Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Feet The Ravens
Speaker 1: held their second day of mandatory mini camp on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and we also had a chance to hear from the
Speaker 1: coordinators as well as quarterback Lamar Jackson and All Pro
Speaker 1: left tackle Ronnie Stanley. Now, this is a big week
Speaker 1: on the offseason calendar. The entire team is here for
Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp. It's the last time that the full
Speaker 1: team is together. After this week, everyone breaks, they go
Speaker 1: their separate ways, and then they all come back to
Speaker 1: Baltimore for training camp in late July. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and kick things off today with quarterback Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: who talked with reporters before today's practice.
Speaker 2: First practice with Odell yesterday. How do you think he
Speaker 2: looked out there?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Little pretty smooth Chris routes, great hands as
Speaker 3: everybody know. You know he can catch the ball. Look
Speaker 3: pretty good Outdo.
Speaker 4: You say you guys are gonna be a right out
Speaker 4: after any camp? Yea home for in other sessions for
Speaker 4: you ever your season? And were you looking forward to the.
Speaker 5: Up those kids?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: I believe it's very important just so we can just
Speaker 3: keep our chemistry going, keep building on chemistry. Cause the
Speaker 3: season's right there, you know, off season pretty much over it?
Speaker 7: Maar, are you feeling more comfortable making the adjustments I
Speaker 7: saw yesterday?
Speaker 4: Made the one to Andrews?
Speaker 7: It look like if you guys attack that, w are
Speaker 7: you you feel like making then adjustments that the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage is becoming more comfortable?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh absolutely, And the more I'm being here it helps.
Speaker 3: It helps both of us out a lot. And like
Speaker 3: I said before in uh another interview, uh coach top
Speaker 3: Monkt just giving us the keys to the offense to
Speaker 3: let us do our thing, it's pretty much helping us
Speaker 3: a lot as well.
Speaker 4: Themar house the worst for that kind of telling that.
Speaker 3: You have what you did in high school.
Speaker 4: It's like a lot of your mother stuff, you know,
Speaker 4: was about fortress, the very way you kind of checked
Speaker 4: with the fire right kind of man. Nor a little
Speaker 4: that does remind you of about what you.
Speaker 3: Get back then? Uh N, Nah, not really, because ours
Speaker 3: were strictly sickness. I never had to get in the
Speaker 3: hudder at all. You know, this offense, I still had
Speaker 3: to get in a hudder and made cars and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 6: So nah, not really, Famar.
Speaker 2: You have nowaday put that manatic treadwall after a wide receiver.
Speaker 2: You didn't have five former first round picks at wide
Speaker 2: receivers this year. I mean for a I mean, how
Speaker 2: how much do you think this the expectation thing and
Speaker 2: the the white people group has has really.
Speaker 3: Progressed the car I mean, we don't really care about
Speaker 3: the expectations, just the guys that gotta get out there
Speaker 3: and do what they do. You know, the reason they
Speaker 3: went first round just you know, make those plays and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. And I believe we got the guys
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 8: Flamar, if you could.
Speaker 9: Think back to when you started to really feeling the
Speaker 9: back bread Roman's offense, how long did that take?
Speaker 10: And how long do you think it would take you
Speaker 10: to really feel comfortable at Todd roubleson?
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't think that long. Uh g Roll's offense,
Speaker 3: it didn't take that take that long. I think I
Speaker 3: believe twenty nineteen that's when he got the OC job.
Speaker 3: And you know, we I feel like we went fourteen too.
Speaker 3: And of course Todd Monk and I don't know, the
Speaker 3: sky's the limit with this offense.
Speaker 11: We gonna see how much time do you allow for
Speaker 11: that naturation periodistications of learning when you.
Speaker 3: Play by uh you do take loan you know it.
Speaker 3: Just gotta study. You know, it's a job at the
Speaker 3: end of the day. So me doing my job studying
Speaker 3: and try to learn the INDs and outs and pinpoint everything,
Speaker 3: every detail you need to help, Lamar.
Speaker 4: It's you know, football in a lot of ways.
Speaker 12: It's it's not that different, you know, no matter who
Speaker 12: the coach is, well, terminology, terminology will change with the
Speaker 12: actual fundamentals of it.
Speaker 3: Not that different, right, similar to you for you or right,
Speaker 3: y'all see it the same way. You know, just the terminology,
Speaker 3: but everything guess pretty much the same, Lamar.
Speaker 13: When you guys leave tomorrow, how do you want to
Speaker 13: leave things after? Like tomorrow's last practice? Like you in
Speaker 13: your mind, you know, what does a successful week look
Speaker 13: like this week? And how do you wanna leave things?
Speaker 13: If you know before the break?
Speaker 3: Well, let's finish this practice, well is last practice tomorrow, Chris.
Speaker 3: Let's make ourselves look good out there, and we gonna
Speaker 3: see how the rest go, LaVar.
Speaker 4: I just graduated from Morgan State, and I remember when
Speaker 4: you came.
Speaker 8: And hung out of the chi pla.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is there?
Speaker 11: You come and me with you're younger in fans and
Speaker 11: just me in the community of Baltimore.
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean it's cool, you know. And I was
Speaker 3: there with friends and family as well, so, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: just to just hang out with the kids. I'll say
Speaker 3: they kids, cause I'm twenty six now, so like just
Speaker 3: hang out with the kids. And you know some players
Speaker 3: who was out there lacrosse team. I think I was
Speaker 3: playing lacross a little bit just to get a motivation,
Speaker 3: you know, the you know, just reach your goals, cause
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at. That's where I'm at. Him having
Speaker 3: fun in my profession. Uh goal of mine I wanted
Speaker 3: to reach, and I just want them to have the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 14: Talking.
Speaker 7: It looks like he is very keene on the small details.
Speaker 7: You just after plays get t talk talk coach, coaching
Speaker 7: guys up. Yeah, that's starting to rub off on you
Speaker 7: or you starting to be that guy that's after playing
Speaker 7: is going talking to teammates to.
Speaker 3: Tell him what you're saying. Yeah. Absolutely, I I think
Speaker 3: I did a little bit yesterday when me and uh
Speaker 3: Nelly Nelly, when I for a route and I wanted
Speaker 3: him to do do a certain thing within that route.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you can say that it's rubbing off a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 9: And reality surprise you at all the more, how you know,
Speaker 9: loud he is, I mean pretty stark contract before you
Speaker 9: uh rollman.
Speaker 3: And what you guys were used to. Yeah, not even
Speaker 3: not even talking about Roman, you know, just him himself
Speaker 3: when I first signed, when im when I seen him, Uh,
Speaker 3: I didn't really think he was that you know, explosive
Speaker 3: when he speaking and stuff like that, and even in
Speaker 3: the meeting room he gonna have you laughing and stuff.
Speaker 3: But he that serious about what he's saying, you know,
Speaker 3: and and it mean a lot just for him to
Speaker 3: have that going on with our offense. You know, everybody
Speaker 3: be dowt dan to know what coach is thinking. So yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely surprising.
