Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today was practice
Speaker 1: number nine of training camp for the Baltimore Ravens, and
Speaker 1: after practice, we had the chance to hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh, new outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith, outside
Speaker 1: linebacker a Dafeoway, and defensive tackle Justin Mattabikee. We'll get
Speaker 1: started here with Coach Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody. Sure appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2: Very good practice, very a competitive practice, a physical practice.
Speaker 2: Thought the guys really stepped up and did a good
Speaker 2: job and we improved today. What questions you have John?
Speaker 3: With save Flowers, we see a lot of the big
Speaker 3: plays in the field, but you also field and just
Speaker 3: your interaction with and how how's he you know, as
Speaker 3: a rookie house he impressed you. It seems like you
Speaker 3: thiry mothers.
Speaker 4: I would agree.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, all the guys are very motivated,
Speaker 2: and say brings a unique personality to it. He's he's
Speaker 2: always full energy. He's an energy giver. I think he
Speaker 2: radiates energy. He's always ready to go on point, works hard,
Speaker 2: does extra, wants to be as good as he can
Speaker 2: be every day and he proves it by what he does.
Speaker 2: So he's doing a great job and you know, he's
Speaker 2: taking it one day at a time.
Speaker 5: John never had any wordory updates on Rocket see David
Speaker 5: a job or any of the guys that were on
Speaker 5: the field for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are short term. He should be back very soon.
Speaker 2: Rocks should be back soon. Uh, David should be back soon.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Trenton had a little issue, soft tissue, so that, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll probably play it safe for a little bit. We'll
Speaker 2: see where it goes. I think those are normal camp things.
Speaker 2: So far, so good, you know, like online, is your
Speaker 2: goal shot back by the pet Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about that. I mean, I think he's
Speaker 2: getting he's doing a really great job, and I think
Speaker 2: there's a chance, you know, he'll he'll be out there
Speaker 2: pretty soon. But again, I don't want to say for
Speaker 2: sure because that just gets me in trouble. Then you're
Speaker 2: gonna ask me, You're gonna say, well, you said he
Speaker 2: would be back by a certain time, right. It's like
Speaker 2: it's like it's like don't they say when you get arrested,
Speaker 2: anything you say can and will be used against you, Right.
Speaker 2: I feel I feel it's similar to that. Here this
Speaker 2: press conference. Sometimes we should be right, right, should read
Speaker 2: my rights before we press conference starts.
Speaker 5: John keban Seymour is someone who's been a major presence
Speaker 5: for you guys on special teams the last couple years.
Speaker 2: But it seems like he's had a really good start
Speaker 2: playing as a defensive deck.
Speaker 4: What are you seeing from him?
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent of Luke. He's playing dB
Speaker 2: very well. I mean, he's you know, you know, he's
Speaker 2: done for special teams wise, He's a guy a high
Speaker 2: promise coming out. Then he faced just a lot of
Speaker 2: hamstring issues in one one particular side, and and it
Speaker 2: dogged him for like three different teams and basically cost
Speaker 2: him in three different places. He came in here, we
Speaker 2: build a plan for him in our training room, in
Speaker 2: our weight room, uh and our performance room, and he
Speaker 2: stuck to it. He's worked really hard ever since. And
Speaker 2: now you know, knock on wood, he's in, he's been
Speaker 2: he's been doing great with that. So and I think
Speaker 2: his talent's really starting to express itself.
Speaker 6: John, probably he probably asked you a lot more about
Speaker 6: Isaiah Way.
Speaker 3: But Charlie Fullara, what does he need to show you
Speaker 3: guys to chance of.
Speaker 2: Snaps the parcasin right, well, I mean just what you
Speaker 2: would expect. Charlie's doing it. I mean he's showing us,
Speaker 2: he's making catches and he's blocking well every single day.
Speaker 2: I think he did a really good job with his
Speaker 2: body composition. He's bigger, stronger. I mean you walk by him, right,
Speaker 2: you see how big he is. I mean, he really
Speaker 2: is impressive. And I think he's done a great job
Speaker 2: with that. So he's ready to go and let's see
Speaker 2: how it goes into practices and games. But I expect
Speaker 2: him to do very well, and I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: earn playing time.
Speaker 6: To Munkins said yesterday that he's looking for one of
Speaker 6: those type ons to maybe be able to do the
Speaker 6: inline job a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Do you think either of those second year guys would
Speaker 3: potentially do that? They're not known for that.
Speaker 2: I absolutely, I absolutely do. I mean, watch him in
Speaker 2: practice had we had the inside run drill today, they're
Speaker 2: doing very well. So let's see what happens. But they
Speaker 2: can do it. I believe that.
Speaker 3: Fuming up special team players center make you play on defense.
