Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. Ravens Rookie Mini
Speaker 1: Camp practices have concluded, and today after practice we heard
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harbaugh and a handful of rookies.
Speaker 2: Good to be here with everybody, appreciate you coming out
Speaker 2: first really practices of the twenty twenty four season with
Speaker 2: a rookie mini camp. This is our second practice. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: will be a weightlifting session, conditioning. We'll have meetings this
Speaker 2: afternoon until five o'clock. And the guys have been doing
Speaker 2: a great job. So really happy. Great to see him
Speaker 2: all here. Fun to get on the field and we've
Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: So what questions you have with Andrew warheas I think
Speaker 3: it's probably the first time you've seen him out in
Speaker 3: the field. How has he looked, I know he's been
Speaker 3: in the program for about.
Speaker 4: A year now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he looked. He looked well trained, very well trained.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 2: He's been you know, he's been here as you know Jamison,
Speaker 2: just basically working out for a whole year. And he
Speaker 2: was already a strong guy. He bench pressed without without
Speaker 2: an a c L last year and almost set a record. Right,
Speaker 2: and uh, he looks strong man. He looks great. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at him right now. He's big, he's strong, moving
Speaker 2: his feet. Well, he's been studying for a whole year,
Speaker 2: and I thought he looked like you'd expect him to look.
Speaker 2: Because what you have a message for these guys that
Speaker 2: to get frustrated by to speed the game because it's
Speaker 2: such a jump in college to prove Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the biggest message is that you know you're
Speaker 2: here for a reason, you know, and uh, not just
Speaker 2: you're in the NFL for a reason, you know, and
Speaker 2: uh and don't underestimate your your your ability to to
Speaker 2: to fulfill your dreams. Don't underestimate that possibility.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And guys they genuinely don't.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Guys are confident, they're excited. And then know that you're
Speaker 2: here with the Ravens for a reason. You liked us,
Speaker 2: we liked you, you know, and everybody understands how we
Speaker 2: play and what we how we what we believe in.
Speaker 2: You know, they know our identity and that's your identity.
Speaker 2: That's why you're here. So be great, a great be
Speaker 2: great at that and see where it takes you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you'll win.
Speaker 5: It's a young draft for you.
Speaker 4: HIOA some talk for the draft to your tight end
Speaker 4: is your pull back?
Speaker 6: You view him as a defensive guy, Kenny cross screen, How.
Speaker 4: Do you guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably all work in progress, kind of figuring that out, Jeff.
Speaker 2: I mean, he looked good. We were playing with an
Speaker 2: outside linebacker in this mini camp and he looked good
Speaker 2: quick fast. I could see where he could be like
Speaker 2: a move tight end or more of a fullback type guy. Also, uh,
Speaker 2: the more he can do, obviously he's gonna be a
Speaker 2: special teams factor as well. So he looked he looked
Speaker 2: good out there. I'm he's also a guy you kind
Speaker 2: of think when the pads come on, you're really gonna
Speaker 2: see even more.
Speaker 7: I know, it's exciting for these guys to put on
Speaker 7: the jerseys for the first time in the helmet and
Speaker 7: get on the field. What is it like for you
Speaker 7: to go from seeing these guys that you've down scouted
Speaker 7: for so long and now finally, you know, get them
Speaker 7: on the field.
Speaker 2: It is, It's a big deal. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: people say it's kind of like, you know, Christmas, you know,
Speaker 2: and you get to open up those presidents, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, I really like Christmas a lot, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's quite as good as Christmas, but
Speaker 2: it's up there.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's fun to see the guys
Speaker 2: that you've been talking to and interviewing and watching tape on.
Speaker 2: You see them come in and they're in they're ravens
Speaker 2: and they're in your colors. We're in your helmet doing
Speaker 2: what they do. It's it's very meaningful.
Speaker 6: You send nerves from them, and how do you kind
Speaker 6: of measure what they can do versus any kind of
Speaker 6: nervousness that they have?
Speaker 2: Great question, bo, you didn't you saw the nervousness like
Speaker 2: in the meeting room in the cafeteria, guys come in sometimes,
Speaker 2: don't everybody sit with and sitting by themselves, kind of
Speaker 2: looking around like like anybody you go to college for
Speaker 2: the first time, first time in high school, you know
Speaker 2: all that stuff is. Yeah, I watch it. My heart
Speaker 2: goes out to them because you see it every single
Speaker 2: year and it's just it's a human thing. But football wise,
Speaker 2: you don't see it as much. Once they get out
Speaker 2: on the field, they seem like they're pretty comfortable in
Speaker 2: that environment. They start running around and they look like
Speaker 2: they know what they're doing. Coach. For some of the
Speaker 2: other guys, it's kind of like a talent.
Speaker 6: Show, but trying to impress you and show their best
Speaker 6: so they can win you over in advance to maybe
Speaker 6: the next round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely part of it, Jerry. I mean the guys.
