Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: August fifth. The Ravens continued training camp practice today and
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Big day, Hot day.
Speaker 3: I thought our guys did a really good job of
Speaker 3: answering the bell. It was a challenging practice and they
Speaker 3: got the work. A lot of third down work, fourth
Speaker 3: down work, a lot of physicality in there, and proud
Speaker 3: of the way the guy's practice always them. Today was
Speaker 3: an example of that what question do you have?
Speaker 4: I know you're not game planning for the preseason on here,
Speaker 4: but I mean, is there an excitement a little bit
Speaker 4: that you guys will actually be kitting some other times?
Speaker 3: No question, Very exciting, very exciting. Gets to that point
Speaker 3: in time in camp where you really need to do that,
Speaker 3: and it's it's kind of part of the evolution. You
Speaker 3: gotta take another step, you gotta go tackle, you gotta
Speaker 3: play a game. You gotta understand the feel and temple
Speaker 3: of a game, not a practice. So we're looking forward
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 2: I big.
Speaker 5: Individuals tackling in the rapping down the year, getting ready
Speaker 5: to get actually live to see the round.
Speaker 3: Your first action, well just what you're talking about. We
Speaker 3: do a lot of drills. We really work on the
Speaker 3: angles a lot of times. Good tackling is a function
Speaker 3: of being in position to make a good tackle, which
Speaker 3: has to do with getting there quickly, in other words,
Speaker 3: playing with great effort, getting off blocks the way you're
Speaker 3: supposed to, taking a proper angle. If you do that,
Speaker 3: you generally are gonna make tackles. Then your partner's being
Speaker 3: there to help clean you tackle up.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's what ends up being good tackling. Within that,
Speaker 3: we try to teach good technique and then we'll coach
Speaker 3: it on the film and the tape and all that
Speaker 3: once we get in the game. Coachump big is this
Speaker 3: game this first preseason game as far as getting the
Speaker 3: stars for offensive loss or figured out who those guys
Speaker 3: are going to pick? Yeah, I think we'll get a
Speaker 3: lot of questions answered in this in this game in
Speaker 3: terms of, you know, where everybody's at at this time
Speaker 3: in a real game situation, blocking, tackling, catching the ball,
Speaker 3: how we handle our assignments, things like that would be
Speaker 3: very interesting.
Speaker 6: When that's center, it's just a matter of want to
Speaker 6: see kind of increase this versus where else you can use.
Speaker 3: Well, he's been at Centered now since the first day
Speaker 3: of OTA's has been working in there, so he continues
Speaker 3: to work in there. Tyler's out right now. They're kind
Speaker 3: of evaluating him. He had some discomfort and they're you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna hold him out. We're gonna be very cautious
Speaker 3: with Tyler. Obviously, it's not anything he needs right now
Speaker 3: in terms of practice, so we'll kind of rest him
Speaker 3: up there, I guess. And but you guys so gonna
Speaker 3: work Ben, We're gonna work vorhees in there, We're gonna
Speaker 3: work all those guys.
Speaker 6: I know after he made that ten.
Speaker 3: I don't have any I've been told anything yet.
Speaker 6: You see Center as a significant open competition right now
Speaker 6: what you're seeing past.
Speaker 3: There, Yeah, you know it's it is an open competition
Speaker 3: right now. And you've got Pat McCarry in that mix too, obviously,
Speaker 3: So to the question that was asked last week kind
Speaker 3: of goes to that. So I'm confident we've got guys
Speaker 3: that can do it and do it well, and we
Speaker 3: are gonna want to hone in there, you know, in
Speaker 3: the next some some period of time. Soon.
Speaker 2: I saw kind of like a similar with scrimmage on
Speaker 2: on Saturdays, and so sort of things that you saw
Speaker 2: that jump down the hedged to take.
Speaker 3: Except I think that I don't have my list with
Speaker 3: me right now, Brian, But I do think that they
Speaker 3: play hard. They kind of understood the situations they were
Speaker 3: put in, which is good. They understood what it meant
Speaker 3: to win a situation. The way we scored it was
Speaker 3: based on which side the ball won the situation, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of how the game breaks down a
Speaker 3: lot of times, you know, it breaks down into parts.
