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Speaker 1: More defenses would be intelligent to sack the box. One

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Speaker 1: We have an interesting guest this week, not our usual

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Speaker 1: kind of player guest. We're bringing on Warren Sharp from

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Speaker 1: Sharp Football analysis dot Com. Really sharp guy. I bet

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Speaker 1: he's never heard He's never I'm sure he's never heard

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Speaker 1: who is a big supporter of Lamar Jackson. Big supporter

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Speaker 1: go ahead and welcome in our guest, Warren Sharp. Well,

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Speaker 1: we are thrilled to have on Warren Sharp. He's an

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Speaker 1: analytics expert, breaks down the NFL from a film perspective,

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Speaker 1: just really awesome. And Warren is also a friend of

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and you know you've you've got our back

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Speaker 1: and you've got Lamar's back. Appreciate. Yeah, thanks for having

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Speaker 1: you check that out. One thing that we want to

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Speaker 1: ask you about is how the Ravens have really embraced analytics. Obviously,

433
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Speaker 1: this is something uh that is near and dear to you,

434
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Speaker 1: and you can just tell by listening, um that you

435
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Speaker 1: have a very an political approach to how you discussed football.

436
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Speaker 1: The Ravens have been one of the early adopters of this.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's gone back several years. John Harbaugh,

438
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Speaker 1: it involves it in his game planning, involves in a

439
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Speaker 1: game management. On Sunday's Eric Acasta has put a lot

440
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Speaker 1: into analytics from a player personnel standpoint. What do you

441
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Speaker 1: think about the way that the Ravens have the approach

442
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Speaker 1: that the Ravens have taken to analytics both from a

443
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Speaker 1: player development or player personnel standpoint and from a coaching standpoint.

444
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Speaker 1: It's the right thing to do on There's no doubt

445
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Speaker 1: about it. It's the right thing to do. More teams

446
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Speaker 1: need to be digging deeper here because there's a lot

447
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Speaker 1: to be uncovered with analytics. We have more data than

448
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Speaker 1: we've ever had before. There's more and better player tracking

449
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Speaker 1: data than we've ever had access to before. Teams now

450
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Speaker 1: have access to all other thirty one teams player tracking

451
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Speaker 1: data which we didn't used to have. And beyond that,

452
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Speaker 1: there's so much from a variety of um aspects of

453
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Speaker 1: the game that can be gained, whether we're talking about

454
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Speaker 1: pregame preparation for your opponent, whether we're talking about better

455
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: ways of self scouting, whether we're talking about in game

456
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Speaker 1: decision making, Like there's a lot that can be gained there.

457
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Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny to me. I hear a

458
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Speaker 1: guy like Jason Garrett last season talking about, you know,

459
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Speaker 1: the like in game win percentage and is it something

460
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Speaker 1: that they look at in game And his quote was

461
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Speaker 1: something to the effect of, we review it between weeks,

462
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Speaker 1: but we don't look at it in games. It's like,

463
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Speaker 1: that's the whole purpose of it is to use it

464
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Speaker 1: during the game to help make better decisions. What's the

465
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Speaker 1: benefit looking at after the fact, just to see how

466
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Speaker 1: many mistakes you cost yourself. So, Um, the Ravens do

467
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Speaker 1: a great job of using analytics in games. They use

468
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Speaker 1: analytics pregame, they use analytics for self scouting. Uh, they're

469
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Speaker 1: probably studying tendencies around the rest of the league, conducting

470
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Speaker 1: a lot of studies, um, using it from a drafting perspective,

471
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Speaker 1: looking at guys from college, what aspects of them translate

472
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Speaker 1: the best they're They're literally like, we we have the

473
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Speaker 1: eyeball test. We have a lot of things that we

474
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Speaker 1: can do with our eyes and with our scouts, and

475
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Speaker 1: there's important things that could be gained from all of that,

476
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Speaker 1: and that's not something that should be replaced by utilizing

477
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Speaker 1: more analytics, but you absolutely need to consult with the

478
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Speaker 1: numbers and consult with better numbers and continue to strive

479
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Speaker 1: to work to get better numbers, more effective numbers into

480
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Speaker 1: your decision making process. And I think the Ravens are

481
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Speaker 1: at the forefront absolutely of how they incorporate the analytics

482
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Speaker 1: and the people that run the analytics into their system

483
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Speaker 1: on a day to day basis throughout everything that they're doing,

484
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Speaker 1: all processes, all decisions, and it's very commendable. Do you

485
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Speaker 1: know our guys Daniel Stern is the coaching analytics I

486
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Speaker 1: I actually have met with Aniel before and uh it

487
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Speaker 1: was was very impressed with him. Yes, I do know.

