Welcome into Lounge, presented by Draft Kings.

I'm Ryan Mink, here with Garrett Downing.

And we are going to check in following the Ravens mini-bye over the Thanksgiving weekend.

The Ravens sit at 6 and 6 coming off a tough loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Five games left.

And Garrett, we are entering December football.

This is when things get cold and heat up.

Footballized.

Well done.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think as everyone was reeling after the game on Thanksgiving,

the loss of the Bengals and that kind of spoiled Thanksgiving for Ravens fans. You go into the weekend and it offers a chance for the team to have a little mini-buy as you mentioned, which I think is always beneficial at this time of the year. That's one of my favorite things about Thursday Night Football is that you get the back end of that. It's especially nice if you win and you can just enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Well, and it's especially nice for the Ravens considering they had an earlier buy this year. Yeah. You know, the past two years it was a very late buy, which was nice before that December stretch run. Yeah. Now they kind of get a mini buy before that run. My big takeaway coming out of the game on Thursday and then watching the

games this weekend is week 13 for the Ravens, it just didn't exist. Just scratch it off the

schedule. It didn't exist because we were all disappointed after that game on Thursday night. And

you're just like, you're mad, you had this opportunity and you lose to a team that you were

favored to beat and there's frustration around that

you didn't look good doing it it just was not the the night or the result that anybody expected

but then as we're going to talk about the Steelers lose to the bills on Sunday and the Ravens are

right back where they were at the beginning of the week and so like for all of the hand-ringing

which I understand like the disappointment and the frustration in that game, the Ravens are right back where they started the week. And so week 13, erase it from your memory, do the men in black thing, get out the pen, just erase it from your memory. I don't even know what, what is that called. It was like a magic eraser wand. Yeah, the wand, whatever it is. Some of the younger listeners will not know the men in black reference. You have to go back and check out that movie. But basically, that's the treatment that I'm putting towards that game from Thursday night. Yeah, I agree. And fans around the AFC North are not feeling great except for Bengals fans, I guess. They're the only ones coming off of a win.

But in Pittsburgh, you know, they lost to the bills 26 to 7, and it was ugly on their part.

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