1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: This is the therapy session exactly for us and for 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: the listeners. This isn't us hit the arm. Yeah, what's happening? 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: There was one glimmer of positive news since that loss. 4 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: What's that neither of the coordinators are leaving? I thought 5 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: you were going to say the good news is that 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: the orange juice machine is still lined down. That is true. 7 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge, Garrett. Uh, what step of the 8 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: grieving process are you in? Do we renamed the lounge 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: the morgue? Oh geez, wow, wow that's what it feels 10 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: like around here right now. Yeah, it's not good. So 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: what'step are you in? Are you in the anger phase? 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: What's the what's the relief? What's the first question? What's 13 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: the first phase? I'd probably say anger is number one. 14 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: I mean I probably say disbelief first anger. Uh, sadness. 15 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: I am in disbelief because you're still in disbelief the 16 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: first one. You haven't gotten over that one. It's just 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: just shocking to me that the Ravens lost that game. 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: I felt all season long like this team was at 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: least going to be in the a f C Championship. 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: I felt like they were headed on a crash course 21 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: for the for the Chiefs in the a f C Championship, 22 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: and that was gonna be a really difficult game. It 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: never really occurred to me that they could lose the 24 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: divisional round games at the Titans. That was not That 25 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: was not part of the equation from our last conversation. 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: You were like, oh, yeah, no worries, not any And I, 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: like I said on this podcast, I don't like to 28 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: count my chickens for their hatch. It's people like you, Garrett, 29 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: who I blame for this lost. I was confident in 30 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: this team. You lacked confidence. You know what, tell you 31 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: one game at a time. The playoffs is the playoffs. 32 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: Everybody deserves to be there. There's never a gimme in 33 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: the playoffs the other and you just were expecting to 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: give me. I wasn't expecting to gimme. I just thought 35 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: that the Ravens were a better team than the type. 36 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: Well they are. I still think they're better. I agree, 37 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: And I thought they were going to play a better 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: game than the Titans. I definitely thought as well. Um So, 39 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna apologize for feeling like the Ravens were 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: gonna win this game. I'm just so Like I said, 41 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm still shocked that it played out the way that 42 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: it did, that did not look like the team that 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: we saw for the last twelve weeks. Yeah. Well, we're 44 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: still pretty raw right now. We're coming into this, so 45 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: we're coming in hot, we're all so let's take a 46 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: step back here first and read an email, and then 47 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: we'll get back into kind of breaking down what happened, 48 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: how fans should look at this season and this playoff 49 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: loss and what it means moving forward. Yeah. Um, And 50 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: I will say this with caution that you can email 51 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: the lounge that you can email us at the Lounge 52 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: at Ravens dot NFL dot net. Uh, be gentle with 53 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: those emails. Unless you want to blame Garrett for the loss, 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: have at it. Yeah that's my fault. Uh. This one 55 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: comes to us from Ryan Bamberry. Hey, guys, after that 56 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: devastating loss, I guess all you can do is look 57 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: at the future. We had such an amazing season, but 58 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: we weren't good enough when it counted. So what moves 59 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: or is it going to take, be it through the 60 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: draft of free agency to get the Ravens over the 61 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: hump and back to the Super Bowl. Yeah? Um, I mean, 62 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 1: I don't think that there's obviously this is a really 63 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: good team, and they've done a good job of locking 64 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: up pieces for next year already ahead of time. The 65 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: offense is really young, a lot of guys still in 66 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: the rookie contracts. I don't see a lot of changes 67 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Defensively, they've already 68 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: they locked up Marcus Peters early. UH. The secondary, you know, 69 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: for the most part, is intact. You do have Jimmy 70 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: Smith and Randing Car potentially is free agents branding Car 71 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: with an option year. UM. To me, I think the 72 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: defense is the side that I point to, and specifically 73 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: the pass rush UH this season. You know, Matthew Tudon 74 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: is the Ravens biggest name free agent right now, and 75 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: he's the leading sack guy. Just like last year, the 76 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: two leading sack guys, thro All Suggs and Zadarius Smith 77 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: both left now Judean potentially could leave, so already an 78 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: area where I think the Ravens could use some help 79 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: in terms of the pass rush. UH is gonna maybe 80 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: lose this leading sack guy. Its potential for that, So 81 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: to me, all eyes go on the pass rushing moving forward. 82 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: If they could get somebody, uh more guys that win 83 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: one on one, just more matchup problems, uh, that that 84 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: would alleviate the having to bring the blitz so often. 