488
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Speaker 1: He's always a fun conversation. Yeah, who who Yeah, I'm curious,

489
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Speaker 1: Like you said, you consult with teams like you're a consultant.

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Speaker 1: Is that like a lot of teams. Have the Ravens

491
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Speaker 1: ever reached out to you? I'm just curious. Um, I can't.

492
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Speaker 1: I can't really get into the details, like what I

493
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Speaker 1: What I do is I do a lot of work

494
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Speaker 1: from a strategical perspective, helping with upcoming game plans for

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Speaker 1: various opponents, and so it does incorporate self scout, It

496
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Speaker 1: does incorporate um a lot of opponent weaknesses and ways

497
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Speaker 1: that we can attack them. And I basically am working

498
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Speaker 1: in season preparing reports and giving it to teams, you know,

499
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Speaker 1: like nine days eight days before they're about to play

500
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Speaker 1: their upcoming opponent, so that they have the report in

501
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Speaker 1: advance of when they're doing their own pregame work, so

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Speaker 1: that they can incorporate it into their process. And you know,

503
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Speaker 1: some of the teams that I'm I'm assisting are already

504
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Speaker 1: very analytical in their approach. But my outside the box

505
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Speaker 1: way that I look at things times, and also a

506
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Speaker 1: voice from outside the building sometimes leads to new thoughts

507
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Speaker 1: and new ideas that aren't being circulated and discussed inside

508
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Speaker 1: in the building. UM. You know, I've had opportunities and

509
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Speaker 1: offers to work full time for a singular team, but UM,

510
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Speaker 1: I've chosen to continue to do what I do, which

511
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Speaker 1: is like a consulting service, uh, working for a couple

512
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Speaker 1: of different teams. Now we we we we teased you here.

513
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Speaker 1: We opened up saying you're a friend of the Ravens,

514
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Speaker 1: you would never ever provide any information scouting against Lamar Jackson.

515
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Speaker 1: I I cannot comment on that, but what I will

516
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Speaker 1: say what what I what I will say is is

517
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Speaker 1: clearly you know that there is value in what the

518
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Speaker 1: services that I provide. And if I was, if I

519
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Speaker 1: was working for a team, I would certainly not work

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Speaker 1: against that team at any point in time. I'm not

521
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Speaker 1: even going to work for another team within that division. So, um,

522
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Speaker 1: you can you can, you can feel somewhat confident. Hey.

523
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Speaker 1: So another thing that is beyond working with with some teams.

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Speaker 1: Another part of what you do is is you provide

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Speaker 1: some insight for the bettors out there, you know, for

526
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Speaker 1: the gamblers to try to nswer people some money. So

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Speaker 1: I want to hit you with a couple of quick

528
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Speaker 1: over unders here, um, and get your perspective on these, uh,

529
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Speaker 1: to see what we think. All right, So some are

530
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: focused on individual players summer team based, but um, well

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Speaker 1: we can move quick on these. So over under wins

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens. Yeah, I mean always when you're talking

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Speaker 1: about sports betting, Number one, I'll go ahead and tease

534
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Speaker 1: the book, the Football Preview, because there's a lot of

535
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Speaker 1: stuff that's going to be in there, and it's going

536
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Speaker 1: going to go live beginning of July. But um, with

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Speaker 1: regard to betting, Okay, the first thing that you have

538
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Speaker 1: to think about is value. It's not just whether or

539
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Speaker 1: not something could happen, but is there value in tying

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Speaker 1: up your money and placing your bet. And when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about these full season wind toll goals, you're talking

542
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Speaker 1: about tying up your money all the way until the

543
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Speaker 1: beginning of January. Um So, betting on a team to

544
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Speaker 1: go over thirteen wins is really not something that is

545
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Speaker 1: going to be profitable long term, regardless of who the

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Speaker 1: team is, because we know injuries occur and it's very

547
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Speaker 1: difficult to do that. I think the Ravens are well positioned,

548
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: but I think that it's not something I would think

549
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Speaker 1: presents a lot of value from a betting perspective. Mhm m.

