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Speaker 1: was right. Welcome into the lounge. I'm Ran Mink and

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Speaker 1: I'm Garrett Downing, and uh, it's a lot more fun

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Speaker 1: before anybody was on the January Joe bandwagon. Here early December,

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Speaker 1: do we have to worry about the Patriots? Yes? The Patriots,

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Speaker 1: yes we do. You have to worry about them? And

427
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Speaker 1: he thinks that the game is going to come down

428
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Speaker 1: to our defense being able to stop their offense, because

429
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Speaker 1: he thinks he's buying in on our offense right now,

430
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Speaker 1: pushing all the ships in the center table. Um. I

431
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Speaker 1: kind of disagree with that notion. I think the offense

432
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Speaker 1: the Patriots defense is better than people think. They're actually

433
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Speaker 1: tied with the Ravens in scoring defense this year and

434
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Speaker 1: points loud per game, so they're pretty good. Number two

435
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Speaker 1: in the Patriots are tied with the Ravens number two

436
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 1: in the league and scoring defense. Um. But I do

437
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 1: think the Ravens defense still matches up well against New

438
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 1: England's offense. Let's look at it. They don't have Rob Gonkrowski.

439
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: That makes a big difference. He's been a matchup problem

440
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 1: for the Ravens over the years and would be I

441
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 1: think even a bigger matchup problem this year considering the

442
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 1: Ravens have gone smaller and faster at safety. I felt

443
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Speaker 1: better about it when he had Will Hi big old

444
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,640
Speaker 1: Will Hill on ground and Bernard can we bring Poller back?

445
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: The Patriots killaps them up for this game. UM. So

446
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the Patriots have as many weapons as

447
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: Neil is really worried about. I mean, they have the

448
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: one big weapon. If they got the big one, that's

449
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. But what makes Tom great is getting getting

450
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 1: it out quickly to those other guys. That woman is

451
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: still really good. But I think the Ravens match up

452
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 1: well against them. They've gone more into a running team

453
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Speaker 1: than they used to be. They rely a lot on

454
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Speaker 1: the Garrett Blunt. I think the Ravens can stop what

455
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Speaker 1: the Patriots do so well. And this is no secret

456
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: to anybody, but they can totally change up there. They're

457
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: so good at game planning and attacking your weaknesses, and

458
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:39,959
Speaker 1: they can change up their game plan. I mean, they

459
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 1: could run the ball fifty times when wee can they

460
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Speaker 1: come out there and throw it fifty the next week?

461
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Speaker 1: And they do that pretty seamlessly. They've done it throughout

462
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's time together. So I would

463
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Speaker 1: think if they're trying to attack the Ravens and they're

464
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Speaker 1: going to try to be more of a past heavy

465
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: team because nobody can run on the Ravens, and I

466
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Speaker 1: think that I still get a little nervous when there's

467
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams that have get the ball out

468
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Speaker 1: quickly and throw a lot against Ravens. That. I mean,

469
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: you look at the teams. Derek Carr had success doing that,

470
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: Eli Manning had success doing that. I know that in

471
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Speaker 1: most of that game. He didn't. I don't know. I mean,

472
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Speaker 1: I I said some yards against uh Odell back. They

473
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Speaker 1: was the big play yards, the biggest I think. I

474
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Speaker 1: think the quick passing offense. I agree with you on

475
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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Now, they're pretty vertical, even though they get

476
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Speaker 1: it out quickly, but they weren't hitting all these down

477
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Speaker 1: the field plays. It was a It was a lot

478
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Speaker 1: of big plays, methodical, A lot of it was methodical. Yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: But I think the Ravens are better suited to handle

480
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Speaker 1: the Patriots offense this year than they have been even

481
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Speaker 1: in years past when they've played pretty well against their offense,

482
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Speaker 1: generally speaking, because the Ravens are faster this year, that

483
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,199
Speaker 1: they gang tackle better, they're better tacklers this year than

484
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: they have been in years past. They can rally to

485
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 1: the ball better now than they have been able to.

486
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Speaker 1: And let's not be let's let's be frank about it.

487
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 1: There's been defensive breakdowns, communication, trick plays getting the Ravens,

488
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Speaker 1: so that kind of stuff. I think some of that

489
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: will be cleaned up by Eric wettle Well. I think

490
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: that I think the secondary this year is vastly improved

491
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Speaker 1: from the secondary that went in there. Two thousand fourteen

492
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: when the Patriots had a field day and had those race,

493
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: those two fourteen point leads, as you know in the playoffs.