Speaker 4: Mary. You mentioned, you know, of giving you the keys
Speaker 4: to the offense. Yeah, is that something sort of work
Speaker 4: eager for the past.
Speaker 10: And then secondly, how is that adjustment been for you
Speaker 10: in terms of, uh, have you had to change how
Speaker 10: you go about things and so forth?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely the eager just just because you know,
Speaker 3: it's certain things we see on the film on the
Speaker 3: film in the film room that we might not get
Speaker 3: when we plan. And you know, sometimes I wanted to,
Speaker 3: you know, make adjustments. But like I said, Coach Todd,
Speaker 3: giving us that that, you know, that free will, it's
Speaker 3: like we gonna make things happen.
Speaker 4: Is it hurt you else for the term of how
Speaker 4: you feel about getting to that point?
Speaker 3: Uh nah, not really. That's you know, just studying and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. You gonna naturally gonna naturally just go off. Nope.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people would create some headlines
Speaker 2: when you said this, this offense could throw.
Speaker 4: You could throw for six thousand cards.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, But do you think do you.
Speaker 2: Think four thousand though? Do you think four thousand is
Speaker 2: a realistic expectation?
Speaker 3: Now? I mean yeah, But like I would say, I
Speaker 3: really was saying that then, you know, but they just
Speaker 3: blought out a proportion and say, yeah, I'm gonna my
Speaker 3: goal is six thousand yards. My goal is to win
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. My goal never about the yards or
Speaker 3: anything like that. But I know our guys, you know,
Speaker 3: they want to bottle in their hand and made for
Speaker 3: the tackle of plays. So and I feel like we
Speaker 3: got the guys to do it. So that's what I
Speaker 3: was just saying. I feel like we could throw for
Speaker 3: six thousand yards but that's probably unrealistic. But we'll see,
Speaker 3: you know, or see.
Speaker 15: You guys be playing a seem like at a fashion
Speaker 15: of places, like getting putting out a whole quicker than
Speaker 15: yeah before.
Speaker 8: How important is that?
Speaker 4: And how w how did that that help you with
Speaker 4: a guy now you ask you bought?
Speaker 3: Uh, very important, just because you gotta we got the
Speaker 3: s the clock going to play, clock going, and then
Speaker 3: we gotta see what the defense and you know, gotta
Speaker 3: make adjustments at the line and stuff like that. We
Speaker 3: still gotta have time to you know, make our adjustments
Speaker 3: and might have to change to play here and there.
Speaker 3: So it's very good to get a get to the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage and you know, have everything cetera within that.
Speaker 14: M talking to six thousand yards and all the new receivers.
Speaker 3: I mean, how much more pressure.
Speaker 7: Do you feel to produce with this office set up
Speaker 7: like that?
Speaker 3: I feel the same I've been feeling. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like it. You know, I have pressure
Speaker 3: on my shoulders about anything playing football.
Speaker 16: Last month I asked you about your mom or Mother's Day.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Father's Day yeah and your dad? Yeah?
Speaker 8: How is that?
Speaker 4: How is that affected your life and even you're.
Speaker 3: Playing for a band of dad, it really haven't effected
Speaker 3: my life, you know. I feel like I'm very playful,
Speaker 3: you know, and I just have a daughter, so it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, just take some adge off and just playing
Speaker 3: my daughter sometimes, you know, play around her sometimes and
Speaker 3: she make my day. So it's pretty cool, la.
Speaker 2: What's a play lamar from now from Wednesday til you
Speaker 2: get backs?
Speaker 4: Like cause Odell said that he was going down there
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude's coming down here hopefully you know, got to
Speaker 3: see what the guy's thinking. But uh, I feel like
Speaker 3: most of the guys that come down you know and
Speaker 3: just get ready to grind, you know, cause like I
Speaker 3: said before, the season is here. All season really over
Speaker 3: with for us you or.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows what more games then you do go deelp
Speaker 4: back up to theere.
Speaker 3: You know, God sig.
Speaker 4: Downs being around here for the last month or however
Speaker 4: in so many years, is there somebody in there's an
Speaker 4: offense that you really think it's gonna be utilized a
Speaker 4: lot more.
Speaker 6: That doesn't really.
Speaker 3: Showing you something over the less the mother left you
Speaker 3: go an long there around m pretty much all the receivers,
Speaker 3: all the tight ends. You know they're they wricking the
Speaker 3: tail off right now. I I believe all our receivers,
Speaker 3: you know, they get a shout out there on the field,
Speaker 3: they gonna, they gonna show potential.
Speaker 2: Kay La Mark we asked, uh, o'della yesterday the Husky
Speaker 2: Bell played with you. Yeah, he said the main the
Speaker 2: main reason was because if you were of the team,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about.
Speaker 14: Those new markus?
Speaker 3: That's cool. You know Odella is a legend to a
Speaker 3: lot of us. You know what he did, he did
Speaker 3: his er early in his career, and you know the
Speaker 3: past year when he was with the Rams and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. You know, O'Dell is him one of those guys.
Speaker 3: So it means a lot.
Speaker 14: But more.
Speaker 4: I don't think you've ever had got to break off
Speaker 4: call us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my cuf that's crazy. I'm like, I never got
Speaker 3: a question buy it yet. I'm my cousin.
Speaker 9: Been like from a family perspective before, you instrumental in
Speaker 9: getting here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we we Actually, that's crazy. We actually talked about it.
Speaker 3: I wanna say earlier this year, earlier this year or
Speaker 3: last year. I'm like, man, we never got to play
Speaker 3: on the same team with each other. We always played
Speaker 3: against each other a youth football, high school, college and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. But now we find on the same team.
Speaker 3: It's like, that'll be dope. I make it to the
Speaker 3: two Bowl to win it. So that's our goal.
Speaker 17: Mark.
Speaker 4: We know you got your own uh Pinnis equipment coming
Speaker 4: after Sam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how you changed?
Speaker 4: Have you changed uh your value of all since this
Speaker 4: last year?
Speaker 3: And it is anything you wanna do physically.
Speaker 4: For for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: I mean nah, not really. You know, I'm still the same.
Speaker 3: You know, my goal is always the same goal. That's
Speaker 3: it down and looked up or anything. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know hard going back to.
Speaker 10: That uh dinner that you have with Adell back when
Speaker 10: he'd signed and so forth, or just the relationship you
Speaker 10: guys have. What what sort of impact do you think
Speaker 10: he can not just catching the ball of things like that,
Speaker 10: but just from what he brings from an IQ standpoint
Speaker 10: and the work at thinking all those sorts of things.
Speaker 4: What just what he packed as on you.
Speaker 3: I mean he pretty much was just telling me, you know,
Speaker 3: he he going off, I'm playing you know what I
Speaker 3: see out there? You know, just let him know what
Speaker 3: it put us in a better situation to win and
Speaker 3: you know he gonna do it. That's all. That's all
Speaker 3: I needed to hear one work place.
Speaker 4: Are you still working with the same private quarterback coach?
Speaker 4: And is there a particular thing that he's had you
Speaker 4: focused on this off season.
