Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. It is self-evaluation time, Garrett.

Okay. Every year we make our season predictions. And because we're two outstanding journalists,

we hold ourselves accountable, right? It's all about accountability around here.

That's what everyone's going through. You know, every team that's not in the Super Bowl,

that's not the conference championship,

is taking a hard look at themselves and saying, what do we need to do to get better?

And we are doing the same.

And there's a lot that we can do to get better.

Just as a preview here, we have a long way to go.

You know, the Ravens talk about how they're not, they feel like they're not that far off from building a champion. We're pretty far off from being champions. I'll just let you know right now. Okay. You know, I think, and we're in rebuild mode.

Yeah.

On our predictions. I think, and we'll get into all of this, but I guess at a big picture level to start off the conversation, this season played out in a lot of weird ways.

And I think honestly, now I'm set in the stage here to make the excuse right off the

Yeah, yeah, of course.

But it really did play out in a lot of weird ways.

Of course, Lamar missed the end of the season.

So, you know, that threw off any kind of stat predictions for him.

I think when you look at the receiving core, Bateman's injury was monumental.

Devinan Duvone's injury was significant.

And then the running backs, like,

JK had a mid-season procedure.

But, like, you don't necessarily assume that, like, okay,

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