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Speaker 1: Because how about over under a thousand rushing yards for

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. I mean, this is always kind of one

552
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Speaker 1: of those debates, is he going to run the ball less?

553
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Speaker 1: Should he run the ball less? Last year he went

554
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Speaker 1: over a thousand yards in about fourteen games because he

555
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Speaker 1: set out the last game and set out basically a

556
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Speaker 1: full another game with all the all the fourth quarters

557
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Speaker 1: he spent on the bench. Um So, over under a

558
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Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards for Lamar. Yeah, that one um I

559
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: think is similarly tricky because the element that he has

560
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Speaker 1: going for him, which I think is a really unique

561
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Speaker 1: this season, is only one team gets a bye week,

562
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Speaker 1: and when you look at that, there's going to be

563
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Speaker 1: more competition for that spot, and teams down the stretch

564
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: aren't going to be able to let up the gas

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Speaker 1: and you know, like he did, didn't he was able

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Speaker 1: to sit out one game, and that's probably going to

567
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Speaker 1: be unlikely this upcoming season. So that's actually one of

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Speaker 1: the things that I'm focusing on when I'm studying these teams.

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Speaker 1: Just to digress a little bit, like I love how

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Speaker 1: you have a week eight bye, but then you also

571
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Speaker 1: have a mini buy between week thirteen and fourteen where

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Speaker 1: you play on Thursday night and then not again until Monday.

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Speaker 1: That's a long stretch of extra rest late in the season,

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Speaker 1: and you're going to have you know that that by

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Speaker 1: week but it's not guaranteed, but at least with a

576
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: very late mini buy, that's going to help your team.

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Speaker 1: In terms of Lamar, look, you can always talk about

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Speaker 1: him being dinged up. I personally don't think that there

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Speaker 1: is a lot of value in going over a thousand

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Speaker 1: rushing yards. But I'm absolutely not betting against Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to. Because you don't take the over

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you automatically want to take the under. There's

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Speaker 1: no chance I would bet against him to do that.

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Speaker 1: But I do think, like we saw this past season,

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Speaker 1: um more defenses would be intelligent to stack the box

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00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: to put more defenders there, and we saw all three

587
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: teams that played him twice last season do that very thing.

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Speaker 1: So if more teams are gonna put more defenders in

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Speaker 1: the box, one of two things is going to happen.

590
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: Either he's not gonna have quite as many rushing yards

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Speaker 1: number one, or or he's gonna be able to bust

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Speaker 1: some runs where there's very few second level defenders that

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Speaker 1: he has to deal with. Like you could look at

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Speaker 1: that and spin it to be a positive. I think

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Speaker 1: we're going to see more passing out of Lamar, and

596
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: defenses are going to stack the box and it's going

597
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Speaker 1: to be tight for him to exceed that one thousand

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Speaker 1: yard mark. M Well, Lauren, you you kind of tease it,

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Speaker 1: and before we let you go, I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: kind of ask you open any question you said you're

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Speaker 1: just wrapping up your book, Lauren Shark Football Preview, which

602
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Speaker 1: will be out in a month's veil for pre sale

603
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: at Shark Football Analysis dot com. Uh, you already wrote

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Speaker 1: the Ravens chapter. Can you give us any kind of

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00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: preview on some interesting nuggets from that? Um? Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, digging into kind of what you've done defensively,

607
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: and obviously there's a lot of Lamar Jackson love in there,

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Speaker 1: but you're certainly talking about the pass rush. Um, some

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00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: of the improvements you made. I'm a big Patrick Queen fans,

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Speaker 1: so I can just tell you that much off the top.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a great three on

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00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: player for you right away. Um, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I do talk a little bit about what is the

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Speaker 1: next step in this offense, what are defense is going

615
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: to do, a little bit more of what are the

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Speaker 1: stats behind that, how did the Ravens perform against those things?