Speaker 2: There are guys here on every level. You've got everywhere
Speaker 2: from your first round pick through to your to your
Speaker 2: recruited free agents to your trial guys, you know, and
Speaker 2: everybody kind of wants to make a good first impression.
Speaker 2: Every single guy wants to make a good first impression,
Speaker 2: and so they all do their best to do that.
Speaker 2: And then some guys are trying to, you know, earn
Speaker 2: another shot, you know, and come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Was the first impression of your first round pick.
Speaker 2: He looked good, He looked good. They look good. He
Speaker 2: but you know what, with a guy like that, it's
Speaker 2: it's not so much about coming back tomorrow. It's about
Speaker 2: being better tomorrow and making a transition to the pro game.
Speaker 2: So as good as he looked technique wise, there are
Speaker 2: so many things that he needs to get better at
Speaker 2: and he's open to that, and that's part of that.
Speaker 7: He goes.
Speaker 8: Do you see some similarity from Wilson garn Pat McCarry
Speaker 8: adding the value playing.
Speaker 2: Left and right with Roger uh that way, that versatility. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there is a lot of similarity that way. He brought
Speaker 2: is a really good athlete and so is Pat moves
Speaker 2: his feet really well. You saw that out here. You
Speaker 2: see it on tape and then you see it in
Speaker 2: person because I hadn't watched him work out. I saw
Speaker 2: him in person in the Championship game a little bit,
Speaker 2: but that's different to see him in person out here
Speaker 2: moving his feet. I'm like, Okay, he's everything that we
Speaker 2: thought he would be athletically, So that's a big part
Speaker 2: of it. I hate good I hate to ask you
Speaker 2: an injury question on day one, but he knew he
Speaker 2: was coming with Russian lee. What's We saw him running
Speaker 2: a little bit here, but I know he's coming off
Speaker 2: and injured the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: What kind of is his map?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they say he's gonna be able to do more
Speaker 2: and more as we go here in the off season,
Speaker 2: so I think they just want to protect the biceps
Speaker 2: so it doesn't get grabbed and you know, reinjured and
Speaker 2: as soon as they're comfortable that that won't happen. Like
Speaker 2: he's doing all the on air stuff. Uh, then when
Speaker 2: they're comfortable with that, I think he'll be out there practice.
Speaker 2: There's a chance he could be seeing some OTAs. He'll
Speaker 2: certainly be more than ready for training camp. We had
Speaker 2: some other guys have some issues. Bow rolled his ankle yesterday,
Speaker 2: so he didn't see him today. And yeah, Isaac had
Speaker 2: a little kind of tweaked his hammy just a little
Speaker 2: bit yesterday, So that kind of stuff happens. Was there
Speaker 2: any other ones?
Speaker 9: How do you think, coach you brought in a couple
Speaker 9: of guys from the pud Aficion two and Divident three
Speaker 9: level into camp Noble one is different to all Americans,
Speaker 9: Chris tali Er, what goes into signing those guys who
Speaker 9: maybe haven't proved themselves at the highest levels but you
Speaker 9: think can make it in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a great question, and really and that level
Speaker 2: of play is important, but it probably helps you evaluate
Speaker 2: at a little more apples to apples kind of a deal.
Speaker 2: But great players come from every single level of college
Speaker 2: football and it's really how you transition to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Accounts in Chris's case, I mean, he was a dominant
Speaker 2: player at that level and you expect him to be
Speaker 2: to be able to play in the NFL. He came
Speaker 2: out here and looked like he belonged to him. He's
Speaker 2: quick and fast and strong and just looks the part.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna have a chance to make the team
Speaker 2: just like everybody else.
Speaker 10: He looked really good, Jose, small school guys along those lines, Like,
Speaker 10: how has that changed in the you know, sixty pay
Speaker 10: whatever years you've been doing this in terms of just
Speaker 10: that talent level and here on more of those guys
Speaker 10: and and sort of how.
Speaker 4: You've look at against ran.
Speaker 2: It's a great question. I don't know, like I don't
Speaker 2: know the fine numbers on it, but honestly, I think
Speaker 2: there's fewer guys now coming out from the from you know,
Speaker 2: the quote unquote smaller schools than there were just because
Speaker 2: now because the transfer portal, so a lot of those
Speaker 2: guys are transferring up before they get into the draft.
Speaker 2: So you'll see, hey, he was here here in Boom,
Speaker 2: he was. He was at another level. Like I was
Speaker 2: talking to the coach at Miami, Ohio yesterday, Chuck Martin,
Speaker 2: and then they won the MAC Championship last year, and
Speaker 2: Miami puts guys in the NFL in camps pretty much
Speaker 2: every year over the years. I'm kind of proud of that.
Speaker 2: But but now they're putting guys like they're transferring to
Speaker 2: the SEC before they come or the Big ten sometimes
Speaker 2: before they come to the NFL. Then he's getting guys
Speaker 2: transferred over to So it's it's kind of a different deal.