494
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Eric Weddle is a great edition. Larius Webb

495
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: is playing really fantastic right now at safety. Jimmy Smith

496
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: is back. I look this up. You kind of shrug

497
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Speaker 1: your shoulders. I had bettastically. Well. I think might be

498
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: a bit of a stretcher. I think he's playing well. Yeah,

499
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: there's the only player ranked higher than where since the

500
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: bye week according to Pro Football Focus is Terrell Sucks

501
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: the only player son Yeah on defense. Yeah, so you

502
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: can shrug your shoulders and play that great. I put

503
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Speaker 1: them on my five, you know, five guys to watch,

504
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: Five unheralded players that deserve a little more credit. But

505
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: I thought you took a little too. Yeah, he's playing

506
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Speaker 1: fantastic right now. That pick was fantastic. I'll tell you that. Yeah, exactly.

507
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Speaker 1: Why do you Why do you think the Ravens play

508
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,239
Speaker 1: so well in New England? What is it about them?

509
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: Because everybody always talks, even like my friends, and there

510
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: are a few of them who are Patriots fans, and

511
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: they should count themselves lucky. My friend with allegiances like that.

512
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,199
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, Matt player. Uh, but why they

513
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: always talk about, you know, the team. They'll admit, the

514
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: team we don't want to see up there in the

515
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: playoffs is the Ravens. And they're right because we always

516
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: give them a run for their money. Why did the

517
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: Ravens place so well in doing all? Right? Well, this

518
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: is a good question. I think it goes back to

519
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: what we were saying earlier a little bit, which is

520
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: collective experiences. You've you've gone there and you've won, you've

521
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 1: had success, and then all a sudden that like then

522
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: you start to believe and you can do that. So

523
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: all the way back when when they first started having

524
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Speaker 1: success there, they then started to believe, oh we did

525
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: it once, we can do it again. And then it

526
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Speaker 1: kind of builds on itself kind of yet that kind

527
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Speaker 1: of a dozen tend they went up there for the

528
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Speaker 1: playoff game, just had a great game, and then two

529
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Speaker 1: thousand eleven, we know, we know the history. Um well,

530
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Speaker 1: I think what I think there's a few components. One

531
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Speaker 1: is it's like the perfect um villain to what they

532
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: are as a team, in the sense that the Ravens

533
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: are a team that's built on defense, and they have

534
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Speaker 1: these guys that love thriving that environment, particularly when they

535
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Speaker 1: had success, when they had obviously Terrell sugs. He kind

536
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: of embodies at Ray Lewis at read you have this defense,

537
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Speaker 1: you have a great defense that could go in there

538
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: and match up with him well from a football standpoint,

539
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: and then also loved being the defense, the big bad

540
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: defense on the road. Then the other part of it, too,

541
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Speaker 1: I think, is the offense with Joe and and this

542
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: is the yang and yang with Joe. People criticize him

543
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: for not being uh passionate enough is the buzzword obviously,

544
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Speaker 1: you know, based on what Ray say. But then when

545
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: Joe gets in these big time situations, he kind of

546
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: looks at everything the same and he just goes out

547
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: there and plays ball and he's not intimidated by a

548
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: big stage. And then maybe there's some Sunday afternoons where

549
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: he isn't amped up enough for everybody. But at the

550
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: end of the day, and I'll take the guy who

551
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: isn't intimidated more than the guy who's too amped up, exactly,

552
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: And I think that that has a lot to do

553
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Speaker 1: with him. And then everybody takes her cues from him.

554
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Speaker 1: A lot of teams come into that, into Gilette Stadium

555
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: and get intimidated because it's an intimidated place to play. Yeah,

556
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: not just I don't think like they're fans are that

557
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: crazy or that great, but it's just like, you know

558
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: how good the Patriots are. They do it for a

559
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 1: good job with game presentation. It's it's a tough place.

560
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: You always say that, you always say that it's not

561
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: a loud place to play it. I'm definitely the loud

562
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: place to when the Patriots are playing well. But I

563
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: think that you can take those fans out of the

564
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: game pretty quickly. I think you can not used to

565
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: be in down in games. And I think the Ravens

566
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Speaker 1: have done well when they've gotten them down a little

567
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: bit and that place gets real Yeah, I think pretty

568
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: much every place really gets real quiet when you take

569
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: the I'm telling you, that place is different. I'm telling you.

