Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: June seventeenth. The Ravens wrapped up the first day of
Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp this afternoon, and after practice we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from a quarterback or Jackson.
Speaker 2: How y'all doing? How every want doing well? I'm good good.
Speaker 3: We talked to today.
Speaker 4: Maybe a wee or so ago, and you talk about
Speaker 4: how you might be trying to get the guys together
Speaker 4: a little bit more often. Can you talk a little
Speaker 4: bit more about that. We're going into maybe getting guys
Speaker 4: together more.
Speaker 2: What's you say?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, yeah, Just I feel like just bunning with
Speaker 5: my guys that help us out a lot more, you know,
Speaker 5: just on the field, just picking each other's brain, being
Speaker 5: around each other a lot more. We'll probably know what
Speaker 5: one of us is thinking ahead, you know, like we
Speaker 5: on the feel something going on. He already know what
Speaker 5: I'm thinking. I don't gotta say too much, you know,
Speaker 5: look over there, I got d hop now bait these guys.
Speaker 5: You know, they know what I'm thinking without me saying
Speaker 5: too much. And that's bunning off the field, you know.
Speaker 5: So that's why I want to get my guys together
Speaker 5: just things like that, small things like.
Speaker 6: That fomeball a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: If uh you had requested potentially to play with either
Speaker 7: versu of DeAndre Hopkins or Odell Beckham.
Speaker 6: Got yeah Hopkins?
Speaker 8: Now yeah.
Speaker 7: What does it feel like to to get him on
Speaker 7: this team?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just that got dope. Man.
Speaker 5: He's different, man, I I've seen him. I threw him
Speaker 5: up like a shallow today. He caught the ball so smooth,
Speaker 5: got up like I don't even think he put the
Speaker 5: other hand on the ground to get up. He just
Speaker 5: caught the ball and just started r I'm like, bruh,
Speaker 5: that's some VAT type stuff, like some super Vat type stuff.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: It's just dope to have him, man. I'm looking forward
Speaker 5: to throwing a lot of touchdowns to him this year.
Speaker 6: How much better did you think this Baffeta? Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was pretty good last year.
Speaker 5: Uh it was f It was pretty good last year.
Speaker 5: But I always tell you, God, this guy's the limit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: We we never knowing two yacht though, and I believe
Speaker 5: it will be a lot better this year as well.
Speaker 9: Do you feel we have more weapons for Whistler?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I do, I do.
Speaker 5: We had weapons last year, but got de hop a
Speaker 5: new addisher and our guys ready man got baked with
Speaker 5: a new count trap, got Litts, got actually got Mark Mandrews.
Speaker 5: Can't forget my guy, man, I my guys. I gotta
Speaker 5: get 'em Mandres real quick. That guy's different man, you know,
Speaker 5: cause uh I I been seeing my guy be getting
Speaker 5: talked about, and I really I really don't like that
Speaker 5: because he you know, he's done so much for us.
Speaker 5: I'm off topic right here, but he's done so much
Speaker 5: for us and how people did him, you know, I
Speaker 5: just don't like that. Cau Mark's still Mark, you know, Mandrews,
Speaker 5: He's still your guy, Yeah, for sure, no doubt.
Speaker 10: I know people deal with you know this form of
Speaker 10: of the last game this season and the ways I mean,
Speaker 10: like what if you canna seen Mark's uh approach be
Speaker 10: in in these oka's and many can.
Speaker 2: The same man. He's always hungry. You know, things happen.
Speaker 2: We played football.
Speaker 5: Shoot, I like I said, I threw I threw a
Speaker 5: a interception, bone head interception, forum of the ball first
Speaker 5: first half, still had a chance to win it.
Speaker 2: Things happen. You know, it's not gonna always go our way.
Speaker 5: That's probably was our first snow game at that, you know,
Speaker 5: not the blame done the weather or anything like that,
Speaker 5: but it's football.
Speaker 2: Everything not gonna go right man.
Speaker 6: To mark and at the back.
Speaker 11: Then the four four game was it was a deep
Speaker 11: loss for you. It took pretty hard to be watching
Speaker 11: the the losses you guys take the loss you guys
Speaker 11: had last year.
Speaker 6: W what did you take that out of? Particularly that
Speaker 6: lot and talking over and you feel like you need
Speaker 6: to be better or do.
Speaker 2: You'd like to be better at uh, protecting the ball?
Speaker 2: You know, things like that.
Speaker 5: I felt like when we were Chetta to we protected
Speaker 5: the ball. We we had no problems moving the ball
Speaker 5: down the field, you know, first second down. We we
Speaker 5: get positive yards out of every play, you know, just
Speaker 5: the turnovers, no turnovers.
Speaker 2: I feel like we win.
Speaker 6: Did it take me a while to get over that?