Speaker 3: Pilimont Phillips had multi more exceptions.
Speaker 7: But Love to day is snacks and Pat play ups.
Speaker 3: What do we see him from him as the line Mack.
Speaker 2: Right, great point. Del Sean Phillips is playing. He's all
Speaker 2: over the field. I mean, how many, how many?
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 2: How many times the guy's hands on the ball, interceptions,
Speaker 2: passper broken up, he's the ball runs outside, he's there
Speaker 2: waiting for it. Just he looks fantastic and he's doing
Speaker 2: a great job. And I would say that the whole
Speaker 2: linebacking crew is really playing that way, so really happy
Speaker 2: with those guys. It's top to bottom. Every single one
Speaker 2: of those guys is playing super well. And he probably
Speaker 2: has been the spark there with that that that particular group,
Speaker 2: you know, behind Roquan and Pat John.
Speaker 3: What do you make of the wide receiver competition right now?
Speaker 8: Could this be the toughest some of the toughest decisions
Speaker 8: you have to make when it comes to decide of whose.
Speaker 2: Days and who go, no question. I mean you talk
Speaker 2: about fifth, possibly sixth receiver making this team, even the
Speaker 2: practice squad guys. I think it's just a fight.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: So many guys are playing well, guys are stepping up.
Speaker 2: You know, uh, you know that, you know that of
Speaker 2: course you've got uh Uh, Thailand, and you've got James
Speaker 2: Prochet and they've they've done very well. Then you've got
Speaker 2: Treadwell stepping up. Then you've got Black stepping up, you know.
Speaker 2: Then you got those young guys popping up and making
Speaker 2: plays here and there. So, uh, I can't wait for
Speaker 2: the games to start and see see who jumps in
Speaker 2: the games.
Speaker 1: Talking to Adante always today, he seems noticeably faster than
Speaker 1: last year. And he told me last week, you've been
Speaker 1: a lot of work in that.
Speaker 3: What have you seen from him making thick up the
Speaker 3: last year even year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a great question. I think he
Speaker 2: is playing faster. You know, maybe it's his response time,
Speaker 2: maybe the way he's processing things. But you know, he
Speaker 2: flew around last year. He made a bunch of good
Speaker 2: plays for us with speed last year. You know, the
Speaker 2: ball goes to the perimeter, you see him and and
Speaker 2: really all those defensive ends are out there pretty quick.
Speaker 2: So I think he's uh having you know, a stellar
Speaker 2: camp so far. So it's gotta keep building on it
Speaker 2: cause we're still early. You know, we've got we've got
Speaker 2: a long way to go.
Speaker 5: John one more and there with the media after the
Speaker 5: coach of practice.
Speaker 3: You mentioned how there was a much different five to this.
Speaker 7: Year's training camp, and Mark Andrews the NFL Network said
Speaker 7: this is the most laser focused and seating.
Speaker 3: He's been a part of this deep in the training camp.
Speaker 3: Is there a different feeling for you compared.
Speaker 4: To last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know, I'd probably to defer
Speaker 2: to those guys's opinion. They're they're they're more on the
Speaker 2: players are the most inside, they're the core and when
Speaker 2: they say it, you know they mean it obviously. So
Speaker 2: I'm happy to hear that. I feel that, But I
Speaker 2: feel every year, you know, I feel like our guys
Speaker 2: always come to work, but for them to feel a
Speaker 2: little more juice, maybe that's I'm happy to hear it.
Speaker 5: John Justin he had every days a pretty nice camps
Speaker 5: so far. Another expectations high.
Speaker 4: What is he to do?
Speaker 2: In your news kind of make that hext forward right, Well,
Speaker 2: you know, he watched the tape and he played really
Speaker 2: well last year, so it's just probably a matter of
Speaker 2: you know, consistency and and stacked even more great reps
Speaker 2: on top of those reps from last year. He's been
Speaker 2: very explosive, as you've seen both in a run game
Speaker 2: and pass game. He spent a lot of time in
Speaker 2: our backfield so far this year and usually not going
Speaker 2: around guys, so I expect, I really expect again high
Speaker 2: expectations for for him. He's a very determined guy. He
Speaker 2: doesn't say much. He kind of does his talking with
Speaker 2: his pads and that's what we've seen so far.
Speaker 7: John, we saw more gamers got a little frustrated today,
Speaker 7: I think a little more at times punted a ball
Speaker 7: away top Mogg.
Speaker 4: He said yesterday.
Speaker 6: We're not where we need to be right now.
Speaker 4: But that's okay.
Speaker 9: Can you talk a little bit of the progress of
Speaker 9: the offense and just the competitiveness out there and kind
Speaker 9: of the you know how demanding their being of where
Speaker 9: they're at and where they need to get to.