Speaker 3: I haven't worked with a miss off season, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been that's going pretty much still be the same coach. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you appreciate you.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson, And of course a huge
Speaker 1: piece for Lamar and the team this year is going
Speaker 1: to be the installation of the new offense from offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Todd Munkin now Monkin Talk reporters, and he discussed
Speaker 1: where the installation process is for this team as they've
Speaker 1: been putting this new offense into place over the course
Speaker 1: of the entire offseason.
Speaker 2: We go back in back in Cleveland and fund out
Speaker 2: there today.
Speaker 4: A kind of your thoughts when it kind of hiss
Speaker 4: his first steps back.
Speaker 16: Well, excited to get him out there, get around the guys.
Speaker 16: You can tell he's been studying, you know, in his
Speaker 16: time away, so it was fun having him out there.
Speaker 6: I think he's ready to go.
Speaker 16: Todder have to start like yesterday, start back over because
Speaker 16: you probably get everybody.
Speaker 6: Here, no chance, no chance. I mean they got to
Speaker 6: catch up on their own.
Speaker 16: That's the idea of we're in the world of iPads
Speaker 16: and being able to look ahead. And we've been in
Speaker 16: contact with those guys and from what from what I've
Speaker 16: seen the guys that weren't here. Again, it's great to
Speaker 16: have here. It's always better when they're out in practicing
Speaker 16: with us. But again that's irresponsibility of being pros.
Speaker 4: Thergis said, you're outspoken this on the field and starting
Speaker 4: to rub off on him, and he feels like he's he's.
Speaker 6: Being louder on the field.
Speaker 3: Deep Do you like that?
Speaker 5: Do you like that?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 6: Well, actually have nothing to do with me.
Speaker 16: It has a lot to do with the quarterback and
Speaker 16: the communication and the epicenter of what we do, whether
Speaker 16: starting with the center and then the quarterback. So if
Speaker 16: that helps, then great, means I must have to keep
Speaker 16: doing it, then hell with it. So you know that's
Speaker 16: that's the start of what we do. Quarterback being loud.
Speaker 4: Sorry to time the lastman made about the addition of
Speaker 4: the wide receivers to this offer.
Speaker 7: But there's a lot of good tight ends on this
Speaker 7: last and you come from Georgia. Would you write and
Speaker 7: utilize multiple tight ends? Do you see a way that
Speaker 7: you can get all three of these tight ends involved
Speaker 7: in this offer?
Speaker 6: I think so.
Speaker 3: I mean it's.
Speaker 6: There's nothing like having talent. I mean, it's way it is.
Speaker 16: There's only one football still, but utilizing multiple personnel groups
Speaker 16: and trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together,
Speaker 16: utilizing their skill set when you can get the best matchups.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited to work with them. We still haven't
Speaker 6: put the pads on.
Speaker 16: Yet, but from what I've seen with adding the wide
Speaker 16: receivers that we have and the tight ends that have
Speaker 16: been here, it's an exciting It's an exciting time and the.
Speaker 7: Telling the guys like likely in Cola Health kind of
Speaker 7: utilize them in their path for sure.
Speaker 6: I mean, the more versatile you are, the more things
Speaker 6: you can do with them.
Speaker 4: Look about the tight ends.
Speaker 18: How do you see someone day got Roy Dark and
Speaker 18: take the team, would round block memes populated?
Speaker 16: Well, he adds a different dynamic than the other guys. Again,
Speaker 16: as we just talked about, is specific skill sets. So
Speaker 16: what are they lead at? You know, what is it
Speaker 16: that they some guys are elite at one thing. Some
Speaker 16: guys are elite at a couple different things, some things
Speaker 16: you can utilize. So obviously, from what I've seen the past,
Speaker 16: Pat has not been out here, but what I've seen
Speaker 16: the past, he brings a certain element to our team,
Speaker 16: a toughness element, the ability to run the football, and
Speaker 16: he's embraced that role.
Speaker 13: But how much have you seen Lamar I guess improved
Speaker 13: in running your scheme what you want him to do
Speaker 13: from day one of those tas until the city.
Speaker 16: Can well, he's embraced it. He's embraced trying to be louder,
Speaker 16: trying to be in control. He's embraced learning the system.
Speaker 16: And we still got a ways to go. You know,
Speaker 16: it's always a work in progress. We're always under construction
Speaker 16: in terms of making sure that we execute a high level.
Speaker 16: Execute a high level, because execution trumps everything. You know,
Speaker 16: I'm a firm believer that I've said it for years.
Speaker 16: Cool is out, Execution's in. The cooler we are the
Speaker 16: less we execute. You know, when we go on there
Speaker 16: in the field, it's not about being cool.
Speaker 3: It's not about that.
Speaker 16: It's about your preparation that leads up to practice. You
Speaker 16: fight like heck during the week so that come game
Speaker 16: day it comes to life.
Speaker 4: And from what you've seen, how has his execution good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 16: And that's you know, when you're on the practice field,
Speaker 16: the fun is being out there and going through the
Speaker 16: trial and error the mistakes you make.
Speaker 6: That that's part of it too.
Speaker 16: We're doing the same thing as we're putting this together
Speaker 16: as coaches and players for more jack from there.
Speaker 18: But with emphasis on all these new lacking weapons and everything.
Speaker 4: How much pleasure do you feel.
Speaker 2: Metrics and go forth.
Speaker 19: Under and how much do you then kind of thang.
Speaker 4: Better than one of the all numbers last year?
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 3: Not a lot?
Speaker 6: And comparing it to last year.
Speaker 16: Don't really think of metrics in a term of like
Speaker 16: where we've got to be. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 16: real simple.
Speaker 3: What my job is?
Speaker 16: I mean, I think that's real simple, from just as
Speaker 16: our jobs to score points, right, a defensive coordinator's job
Speaker 16: to stop them, and then how you get to that
Speaker 16: varies in a lot of ways based on your personality,
Speaker 16: your scheme, and then who you have so but at
Speaker 16: the end of the day, it's really a lot simpler
Speaker 16: than that is, how do you score more than they do?
Speaker 16: And and I'm paid to score. I mean that's what
Speaker 16: they do. I mean you, as an offense coorda, you
Speaker 16: paid to score points. Some of the other things are
Speaker 16: just a piece of that. Not that I'm against metrics
Speaker 16: or analytics.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 16: I don't mean it that way. I just mean it's
Speaker 16: it's a lot simpler than that. And then trying to
Speaker 16: fit the pieces in the right spot.
Speaker 2: I know you want lamar more film or the guy
Speaker 2: on the field, but now padding into otiat per day,
Speaker 2: what kind of your good that the more hast.
Speaker 6: Grown to that?
Speaker 16: Well, again, it's hard right now because you're in the
Speaker 16: early stages of what we do. But I say that
Speaker 16: we're almost done. So we're almost done. So maybe not
Speaker 16: so early, but I'm impressed. I mean, there's not a
Speaker 16: throw he can't make, not a play he can't make.