Speaker 2: So I think you'll probably see more of those guys
Speaker 2: getting a year or two at the highest level before
Speaker 2: they come to the NFL most likely.
Speaker 11: And told out of Morgan to day, I think he'd
Speaker 11: only about up here. What did you think from him
Speaker 11: and what did he like about him?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, his tape is really good. You know,
Speaker 2: he's he's a very productive player. Then we had him
Speaker 2: for the workout and he looked really good moving around.
Speaker 2: He's he's a big, strong guy and he moveswell. He
Speaker 2: is the defensive back. He looked really good the last
Speaker 2: two days. I just think he's an instinctive player who's
Speaker 2: got high level of ability. So, you know, we like
Speaker 2: those guys, especially those guys from around here. There's five
Speaker 2: really good programs in this area that we have a
Speaker 2: lot of respect for.
Speaker 4: Coach, how much do.
Speaker 10: You seek out and value the feedback of current players.
Speaker 10: For example, a Lisa played with ad a Penn state,
Speaker 10: would you did you go to.
Speaker 2: Him about Padisa and get any feedback?
Speaker 10: And I guess.
Speaker 12: What was that?
Speaker 2: Now, that's a great question, going to your players for
Speaker 2: feedback for guys that they've played with. We absolutely do that.
Speaker 2: That might be the most important one, you know, more
Speaker 2: so even than the coach. You know, you get you
Speaker 2: get a guy that played with somebody. You know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you ask other teammates on the team, you know, who
Speaker 2: would you bring with you? What player would you bring
Speaker 2: with you if you could, And you get a really
Speaker 2: good answer that way too. But but of course Adapa
Speaker 2: he loved he loved the DCE Isaac. I mean he
Speaker 2: just loved him and he he You can see why, John.
Speaker 4: I think you said you looked at something.
Speaker 2: Part of your assignment was wide receivers in the draft.
Speaker 3: I think, wasn't it when we were looking at guys
Speaker 3: Tess Walker guy in here? Where where did you think
Speaker 3: kind of when you were evaluating him in the free.
Speaker 2: Drug Cause yeah, you know, you knew he's gonna be fast,
Speaker 2: and you knew he was gonna, uh uh you know,
Speaker 2: be big and fast. I was impressed and that he
Speaker 2: showed that. I was impressed with how well he moved
Speaker 2: changing direction. You know, I didn't know if he was
Speaker 2: gonna change direction quite as well as he did the
Speaker 2: last two days. So caught the ball really well. So yeah,
Speaker 2: he's off to a great start.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I mean, you know, you guys were best
Speaker 6: player available drafting team, so maybe this would have happened anyway.
Speaker 6: But a little bit with the two corners and sort
Speaker 6: of contrasting you know, corners and then like different strengths
Speaker 6: and stuff. How how attractive is that when you look
Speaker 6: at that coming forward, that you know, Nate Wiggins and
Speaker 6: and TJ kind of have different streands and all that,
Speaker 6: and how well do you think they could kind of you.
Speaker 4: Know, mix.
Speaker 2: It's probably a great observation. You know. It's not something
Speaker 2: so much that we were thinking about that we wanted
Speaker 2: to get two guys of a certain style. It just
Speaker 2: kind of came to us. And now when you look
Speaker 2: at the roster, you kind of evaluate that from the
Speaker 2: perspective of we have both these guys and who are
Speaker 2: they you know, and and uh, and how do we
Speaker 2: use their talents? I mean they're both long and rangy,
Speaker 2: they both use their hands really well and pressed they
Speaker 2: both they both can move really well. But uh, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously they're just a little different in their style of play. U.
Speaker 2: Tj Is very physical, very physical with hands. Uh, plays
Speaker 2: all the split safety stuff on the edge really well. Also, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to factor into how we build
Speaker 2: our defense. You've got a couple of players here who
Speaker 2: have been around the team before Owen Wright Sean Ryan.
Speaker 2: Do you have higher expectations for those guys because they've
Speaker 2: been around. Yeah, you could see it out here. It's
Speaker 2: a good point. I mean they've been they've been to
Speaker 2: practices for a year, so they were obviously. I mean
Speaker 2: they talked to the guys, broke the huddles after the
Speaker 2: after the after the practices, and they kind of told
Speaker 2: those guys, I said, you know, these guys are going
Speaker 2: looking at you for how to do it, so you know,
Speaker 2: don't let them down, you know, And they didn't. They
Speaker 2: look good, and those guys are fighting for Rostersponts.
Speaker 8: I think one of the US surprised from the draft
Speaker 8: or just not took them away with the guard. And
Speaker 8: then among the young draft did players, the one that
Speaker 8: was named that was an interior offensive line work for guard.