Speaker 6: Or or is that something he flushed that you immediately like?
Speaker 9: How do you?
Speaker 6: How'd you deal with it?
Speaker 5: I don't think I get over any loss, to be honest,
Speaker 5: I got lost it from youth football. That still hunt me,
Speaker 5: you know, so how I never get over alost. I
Speaker 5: don't care how how small it may be to someone
Speaker 5: else or how great it might be, it's always.
Speaker 2: The same for me.
Speaker 7: I'm all, I, how do a kind of to that?
Speaker 7: You talk about the turnovers? Do you feel like everybody
Speaker 7: always wonders why as good as the team as you
Speaker 7: guys always have, if you can't necessarily look like you're
Speaker 7: best in January? Do you feel like the turnovers you
Speaker 7: handed out a turnovers? Do you feel like that's probably
Speaker 7: the main Sure?
Speaker 5: Nah, cause we still had a chance to win. You know,
Speaker 5: it's football. Everything not gonna go away.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 5: You know before it was like, oh, you can't win
Speaker 5: a playoff game. You know, we won a playoff game.
Speaker 5: We got to the LC Championship two years ago. Then
Speaker 5: we just fell short, like two games short this year.
Speaker 5: But it's we gonna bounce back and we come back.
Speaker 5: I feel like we gonna have ventures on our mind tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Back around to the contract talk, I'm sure you're all, yeah.
Speaker 12: How would you describe whatever conversations you've had with there
Speaker 12: to this point and are you feeling any urgency to.
Speaker 6: Get something done on that time?
Speaker 5: You know, I never discussed contract situations here, but yeah,
Speaker 5: uh N, I don't wanna talk about it.
Speaker 2: Is that okay with you?
Speaker 3: That want to get done.
Speaker 6: You ever need a high steed player in the NFL.
Speaker 9: I mean that must sound pretty good.
Speaker 2: For you, right' missing sound good?
Speaker 3: Anybody in ULC said, how was for you being part
Speaker 3: of the film stars of Rason Keenan?
Speaker 6: How did you get into that?
Speaker 5: And how'd you enjoy that?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: That was sh s shout out to Sasha. You know
Speaker 5: that's that's the producer. That's the guy who put director.
Speaker 5: That's the guy who you know actually got me on
Speaker 5: the show. I tweeted about it, you know, I was like,
Speaker 5: man raised the cane and like lit or whatever, and uh,
Speaker 5: he posted about it and I come in it on
Speaker 5: his Instagram.
Speaker 2: I'm like, don't kill me off, Like I actually wanna
Speaker 2: be in the show.
Speaker 5: And then like, uh, that summer you know when the
Speaker 5: season was over, well two years ago. Yeah it was
Speaker 5: two years ago. Uh that summer or last year, I'm
Speaker 5: sorry last year. Uh, they had me in New York
Speaker 5: filming and stuff. It was dope, like just a dope gig.
Speaker 2: Like I had fun.
Speaker 5: Shooting, uh shooting, not shooting, not shooting shooting the film,
Speaker 5: the show, get that out there, getting show.
Speaker 2: It was just fun.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of fun with it, uh, and
Speaker 2: a lot go into.
Speaker 5: That, like shout out to all the actors and actresses,
Speaker 5: cause man, man sh a lot go with that all
Speaker 5: day for one scene, Like God, the fun thing he's
Speaker 5: done that.
Speaker 6: The opportunity when he drove away on me, Wald your oyster.
Speaker 2: Right now you get a chance to goe do whatever
Speaker 2: you one. I haven't did anything fun yet.
Speaker 9: Nah.
Speaker 5: The best you want me to tell, the best thing
Speaker 5: I did came here today. I was out here trading
Speaker 5: with my guys man ricking hard and felt like we
Speaker 5: got better today. You know, I had a lot of
Speaker 5: fun today.
Speaker 6: Lost off season? You know you got skinny or skinny
Speaker 6: ear now? And did y did you do anything uh
Speaker 6: this off season?
Speaker 11: Obviously you're still you're still pretty skinny, but uh, did
Speaker 11: you do anything different?
Speaker 6: Just physically?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 5: I just eat fruit, push up, sit ups, that's all.
Speaker 5: Just stand shape, don't say skinny, stand shape fit. Yeah
Speaker 5: that sound better cause skinny like puny. I don't think
Speaker 5: I'm puny still.
Speaker 2: Two hundred.
Speaker 9: Already said.
Speaker 14: One of the first conversations you had with him was
Speaker 14: about the team's losses and how you reviewed that. Yeah,
Speaker 14: what was your focus from a football perspective this off season.