Speaker 2: And absolutely it's a reflection I think of their perfectionism.
Speaker 2: You know, they're they're chasing perfection and that's what you
Speaker 2: want to see from your players. When your players take
Speaker 2: that mindset, you have a chance. Coaches pretty much always
Speaker 2: have that mindset. When the players take on that personality,
Speaker 2: I think because they feel they're capable of it, that's
Speaker 2: what you want to see. I mean, the offense had
Speaker 2: a very good practice today. They won the practice with
Speaker 2: the points about eight points. I think it doesn't happen
Speaker 2: too often. You know, usually the defense wins those practices.
Speaker 2: The defense also had a good practice, but the offense
Speaker 2: made a bunch of plays. So the few plays they
Speaker 2: didn't make and they're mad about them. You know, that's good.
Speaker 4: We do two more guests, John.
Speaker 7: It seems like this is the most of Mars have
Speaker 7: thrown the bunny backs of any camp a bit too.
Speaker 7: I mean, I remember I think Gi Rove said, you know,
Speaker 7: Beth Lamar at times was the checkdown in that offense.
Speaker 4: Are you guys moving away from from that kind of
Speaker 4: thing or.
Speaker 7: Is it just kind of throwing to say with just
Speaker 7: how he's gonna process tough?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I think the backs are very much
Speaker 2: a part of the passing game right now, you know,
Speaker 2: and whether it's checkdowns, whether it's you know, flat routes.
Speaker 2: You saw we threw a wheel route in the in
Speaker 2: the corner of the end zone that we almost made,
Speaker 2: just kind of went right out of bounds, but the
Speaker 2: catch was still made. You know, rookie running backs don't
Speaker 2: get named yet. We'll see, you know, before we can
Speaker 2: start using his name, but number thirty four. You know,
Speaker 2: he showed, he showed he can run. He's got good hands,
Speaker 2: you know. So yeah, and I think all the backs,
Speaker 2: you know, Gus who has you know, maybe not been
Speaker 2: known for that, has made a lot of good catches
Speaker 2: and run some really good routes. So all those guys
Speaker 2: are really doing a good job. I feel like every
Speaker 2: one of our backs is a good receiving back right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, Melvin Gordon's done a great job. Justices look
Speaker 2: good doing it. They've all looked good doing it.
Speaker 3: Might be a bit broad, but two weeks into the
Speaker 3: training help you.
Speaker 7: See the rookies take on the challenge of the daily practice.
Speaker 2: All yeah. I mean I haven't seen anything any problem
Speaker 2: with those guys. I haven't seen those guys blink yet,
Speaker 2: you know. So, And and it's been a grind form
Speaker 2: because they do extra, they stay extra after after mini camp,
Speaker 2: they come back in early, and they are just a
Speaker 2: bunch of guys that kind of like football. They're very
Speaker 2: comfortable in the in the discomfort of football, you know.
Speaker 2: And and uh, we appreciate that. That's kind of why
Speaker 2: we drafted them. We brought them in.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks, you're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh talking to the media
Speaker 1: after today's practice. Now let's hear from the Ravens new
Speaker 1: outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith aka Doctor Rush.
Speaker 3: You make up the young past rushers to this point
Speaker 3: of camp.
Speaker 8: Are you why are you liking where you are today?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 4: I like the fact that they come and work hard
Speaker 4: every day. I liked that they're enthusiastic. They've we've really
Speaker 4: learned how to work with one another as a unit.
Speaker 4: And you know, they're fantastic to work with. And I'm
Speaker 4: really thankful to come to an organism, an organzation that
Speaker 4: has two guys with so much talent and upside. You know,
Speaker 4: you go a lot of places and you go and
Speaker 4: you're like having to find guys that you have to develop.
Speaker 4: You know, I got this job and they're already here,
Speaker 4: you know. So it's been fantastic so far. Those guys
Speaker 4: everything I thought they they would be.
Speaker 8: Oh wait, the other day committed you for your help
Speaker 8: not only on the field, but also in helping his
Speaker 8: confidence as well. How can you think of ways of
Speaker 8: how you've been able to just moved.
Speaker 4: Him confidence fly I think knowledge. You know, one of
Speaker 4: the things that I pride myself on is being a
Speaker 4: somewhat of a past rusher story and outside of a
Speaker 4: pass rush coach and now as a position coach, I
Speaker 4: enlightened them on the history of it. You know, who
Speaker 4: created a cross chop? He didn't know that the cross
Speaker 4: chop was created by another Nigerian O c Yo Manori,
Speaker 4: forming New York Giants, And that's like wow, him and Dafe.
