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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by DraftKings. It's a Size

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Speaker 1: him Up Monday, the post Christmas Size him Up Monday, Harry,

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Speaker 1: Christmas to you all, and uh, happy Holidays to everybody

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Speaker 1: out there. Uh. The Ravens are in celebration mode, punch

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Speaker 1: their playoff ticket with a seventeen to nine win over

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, plus some help from a variety of

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Speaker 1: other games. The Ravens are in, baby, and as you know, Garrett,

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Speaker 1: I am a get in the dance guy, and I'm

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Speaker 1: dancing because I'm in the dance babe. Yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, look, it's it's it's good to be in.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be in. It's kind of funny, Like

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the game, but just the scenario. So

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Speaker 1: just to kind of set the stage here. So the

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Speaker 1: Ravens win, and then like the players are starting to

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Speaker 1: file out into the postgame press conference area and the

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Speaker 1: Bengals Patriots games still going on and for like basically

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Speaker 1: three hours almost that game, like the the Patriots were

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Speaker 1: gonna lose it. You know, I was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals got it all sudden, it's close, and it's

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Speaker 1: like all the reporters a kind of looking around, like

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Speaker 1: do we ask questions like they've clinched the playoffs? What

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Speaker 1: do we do? How do we approach this? And then

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Speaker 1: John Harbor actually found out while he was on the

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Speaker 1: podium that the Bengals had won, Patriots had lost in

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Speaker 1: the Ravens had clinched a playoff spot. But I say

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Speaker 1: all of that just to say I was kind of

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Speaker 1: like conflicted on who I wanted to win, Like I

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Speaker 1: I agree, I I am also generally getting a dance guy,

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Speaker 1: not at the expense like of winning the division. I

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Speaker 1: would prefer to win the division. That's a nice way

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Speaker 1: into the dance. Well it turned out, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins lost the next day on Christmas. Been that way also,

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Speaker 1: it would have been a sweet Christmas gift. Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: it would have gotten in that way. So it would

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Speaker 1: have been better for the Bengals to lose, because then

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Speaker 1: if the Bengals lose next week and the Ravens win

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Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, then the Ravens would be the a f

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Speaker 1: C North champions. Right the game in Cincinnata, you would

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Speaker 1: have no eating um so or or if or if

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Speaker 1: both Thieves lost and then the game still has meaning

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Speaker 1: if the Ravens lose this weekend division, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's they need they need to win this weekend. You know,

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Speaker 1: if the Bengals lost too, but well the Ravens, the

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Speaker 1: Ravens don't they don't have the Steelers. Both teams lose

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Speaker 1: in the a f C North title, it's still up

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Speaker 1: for grabs in week eighteen. Yeah, yeah, sorry, that's correct. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it would have been nice, It would have been nice,

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Speaker 1: um to to wrap it up. But as I was

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Speaker 1: watching it, I just was conflicted. I was like, who

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Speaker 1: do I want to win this game? It feels weird

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Speaker 1: to root for the Bengals. But I'm like sitting here

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Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, this is a chance to

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Speaker 1: just to punch the ticket. Just go ahead. But it

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Speaker 1: always feels good that ticket in your hand holes and

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Speaker 1: its bird. I am not getting kicked off this train.

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Speaker 1: I got the punched ticket. It feels good. Um. So

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean kind of another, you know, a

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Speaker 1: very similar feeling game to a lot of the Ravens

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Speaker 1: victories recently. Um, you know, good defense holds, they hold

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Speaker 1: the Falcons out of the end zone. You run the

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Speaker 1: and you know, you get a turnover. Uh, some kind

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Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't exactly a highlight real kind of day,

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Speaker 1: but I thought that it was the Ravens formula and

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Speaker 1: they executed that formula. Well in this game. When you

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Speaker 1: don't execute the ravelant the formula, well that's when you lose.

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Speaker 1: Like in Cleveland, right, you turn the ball over, you

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Speaker 1: don't get any turnovers. Uh, you know, that's how you lose.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens still had some of the issues that have

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Speaker 1: plagued them, you know, red zone. They weren't especially good

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Speaker 1: still had missed some red zone opportunities. There had to

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Speaker 1: settle for field goals. Um. You know, the passing attack

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Speaker 1: was efficient. It didn't light the world on fire or whatnot,

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Speaker 1: And I think they executed at a high level for

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Speaker 1: I just felt like they were. The defense was so good,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons weren't gonna score. The Ravens offensive was gonna

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Speaker 1: do enough. They were gonna take a lot of clock.

