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Speaker 1: Welcome into Lounge presented by DraftKings. We are thrilled to

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Speaker 1: sit down with Ronnie Stanley today. And Ronnie, I'll start here.

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Speaker 1: We had Lamar on as a guest a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and he said that, you know, you and he

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Speaker 1: during practice one time, you know, he was kind of

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Speaker 1: getting on the air lineman and you were sticking up

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Speaker 1: for the aligneman and which we thought it was. It

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Speaker 1: was kind of interesting. Can you take us inside that story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he just expects greatness from everyone, just

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Speaker 2: like he expects out of himself. So he was just

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Speaker 2: you know, trying to get something more out of something

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Speaker 2: younger guys, and you know, only thing I was doing

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Speaker 2: was just not going against anything he's saying, just reinforcing

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Speaker 2: you know, confidence in them. You know, after you know

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Speaker 2: they did get on by you know, he would be

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Speaker 2: a coach or Lamar, you know, I you know, I

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Speaker 2: always go to the guys and reinforce confidence in him

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Speaker 2: and remind them that you know, you can do this year.

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Speaker 2: You're doing really well and there's a lot of good

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Speaker 2: things you're doing, and just to keep building on what

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Speaker 2: they're doing.

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Speaker 1: The old linemen are the bodyguards. You're like the bodyguard

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Speaker 1: of the bodyguards. Yeah, that's a good thing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you talk about these young offensive linemen. Obviously there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about it, and you guys are

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Speaker 1: coming off a really strong game in Dallas where a

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Speaker 1: lot of those offensive linemen played really well. Daniel Folele

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Speaker 1: took a big step, for example. What does that do

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Speaker 1: in the room, and when you're kind of banging that

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Speaker 1: drum like, hey, you guys can do it, and then

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Speaker 1: they go out and do it at such a high level.

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Speaker 1: What does that do for the confidence?

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Speaker 2: It's very promising, it's very reassuring, you know, and we're

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Speaker 2: just scratching the surface.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely taking a big step a while. Of the

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Speaker 2: young guys are just keep getting better and better. But

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Speaker 2: we know there's a lot left that you know, we

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Speaker 2: can do and we can be better at.

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Speaker 3: Along those lines. You know. I know the line and

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Speaker 3: the changes have been like a point of discussion all

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Speaker 3: off season. But I've always felt like in this building,

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Speaker 3: in the offensive line room, part of it's your leadership,

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Speaker 3: part of its what Harball has said, But there's been

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Speaker 3: a real confidence that you guys have in the group

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Speaker 3: as a whole. Why have you always felt that way?

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Speaker 2: Just because I've been around these guys, you know for years.

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Speaker 2: You know, they may not have been starters, but they've

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Speaker 2: been on the team and I've seen them, you know,

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Speaker 2: go against our starters in practice, go in training camps

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Speaker 2: against these guys, and I've seen the amount of growth

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Speaker 2: that they've had in these past years. So I know

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Speaker 2: what they're capable of, and I know they can, you know,

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Speaker 2: perform against the best out there. So just keep reminding

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Speaker 2: them that you know they're capable of it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: keep expecting that high standard from themselves.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, going back to the story that

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Speaker 3: Ryan mentioned off the top of you and Lamar, I

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Speaker 3: thought that story illustrated kind of two things. One, you know, Lamar,

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Speaker 3: is there's a sense of urgency and focus and drive,

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Speaker 3: and that's always been evident, and I think it's maybe

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Speaker 3: even gone to another level this year. I also thought

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Speaker 3: it really illustrated your leadership, you know, and being somebody

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Speaker 3: who's the leader of this offensive line, as the veteran

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Speaker 3: player of this group, that you stand up for them

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Speaker 3: and that you're also reinforcing that confidence. Have you taken

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Speaker 3: more of a leadership role with that group this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe so. I mean, especially being now, you know,

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Speaker 2: coming from last year, I was like the third oldest

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Speaker 2: four years. So it's been a drastic change just in

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Speaker 2: seniority just in one year. So that being said, you know,

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Speaker 2: I just kind of take it upon myself to just

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Speaker 2: reinforce you know, positive things, things that I know have

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Speaker 2: helped me and that I believe will help them as well.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of leadership, I remember Tyrel Linderbaum, I think last

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Speaker 1: year talking about the dinners that that you host for

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Speaker 1: the Offensive Lineman, which sound pretty extensive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've been doing it for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years now, maybe like four or five years, but

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Speaker 2: that's been something that you know, we always used to

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Speaker 2: go out as an old line since I was a rookie.