Speaker 4: You know, they didn't know that Reggie White once played
Speaker 4: in the USFL. You know, they didn't know about Chris
Speaker 4: Dolman was one of the original hybrids when he came
Speaker 4: out of pitt you know, so all these different things
Speaker 4: unders and when the sack was invented in nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 4: So remember they came to football late. So one of
Speaker 4: the way that builds confidence when you understand how there
Speaker 4: were people who invented these techniques. You know, there were
Speaker 4: people that you know, how it started. And so when
Speaker 4: I talk to them almost like a not really a
Speaker 4: teacher student, I look at it like an uncle and
Speaker 4: a nephew, you know what I mean. Uncle tells you
Speaker 4: all this stuff, and you're like, I'm gonna believe uncle.
Speaker 4: I might not believe daddy, but I believe his brother.
Speaker 4: So that's how it builds, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Then we take it from all those things, watching film,
Speaker 4: I give them, you know, things to read, you know,
Speaker 4: classic books about rush. We look at videos and then
Speaker 4: they see it on the field. Then they see other
Speaker 4: guys doing it, and I think when it comes to
Speaker 4: that point, that helps build confidence and you know, respect
Speaker 4: amongst each other because we can talk and it's not
Speaker 4: a dictatorship. It's like a partnership with everybody in that room.
Speaker 3: You also, undis you guys a front in general? Cash rush?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of people. What stands out to
Speaker 3: you pass rushers?
Speaker 4: You want? Well, I'm glad you asked me that. Let
Speaker 4: me just fix this mic right kind of like like
Speaker 4: I'm jay Z all right. So look, first thing I
Speaker 4: gotta say is we are called the de front. Right,
Speaker 4: I'm the head linebacker coach. I want to get this understood.
Speaker 4: Listen and how it works. Coach Weaver, Anthony Weaver is
Speaker 4: my mentor and in the defront, it's me as our
Speaker 4: side linebacker coach. Coach Weaver is the assistant head coach,
Speaker 4: but as from a from a standpoint, he's been around
Speaker 4: the league a long time. We all work with everybody's players.
Speaker 4: You know, everything ultimately goes through coach Weaver. But Coach
Speaker 4: Weaver has given me a platform to do whatever I
Speaker 4: want to do. So from the standpoint of it that
Speaker 4: it's a blessing. You know that someone will let you
Speaker 4: come in, be humble enough where he's had crazy success
Speaker 4: and he would let me come in and do things
Speaker 4: that most people in this league won't. And that's the
Speaker 4: difference here with this organization. And so also we have
Speaker 4: another person, Matt Robinson. I could not mention him, you know,
Speaker 4: because he's a master of coverage. I've been working on
Speaker 4: learning coverage. I've learned the coverage. But if you know
Speaker 4: anything about Mike McDonald in this Raven's history of defense,
Speaker 4: it's a lot right. So the thing that Coach Harball
Speaker 4: did he put a utopia, I mean, I'm sorry, a
Speaker 4: nucleus of people around me that are experts, and Coach
Speaker 4: Weaver has expertise and he's also working. So whereas I
Speaker 4: get a chance to work with Beck, we work with Beck,
Speaker 4: you know, Mike and Broad. But guess what he also
Speaker 4: works and does things with Ojabo, so I want to
Speaker 4: make sure they get the proper You guys understand moving
Speaker 4: forward that there are a lot of hands in this process.
Speaker 4: And you know meda Beak. I actually met Medabeak two
Speaker 4: years ago. He came to Atlanta to train with me,
Speaker 4: and they actually still trained with my assistant Dez this
Speaker 4: year because I'm out of that business, so I'm not
Speaker 4: able to train man. Meda Beak is Medebeek's a beast.
Speaker 4: Medabeak has incredible upside. And you know what Medabeek kind
Speaker 4: of reminds me of. There's this new generation of big
Speaker 4: guys that kind of come in three four defenses that
Speaker 4: you'll see, like the guys at Washington. You know, those
Speaker 4: two big guys that were from Bama. When they came in,
Speaker 4: everybody said that what two gappers. Right. There are times
Speaker 4: I'm sure y'all wrote like, well, they ain't gonna have
Speaker 4: no rush. They just got you know, Montez and Chase.
Speaker 4: But the two inside guys became the better pass rushers. Right.
Speaker 4: Think about the guys in Miami, some of the big guys,
Speaker 4: those big guys in Miami. Think about the big guys
Speaker 4: up in New York, all you guys kind of know.
Speaker 4: But all I'm saying is this, the evolution of the
Speaker 4: three four defensive tackle is Beak. He can rush, he
Speaker 4: can play the run. He's aggressive, he's physical, and the
Speaker 4: sky's the limit, it really is. He he's in that
Speaker 4: unique air where he's going to continue to grow and
Speaker 4: he has again he's been coach well, you know Mike
Speaker 4: and his defense. He fits perfect in the defense. But
Speaker 4: Beacon is a dog. I mean, he's a dog, and
Speaker 4: he comes to work every day and has passion and
Speaker 4: he's a good teammate.
