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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge, presented by Draft Kings. Big news,

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Speaker 1: big news coming across the wire this morning. Todd Munkin

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Speaker 1: has been hired as the Ravens next offensive coordinator. Thirty

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Speaker 1: four year coaching veteran, last with Georgia, won back to

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Speaker 1: back national championships. Also has an NFL background as the

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the Cleveland Brownsampa Bay Buccaneers. It's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of different places, had a lot of success

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Speaker 1: over those places, and we're gonna break it all down

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Speaker 1: for you right now, Garrett. First impressions of the hire. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean this is something that we were everyone's kind

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Speaker 1: of been sitting on pins and needles over the past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks as the Ravens have gone through this process.

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Speaker 1: John Harball, in a statement, said that the Ravens interviewed

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Speaker 1: fourteen candidates, and with those fourteen candidates, they conducted twenty

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Speaker 1: one interviews and there was people throughout the organization who

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Speaker 1: were involved in the process. Yeah, exactly. They came by,

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Speaker 1: they sat in the lounge. The lounge we're gonna we're

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Speaker 1: gonna release those files of the lounge had another date.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's a joke, but they have been cool. That

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Speaker 1: would have been cool. Maybe next time. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: but they met with multiple people who within the organization,

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Speaker 1: and what John Harbaugh said in his statement is that

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Speaker 1: Todd's leadership and coaching acumen were evident from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: He has a proven track packer for designing and teaching

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Speaker 1: offensive systems that allow players to succeed at the highest level.

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Speaker 1: We're excited to get to work and began building an

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Speaker 1: offense that will help us compete for championships. So my

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Speaker 1: initial reaction is that the Ravens got a very accomplished

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Speaker 1: coach who's coming off two straight national championships in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's good to hire people who've

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Speaker 1: had success and Monkey has not had There's nobody on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side who's had more success than Monk in

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Speaker 1: over the past few years at the coage football level.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, he's worked with he's worked with

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Speaker 1: great players there, and he's taken the talents of those

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Speaker 1: great players and turned that into helped to turn that

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Speaker 1: into championships along with you know, George has got a

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Speaker 1: great coaching staff. But so it is it's exciting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that like this is you know, as we've

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Speaker 1: gone through this process over the past few weeks, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think that the Ravens, like they interviewed some

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Speaker 1: really good candidates, and we said many times over the

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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks like I don't know who's got

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Speaker 1: the lead? Yeah, who's the leader in the clubhouse here? Right,

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Speaker 1: So I think we were all sort of waiting, just

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Speaker 1: like everybody else, and then Monkin ends up being the guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well it's Valentine's Day. So I'm gonna say I love

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Speaker 1: this higher Yeah, thank you very much. And you know

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Speaker 1: what I like about it beyond you know, you have

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Speaker 1: success at the NFL level, you have success at the

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Speaker 1: college football level, right, And I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people looked to the college football game and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's where the next kind of great scheme ideas and

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Speaker 1: all that are coming from. Right, Well, this guy had

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Speaker 1: one of the best offenses in college football. Right. So

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Speaker 1: over the past few years, the offense ranked number five

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Speaker 1: in the country and points per game almost forty points

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Speaker 1: thirty nine point eight and number eight in scrimmage yards

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Speaker 1: per game four hundred and seventy two. Right, So you

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Speaker 1: can see that sure there, all this innovative stuff at

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Speaker 1: the college game. Well, Monkin's offense, and you know you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: of course he had great players, right, but you can

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Speaker 1: oftentimes there's guys who have great players and they don't

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Speaker 1: have great offenses. Right, there's other big time programs. This

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Speaker 1: was great players, great coaching. That's how you get forty

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Speaker 1: you show that you have this track record success among

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Speaker 1: of college. And you bring this NFL experience, right, So

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Speaker 1: you have play calling experience at this level. Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: matters I think a lot. And on top of that,

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Speaker 1: a really good schematic and philosophical fit I think for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Right, So the Bulldogs the past couple of years,

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Speaker 1: they their most common package was twelve personnel. That's one

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Speaker 1: That's not really how the Ravens are built right now.

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Speaker 1: John Harball is not you know, doesn't have this background

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Speaker 1: we want to be a physical offense that's running the ball,

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Speaker 1: Todd Munkin brings in his kind of philosophy as well.

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Speaker 1: the past few years they've been the best rushing offense

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Speaker 1: don't think you want to just they want to elevate

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Speaker 1: Here's what one thing I like about kind of what

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Speaker 1: was just like this is a totally different offense. Yep,

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Speaker 1: it's part of what makes him special. But I think

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