Speaker 5: Man, just trying to make the game a lot easier
Speaker 5: for us, you know, just go going into a game
Speaker 5: and just knowing what the defense gonna do before they
Speaker 5: do it. Just having having they plays like as ours,
Speaker 5: you know, to make our job a lot easier. And
Speaker 5: that's all I go back like he, like Coach T
Speaker 5: told you, I go on watch the losses, see the
Speaker 5: mistakes we made, and try to capitalize for next time
Speaker 5: we in a situation like that, y'all cao talk.
Speaker 9: To about communication. I heard become a lot more burgo
Speaker 9: and also leaving by example. I mean, is it a
Speaker 9: combination of both or do.
Speaker 5: You do you like you're talking to More's a combination
Speaker 5: of both. And see year eighth, I mean, yeah, one
Speaker 5: a year eighth, Like T got no other choice. It's
Speaker 5: a lot of young guys coming in and uh, she got.
Speaker 15: Too didn't have y'all for information all the time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna come up to 'em and talk
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 5: They probably be scared to say something to me, but
Speaker 5: I'm gonna walk up and introduce myself.
Speaker 7: Whytn't mentioned or DeAndre Hopkins catch earlier.
Speaker 9: So it's been a pretty quick information between the two
Speaker 9: of you. How's how those conversations been like so far?
Speaker 5: Man, he come up me and be telling me like
Speaker 5: what he's seeing around and stuff like that. I'm like,
Speaker 5: that's what I saw, Like, that's what I was selling
Speaker 5: the coach. I wanted you to do stuff like that. Man,
Speaker 5: That's that's what you like to see from your receive
Speaker 5: and like to hear from your receiver, like engaging with
Speaker 5: those guys.
Speaker 2: But all my receivers like that, all of 'em.
Speaker 6: While you obviously had.
Speaker 7: A lot of great teams here in the last spirve years,
Speaker 7: but you.
Speaker 9: Know, the addition of d hop the offensive line is
Speaker 9: one year more of a for you. Look around you
Speaker 9: this year, do you feel like, wow, we really have
Speaker 9: the pieces?
Speaker 7: This year special?
Speaker 2: That's not in my mind.
Speaker 5: I feel like that every year, you know, to be
Speaker 5: honest with you, I really feel like that each and
Speaker 5: every year you got a chance.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have to see, you know, we're gonna.
Speaker 14: Have to see Louisville cornerback accomplished, cornerback available.
Speaker 7: Have you got it?
Speaker 8: Go get them?
Speaker 2: I love all our corners getting wrong, but go get them.
Speaker 9: Have you got a chance to talk to your year
Speaker 9: about coming here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hit him up. I hit him up. But
Speaker 2: you know, you don't know, you never know what y'all here.
Speaker 2: That's my boy man.
Speaker 6: We saw you know, some of the clips of you
Speaker 6: and and say Flowers South Florida.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you?
Speaker 6: What do you get out of the out of those sessions?
Speaker 6: And we heard you about that.
Speaker 5: Because I threw that ball, I knew it was you
Speaker 5: gotta see. I'm gonna let you finish this question though
Speaker 5: you know where I'm going.
Speaker 11: It's so you were obviously still upset about that buffalo intercept.
Speaker 11: Uh was that just a miscommunication mis throw?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 6: And what are you in those throws with Zay in
Speaker 6: the summer? Like what what do you guys get out
Speaker 6: of that?
Speaker 2: It just miscommunication that That's all that was. And we
Speaker 2: just make each other better.
Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna talk trash to one another, man,
Speaker 5: because we want to see each other when we're on
Speaker 5: the same team.
Speaker 2: I gotta talk to you like this, you know, because
Speaker 2: no one else will. That's all.
Speaker 9: Contract extension and send meal.
Speaker 2: Hey, but he deserved that. I feel like he deserved that.
Speaker 5: And Uh, the injuries in the past was was hindering him,
Speaker 5: and I feel like people was thinking he wasn't that guy,
Speaker 5: but he showed it last.
Speaker 2: Year a lot, you know, and this to the senter
Speaker 2: instead of going for him, no no limit.
Speaker 14: You mentioned this earlier, going back to it, there was
Speaker 14: a time this offseason where it looked like Mark wasn't
Speaker 14: certain to be back here.
Speaker 9: Did that Is that the part that you said bothered you?
Speaker 14: And did you voice how important?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 5: No, I just seen people like, you know, trying to
Speaker 5: dog him on comments and stuff. But it's like it
Speaker 5: it's don't get me wrong. It's a lot of people
Speaker 5: that wish they could have been playing this game, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's accompanied so much, you know, for us, you know, himself.
Speaker 5: So I feel like just let things happen sometimes, you know,
Speaker 5: we we wish, we wish we'd have won the game.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: I wish I didn't throw that interception. I wish I
Speaker 5: didn't fumble, you know, I wish the mishap didn't happen,
Speaker 5: But it happened.