Speaker 3: So whether they were coming off the twenty five to
Speaker 3: start to dry and start the series, whether they were
Speaker 3: in the fringe, fred field goal area, the red zone,
Speaker 3: backed up, those are kind of situations you want to
Speaker 3: get him in.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive back are Darius Washington, who's competing
Speaker 1: for snaps and role on this team. He had a
Speaker 1: big pick six in practice today. He talked about that
Speaker 1: as well as his mindset going into the season.
Speaker 2: The practice.
Speaker 7: Oh man, it felt good. It was my first play, well,
Speaker 7: first pick, you know what I mean. So it felt
Speaker 7: good definitely to get on.
Speaker 4: The board too.
Speaker 2: What as part of the basketball.
Speaker 7: Maybe a little bit, but I've been doing that since
Speaker 7: I was like six years old, you know. So it's
Speaker 7: just I wanted to bring it out out here.
Speaker 4: Why not.
Speaker 1: But there, How do you.
Speaker 2: Feel like this camp's going for you? When you've been
Speaker 2: a guy's moved around something, you played a lot of
Speaker 2: nickel in the past. Seems like, you know, this spring
Speaker 2: and summer you've worked a little more in safety.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Just how do you think you're stacking up in the competition?
Speaker 4: I mean more you can do?
Speaker 7: You know, competition is great, you know it brings out
Speaker 7: the best of us and everything like that. But man,
Speaker 7: I feel like I've been doing a pretty good job,
Speaker 7: you know, still learning a little bit, you know, flying
Speaker 7: around and making some plays.
Speaker 2: What you approach with be the obviously the secondary is
Speaker 2: lover to your talent.
Speaker 5: If you approach you like taking sure that you just do.
Speaker 6: It on your best job.
Speaker 2: Worry about you know, the.
Speaker 4: No, I just keep it simple, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Just do my job.
Speaker 7: So every time I go out there and whatever opportunity
Speaker 7: I get, just going out there and represent myself well
Speaker 7: and representing this team.
Speaker 4: You know. So just the main thing for me is
Speaker 4: just do my job.
Speaker 5: Or Darius sums hurt you got hurt. I mean your
Speaker 5: season opener last year. You know it was pretty good
Speaker 5: for yourself.
Speaker 4: Is that too far back.
Speaker 5: To think about like building off that or how do
Speaker 5: you you know, kind of go forward knowing that.
Speaker 4: I mean it was a.
Speaker 5: Short sample size or a little sample size, but I
Speaker 5: mean you were making strides last year as the regular season.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just stay confident in myself, you know,
Speaker 4: so that was last year. Keep that last year.
Speaker 7: You know, every day I cut my hair stacked every day,
Speaker 7: make the most of my opportunities, and I feel like
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do the same thing when i go back
Speaker 7: out there again.
Speaker 6: You know, you see, to win the slough job going
Speaker 6: away last year it was it was a.
Speaker 3: Big competition starting with Brandon Stevens there other people moving
Speaker 3: through them are like getting hurt, getting your.
Speaker 2: Opportunity, and you start the year unslackly in the team.
Speaker 2: Would you want to be in that competition this year?
Speaker 2: As a praise to the short safety competition to.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I said earlier, competition is good.
Speaker 7: You know, whatever they feel like they're gonna put me
Speaker 7: at and anything like that, I'm gonna compete. I'm gonna
Speaker 7: do my job and do the best. That's what I can.
Speaker 7: You know, so the more you can do with it better,
Speaker 7: you know, So it really doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 2: What do you feel like you your skill said, you
Speaker 2: know one having proved to.
Speaker 6: Be too.
Speaker 2: Sort of fit in terms of preference over Nicla or so.
Speaker 4: But say you got to learn it, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 7: You the quarterback back there, so you calling out the
Speaker 7: pleas and everything like that, and telling the other guys
Speaker 7: around so and say to you more so, just got
Speaker 7: to know the defense and understand what Zeo is gonna
Speaker 7: call and when he's gonna call it and everything like that.