Speaker 16: It's like any player. It's when we get to the
Speaker 16: line of scrimmage, what are they doing? What does that
Speaker 16: mean to us our eyes in the right spot? Are
Speaker 16: we giving ourselves a chance every single play to be
Speaker 16: successful and don't waste plays? And then let your player's
Speaker 16: talents come to life with what you do right now.
Speaker 16: And then during the week you have.
Speaker 18: Odell who went obviously n overs ever touching, but you're
Speaker 18: out running. What do you think there's impact on Lamar
Speaker 18: from the standpoint and you know, talking about having any
Speaker 18: keys for the offense, but what you're doing in an.
Speaker 6: I hope he brings a level of trust.
Speaker 16: I think that's part of quarterback receiver play, be it
Speaker 16: running backs, tight ends, wide outs, there is a certain
Speaker 16: level of trust. I think that's developed over time. That's
Speaker 16: why it's great that he's here, because you get to
Speaker 16: work together. You get a sense of trust where they're
Speaker 16: gonna be, how they're gonnajust, how they're going to change routes.
Speaker 6: That's a big part of it.
Speaker 16: You step up a report with Lamartine, I think you.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm gonna speak for myself, but I know
Speaker 6: you asked me. That seems easy to strike up a report.
Speaker 6: He's a nice enough kid. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 6: I don't I don't just I don't mean that in
Speaker 6: a negative way. I keep struggling my shoulders.
Speaker 16: It's just that's that's our job, right It's to rapport
Speaker 16: with the players and that we're on the same page.
Speaker 16: And you know, to me, it's always been really simple.
Speaker 16: I mean, we have a job for the players to
Speaker 16: create the best version we can to the players. That's
Speaker 16: what our job is and ultimately then score. So if
Speaker 16: you can't find a way to develop a rapport with
Speaker 16: your players and for them to sense that everything you're
Speaker 16: doing is for the best interest of them, you're already
Speaker 16: going to be behind the eight ball.
Speaker 17: I'm curious if you underline how it's got for overgame
Speaker 17: to get off, and you think about the production that
Speaker 17: he has a do, but then also.
Speaker 11: How they change.
Speaker 17: In the latter years of the being the city went
Speaker 17: and Baker and then also you know how it's gone
Speaker 17: to day they get out some things you know with
Speaker 17: him in the RAM and just how much time he
Speaker 17: really had the offense supporting of getting your tap space
Speaker 17: in the entire office to really dig into a player
Speaker 17: individually to unlock him.
Speaker 16: Great question, you know, and that comes with time because
Speaker 16: as you stated, like I was with him in nineteen
Speaker 16: so do I see still a tremendous football player, guy
Speaker 16: that can separate and route, run and loves to play
Speaker 16: and brings a certain amount of energy and juice and experience.
Speaker 16: And then as we practice more together, as we get
Speaker 16: more together now we try to fit it together. But
Speaker 16: he's always going to be crafty. He's always gonna be
Speaker 16: able to find a way to separate. Where that ends
Speaker 16: up x z F that's to be determined. But all
Speaker 16: all that you know is just trying to figure out
Speaker 16: where that fits. And that also with the other pieces,
Speaker 16: say your tight ends. You've brought in Nelson getting bait
Speaker 16: back and we haven't even had him practice yet, so
Speaker 16: fitting that all together is really a big part of it.
Speaker 16: But it's fun to try and figure out how to
Speaker 16: fit it together. That doesn't always you don't always have that.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 19: It's not to get talk about your gristment here is
Speaker 19: to get out the field gattre.
Speaker 6: A challenge is probably a strong word. Would we love
Speaker 6: him to be out here?
Speaker 16: Of course, would we love him to be able to
Speaker 16: go through practice and be able to see that. As
Speaker 16: I told him today, I'm excited. Give me something. Run
Speaker 16: a swing round, I don't care, just jog down the field,
Speaker 16: do something, give me something to get excited about.
Speaker 6: It's what we do.
Speaker 16: You're excited to be around the players, and who's not
Speaker 16: excited to coach football?
Speaker 6: Be out here with the guys, and it's what we do.
Speaker 16: I mean there's a lot that goes on up there,
Speaker 16: and you know, trying to scheme up you know, plays
Speaker 16: and what you do, and but the fund's being on
Speaker 16: the grass, you know. So when you get on the grass,
Speaker 16: you want to see your best players.
Speaker 6: That's fun.
Speaker 16: We'd love for him to be out here, obviously if
Speaker 16: he's not ready to go, but we're excited and I
Speaker 16: know he'll be ready when he's when he's out there,
Speaker 16: but we certainly are better with him out there.
Speaker 1: That was offensive coordinator Todd Munkin. And someone who knows
Speaker 1: what it's like to put a new system into place
Speaker 1: is Raven's defensive coordinator Mike McDonald. He went through that
Speaker 1: last year as he took over as a DC last
Speaker 1: year and now he talked about his expectations and thoughts
Speaker 1: for this defense going into his second year as a
Speaker 1: team's defensive play color.
Speaker 7: Michael the Nation of Chuck Smith at the outside linebacker
Speaker 7: potuson he's going to help them with pass rushers.
Speaker 4: Are you starting to see his impact on some of
Speaker 4: these guys? Well?
Speaker 20: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know, Chuck has a vision
Speaker 20: for how how he wants to coach pass rush and
Speaker 20: it's a partnership between him and Weave, and it's just
Speaker 20: been a great collaboration to this point. And you know,
Speaker 20: you see the buy in from the guys too, and
Speaker 20: the excitement you know, on a daily basis, and so
Speaker 20: that that's where we're at right now in terms of
Speaker 20: the stage. So it's great to have the guys buy
Speaker 20: into the things that he's trying to coach him up
Speaker 20: to do. And it's a daily process to you know,
Speaker 20: to build on their moves and that sort of thing.
Speaker 20: So we're pleased we're at right now, but you know,
Speaker 20: we get we got ways to go to kind of
Speaker 20: mesh it everything as to put it all together.
Speaker 7: I go be signed.
Speaker 4: Michael Spears, how do you see?
Speaker 7: I believes like Justin Bodovike and sticking up can the
Speaker 7: more they got a liter.
Speaker 20: Two roles for the years, well, yeah, it was just
Speaker 20: another year in the system. I think this is year
Speaker 20: four for Justin and uh he's doing I mean, shoot,
Speaker 20: he's been here every day.
Speaker 14: Uh, he works extremely hard.
Speaker 20: He's extremely tough players, as you guys know, very physical,
Speaker 20: but trying to trying to encourage him to take his
Speaker 20: next his game to the next level, especially interior pass
Speaker 20: rush game. You know, taking charge of making some calls
Speaker 20: on on how we want to apply our pass rush
Speaker 20: rules for that day. So, but all those guys are
Speaker 20: doing a great job. They're working hard. I think they
Speaker 20: work really well together, and I think you'll think you'll
Speaker 20: see a payoff in the fall.
Speaker 4: Like good point with some of.
Speaker 2: Those teams in the game.
Speaker 4: You know, the World's playing stage team here Barry's blog.
Speaker 4: Steps that we're at.