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Speaker 1: They were going to run the ball on the ground.

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Speaker 1: They got the DeMarcus touchdown. So it's like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: But you know, the interesting thing was, you know, Patrick

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Speaker 1: interesting thing was, it wasn't like a super celebratory lock

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a raucous locker room by any means. It wasn't,

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Speaker 1: it was just like kind of your normal ho home

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Speaker 1: we were all right on defense, but like that wasn't,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons put up three seven yards, right, so it

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Speaker 1: it was the penalty. It was the intentional grounds yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't remember the word intentional grounding. Um, but it

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Speaker 1: call that the intentional grounding. That moves the Falcon's back

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Speaker 1: up seven or whatever it was. It was a massive penalty.

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Speaker 1: Ravens home history, right, Uh, you know, completing twenty two

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Speaker 1: But like Tyler Ager looked pretty good, so give him credit.

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Speaker 1: that could end up being the first round playoff matchup.

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Speaker 1: of ironic because if that does happen, you know, like

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Speaker 1: when the Ravens lost to Jacksonville, the move was kind

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Speaker 1: of like, how could you lose that team? They stick,

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Speaker 1: they're terrible. How could you use that game? And now

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Speaker 1: still let's let's give some you know, as we're on

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Speaker 1: the topic of the defense, I thought, you know, Rokwan Smith,

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Speaker 1: Holy Moley, this is a Roquan Smith game, and and

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Speaker 1: this guy's praises all year long, but fifteen tackles, well,

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Speaker 1: but um yeah, I mean fifteen tackles all over the field.

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Speaker 1: You asked the question of him this week, you know,

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Speaker 1: on the offense that caught more than one pass was

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. The only no wide receiver got more than

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Speaker 1: two targets. Right, But you make a big play in

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Speaker 1: a big situation when they throw it your way. We'll

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Speaker 1: take that. Sammy Watkins had one ball throw in his way.

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Speaker 1: He caught it forty yards set up a field goal.

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Speaker 1: That's a successful day, right. I mean, DeMarcus Robinson had

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Speaker 1: one ball throw in his way. It was a six

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Speaker 1: yard touchdown. I'll take that all right. Mark Andrews, they

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Speaker 1: took a shot down the field of Mark Andrews. Thirty

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Speaker 1: six yard game. I'll take that right. And so like,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna be a high volume guy in this passing

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Speaker 1: attack right now. But if everybody makes the play when

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Speaker 1: their number is called, that can be a successful formula.

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Speaker 1: And I thought the passing game, well, you know, there

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Speaker 1: were still some hiccups and whatever, some missed, missed opportunities.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was good enough. And that's what the

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Speaker 1: passing has to be right now, because of the way

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are running the ball. It has to be

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Speaker 1: good enough. And I thought it was. Tyler Hartley completed

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Speaker 1: nine and seventeen passes for fifteen yards and a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: That's a good enough game from your backup quarterback. Certainly

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Speaker 1: gives you a chance to win the game. Totally. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree. I mean you kind of We talked about

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Speaker 1: the SAMI edition last week, and I mean, you do

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Speaker 1: the classic, you know, the class suck. I told you

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Speaker 1: so where you're like, you know, I told you that

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Speaker 1: the Sammy Watkins move was great. Like I knew that

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Speaker 1: he was going to make this forty yard catch on

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Speaker 1: the first passing on his way. I knew that was

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. You didn't know that that was gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't clutch situations. When he's been healthy,

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Speaker 1: when he's been on the field, he's made a lot

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Speaker 1: of clutch plays. And all you need is for one

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Speaker 1: clutch play, one big catching game to give it to you,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna catch a forty yard That's what I said.

