Pearl Thomas is a complete dog. I mean, this guy is someone who plays with fury and passion,

and I think he's still got it. OJ's incredible, and the fact that he's still a part of the

Ravens community and is still a part of everything that Baltimore stands for, I just love that

man, and I mean, obviously it puts everything in perspective.

I got to tell you, the passion's real, the love is real.

And I just appreciate that fan base so much.

Welcome into the lounge. There is no mink in the lounge this week. It's vacation season. You know, once the weather starts to turn, I always feel like that's where we lose mink. You know, that's where once the sun starts coming out, then we through daylight savings time that's where make becomes uh you know pop in pop out in here occasionally so this is

the time of year where we are so clifton brown is stepping in for mink this week appreciate it

appreciate it big shoes of fill mink guesses i don't, undisclosed location somewhere in the world.

Right.

But until he gets back, we're going to try and hold it down.

We're going to hold down the lounge until he gets back.

So we have an interview with Peter Stranger.

We're going to get into it.

But before we do that, Cliff, I just want to get kind of your big picture take on what the last

10 days have looked like for the ravens yeah it's been a

whirlwind i mean players coming players going we all know the significant names that have left

you know flaco sucks mosley weddle i mean cesarius it has not been what you would call a normal offseason, in my opinion.

But, you know, obviously getting Earl Thomas, you got to be excited about that.

Mark Engram, Justin Bethel, a great special teams player.

So it's a new transition.

And, you know, with Eric DeCosso, first offseason in General Manager, really interesting. So let's go ahead and jump in with my

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