570
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Speaker 1: But here's why. I think part of why the Ravens

571
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: placed the well up there, and it's scheme. I think

572
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: that the Ravens scheme up the Patriots pretty darn well,

573
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: and that starts specifically on defense. Dean ps knows how

574
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: to scheme up the Patriots. Being the former Patriots defensive coordinator,

575
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: he knows what Tom Brady likes and what he doesn't like.

576
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: And the Ravens particularly are good getting pressure up the

577
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: middle with that defensive line. Tom doesn't like guys stepping

578
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: up in his face when he doesn't can't step forward

579
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Speaker 1: really kind of plant and drive or move forward into

580
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: the pocket and throw on the run. As he's kind

581
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: of moving forward that he's not as good when he's

582
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: going backwards. He's definitely not the same quarterback. Ravens have

583
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: always had good interior rush, specifically this year with Brandon Williams,

584
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: Michael Pierce, Tommy John Again, I think that gives Tom

585
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: some problems interior rush. That's huge. That it's not just

586
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: the edge rush because he gets the ball out quickly.

587
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: You need the interior rushes. Yeah, and the Ravens have

588
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: a lot of that, And I just think they scheme

589
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: up well. I think the Ravens do a good job

590
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: schematically versus the Patriots and specifically against the Steelers. There's

591
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: are two good teams to kind of know how to

592
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: scheme up. If you're gonna pick two, what's what's uh?

593
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: What's your opinion? Of Tom Brady real quick before we

594
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: wrap this up. I mean, I think the funny thing

595
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady is, you know, as Ravens saying, you're

596
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: like everyone hates him, and then in my interactions with

597
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: him on conference calls or prush conferences, I'm like, I

598
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: really like that guy. Yeah, you came away with like

599
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: a man crushed two years ago. You're like, I think

600
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: actually you were the one that came out gushing from

601
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: that conference call. Let's be honest, you both did. Yeah,

602
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: the guy comes off pretty well, and he comes across great.

603
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: He well, this is a little thing. But I don't know,

604
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: maybe this is my design, but pretty much every person

605
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: that calls, it's the PR person that calls and says, Hi,

606
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: this is so and so. With Washington Redskins, I have

607
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on the phone, this is so so. Of

608
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: the Steelers, I have Ben Roethlisberger. Let me know when

609
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: you guys already the phone rings in the media room

610
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: here and one of our PR people answers it, and

611
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: then it's just Tom Brady on the other other ends,

612
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: and it's like he's calling from his toes. He goes, hey,

613
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: this is Tom. It's literally what he said. He says, Hi,

614
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: this is Tom and everyone's like, oh, this is Tom Brady.

615
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: Here we go, and like it's a little thing, but

616
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: it kind of made you like the guy. Yeah, but

617
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: I do think that on the field, a few guys

618
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: drive me more Tom Brady, watching that guy in the

619
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: refs and all that every time he gets I still

620
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: get mad about thinking about when he spiked at Reid

621
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: and that two. I don't get mad about that. But

622
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: I was a chief play. It was a dirty play,

623
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: not just cheap. It was a dirty play. You know.

624
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: I have a tendency to sometimes play on the edge

625
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, and you should be analize and for that.

626
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: But I think I think the way he appeals to

627
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: refs and all that stuff just just not cool. Uh So,

628
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: what's your guts? Before we wrap up, what's your gut saying?

629
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: I feel good about dubs, I feel good about this game.

630
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: I just I think that the weapons of the Patriots

631
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: are missing are critical. The Ravens are riding high right now.

632
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: It's the classic like, oh, get hot at the right time.

633
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: You know, they go out and they win a big game.

634
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: In December, they played their best game of the year

635
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: right before going in there. As soon as the game

636
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: was over, they were already kind of talking. And we're

637
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: going to a place where we played a lot of

638
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: big games. We like that challenge. They're gonna be checked up,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be really fired up. Certainly the Patriots are too,

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Speaker 1: but I think that there's a little bit of their

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Speaker 1: back to being the underdog role that they relish, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I think it's there's a lot to be excited about.

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Speaker 1: If you're Ravens fan right now, I would agree. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for listening everybody. Once again, you can

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Speaker 1: reach us at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net.

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Speaker 1: Leave us a review rating, tell us how great we are,

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Speaker 1: tell me how great I am. Garrett, You can say

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Speaker 1: what you want. Thanks again for listening, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you later this week when we bring in linebacker

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Speaker 1: see J Moseley. You're gonna want to tune in for that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again,