Kyli check. Podcast Bump is alive and well,

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Speaker 1: and we need to give Joe Flacco a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that action. Agreed. So thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: listening to today's episode. We really appreciate it. As always,

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Speaker 1: everybody's out there posting political stuff, all that stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: time to move on and just give the Ravens Lounge

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Speaker 1: a little off. Yeah, that's what we need to make

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