Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: June twelfth, and the Ravens concluded their second day of
Speaker 1: mandatory minicamp. After practice, we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from quarterback Lamar and Jackson.
Speaker 2: All Right, how you guys doing?
Speaker 3: Introducing uh Nelson Aguilar. I would like to say, uh,
Speaker 3: in eight we trust go Ravens.
Speaker 4: That's all I had really with another one.
Speaker 5: He had to catch what he.
Speaker 4: Need to catch the ball two hands, That's what Nah.
Speaker 4: But man, he's been doing. He's been doing what we
Speaker 4: seen last year, you know, since he's been in the league. Uh,
Speaker 4: just striving to be great and he's showing it.
Speaker 6: And we see a lot of reps up with the
Speaker 6: rookie Leeds.
Speaker 5: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: He looks move man, He pretty fast from what I
Speaker 4: see on the field, you know, but not just him,
Speaker 4: got justice.
Speaker 5: Got old.
Speaker 3: You're doing anything?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: The back's looking good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, talked about because slimming down a little bit just
Speaker 7: from under now the few you know, a few utenities
Speaker 7: work out.
Speaker 5: How does it feel? You feel fast?
Speaker 8: You feel tripier, that sort.
Speaker 3: Of sens I feel I feel like Lamar, I do
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 7: Flamorrow.
Speaker 9: I know when we talk about the offenses, and you
Speaker 9: always like to say that guy's.
Speaker 5: The limit with a lot of these offenses.
Speaker 9: But how do you think, just as you know, a
Speaker 9: few days in this off season, with this offense, how
Speaker 9: do you think this offense compares to the other ones You've.
Speaker 4: Been correct, man, just different group of guys, new new faces.
Speaker 4: But it's always the same thing with us on offense.
Speaker 4: It's just just grinding, trying to be better each and
Speaker 4: every day. Nothing really new, just the guys.
Speaker 9: Lamar just says the record Freender was poured out. If
Speaker 9: you forfeited somebody together, you.
Speaker 5: Discuss that with your agent.
Speaker 4: I never discussed my contract up here. I'm not about
Speaker 4: to start today. But man, I'm focusing on just getting
Speaker 4: better and focusing on tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We just had a great practice.
Speaker 4: We just tryna keep it going and then when camp come,
Speaker 4: Cam gonna come Tamar.
Speaker 10: Yesterday, what coach Harvo was saying that you guys wanna
Speaker 10: figure out the offensive line starters as early as possible.
Speaker 10: Where what are you seeing from them so far as
Speaker 10: they're kind of trying to figure out their chemistry?
Speaker 4: And ah, I can't call it, you know, that's that's
Speaker 4: gonna be the coach's decision at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: And right now we don't have one any pass, so
Speaker 4: we really don't know how the guy's gonna move. Once
Speaker 4: the camps get rolling in and stuff like that. I
Speaker 4: I I believe we'll have we'll have that start lining
Speaker 4: up out there in the reports and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 11: We gonna see Lamar after the playoff game, John how
Speaker 11: I gonna talk about how you guys went right into
Speaker 11: kind of continuing to evolve the offense, and he said,
Speaker 11: you got to make part in doing that. What was
Speaker 11: one of the things kind of the main thing that
Speaker 11: you wanted to see maybe added into this offense or
Speaker 11: maybe something that you guys.
Speaker 5: Do, but you wanted to see you guys do it better.
Speaker 4: Just just being able to just change extra players and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, and from from us just watching film
Speaker 4: and getting into games, teams changing things up on us.
Speaker 3: We just want to add extra layers to our just calls.
Speaker 6: If anything, how does your how does your work with
Speaker 6: the cadence, you know, how did that kind of come about?
Speaker 5: And how anything?
Speaker 4: Parts my cat has been pretty good. I believe I
Speaker 4: haven't heard anything about it. But right now for the
Speaker 4: new terminology, it has been going well, it's been getting better. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just studying and repetition.
Speaker 11: I'm curious following the.
Speaker 12: Rookie class of the WA.
Speaker 4: I would I would go to a game. You know,
Speaker 4: I've I've been saying highlights of crossovers. I've seen a
Speaker 4: couple of little, nice, little layup flashy layups. So I'm
Speaker 4: I'm I'm digging the w n B A a lot.