85 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: I'm not saying Wink is gonna change who he is 86 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: and suddenly dropping the zone all the time. He's gonna 87 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: still bring the heat. But if you're bringing the heat 88 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: and you're winning one on ones, now, Ego from the 89 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: Ravens had a decent amount of pressure on quarterbacks this year, 90 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: not a lot of sacks. Still in the bottom half 91 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: of the league in terms of sacks. I think that 92 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: some of that changes. Well, let me just say this, 93 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: So Bryan's question is basically the old how do you 94 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: get over the hump? That that's the question, and I 95 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: don't really think that cash rushers get you over the heme, well, 96 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: I just don't think that that's really where this team 97 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: is in terms of that they're behind the hump. I 98 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: just think that they I think that this team in 99 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: a lot of ways can be over the hump, could 100 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: have been over the hump, but they just played their 101 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: worst game in the last game and the one that 102 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: mattered the most. And so I don't necessarily look at 103 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: this team is like, hey, they are two pieces away 104 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: from being a championship caliber team. Like I think that 105 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: the talent on this team, if they played that game, 106 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: if they played the Titans ten times, I think the 107 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: Ravens probably win eight, eight of them, maybe nine of them. 108 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: But you don't play at ten times. It's not a 109 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: seven game series. It's not the NBA, and so I 110 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: don't think of the Ravens as being a team that's like, man, 111 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: they are still three players away. They're not up there 112 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: on par with the Chiefs or up there on par 113 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: with the forty niners, like I think season in the NFL, right, 114 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: And it's not like that was a soft fourteen and 115 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: two where you look at the schedule and it's like, well, 116 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: they played the toughest schedule perhaps in the NFL. Um 117 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: they certainly had the best resume in the NFL. I 118 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: had the best record. For all those reasons, I feel 119 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: like the Ravens are I don't think it's a get 120 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: over the hop situation here. Here, here's what they have 121 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: to do to get over the hump. They have to 122 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: get over themselves. Yeah they right. I mean, there's no 123 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: doubt the past two years the Ravens have tripped themselves 124 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: up in the playoffs. Uh, like you're saying, I mean 125 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: and alright, we're just moving on to the next part 126 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: of that episode here, just getting ready into again. Yeah, 127 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: here's what's so frustrating is that the the past two seasons, 128 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: it's not even like the Ravens played a good game 129 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: and lost. Yeah, I can handle that, right, I mean, 130 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: that's what we saw so often with during the Joe 131 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: Flacco era two nine eleven. You know, you go to Foxborough, 132 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: you you give the Patriots all they can handle. Leevans 133 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: drops the ball and Billy Coniface's kick, and you're like 134 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: that as painful as that Let me just say, I 135 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: don't know that you were handling all that well handling it. 136 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: That was painful for a different reason, right, that was 137 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 1: as painful as it gets. That was worse than this year. Absolutely, Yeah, 138 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: as bad as it gets. But you least walked away 139 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: from that saying like, man, gave the Patriots everything you 140 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: had and lost on a fluke. It's just shouldn't have happened. 141 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: This was just like you didn't even give the Titans 142 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: everything you had, not even close And and the same 143 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: thing last year for the Chargers. I mean, it's those 144 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: two games the past years just eerily similar. Ravens did 145 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: not look like themselves at all, fell behind early because 146 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: of self inflicted wounds, and then just couldn't seem to recover. Right, 147 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: So to me, to get over the hump, the Ravens 148 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: just need to get over Here's what I think it is. 149 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: They need to be able to sustain an early hitting 150 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: the mouth, punching the mouth, and be able to get 151 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: over it, because that's what we've seen in the past years. 152 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: And and whoever that is, whether that's Lamar or whoever, right, 153 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: I think part of the problem with this last loss 154 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: was the Ravens did not face a ton of down 155 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: big early. They didn't face a lot of adversity period. 