Speaker 8: Just is that a lot of Steven the two confidence
Speaker 8: and like four keys and some of the players that
Speaker 8: are already on the rosters that the period that you
Speaker 8: guys get more confident and maybe the public perception.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just feel like it's cool, you know,
Speaker 2: you get it's the same understanding. Whatever you don't get
Speaker 2: in the draft, it's like, you know, well they failed,
Speaker 2: they failed in the RAF because they ain't get that.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't get everything.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's I always, I always. We always want more picks,
Speaker 2: you know, it's always there. How many more picks would
Speaker 2: be Like two more picks, two more picks would be perfect.
Speaker 2: No matter how many you have. It seems like guys
Speaker 2: can always play for two more years, guys can always
Speaker 2: coach for two more years, and you can always use
Speaker 2: two more picks. So if we had two more picks,
Speaker 2: we'd probably have two more guards, I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: but the drafts got to fall a certain way, and
Speaker 2: we Okay, that's the first part of the answer. The
Speaker 2: second part of the answer is, yes, we have very
Speaker 2: much confidence in those guards we have. It wasn't like
Speaker 2: we felt like we were desperate, we had to draft guards.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Uh, if the right guards were there at the right time,
Speaker 2: we certainly were gonna take them. The right corners happened
Speaker 2: to be there at the right time, So we took
Speaker 2: those guys as an example, and uh, I know that
Speaker 2: those guys that you're talking about are gonna are gonna
Speaker 2: play great football for us. So and then Eric, you know,
Speaker 2: if we need to do something else, we will. You know,
Speaker 2: there's still guys available out there to.
Speaker 7: Thee for twelve three years.
Speaker 13: If you're all as that that you know where you're looking.
Speaker 10: At off there at construction and then when you're hiding start.
Speaker 2: It's a real subtle and a very good point because
Speaker 2: you don't have to run down, you don't have to
Speaker 2: run as much on kickoff and kickoff returns. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be it's gonna take. The four to three teams
Speaker 2: would always have a little bit of advantage on special
Speaker 2: teams in those phases because they had one more guy
Speaker 2: that could it was a runner, and the the the
Speaker 2: odd teams like us in Pittsburgh a little bit disadvantaged
Speaker 2: because those big outside backers weren't weren't those space runner
Speaker 2: type guys. Now those big outside backer type guys are
Speaker 2: going to be more valued because they they run five yards,
Speaker 2: but their length and their strength is going to be
Speaker 2: a big part of that play. So you know, we're
Speaker 2: kind of looking forward to seeing how that plays out.
Speaker 2: But that's going to be a big part of the
Speaker 2: of our evolution with the play.
Speaker 10: Iues should say, I obviouls sayf the with definit Leary
Speaker 10: that the arm strength is there, the experience is there,
Speaker 10: but you know, I guess the thing that held against them,
Speaker 10: which is the inaccuracy.
Speaker 6: How much of that do you think is developable, fixable
Speaker 6: and what are you kind of expectations for this first offs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's very fixable in the
Speaker 2: sense that, like the arm strength is there, and I
Speaker 2: think he's an accurate thrower, you know, but he unfortunately
Speaker 2: threw it to the other team too many times. You know.
Speaker 2: So he and I had that conversation. I said, I said, well,
Speaker 2: you know, what's your trait? He goes, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I really work hard and I'm tough and I got
Speaker 2: you know, I'm dedicated and I know I know, but
Speaker 2: I mean, what's your football trade on the field? He was, Oh,
Speaker 2: I got a great arm I'm like bullseye, you can
Speaker 2: throw the ball. What's the biggest thing you need to
Speaker 2: work on? He goes, I need I need to cut
Speaker 2: down the interceptions and turnovers. So he knows, and that's
Speaker 2: something I think you can get better at. You know,
Speaker 2: gets in the offense, executes the offense, the decision making
Speaker 2: part of it every single day. You start with armtown.
Speaker 2: That's a good place to start. So with him, it
Speaker 2: starts with armtown. Plus he's super hard worker, so we'll
Speaker 2: see how he does.
Speaker 1: You just heard from head coach John Harbaugh. And next
Speaker 1: up is first round draft pick at pick thirty, cornerback
Speaker 1: Nate Wiggins from Clemson.
Speaker 8: What is the biggest difference you can perceive from college
Speaker 8: into NFL?
Speaker 14: Ani can really just a temple practice for just quicker
Speaker 14: and faster at that moved at a fast speed.
Speaker 4: What do you think of the facility.
Speaker 14: Coming from Corffe like, it's a good I mean, I've
Speaker 14: visited a lot of teams, you know, a lot of
Speaker 14: teams ain't got good facilities, but I feel like this
Speaker 14: one of the best ones. So I feel like that
Speaker 14: it's great.
Speaker 11: How has this process been for me so far? Just
Speaker 11: be drafted going through Could you remember, like you know,
Speaker 11: leading every one?
Speaker 5: How did you expend?
Speaker 14: Uh, it's been It's been a long time. But I
Speaker 14: mean I brace it cause I I mean, this is
Speaker 14: my dream. So I mean I just to brace it.
