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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings.

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Speaker 2: I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downning, and we are

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Speaker 2: going to get you set for Sunday's game team the

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Speaker 2: Ravens and Jets at M and T Banks Stadium. It's

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Speaker 2: at one o'clock kickoff and a game that the Ravens

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Speaker 2: really need to win. Ride in a four game winning streak,

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Speaker 2: want to run it to five and get over five

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Speaker 2: hundred for the first time this season. Garrett, the Ravens

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Speaker 2: are certainly favored to win this game, going against the

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Speaker 2: Jets team that has really struggled this year.

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Speaker 1: They come into this game sitting at two and.

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Speaker 2: Eight, and so this is kind of one of those

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Speaker 2: ones that the Ravens are heavily favored to win.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta go win it.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it. This is a game that if

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Speaker 3: the Ravens are going to go to the playoffs, you

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Speaker 3: need to win this game. It's a home game, your

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Speaker 3: double digit favorites, and you have to win the games

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Speaker 3: that you're supposed to win if you're going to be

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Speaker 3: a team that makes the playoffs, especially when you start

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Speaker 3: the season one to five, if you don't have any

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Speaker 3: ground to give up. So it's a got to have

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Speaker 3: a game for the Ravens, and I think they're in

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Speaker 3: a good position to win it, but you got to

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Speaker 3: go out there and win it. And to me, like

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Speaker 3: I think that a lot of a lot of attention

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Speaker 3: this week is going to be as it always is,

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Speaker 3: of course, on Lamar Jackson in the offense, because that

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Speaker 3: unit has not played as well as we're used to seeing,

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Speaker 3: especially in recent years with Todd Monkin as the offensive

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Speaker 3: seeing forty points on the regular. We got used to

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Speaker 3: this in recent years and it has it's been more

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Speaker 3: of a struggle this season, especially in recent weeks as

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Speaker 3: Lamar's come back from the injury and he's missed practice

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Speaker 3: time in different weeks knee ankle this week of course,

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Speaker 3: time with the hamstring, and so you want to see

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Speaker 3: the offense put it all together and just start to

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Speaker 3: look like the unit that we've been.

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Speaker 4: Used to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And I think Lamar Jackson's health is a

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Speaker 2: component of that. He missed practice on Wednesday again this

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Speaker 2: week with an ankle. That was the injury on the

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Speaker 2: injury report last week. It was a knee, knees soreness

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Speaker 2: coming out of Minnesota. So I think it's fair to say,

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Speaker 2: and we heard from Lamar he said, this is really

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Speaker 2: the first time I'm dealing with something like this where

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of banged up a little bit during the season,

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Speaker 2: can still play in games, you know. It's not like

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Speaker 2: his knee injury of a few years ago and the

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Speaker 2: angle or whatever where he went on the he went

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Speaker 2: on the bench he couldn't play right, or the hamstring

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Speaker 2: even earlier this year where he couldn't play. These are

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Speaker 2: he's banged up a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he took a lot of shots in that

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Speaker 3: game against Cleveland. Miles Garrett sacked him four times, and

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Speaker 3: those weren't the only hits that he had, Like he took,

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Speaker 3: he took kind of a beating.

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Speaker 2: Even before that, I mean the penalty that the guy

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota UH Minnesota Dallas Turner dropped all of his

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Speaker 2: was bad. Yeah, and so yeah, And the crazy part

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Speaker 2: of it is what I find so ironic is that

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Speaker 2: Lamar came into the NFL and everybody was worried about, oh,

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Speaker 2: is this guy going to be durable enough because of

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Speaker 2: his run. It's not the running that's gotten him beaten up.

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Speaker 2: He's so good at avoiding big hits as a runner.