Speaker 7: So they'll help out the other guys and help yourself out.
Speaker 2: How that competition how bald you for yourself and just
Speaker 2: the guys trying to get.
Speaker 8: Those for sure?
Speaker 4: Second, I mean, preseason is huge, you know.
Speaker 7: That's kind of how I got my starting you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, starting job and everything like that. You know,
Speaker 7: you go out there, you get the lace up against
Speaker 7: a different opponent, you know what I mean. You want
Speaker 7: to go out there and play and bang around and
Speaker 7: everything like that. You get tired of going against our
Speaker 7: team all the time, you know, so go out there
Speaker 7: and compete, get some other guys, you know, put it
Speaker 7: all out there on tape.
Speaker 2: So he treats this week like it's a regular season game.
Speaker 4: Would you say you do that?
Speaker 5: Like come in and today does it feel like you're
Speaker 5: you know, you're in the regular season, already got ready
Speaker 5: for a game leak.
Speaker 7: I mean he's always like I said, man, you lasten
Speaker 7: up to get someone else. So of course this game
Speaker 7: we for me for sure.
Speaker 2: Talent in the secondary a lot of competition. Just do
Speaker 2: you feel pressure on getting release or camp?
Speaker 7: I mean I came in as an undrafted guy, so
Speaker 7: it's already their pressure, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 7: whoever they bring in or whatever's going on, you know,
Speaker 7: I just don't let that phase me, are get in
Speaker 7: the way of anything, you know, I just focus on
Speaker 7: me and focus on my job at one one player
Speaker 7: at the time or Darius.
Speaker 2: On the other side of the ball. What is Misha
Speaker 2: Baben done to impressing?
Speaker 7: Oh man, he's done really well that especially when we've
Speaker 7: seen that catching the ends on you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: making the tough catches. He giving us a lot of
Speaker 7: good releases off the line and everything like that, but
Speaker 7: Bay He's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be explosive this year. He's gonna make a lot of
Speaker 4: players for us for sure.
Speaker 1: We also heard from a veteran linebacker, Malik Harrison. He's
Speaker 1: a versatile player and he talked about how that versatility
Speaker 1: suits him. Well, you know, the guy can.
Speaker 3: Play all over that line exa something that you can
Speaker 3: kind of embraced them.
Speaker 2: Be here, you got this quers about EDITU.
Speaker 8: Do you know last year that's where I you know,
Speaker 8: started to move around. But you know, I'm used to it.
Speaker 8: Like in high school, I played damn near ten positions,
Speaker 8: so you know, I'm used to you know, playing around
Speaker 8: a whole bunch of positions. So it's nothing you know,
Speaker 8: too hard on me or anything.
Speaker 5: You feel like that gives you a big picture, bigger
Speaker 5: understanding of the defense.
Speaker 8: So when you think that can help you, oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8: You know, just learning all them positions, you know, get
Speaker 8: a bigger picture. I get to you know, know what
Speaker 8: you know basically what everybody doing, and you know, just
Speaker 8: you know helps me out.
Speaker 4: You know, I just have to.
Speaker 8: You know, when I go out there, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 8: I'm playing dime or I'm playing Sam or playing and
Speaker 8: I gotta you know, turn my you know, just turn
Speaker 8: my brain and say, you know, I got that.
Speaker 6: These positions to that help end when you know you
Speaker 6: got like McDonald TV here where positions were kind of fluidded.
Speaker 6: Guys were you know, shifting roles?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, definitely. You know, I feel like with this
Speaker 8: the defense, you know, the more you know, the better
Speaker 8: you're gonna get on playing better you're gonna get on
Speaker 8: the field. So you know, me playing the position gives
Speaker 8: you the opportunity to get on the field more.
Speaker 5: What you played with some other players here if you're
Speaker 5: pretty another club certa play the fields a guy who
Speaker 5: lasted a.
Speaker 3: Long time in this league with the combination of special.