Speaker 2: The last time you were up here, you talked about
Speaker 2: a da fe Aoway and we're going to know what
Speaker 2: his signature pass rush move is soon.
Speaker 5: Does he have that down yet and if so, have
Speaker 5: you seen it developed in the first.
Speaker 4: Two weeks of camp. Well, we've been working, you know,
Speaker 4: we're just working on all kinds of different concepts, you know,
Speaker 4: and that's what camp's all about. We're here to win,
Speaker 4: but we're also here when we lose, there's opportunities for
Speaker 4: us to say, you know what, let's tweak this angle,
Speaker 4: you know, let's work on We're working on the spin.
Speaker 4: Let's do power, which is something that we want to
Speaker 4: be able to add in the dude that has super
Speaker 4: charged power. I mean, you run a four to three,
Speaker 4: you can generate some power with your feet and that'll
Speaker 4: help you run through people. So in this process, you know,
Speaker 4: I can't say right now specifically his one movie's doing,
Speaker 4: because we're doing lots of moves. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: But ultimately whatever works best for him because we got
Speaker 4: time until the season comes on. But you know, he's
Speaker 4: pretty skilled up. You know, he's skilled up. We've been
Speaker 4: working on it and we're able to communicate and see
Speaker 4: what he likes and what he doesn't like, and you know,
Speaker 4: we'll continue to develop. But right now, you know, we're
Speaker 4: in camp. You know, we're battling it out. We're working
Speaker 4: on not only working on the Daffe, but we're working
Speaker 4: on other guys that are in the unit. You know,
Speaker 4: to you know, t Rob, our fourth round pick, been balling.
Speaker 4: You guys have heard about Ham. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Jeremiah Moon is having a great camp. You know, we
Speaker 4: know about Ojabo. You know, so I got to give
Speaker 4: a lot of credit that a part of that unit
Speaker 4: because when Doff and Ojabo come out, they're guys that
Speaker 4: are going in that are battling against number ones too,
Speaker 4: first teamers too. So in this whole process, the unit's
Speaker 4: doing great, and those guys are doing great, and they
Speaker 4: come to work every day and continue to be as
Speaker 4: good as you want guys to be to prepare for
Speaker 4: a season. Pression. He's got heavy hands, he's not afraid
Speaker 4: of nobody. He's not. He has come out. He has
Speaker 4: a workmanlike attitude. And one of the best examples I
Speaker 4: can say about him, we were going to do the
Speaker 4: first one on ones of camp, the first so you know,
Speaker 4: Dapa is running up. I mean, Dafa is gonna be
Speaker 4: number one right off the bat, Dape right now, he's
Speaker 4: the leader of the group. He is. That's how it goes,
Speaker 4: you know. So Dafe runs up, He's ready, you know,
Speaker 4: he's jumping all of a sudden, Dovahs like little bro
Speaker 4: get out the way. I mean, you know, t Robbins
Speaker 4: six six and a half, he's ready. He's up there
Speaker 4: with ready to go. You know, he's up there, ready
Speaker 4: to go. And that's how he is. I mean, he
Speaker 4: is physical, He's getting at these guys. He is, you know,
Speaker 4: hard worker. He's gonna definitely be an asset and I
Speaker 4: believe in the future the Ravens fans are gonna love
Speaker 4: that draft pick. In the future. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: he's gonna help us. You know, some this year when.
Speaker 7: The Ravens hired Mike McDonald last year and the players
Speaker 7: talked about how it was a complex system, but it
Speaker 7: was pretty intuitive to learn from yourself being a coach
Speaker 7: who you know, has to know this system, maybe as good,
Speaker 7: if not better than these guys.
Speaker 4: How you kind of grasped it. Well, I've grasped it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know the defense I had to learn,
Speaker 4: you know. But you know, I think that's really interesting
Speaker 4: about the NFL. You know, we've had football school. We've
Speaker 4: done the install twenty times, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: even now we just started. When we started camp, we
Speaker 4: started with install. So when the rookies were here before this,
Speaker 4: you know this, the veterans got here, we did the install.
Speaker 4: We've been doing it. So I've had to learn and
Speaker 4: I have never knew more coverage in my life. I'm
Speaker 4: like wow. But then so now, when I was at
Speaker 4: home with my sons were there, I was like, yeah, y'all,
Speaker 4: let's get on the board. Let's talk some quarter flat
Speaker 4: you know, let's talk some cloud but so not I
Speaker 4: never It's been a blessing the way they've taught me.
Speaker 4: They've been truly and I still learn and I got
Speaker 4: to give these guys a lot of credit. I got
Speaker 4: to give Mike a lot of credit, or coach or
Speaker 4: you know, Chris, everybody, especially Mike and Weave and Matt.