Speaker 12: Have you considered anyone there full time or what they
Speaker 12: are and World is state, how do we deify.
Speaker 3: Kind of their wire?
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's uh, it's tough right now where we're at.
Speaker 20: You know, it's it's great to say that we're interchangeable
Speaker 20: parts and that is true. And like at the beginning
Speaker 20: part of the off season, we do teach everything conceptually,
Speaker 20: so the guys are just learning excess. But like as
Speaker 20: we get going into the fall, we're going to want
Speaker 20: to start to slot those things kind of more full time,
Speaker 20: so guys get used to playing, you know, next to
Speaker 20: guys that they're going to be in there in the game.
Speaker 20: So you know where we're at right now, Jeff, I'm
Speaker 20: not We'll see. I mean there's some things that are
Speaker 20: you know, definitely up for competition you know out there.
Speaker 20: I think you know, the usual suspects out there, and
Speaker 20: we're just trying to really just kind of let them
Speaker 20: cook in there and get used to playing with one another.
Speaker 18: I wanted to ask a.
Speaker 11: Broader customer, you really so you know, talking to some
Speaker 11: of the round places and they're just like really jacked,
Speaker 11: you know, to get back to training camp because they're
Speaker 11: really you know, confident about their two and things like that.
Speaker 19: And I'm just curious, what's your uh personal energy when
Speaker 19: it comes to just the AFC North and your overall
Speaker 19: macro view on the growth and evolution of the quarterbacks
Speaker 19: and the AFC North with Kashaun having this second year
Speaker 19: kind of piperating sob as count Worth Division.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well, our first goal every year is to win
Speaker 20: the division. So those are the those are the guys
Speaker 20: that we have to study in the off season.
Speaker 14: We have to win those games.
Speaker 20: So I think, you know, if you look at our schedule,
Speaker 20: you know it's pretty front loaded in division games, which
Speaker 20: is a little bit unusual if if I'm if I'm correct,
Speaker 20: So it's just a it's a huge challenge. There' obviously
Speaker 20: great quarterbacks. Uh, we've won on some great battles. We've
Speaker 20: fallen short a few times, so hopefully, well we'll wind
Speaker 20: up on the on the right side of the coin
Speaker 20: this time.
Speaker 4: But were games like we're going to names up.
Speaker 20: Well, that's that's that's a strength of Kyle's game is
Speaker 20: is is he's so versatile, but you know there is
Speaker 20: at some point there is a trade off, you know,
Speaker 20: if you if he's never in the same spot for
Speaker 20: long enough. Just the question is is does he get
Speaker 20: good enough at those things?
Speaker 14: So that's something we need to figure out before we
Speaker 14: get kicked off.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, David Javo, and you got like, I I'm
Speaker 2: assuming the microphone works, but I could really hear myself
Speaker 2: when you're when Jack and Missy and when you first
Speaker 2: to interacted with with he was still kind of young
Speaker 2: to the game of football.
Speaker 3: You know, what do you were you kind of your first.
Speaker 4: Questions on him then, and how have you seen having
Speaker 4: the curved over the year twelve?
Speaker 14: Man?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 20: Shoot, when we first got there, we just wanted a
Speaker 20: quick sample of who was on the roster and what
Speaker 20: they could do. And he hadn't played up until you know,
Speaker 20: when we showed up and we just saw this big,
Speaker 20: tall guy that runs like a four to four, We're like,
Speaker 20: why is he not rushing the passer? So that's pretty easy.
Speaker 20: It is a pretty easy decision to make. And uh,
Speaker 20: you know, I think about your question Jameson. It's just
Speaker 20: like I just I remember just a lot of enthusiasm
Speaker 20: and energy and positivity.
Speaker 14: And I think he really really wants to be good.
Speaker 20: And so when you have that and you have that mentality,
Speaker 20: you have that attitude, that's something that he's brought here
Speaker 20: and it's exciting to work with a guy like that.
Speaker 20: So I think you've seen, you know, this trajectory up
Speaker 20: to this point, and hopefully you'll continue.
Speaker 6: Like you means, like if you've.
Speaker 10: Seen Buck defending guys from Adape.
Speaker 14: Sale more time, I'd like to see one.
Speaker 4: Defending why from Adape Joba. I guess in just one
Speaker 4: day fives.
Speaker 20: But if you'd like to kind of a stat together, well,
Speaker 20: that's definitely gonna be a challenge for us, you know,
Speaker 20: I mean in terms of setting the standard on how
Speaker 20: we want to play the run here. But right now,
Speaker 20: it's just it's impossible to evaluate because of the tempo
Speaker 20: and really, like when we're playing playing blocks, we're really
Speaker 20: practicing the fit and the technique instead of like beating
Speaker 20: the block just because of the tempo and the requirement.
Speaker 14: So right now, I just can't answer it. But that's
Speaker 14: definitely that's gonna be a.
Speaker 20: Challenge for a whole defense moving forwards if if you can't,
Speaker 20: if you can't you know, dictate the run and force
Speaker 20: him into passing situations, and you're gonna have a tough
Speaker 20: time on defense.
Speaker 4: L's phobous Robinson progressing. I mean we've seen him out
Speaker 4: there for some reps with some of the starters looking out.
Speaker 3: How's he doing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, he's doing a great job.
Speaker 20: I mean, his mentality is great place fast, but like
Speaker 20: like I like I was saying, I mean, it's just
Speaker 20: it's hard to evaluate until the pads come on, you know.
Speaker 20: So right now it's how you do it with the
Speaker 20: speed and like the assignment. His assignment sounds that's good.
Speaker 20: But the things that we're drafted him to do, I think,
Speaker 20: you know, we're gonna be able to evaluate that better
Speaker 20: in the fall.
Speaker 18: I get you coach the guys you have right now
Speaker 18: between now and the start a training camp, are you
Speaker 18: involved in.
Speaker 12: The conversation of supplementing the roster, what your needs may
Speaker 12: be how.
Speaker 17: Does that play?
Speaker 20: You know, if Eric or John wants my opinion, they'll
Speaker 20: they'll they'll come to me, you know, And I think
Speaker 20: it's an ongoing conversation within the building of you know, directions.
Speaker 20: We want to go on all aspects, you know, But
Speaker 20: I'm not I'm not initiating any of those conversations now.
Speaker 3: Like a different kind of motion.
Speaker 9: It looks like on offense here or some of those
Speaker 9: shorts the comic obviously.
Speaker 16: A plenty of most amputees rope.
Speaker 9: I guess do you feel like all that stuff you're
Speaker 9: kind of seeing mini camp note, Kase, it's useful for
Speaker 9: just getting this defense ready to work for what you
Speaker 9: want to see come.