Speaker 2: You know. It's just a lesson learned, man, So next
Speaker 2: time we'll do something better. That's all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, but guess bub you, Yeah, I don't matter who.
Speaker 2: Who's open up against I'm happy just to play football.
Speaker 8: Sir.
Speaker 2: You re all good.
Speaker 9: Mark.
Speaker 14: You have a good plans to coming up with the
Speaker 14: wide receivers this southeaston three right, Yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 11: Uh but before we hate Lamar, we have a presentation here, say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, yeah, So Lamar this off season I'm truting.
Speaker 3: Heard Eric the Cost and John Harbol basically say you're
Speaker 3: their MVP.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're also the MVP for.
Speaker 8: The Pro Football Writers Association.
Speaker 3: So for the third time in Lamar Jackson's career, he
Speaker 3: filed the MVP by PFWS.
Speaker 4: Kay.
Speaker 2: Man appreciate especial as the football writers of America. I
Speaker 2: thank you guys so much. I appreciate you guys so much. Man,
Speaker 2: think go MVP baby.
Speaker 1: We also heard from one of his new targets, veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the more couple of practices now from the
Speaker 6: one earlier. Now, how do you you know, could you
Speaker 6: find with itself?
Speaker 9: You know, such a quarterback?
Speaker 2: What do you think is the key to the go
Speaker 2: being back with?
Speaker 9: What's your quarterback?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: Practice? Coming out here working together? Uh communicating? Uh you
Speaker 9: even if we complete something, still just asking him what
Speaker 9: he likes.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: Communication is key. I played with probably you know, more
Speaker 9: quarterbacks than any receiver, so uh, you know I've learned communication. Uh.
Speaker 9: And and not just on the field, but off the
Speaker 9: field as well.
Speaker 2: Is there any think that you surprised you back? And
Speaker 2: you know him on the field and off the field.
Speaker 2: I do you have expectation what the guys.
Speaker 12: Like from afar and then you get together and who
Speaker 12: have you learned?
Speaker 9: He's a competitor at everything, Alright. I saw him in there,
Speaker 9: you know, shooting shooting hoops on the basketball goal and
Speaker 9: you know he didn't wanna lose, so uh, you know
Speaker 9: that says a lot about him and who he is. Uh.
Speaker 9: Just little things like that. And uh you know obviously
Speaker 9: on the football field, if he uh, if he you know,
Speaker 9: makes a mistake or doesn't you know, complete the ball
Speaker 9: that he wants to, he's hard on himself. Uh. And
Speaker 9: you know no one has to say anything to him,
Speaker 9: but you know that's why he is who he is.
Speaker 15: The quarterbacks said he grew up with You know, how
Speaker 15: long do you do pitch the gains and and get.
Speaker 6: The chemis straight down with these guys?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 9: I do I look, yeah, I don't I don't think
Speaker 9: it's like a time frame. I think it differs. You know,
Speaker 9: a guy like Lamar who's the veteran quarterback, you know,
Speaker 9: he he's played a lot of football, and uh myself,
Speaker 9: I play a lot of football, so you know we
Speaker 9: see things different. Uh you know, but you know I've
Speaker 9: had rookie quarterbacks that this took longer. So it differs.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Look the things you and Jay and Batonnverers.
Speaker 9: What impressions that you guys have been able to get out.
Speaker 6: Here on the hield together and because of what you
Speaker 6: guys can.
Speaker 9: Do to do feels good? Uh? You know, playing with
Speaker 9: with with two good receivers. Uh, you know, those guys
Speaker 9: they wanna be great and they're gonna be great. Uh
Speaker 9: you know, they definitely uh have a high ceiling. And
Speaker 9: you know I'm here to to help. Uh you know
Speaker 9: however I can uh you know, going out just you know,
Speaker 9: showing those guys certain things and and just communicating with them,
Speaker 9: uh you know things We're we're all three different receivers,
Speaker 9: which is unique and cool.
Speaker 6: What's that you guys who are established here at Baltimore,
Speaker 6: what what has stood out for you if you've gotten
Speaker 6: this using team.
Speaker 9: Uh about you said about being a rad with oh
Speaker 9: uh the camaraderie. Uh, how close guys are.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, I think that's what makes a great football team. Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, they do things not just on the field,
Speaker 9: but off the field together.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: And you know I've always been, uh you know, a
Speaker 9: big fan of that. You know, you have to you
Speaker 9: have to build a bond not just on the field,
Speaker 9: off the field. I know it a we want.
Speaker 2: First weeks was.
Speaker 6: The picture of the the speed of a lot of
Speaker 6: the guys up there. Have you felt just as fast
Speaker 6: uh as Uh those those speeds look like?
