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Speaker 1: missed this place. Welcome into the Lounge, presented by DraftKings.

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Speaker 1: It is a busy week in the Lounge. This week

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Speaker 1: can tell that he's fired up to be back here totally.

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting to think about the Ravens defensive line

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Speaker 1: as it stands now, right. I mean, you have some

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Speaker 1: options that defensive tackle looks pretty good. Yeah, yeah, Michael Pierce.

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Speaker 1: You have Justin Matdibike. You have Broderick Washington coming back,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Crawford, another young player knows tackle, you know. Now,

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Speaker 1: Jelly Ellis just signed with the New York Giants. Um,

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Speaker 1: so he's out of the picture. But I like the

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Speaker 1: Ravens depth and and and talent at defensive tackle. Brandon

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Speaker 1: Williams is still a free agent. Rains to be seen

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Speaker 1: what happens with him exactly. Um, And what is market

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Speaker 1: is like out there? Um? But you know, defensive end

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Speaker 1: I think is still a little bit of a question

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Speaker 1: mark as of now. You have Calais Campbell still sitting

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Speaker 1: out on the market. You have Derek Wolfe who's now

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Speaker 1: coming off the hip surgery. So I think that I

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Speaker 1: like what the Ravens have done on the defensive line

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Speaker 1: so far, but I wouldn't say that they're done. No,

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Speaker 1: I do not think that they're done. And I go

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Speaker 1: back to what Eric to Costa has said a couple

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Speaker 1: of times now, and that the Ravens want to inject

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Speaker 1: the raft is going to be a spot where they

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Speaker 1: hit that maybe a few times. Like I could see

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Speaker 1: a couple of defensive linemen selected that they might they

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Speaker 1: could go early. I mean they could you know, my

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Speaker 1: guy Travon Walker, well yeah, now I see him going

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Speaker 1: what second overall? Col Jordan Davis is the other one,

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Speaker 1: obviously the big guy from Georgia who had a great

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Speaker 1: combine Jones from Connecticut. Yeah, so I could see them

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Speaker 1: addressing d line from Georgia. Yeah, there's like five Georgia guys.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I just picked take your pick one of

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Speaker 1: Georgia guys. Throw a dark Georgia again just that way

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Speaker 1: about their entire defense. Um. So, so yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that they're not done. I definitely think they're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up adding and I think that with with Michael. One thing,

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Speaker 1: uh that that I really like about him, and he

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Speaker 1: talked about this, is he does feel like he's going

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Speaker 1: to bring a little more pass rush and I'll be

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Speaker 1: curious to see if the Ravens kind of try to

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Speaker 1: unlock that a little bit because when he woulde previously

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Speaker 1: may not have needed it, where now it's more of

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Speaker 1: a need, especially as Hayas bous was coming back from

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Speaker 1: from the torn achilling, so the Ravens may rely on

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Speaker 1: him to get the quarterback a little bit more. Three

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Speaker 1: sacks and eight games, you know, it's not like you're

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Speaker 1: putting up monster numbers there, but that's a career high

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Speaker 1: for him. And I think that, you know, if he

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Speaker 1: can get between five and seven sacks like that would

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Speaker 1: really help us defense in a in a big way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that that Michael Pierce is a

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle that's more suited for today's game, right like you,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens still needs somebody to stuff the run, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you can't just you can't just have me and

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Speaker 1: you out there on the defensive line. Like if you

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Speaker 1: have a problem, if you have a weak defensive line

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Speaker 1: and you're getting run on, that's an issue like if

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Speaker 1: you can't stop the run, and and as as much

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Speaker 1: as it's become a passing league, that mentality is not

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Speaker 1: going to change in Baltimore. Like you have to be

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Speaker 1: able to stop the run because then you allow those

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks to kind of feast in third and ten and

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Speaker 1: third and long situations. Right. Um, So the Ravens still

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Speaker 1: need Michael Pierce to come in and be a premier

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Speaker 1: run defender first and foremost, justin Matta Bike also needs

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Speaker 1: to be good against the run. But I still think

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Speaker 1: that he's probably the Ravens top interior pass rusher. But

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if Michael Pierce is on

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Speaker 1: the field from where of those reps. Now, if they

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Speaker 1: don't have somebody like Zadarius Smith who he mentioned previously

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Speaker 1: in his first snitt with the Ravens that would kind

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Speaker 1: of come inside a Prenell McPhee who would come down

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Speaker 1: and kind of rush interior and then let that gave

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Speaker 1: the Ravens the ability to get another outside linebacker on

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Speaker 1: the field, right, like those guys could kind of collapse

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Speaker 1: inside on third down for your pass rushers package. Um,

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Speaker 1: if the Ravens don't necessarily have that, that guy. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe they draft that guy or whatever, then I could

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Speaker 1: see some more reps on third down or whatever from

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Speaker 1: Michael Pierce. I mean, really, you're hoping he gets a

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Speaker 1: lot of those sacks on first and second down, right,

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Speaker 1: Like it's like play action sacks or whatever. He's in

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Speaker 1: there to stop the run, but they end up throwing

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Speaker 1: and he still blows up the pocket. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: agree with you that if he and Mattabeke both can

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Speaker 1: provide good solid rush up the middle, that can do

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Speaker 1: a lot to help the Ravens outside pass rushes. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I think it all, it all kind of goes together.

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Speaker 1: And like he said, there was the expectation was different,

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Speaker 1: you know, like there was Terrell Suggs, you know, earlier

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Speaker 1: in his career, there was Zadarius Smith, Like you had

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Speaker 1: these other guys that where he didn't need to go

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Speaker 1: and provide really any pass rush that wasn't what was

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Speaker 1: asked of him. So that Brandon backup essentially, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that responsibility could change and likely will change, and I

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Speaker 1: think that he'll be able to to get after the

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Speaker 1: quarterback a little bit. So I'm excited to have him back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just chatting with him a little bit before

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Speaker 1: and after, he's really fired up to be here. I

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Speaker 1: just think he's somebody that fits this team. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: he was an undrafted guy who made a career here,

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Speaker 1: got a big paid a Minnesota, and then comes back

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Speaker 1: here in this three year contract. And I think that

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Speaker 1: he's he recognizes that that he kind of grew up here,

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Speaker 1: and I think that returning means a lot to him. Well,

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Speaker 1: he got the Juggernaut nickname because he was just like

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Speaker 1: blowing up people in practice. That's actually when it started

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Speaker 1: from through all Suggs and and it is he's like

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Speaker 1: that kind of explosive player where you know, you're not

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Speaker 1: used to seeing like wild plays by a defensive tackle,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes you see Michael Pierce just straight tossed you

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Speaker 1: and like that's it's just kind of exciting to have

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Speaker 1: that kind of presence in the middle for sure. So

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Speaker 1: he's not the only undrafted guy who the Ravens resigned.

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Speaker 1: Also added Patrick Riccardot added resigned Patrick Ricard this week.

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Speaker 1: Uh and we got Patrick Rickard and so you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a chance to hear him on the podcast. The

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Speaker 1: podcast guests just keep rolling on Ray Lewis, Joshi Brown,

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Speaker 1: Michael Pierce, and then coming up a little bit later

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Speaker 1: in a few days, we're gonna have Patrick Cards so

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Speaker 1: and then it's April that's draft set. Then we gotta

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Speaker 1: start getting our draft experts to get DJ on, get

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Speaker 1: our guyl on. Yes, it's an annual pot, absolutely so

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Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Anyway, you can always reach us

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Speaker 1: at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net and

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Speaker 1: we will be back with you next week