Speaker 14: Let let everything come to me and I just have
Speaker 14: a time and just be me.
Speaker 10: Cause anything surprised you go on the way or I
Speaker 10: don't know what your expectations were like, but what what
Speaker 10: is sort of felt?
Speaker 4: You get surprised? You very good? Been most exciting to
Speaker 4: you in the projects.
Speaker 14: By most excited me. Uh, I just say, I mean
Speaker 14: gave number two. I mean that was my childhood number.
Speaker 14: So I feel like, uh just one number two. I
Speaker 14: just feel like they feel like I'm just it's just
Speaker 14: me for real.
Speaker 4: So wh why was it too? What was your number?
Speaker 14: And that's just the first time I had Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So have you been able to talk to any
Speaker 7: of the veterans on the team to this point?
Speaker 14: Uh ya, I talked to Marling uh raight coin Uh
Speaker 14: so yeah that I We've been texting, so I fuh
Speaker 14: we gonna have a bit great uh great relationship. I
Speaker 14: knew Marlin from aj Terrell camp back in Atlanta. Well
Speaker 14: we met like two years ago.
Speaker 10: So yeah, early in this process and anything specific that
Speaker 10: you're working on, you're at.
Speaker 2: Work, committing camp.
Speaker 14: Uh really just get my head around and uh stop
Speaker 14: grabbing a lot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 14: Uh NFL you uh can't touch the receiver after five yards,
Speaker 14: and college you could touch 'em all way down the field.
Speaker 14: So we were just getting adjusted to that for real.
Speaker 7: You feel like that's kind of one of the big adjustments,
Speaker 7: making that jump from the collegiate game to this game.
Speaker 7: The what you can and can't do as a dB.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 14: Uh that's my biggest, my biggest uh jump. I gotta
Speaker 14: uh just uh just I just gotta keep working at it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 14: It was just a habit, just I mean just being
Speaker 14: up receivers already down the field. Now, I just gotta
Speaker 14: play with techniques. So that's my biggest jump.
Speaker 11: Dj K TJ talked about you think you guys are
Speaker 11: rooming together and room together, combine me is it? I
Speaker 11: know you know Trenton, but does it make it a
Speaker 11: little easier to have a familiar faith.
Speaker 14: Getting his great Well, yeah, it makes it look easier
Speaker 14: just not just going for scratch. We already know each other,
Speaker 14: so it was just connected from the combine.
Speaker 4: I mean it was made way easier.
Speaker 3: Now you you had a battle with the current teammate,
Speaker 3: with tes Walker out there, what's kind of your thoughts,
Speaker 3: you know when he went against him the past season?
Speaker 14: Uh, I mean everybody. Yeah, he's a great player, good player.
Speaker 14: I mean I'm a good player. So it was just
Speaker 14: like I gotta bring my a game, he gotta bring
Speaker 14: the game, and we're gonna see what's going in the battle.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast, that
Speaker 1: was first round draft pick Nate Wiggins. Next up is
Speaker 1: wide receiver Devon tes Walker from North Carolina.
Speaker 3: So how was kind of your first experience for NFL
Speaker 3: rookie mini camps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a good experience.
Speaker 15: Good two days, a lot of a lot of information
Speaker 15: thrown at us, things like that, having to remember small, little.
Speaker 4: Detailed but it was good. Uh the practice is good.
Speaker 15: Good, but they ain't they ain't out there killing us,
Speaker 15: So it was real good.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 10: What's your biggest takeaway or sing you've learned whatever you
Speaker 10: want from the biggest takeaway from these from these few
Speaker 10: days for you?
Speaker 15: Yeah, biggest takeaway, like I said, attention to details. You know,
Speaker 15: in college, you know they just throw a player, so
Speaker 15: you just go out there and do it. Here, you
Speaker 15: gotta remember every little thing, any little small things like
Speaker 15: it messes up the whole play, the whole everything that's
Speaker 15: going on.
Speaker 4: So I just say, attention to detail is the biggest takeaway.
Speaker 8: That's what's it like working with Fregos or the guy
Speaker 8: that you know has been out and played the game
Speaker 8: as well at the NFL love.
Speaker 4: What's it been like? It's been real good.
Speaker 15: He's given me a lot of tools to get open better.
Speaker 15: Had a couple of plays like you know the first
Speaker 15: day that was covered and then came back today Reynolds
Speaker 15: Rouse was a little more open. So him just giving
Speaker 15: me those tools, giving me his knowledge from playing the
Speaker 15: game and coaching for as long as.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's been it's been real good with him
Speaker 4: so far.
Speaker 10: Just what what was the oppression after North Carolina everything?
Speaker 2: Seeing that jersey, seeing your NFL jersey.
Speaker 4: For the first time. Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 15: You know, some I've always wanted some I've always said
Speaker 15: I was four years old, told my grand this is
Speaker 15: what I wanted to do, and now now it's here.
