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The Ravens Lounge

#111: Ozzie Newsome Stops by The Lounge

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Hall of Fame player and long-time general manager discusses his last year as the Ravens' GM (4:55), learning from Bill Belichick (13:22), the emotions of shaking President Barack Obama's hand (17:50) and the memorable trade he made while on the treadmill (10:51).

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0:00.0

As I sat there and got emotional, my emotion was, you know, this all happened because

0:08.0

I had a lot of good people that worked with me.

0:11.0

I would be in the same position as Ray did when he left the game, when John Elway, when he left the game, and when Payton Manning.

0:18.0

I envy those guys and I like to be able to walk away from the game in this position,

0:23.6

you know, holding that trophy.

0:25.6

I go, yeah, hey, dog, I don't do this anymore, you know.

0:29.6

You talk someone else, you know.

0:31.6

I don't need this headache.

0:33.6

I don't need this headache. Welcome into the lounge for our best lounge episode ever.

0:49.8

Oh, you're starting it off already.

0:51.0

Yeah.

0:51.8

Before we even get into the meat of it, you're setting the bar that high. I mean, we have Ozzie Newsom on the lounge today. Yeah. That's a pretty big guest.

1:00.0

Hall of Famer. Yeah, pretty awesome. So we are really, really excited about this. We want to talk about

1:05.5

the emails that came flooding in after your Bush League on the travel draft, but it seems a little odd to read all of

1:15.2

these before we get to Ozzie. We don't want to keep him waiting. Right, exactly. So we'll get

1:18.8

to those after the discussion. Yeah, so let's go ahead and welcome in our GM, Ozzie Newsom.

1:24.7

Now, you don't do this interview for everybody, so we got to start this out.

1:28.1

How are we lucky enough to score this? You were patient. Oh, all right. Just like you.

1:34.8

You know, that's what everybody says about you, Ozzie. Your patience is your best virtue.

1:37.9

I guess nobody's said that about me, but I'll take it. We've been watching Ozzie for all these years we've learned something it's true his patience it's true it's true so now that

1:45.8

minicamp is done Ozzie is it time to hit the links or what do you have playing for the next month well yeah some golf uh go back to Alabama uh get a chance to spend some time with my 94 year old mother

1:58.8

so but a lot of golf and little football.

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