Speaker 4: I mean, they have been really patient. They have any
Speaker 4: time I've called them at night, anytime I need them,
Speaker 4: I can text Matt, Mads, I got you, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. So it's just been pretty cool. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I had to learn now and I'm still learning. I'm
Speaker 4: still learning because now you know, Mike is like the
Speaker 4: mad scientist, were starting to throw stuff out. There's like,
Speaker 4: all right, let me get back to the drawing board.
Speaker 4: So I continue to grow. There's still things I got
Speaker 4: to learn, but I definitely have learned coverage as well
Speaker 4: as understand how the pressures work, and you know, the
Speaker 4: past rush is second nature. Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast. You just
Speaker 1: heard from outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith. Next you'll hear
Speaker 1: from a few Ravens players. First up, is third year
Speaker 1: outside linebacker a da f Aoaya.
Speaker 3: We were talking talking to suck.
Speaker 6: Here's an enthusiasm for the pastrut his knowledge and history
Speaker 6: and all that stuff. When you started your relationship with him,
Speaker 6: what would you say you were looking forward from the
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 11: Just I really just wanted a guy a first of all,
Speaker 11: that you know, played the position that they were coaching
Speaker 11: me with first of all, so he checked the box there.
Speaker 11: And then it's a guy that you know would not
Speaker 11: only teach you the technique, but pushed like the mentality
Speaker 11: of a pass rusher in terms of confidence, a go
Speaker 11: getter type of mentality, trying to get off taking that
Speaker 11: first approach, you know, taking that attack approach and stuff
Speaker 11: like that. And then obviously the tech technical parts of it,
Speaker 11: you know, teaching that part and then you know, slowing
Speaker 11: it down for guys that you know are new to
Speaker 11: the game, like a like a Me or a Jabbo
Speaker 11: or guys that you know are athletically inclined, but in
Speaker 11: terms of skill, you know they have they have a
Speaker 11: little bit of ways to go. So you know, that's
Speaker 11: those things.
Speaker 3: And it was in your uh firstuppression of the reputavieous.
Speaker 4: Pros Nah, he's been good. He's been real good.
Speaker 11: He's real strong, tall, doesn't talk a lot, but like
Speaker 11: you know, when when he talks, he's asking questions and
Speaker 11: like he receives it well and then like he'll do
Speaker 11: a good job of you know, implementing what you taught
Speaker 11: him and doing it the right way and stuff like that.
Speaker 11: So he's a sponge, pretty good strong, you know, and
Speaker 11: he's not he's not scared to you know, make contact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't think coach.
Speaker 3: You have just mentioned you've taken on more of the
Speaker 3: leadership role as.
Speaker 4: Your you fe like you have it.
Speaker 7: How do you feel like your that?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, I I appreciate him saying that,
Speaker 11: but you know I've I've taken him in tidy of
Speaker 11: you know, just trying to leave by example, just trying
Speaker 11: to you know, run to the ball, you know, take
Speaker 11: every rep as if it was my last rep, you know,
Speaker 11: go hard and everything and try to perfect everything he's
Speaker 11: teaching me. But you know, obviously our room's really young,
Speaker 11: so you know we're all you know, trying to learn everything.
Speaker 11: But I I I I like I accept that, and
Speaker 11: you know, I thank him from doing that and everything,
Speaker 11: cause it. It makes me wanna, you know, uh play
Speaker 11: harder and take that role of you know, trying to
Speaker 11: knowing the other guys watching me. You know, I've always
Speaker 11: been the youngest guy in my room. I always had vets.
Speaker 11: So it's a different dynamic.
Speaker 4: Now he's like you because he used to before he
Speaker 4: was a guy that.
Speaker 11: He That's what I'm saying, Like I've I had Justin
Speaker 11: had JPP, I had other older guys that klaius you
Speaker 11: know that were always you know, teach me what to do,
Speaker 11: big rook if you guys remember that all that. So
Speaker 11: you know, it's just a different dynamic now. So I'm
Speaker 11: taking it. I'm taking it a different way.
Speaker 4: Yuck.
Speaker 3: You watching any other pass pass rushers that he's saying, hey.
Speaker 4: You has to match meets like this guy, and uh
Speaker 4: he does.
Speaker 11: I don't know, I wanna you know, give them that,
Speaker 11: but uh yeah, he he has like a whole thing
Speaker 11: in his iPad of you know, certain names like so
Speaker 11: he'll like David will have me and stuff that. You know,
Speaker 11: he thinks that our skills, that our attributes match towards
Speaker 11: and you know we'll try to you know, mirror and
Speaker 11: stuff like that. So you always see us with our iPads,
Speaker 11: you know, trying to figure out who who matches our game.