Speaker 15: Almost teared up and you know, I kept kept my
Speaker 15: compose a little bit, but it was it was a
Speaker 15: good feeling.
Speaker 13: The pretty pretty emotional draft call and then your video
Speaker 13: of it was out there.
Speaker 5: What was it like, you know, giving me.
Speaker 11: In that emotional call during the voices and then getting
Speaker 11: here and seeing the femine person getting.
Speaker 15: In this talk with Yeah, just hearing that, you know,
Speaker 15: hearing you know that NFL team values you know, your
Speaker 15: skill set and you as a person like you know,
Speaker 15: it just makes you feel good. You know you've done
Speaker 15: all the right things you get to this point. Uh,
Speaker 15: It's just it was just a great feeling. And now
Speaker 15: being here, I still have that same feeling and I'm
Speaker 15: enjoying their air little moment.
Speaker 4: That I have here. So it's been It's been real good.
Speaker 11: Eric Desta has been crazing you. Who's prepared you to
Speaker 11: form a raven wide receiver?
Speaker 7: Torri Smith?
Speaker 11: I'm just talking about your explosiveness and being a gordle threat.
Speaker 11: How does it feel for you to know that you're
Speaker 11: already been It has a difference maker on the office.
Speaker 4: It feels real good.
Speaker 15: It just makes me honestly want to work harder, you know,
Speaker 15: be one of those guys you know we uh, that
Speaker 15: team can depend on to go out there and make
Speaker 15: plays and just show up.
Speaker 4: That's me.
Speaker 15: That's why I have to say about that. This is
Speaker 15: just makes me go harder, Uh to be one of
Speaker 15: those guys to teo.
Speaker 11: Me wrong significant from the number that you didn't.
Speaker 15: So I wore that at Kent. So I wore nine,
Speaker 15: you know, my whole life growing up. Then when I
Speaker 15: got it at Kent, like eight plus one is nine.
Speaker 15: So just went went back that number. Then a lot
Speaker 15: of greats wore that number, Rady Mass, Calvin Johnson. So
Speaker 15: when I get to you know there at that point,
Speaker 15: hopefully I can go down the books with that number
Speaker 15: as well.
Speaker 3: You know last year, you know, with the whole NTL
Speaker 3: play and once it started, you weren't eligible facts started.
Speaker 3: Was there any thoughts in your mind you might not
Speaker 3: be able to play at all that season?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I thought my season was done, honestly, like I didn't.
Speaker 15: I'm humblest. I was on the scout team. I was thinking,
Speaker 15: I was just trying to work my craft a whole year.
Speaker 15: I had no idea that I was gonna play at all.
Speaker 15: So when I was fifty to fifty on declare for
Speaker 15: the draft and probably being unsigned or coming back. I
Speaker 15: didn't really know at that point, but that was pretty
Speaker 15: much my mindset. I didn't I didn't think I was
Speaker 15: gonna play at all. So I was pretty shocked when
Speaker 15: I got that call when I was in coach brown
Speaker 15: office on that video and he told me I was
Speaker 15: gonna play.
Speaker 3: So if you if you didn't play, I mean, did
Speaker 3: you think you would probably have to go the undrafted?
Speaker 4: I mean, did you have thoughts like that? Honestly?
Speaker 15: Because I still I still don't have my degree, so
Speaker 15: I probably would have stayed and got my degree in
Speaker 15: So yeah, probably would end up staying.
Speaker 13: Valteas you were gathered pretty early in the process, many
Speaker 13: had Pega first round draft pick, and then kind of
Speaker 13: as the year went on, you slipped down the boards
Speaker 13: and you ended up going way later than a lot
Speaker 13: of people expected you would. Does that give you any
Speaker 13: motivation to prove the teams that passed on you, to
Speaker 13: prove them wrong?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely does.
Speaker 15: I mean, it just my my my things, just coming
Speaker 15: out here, you know, being the best I can be
Speaker 15: every day and showing them why I was one of
Speaker 15: those top guys during the season and coming out that's
Speaker 15: pretty much my mindset going into it. But uh, you know,
Speaker 15: going forward round too bad. You know, I got to
Speaker 15: call from Baltimore. I wasn't mad about it at all.
Speaker 15: It's a great situation, great organization. So no, I'm glad,
Speaker 15: I'm blessed to go out.
Speaker 4: Go out.
Speaker 10: Is if you had a chance to talk with or
Speaker 10: heard from Lamar or maybe some of the other receivers on.
Speaker 4: The team yet I haven't yet. I haven't.
Speaker 15: I haven't heard from they fall followed me back, but
Speaker 15: I haven't talked to them yet.
Speaker 4: So what part.
Speaker 10: Of your game think that you think more friends like
Speaker 10: the best of the NFL? And is something here at
Speaker 10: rook MEUNI camp and you're trying to work on the effect?
