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The Ravens Lounge

#104: Stories From Inside Ravens Draft Room

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Senior VP Kevin Byrne has been a fly on the wall in every Ravens draft since 1996. He tells the stories from drafting Ogden (9:19), Reed (17:28) and Flacco (20:27), as well as a very tense moment (25:57). Byrne gives insight into Ozzie Newsome and his las

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0:00.0

Holy cow, look who we have number one and look who everybody else has number one.

0:07.0

You know, it is pretty startling at times. And then Brian gets a little bold and goes, you know,

0:13.0

the reason I'm here is because we don't have enough good players. As soon as Ozzie makes

0:20.0

that deal, Phil Storm's out of the room.

0:22.4

Brian Billick leaves the room, and Ozzy has to go down to each of the offices, calm

0:27.0

and bring him back.

0:45.0

Welcome into the lounge for our last pre-draft podcast.

0:49.0

You know, we've done a lot of these in terms of just dissecting every single component of the draft.

0:51.3

We did our full seven-round mock draft last week.

0:55.0

And the mock drafts, there's a lot of people that are interested in the mocks. Obviously, there's so many of them out there. We've got a number of emails from fans

0:58.6

who have provided their own mock draft. I think it's kind of fun. I like when other, when fans

1:03.2

just get in on the action and do your own mock draft. My brother was sending me his mock draft.

1:06.9

Oh yeah? How was it? Was it better than yours? You know, it was, no, I mean, mine obviously is going to be seven for seven.

1:11.6

How many picks?

1:12.6

We got seven picks, eight.

1:13.6

Eight picks, eight for eight.

1:14.6

And so you can't be any better than that, but it was close.

1:16.6

It was close.

1:17.6

Well, I'm just going to let listeners know that when you look at our final mock drafts on the website or app or wherever you go. Mine will be different from what I announced to the podcast

1:28.4

because I'm a tinkerer and I'm going to tinker and I'm going to change it up.

1:32.2

Well, what I've said is last week we phrased our mock drafts.

1:35.9

We put them out there as the final mock drafts.

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