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Speaker 2: When he can protect himself, he just has a knack

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Speaker 2: for it. It's now that he's running less. He's averaging

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Speaker 2: a career low in rushing attempts this season. Now he's

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Speaker 2: getting more beat up as a pocket passer, which is

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Speaker 2: is often what we in Baltimore told the pundits who

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Speaker 2: were worried about his their ability, were like, look at

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Speaker 2: all these pocket passers who get hurt all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that's kind of been the case for the Ravens

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Speaker 2: this year. When Lamar can protect himself on the run,

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Speaker 2: he's a little bit better off. He can only do

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Speaker 2: so much in the pocket sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think the main thing as we're talking about

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Speaker 3: Lamar or the offense and the protection and the hits

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Speaker 3: and like all this stuff, I think that at the

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Speaker 3: bottom line, he has taken too many hits, too many

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Speaker 2: He's taying twenty three sacks so far this year, which

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Speaker 2: and he missed some action this year.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's just too many and you can break down

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Speaker 3: each one of those individually, and there's different layers to it,

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Speaker 3: and so the Ravens are looking at all that stuff,

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Speaker 3: but at the bottom line, like there's just too many

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Speaker 3: and I think what's going to go a long way

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Speaker 3: and kind of determining the success of this team is

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Speaker 3: going to be how well they're able to protect Lamar

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Speaker 3: and to win the line of scrimmage. That's just like

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Speaker 3: you could probably make that same argument for most teams

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Speaker 3: in terms of going up against this Jets defense with

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Speaker 3: Detroit Lions, being able to win the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 3: provide the adequate protection for Lamar and get the ground

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Speaker 3: game going. I think that that is going to be

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Speaker 3: important for the team. You can say that every week,

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Speaker 3: of course, but I think that, like where this team

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Speaker 3: gonna be playing two games in five days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that. The Jets have some pretty

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Speaker 2: darn good pass rushers. Will McDonald the fourth has seven sacks.

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Speaker 2: This here, Jermaine Johnson another talented pass rusher. They trade

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Speaker 2: They also trade away they're arguably their best cornerback or

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Speaker 2: in Sauce Gardner to the Indianapolis Colts. So but this defense,

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Speaker 2: still has some talent on that defense.

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Speaker 1: It does. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The thing that I want to point to in regards

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Speaker 2: Lamar's taken a sack on thirty percent of his pressures,

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Speaker 2: which is certainly higher than he's accustomed to. He is

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Speaker 2: he is also good at avoiding sacks generally as a

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Speaker 2: like the the hits that he's taken that we've talked

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Speaker 2: and it's closing in all around him. There's multiple, you know,

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Speaker 2: the negative plays and all the sacks, I think are

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Speaker 2: And to be honest, that in a way is what's

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Speaker 2: back to talking about you know, Okay, this team, this

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Speaker 2: you know, can they make noise in the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 2: what it's gonna take. Is this offense getting on a roll.

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Speaker 2: And I think that this game Sunday at MPT Banks

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you want the offense to like get hot, and

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Speaker 3: like when you look at the season overall, there is

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Speaker 4: The very first game of the season.

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Speaker 3: It was. It was, but it was just an opening

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Speaker 3: so those things all add up. And but I think that,

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Speaker 3: right direction. And they've got all the pieces to do that.

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Speaker 3: And there's like there's signs and there's moments, and there's

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Speaker 2: Like they haven't just quite put it all together yet correct. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and the red zone offense. The red zone offense is

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Speaker 2: they've stressed a lot this week, is to be better.

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Speaker 1: In the red zone and score more touchdowns. They ranked

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Speaker 2: They're scoring touchdowns forty seven point two percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: That has to be better.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were number one in the league last

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Speaker 2: all those things, not much has changed, but the results

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Speaker 2: have changed, and so that's another area for improvement. They like,

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Speaker 2: we just got done talking about pass protection, running the

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Speaker 2: Another part of that is who they've been facing. So

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Speaker 2: they so far have faced six of the top eleven defenses.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's a little cherry pick. We're talking top

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Speaker 2: Jets ranked twentieth in total defense, twenty seventh in points

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Speaker 3: Right when the future player Player Defensive Player of the

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent the number two defense in the league

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Speaker 2: And so when you're especially when you're grading the pass protection,

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Speaker 1: They sell out.