156 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: I mean in terms of the games. During the games, 157 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: uh there, they were so good it was almost to 158 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: their own detriment once they got to the playoffs and 159 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: and got behind because now it's and and Marlon Humphreys 160 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: said this after the game when I asked him, you know, 161 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: I said, like, when you got down early, what was 162 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: it like on the bench where you guys like, what's 163 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: going on? He was like, yeah, kind of people are 164 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: like what the hell is happening? This isn't us hit 165 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: the alarm. What's happening? Right? And like I I think 166 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: that that's what we kind of saw out there. It 167 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: seemed like they were thrown off. Uh and it's frustrating 168 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: to see that happen two years in a row. So 169 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: I I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. I 170 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: think one big difference from last year to this year 171 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: is I don't feel like last year's team was good 172 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: enough to win a super Bowl. I don't think the 173 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: last year team was a super Bowl ready team. Um. 174 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: I thought that they still had some The offense was 175 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: still very much an envelopmental stage and you know going 176 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: in when the offense was in his fly formed this 177 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: And I just but the defense, let's not forget, was 178 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: the number one defense in the NFL last year, very 179 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: good defense. I forget that. I just felt like last 180 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: year's team, like when I watched that playoff, those playoffs, 181 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, like it was a great run, 182 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: but they weren't ready to beat the Chiefs. They weren't 183 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: ready to beat the Patriots yet. That's what I felt 184 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: like last year. This year, I feel completely good. Although 185 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: last year when going into that wild card game against 186 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: the Chargers, I think everybody around here was to bring 187 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 1: on the Patriots. I think everyone felt that way. But 188 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: then when I took a step back and I actually 189 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: watched the rest of the playoffs, I was like, Yeah, 190 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: this team wasn't ready for showtime whatever um and they 191 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: definitely were this year. They definitely were this year. And 192 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: I agree that I think that I don't necessarily put 193 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: it on the rust. I don't put it on the layoff. 194 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: Can I just interrupt you? I just you have been 195 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: talking for like ten minutes. I'm just gonna cut you 196 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: off for a minute. The rest thing is so stupid. 197 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: Who gives the rats behind about whether it was the rust? 198 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do about it. It's like it's 199 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: like people, people, well, what week seventeen? You had the flu? 200 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: By the way, so he wasn't playing, Well, he wasn't 201 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: gonna play regardless. Yeah, but that decision was made, that 202 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: decision care had the flu. It doesn't matter. He wouldn't 203 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: have played anyway. Mark Andrews was dealing with an ankle. 204 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: He wouldn't have played anyway. And gram want to play 205 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: right right? What and what you're gonna turn down the by. 206 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: You know what, we don't want to be rusty, and 207 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna turn down the by. We want to play 208 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 1: in the wild card because we were afraid of being rusty. 209 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: Who gives the rats behind Whether it was rust or not, 210 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: It's not like you're gonna suck in the regular season 211 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: so you don't get rusty next year. I'm saying, I 212 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: don't think it was rust personally, but I get looking 213 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: to try to like find what the problem was. But 214 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: it's not like something that is like you could have 215 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: done anything moving forward. If if they, if the coaches, 216 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: if if John Harvill looks at it and feels like 217 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: rust was the issue, like if he was, if he 218 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: were to say then maybe he would look at it 219 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: and say, there's things that we should have done differently 220 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: in practice to try to alleviate that. I don't know 221 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: what that is. Practice, Yeah, practicing hard against each other. 222 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just saying, like, again, I don't 223 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: think it's RUSS, but I'm saying that if they determined 224 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: that Russ was part of the part of the equation, 225 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: that you can change things leading up to that point. Obviously, 226 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: if you want to buy you would take the if 227 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: you want to buy, so you would take the buy. Um. 228 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: I just think it that they got into a game 229 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: where all season long, like you're saying, they were spending 230 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: fourth quarters wearing sunglasses and dancing around and major games 231 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: this year, and now all of a sudden, you're down 232 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: fourteen nothing at home, and it was just everyone was stunned. 233 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: And then I think everyone tightened up, um, and I 234 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: think that they did things in this game that they 235 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: didn't do all season. This was not an offense that 236 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: turned the ball over. They turned the ball over early, 237 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: They turned it over to too much three times in 238 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: this game. This was an offense that got it every 239 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: single time on fourth and short in the regular seas 240 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: in this game. Over too that those things didn't happen 241 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: during the regular season, Why did it happen in this game? 242 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: Like sometimes it's as simple as the Chargers defensive line 243 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: got a better push up front on those worth in 244 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: one place and then you don't get it. Sorry, sorry, 245 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: sorry lost the trenches both years and that the problem. 