Speaker 9: Ah, yeah, man, I have. Uh you know, hopefully I
Speaker 9: can you know, continue to keep that up. Uh, you know,
Speaker 9: just with my diet and training. But yeah, for sure.
Speaker 16: The last last year and and really what it takes
Speaker 16: to get back and getting another opportunity to play in
Speaker 16: that game.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I really don't think about what happened yesterday. Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, I I've always been raised to put one
Speaker 9: foot forward, you know, and uh, you know, someone like
Speaker 9: myself who's you know, have had a lot of uh
Speaker 9: you know, things happened in my life. You know, you
Speaker 9: don't look back in the past. You gotta move forward.
Speaker 9: So every every mistake that's happened happened for a reason. Uh,
Speaker 9: you know, every everything that you know it is, it's
Speaker 9: not considered. You know, great happens for a reason, you know,
Speaker 9: and it's only gonna make you stronger. So I don't
Speaker 9: really look. Look, I don't really think about what happened
Speaker 9: yesterday really unless it's you know, my my children calling
Speaker 9: me about something.
Speaker 11: Learning what Lamar likes? Doesn't that that sort of thing?
Speaker 11: What have you sort of learned st what he likes
Speaker 11: and and what's maybe stood out to you in the
Speaker 11: in the.
Speaker 6: Few times you've worked here there.
Speaker 9: Uh, I would say, well, still what stands out about
Speaker 9: him is? Uh, you know, I mean it's really hard
Speaker 9: to pinpoint. You know, I can't give a PSA about
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson's a great quarterback all around. So
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna come up here and you know, try
Speaker 9: to PSA and say what you know what's great about
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 9: You know, I think he puts that on display every day, Uh,
Speaker 9: every Sunday. Lamar's so good there the players and.
Speaker 10: The quarter back pat last year and he's really good
Speaker 10: at the team skill set, But it is there something
Speaker 10: with Lamar that.
Speaker 6: That stands out as maybe different sort of how that
Speaker 6: they that you have to start.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I just said, I'm not I'm not going
Speaker 9: to compare you know, Patrick Mahomes any quarterback to Lamar.
Speaker 9: Lamar is a unique quarterback. He's a great quarterback. And uh,
Speaker 9: you know, so is every other quarterback I played with
Speaker 9: in the NFL. Or or they wouldn't be in the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 9: you know. So, I'm just excited to go out the
Speaker 9: first game against the Bills and uh, you know, put
Speaker 9: some on tape with him.
Speaker 7: Upon some really good teams obviously. Chairs Well, I mean
Speaker 7: this offense has a lot of talent around it. Do
Speaker 7: you recall being on an offense that has this many weapons?
Speaker 9: Uh, it's it's it's been a while, you know. Definitely
Speaker 9: Kansas City Chiefs, we had a lot of weapons. We
Speaker 9: made it to a super Bowl, So you know, I
Speaker 9: can't I can't dismiss that, but uh, you know, this
Speaker 9: is definitely a talented team and wide receiver group. For sure.
Speaker 8: You talked to you you might have played with more
Speaker 8: quarterbacks in your little sagar and also.
Speaker 12: Means you've probably been doing as many many camps.
Speaker 2: What do you get out of it?
Speaker 6: Just like, how do you how do you figure out
Speaker 6: how to beige productive for you?
Speaker 2: After this?
Speaker 9: Oh? Man, I I love waking up and practicing. I
Speaker 9: love the little things. I love studying late nights. Uh,
Speaker 9: you know, just going over things with with my girlfriend,
Speaker 9: having her help me study plays or you know, whoever's
Speaker 9: at my house. You know, little things like that, just
Speaker 9: it excites me. And competing. I'm a competitor, so you know,
Speaker 9: I just started playing chess and you know I'm not
Speaker 9: the best, but I think I'm a champion. So just competing. Man,
Speaker 9: I love compete. We got you, Uh, I haven't. I
Speaker 9: haven't chess chess uh chess dot com though you know
Speaker 9: definitely who part of me is what I'm talking about. Okay, okay, alright.
Speaker 15: You have any of the UH quarterbacks that you've gone
Speaker 15: against surprised you or impressed you here and the Germany?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I would say all the cornerbacks that we
Speaker 9: have that I went up against. Uh. Those guys are talented,
Speaker 9: UH and that's the reason that we drafted 'em.
Speaker 8: They getting a dreams of a by the UH white receiver.
Speaker 6: But you also have two tight.
Speaker 3: Ends, Cause I how m a you they impressed you,
Speaker 3: uh explosively you So they say, likely it's Mark Andrews.
Speaker 9: Uh you know, likely's it's gonna be a great uh
Speaker 9: tight end this league for a while. Uh and Andrews
Speaker 9: obviously is a great tight end.
Speaker 2: Uh you know.