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Speaker 2: They make you look bad sometimes and then you sometimes,

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Speaker 2: like we talked about, because of how aggressive they are,

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Speaker 2: sometimes then you crack them and you get a big play.

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly how that play game, you know, came

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Speaker 2: down to it. They they put a lot of bad

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Speaker 2: gonna beat them sometimes. And that's what the Ravens did.

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Speaker 2: And so it's a different challenge against New York Jets

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Speaker 2: after that. The Bengals last in the league in total defense.

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Speaker 1: Total defense so far.

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Speaker 2: So let's also not forget about the kind of defenses

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Speaker 2: part of which without Lamar Jackson in the backfield.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all of that. I think all of those are

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's playing good ball. According to PFF, among cornerbacks

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Speaker 4: Brandon's the friend of the lounge. He came on the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she got a root for that guy. I mean

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Speaker 3: And yeah, an interesting matchup with him, like that was

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Speaker 1: It's time for my prediction. This got me. This got

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with my predictions and all this this talk got

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you're going. I just I thought you

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going Zay Flowers. Jay Flowers tops one hundred touchdown.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the double prediction.

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Speaker 1: The double prediction.

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Speaker 3: You didn't want to stop a saying now you're feeling hot,

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Speaker 3: I hope that you're right.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll dive into the defensive side

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Speaker 2: To Rod does not offer the dual threat that Justin

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Speaker 2: can he can get you in a heartbeat. And what

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Speaker 2: you have to do with your the Ravens defense is

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Speaker 2: I have a hard time seeing Toad in this offense

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Speaker 2: just consistently moving the ball down the field. You can't

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Speaker 2: give up explosive plays and if you can turn them

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Speaker 2: over then it's it could get out of hand pretty quickly.

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Speaker 3: I think, Look, it's cliche, everyone says it, especially if

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Speaker 3: you're going up against team with a good running game.

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Speaker 3: Stop the running game, you should be in a good position.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's definitely true this game. I think

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Speaker 3: that like if the Ravens, if we're talking about a

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Speaker 3: situation where Breeze Hall is under I'll even say seventy five.

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Speaker 4: Like, if he's under.

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Speaker 3: Seventy five, I don't make a prediction here, I'll say

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Speaker 3: under seventy five, that's my prediction.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're trying to get let's go on it.

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Speaker 3: But like, if he's under seventy five yards, the Ravens

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Speaker 3: are gonna win this game. I'd be shocked. Otherwise it

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Speaker 3: would take some really fluky things, turn over special teams

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Speaker 3: plays and things like that. But like, it's hard for

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Speaker 3: me to see a situation where the Ravens don't win,

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Speaker 3: you know, and limit the right if they If they

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Speaker 3: accomplish that, I think they're gonna win. And so that's

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Speaker 3: where it kind of starts for this team. And that's

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Speaker 3: a lot of responsibility on the guys up front. Draymond Jones,

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Speaker 3: who's been a great addition to this team since the

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Speaker 3: trade deadline. Kwan Smith first.

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Speaker 1: Dramup. It is his home debut.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure he's excited about suiting up in the

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Speaker 3: bank for the first time as a member of the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Kyle Hamilton, of course, being down there too, he affects

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Speaker 3: not just the past game, but the run game. So

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Speaker 3: I think the Ravens are really gonna They're gonna put

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Speaker 3: a lot of resources into slowing down that rushing attack

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Speaker 3: for New York. And they've been a really good team

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Speaker 3: over the course of their entire franchise history. It's slowing

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Speaker 3: down the run. That doesn't mean that they're going to

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Speaker 3: be good at it this week. You have to do

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Speaker 3: it every single week. But I think that they will

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Speaker 3: be able to stop it and yeah, like I said,

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Speaker 3: I'm going with the under seventy five.