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Speaker 1: And talk a little bit about the projections for the season. Um.

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00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: So there's a lot and every single team chapter is

619
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: to understanding what happened last year and why it happened,

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Speaker 1: and then discussing the changes in the evolution of this

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Speaker 1: team and what I think they should do next year

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00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: from personnel a play calling perspective, UM, as well as

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Speaker 1: where I think they'll actually go. And for some teams

624
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more discussion uh in that area

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00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: because you have different quarterbacks or different coaches and things

626
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: of that nature. For you guys, I think that's another

627
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: big advantage that you have this offseason is the continuity

628
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: because right now we would have been having many camps already,

629
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Speaker 1: we would have been having teams getting together to work

630
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 1: on a lot of different things, getting to know some

631
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: of the new players on that team. We don't have that,

632
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: unfortunately we But you guys are in such a great

633
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: position whereby you didn't have a lot of changes structurally offensively,

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00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: you know you've got a key piece that you after

635
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: a place obviously in like Marshall, get on up. But

636
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: you guys have a lot of the bones of the

637
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: same team that you brought last year that really crushed it,

638
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: exceeded expectations, hit that four team win mark. UM. So

639
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot going for you. I also think it's

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00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting, again digressing a little bit from your question,

641
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: but the book touches on the element of with many unknowns,

642
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: with this offseason. That actually is an advantage to teams

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00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: that not just have the continuity, but I think teams

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00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: that are more analytically sound and analytically structured because they

645
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: probably are making more intelligent decisions about what they want

646
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Speaker 1: to study and cover in their zoom meetings. I mean

647
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: it gets down to that level of detail whereby the

648
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Speaker 1: general thought process that you've established by understanding analytics and

649
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: factoring those more into your daily decisions will help you

650
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Speaker 1: be better at the unknown and making more sound decisions.

651
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Speaker 1: So I think you guys actually will have an edge

652
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Speaker 1: compared to some other teams and how you're studying this offseason,

653
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your players, UH during the times

654
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Speaker 1: you're able to visit with them when they can't be

655
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Speaker 1: at the facilities, And I just think that this is

656
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Speaker 1: a big advantage for you and teams that are built

657
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Speaker 1: like you from an analytical perspective. That's great, well, Warren,

658
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate the time, the perspective, and the insight.

659
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and again, UH fans, make sure

660
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: you check out short Football analysis dot com. Warren does

661
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: a great job all year long, and I'm sure that

662
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be telling the good news about Lamar Jackson

663
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Speaker 1: once again. So thanks so much. It's great to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you. Hey, thanks for having me. Guys, happy

665
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Speaker 1: to do it anytime. Well, really good stuff from Warren. Uh,

666
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Speaker 1: just a unique perspective, you know. I think it's been good.

667
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Speaker 1: We brought in Kevin mccusick breakdown film with us, bring

668
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Speaker 1: a different perspective. We like, we gotta bring on smarter

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Speaker 1: people than us, and I know that limits the guests, right,

670
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's only a few people in the world,

671
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Speaker 1: probably the whole world, but we find them. We we

672
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Speaker 1: we seek them out and we get them on the pot.

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Speaker 1: Well that's that's why if fans are wondering why we

674
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Speaker 1: only have one podcast this week instead of you know, multiple,

675
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Speaker 1: that's why we've been seeking out these people who are

676
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Speaker 1: smarter than us, and that really limits our options. So, uh,

677
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: we are down to one podcast a week right now.

678
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 1: If you are we will We might have some weeks

679
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Speaker 1: when we do multiple podcasts. It somewhat depends on what's happening,

680
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: as fans know. Uh, there has not been a lot

681
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: of new developments, um, you know, in terms of player

682
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: movements or anything like that. Um, there have been developments

683
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: and that things are moving towards training camp and looking

684
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: good in that department. Coaches are back in the building

685
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: that this week, which is really encouraging. That's a really

686
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: good sign. Um. And if you roll in there behind them,

687
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,479
Speaker 1: you you're right behind harves of truck. I was not there.