Speaker 9: So it's it's it it's fun just going out there,
Speaker 9: you know, with those two guys and seeing how they
Speaker 9: work and seeing how they how they grind, especially you
Speaker 9: know in No Ta's I was surprised that both of
Speaker 9: those guys are out there just about every day working
Speaker 9: and uh, you know that's that's that's what impressed me
Speaker 9: the most. You know, those guys, they they wanna be
Speaker 9: out there, and they wanna they won't they want to
Speaker 9: be the guy to get the ball.
Speaker 2: Anymore.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: And lastly, we heard from Ravens quarterback coach t Martin.
Speaker 15: He's the back quarterback ever last year. What is back
Speaker 15: there left for him to do to improve? Were you
Speaker 15: trying to specify?
Speaker 13: We said that the right word, uh is improvement. We're
Speaker 13: always trying to find things that uh we can get
Speaker 13: better at. Interestingly enough, on the field, we were talking about,
Speaker 13: uh what he would want, what he was watching during
Speaker 13: the offseason. The first thing he said was the games
Speaker 13: that we lost. He's like, I just wanna know how
Speaker 13: we lost them and what we did and what we
Speaker 13: do better. So he's already thinking that way. As a staff,
Speaker 13: we're trying to look at things that we can improve
Speaker 13: and implement them during this time of the year, training camp,
Speaker 13: so on, and so forth. But Uh, him individually, Uh,
Speaker 13: we we had great discussions about the things that he
Speaker 13: wants to improve at and and play Uh as good,
Speaker 13: if not better than he did last season. Uh, A
Speaker 13: little bit of both. It's just kind of depends on
Speaker 13: the play, the call protection. There's a lot involved in
Speaker 13: what we do. He has a lot of responsibility in
Speaker 13: the run game, in the passing game, whether it's getting
Speaker 13: us to the right run play, getting out of run
Speaker 13: to pass, pass to run, so on and so forth.
Speaker 13: So there's a lot of responsibility goes on there, and
Speaker 13: there's a lot of preparation that goes on there. So Uh,
Speaker 13: but we expanded that package each year. We're looking for
Speaker 13: ways to give him more because he's advancing each and
Speaker 13: every year in all areas of his game.
Speaker 8: And we grew some this year.
Speaker 13: We added some new concept, new play calls and things
Speaker 13: of that nature, and we're gonna just give him all
Speaker 13: the risks that we can to get ready for the season.
Speaker 9: See a lot of guys getting as what had their
Speaker 9: best seasons in their third year the ards going like
Speaker 9: in the NM, is that even make you more if
Speaker 9: you feeling like, hey, it's special ball as.
Speaker 2: What as he beam for you?
Speaker 13: Well, yes, it's it's a cause for optimism definitely, being
Speaker 13: that he's such a young player playing the way that
Speaker 13: he's playing, with so much more to get better at.
Speaker 13: You know, he's he's doing a lot of great stuff.
Speaker 13: You know, but we really kind of comb uh with
Speaker 13: a fine tooth, uh the things that we really want
Speaker 13: to improve on, whether it's footwork, whether it's reees, his eyes, disciplined, uh,
Speaker 13: taking care of the football, things like that. So but yes,
Speaker 13: at his age, playing the way he's playing is a ah,
Speaker 13: a really good feeling for out optimism, for the organization
Speaker 13: and for his career.
Speaker 12: Which so often Lamar has come into a year with
Speaker 12: something new, whether it be the way he built himself
Speaker 12: to figures centers or what if what if you see
Speaker 12: anything new this year from what you saw from him
Speaker 12: in January.
Speaker 13: I think it's more mindset like like during the off season,
Speaker 13: really starting with the last game. Uh, it was kind
Speaker 13: of some a deep felt loss. You know, the last
Speaker 13: two seasons have kind of ended that way with some
Speaker 13: really emotional uh losses, and so this off season the
Speaker 13: mindset for him in our conversations that we've had, what
Speaker 13: he's thinking and what he's verbalizing and and and talking about. Uh,
Speaker 13: it's a little different. You see maturity there in terms
Speaker 13: of what he sees on the field and things that
Speaker 13: he wants to do offensively. He's having more input back
Speaker 13: to us as coaches, like I see this, I would
Speaker 13: like to do this more or less. He's doing more
Speaker 13: of that, uh, and just taking his communication to the
Speaker 13: next level. So that's what I would say about that.
Speaker 6: Told on that he went up for me Dames foth
Speaker 6: team and personal.
Speaker 1: Has he shared any of those ideas with you?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it really started last year.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 13: They were getting together watching seven or seven and a
Speaker 13: lot of the passing periods together, especially during training camp.