Speaker 15: Definitely vertical threat any really any vertical route like those crossers, posts,
Speaker 15: go balls. That's something I bring to this league, like
Speaker 15: my my skills set. I think I do a real
Speaker 15: good job getting over top of any defense. And the
Speaker 15: thing I'm trying to work on is like you know,
Speaker 15: the underneath routes, you know, like those routes twenty yards
Speaker 15: under getting open and like those type of spaces and
Speaker 15: things like that. That's something I've been working on in
Speaker 15: Mini camp and before Mini camp when I was at
Speaker 15: home training.
Speaker 4: So that's something that's gonna be big.
Speaker 12: Because you're going against the TJ and then made in
Speaker 12: practice and the vet corners I've even gotten here. How
Speaker 12: much you think that's gonna help you every day going
Speaker 12: against you know, quality corners and maybe excelevate your problems.
Speaker 15: It's gonna help me a lot, especially going going against
Speaker 15: Nate in the season and these first two days. He
Speaker 15: carries himself like a veteran corner. He plays like it
Speaker 15: and trust his technique and speeds and things like that.
Speaker 15: So I think that's gonna be real good for me.
Speaker 15: And then when the veterans get here, like Marlin and them,
Speaker 15: you know, going to have like, you know, the side
Speaker 15: conversation with them and things like that. That's gonna gonna
Speaker 15: help me a lot.
Speaker 4: This dupid, how did you.
Speaker 2: Get buying in my shirt?
Speaker 4: But that big catch on the right sideline's yeah.
Speaker 15: So, like he was real patient and he was a
Speaker 15: little handsy, but I knew he was patient. He trusted
Speaker 15: speed and me trusting my speed. I knew I had
Speaker 15: him when he kind of sat and froze his feet,
Speaker 15: so I just put my foot and ground and ran
Speaker 15: as far as I could to get over the top
Speaker 15: of him.
Speaker 4: That's pretty much all. It was so good, the.
Speaker 8: Ravings, vertise, the special tea, it's a lot just that
Speaker 8: he did, He put, and he falled into how you
Speaker 8: can contribute on special teams.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I definitely have always wanted to play sposed teams.
Speaker 15: But I was one of them guys.
Speaker 4: Know. The coach was always I would go to the office.
Speaker 4: They would just tell me, you know, you're a guy,
Speaker 4: will want you to get hurt, nothing like that.
Speaker 15: So like something like gunner or even kick return, that's
Speaker 15: something I definitely want to do. So special teams. I
Speaker 15: love special teams. That's what makes makes or break games.
Speaker 15: So that's definitely something I want to do. If that's
Speaker 15: the way I have to get them feel this year,
Speaker 15: then oh my'm doing it.
Speaker 10: Moving around a bit in college, how hopeful you to
Speaker 10: sort of be able to find a home here and
Speaker 10: stick with one team?
Speaker 7: Said, you obviously moved around a bit when you're in college.
Speaker 4: How hopeful are you to be able to kind.
Speaker 8: Of stick with one team and find a home here
Speaker 8: in Baltimore.
Speaker 15: I'm very hopeful in Baltimore. It's you know, It's a
Speaker 15: great organization to be a part of. From where I
Speaker 15: see with the obstilities and how everybody is around here,
Speaker 15: like everybody loves to hear. Uh, this is somewhere somewhere
Speaker 15: I wouldn't mind retiring. It's been great these paths two
Speaker 15: three days. So this is somewhere I definitely definitely want
Speaker 15: to be.
Speaker 2: So you talked about some of.
Speaker 7: The question that's going through your mind when you were
Speaker 7: going through the process of trying to get back eligible
Speaker 7: in college. When you got back and you you know,
Speaker 7: you had the production that you had in that small
Speaker 7: sample size that that show did that kind of re
Speaker 7: you know, rejuvenate anything or reassure you of anything that
Speaker 7: you already.
Speaker 4: Knew you could do. Yeah, it just told me that
Speaker 4: I belonged.
Speaker 15: That's the reason I would try to go up eleven,
Speaker 15: go play power five when I was at Kent. Uh,
Speaker 15: they did a great job developing me as a receiver
Speaker 15: and a person, So I just wanted to show, you know,
Speaker 15: the world that I can also do it on that level.
Speaker 4: In the creation. It was acorated my.
Speaker 15: Draft stock as well, So it just showed that I
Speaker 15: belonged on that Power five level and belonged here as
Speaker 15: I am.
Speaker 1: No last, but not least from Murky camp press conferences,
Speaker 1: we have TJ Tampa cornerback from Iowa State.
Speaker 5: First impressions of being Oh, it's incredible just getting to
Speaker 5: see how the coach's coach and everybody on the staff is.
Speaker 5: It's like a geam come true. Just hearing everybody talking learning.
Speaker 8: I know, started to go a little bit higher. They
Speaker 8: expected me to go a little bit higher.
Speaker 5: How are you dolls? Just wanted to drop in my organization?
Speaker 5: That's getting about secs. Oh, like a I got here,
Speaker 5: No matter how I got here, I'm here and ready
Speaker 5: to work, get better every day and see what comes.