Speaker 4: So I gotta catch a game. I don't know who
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch first, but I definitely gotta catch a game.
Speaker 4: Early questions quarterback, awesome, God's spend the ball. Those guys
Speaker 4: looking good, no doubt. Competition, Well, you know, we know
Speaker 4: it's competition at the end of the day, but right
Speaker 4: now we're just trying to be the best teammate we
Speaker 4: could be to each other.
Speaker 1: Last week, you know, obviously before training camp and you
Speaker 1: guys have a little break there, what are you planning
Speaker 1: to focus on during that break And I don't planning
Speaker 1: to start that time.
Speaker 4: Uh, focus on the season. Gee, you know, off season
Speaker 4: really over for me. I'm focusing on the season and
Speaker 4: what's ahead.
Speaker 3: That's all that experience that NASCAR game two weeks ago.
Speaker 7: Now, your first time in a race, Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's my first time and I plan on doing it again.
Speaker 4: But I probably would be walking around speaking to people
Speaker 4: because just sitting and watching that's a lot of laps.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of labs. Bro, I couldn't be racing
Speaker 4: them either. I couldn't be the driver, bro. But it's
Speaker 4: a hats off to those guys because they can They
Speaker 4: can do it.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 5: Horse racing.
Speaker 3: Huh, horse race horse racing.
Speaker 13: Rol's last day of minicamp before that breaking hours.
Speaker 7: You know that take us through where you think this
Speaker 7: offense is. Did the off season work?
Speaker 14: Where you need to kind of hone in when you
Speaker 14: get back, I mean, kind of what do you think
Speaker 14: about the offense at this stage of the off season
Speaker 14: before you.
Speaker 4: I believe our offense isn't taking steps in the right
Speaker 4: direction right now. We can't really we don't really know
Speaker 4: who the guy's gonna be right now. You know, were
Speaker 4: not in camp. We're not close to the to the
Speaker 4: first game or anything like that. But right now we
Speaker 4: I I feel like we taking steps in the right direction.
Speaker 4: Gods are moving good, running great routes, catching the ball
Speaker 4: blocking good. We look pretty smooth, but I can't tell
Speaker 4: it to where it pass.
Speaker 7: Mar's specific plan for you in the month before training
Speaker 7: camp starts once you leave the year in terms of
Speaker 7: getting ready for you broke any.
Speaker 5: Different than.
Speaker 3: Nah nah, just locked in for the season, that's all Lamar.
Speaker 7: You know a year ago at this time to say
Speaker 7: is few years the guys that will developed the chemistry.
Speaker 7: I know you spend time off the fields, brother, how
Speaker 7: would you kind of describe for the relationship and just
Speaker 7: the chemistry guys and what you're seeing at.
Speaker 2: In so far?
Speaker 3: You too, I can't really describe our chemistry. I believe
Speaker 3: it's great. I can say that it's better than last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just being around him, like you say, you know,
Speaker 4: down in Florida, running everywhere on the route tree and
Speaker 4: just trying to build and it's working out for us.
Speaker 7: What are you seeing just from you know, his growth
Speaker 7: is a perceived.
Speaker 3: Right now, we'll saying the same Thing's just his age
Speaker 3: is different.
Speaker 15: Now.
Speaker 4: You know, he's stood that hungry god you know who
Speaker 4: trying to make things happen, and every time the bottles
Speaker 4: in this area, he making something happen, or if he's
Speaker 4: making a guy miss, he's just being him, all right.
Speaker 9: Martin, with with their with their with their Henry back there.
Speaker 9: Do you think that we'll take some of the focus
Speaker 9: because you know, off of you, defenses will have to
Speaker 9: account for more than you're just kind of focusing on
Speaker 9: what you might be able to do with Balton.
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Uh have you talked it all with the receivers that
Speaker 6: ends about getting together for an offseason, for a summer
Speaker 6: break from an session, makes that something that you would
Speaker 6: like to jam.
Speaker 4: I would love to do that, you know, but uh,
Speaker 4: some guys don't wanna leave. They state they're gonna have
Speaker 4: to come to South Florida.
Speaker 3: They gonna have to do it.
Speaker 4: We got to We're trying to get to that Super Bowl, man,
Speaker 4: and for us to do that, we got a ground.