246 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: But so like, yeah, there's little individual things as you 247 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: look at every single situation, but I just take at 248 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: a large level, they we're just stunned early, and it 249 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: took him a while to come back from that, and 250 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the defense. The one thing 251 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: that's frustrating is I thought the defense played played great 252 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: for the last twelve games of the season, and I 253 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: thought the defense came out and played well early in 254 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: this game. But when the offense was struggling, they just 255 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: needed somebody to come up and make a play, whether 256 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: that's like Seth Roberts catching a pass and taking that 257 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: to the house, or defensively coming up with some sort 258 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: of big stop instead of on third and one allowing 259 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: Derrick Hennery to rip off his sixty five yard run, 260 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: make that tackle like Judon had a shot at and 261 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: make a big tackle, come up with a force, fund 262 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: Will come up with an interception, and nobody defensively was 263 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: able to kind of help out the offense on a 264 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: day where somebody needed to jump start this entire team. 265 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The Titans aren't as good as the 266 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: Ravens there this year. They won the game. They were 267 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: better that day because they won situational football every facet 268 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: of it. They didn't turn the ball over and they 269 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: got three turners. They were perfect in the red zone 270 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: every single time they got down there, they scored a 271 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: touchdown twenty eight points. No wonder their kicker has attempted 272 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: a field goal because they're scoring touchdowns. Four for four 273 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: in the red zone. Ravens not good in the red zone, okay, 274 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: which was a typical fourth and short situations. Ravens over two, 275 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: Like we said, eight for eight the rest of the year. 276 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: So you look at every situational thing. And that's why 277 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: this box score was so weird. And I still felt 278 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: like the Titans they just hit a few big plays, 279 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: the long Derrick Henry run, the touchdown right off the 280 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: fourth and one stop. Next play, they hit the long touchdown, 281 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: the ridiculous touchdown jon Jon hu Smith to start the game, 282 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: which I still don't think it was a dank. I 283 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: don't think he was laying out of bounce when he 284 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: caught the ball. I just don't get that one, um. 285 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: But anyway, like they just hit they hit like five 286 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: big plays right and then and that was it. But 287 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: that's all they needed because they want all the situational stuff. 288 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: And I still think that game, I I really believe 289 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: that game plays out much differently if Lamar Jackson isn't 290 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: intercepted on the Ravens first offensive drive, because here to 291 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: get one first down on their first drive and then 292 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: puntlay a game places rocket, they take a delay a game. 293 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: On third down, you get a stop. They punted away. 294 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: Ravens offense immediately starts moving the ball. Lamar makes some 295 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: nice throws. They're moving right. That passes six inches lower 296 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: to Andrews three inches. He probably catches it, and you're 297 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: at the twenty. Yeah, three inches lower, you're inside the tent. 298 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: I think whatever. Uh And the Ravens, let's say they 299 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: score a touchdown there, I think they get a seven 300 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: nothing lead. Much different game to me if you get 301 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: even if you get a field goal, even if you 302 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: get right that That turnover just fuel the Titans belief 303 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: that they could do it because they came into the 304 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: game knowing, we're gonna have to get some turnovers. We're 305 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: gonna have to stop them from score and touchdowns. We're 306 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: gonna have to get field goals from Justin Tucker. We're 307 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: gonna have to get some turnovers. That's our our formula 308 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: to win, and that's exactly what it was. You get 309 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: a turnover, you come down. Lamar rips the guy down 310 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: by his earhole, you know, gets a penalty that just 311 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: adds on top of it. You see Lamar's frustrated. Lamar 312 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: immediately is is right, and you kind of go back 313 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: to and then also you start to now it's a 314 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: self truelling prophecy. You start to think back to that game. 315 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: And and that's one thing that you and I were 316 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: talking about the other day on Sunday was and this 317 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: gets into the Lamar Jackson conversation and people talking about oh, 318 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: and do in the playoffs and what does that mean? 319 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: Here's what it means is that Lamar, now I think 320 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: we'll have a mental hurdle to get over the next 321 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: time he gets to the playoffs, because now it's and 322 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: it's really a shame because whatever he does next season, 323 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: he can have another m v P year and everybody's 324 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: gonna be still saying, well, what's what, what's he gonna 325 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: do when he comes to the playoffs, what's he gonna do? 326 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: And that and that's legitimate. I think that's legitimate, Like 327 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: you can give him all and I he had a 328 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: fantastic season. This game shouldn't take anything away from that. 329 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: The dude's awesome. He's twenty three years old, he's ascending. 