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Speaker 2: We always always used to go out to dinner somewhere

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Speaker 2: out and you know, talk amongst ourselves, play games, whatever,

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 3: You a just trying to get the invite.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean that's yeah. You look, I don't need

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Speaker 1: as much compared to you guys. Right, we got to

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Speaker 1: talk to the group that's gonna get a big old rejection.

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Speaker 1: Can they come? Yeah, what's your favorite thing to provide?

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Speaker 2: I mean, breakfast night's always a popular night, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it's like my kids, My kids always breakfast.

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Speaker 2: Dinner is always always a plus. But a lot of

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Speaker 2: the guys have been coming around to Asian food. Actually,

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Speaker 2: you know, have introduced some of the guys to Korean

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Speaker 2: food for the first time in their lives, and you know,

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Speaker 2: they love that stuff. So you know, so one of

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Speaker 2: those two probably.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a very cultured guy. I feel like you

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Speaker 1: would like elevate their their taste.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, like you know, different cuisines and different foods,

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Speaker 2: so definitely trying to mix it up week to week.

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Speaker 1: Very cool, that's cool.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just want to go back to that

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Speaker 3: leadership point, like I've seen it from you, Like I

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Speaker 3: feel like I've seen you be more vocal. I've seen

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Speaker 3: you like taking charge of that group. And is that

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Speaker 3: just part of the maturation process, like you've been you know,

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Speaker 3: you're a high draft pick, you established yourself as one

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Speaker 3: of the best guys in the league, and then you know,

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Speaker 3: you dealt with the injuries and now like you're back

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Speaker 3: to playing at a super high level. You're the most

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Speaker 3: of the process? Or was it like you looked at

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Speaker 3: need to do more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit of both. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I definitely realizing, you know, how much more experience I

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Speaker 2: I just felt like I needed to be more vocal.

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Speaker 2: And you know me personally, I'm not usually a vocal guy.

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Speaker 2: Usually just try to lead by example, but I felt

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Speaker 2: to really instill that confidence around the guys.

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Speaker 1: How much of an offensive lineman's job is mental? Right?

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Speaker 1: Like obviously physical, you're going against big, fast, strong guys, right,

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Speaker 1: but the mental side of like you mentioned, with young players,

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Speaker 1: you got to know, you got to believe that you

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Speaker 2: I think it's really important, you know, the mental side

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Speaker 2: of it, just because you can know exactly what you're

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of play uh not to your fullest potential.

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Speaker 2: It will always be kind of like you're you're measuring

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Speaker 2: trusting your technique. Line it loose, you know, playing one

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Speaker 2: when you're always going to get your your best results

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Speaker 2: is when you're playing like that. And you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: The other hard part about an offensive lineman's job is

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Speaker 1: it's almost like perfection is required, especially in pass protection, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can you can take thirty five pass sets,

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Speaker 1: you give up one sack and a couple of pressures.

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Speaker 1: That's a tough game, you know what I mean, So like,

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Speaker 1: how how do you get that through? Like you know,

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Speaker 1: or whatever, but he had a lot of great blocks. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's the one that gets talked about exactly how do

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Speaker 1: you work through that personally and how do you talk

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Speaker 1: to your teammates about that.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's got to be a quick evaluate evaluation process.

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Speaker 2: You know in your head of like what happened that

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Speaker 2: because you have to kind of trash that, you know,

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Speaker 2: moving on to the next play. It's kind of like

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Speaker 2: You're not going to have a good rest of the day.

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Speaker 2: You have to move forward. You have to trust that

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Speaker 2: you know what you're doing, and you have to play

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Speaker 2: your next play, play your next play.