Speaker 3: We gotta build chemistry.
Speaker 1: Today we also had a chance to hear from quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach T Martin.
Speaker 8: You talked a little bit about what you're specifically kind
Speaker 8: of focusing on with Lamar and where he's taking his
Speaker 8: game this offseason.
Speaker 15: This improvement in all areas you know, Uh, last year
Speaker 15: was really a great year in the sense of doing
Speaker 15: things from a technical standpoint. New system new UH obligations,
Speaker 15: respons responsibilities, progressions, schemes, things of that nature, and just
Speaker 15: building upon where we started last season, and this off
Speaker 15: season has been a lot of about that. We started
Speaker 15: with a self scout of him and the things that
Speaker 15: from a passing standpoint that we want to improve on,
Speaker 15: UH technique wise reads, things of that nature and from
Speaker 15: a run game standpoint, and then it's built from that
Speaker 15: to UH, how can we even push it further and
Speaker 15: give him more responsibility within the offense and doing more
Speaker 15: things that he likes to do and listening to him
Speaker 15: and things that he likes and building around that. So
Speaker 15: we're we're off to a good start and looking forward
Speaker 15: to a training camp to to really get to the
Speaker 15: identity that we want to have before the first game, Seamus.
Speaker 14: If we had to play in your footing, if you
Speaker 14: want more on us, played year or two in his
Speaker 14: offense and even as his career goes, every year.
Speaker 2: He got for more.
Speaker 5: That's right, and that's what it's about. The way Lamar
Speaker 5: sees the.
Speaker 15: Game and UH, how how how smart he is and
Speaker 15: his intelligence, his UH functional intelligence not only just in
Speaker 15: the classroom, but he's able to take from the classroom
Speaker 15: and put it on the field, UH with limited reps.
Speaker 15: He's not a high rep guy, so he can do
Speaker 15: things once or twice and show up in the game
Speaker 15: ex cut it. And so UH, when you have players
Speaker 15: like that, you have to continue to push 'em to
Speaker 15: number one, keep them interested.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 15: It's like that smart kid in the classroom. You can't
Speaker 15: you know, allow them to get bored, right, And so
Speaker 15: he's like that. You know, you gotta constantly add things
Speaker 15: UH tweaks and and things of that nature and responsibility.
Speaker 15: So this off season from a protection standpoint, being able
Speaker 15: to change routes at the line of scrimmage, being able
Speaker 15: to change run schemes, it takes him understanding how we're
Speaker 15: blocking things up front to get us to the best
Speaker 15: run in the best past UH for whatever coverage we're facing.
Speaker 5: So and he's UH accepted it and done.
Speaker 15: A heck of a job of of UH getting us
Speaker 15: into the right play.
Speaker 5: And today was probably the.
Speaker 15: Best day, you know, in a long time of him
Speaker 15: really just having the freedom to do what he wanted
Speaker 15: to do. And we saw some really good UH plays
Speaker 15: and some positive games UH with him doing that today.
Speaker 9: Not something that UH was added the UH this off seats.
Speaker 9: So as far as you know, Genior Sports Production is.
Speaker 5: Right that well, we did it all last year, you know.
Speaker 15: He he was on point last season with that and uh,
Speaker 15: obviously not perfect. So we we always go back and
Speaker 15: tweak things or critique, you know, what we can do
Speaker 15: better and how people defended us in the new offensive scheme,
Speaker 15: and so we were learning, we were growing at the
Speaker 15: same time, and so we had the opportunity to have
Speaker 15: a full season of film to see how we were
Speaker 15: defended and what we could possibly look forward to people
Speaker 15: doing to Lamar.
Speaker 5: Uh, we could build from there, and that's what we
Speaker 5: decided to do.
Speaker 15: And uh now we're just kind of testing it out
Speaker 15: and seeing how it goes against our defense. We're seeing
Speaker 15: a lot of exotic looks, a lot of pressures from
Speaker 15: Zach and his crew. And it's good for us too
Speaker 15: because it's testing our rules and it's testing the quarterbacks
Speaker 15: ability to to change places at the line of scripts.
Speaker 5: Yeh.
Speaker 8: Is there a big difference from year one to year
Speaker 8: two in terms of what you can install?