330 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: He's gonna be even better next year, I think with 331 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: more time with his receivers, more time to work on 332 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: his passing game, all that stuff. Right, He's awesome, and 333 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: we shaid I appreciate that. That was a fun ride, 334 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: but he's got to prove it in the playoffs and 335 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fair next year that no matter 336 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: what he does, as good as it is, people are 337 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: gonna say, but what's he gonna do when we get it? 338 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: Get in there? Because he tightened up two times, and uh, 339 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: you know, you can look at the Lamar hey man, 340 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: he bet he kept battling it. And I give him credit. 341 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: He kept battling in that game and he ended up 342 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: with some monster stats. But you know, there were mistakes 343 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: that he made and and and that's undeniable. And so 344 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: the next time he gets there, the fresher is gonna 345 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: be on for him to get off to a faster 346 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: start in that the playoffs, he's gonna have to win 347 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: one to kind of get that that five pound gorilla 348 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: off his back. Yeah, and that's that's the case. And look, 349 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: other great quarterbacks and athletes have gone through that challenge 350 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: and overcome it and he will, and he will. I 351 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: have no doubt that he will. Like and I think 352 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: that that label I don't know if it's completely being 353 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: placed on him quite yet, kind of like the you 354 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: gotta do it in the playoffs? Is he a great 355 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: playoff quarterback? Like I don't know that that is completely 356 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: placed on him yet, Like like that's not gonna be 357 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: written about next year. It's gonna be a playoffs. But 358 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: it wasn't to the extent that that, like Peyton Manning 359 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: dealt with for like a decade. He was over three 360 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: verse three, right, So but it's close. Yes, well you 361 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: have to look at Peyton Manning's entire track Cracker, but 362 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: it was much later than his third season he won 363 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: a super Bowl. Well, yeah, he was over his first three, 364 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: so which also exactly. I mean, if Lamar gets the 365 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: playoffs ext year and lose the first game, yes it 366 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: will be I can fight even more and like just 367 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: look at like looking around sports, like Lebron James was 368 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 1: a three time m v P but in not one championship, 369 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: and the notion at that point was that this guy 370 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: chokes in the finals so that he can't get it 371 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 1: done in clutch moments. Obviously, that's changed, and Lebron James 372 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: has won three championships. So there's no reason to think 373 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: that that Lamar Jackson couldn't follow a similar trajectory, which 374 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: is get to the playoffs early in your career, struggle 375 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: and then cam come out of it and be a 376 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 1: multiple championship winning quarterbacks can certainly happen um, But I'm 377 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: just saying that's gonna be a narrative for sure that 378 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: he's gonna have to he now has something. He has 379 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: something that he's gonna have to overcome. You know, it's 380 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: not like we're with a clean slate. Now, we're starting 381 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: to an O T count well. And and what I 382 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: think that he'll have to be most prepared for and 383 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: the team will have to be most prepared for, is 384 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: if you're in the playoffs next year and you throw 385 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: an interception on the opening driven, how do you respond, like, 386 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: see you tighten up? Does the defense go out there 387 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: and say, oh boy, this is expected. Does the offense 388 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: start to get a little bit nervous. Does he try 389 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: to put a little bit too much on his shoulders. 390 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: I do wonder if he put a little bit too 391 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: much on him in this game, especially after that first interception, 392 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: feeling like I can't allow us to happen again. Um, 393 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: there could have been a little bit of that, I 394 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: think because he wants to win, right. It's funny we 395 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: talked about this and wrote about it in the week 396 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: leading up to the game, that his desire to win 397 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: was you know, John Iisberg wrote the biggest factor of 398 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: the Ravens had in their favor, right was Lamar's passion. 