Speaker 2: Teams and defensive role and more versatile the better. Is
Speaker 2: that something you aspired.
Speaker 8: To in terms of the surviving Oh yeah, definitely. You know,
Speaker 8: to be honest, is any way to get me on
Speaker 8: the field. That's how you know, that's just how I feel. Uh,
Speaker 8: you know they want me to play inside, I play.
Speaker 8: You know, I played three tame I played, you know,
Speaker 8: I play anything they want me to play.
Speaker 2: What do you think the biggest strides technique wise or
Speaker 2: or just know England's roles and so forth.
Speaker 8: I feel like right now I got a pretty understanding
Speaker 8: of all of all the positions. But you know, I say,
Speaker 8: you know, since this is gonna be my third year
Speaker 8: playing Sam, I feel like, you know, Sam is the
Speaker 8: you know, my strongest right now.
Speaker 6: Every year there's a discussion about where does the past
Speaker 6: rush comes from? The hardes but some clown leaving last year,
Speaker 6: you guys had it helped late for early season.
Speaker 2: Rather, do you feel like you have.
Speaker 6: In camp right now, especially some of the guys come
Speaker 6: back for yourself, there's enough year to kind of canner
Speaker 6: approach what you.
Speaker 2: Guys did last year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I feel like the guys that we
Speaker 8: got right now, you know, added job Bos coming back.
Speaker 8: You know, we got kV back. You know, I feel
Speaker 8: like the guys that we got now Jo, I mean Dafe.
Speaker 8: I feel like everybody that we got right now is
Speaker 8: a good group of guys that you know, can get
Speaker 8: off the ball and we can have the same success
Speaker 8: that we had last year.
Speaker 2: It seems like Trent Simpsons in line for a lot
Speaker 2: of stops. You're familiar with that inside those inside back
Speaker 2: up positions.
Speaker 4: What do you think is most challenging about.
Speaker 2: That position for a young players step in the new
Speaker 2: dinner world.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, as a young player coming in regardless,
Speaker 8: you know, you get more snaps and you know you're
Speaker 8: seeing things different. You know it's gonna be challenging. But
Speaker 8: you know, Trent has been doing great, you know, this
Speaker 8: whole camp. So you know, I can't wait until the
Speaker 8: you know season and see how how he is this
Speaker 8: whole season.
Speaker 2: A preference on inside or outside in terms of what
Speaker 2: you like better.
Speaker 8: Nah, I don't or don't this is any anything they
Speaker 8: give me on the field.
Speaker 2: You know, you have a lot of experiences. Special teams
Speaker 2: just are your thoughts in their kickoff?
Speaker 8: You know, it's it's it's different than you know what
Speaker 8: obviously what you know I'm used to. But you know,
Speaker 8: I feel like it's gonna be fun, you know, just
Speaker 8: being fire yards. You know, I feel like it's a
Speaker 8: lot of people get to you know, make a lot
Speaker 8: of plays.
Speaker 6: In regards to that, I mean, you feel like you
Speaker 6: guys need to see how the kickoffs playing the three
Speaker 6: s understand.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8: You know, just out here we just be trying new
Speaker 8: things just to you know, just to get a feel
Speaker 8: for it. But you know, the real test is gonna
Speaker 8: be when we playing the game. So we try to
Speaker 8: make it seem like you know, it's it's like game
Speaker 8: like scenarios when we're out here.
Speaker 4: Feel this season, industry, what do you want.
Speaker 8: To you know, it's a critical year for me. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm one year deal, you know, you know, just you know,
Speaker 8: trying to get out, get on the field more, you know,
Speaker 8: make more plays, and you know, just have people feel
Speaker 8: my presence being.
Speaker 5: A veteran, you're do you get excited about the preseason
Speaker 5: game this weekend?
Speaker 2: How do you approach you know, this Monday and practice.
Speaker 8: I treated like a game, like a regular season game.
Speaker 8: You know, you never know who's watching you. You know,
Speaker 8: you could, you know, get promoted on preseason games. You
Speaker 8: never know, So you know, I'll treat it just like
Speaker 8: a game.
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