Speaker 15: Yeah, yes, just with the the comfort level in the offense,
Speaker 15: the terminology, and just having tested it in a game
Speaker 15: to have something to uh, compare it to You know,
Speaker 15: sometimes you haven't played these plays in a game, you're
Speaker 15: kind of just talking, right, and then when you do
Speaker 15: it in a game and you have stories to tell,
Speaker 15: good or bad, you know you can build from that.
Speaker 15: And that's what year one in this system was for
Speaker 15: Lamar and for everybody on the offense, skilled players, running backs, everyone, right,
Speaker 15: So you know we had the film to teach from
Speaker 15: and improve from, but also the film to take it
Speaker 15: to the next level as well. Oh yes, arm talented, smart, competitive,
Speaker 15: can make all the throws on the field.
Speaker 5: Uh, And he's doing a really good.
Speaker 15: Job of learning the offense and executing offense. He played
Speaker 15: in the pro style system at Kentucky his last year
Speaker 15: four years at inc State, different type system, but we're
Speaker 15: kind of a marriage of both, and so he's comfortable
Speaker 15: in what we're doing. Very very talented, extremely talented. Look
Speaker 15: forward to him playing in the preseason, your OTAs.
Speaker 13: In mini camp in time for your quarterbacks. You maybe
Speaker 13: have greater risk taking out on the field. Is that
Speaker 13: kind of part of the process to see you you know,
Speaker 13: what can be hindrance and what can be more successful
Speaker 13: or is that kind of what how you gauge kind
Speaker 13: of this kind of patnessphere.
Speaker 15: But yeah, it's it's keys to the ferrari, right, you know,
Speaker 15: you gotta go give a guy keys to the ferrari
Speaker 15: and tell him to do thirty, you know. And so
Speaker 15: that's really what it is. And sometimes as coaches, you
Speaker 15: can't be scared when they make mistakes, and you can't
Speaker 15: allow the mistakes that they make to put fear in
Speaker 15: your heart for not calling them play the next time,
Speaker 15: because without that, uh, there's no growth. And so you know,
Speaker 15: with Lamar, I tell them, hey, man, number one, whatever
Speaker 15: hits your brain first, we're gonna live with it. And
Speaker 15: as long as we're all in the same page, it's
Speaker 15: not a wrong call, it's not a bad call. And
Speaker 15: so that's where it starts. And that gives him the
Speaker 15: confidence and freedom to go out there and confidently do
Speaker 15: what he wants to do. And as long as they
Speaker 15: believe in him and whatever call he makes, I think
Speaker 15: we have a higher chance of executing. But no, we
Speaker 15: don't play scared. I don't you know, even shout when
Speaker 15: things don't go the way the right way the first
Speaker 15: time or second time. You know, we just continue to
Speaker 15: try to get it right. And once we get to
Speaker 15: a point we say, guys, you know we we we've
Speaker 15: tried it, We've done all the things, and it doesn't work.
Speaker 15: We throw it out and move on to something else.
Speaker 15: But no, we're not playing scared. We're not coaching scared.
Speaker 15: And that's the only way you can grow in this
Speaker 15: type of offense.
Speaker 10: That a few months ago that sorry trying to mention
Speaker 10: that Josh Johnson will be a Q two. I guess
Speaker 10: what have you seen from him through these off seasons?
Speaker 15: I said being earlier this week that that he's aging backwards.
Speaker 15: You know, for a guy who's getting older from a
Speaker 15: arm strength standpoint, his legs, he's found a spring in
Speaker 15: his step. Uh, he's being more elusive, extending plays within
Speaker 15: the pocket and just his uh, his experience and having
Speaker 15: seen things before. He's getting through progressions and and getting
Speaker 15: the ball out to the right people on time, accurately.
Speaker 15: And so I really like his growth from It's it's
Speaker 15: crazy to say that with the amount of experience he's
Speaker 15: but I really like his growth within this offense from
Speaker 15: year one to year two, and it gave us the
Speaker 15: confidence to go in saying that he could be QB two.
Speaker 6: For us want the John I mentioned yesterday that you
Speaker 6: guys are embracing cadence more. I guess how much of
Speaker 6: a challenge is that to just kind of punch these
Speaker 6: guys in the the deep in and what do you
Speaker 6: think the benefits for someone like from Mark.
Speaker 5: Could pee right right.