Speaker 11: But also he teaches us that, you know, everyone's their
Speaker 11: own type of rusher. Everyone has their own things that
Speaker 11: are good at, So you can't mimic everything. You gotta
Speaker 11: find out what you're good at and then take a
Speaker 11: little bits of it out of the pass rushers.
Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, in terms of.
Speaker 5: Things he's taught you and tech news wise or between
Speaker 5: your favorite the biggest.
Speaker 11: Tries in terms of I'll probably say get off and
Speaker 11: then having a plan at the top of my rush.
Speaker 4: And then what Chuck always talks about. He's like rib.
Speaker 11: He always saying rib. So like at the end of
Speaker 11: the rush, you gotta side sitsus. You know, rip A
Speaker 11: lot of times I would, I would beat my man,
Speaker 11: but like you know, to get my hips clear enough,
Speaker 11: I I didn't do that, and that's because of the rip,
Speaker 11: like you said, So I'd probably say it like those
Speaker 11: two things.
Speaker 8: Yup adoct for how important is it for you this
Speaker 8: year to obviously sacks are important?
Speaker 3: What for you individually? How important is it for you
Speaker 3: to put together a strong sack here?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 11: You know it's real important cause you know that's obviously
Speaker 11: I'm a pass rusher, so that's obviously the most important
Speaker 11: thing for someone in my position. But I also I
Speaker 11: also wanna win, you know, so you know that if
Speaker 11: if I know, I'm I'm doing everything that my team
Speaker 11: you know, needs me to do, and I'm doing it
Speaker 11: like how Mike wants me to do it and how
Speaker 11: Chuck wants me to do it as well. The sack's
Speaker 11: gonna come there. It It's gonna be coming bunches as well.
Speaker 11: So yeah, you are good.
Speaker 4: They appreciate you're.
Speaker 1: Listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. That was olb A.
Speaker 1: Dafeoway And finally now you'll hear from fourth year defensive
Speaker 1: tackle Justin Mattobike.
Speaker 4: Good, good, good, justin.
Speaker 3: What do you make of you guys to this point
Speaker 3: in practice? How do you feel about where you are today?
Speaker 4: Pretty good?
Speaker 9: Just taking a one day and time through camp, we're
Speaker 9: around that time where we're getting a little scrappy and
Speaker 9: tired of seeing each other. So we're definitely looking forward
Speaker 9: to next week playing against our next opponent.
Speaker 4: So it's been good. We're just trying to get it
Speaker 4: all together.
Speaker 9: Taking one day at a time, keep sharpening toolbox and
Speaker 9: keep crafting getting better with.
Speaker 10: Maclays isn't here anymore, Justinust not here anymore. So there's
Speaker 10: some sacks that that need to be replaced. How big
Speaker 10: of a factor do you think you could be coming
Speaker 10: offset that and you know make up for some of
Speaker 10: those sacks and.
Speaker 4: Past part huge for sure.
Speaker 9: That's why we brung guys like Chuck here, you know
Speaker 9: what i' and I even worked with Chuck even before
Speaker 9: he came here, So the fact that he's here is
Speaker 9: even a bonus for us. Dalla fe Javo tyas like
Speaker 9: the whole d line. So it's gonna definitely not even
Speaker 9: change at all. So we're just trying to get those
Speaker 9: connections together with the with the games and and the timing.
Speaker 4: So that's why we're doing out here in practice.
Speaker 10: So you've gotten better every year, put up more production.
Speaker 10: You know why do you think that is? And and
Speaker 10: what gives you confidence that you continue that trend and
Speaker 10: build on that sack production from last year and years?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: I think it's just my my inner hunger just to
Speaker 9: get better asking old like older guys like Koa is
Speaker 9: like uh like like he's so things that they did
Speaker 9: and my age to get better and just take a
Speaker 9: note and just applying it to my games. Always, always
Speaker 9: never being satisfied, always find finding ways to get better,
Speaker 9: and always never stop act like asking questions.
Speaker 4: Just be a little kid, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: You said, like you started working with Chuck a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, putting before he got here.
Speaker 3: So what made you seek him out?
Speaker 4: And what does he What are the things he brings it,
Speaker 4: you know, help bring out your game.
Speaker 9: Uh, the the things that he brings to my game
Speaker 9: is just you know, timing with like with moves, you know,
Speaker 9: shadow box and moves. It's just a repetition thing, he
Speaker 9: tells U. It's a repetition. He's been in our shoes.
Speaker 9: He's playing in the NFL, he's r he's rested passer.
Speaker 9: I got him from uh justin Houston, actually out there
Speaker 9: in uh Atlanta, so I w I went to him
Speaker 9: and that was my first time beating and we talked
Speaker 9: on like on social media and stuff like that, but
Speaker 9: meeting him actually and working with him, that's when it happened.