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Speaker 3: You know, and right, something that I think that's kind

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Speaker 3: of been lost in like the conversation around the O

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Speaker 3: line this year is just how great you've been playing,

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Speaker 3: Like you're playing at a really high level, and what

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Speaker 3: is it, you know, like, what is it that has

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Speaker 3: allowed you to be playing so strong at such as

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, part of it is, you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously just being able to play out of one hundred

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Speaker 2: things I know I'm capable of. And I think just

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Speaker 2: this offseason and you know, the training camp os taking

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Speaker 2: upon myself to to keep that standard for myself because

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Speaker 2: you know, like we were saying, and you mess up

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Speaker 2: one play for me, I get to a point where

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Speaker 2: you mess up one play and you know you feel like,

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Speaker 2: you know, man, I'm not that player anymore, or whatever

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Speaker 2: it is. You know, just kind of taking upon myself

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Speaker 2: to to like I said earlier, just to kind of

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Speaker 2: I made last play and not let it like weigh

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Speaker 2: that truly helped me just kind of progress.

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Speaker 3: I remember last year we have you on the podcast,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we were talking about the ups and

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Speaker 3: downs that you've dealt with in your career, and we

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Speaker 3: asked you, like, do you feel like you can play

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Speaker 3: at the level that you did before the injuries, And

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Speaker 3: you gave a definitive yes. You were like, just for

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Speaker 3: the record, here, Like, I'm confident that I can play

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Speaker 3: at that level and we're seeing that this year. How

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Speaker 3: important was it for you to maintain that confidence in

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Speaker 3: this in the midst of a challenging stretch if you

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Speaker 3: were trying to get healthy and stay on the field,

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Speaker 3: but like you're confidence of that, at least publicly and

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Speaker 3: maybe privately, like it never seemed to waver. How important

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Speaker 3: was that? You mean, like sure, yeah last year, Like

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Speaker 3: last year when we had you on, you were like,

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Speaker 3: I can play at that level.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I always I still knew I was

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Speaker 2: I could play on that level, But I don't know

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Speaker 3: But right, Yeah, that's interesting that one of the questions

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Speaker 2: I was actually uh one of the players I trained

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Speaker 1: And the last one for me, Ronnie, just I mean,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like how you said you don't know how many

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Speaker 1: Actually, one last one for me. Are you lining up

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Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge?

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Speaker 1: Well we got we got the data that it was

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Speaker 1: everybody out there knows you're in the clear. Indicated anyway,

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Speaker 3: Us right, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back into the Lounge podcast. We're coming to you

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Speaker 3: it was good to sit down with Ronnie. I think that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I Mean my biggest takeaway was that,

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Speaker 1: get things straightened up. That might be a good idea.

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Speaker 3: That might be a good idea, elevate the performance of

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Speaker 1: I thought that was really cool. You know that he

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Speaker 3: He has been. I think that, you know, it was

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Speaker 3: Winning cures a lot of ills. And so when you

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Speaker 1: And I think it's less about the noise. I think

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Speaker 1: than I think they saw in Dallas. At Oliver is

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Speaker 1: week in practice it allows them to kind of pick

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Speaker 1: they can be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is going to be a really

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Speaker 3: fun game. It's Sunday night football. It's the best game

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Speaker 3: of the week in the NFL. You have the Bills,

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Speaker 3: We're coming off a massive win. You know, they look great,

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Speaker 3: and now they're coming to Baltimore, where the Ravens have

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Speaker 3: historically been great in primetime games. And I think this

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Speaker 3: is a showdown between two of the best teams in

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Speaker 3: the AFC. And we're in the Darkness Hoodie getting ready.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting ready for it. I'm ready for this game.

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Speaker 3: It is the Darkness Falls game. So we're encouraging all

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Speaker 3: fans to get into your seats by eight o'clock to

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Speaker 3: make sure that you're there for those pregame intros. If

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Speaker 3: you've ever been to a night game at the Bank,

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Speaker 3: you know how awesome it is. And if you haven't

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Speaker 3: been to one of those games, make sure you're in

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Speaker 3: your seats early because you don't want to miss the

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Speaker 3: pregame festivities and introductions. So darkness falls eight o'clock, make

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Speaker 3: sure you're in your seats for that. As always, you

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Speaker 3: can email us at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL

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Speaker 3: dot net. We love hearing from you send us those emails.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening, and we will be

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Speaker 3: back with you tomorrow