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Speaker 1: So no, but that that is that is why the

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Speaker 1: Ravens added Sammy Watkins. Like he was signed here in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the week and started the game. So

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Speaker 1: like when he made the point that he is, that

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Speaker 1: the Ravens were fortunate to have him available. That's why

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Speaker 1: there's not really like anybody else that could get signed

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Speaker 1: It's just a little bit more complicated to learn the

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Speaker 1: um let's take a quick break here and then we

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens dot com slash Campbell's to cast your vote today. Well,

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Speaker 1: we have a bunch of email is her Garrett, as

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Speaker 1: usually you can emails at the lounge at Ravens dot

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Speaker 1: NFL dot net. And this one kind of just echoes

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Speaker 1: your point, Garrett, that you were making. This one comes

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Speaker 1: from Blake McGregor. He says, let's go merry Christmas. Guys,

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Speaker 1: says the playoffs clinched, get Lamar fit, and let's cook

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season and get ready to

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Speaker 1: go to the postseason. So totally agree, Blake, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for your email. Not a question obviously, just just agreeing

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Speaker 1: with this sentiment, which co sign Yes. Uh. This one

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Speaker 1: comes from Greg Cohen says it's a size them up Monday.

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Speaker 1: Ravens finally found the end zone, maintain their lead, got

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Speaker 1: a little help from the Jets and Pats losing and

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Speaker 1: beat at lant It's a clinch, a playoff birth now

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Speaker 1: they have. Now that they have clinched, it begs the

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Speaker 1: question should Lamar stay out another game to rest his

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Speaker 1: knee and return for the Bengals. The Bengals are hot

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Speaker 1: right now, so should Lamar be more ready for the

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Speaker 1: playoffs in the long run, or a week eight team

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Speaker 1: showdown for division. Uh So, thank you, Greg, appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Garrett? Look, we've answered the version

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Speaker 1: of this question a few different times over the past

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Speaker 1: few weeks. All Lamar has been out. Here's what I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna come down to. When Lamar is healthy

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Speaker 1: and able to play, that's when he is going to play.

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Speaker 1: That's what has been the factor throughout this entire time.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that if Lamar says I'm a percent,

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Speaker 1: the doctor says he's a that the Ravens are gonna say, now,

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna hold you off for the playoffs. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that would be the equation. And this could

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Speaker 1: be the week that he returns Ian Rapp report from

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Speaker 1: the NFL Network kind of report this morning Good Morning Football,

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Speaker 1: saying that the expectations that Lamar will practice this week

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Speaker 1: and then potentially play on Sunday. We also said that

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Speaker 1: last week. I said that last week, and obviously it

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. So everyone's kind of guessing here in terms

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Speaker 1: of what what happens on this front. I think that

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Speaker 1: where this could come into play, like to John's question. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was John. Sorry Greg, Sorry Greg, John, We got

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Speaker 1: John's question coming up? Now, Okay, I got that one

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Speaker 1: cute up. Okay, okay, so so did Greg's question. I

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Speaker 1: think that where this could come into play is if

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Speaker 1: Lamar's say I'm kind of making up numbers here and

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Speaker 1: just playing out this hypothetical. But um, he's right now.

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Speaker 1: And if they say, if you wait another week, you

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Speaker 1: could be at a hundred. You know, if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: you probably wait it out. It's not like the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl isn't this week, so it's not like you, yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely got to get him out there. You want him

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Speaker 1: to be as healthy as possible for the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: if that were the case, maybe they say this, wait

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Speaker 1: another week. But I don't think you want to go

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Speaker 1: into a situation and say, all right, well, regardless of

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Speaker 1: whether he's healthy, we're just gonna hold him back for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and try to, you know, limit him to

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Speaker 1: those games because that's when you really need him. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's going to be the plan of action, right,

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Speaker 1: But you think that that his that the playoffs being

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Speaker 1: clinched will be a factor in whether Lamar Jackson plays

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think it will be a factor. I

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Speaker 1: think they could be a factor. Like I think the factor,

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Speaker 1: the end all factor here is Lamar's health and how

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Speaker 1: he feels and what the doctors say. That's the factor.

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Speaker 1: But I think that like the fact that the playoffs

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Speaker 1: are clinched. Again, I'm just playing out hypotheticals here. You know,

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Speaker 1: if he's then in next week he would be a hundred,

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Speaker 1: then that could be something that factors into the equation.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's I go back to you,

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Speaker 1: I go back to the start of it. I think

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Speaker 1: it's if Lamar is totally healthy, if the doctors feel,

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Speaker 1: then trainers feel he's good. If he goes out in

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Speaker 1: practices and he feels good and he feels like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's play, then I think he plays right. And I

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Speaker 1: it's the old like if the super Bowl were Sunday,

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Speaker 1: would he play? There is a difference. Yes, he would

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Speaker 1: absolutely play. He should, So there's a difference. So I

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Speaker 1: think that, like you don't go into it with that mentality.