Speaker 4: So what were your like your.
Speaker 3: First impressions when he did work with him and and
Speaker 3: what kind of.
Speaker 9: Jumped out to Oh, just the stuff that he was saying,
Speaker 9: it made sense. You know, stuff that he said I
Speaker 9: could relate to, cause he's he's actually played three tech
Speaker 9: two y five shade even as a nose So he
Speaker 9: just the way that he would talk to us, and
Speaker 9: the just stuff that we would understand by him being
Speaker 9: in our shoes. It just it just basically it made
Speaker 9: it quick.
Speaker 4: So do you think it is.
Speaker 7: Going from seeing him as a as a private coach
Speaker 7: to him being employees Ravens and for the whole team
Speaker 7: as a whole.
Speaker 4: How beneficially you think that's gonna be. It's gonna be
Speaker 4: a benefit for us.
Speaker 9: Uh I, I don't see it. There's nothing different. He's
Speaker 9: just the same Chuck that I was before he was
Speaker 9: a coach here. But uh, I just got to see
Speaker 9: him every single day and get to ask him questions
Speaker 9: in person every single day.
Speaker 4: So it's really a blessing.
Speaker 6: So when, uh, when Michael Pearce was going through the
Speaker 6: Jfutch Lineman every day, he kind of said, well, obviously,
Speaker 6: Justin used to be out there almost.
Speaker 7: All the time.
Speaker 6: I mean, do you appreciate that you're at the point
Speaker 6: where your teammates.
Speaker 3: Kind of see you that way?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. You know, respect is in there.
Speaker 9: It is, It isn't given, it's earn So I F
Speaker 9: I definitely respect the fact that he respects me and
Speaker 9: just sees me as that way.
Speaker 4: But you know, just at it. It did.
Speaker 9: It doesn't stop the grind. It doesn't stop the the
Speaker 9: push to keep being hungry, keep being great, keep getting better.
Speaker 9: And that's what I gonna continue to do.
Speaker 3: Get the train any differently, to play more snacks just
Speaker 3: than the net.
Speaker 9: It's a while, Yeah, it's just uh, just more running,
Speaker 9: more gashes, running to the ball, just never being satisfied.
Speaker 9: You feel like if you ran enough, just run ash
Speaker 9: three to five gases after practice. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 9: Just f it, just do it. Just added every single day,
Speaker 9: to add a break every single day. It always adds
Speaker 9: up in the end. So that's what that boyced I
Speaker 9: took from all the guys that I knew.
Speaker 5: So you got pretty nice progression.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 5: What you think you've made trys coming into.
Speaker 3: Just us it and hit it. Uh, hold your focused
Speaker 3: on and made their strucks.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think just everything, just like attention to detail, bringing
Speaker 9: more sharp holding myself to the higher standard. Uh pass
Speaker 9: rush uh running s uh strength, just everything. Everything I
Speaker 9: try to work on everything pretty.
Speaker 4: Does for this year. Uh they're pretty high, you know.
Speaker 9: I I'm still working on it, honestly, like I uh,
Speaker 9: I advised, I had them every uh like every single day.
Speaker 11: CA.
Speaker 9: I just feel like it's just not high enough.
Speaker 4: Just not high enough. So trying to get through camp.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying, take care of my body,
Speaker 9: finding ways to get better and taking care of my
Speaker 9: body and just uh taking one day at time.
Speaker 8: So justin you're in a contract here, how does that
Speaker 8: impact you going into this year?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: You know, it's just like everybody goes through the contract gear.
Speaker 9: That's how I see it. You just put your head
Speaker 9: down to work. Put your head down and work. Put
Speaker 9: your head down and work. I feel like the more
Speaker 9: you think about it, the more it get it becomes
Speaker 9: a distraction. You just put your head down and work
Speaker 9: and ful, everything's gonna work.
Speaker 4: It's fell man.
Speaker 5: So mentioned the goals or there are specific longs to
Speaker 5: you keep a list? I mean, how do you kind
Speaker 5: of feel about that?
Speaker 9: I did this little I got a little little journal
Speaker 9: I write in and uh, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: I just try to do daily goals and stuff like
Speaker 9: that weekly goals and then long term goals and stuff
Speaker 9: like that. So uh, probably the past three years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So just do you.
Speaker 7: Think the deflect the past celebration here stick.
Speaker 9: For you guys, the urb one, Yeah, that's everybody's catching on,
Speaker 9: even Weave and everybody's doing in the fact just though.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's fun.
Speaker 9: We're just trying to have fun and you can just
Speaker 9: get better at the same time. So all right, thank
Speaker 9: you all, appreciate, thank you.
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