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Speaker 2: Well, generally speaking, at the Ravens run defense has been

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Speaker 2: pretty good, especially as of late they ranked twentieth in

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Speaker 2: the league, but in recent weeks. Judkins kind of got

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Speaker 2: going last week early in the game on their opening

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Speaker 2: drive and then Baltimore shut the door on that. And

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Speaker 2: so I have confidence in the Ravens defensive front to

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Speaker 2: get that time.

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Speaker 3: So as we talk about things that are happening in

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Speaker 3: this game on Sunday, always fun to talk about the

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Speaker 3: game entertainment aspects.

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Speaker 4: Frisbee dogs. Oh yeah, at halftime.

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Speaker 1: Of this game, what are you gonna get your dog

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Speaker 1: out there?

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Speaker 3: My dog would not do great catching a frisbee. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she can move around a little bit, but then as

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Speaker 3: quickly to the couch. She doesn't have the stamina on

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Speaker 3: the frisbee dogs.

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Speaker 1: Wow, like Fatherlake dog.

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Speaker 4: Huh, exactly exactly. She's learned from me.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the frisbee dogs are gonna be a halftime show,

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Speaker 3: which is always fun. Our national anthem singer is Ryan Brown,

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Speaker 3: who is the daughter of Ravens kicking coach Randy Brown.

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Speaker 4: If you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Listen or watch the episode from earlier in the week.

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Speaker 3: We had Randy and Ravens kicker Tyler Loop on the

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Speaker 3: podcast and a really fun conversation with them. We've got

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Speaker 3: a lot of feed on that one, actually, a lot

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Speaker 3: of emails the lounge at Ravens at NFL dot net.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the emails, Yes, thank you for those

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Speaker 3: of people who enjoyed the conversation between Randy and Tyler.

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Speaker 3: But Randy's daughter Ryan is singing the national anthem and

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Speaker 3: so she's going to do a great job with that.

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Speaker 3: It's also the Ravens Might Cause My Cleats game, and

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Speaker 3: so players have the opportunity to wear cleats for a

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Speaker 3: cause that's important to them. A number of players are

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Speaker 3: wearing these custom cleats are really cool. I've had a

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Speaker 3: chance to see some of them custom painted, really great

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Speaker 3: designs on them, all supporting different causes of their choice.

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Speaker 2: We have a special section on our site and app

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Speaker 2: where you can check all this out, as well as

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Speaker 2: a photo gallery and hear from the players about why

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Speaker 2: they chose that cause.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so check that out on our website as and

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Speaker 3: then you'll be able to see him in person on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: So it's going to be a big game for the Ravens.

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Speaker 4: As we talked about, this is.

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Speaker 3: A game that is important as they are looking to

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Speaker 3: climb out of get one game over five hundred for

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Speaker 3: the first time this season, and that would be a

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Speaker 3: big accomplishment. And then the last thing I want to

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Speaker 3: mention is that coming out tomorrow, we've got a really

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Speaker 3: really cool conversation with the legend of the Game, Michael Orr.

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Speaker 3: He's back in town for the first time since his

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Speaker 3: playing days ended, and we sat down with him on

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Speaker 3: these chairs for an episode of The Lounge and covered

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Speaker 3: a lot of ground and talking about his life and

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Speaker 3: his career. So many people know his story or a

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Speaker 3: version of his story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they know a version. He tells the true story

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 3: And Michael was somebody who I really enjoyed during his

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Speaker 3: time here, his five seasons here after being a first

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Speaker 3: round draft pick. And it's gonna be a big moment

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Speaker 3: for him to be the Legend of the Game on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to that. And again, make sure

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Speaker 3: you check out that podcast. It's dropping Saturday morning. You

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Speaker 3: can listen to it wherever you.

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Speaker 4: Get your podcasts.

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Speaker 3: You can also watch the full video on our Apple

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Speaker 3: website and our YouTube channel, so thank.

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Speaker 4: You so much for listening.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back with you again after that game on Sunday,