Speaker 20: Word of those using Oh yeah, they're doing a lot
Speaker 20: of great things on offense, and we want to see
Speaker 20: the more of the marrier and stuff that we see,
Speaker 20: you know, so we want to we have to be
Speaker 20: able to defend everything.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 20: Sometimes some people, you know, subscribe to the theory of
Speaker 20: like they want to know what the offense is running
Speaker 20: so they can kind of make sure they get the
Speaker 20: right call. You know, you can see all the things
Speaker 20: and all the different kind of concepts you're gonna be
Speaker 20: and I kind of go the opposite. I just want
Speaker 20: to be out there and we have to respond to
Speaker 20: what the offense is doing because that's as game like
Speaker 20: as as it gets. So, uh, they're they're doing a
Speaker 20: great job, but they're doing a lot of things too,
Speaker 20: and give us some some things we need to talk
Speaker 20: about and make sure we're make sure our scheme is
Speaker 20: sound and it's simple, so the guys can go play.
Speaker 4: Not having the LAS here anymore. You know, whoever you've
Speaker 4: seen kind of step up and start to fill.
Speaker 20: That the leadership I got to in the room, uh,
Speaker 20: the leadership void. I mean, I would say it's more
Speaker 20: within the room. You know, you see guys like Brody
Speaker 20: and Justin and Mike Pierce, you know, being back and
Speaker 20: being healthy, I.
Speaker 14: Mean in the defensive line room. So I just want guys.
Speaker 20: I want to encourage you guys to just be themselves,
Speaker 20: you know, and leading their own way.
Speaker 14: You know, Klayus was obviously you know, we love them
Speaker 14: and let in his own way.
Speaker 20: But you know, it's it's this team now, it's these
Speaker 20: guys opportunities to encourage them to just kind of be
Speaker 20: themselves like that.
Speaker 14: Maybe it's a little premature.
Speaker 4: To ask, but have you guys decided on who's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be wearing out this year?
Speaker 14: Yeah? I'll be ro Yeah, all right, okay, all right,
Speaker 14: thanks guys.
Speaker 1: That was Defensive Coordinator Mike McDonald and now up is
Speaker 1: Special Teams Coordinator Chris Horton to.
Speaker 15: See everyone today, just a little quick little recap on
Speaker 15: what what the spring has done for us right now.
Speaker 15: I'm very very encouraged what I'm seeing from all our
Speaker 15: guys right now. Every last one of these guys that
Speaker 15: have been here, they're working hard, they're trying to understand
Speaker 15: and get our fundamentals down. The veteran guys have done
Speaker 15: a great job of really bringing the young guys long.
Speaker 15: So again, man, I'm very pleased with what I've seen
Speaker 15: so far this spring. We had our first mini camp
Speaker 15: yesterday and it's really the first time we've really put
Speaker 15: everything together from a team standpoint. We spent a lot
Speaker 15: of time working really our punk face, just making sure
Speaker 15: that our young guys get out there and understand what
Speaker 15: we're trying to get done.
Speaker 3: Questions Christ obviously.
Speaker 9: Big talking point, just the spread big wives. Just need
Speaker 9: to change the pickoffs and the trickle down effect that
Speaker 9: that might have and whether it's legitimate response to player
Speaker 9: safety and everything. Your kind of thoughts on on what's
Speaker 9: what's happening right now.
Speaker 15: You know, obviously I think a couple of weeks John
Speaker 15: got up here and he said, we were we were
Speaker 15: not in favor of it, but you know it is
Speaker 15: in what we're gonna have to do. We're just gonna
Speaker 15: have to adjust and adapt to whatever those whatever those
Speaker 15: rules are. But when we you know, when we met,
Speaker 15: you know, there's probably some other things that you know,
Speaker 15: we could we considered. When you talk about a player
Speaker 15: a player safety thing. You know, our job, our job
Speaker 15: versus to really think about to really think about the players.
Speaker 15: I believe the kickoff play that was in was was
Speaker 15: pretty safe when you watch when you watch all nineteen
Speaker 15: of those of those plays, those head injuries. Uh, we
Speaker 15: believe as as a coaching staff collectively, there's some things
Speaker 15: that we could do when it comes to tackling and
Speaker 15: things like that to really prevent some of those those
Speaker 15: head injuries that happened on the on the kickoff play.
Speaker 15: When you talk about that play, I think back to
Speaker 15: what those coaches did back in twenty eighteen when they
Speaker 15: changed that play. They made this play safer for the
Speaker 15: guys and that play, that previous play we saw there
Speaker 15: was a lot of high speed collisions on the back end,
Speaker 15: you know, obviously fitting those wedges, those things don't happen anymore.
Speaker 15: So we we truly felt like the play that we
Speaker 15: had in was it was a safe play. And again
Speaker 15: the rules in we're gonna adjust, We're gonna adapt to it,
Speaker 15: and we're gonna we're gonna make sure that we continue
Speaker 15: to find the advantages in that play. Now, I do believe,
Speaker 15: uh schematically, uh, situationally, there's gonna be some things that
Speaker 15: are gonna come up that we're gonna really have to
Speaker 15: think about and adjust to based on you know, other
Speaker 15: teams wanting to take those fair catches as you mentioned.
Speaker 4: You know, adjusted to that or shakes out of things
Speaker 4: like that strategy.
Speaker 3: Guise, what are.
Speaker 10: Things you guys are people are biking as here screw
Speaker 10: kicks rather than not potential things they put from you
Speaker 10: guys play from the guys.
Speaker 3: Dust you know.
Speaker 15: Uh, one of the one of the bigger ones is
Speaker 15: gonna be you know when you kick off from the
Speaker 15: fifty right, Uh, the offense has just got a penalty.
Speaker 15: Now you're kicking off from the fifty and if you
Speaker 15: pop a ball up there and they call a fair catch,
Speaker 15: you know they've been benefited of getting that ball back
Speaker 15: at the twenty five. So you you might consider hitting
Speaker 15: a squipball line drive just to just to try to
Speaker 15: create an advantage for yourself as a kickoff team, because
Speaker 15: you've just been rewarded a penalty you kick off from
Speaker 15: the fifty. Now they call a fair catch, they catch
Speaker 15: that ball, and they get the ball back at the
Speaker 15: twenty five.
Speaker 3: So though, those will be.
Speaker 15: Some of the things that we'll have to discuss this offseason,
Speaker 15: some things that we've been really thinking about.
Speaker 4: If I know, the robbers don't have to be made
Speaker 4: for several longs, but when we come to the other
Speaker 4: coach out of the team could be impacked robbers struggling.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you think them.
Speaker 2: The effects of the new rule will be that wide
Speaker 2: ranging or could you know affect how many you know,
Speaker 2: so called specialty special stream.
Speaker 15: You know, we really haven't discussed that, but I do
Speaker 15: know one thing. I do know that every other coach
Speaker 15: special teams coach, they want to they want to keep
Speaker 15: this play alive, one for us and for the players,
Speaker 15: for the players that have made their that have made
Speaker 15: their weight in the kicking game.
Speaker 8: I think back to the top returners in the league.
Speaker 15: If they don't have that play, who is Devin Hester, right,
Speaker 15: if this play is not alive, who like Devin Hess
Speaker 15: really change the game in the kickoff return game? Corredo
Speaker 15: Patterson heels director for the most kickoff returns, Right, These
Speaker 15: guys that this is an exciting play and we've made
Speaker 15: this play a lot safer.