Speaker 13: Once we got to the season a little bit here
Speaker 13: and there, there was something different. But some of the
Speaker 13: wide hoes would come to the quarterback meetings and kind
Speaker 13: of hang out with us and listen to him. So
Speaker 13: whatever was most convenient for Lamar. They kind of worked
Speaker 13: it out. But there's something that they're being more intentional
Speaker 13: about doing, especially when we get back during training camp. UH,
Speaker 13: but it really started last season doing camp. They would
Speaker 13: get together and watch some of the passing periods, and
Speaker 13: once we got to the season, they got together during
Speaker 13: the quarterback meetings. At times they some of the other
Speaker 13: receivers stopping there, tight ends will stop in. UH, they
Speaker 13: likely mark then those guys will stop being at times.
Speaker 13: UH to just kind of had that communication with Lamar
Speaker 13: when it wasn't the unit meeting where they can get
Speaker 13: more individualized attention from him.
Speaker 8: So it worked. Uh, those guys got on the same
Speaker 8: page as the season went and we saw the production.
Speaker 9: UH.
Speaker 8: As the season went on.
Speaker 11: You mentioned, you know, watching the games they lost and
Speaker 11: you brought up off to see a Buffalo game. There's
Speaker 11: there's been similarities that you know, Lamar's post regular season
Speaker 11: play has been at a very high level. The UH
Speaker 11: postseason has east had his struggle at times. What has
Speaker 11: been the conversation about how to be better than those games?
Speaker 13: Well, just finishing for the most part, you know, you
Speaker 13: really think about, uh, things like you know, turnovers and
Speaker 13: things of that nat kind of obvious stuff, right that
Speaker 13: he's hard on himself about, you know the first half
Speaker 13: of the Buffalo game, you know, just just don't do that,
Speaker 13: and we still ended up uh fighting ourselves back to
Speaker 13: really giving ourselves a chance to tiny the game up.
Speaker 13: So h you go back to twenty three, you know,
Speaker 13: similar Stu right, RedZone turnovers, not only just him but
Speaker 13: other players. Right, So that's that stuff as a unit
Speaker 13: that we talk about it that we uh emphasize a
Speaker 13: lot and individual as players. Nobody wants to do that, right,
Speaker 13: Nobody wants to do the play or the turnover or
Speaker 13: the mis catch or misthrow that causes us a game
Speaker 13: or a drive or a series, so on and so forth.
Speaker 13: So but it's a it's an emphasis, you know, we
Speaker 13: we look at everything that contributes to those things. And
Speaker 13: so yeah, it's on his hard as on his mind.
Speaker 13: We just gotta find a way to finish.
Speaker 9: Who's that's the different quarterbacks? Is there anything you see
Speaker 9: from the quarterback.
Speaker 4: Side how the film and yield that up to shorten.
Speaker 6: That learning curve, to developing that relationship with Lamar.
Speaker 9: And other end of the back.
Speaker 13: Well, just in a short time with Dap, I've seen
Speaker 13: that he's quick study and he loves talking to the quarterbacks.
Speaker 13: So that's good from a guy who's caught a lot
Speaker 13: of passes from a lot of different guys. Right, But
Speaker 13: he's been great. He's been you know, talking to Lamar
Speaker 13: about how he's gonna run around and how he expects
Speaker 13: the ball to be thrown. Lamar's communicating back with him
Speaker 13: in just uh short time, So I can't imagine what
Speaker 13: that that relationship's gonna be like after training camp and
Speaker 13: ask the season continues when we start game playing ways
Speaker 13: to get him the ball and how those guys play
Speaker 13: off of each other, Rashad you know, Zay the whole crew,
Speaker 13: how we're gonna use them uh in what we do
Speaker 13: so uh but early on, uh, his communication has been
Speaker 13: great and uh his expectation as a very veteran uh
Speaker 13: highly productive wide out. Uh it's something that uh we
Speaker 13: haven't seen in a while, and uh hopefully it's a
Speaker 13: good thing for us.
Speaker 3: See, when you get us veteran back up there in
Speaker 3: the discreprenier or whatever, than you do, how do you
Speaker 3: go to the up building that relationship right.
Speaker 6: How how's that going to them?
Speaker 8: Oh, it's going great.
Speaker 13: I think Coop came in and just kind of uh
Speaker 13: took the playbook uh under his arm, and you know,
Speaker 13: he was a really quick study. And we put a
Speaker 13: lot on those guys and starting they didn't miss the
Speaker 13: day from football school to OTA's didn't miss any days
Speaker 13: and questions feedback on some things that they had done
Speaker 13: in his career in places that he's been. Uh that's
Speaker 13: similar to what we're doing. Little tweaks here and there,
Speaker 13: some things helped us, some things that we do a
Speaker 13: little different. But his experience is the main thing. His professionalism.
Speaker 13: Uh came to practice every day prepared, got more reps
Speaker 13: uh this off season than you probably got in the
Speaker 13: last two or three years.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: So that was good for him and and Devin as well.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: But but I like his company. I like his presence
Speaker 8: in our room.
