WEBVTT - Lamar Jackson Contract Extension Press Conference 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It was a 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.240 big day in Baltimore's quarterback Lamar Jackson was in the 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.000 building to put the pen to paper on a new 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.720 five year contract. He was fired up to sign that 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.160 deal and remain a Raven for the long term. He 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.800 joined head coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric Tacassa 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.080 during a press conference at the Under Armed Performance Center 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.440 this afternoon. So go ahead and check it out. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.239 We got packed house. Thanks coming everybody. We've had some 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.360 we've had some good press conferences this year, and we've 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.120 had some bad press conferences this year. This is a 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:44.519 great press conference. Very very excited, thrilled to announce a 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:52.200 five year contract extension with our quarterback Lamar Jackson. They 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.400 say the best things come to those who wait. We 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.320 waited for a while and here we are. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.760 John, very excited, can't wait to get started. It's it 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.959 has been a long way, but I think we're all 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.640 in the same place all along, and uh, we're all 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.959 in the same place going forward. Can't wait to get 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:08.280 to work. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.240 Mark. Well, all I have to say is today I 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.760 don't have any popcorn. But during count if you guys 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.160 have great questions I'll say, I'll put it on Coach 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.839 John uh. You guys get to come to the house 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.479 with the peers, with the players and not you know, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:32.480 and have a good time that everybody is that your house, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.080 in my house, your house. Okay, only the good questions, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.679 only the good questions invited. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.080 La mar uh In Marsh you tweeted out chats we 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.040 wanted it. Really a month later you signed, you know, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:49.840 a record deal. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.640 What changed during that time, mister Jamison, you know what 0:01:54.680 --> 0:02:00.040 we're gonna get, gonna be invited to the house. You 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.520 know what I'm saying. That couldn't avot. I got you 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.480 every But you know what, today, we're gonna keep it 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.640 about the future. You know, I'm not really worried about 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.919 what happened in the past. We gonna keep it about 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.720 these next five years and keep it about you know 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.160 what's going on today. You know, it's a great day, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.040 great day. Just signed with the guys up here. That's 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.120 all I don't focused on right. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.919 Now, aside from the Trader request. I mean, this is 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.239 a long process. Eric's talked about it and you guys 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.280 hadn't share details. But but how did you've been eliable 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.000 for the two years for an extension. What didn't change 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.720 that this was a turning point that you were able 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.560 to get a deal done over the last week. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.320 H We you know, we just had some some you know, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.680 mutual agreements and in the terms and stuff like that, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.079 and you know it just fit, it fit to both 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.119 of us and that's why we're here right now. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.440 So tomorrow, where are you gonna be? Uh at? 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:49.959 Yeah? 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.200 What do you start the future? 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.960 What do you mean what I'm gonna be oh Ota, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.480 I'm gonna be in. I'm'a be in soon. I'm gonna 0:02:59.480 --> 0:02:59.919 be here soon. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:01.600 Oh more? 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.120 Uh? 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.280 How can you describe you in your offense and services? 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.320 And you you're new all as. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.640 Uh Actually, coach Todd Monkin reached out to me. You know, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.520 we spoke a couple of times, and you know, I 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.880 heard from the guys that the office is looking pretty smooth. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.640 And I just got my iPad a couple of days ago, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.720 and from what I see, it looks it looks different 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.000 and I'm liking it so far. The more. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.519 What is it needed to change in the office and 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.880 some of the creations Maybe then Odell did any of 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.560 that plan to swaying you to wanna restart. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.079 The wan, well, we we been negotiating, like we really 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.920 didn't never stop negotiating, you know, we was always keeping 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.680 the contact. Ever reach out to me a lot and 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.160 you know, uh, you know coming back coach rechot to 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:41.920 me and we you know, go back and forth with that. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.160 But definitely having O'Dell and you know those guys you 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.960 know reach out to me as well. It's like, man, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.120 we need you here. And it was like, you know, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.320 I wanna be there. It's not like I wanna leave anyways. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.960 It was you know business the more. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:55.760 What does it mean to. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.560 You that John and Eric here never faltered in saying that. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.240 They've wanted you back here and they wanted did you 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.640 install you as their quarterbacks? 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:01.880 Is there? 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.480 And Eric af like never faltered in the same wealth 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.800 the line track negotiations that you are their guy. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.560 What does that mean to you that it never seemed to. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.760 Question that that you could be by Yeah, it means 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.760 a lot, you know, just to have you know, guys, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.680 your head coach and your gym w wanted you to 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.640 be here and believing in you, believing you can help 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.159 your team achieve the the almighty uh ultimate goal, you know, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.279 and within football and the NFL football like that. It's like, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.200 you know, I I wouldn't wanna go no other place. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.560 And Lamart ericat some really nice things to say about 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.839 your negotiating style as your own man. What would you 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.240 say the. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.320 People going forward representing themselves and how much did you 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.719 enjoy the process of going back. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:42.480 And forth with DC? 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:43.880 Uh? 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.719 I mean, it's a it's a business. Uh, it's a 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.720 business at the end of the day. And if if 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.800 you gonn if you gonna represent yourself, you know, you 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.640 gotta you gotta have a strong mind. I wouldn't say 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.039 you get out there and put your feelings in it, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.960 cause it's not about feelings. You know. You can't take 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.159 things with a oh yeah, what you said. I don't 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.240 agree with this. You know. It's like what they feel 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:03.919 is how you feel. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.120 You know. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.760 It's it's it's a grown man thing at the end 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.080 of the day. So you got to be a grown 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.680 man if you can hand a business. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:10.159 At what point. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.560 At your decisions to use a non exclusive tad and what. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.839 Extent you were worried an office was coming and you 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.000 went deplayer. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.360 Yeah, it was a tough decision. I think we spent 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.240 a lot of time thinking about it, praying on it, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.920 trying to as a group, you know, deciding what's best 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.839 for the club, and in the end, you know, we 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.480 just I guess we just kind of felt like it. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.120 It was it was the best. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.880 Thing for Lamar to have the opportunity to kind of 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.920 get a sense of what was important to him and 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.760 he could have conversations if he wanted with other teams 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.479 to see what his value might be. And he could 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.680 get a chance to talk to other coaches or gms 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.799 if he wanted to to kind of get a sense 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.400 for the landscape. And I guess you're looking at the 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.160 other the exclusive you know, it's kind of binding in 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.440 a lot of ways, and so you know, you know, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.720 free agency is a chance for players to go out 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.440 and kind of see what their value could be potentially, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.880 and any end, that was the decision that we made, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.880 hoping that we would be sitting here today that at 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.159 some point over the coming months, you know, and we 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.560 had our moments, but over the coming months we would 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.240 have a chance to negotiate again and get a long 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.400 term deal done, which proved to be the case. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.760 Well, we moral about the type of player you are, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.680 but the agent, not many of us know what type 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.120 of what type of age Lamar Jackson is. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.760 How would you describe Mamar and the agent? 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.800 Well, just just a business man, That's how I describe them. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.760 You know, nothing more, nothing less, you know, because it's 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.279 different from just playing football. You know, it's you gotta 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.600 put that, you know the game outside, put put that 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.440 in one part of your life. In this. You know, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.400 you gotta speak to a grown man, you know, with 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.600 millions and millions of dollars in understand what excuse me 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.360 terms and you know, different languages and stuff like that. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.560 You gotta understand what you're doing. And if you're not 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:03.960 doing that, I feel badesday. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.320 I don't know if you were watching the Celtics game, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.000 but Eric was pretty down. When Trey Young hime back 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.200 in the corner. He said, then you you texted him 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.520 and said I think we can get something done here. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.480 What led to your text and what led your SpongeBob? 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.960 Actually, when when I got my email from Eric and 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.440 I was going over it, I was liking the language, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.000 you know, and I texted him. I was not watching 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.560 the game, so I texted him and I was like, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.120 you know, like like you said, I can get something, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.160 We can get something done. He was like, you know, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.920 you just made it. You know, you just made my night. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.440 You know, my Celtics just lost, so you probably just 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.680 made my night. I'm like, all right. Then I get 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.680 on social media and I said, Trey Young here the three. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.320 I'm like, okay, this is what he was talking about. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.720 What was that a message? 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.760 Definitely the SpongeBob message with definitely a message to the 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.720 fan base. Let him know, you know, we moving on up. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:01.920 You. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.120 Uh, what did you learn about yourself in this process? 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.720 It's been a more probably obviously, uh that you you 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.520 just feeling forward to second wag? Did you ever think 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:13.920 that this wouldn't work out? 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.080 Uh? It's not not anything that I learned about myself. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.880 You know, I've been knew you know, what what I 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.920 was capable of, and I I thought, you know, we 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.000 would get the process done. You know. I I didn't 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.000 have a doubt in my mind, you know, cause, like 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.840 they said, they loved me. You know, I love being here. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.880 You know, I love my teammates and I love fan base. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.520 I really loved the fan base on my teammates, you know, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.000 So I didn't have a doubt. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.720 Really, Mary, you said there whether you were in a 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:38.559 doubt on my mind. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.040 That you know, era is a Uh there was a 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.480 point where you guys just weren't talking. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.679 So what was it? What was it like you during 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:46.120 half period? 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.320 Oh, I had a grind. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:47.600 Uh. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.280 I probably didn't wanna talk cause I was grinding. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:49.520 You know. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.440 I did have a PCR injury, so I was like 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.000 trying to get that, get that all the way squared away, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.640 you know, just fully recovering from that. And that's probably 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.240 when I wasn't return you know, text messages and stuff 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.720 like that, cause I probably be tired after workout and 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.640 I wake up late at night and you know, all 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.199 type of people texting my phone, so I probably won't 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.280 reached back out. But we got it done, So I'm 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.240 not rid about it right now. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.600 When were you fully When were you fully recovered from 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:13.240 a knee injury? 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.640 And how much should it bother you? 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.400 There was so much outside shatter you? 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:18.480 Help you work? 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:19.079 Did you play? 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:20.400 Was a contract related? 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.559 How that bosh? I probably got better like probably a 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.079 month ago for real, a month ago, And it really 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.040 didn't bother me, you know, cause they don't really like 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.960 people don't know what's really going on, you know, they 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.880 they be trying to reach and pull and you know, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.599 try to see if the club was in or what 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.360 I come out of said stuff like that, you know, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.560 but we keep it in house. You know, it's not 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.600 anyone's business but ours. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.120 Did it ever weigh on you playing in a contract year? 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.760 Did you feel only pressure to perform being in a 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:47.520 contract year? 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.560 Absolutely not. I've been performing since twenty eighteen, you know, 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.840 so not at all, not at all. You know, I 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 want to win. I'm a competitive you know, there's nothing 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.720 more I wanna do them being out there on that field. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:02.760 So nah, not at all. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:03.480 More. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.000 There were reports that you were active in them prove 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.880 the process of Hodell that from junior you though you 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.679 had not signed a deal in the future. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.240 Fatia was in lous Uh it is true? 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.840 And if so, what went into you still wanting to 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.120 bring a player in knowing that you hadn't signed a 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:18.840 deal here yet. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.040 Yeah, I've seen uh Odell Becke was r you know, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.199 recover from his injury and stuff like that, and you 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.600 know he reached out to me. I'm like you thinking 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.760 about coming to us, you know, like cause I'm still 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.600 part of the Ravens. Like I wasn't saying like nah, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.320 I don't wanna go there, like that's not my team, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.120 you know it was. I'm like I was hyped about it. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.280 You know, I got Richard, I got dued, I got 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.840 marred likely, I got all these guys in there in 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.560 a new addition like him, like you know, with his 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.160 r U resume, is like, yeah, we can you know, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.560 we can prove our receiver room and we can go somewhere. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.199 So I was definitely like hyped about that. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.720 Why we saw that, you know, you're giving well, mom, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.440 after you created the terms of contract and you keeping 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.480 a tight circle, who who are you leaning on in this. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.440 Process working as your own agent and w or did. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.840 You kind of find the most supportant fun of people around? Uh? 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.840 You know, she's my manager, you know, so I I 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.120 felt like she managed me very well, you know, don't 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.400 you think so? And she did a pretty good job, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.400 you know. You know, if anything, you know, we'll just 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.360 go back and forth, you know, in terms and stuff 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.520 like that. Like I said, the language is gonna overrun 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.800 the numbers and stuff like that, so and over trumpt 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.360 numbers and stuff like that. So it was just me 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.400 and her piggyback off of each other, and we got 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:24.120 it deal done. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.280 You know, obviously you know Eric pretty well and the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.120 girl should do with the ravenss for had a let 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:29.880 hold familiarity. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.760 What was it like when you were able to talk 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.160 to other teams to learn about how the teams do business. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.800 Like, I really don't like to be honest with you. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.040 I really didn't care for other teams really, I just 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.840 really wanted to get something down here, like I wanted 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.080 to be here. It was like, Man, Okay, other team's cool, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.360 but I wanna be a Raven like I said, I 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.360 said some twenty eighteen, you know, I think it was 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.000 April twenty six if I'm not mistaken, And I meant that, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.160 you know, I'm standing on that until I get it done. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.800 So I really wanted to get this done before anything, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.880 before I even wanna before my time up and branch 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.599 off somewhere else. You know, I really wanna finish my 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.120 career hair on one super Bowl here. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.480 So that's what I meant, La, mar Are you talking 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:07.360 about the guys you already have? 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.920 You guys had to take Flowers in first round the draft, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.560 and he talked to say, what do you know about him? 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.040 How say you work with him? 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:13.640 Uh? 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.280 Yeah, they reached out to me. You know, we spoke. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.760 We were supposed to work out, but you know, I 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.560 was working out and doing other stuff, so I couldn't 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.319 really have time to And he's gonna be here for 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.720 the uh Ricky mini camp so probably when he get 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.240 back to foot the man and him or get the 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.199 rick and I'm very excited. You know, he he's doing 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.360 well known down there in South Florida, you know, from 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.640 youth football on up, and you know it's it's proven 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:35.319 he's here now. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.839 Or you said in the video when you agreed field 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.640 that there was a lot he's used expressed. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:41.400 I think he said. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.880 She said, was there a misconception about these talks and 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.920 about this whole situation that in particular bothered me? 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.959 No, it was just like what are you gonna do? 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.040 What are you guys doing? I see people throwing shots 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.800 at the ravens, Like, what are you guys doing? They 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.920 throwing shots at me? You don't know what you're doing? 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.760 You know, that's the he say. She say, That's what 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.120 I That's what I meant by that. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.040 Whether there were a lot of questions in the you know, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.040 some doubts about like your decisions reply yourself, what do 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:08.600 you feel like you. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.319 Proved to be able to get this plain? 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:12.800 Uh? 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.360 I don't really. I didn't really like do this to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.840 prove anyone wrong or really care about what anyone had 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.240 to say. You know, it's anything I had to prove 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.200 myself right, you know, like I know what I'm doing 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.280 and I felt I did the right thing. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.520 How did you train yourself to sort of hell that 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.480 side of your career. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.960 Just keep your emotions outside of business. That's the best 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:35.480 way to do it. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.360 Eric and John, this is a pretty historical in franchise histories. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.520 What does the city against you. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.680 Can say to me teach good? 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.160 Well, you know, I'm sure it does have a lot 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.400 of significant spirit. And I appreciate the magnitude of the question. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.000 Probably like about ten years from now on tomorrow and 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.880 you're still playing and I'm done, I'll probably give it 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.760 some thought. But my thought right now is the significance 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.720 going forward. Just like Lamar said, you know, let's let's 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.400 get to work and let's get ready to go play. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.280 Go play some ball, you know, and play some great football. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.280 Put our offense together with Todd and Lamar and the 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.480 rest of the guys, and that's as a coach Man, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.480 that's how you think right now, That's how I'm thinking 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:13.800 about it. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.160 Man. You know you always wanted to be here, to 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.360 be ray. We're just curious. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.840 Did you get approached by other teams in this process 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.840 with an offer? Did you consider it? 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:31.000 H teams reached out, but it was like not, I 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.760 didn't really, Like I said before, I really didn't care 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.840 about other teams like I wanted to be here. You know, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.080 That's what it is. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:37.400 Mark. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.040 Did you did you feel some urgency to get this 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:40.760 wrapped up? 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:41.240 Now? 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.680 I mean did you did you want to get it 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.600 done the off season or would you have been fine 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.040 play an enfranchise if it if it had come to that. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.680 If the number wasn't what you wanted it to be, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.400 absolutely wanted to get it done because I was just 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.000 tired of going back and forth about it. You know, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.960 it's we've been doing it for years, you know, but 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.040 it's like, you know, the time that come and you 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.160 know the numbers were right and we was all satisfied. Eric, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.160 What was this stretch like for you? 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.400 It seems really successful and you have a lot on 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.960 your play with all the players you've signed the draft, Lamar, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.440 how was it compartmentalizing and dealing with everything. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.040 Do you have a pretty much run. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.120 Yeah, you just have faith in the process. We have 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.040 great people working upstairs that help in a lot of 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.440 different ways. Coaches and scouts, cap salary, cap analytics, people 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.920 that helped day to day help me keep me focused 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.880 on point my family. You know, it's a great stabilizer 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.040 for me as well. And you just you just remain 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.880 positive and hopeful. And I guess my mindset was trying 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.120 to do something positive every single day. Come in and 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.760 get something done every single day, evaluations, contracts, negotiations, finding 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.080 cap space, whatever it was. Try to do something positive 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.040 every single day. And I believed if we could do that, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.920 then we would build momentum and good things would happen. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.640 You're listening to the Ravens press Pass podcast. Makes you 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.120 subscribe to the feed, also leave a rating and a review. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.360 Now let's get back to the Lamar Jackson press Her. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.840 Well, Mar, you mentioned uh your mother as your manager, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.560 uh trust hers more to your relationship with her, cause 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.600 you describe your mother's influence on you getting your life, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.320 what it means to your family to come up on 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.040 this sort of reward financially, and your plans. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.240 From mother's there helping with her. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.000 Uh yeah, She's a huge influence on my life just 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.120 by you know, her just raising four of us, you know, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.080 m my my younger brother, my two sisters. I'm the oldest, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.040 me being the oldest. And just see how she grind 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.920 and work without complaining, not wanting me to get a job, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.800 you know, telling me to focus on football and she 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.880 gonna take care of everything else. Just seeing that and 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.800 was like, you know, if she can do that, I 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.160 can do anything. You know, she raising four kids on 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.720 her own, not aksing for a handout, not reaching out 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.600 to people like she, oh, I need this right here 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.600 to pay my bills. I never heard her complain about 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.040