Speaker 15: You can't have cadence as a tool unless you do
Speaker 15: it and go through the growing pains of it. You know,
Speaker 15: guys are gonna jump off side here and there, and
Speaker 15: with the amount of communication we're doing up front, with
Speaker 15: the amount of play change that we're doing up front,
Speaker 15: it's gonna come with some of that. But we have
Speaker 15: to have that in our division, you know, especially for
Speaker 15: home games with the pass rushers that we're facing, not
Speaker 15: only just in our division but throughout the FC and
Speaker 15: the guys that we're playing when you look at our roster,
Speaker 15: so I mean, look at our schedule, and so it
Speaker 15: has been a tool in the past and we're just
Speaker 15: gonna continue to take it to the next level. Lamar
Speaker 15: is outstanding at it. Whether we're going non verbal on
Speaker 15: the road or whether we're going verbal at home. We
Speaker 15: have a lot of different ones that gives us an
Speaker 15: advantage so that people don't know where we're snapping the
Speaker 15: ball and slowing them down a little bit if we can.
Speaker 6: I pick one thing that stood out from that Kansas
Speaker 6: City game and just looking to the data. As you know,
Speaker 6: Lamar got better against the blitz last year, but sometimes
Speaker 6: those big blitzes with six or seven man pressures have
Speaker 6: given him trouble. I know it's not just ten, but
Speaker 6: what can this offense do do you think to get
Speaker 6: better against that type of all out?
Speaker 15: You know all, I think the best thing that we're
Speaker 15: doing is seeing it every day from our defense. And
Speaker 15: I thought Kansas City did do a good job in
Speaker 15: the ABC Championship game of challenging some of our protection
Speaker 15: and doing some things that did cost some issues, and
Speaker 15: that was an area of growth. That was an area
Speaker 15: of us looking at tape and saying, how can we
Speaker 15: improve in those areas? And so our defense is doing
Speaker 15: a heck of a job. I'm not only giving us
Speaker 15: those looks, but looks at challenges even more than that.
Speaker 15: And so we're building the tools that we need to
Speaker 15: do to pick up those pressures and give them more
Speaker 15: a little bit more time and be successful in the
Speaker 15: passing game.
Speaker 1: In addition to t Martin, we heard from running backs
Speaker 1: coach Willie Tagger.
Speaker 9: Uh, how how would you describe Derrick Kennedy's uh work athemic.
Speaker 5: Elite.
Speaker 16: He's a guy that hates doing anything wrong, Like it
Speaker 16: literally pisses him off to do anything wrong. And I
Speaker 16: gotta remind them Derek is practice. That's why they call
Speaker 16: it practice. You know, we gonna make some mistakes at time,
Speaker 16: but just don't make the same one twice. But he
Speaker 16: he he want to be the best. He wanna know
Speaker 16: everything that's going on. When he's not here, he's he's
Speaker 16: texting me, aking me what we put in, or if
Speaker 16: he's watching film, he aks me something about what's on
Speaker 16: the film, what we're doing. It's been great to have
Speaker 16: a coach, I mean, to have a guy like that
Speaker 16: that's played this long still wanting to to play at
Speaker 16: a high level.
Speaker 17: Yeah, what if.
Speaker 7: Anything surprised you?
Speaker 16: I think it's that more than anything, for a guy
Speaker 16: that's played this long and at the level that he's
Speaker 16: played at to come in here and still hungry, still
Speaker 16: want to earn, not coming to here feeling like, Hey,
Speaker 16: I've done this, I've done that. You don't see any
Speaker 16: of that, you know, And yeah, uh seem like he's
Speaker 16: been a Raven all all his life. I mean he
Speaker 16: he he kep fit in the room seamlessly. It's it's
Speaker 16: been awesome, you know. I thought, you know, you kind
Speaker 16: of assume a god that had that much success, he'll
Speaker 16: come in and have his way of doing things. And
Speaker 16: Der's want he want to understand how we're doing it,
Speaker 16: you know, and he wanna do everything he can to
Speaker 16: help his football team win a championship.