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Speaker 1: The super Bowl is not on Sunday, so I also,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that, like it would be

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Speaker 1: a good thing just to wait and wait and a

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Speaker 1: because if you if you wait till the playoffs, even

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Speaker 1: or even Cincinnati, like he's he's missed you know, three

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Speaker 1: and a half games now, Like you don't want that.

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Speaker 1: That's to our guys, that's to our guys email here,

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Speaker 1: John John. He says, with two games left in regular season,

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Speaker 1: should we be more worried about Lamar getting reinjured from

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Speaker 1: playing two tough division rivals or more worried about sitting

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Speaker 1: him and risking them right getting rusty before the playoffs? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that they're like if you if you miss

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Speaker 1: basically six games, you know, close to two months there,

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Speaker 1: you could be rusty. It could be tough to just

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Speaker 1: get thrown back into the fire there and expect to

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Speaker 1: play at a super high level. Like that's not a

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Speaker 1: unrealistic thing. The other factor, I mean, it is interesting,

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Speaker 1: like it's tough to come back against the Steelers if

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Speaker 1: you missed all this time and it's like, okay, now

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Speaker 1: you gotta go against the Stelers, a super physical game,

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Speaker 1: Like that's that's tough. That's a tough assignment. Or the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: it's it's tough either way. I kind of wish it

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Speaker 1: wasn't too straight division games to end the season. But

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Speaker 1: that's the record, that's or that's the sketchle. That's so

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Speaker 1: you're playing, So you can't change that. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: the other point about this is that you know, as

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Speaker 1: we've been saying, the Ravens are hoping that Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: comes back. The offense heats up, they get hot, the

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Speaker 1: defense is playing well, the run game is strong, and

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Speaker 1: that's the run that they can use. Uh, that's where

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Speaker 1: they used to go with a run in the playoffs, right,

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Speaker 1: and it starts with Lamar coming back and getting hot,

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Speaker 1: and that I think requires time. It's gonna require a

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Speaker 1: little reps, a little game action, right, Like I don't

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Speaker 1: want to go into the playoffs and just have the

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Speaker 1: expectation that we're gonna snap our fingers and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, this passing attack. But Lamar Jackson back under

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Speaker 1: center is gonna be lightening it up, right like I

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Speaker 1: would like it. I would like him too. I would

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Speaker 1: like to preheat the oven. Let's the oven to get

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Speaker 1: it hot for the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah, And and again

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Speaker 1: I think it kind of likes we're both saying here,

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Speaker 1: I think it all goes back to this notion of

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Speaker 1: when he is healthy, um, not like the extern factors.

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Speaker 1: And I understand why these external factors could come into play,

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Speaker 1: but I think that's more of, I guess, kind of

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Speaker 1: an emotional thing, a strategic thing in that regard than

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Speaker 1: it is like just what it comes down to, brass tacks.

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Speaker 1: Can the guy play? And once that's the case, I

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna put him out there anyway? Yes, oh sorry,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, yeah, yeah, before we go. Uh. The game

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Speaker 1: this week, by the way, if you haven't heard, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you were just enjoying Christmas and you weren't paying

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Speaker 1: attention to anything happening in the NFL world, the game

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Speaker 1: against the Steelers has been flexed to Sunday night football.

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Speaker 1: So that is gonna be a night game this week,

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. UM. So you know, Sunday night football

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Speaker 1: Ravens Steelers in Baltimore, Like, it doesn't get much bigger

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Speaker 1: than that. Um. When the schedule came out, I saw

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Speaker 1: two one o'clock games against the Steelers. I was kind

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Speaker 1: One of these games is usually a prime time game,

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Speaker 1: gonna be working on getting a guests this week and

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Speaker 1: following up and having more conversations later this week. So

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Speaker 1: as always, you can email us at the lounge at

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Speaker 1: Ravens on NFL dot net. Thanks for listening and we'll

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