688
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: I think we had a great video guy who got

689
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Speaker 1: that footage of Hardball walking into the building this morning,

690
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Speaker 1: who might be editing this pot as well, right. I

691
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Speaker 1: think our great videographer Nick Moda sett best in the

692
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Speaker 1: business who got that lovely shot of coach hard Bile

693
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Speaker 1: walking into building today. But things are moving in the

694
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: right direction for football this season without question. Um. So

695
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: that's really good news. Um. And I hope hopefully the

696
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: guys are on the field soon and we get to

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Speaker 1: actually see practice and have that to discuss, which will

698
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: be really good. So we do have a couple of

699
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: emails that we want to read before we wrap up today. UM.

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Speaker 1: So here's one from Will Saunders. Will says, Hey, Ryan Garrett,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for for replaying the ant kuon Bolden

702
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: interview and reading the Steve Bishai during last week's podcast.

703
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: Many agree that the Ravens have improved the roster since

704
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: last season? With all the changes, how will situational football

705
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: for the Ravens change? I have a scenario for you now.

706
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: He just wants to focus on the defense. Here. Uh,

707
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Speaker 1: here's the scenario. Ravens at Steelers, fourth quarter, third and

708
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Speaker 1: twelve for Pittsburgh at midfield. Ravens defenses on the field.

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Speaker 1: They're up by three with a couple of minutes left.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's this is like the game in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: last Year's similar? Yeah, pretty much? Which Who are the

712
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Speaker 1: eleven defenders that you expect to see on the field

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Speaker 1: for Baltimore? Oh boy, we're going through the whole list. Okay,

714
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Speaker 1: I gotta go deep. Well some of them are, I

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Speaker 1: mean sorry, we'll go Earl Thomas h Chuck Clark obviously.

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Speaker 1: I think we're going Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters. I expect

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Speaker 1: Tavon Young would probably be on the field. I'm putting

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Speaker 1: I would put Jimmy Smith on the field. How about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna add Jimmy extra dB. Yeah, we have four dvs.

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Speaker 1: Third and twelve, fourth and twelve, third and twelve, third

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Speaker 1: and twelve, third and twelve. Can we make it fourth

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Speaker 1: and twelve? I mean is that five minutes left? Five

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Speaker 1: minutes left, okay, five minutes left, mm hmm. I mean

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Speaker 1: Jimmy could be on the field still. I mean, you

725
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Speaker 1: know that gives you six d B. That's six dvs,

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Speaker 1: which isn't certainly isn't unheard of. So sure, I'm going

727
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Speaker 1: Jimmy's on the field. Um, Patrick Queen is an inside linebacker,

728
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Speaker 1: and he's the only inside linebacker on the field because

729
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: Chuck Clark could also kind of drop down if need

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Speaker 1: be with Jimmy on the field. Uh. And then so now,

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Speaker 1: but seven, we have Matt is eight. Let's say we

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Speaker 1: have Taias Bowser is not. Yeah, Tias Bowser is nine.

733
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Speaker 1: Because we're talking pure pass rush, I think that he

734
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Speaker 1: probably gets ahead of Jalen at that spot. And um,

735
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Speaker 1: and then I'm going plays Campbell, Derek Wolfe and Justin

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Speaker 1: matter bk Wait. I think you put like fifteen guys

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Speaker 1: on the field. How many was that? Three? I had

738
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Speaker 1: three up front? I had three up front, I had

739
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Speaker 1: two outside linebackers. That's five. I have six. I'm one over.

740
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: I had six with Queen, and then I had six dbs.

741
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Speaker 1: Who am I taking off? Who am I taking off?