Speaker 12: The last few years, the Ravens are rotated through a
Speaker 12: number of running backs. How does your job change now
Speaker 12: that they have a war course like Terreck Henry in
Speaker 12: the backfield.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 16: I don't necessarily think it changes. I just gotta make
Speaker 16: sure that he's in there, you know, and make sure
Speaker 16: he's healthy and get to the game. And more important
Speaker 16: to make sure he knows what he's doing, you know,
Speaker 16: Cause when Derek knows what to do, he's he's pretty
Speaker 16: talented and we all know what he can do on
Speaker 16: the football field, you know. So Derek will be out
Speaker 16: there and Derek could have the ball m and I'm
Speaker 16: sure he'll he'll do a phenomenal what have you seen
Speaker 16: as rash uh Rashine. Actually, I had a chance to
Speaker 16: coach against him in high school, so I knew what
Speaker 16: we were getting, uh, not in high school but in college.
Speaker 16: But so I knew what we were getting when we
Speaker 16: drafted him, you know, and to have him around and
Speaker 16: and again, he's a young man that really really want
Speaker 16: to be really good and want to know everything. I mean,
Speaker 16: he's another one that's calling and texting and want to
Speaker 16: know what he's supposed to do. He want to know
Speaker 16: a way in advance. He'll call, I get a call,
Speaker 16: I text a night and asked about the script tomorrow
Speaker 16: and what to do. But watch him out here each practice,
Speaker 16: he's getting better and better. You could tell that he's
Speaker 16: getting comfortable, you know. And and from a talent standpoint,
Speaker 16: he's he's very talented. And I'm I'm excited to see
Speaker 16: him in training account when we get in past to
Speaker 16: see him play, and excited to see how he does
Speaker 16: and in pre season. But I think he's gonna be
Speaker 16: a really good back for us. I really like what
Speaker 16: he's doing.
Speaker 6: How do you think your guys took out loss to
Speaker 6: the Kansas City. I mean, obviously had a lot of
Speaker 6: focus on a lack of touches before that for your group,
Speaker 6: I mean, how did you guys kind of internalize everything
Speaker 6: that that happened.
Speaker 16: I think it was kind of like everybody else, we
Speaker 16: were ticked off when we were a game before the
Speaker 16: Super Bowl. It didn't happen for us, you know, so
Speaker 16: I think like every other position, we were upset, disappointed,
Speaker 16: and and I guess after the game, after we got back,
Speaker 16: we kind of locked into this year now and and
Speaker 16: seeing if we can do our part to help our
Speaker 16: football team win the championship.
Speaker 5: You're very familiar with the Harbor family. John play each
Speaker 5: other in November.
Speaker 9: How would you you know, how do you would you
Speaker 9: you know, kind of describe the relationship between John and
Speaker 9: Jeff great.
Speaker 16: You know, they're brothers, you know, you know, but they
Speaker 16: it's it's great, you know. I'm sure they both bounced
Speaker 16: this thing off each other. I mean they both lean
Speaker 16: on Papa Jack, you know, and they know they'll get
Speaker 16: some some some good wisdom from him, you know, and
Speaker 16: tell you like, for me personally, been coaching for John,
Speaker 16: coaching for Jim, coaching for Jack, I feel like it's
Speaker 16: Jack Harball over again.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 16: It's just when I'm in meetings and listening to them
Speaker 16: talking and just how we re actually run our organization,
Speaker 16: how they do it here, And I know it's like
Speaker 16: that a Stanford when we played at Stanford, and of
Speaker 16: course when I was at Western with Jack, you know.
Speaker 16: So it's pretty cool to see that they're they're following
Speaker 16: their their dad for step and but doing it in
Speaker 16: their own way, you know. And I think they all
Speaker 16: are just special. I think they're they special coaches and
Speaker 16: there's a reason why they winners, and the reason why
Speaker 16: they do it the way they do it, not me,
Speaker 16: And they're like them, you just kind of they're they're different.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 16: It's not not often that you see a coach that
Speaker 16: has has the forcefulness and in the sincerity behind it.
Speaker 16: Usually get one or the other from a coach, but
Speaker 16: to get a coach to have both of 'em and
Speaker 16: be a lead at it.
Speaker 3: But with this, it's it's.
Speaker 16: Pretty pretty pretty good.
Speaker 8: Congrats to your son.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: How how special is to have him saying so close
Speaker 8: to the turfs And did you try to push him
Speaker 8: the running back or how'd that all go?