Speaker 8: So we want to just make sure that we as
Speaker 8: coaches continue to do that. Now as far as how the.
Speaker 15: Roster and all that stuff shakes out, personally, I think
Speaker 15: we're gonna play this play the exact same way. Teams
Speaker 15: that are gonna want to call call the fair catcher
Speaker 15: gonna fair catch it. But for us, you know, we're
Speaker 15: gonna be as aggressive as possible, and we're gonna allow
Speaker 15: the players that make this team for the right reasons,
Speaker 15: special teams players to continue to have success in this league.
Speaker 3: And that's our job. That's what we should do.
Speaker 15: And as coaches, we're gonna make sure that we coach
Speaker 15: this play a lot better. We're gonna show our players
Speaker 15: how these other players got concussions. It's it's important, right,
Speaker 15: and and tackling is a big part of it. Is
Speaker 15: not it's not the play, it's it's tackling, keeping the
Speaker 15: head out of the game. All the things that the
Speaker 15: rules are in play for. We just need to enforce it.
Speaker 4: It's curious, what would you like to see them do
Speaker 4: with fender changes? I have jobs talked about. You know,
Speaker 4: there were better ideas out there. For example, let's make
Speaker 4: an example of something we prefer.
Speaker 8: You know, personally, I would have rather we just maybe
Speaker 8: give it another give it another year.
Speaker 15: Let's just and let's just see how this thing, how
Speaker 15: this thing shakes out. Right, There's there's just so many
Speaker 15: there's just so many other ways. Maybe we move the
Speaker 15: ball back, you know, and we create more space for
Speaker 15: the play so that it's not excuse me, so that
Speaker 15: it's not all bunched up, right, So we believe that
Speaker 15: if there's more space for the kickoff return team to
Speaker 15: get itself started, then you don't have.
Speaker 8: A bunch of guys just running down on top of
Speaker 8: each other.
Speaker 15: That's maybe some another option, right, So there's little things
Speaker 15: like that that we might considered. But you know what, again,
Speaker 15: the league made a decision we're gonna have to adjust,
Speaker 15: and we're gonna have to adapt.
Speaker 8: And that's okay. We've done it before. We will get
Speaker 8: it done a lot more.
Speaker 2: Hit problem kick off the punts may seems like bear wind.
Speaker 15: Yeah, based on the based on the numbers, I think
Speaker 15: what they showed, I think there was probably somewhere around
Speaker 15: nineteen and you thought you talk about the number of
Speaker 15: kickoffs that we have the number of returns, right, and
Speaker 15: so where our job is we really believe that five
Speaker 15: to six of those that as coaches we can we
Speaker 15: can help our guys again with the with the head up,
Speaker 15: keeping the head out of the game.
Speaker 6: How much of your.
Speaker 14: Teams are figured out already?
Speaker 4: I know Kala has played a lot on special teams.
Speaker 3: He's gone.
Speaker 4: Do you have pretty much all the spots fared as
Speaker 4: it's just one or two holes? Or do you wipe
Speaker 4: the map plane?
Speaker 3: Pretty much?
Speaker 8: Every every year is a new year.
Speaker 15: Every every guy comes in here, every guy gets a
Speaker 15: shot at making this team, doesn't It doesn't matter who
Speaker 15: you are. And obviously there'll be guys that you know
Speaker 15: are gonna be here. But uh, what kalais did for
Speaker 15: us on field goal block, we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 15: to fill. We're gonna have to fill that void, and
Speaker 15: we have guys that are here that are able to
Speaker 15: do that. A guy that comes into mind is is
Speaker 15: Brent Urban. Right, He's done it before, and uh so
Speaker 15: we'll we'll continue to use those guys. But there's no
Speaker 15: there's no Hey, I don't personally, I don't think that
Speaker 15: any guy is guaranteed a spot.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 15: You got to come in here every year and you
Speaker 15: got to earn your spot on this team, and you
Speaker 15: gotta you gotta fight every day to make this to
Speaker 15: make this team.
Speaker 4: That's you know, a special teams coach? How does it?
Speaker 4: How do you sit with the idea of that? As
Speaker 4: the league keeps passing these rules, the rules down the
Speaker 4: name of the player safety, you know that it tends
Speaker 4: to affect your phase more than other rules.
Speaker 8: You just you just kind of sit back and you
Speaker 8: kind of ask yourself, Okay, when's enough gonna be enough?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 15: Uh, We're we're doing everything in our in our power
Speaker 15: as as coaches to make sure that we we consider
Speaker 15: the player. Uh that's first and foremost we think about
Speaker 15: We think about the players. And if we continue to
Speaker 15: make changes and make changes, then what is this phase
Speaker 15: gonna be right.
Speaker 8: This has been an exciting phase of the game.
Speaker 15: People's made their living just by doing this phase of
Speaker 15: the game covering kicks.
Speaker 8: You think about Anthony Levine, how long he's.
Speaker 15: Played why because he covered kicks, he covered punts, right,
Speaker 15: and he made his living on this face. Think about
Speaker 15: Matt Slater, a guy that I played college ball with, right,
Speaker 15: that's how he makes his living. So when you start
Speaker 15: talking about taking away something that these guys have done
Speaker 15: daily and done a very good job at, it's not good.
Speaker 8: It's not good.
Speaker 15: Option I haven't even haven't even haven't even considered it,
Speaker 15: you know, all right to appreciate it.
Speaker 1: That was special teams coordinator Chris Horton. And lastly, today
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from all Pro left
Speaker 1: tackle Ronnie Stanley. Now, this is a big year for Ronnie.
Speaker 1: He's had to fight through injuries previously in his career,
Speaker 1: but now he's healthy. He's fully recovered from the ankle
Speaker 1: injuries that he had earlier in his career. He came
Speaker 1: on strong last year and played really well after getting
Speaker 1: back on the field, and he discussed where he is
Speaker 1: at this point going into the upcoming season.
Speaker 2: So Ronnie you know, we usually typically to ask you
Speaker 2: about your health and how you're feeling. I mean, is
Speaker 2: this year so much different than maybe the past couple
Speaker 2: of years? How big differences?
Speaker 5: For a big difference, you know, be able to go
Speaker 5: through a full off season healthy, being able to build
Speaker 5: and really uh, you know, build off what I did
Speaker 5: last season and just get better. I really feel a
Speaker 5: big difference from the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Ronnie.
Speaker 12: You you were you were certainly one of those at
Speaker 12: the end of the last year who said, I expect
Speaker 12: Lamar to be back.
Speaker 4: I want Lamar to be oving to be back. How
Speaker 4: exciting was it the day that it actually happened? And
Speaker 4: I mean, is it just kind of a joy to happen.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's great happening here. And you know, I was
Speaker 5: just kind of having blind confidence in the whole thing.
Speaker 5: You know, I was kind of, you know, just confident
Speaker 5: that he would be back because that's my guy, and
Speaker 5: you know, h everything worked out the way I thought
Speaker 5: it would, and uh, you know, I was super happy,
Speaker 5: super stoked, and you know, uh saw him for the
Speaker 5: first time, uh yesterday, and you know, being able to
Speaker 5: congratulate him, just hang out with him, you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's a really good feelings just having I know he's
Speaker 5: going to be here.