742
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: I'm taking matter b k off. Sorry, sorry to the

743
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: What about Brandon Williams? You know you think Brandon Williams

744
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: is off? Yeah? Yeah, or maybe Tias is off. Man,

745
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,439
Speaker 1: that's tough. When you got six dbs, you have six

746
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: more spots. You can have three and three. What am

747
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: I doing wrong here? No, no, idiot, you got five more? Man,

748
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Speaker 1: I got too many men on the field, flags flying,

749
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: I got flags flying everybody. Well, yeah, yeah, it's it's

750
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Speaker 1: it's now third and third and five because make put

751
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Speaker 1: guys on the fields. No, it's third and seven, bra

752
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Speaker 1: twelve five math Si, No, No, it's it's it's third.

753
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: It's like it's third in whatever. Uh what is it

754
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Speaker 1: fourth or twelve? Okay, So here's just a man because

755
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: because both times, even after you adjusted, you still put

756
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: too many guys on the field. You're an idiot to see.

757
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: This is why it's hard to find people who are

758
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: started in this right. So it's really tough. Oh God, alright,

759
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: there's your question. I hope that answered it. Wow, Yeah,

760
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Speaker 1: we're not math majors. I wasn't a math made right,

761
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: because speaking for myself, I know Garrett wasn't you? But

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Speaker 1: I think, hey, look I agree with you on the

763
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Speaker 1: six d bs. I think that Tavon Young and Jamie

764
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: would be out there and Patrick Queen. That gets you

765
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Speaker 1: to seven. Then the two linebackers, the two outside linebackers

766
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: are Jude On and Tius Bowser. And then now you

767
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 1: have two guys in the trenches. It's greatest and wolf

768
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: right and if you want to get I guess right,

769
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Speaker 1: which third and twelve that could be the case. Sure, yeah, yeah,

770
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: could be do you man rush interest? Yeah? So good question,

771
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: appreciate it, good questions. Sorry for butchering it. I had

772
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Speaker 1: a clean up. I had a clean up. Scraps there,

773
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Speaker 1: get out of here to clean up the scraps and

774
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: trying to answer that question. So don't you have an email?

775
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right, I do have an email. This

776
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: one comes from Leslie Wilkinson, and Leslie asked. She says, Hi, there,

777
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Speaker 1: I'd love the interview with d J. Fluker. Really appreciate

778
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Speaker 1: how appreciated how much he opened up and shared about himself,

779
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: allowing us to get to know him. I have a

780
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: feeling he will be a force to be reckoned with

781
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: on the O line this season. I agree, she does ask,

782
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Speaker 1: let's try not to compare him with marce Leona because

783
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: he's clearly uniquely himself. UM So, Leslie just unfair to

784
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Speaker 1: compare anybody to Marconda. So there's also true um Leslie said.

785
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Speaker 1: I also wanted to mention that I love the idea

786
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Speaker 1: of an international show including fans from across the globe.

787
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: My daughter and I live in Toronto and my son

788
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: in Winnipeg, and all three of us are Avid Ravens fans.

789
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Speaker 1: You already know my love for Canada, Leslie already stated.

790
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Our love of the Ravens is a glue, a common

791
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: interest as we go about our busy lives. We've been

792
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: to Games of Baltimore in Miami and most recently in

793
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Go Ravens. So I I think we need to

794
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: start making this happen. Garrett, I know, I don't think

795
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: you were on the episode. I think it was the

796
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: one with Cliff right with d J. Fluker where we

797
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: talked about doing the international pod. But are you down?

798
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think it'd be great? I mean,

799
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: if you remember, this is going back to when we

800
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: played at London. We did a live episode of the

801
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Lounge from London and we had a number of international

802
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: fans who were in you from the pub, from a pub,

803
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: which is the best place to do the louche from exactly.

804
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Speaker 1: So that was a lot of fun. And maybe we

805
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: do a virtual version of that this year and have

806
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: some international fans from all across the country jump on.

807
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a lot of fun. I agree.

808
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: So if if you want to be part of that,

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00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start putting the wheels in motion here. If

810
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of that, emails at

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00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: the lounge at even the NFL dot net, and we'll

812
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: see how much feedback we get from this. Uh. If

813
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: we can get like a good enough little crowd here

814
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: and uh and we'll put it together, we'll make it happen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. So before we go, I want fans to

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