399 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,239 Speaker 1: And I felt the same way, you know when I 400 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: heard him talk Friday, the Friday during the Pie week 401 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: and he just said like, I'm not gonna let us 402 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 1: lose again basically, right. I was like, I'm on board, 403 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: right because he's been so good. I mean, he was unstoppable, right, 404 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: and uh, that could have in the end been a problem. Yeah, 405 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 1: as more than it was an aid and it did help. 406 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, the dude battled. He did 407 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,479 Speaker 1: not he did not bow out, but I think that 408 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: he uh was a little bit shaken, right. You know. 409 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: It's interesting I was talking with going back to the 410 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: basketball analogy. I was talking to Cliff Brown this week 411 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: after the game, and he pointed out Cliff has covered 412 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: all these different sports and he used to cover the 413 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: n b A and he covered uh, Michael Jordan Era 414 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: and knows Isaiah Thomas well, former Pistons guard, and he 415 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: said that early on in Isaiah's career, he remembers talking 416 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: to him, and Isaiah Thomas told him that to win 417 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: a championship, you have to basically go into a situation 418 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: where the worst thing that could happen happens, and you 419 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: have to respond to that and come out of it 420 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: and basically be willing to deal with that, be able 421 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: to deal with that, and if you can do it, 422 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: that's how you're gonna be able to win a championship. 423 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: And I thought that's kind of an interesting perspective, which 424 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: is like, it's not like the worst thing possible could 425 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: have happened on Saturday, but throwing an interception on the 426 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: opening games drive is pretty bad and you need to 427 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: be able to take that and bounce back. Well, I mean, 428 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: I think we all us all what it did. What 429 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: did for the championship team, super Bowl team, I mean, 430 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: was as bad as it gets, that loss, uh, And 431 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: and that certainly was a huge motivating factor in UM. 432 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: And here's the funny thing is, like you think you 433 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: think about Joe, Joe Flacco, right, and like Joe had 434 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: thrown so many picks during his career and like faced 435 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: like slow starts and all this stuff, Like he'd been 436 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: through some rough times that so when he got into 437 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: the playoffs, it was like, yeah, yeah, we've been here, 438 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: You've been behind the games and we've been gotten off 439 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: the slow starts and things like that. You just kind 440 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: of like, you know, to Joe's credit, that was part 441 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: of what made him good in the playoffs was he 442 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: was this very unflappable guy, very even keel uh had 443 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: made mistakes and and bounced back from them. Lamar, on 444 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: the other hand, what I love him. I love his passion, 445 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: absolutely love his passion. But you know, he wasn't his 446 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: accustomed to Joe. Of he wasn't He's not a Joe 447 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: like guy where a mistake happens and he just kind 448 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: of rolls with it, you know what I mean. Like, 449 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: I think it affects Lamar a little bit more personally 450 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: emotionally than it did Joe. Um, So his emotions Lamars 451 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: can be a positive of benefit to him, and I 452 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: think it can also hurt him sometimes, Uh you know, 453 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: if things don't exactly go well, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 454 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 1: um still the tough pill of ball. Yeah. I mean, 455 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: I I just remember Veterans. I think it was the 456 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: forty Niners game when Lamar had the ball ripped out 457 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: of his hands the fumble at the start of the 458 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: second half and he's going in for a probable touchdown 459 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: and players, you know, after the game, Marshal mark Ingram 460 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: other guys said, you know, you could clearly see how 461 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: upset Lamar was about that play, and they're like, we 462 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: got your back. We're gonna pick you up. We got 463 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: your back, you know what I mean, And like, h 464 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: Lamars just once win so badly, he gets very emotional 465 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: about it. Um And I love love that about the kid, 466 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: love love passion that Lamar plays with. I just think 467 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: that it's something that he's gonna that will be something 468 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: he will work on. I think all these things will 469 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: be good learning experiences, obviously, like that the the the 470 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: disappointment of how this season ended does not change the 471 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: fact that the team was great in the regular season 472 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: and that the future is very bright. I think that 473 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: both of those things are something that we kind of 474 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: need to remind ourselves of. This season was an incredible season. 475 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: I think that's what to me is what stings so 476 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: much about this one, this loss, is that you just 477 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: feel like there was untapped potential that was gonna be 478 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: that that we wanted to see in the playoffs. Like 479 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: this team was so magical during the regular season, and 480 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,239 Speaker 1: there was more left in the tank, a lot more 481 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: left in the tank that we just don't get to see, 482 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 1: Like like that's just that's just how it is. In 483 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: the NFL. It comes like we were just like personally, 484 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: you're like making plans for the Super Bowl, uh or 485 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: not right now and to go, I'm only gonna get 486 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: refund but like, but but you're even from a we're 487 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: planning content and we're talking about how this that week 488 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: would look like. And it's because you really felt like 489 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: this team had all the pieces to be there. And 490 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: I think that they did have all the pieces to 491 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: be there, it just didn't like the end they just 492 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: had come suddenly. In the NFL, it comes to a 493 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: screeching hall Sunday, they're in here, they pack up the lockers. Today, 494 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: I parked my car out in the parking lot. It 495 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: looks like a ghost town around here. Nobody's around. It's 496 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: a depressing place when the season comes to a crashing 497 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: hall uh that quickly, and that's just how it is 498 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: every single year. But this year the suddeness seemed a 499 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: little bit more than any other year. Oh I still 500 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: feel sad of I still three days later. Yeah, I 501 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: stole him, Like thinking about it all the time. Wake up, 502 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: I'm making scrabbled eggs in the morning. I'm just it 503 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: just sucks so bad. It just sucks so and I 504 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: you know, I feel so bad for Lamar, I really do, 505 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: because he wanted to and all these guys wanted to win. 506 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 1: It's not just Lamar, but man, that guy wanted to win. 507 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: He was so magical and just to have it. And 508 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: and like we're talking about just like all the off 509 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: season doubt and all that fool honkey that we're gonna 510 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: have to deal with all next season about oh, he's 511 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: not the guy, he's not a guy who can win one. 512 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: And all this crap that we're gonna have to hear 513 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: all off season just makes me sick knowing that it's 514 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 1: coming now. At least Lamar loves the doubters. He loves 515 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: the haters absolutely will drive him. Yeah, absolutely, And he's, 516 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: like I said before, he's gonna get better. You thought 517 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson was good, this year's gonna be better next year? Yeah, 518 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: I I I think that he will continue to improve. 519 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: So what they're gonna go fifteen and one next year? 520 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: Maybe they do? Like maybe they do, but like I 521 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: don't know if that's next we don't lose the game, 522 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: maybe it's sixteen or no next year, maybe nineteen or 523 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 1: no Dolphins. Maybe that's maybe that's what happens next year. 524 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: But it's just it's hard to do that. And I 525 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: think that this game was a reminder of why it's 526 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: so hard to win in the NFL and how the 527 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 1: margin of air is so slam particularly when you get 528 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 1: into January. There was one glimmer of positive news since 529 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: that loss. What's that? No, neither of the offense, neither 530 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: of the coordinators are leaving. Yeah, that is big. That 531 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: is that is very big. The Cleveland Browns hired Kevin Stefanski, 532 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: which means Greg Roman, who that was his only interview 533 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: was with the Browns will be in Baltimore next year, right, 534 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: I mean there's no college openings are all taken up. So, uh, 535 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: I thought you were certainly gonna be here next year. Yeah. 536 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, the good news is 537 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: that the orange juice machine is still on down. That 538 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: is true. Year, I was drinking a little. I'm gonna 539 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: have to get about five gallons that because it's only 540 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: a matter of time before that show. I was that's 541 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: for the players, right, I was waiting to come in 542 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: this morning and see the oranges machine unplug? How big 543 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: a thermist do you have and how much? Because I 544 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: need to stock up, right, and I just start storing 545 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: away for the off season months no breakfast. Yeah, um well, 546 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 1: look you all, it's it's really disappointing, but there's still 547 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff over the course of the off 548 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: season from a content standpoint that we will continue to cover. 549 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: We'll be at the Pro Bowl next week. There's twelve 550 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: guys who have been invited. We'll see how many of 551 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: those guys go. Um, so we'll be there to cover 552 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: all of that. NFL Honors is right behind that. Lamar 553 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: Jackson will absolutely in a regular season award. Yeah, will 554 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: be the league's m v P. John Harball could be 555 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. Erica Costa could be Executive of 556 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: the Year. Check and check. Uh so that could happen. 557 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: Combines right around the corner Senior Bowl all that. So, um, 558 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: just because the season has ended doesn't mean that the 559 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: content stops. So take take a week, don't take a week. 560 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: Keep reading right now. We've got good stuff up there 561 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 1: is just you know, if you need if you need 562 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: some distance, I understand it. Take some time, take a 563 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: deep breath, and we'll be here for you. We'll be 564 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: here to provide all this stuff. And you know, the lounge, 565 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: it keeps flowing. Yeah, this is the therapy session exactly 566 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: for us and for the listeners. All right, so thanks 567 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: for listening. As always, you can emails at the lounge 568 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: at Ravens dot NFL dot net. Blame Garrett for the loss, uh, 569 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: and get ready for a big off season. That's bad, 570 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: that's sad.