WEBVTT - Lamar Jackson & Coaches: Ravens Minicamp Practice 6/12 Press Conferences 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday, 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.760 June twelfth, and the Ravens concluded their second day of 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.320 mandatory minicamp. After practice, we had a chance to hear 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.600 from quarterback Lamar and Jackson. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:16.599 All Right, how you guys doing? 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:26.840 Introducing uh Nelson Aguilar. I would like to say, uh, 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.800 in eight we trust go Ravens. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.800 That's all I had really with another one. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:37.680 He had to catch what he. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.480 Need to catch the ball two hands, That's what Nah. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.080 But man, he's been doing. He's been doing what we 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.519 seen last year, you know, since he's been in the league. Uh, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.000 just striving to be great and he's showing it. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.280 And we see a lot of reps up with the 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.080 rookie Leeds. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:55.880 How are you doing? 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:56.440 Oh? 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.400 He looks move man, He pretty fast from what I 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.000 see on the field, you know, but not just him, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:01.800 got justice. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:02.080 Got old. 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:02.760 You're doing anything? 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.120 You know? 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.520 The back's looking good. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.080 Yeah, talked about because slimming down a little bit just 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.160 from under now the few you know, a few utenities 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.040 work out. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.360 How does it feel? You feel fast? 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.800 You feel tripier, that sort. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.880 Of sens I feel I feel like Lamar, I do 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:20.399 I do. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:23.120 Flamorrow. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.039 I know when we talk about the offenses, and you 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.480 always like to say that guy's. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:28.640 The limit with a lot of these offenses. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.760 But how do you think, just as you know, a 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.760 few days in this off season, with this offense, how 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.679 do you think this offense compares to the other ones You've. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:41.080 Been correct, man, just different group of guys, new new faces. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.120 But it's always the same thing with us on offense. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.520 It's just just grinding, trying to be better each and 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.040 every day. Nothing really new, just the guys. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.760 Lamar just says the record Freender was poured out. If 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.520 you forfeited somebody together, you. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:58.960 Discuss that with your agent. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.920 I never discussed my contract up here. I'm not about 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.640 to start today. But man, I'm focusing on just getting 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.080 better and focusing on tomorrow. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.360 We just had a great practice. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.760 We just tryna keep it going and then when camp come, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.200 Cam gonna come Tamar. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.560 Yesterday, what coach Harvo was saying that you guys wanna 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.560 figure out the offensive line starters as early as possible. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.480 Where what are you seeing from them so far as 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.359 they're kind of trying to figure out their chemistry? 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.440 And ah, I can't call it, you know, that's that's 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.919 gonna be the coach's decision at the end of the day. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:31.760 And right now we don't have one any pass, so 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.800 we really don't know how the guy's gonna move. Once 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.520 the camps get rolling in and stuff like that. I 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.040 I I believe we'll have we'll have that start lining 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 up out there in the reports and stuff like that. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:41.880 So I don't know. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.680 We gonna see Lamar after the playoff game, John how 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.600 I gonna talk about how you guys went right into 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.560 kind of continuing to evolve the offense, and he said, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.840 you got to make part in doing that. What was 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.720 one of the things kind of the main thing that 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.359 you wanted to see maybe added into this offense or 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.840 maybe something that you guys. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.240 Do, but you wanted to see you guys do it better. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.079 Just just being able to just change extra players and 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.440 stuff like that, and from from us just watching film 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.840 and getting into games, teams changing things up on us. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.239 We just want to add extra layers to our just calls. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.359 If anything, how does your how does your work with 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.760 the cadence, you know, how did that kind of come about? 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:17.200 And how anything? 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.639 Parts my cat has been pretty good. I believe I 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.920 haven't heard anything about it. But right now for the 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.040 new terminology, it has been going well, it's been getting better. Yeah, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.720 just studying and repetition. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.400 I'm curious following the. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.280 Rookie class of the WA. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.320 I would I would go to a game. You know, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.320 I've I've been saying highlights of crossovers. I've seen a 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.680 couple of little, nice, little layup flashy layups. So I'm 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.080 I'm I'm digging the w n B A a lot. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:51.800 So I gotta catch a game. I don't know who 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.080 I'm gonna watch first, but I definitely gotta catch a game. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:02.360 Early questions quarterback, awesome, God's spend the ball. Those guys 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:09.280 looking good, no doubt. Competition, Well, you know, we know 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.240 it's competition at the end of the day, but right 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.040 now we're just trying to be the best teammate we 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:13.760 could be to each other. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.919 Last week, you know, obviously before training camp and you 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.480 guys have a little break there, what are you planning 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.160 to focus on during that break And I don't planning 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:22.920 to start that time. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.599 Uh, focus on the season. Gee, you know, off season 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.039 really over for me. I'm focusing on the season and 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.040 what's ahead. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:36.960 That's all that experience that NASCAR game two weeks ago. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.800 Now, your first time in a race, Yeah. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.400 That's my first time and I plan on doing it again. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.840 But I probably would be walking around speaking to people 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.279 because just sitting and watching that's a lot of laps. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.640 That's a lot of labs. Bro, I couldn't be racing 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.760 them either. I couldn't be the driver, bro. But it's 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.480 a hats off to those guys because they can They 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:55.920 can do it. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:56.400 I can't. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.159 Horse racing. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.800 Huh, horse race horse racing. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.479 Rol's last day of minicamp before that breaking hours. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.440 You know that take us through where you think this 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.240 offense is. Did the off season work? 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.320 Where you need to kind of hone in when you 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.600 get back, I mean, kind of what do you think 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.080 about the offense at this stage of the off season 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:19.240 before you. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.880 I believe our offense isn't taking steps in the right 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.279 direction right now. We can't really we don't really know 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.120 who the guy's gonna be right now. You know, were 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.120 not in camp. We're not close to the to the 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.320 first game or anything like that. But right now we 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.160 I I feel like we taking steps in the right direction. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.960 Gods are moving good, running great routes, catching the ball 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.719 blocking good. We look pretty smooth, but I can't tell 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:39.479 it to where it pass. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.719 Mar's specific plan for you in the month before training 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.080 camp starts once you leave the year in terms of 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.279 getting ready for you broke any. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:49.840 Different than. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.119 Nah nah, just locked in for the season, that's all Lamar. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.560 You know a year ago at this time to say 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.479 is few years the guys that will developed the chemistry. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.640 I know you spend time off the fields, brother, how 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.880 would you kind of describe for the relationship and just 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.960 the chemistry guys and what you're seeing at. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:12.480 In so far? 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.800 You too, I can't really describe our chemistry. I believe 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.080 it's great. I can say that it's better than last year. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.080 Yeah, just being around him, like you say, you know, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.480 down in Florida, running everywhere on the route tree and 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.000 just trying to build and it's working out for us. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.520 What are you seeing just from you know, his growth 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.400 is a perceived. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.720 Right now, we'll saying the same Thing's just his age 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:34.159 is different. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:34.360 Now. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.120 You know, he's stood that hungry god you know who 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.920 trying to make things happen, and every time the bottles 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.720 in this area, he making something happen, or if he's 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.800 making a guy miss, he's just being him, all right. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.400 Martin, with with their with their with their Henry back there. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.359 Do you think that we'll take some of the focus 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.840 because you know, off of you, defenses will have to 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.920 account for more than you're just kind of focusing on 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.440 what you might be able to do with Balton. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:58.039 Absolutely? 0:06:59.120 --> 0:06:59.720 Absolutely. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.240 Uh have you talked it all with the receivers that 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.680 ends about getting together for an offseason, for a summer 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.320 break from an session, makes that something that you would 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:13.800 like to jam. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.240 I would love to do that, you know, but uh, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.720 some guys don't wanna leave. They state they're gonna have 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:19.640 to come to South Florida. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:20.960 They gonna have to do it. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.480 We got to We're trying to get to that Super Bowl, man, 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.080 and for us to do that, we got a ground. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.040 We gotta build chemistry. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.200 Today we also had a chance to hear from quarterbacks 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.280 coach T Martin. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.600 You talked a little bit about what you're specifically kind 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.680 of focusing on with Lamar and where he's taking his 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:41.560 game this offseason. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.400 This improvement in all areas you know, Uh, last year 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.400 was really a great year in the sense of doing 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.480 things from a technical standpoint. New system new UH obligations, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:56.360 respons responsibilities, progressions, schemes, things of that nature, and just 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.240 building upon where we started last season, and this off 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.960 season has been a lot of about that. We started 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.080 with a self scout of him and the things that 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.760 from a passing standpoint that we want to improve on, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.360 UH technique wise reads, things of that nature and from 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.040 a run game standpoint, and then it's built from that 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.160 to UH, how can we even push it further and 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.480 give him more responsibility within the offense and doing more 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.480 things that he likes to do and listening to him 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.120 and things that he likes and building around that. So 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.160 we're we're off to a good start and looking forward 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.960 to a training camp to to really get to the 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.319 identity that we want to have before the first game, Seamus. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.840 If we had to play in your footing, if you 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.559 want more on us, played year or two in his 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.520 offense and even as his career goes, every year. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:40.120 He got for more. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.800 That's right, and that's what it's about. The way Lamar 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:43.520 sees the. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.040 Game and UH, how how how smart he is and 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.920 his intelligence, his UH functional intelligence not only just in 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.360 the classroom, but he's able to take from the classroom 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.640 and put it on the field, UH with limited reps. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.360 He's not a high rep guy, so he can do 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.600 things once or twice and show up in the game 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.120 ex cut it. And so UH, when you have players 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.600 like that, you have to continue to push 'em to 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:05.800 number one, keep them interested. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:06.480 You know. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.520 It's like that smart kid in the classroom. You can't 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.800 you know, allow them to get bored, right, And so 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.280 he's like that. You know, you gotta constantly add things 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.679 UH tweaks and and things of that nature and responsibility. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.160 So this off season from a protection standpoint, being able 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.520 to change routes at the line of scrimmage, being able 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.480 to change run schemes, it takes him understanding how we're 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.800 blocking things up front to get us to the best 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.319 run in the best past UH for whatever coverage we're facing. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.040 So and he's UH accepted it and done. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.360 A heck of a job of of UH getting us 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.360 into the right play. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:40.839 And today was probably the. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.320 Best day, you know, in a long time of him 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.600 really just having the freedom to do what he wanted 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.680 to do. And we saw some really good UH plays 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.480 and some positive games UH with him doing that today. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.439 Not something that UH was added the UH this off seats. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.720 So as far as you know, Genior Sports Production is. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.280 Right that well, we did it all last year, you know. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.120 He he was on point last season with that and uh, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.360 obviously not perfect. So we we always go back and 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.320 tweak things or critique, you know, what we can do 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.040 better and how people defended us in the new offensive scheme, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.320 and so we were learning, we were growing at the 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.600 same time, and so we had the opportunity to have 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.520 a full season of film to see how we were 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.160 defended and what we could possibly look forward to people 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.280 doing to Lamar. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.200 Uh, we could build from there, and that's what we 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:26.840 decided to do. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.160 And uh now we're just kind of testing it out 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.400 and seeing how it goes against our defense. We're seeing 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.280 a lot of exotic looks, a lot of pressures from 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 Zach and his crew. And it's good for us too 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.319 because it's testing our rules and it's testing the quarterbacks 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.920 ability to to change places at the line of scripts. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:42.400 Yeh. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.439 Is there a big difference from year one to year 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.560 two in terms of what you can install? 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.760 Yeah, yes, just with the the comfort level in the offense, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.800 the terminology, and just having tested it in a game 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.400 to have something to uh, compare it to You know, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.920 sometimes you haven't played these plays in a game, you're 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.960 kind of just talking, right, and then when you do 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.920 it in a game and you have stories to tell, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.880 good or bad, you know you can build from that. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.960 And that's what year one in this system was for 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.040 Lamar and for everybody on the offense, skilled players, running backs, everyone, right, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.240 So you know we had the film to teach from 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.760 and improve from, but also the film to take it 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:32.800 to the next level as well. Oh yes, arm talented, smart, competitive, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.920 can make all the throws on the field. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.680 Uh, And he's doing a really good. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.960 Job of learning the offense and executing offense. He played 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.800 in the pro style system at Kentucky his last year 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.120 four years at inc State, different type system, but we're 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.760 kind of a marriage of both, and so he's comfortable 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.719 in what we're doing. Very very talented, extremely talented. Look 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.319 forward to him playing in the preseason, your OTAs. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.480 In mini camp in time for your quarterbacks. You maybe 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.600 have greater risk taking out on the field. Is that 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.880 kind of part of the process to see you you know, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.319 what can be hindrance and what can be more successful 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.480 or is that kind of what how you gauge kind 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:11.920 of this kind of patnessphere. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.760 But yeah, it's it's keys to the ferrari, right, you know, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.839 you gotta go give a guy keys to the ferrari 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.920 and tell him to do thirty, you know. And so 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.480 that's really what it is. And sometimes as coaches, you 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.880 can't be scared when they make mistakes, and you can't 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.080 allow the mistakes that they make to put fear in 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.080 your heart for not calling them play the next time, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.280 because without that, uh, there's no growth. And so you know, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.640 with Lamar, I tell them, hey, man, number one, whatever 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.800 hits your brain first, we're gonna live with it. And 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.240 as long as we're all in the same page, it's 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.440 not a wrong call, it's not a bad call. And 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.560 so that's where it starts. And that gives him the 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.560 confidence and freedom to go out there and confidently do 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.080 what he wants to do. And as long as they 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.160 believe in him and whatever call he makes, I think 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.360 we have a higher chance of executing. But no, we 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.800 don't play scared. I don't you know, even shout when 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.240 things don't go the way the right way the first 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.000 time or second time. You know, we just continue to 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.480 try to get it right. And once we get to 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.600 a point we say, guys, you know we we we've 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.880 tried it, We've done all the things, and it doesn't work. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.440 We throw it out and move on to something else. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.960 But no, we're not playing scared. We're not coaching scared. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:18.640 And that's the only way you can grow in this 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:19.439 type of offense. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.760 That a few months ago that sorry trying to mention 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.400 that Josh Johnson will be a Q two. I guess 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.600 what have you seen from him through these off seasons? 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.720 I said being earlier this week that that he's aging backwards. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.120 You know, for a guy who's getting older from a 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.880 arm strength standpoint, his legs, he's found a spring in 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.000 his step. Uh, he's being more elusive, extending plays within 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.840 the pocket and just his uh, his experience and having 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.680 seen things before. He's getting through progressions and and getting 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.920 the ball out to the right people on time, accurately. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.240 And so I really like his growth from It's it's 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.160 crazy to say that with the amount of experience he's 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.880 but I really like his growth within this offense from 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.360 year one to year two, and it gave us the 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.120 confidence to go in saying that he could be QB two. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.240 For us want the John I mentioned yesterday that you 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.760 guys are embracing cadence more. I guess how much of 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.480 a challenge is that to just kind of punch these 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.120 guys in the the deep in and what do you 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.240 think the benefits for someone like from Mark. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.320 Could pee right right. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.240 You can't have cadence as a tool unless you do 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.720 it and go through the growing pains of it. You know, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.960 guys are gonna jump off side here and there, and 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.120 with the amount of communication we're doing up front, with 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.480 the amount of play change that we're doing up front, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.560 it's gonna come with some of that. But we have 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.000 to have that in our division, you know, especially for 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.560 home games with the pass rushers that we're facing, not 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.680 only just in our division but throughout the FC and 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.280 the guys that we're playing when you look at our roster, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.880 so I mean, look at our schedule, and so it 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.120 has been a tool in the past and we're just 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.560 gonna continue to take it to the next level. Lamar 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.560 is outstanding at it. Whether we're going non verbal on 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.360 the road or whether we're going verbal at home. We 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.600 have a lot of different ones that gives us an 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.880 advantage so that people don't know where we're snapping the 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.520 ball and slowing them down a little bit if we can. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.280 I pick one thing that stood out from that Kansas 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.680 City game and just looking to the data. As you know, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.160 Lamar got better against the blitz last year, but sometimes 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.560 those big blitzes with six or seven man pressures have 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.640 given him trouble. I know it's not just ten, but 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.000 what can this offense do do you think to get 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.680 better against that type of all out? 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.720 You know all, I think the best thing that we're 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.280 doing is seeing it every day from our defense. And 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.200 I thought Kansas City did do a good job in 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.920 the ABC Championship game of challenging some of our protection 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.240 and doing some things that did cost some issues, and 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.720 that was an area of growth. That was an area 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.720 of us looking at tape and saying, how can we 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.400 improve in those areas? And so our defense is doing 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.000 a heck of a job. I'm not only giving us 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.080 those looks, but looks at challenges even more than that. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.360 And so we're building the tools that we need to 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.560 do to pick up those pressures and give them more 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.760 a little bit more time and be successful in the 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:55.320 passing game. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.960 In addition to t Martin, we heard from running backs 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.080 coach Willie Tagger. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.200 Uh, how how would you describe Derrick Kennedy's uh work athemic. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:10.360 Elite. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.360 He's a guy that hates doing anything wrong, Like it 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.960 literally pisses him off to do anything wrong. And I 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.400 gotta remind them Derek is practice. That's why they call 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.200 it practice. You know, we gonna make some mistakes at time, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.160 but just don't make the same one twice. But he 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.960 he he want to be the best. He wanna know 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.800 everything that's going on. When he's not here, he's he's 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.520 texting me, aking me what we put in, or if 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.240 he's watching film, he aks me something about what's on 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.000 the film, what we're doing. It's been great to have 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.840 a coach, I mean, to have a guy like that 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.280 that's played this long still wanting to to play at 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:47.880 a high level. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.520 Yeah, what if. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.360 Anything surprised you? 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.320 I think it's that more than anything, for a guy 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.640 that's played this long and at the level that he's 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.560 played at to come in here and still hungry, still 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.800 want to earn, not coming to here feeling like, Hey, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.000 I've done this, I've done that. You don't see any 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.359 of that, you know, And yeah, uh seem like he's 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.520 been a Raven all all his life. I mean he 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:16.320 he he kep fit in the room seamlessly. It's it's 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.679 been awesome, you know. I thought, you know, you kind 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.400 of assume a god that had that much success, he'll 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.480 come in and have his way of doing things. And 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.040 Der's want he want to understand how we're doing it, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.840 you know, and he wanna do everything he can to 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.800 help his football team win a championship. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.440 The last few years, the Ravens are rotated through a 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.800 number of running backs. How does your job change now 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.720 that they have a war course like Terreck Henry in 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:37.200