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The Ravens Lounge

#420: Ben Powers Joins The Lounge

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ravens LG Ben Powers talks about his journey of going from getting zero college offers to becoming a starting NFL lineman, talks about the Ravens' rushing attack, and being forever connected with Mo Gaba.

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0:00.0

Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

0:03.0

We have the pleasure of sitting down with Ben Powers today.

0:06.0

And Ben, I gotta start here.

0:08.0

Okay, this is one of these questions I've been wanting to ask for a little while.

0:11.0

Do you ever introduce yourself as Powers?

0:14.0

Ben Powers.

0:15.0

No, I don't.

0:16.0

Dang! Really? You never tempted?

0:19.0

You know, funny story, my uncle's name's Austin, and he was born before the movie came out.

0:25.0

Isn't that pretty good?

0:26.2

That's awesome. So he does it. He's got to do it all the time. Yes, yes, yes.

0:29.5

Okay. That's awesome. I'm just going to say, for some of the younger listeners, you're going to have to explain that one.

0:34.7

The movie, the Austin Powers movies. I mean, that, like, that one, I mean, did you, that's, okay, loved them. Okay. Loved them growing up.

0:41.8

You had to. Yes. But for some of the younger listeners, probably aren't too familiar.

0:45.6

That's a movie reference. Okay. It's not a streaming service. It's a movie. All right. All right. So how good did that feel last Sunday? Pittsburgh, 215 rushing yards.

0:57.8

That one had to feel really good. It felt great. It felt great. We were clicking on all cylinders

1:01.5

and watching film it look as good as it looked on Sunday. Is that kind of a dream for an offensive

1:07.3

lineman when you're in Pittsburgh and they're calling a lot of running playing plays? Absolutely. When the running game gets going, the game gets really fun.

1:16.3

You just feel the rhythm of the game and how the defense is playing it and you just

1:19.7

understand, you know, it's a combined understanding from the O.C. up in the booth to the

1:25.1

players on the field that this is what we're going to do. All right. So it's third and three, two minutes, 12 seconds left. Basically, you get a first down

1:33.3

game's over. Yes. And Greg Roman calls the play. You hear it come in. You're the pulling guard,

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