Speaker 11: Has there been any adjustments really, just you know, coming
Speaker 11: to college and.
Speaker 5: Starting to actually starting to restart of course, like just
Speaker 5: with being around a whole bunch of new people and
Speaker 5: learning a whole new scheme. It's some differences. You just
Speaker 5: gotta get used to it. How have they been? You
Speaker 5: be not even a mon Oh it's it's it's easy.
Speaker 5: You know, like we're roommates right now going through this process.
Speaker 5: So it's like nothing time as it passed talking about
Speaker 5: anything other hear a lot from oh yeah, just talking
Speaker 5: about scheme and all that, just how we both come
Speaker 5: in here and learning new stuff. So it's just talking football.
Speaker 4: Do you did you did you go with uh the
Speaker 4: two seven number cause of the Tampa Everykay?
Speaker 5: Nah? I actually didn't. I just I just saw the
Speaker 5: numbers they had me choose from and think the best one.
Speaker 5: Do you feel any.
Speaker 2: Sense of competition with me and being first front breaky
Speaker 2: sliding a little bit?
Speaker 5: Is there any like extra motivation.
Speaker 8: That are kind of outworking?
Speaker 5: Of course there's extra motivation. I wouldn't say like just him,
Speaker 5: but just the whole corner room and just it's really
Speaker 5: competition with him myself to get better every day and
Speaker 5: learn the scheme and go hard.
Speaker 2: What are some of the biggest justments you think get
Speaker 2: to make on to the.
Speaker 5: NFL that college just going through a whole different new scheme.
Speaker 5: You know, everything I learned in college was all I
Speaker 5: knew at playing corners, So just going with a whole
Speaker 5: new scheme and the whole new coast probably only difference.
Speaker 4: How long did it.
Speaker 6: Take you to go from the kind of disappointment of
Speaker 6: why am I still here too?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 4: This is a great opportunity for me.
Speaker 6: I'm going to that team that would finish first the
Speaker 6: defense and you know, really develops.
Speaker 4: A lot of secondary players.
Speaker 5: I would say all that loss I left my mind
Speaker 5: as soon as I got that call. Soon as I
Speaker 5: got the call, I was ready to happy where I
Speaker 5: was happy who called me, and just ready to get started.
Speaker 6: Did you sort of dismiss them as a possible will
Speaker 6: take you after you saw them pick a corner first
Speaker 6: round or when they were coming up, did you know
Speaker 6: there was a decent shot.
Speaker 5: That they would take here? I mean early on you
Speaker 5: see them take a corner, and you know, early on
Speaker 5: just thinking I was gonna go like of course, I
Speaker 5: was like, I don't think they would pick me. But
Speaker 5: rounds go through a lot of people got corners and
Speaker 5: you never know from there.
Speaker 12: You talked about the scheme a few times. How much
Speaker 12: does this scheme for what you can see different from
Speaker 12: what and I guess talk about the process of learning
Speaker 12: fast so you can just play rather than just you know,
Speaker 12: be thinking and playing.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not too different. Of course, they don't
Speaker 5: get too far into the scheme right now, just going
Speaker 5: through a communic camp, but there's differences. At the end
Speaker 5: of the day, you just playing a corner, and you
Speaker 5: have your man and you have your zone, so it's
Speaker 5: not too different.
Speaker 4: You feel like you have that wide receiver mentality and
Speaker 4: you from.
Speaker 5: Your ASC on the point that piste, oh yeah, just
Speaker 5: locating the ball and getting to the ball. I would
Speaker 5: say that's about it. Lint here them make it to
Speaker 5: the NFL had you stayed in my receiver both of
Speaker 5: course of course, of course, of course, are there any.
Speaker 4: Current ranging wide receivers that you're looking forward to matching
Speaker 4: up with.
Speaker 5: Later this summer? I would say really, all of them.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say there's not really one that feel like
Speaker 5: they're all play style is kind of all the same.
Speaker 5: You know, of course, now they got some bigger corners
Speaker 5: in the draft, but I would say, really everybody.
Speaker 4: How does it feel though?
Speaker 3: When you hear people go, like when they're evaluating the
Speaker 3: range draft go like teacher, he's the he's kind of
Speaker 3: the steal of the draft for that.
Speaker 5: I mean, it feels great. You don't really try to
Speaker 5: look too far into it because it's just people's opinions
Speaker 5: and you really just stay true to who you are
Speaker 5: and what you believe.
Speaker 12: In any corners you watch, you know like hey, I
Speaker 12: like that or pick up from it. You're so get
Speaker 12: to talking about that and what you like about probably
Speaker 12: their playings down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I say, when I first started just watching a
Speaker 5: lot of Jayalen Ramsey, you know, just starting to play corner.
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm a big corner.
Speaker 4: I wanted to be.
Speaker 5: Physical and he's the baseline for that. So it's kind
Speaker 5: of somebody I watched.
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