Speaker 4: What does he get on the field and dive into
Speaker 4: this new offense.
Speaker 13: What are your first impressions and how different do you
Speaker 13: expect it to be?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't expect it to be too different
Speaker 5: in the sense of, you know, the things that we do,
Speaker 5: at least from offensive line perspective, But I do like
Speaker 5: what with what I see and you know, the concepts
Speaker 5: and the schemes and you know, everyone working together and
Speaker 5: just the mentality behind the offense and really focus on
Speaker 5: the execution. And I think Todd Monkin has really done
Speaker 5: a great job of just you know, getting us all
Speaker 5: together and focused on the same thing.
Speaker 4: Right, Your offseason changed? What has been as far as
Speaker 4: the preparation standpoint? How have you've been able to do it?
Speaker 14: Different thing?
Speaker 4: But you don't have to focus on rehaving a major.
Speaker 5: Engine, right, Yeah. So majority of my time, you know,
Speaker 5: the past couple of years have been spent on rehab,
Speaker 5: you know, eighty percent of that off season time probably
Speaker 5: in twenty percent on training. So been able to really
Speaker 5: put most of my time on training and building and
Speaker 5: getting stronger, getting more Durrance and you know, just becoming
Speaker 5: an overall better athlete has been a big.
Speaker 13: Difference for me.
Speaker 4: It's as good as you felt and how long you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I said this, as good as I felt since
Speaker 5: you know, twenty nineteen, preseason twenty twenty, Ronnie.
Speaker 7: Hops Igon, is it to kind of piggyback and off
Speaker 7: that to be able to start this year healthy and
Speaker 7: hopefully be able to play a full season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very you know, thankful for the opportunity to
Speaker 5: be able to, you know, come into the season healthy.
Speaker 5: And I definitely don't take it for granted, knowing, you know,
Speaker 5: the past couple of years, how hard it is just
Speaker 5: to you know, get back in the game. So to
Speaker 5: be able to you know, kind of start a whole
Speaker 5: new season, you know, feeling good. Is very thankful for
Speaker 5: what will be your.
Speaker 3: Role, Ronnie.
Speaker 4: When they figure out who's gonna play next to you,
Speaker 4: that's a big holes, your.
Speaker 8: Left guard, whoever it is.
Speaker 5: It's just help them as much as I can and
Speaker 5: just you know, can continue to try to be a
Speaker 5: leader and do my best to help help the players
Speaker 5: around me be better.
Speaker 4: Saying the name, do you have somebody in mind that
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 5: You know, I've only been back a day, so we'll see.
Speaker 5: We'll see. There's a lot of good guys out there.
Speaker 5: But you know, we've had guys around that I know
Speaker 5: that can play, that I've played with, so yeah, so
Speaker 5: there's a lot of names out there that can fit
Speaker 5: the bill.
Speaker 12: Ronnie Harball talked yesterday about how they came down and
Speaker 12: talk to you guys on Monday about the gambling rules.
Speaker 4: Obviously there's been a lot of headlines about that.
Speaker 3: You know in the last few months.
Speaker 12: As a player, do you feel like there's any lack
Speaker 12: of clarity it's what you guys can do and can't do,
Speaker 12: and is that something that concerns you.
Speaker 5: At all or do you think it's No, I don't
Speaker 5: think it concerns me. I think, you know, there might
Speaker 5: be a lack of clarity, but I don't think so,
Speaker 5: because you know all the different rules between gambling and
Speaker 5: all the different sides fantasy and all that. So I
Speaker 5: think guys, especially in the newer generation, probably get a
Speaker 5: little bit, you know, more confused about what they can
Speaker 5: and can't do. But I know the League and PA
Speaker 5: or you know, they try to have these meetings to
Speaker 5: make sure that we have a full understanding of you know,
Speaker 5: things that we can and can't gamble on.
Speaker 4: Ronnie, you mentioned that, you know, it's nice not having
Speaker 4: to focus on what we have. That's it.
Speaker 10: What are you most focused on in terms of of
Speaker 10: going into the season in particular areas in.
Speaker 4: The game, obviously over all.
Speaker 15: You're trying to do?
Speaker 4: What are the different areas and focused for me?
Speaker 5: For me, I think just trying to become the best
Speaker 5: athlete I can and just really feeling like my athletic
Speaker 5: ability pre injury, trying to match up with that and
Speaker 5: be even better, and also just technique wise, just always
Speaker 5: trying to hone in on that. That's always one of
Speaker 5: my biggest focuses is making sure my technique is you know,
Speaker 5: on point. So I would say that being the best
Speaker 5: athlete I can and just really focusing on just holding
Speaker 5: up my technique. Reason why then want to go to
Speaker 5: Moots normal That's I've done that since only twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. It's my normal team, and I just feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, I like to work on things that I
Speaker 5: think build me personally as an athlete, and you know,
Speaker 5: I like to do a lot of work, like in
Speaker 5: the sand you know, stuff low, low joint impact stuff,
Speaker 5: whereas you know football is going to be high joint
Speaker 5: impact stuff. So I really try to, you know, kind
Speaker 5: of split that time of stuff off my joints.
Speaker 2: But you feel less you were at maybe like last
Speaker 2: year after coming back, because do you feel like you
Speaker 2: were playing back to that two thousand nineteen level. I mean,
Speaker 2: everyone talks about your two thousand nineteen season. Do you
Speaker 2: think by last year, towards the middle of the league
Speaker 2: of the season, you were back to.
Speaker 3: That that same level.
Speaker 5: You know, it's hard for me to tell, but you know,
Speaker 5: in my head, I don't think I will be until
Speaker 5: i'm you know, like I said, I feel confident in
Speaker 5: just the way I move and it kind of feels
Speaker 5: the same to me. But I think production wise it
Speaker 5: was fine. I think, you know, no one was really
Speaker 5: upset about that. But for the standard I have for myself,
Speaker 5: I do want to be better.
Speaker 3: So we're getting back.
Speaker 5: I think so, and I've and I really feel after
Speaker 5: this offseason my confidence level that I will get back
Speaker 5: and you know, further than that level is has gone
Speaker 5: up because you know, just the things I've been able
Speaker 5: to work on and really build, you know, through the
Speaker 5: off season, Monnie, how have.
Speaker 7: You adjusted to the offense according to Tom off this
Speaker 7: coaching style. We hear him a lot more than probably
Speaker 7: coaches and gears past.
Speaker 3: How have you adjusted to plan under him?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 14: I love it.
Speaker 5: You know, he's he's just a real guy in and
Speaker 5: I really believe that we have the same beliefs and
Speaker 5: mentality when it comes to, you know, what makes a
Speaker 5: successful offense. And he's all about the details. He's detail oriented,
Speaker 5: focused on the execution. I really think he's focused on
Speaker 5: the right things and getting everyone to think about the
Speaker 5: things that how he thinks about it, and I think
Speaker 5: he's doing everything the right way.
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