Speaker 13: Uh brings another veteran leader that uh has great professionalism
Speaker 13: in terms of his preparations.
Speaker 6: You know, if you hurts them out.
Speaker 16: How the conversations with Lamar changed coaching principles or strategies.
Speaker 16: I guess you've taken as you've seen him and yourself
Speaker 16: also adapt as a coaching player relationship.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I would say when when you're first taking the
Speaker 13: job with someone as unique as Lamar, you're learning more
Speaker 13: from them than they're learning from you in a sense.
Speaker 13: But we were both learning a new system at the
Speaker 13: same time, so it wasn't like we were running the
Speaker 13: same system and I was the new coach. You know.
Speaker 13: It was new coach and new system. So a lot
Speaker 13: of that was the implementation of the new system. This
Speaker 13: is how we're gonna do it. These are the rules
Speaker 13: of how we're gonna do it. Let's hang our hat
Speaker 13: on these things. Now you add Lamar Jackson to it,
Speaker 13: and how he sees things, how he thinks year one,
Speaker 13: year two, and now year three. That bond, that connection,
Speaker 13: my expectations for him and anticipation of what he would
Speaker 13: do and how he would think. Uh, we just kind
Speaker 13: of play off each other. It's just kind of like
Speaker 13: in a relationship, right' you with somebody long enough, hopefully
Speaker 13: you guys get better at your relationship. Uh, but uh,
Speaker 13: it's still growing. It's still growing. He he every day.
Speaker 13: You see growth every day. There's things that we learn
Speaker 13: from each other, things about the system, things about football
Speaker 13: in general that we discussed and we continue to grow
Speaker 13: in that direction.
Speaker 9: Two. Uh, did the guy like like DeAndre?
Speaker 15: You know so many of them march passes last year
Speaker 15: were to go as that we're considered open Obviously DeAndre
Speaker 15: is a guy who can turn those fifty fifty balls
Speaker 15: into like eighty twenty balls. Is there a skill to
Speaker 15: like throwing to outside receivers and knowing that you know
Speaker 15: you've got to put your.
Speaker 9: Faith in them that I think that's point where you
Speaker 9: get a want to sme out with that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's that's a great point. And you're speaking to trust,
Speaker 13: you're thinking to you're speaking to catch radius stuff that
Speaker 13: you see with Mark and they likely you can now
Speaker 13: see with the other hopkinsause it's very similar. Just a
Speaker 13: wide receiver that can play strong, you know, big strong
Speaker 13: hands that quarterbacks love. That's that's a really good comfort
Speaker 13: level for a quarterback where you can put the ball
Speaker 13: in the vicinity and trust that guy's gonna make a
Speaker 13: play and not only just that too, but his his
Speaker 13: mentality for going after the ball and competing for the ball.
Speaker 13: And so we look forward to what that relationship is
Speaker 13: gonna be like. But to your point, that's trust, that's
Speaker 13: the time with each other, working with each other, and
Speaker 13: ultimately resulting to some production on the field.
Speaker 8: Hopefully what you said seeing Lamar Ybab had to begather Uh,
Speaker 8: vocal leadership. Vocal leadership.
Speaker 13: When I first got here in twenty one, he was
Speaker 13: the leader, Uh by play by action. That was a
Speaker 13: lot on his plate, and he was relatively quiet. He
Speaker 13: kind of started a little bit doing game day when
Speaker 13: the cons competitive spirit starts to uh show Uh. But
Speaker 13: being with him every day and being around him more closely, uh,
Speaker 13: you know his communication uh, non verbal and verbal. You
Speaker 13: really hear him in the back, you know, having inside
Speaker 13: conversations that weren't the case a couple of years ago,
Speaker 13: and you see more and more of that. You see
Speaker 13: him now talking with the lineman, doing practice, talking to Tyler,
Speaker 13: his relationship with the center, because those two guys have
Speaker 13: to be on the same page. If Lamar makes a call,
Speaker 13: Tyler has the echo. If Tyler makes a call, he
Speaker 13: hasn't communicated back to Lamar. So there's a lot of
Speaker 13: two way communication that goes on between the quarterback and
Speaker 13: the center. And what I'm seeing is whether it's Derek,
Speaker 13: you know, a veteran running back, coming in that has
Speaker 13: questions and concerns. DeAndre Hopkins and we had the Odell's,
Speaker 13: We've had Nessa Agilos, We've had guys that's been in
Speaker 13: and out that's causing him to talk about what he
Speaker 13: sees and how he feels things. But that's the biggest
Speaker 13: area I've seen is the verbal and nonverbal communication that
Speaker 13: he has really grown and taken his game to the
Speaker 13: next level.
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