Speaker 16: No running back? Now, he's not playing running back, that's
Speaker 16: for sure. He's no, no, not at all.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 16: I just tried to move him from quarterback. He wanted
Speaker 16: to play quarterback, but he he grew so tall, and
Speaker 16: but no, it was it's exciting. You know, it's probably
Speaker 16: more excited for mom than anything, which makes it easy
Speaker 16: and happy for me. You know, Mom's happy, everybody's happy.
Speaker 16: So but also Maryland is a great program. Coach Locksley's
Speaker 16: doing a awesome job down there. And and for me,
Speaker 16: I want someone to to finish what we started, you know.
Speaker 16: And and again I I told cod Lox, I'm handing
Speaker 16: him off to you. I don't need you to take
Speaker 16: him to the finish line.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 16: Help him continue to develop like my wife and I
Speaker 16: have done this far and we just want we want
Speaker 16: that to continue. And the football part of take care
Speaker 16: of himself. He'll do his part from that standpoint, but uh,
Speaker 16: coach Locksley to help him become a man.
Speaker 2: Go t how.
Speaker 14: Difficult is it for to have a ah a new
Speaker 14: running back like Jorck Henry and and uh Lamar Jackson
Speaker 14: jailed together? Say, if they're running RPOs, how difficult does
Speaker 14: that transition for those two two to jail.
Speaker 16: I don't think it's very difficult. You know, first of all,
Speaker 16: when we get the reps in practice and it makes
Speaker 16: it so much easier. And always with the RPOs, it
Speaker 16: all comes down the decision that it's more decision for
Speaker 16: the quarterback than it is the running back. The running
Speaker 16: back is is running to play that we call, you know,
Speaker 16: and it's just a brother quarterback want to hand it
Speaker 16: off to you or not? So uh, he just got
Speaker 16: to know his assignment and continue to do his assignment,
Speaker 16: you know, and let Lamar do what Lamar does, you know,
Speaker 16: and he'll be fine, you know. But I don't think
Speaker 16: it's gonna be difficult at all. And it's been great
Speaker 16: so far. And then our OTA's and here in Manicount,
Speaker 16: I want more. That's it good.
Speaker 7: So in Tennessee, Derek Ryan a lot from under center,
Speaker 7: and obviously you guys run more down and work and
Speaker 7: so to get more out of Lamar.
Speaker 5: If they're an adjustment, how big of an adjustment? You know? What?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 16: Coming in I you know, watching the film in Tennessee,
Speaker 16: that was that was a concern, you know, like we're
Speaker 16: in the gun and we run from the gun, and
Speaker 16: how how would dare it be in it? And I
Speaker 16: ain't I'm not gonna lie. I I questioned that until
Speaker 16: he got here, and seeing the big man move his
Speaker 16: feet and the thing, I'm like, whoa. You know, it
Speaker 16: was really impressive for a guy that size to move
Speaker 16: the way he does and and he got he got
Speaker 16: not necessarily uh zay flower feet, but for from a
Speaker 16: big guy. He he's he's pretty swiftly on his feet
Speaker 16: and great vision and all. But seeing him doing it
Speaker 16: from the gun, I don't have no. I don't think
Speaker 16: we have any problem doing it. Then we also be
Speaker 16: on the center. We do some things on the center
Speaker 16: as well. So but there's an athlete. You know, he's
Speaker 16: a big athlete, and I don't think he'll have a
Speaker 16: problem with anything we ask him to do. If we
Speaker 16: want him to go out and out of receiver, I
Speaker 16: think there he go out and get that done as well.
Speaker 16: He'll do that as well well. Thatt what we need
Speaker 16: him to do, I wouldn't be I wouldn't wanna be
Speaker 16: the one to tackle him from that standpoint as he
Speaker 16: get going.
Speaker 1: So as we continue along the position coaches on this offense,
Speaker 1: we also talked with offensive line coach Joe Diella Sandris.
Speaker 9: We talked to Ronnie Stanley yesterday.
Speaker 2: Can he tell you some lies?
Speaker 5: I don't know you, but he said last.
Speaker 9: Year didn't sit well with him because he knows he
Speaker 9: could play better and then he can come into this
Speaker 9: year a live determination.
Speaker 5: Have you since that doing this offseason from him?
Speaker 17: You know what, Ronnie has been doing an excellent job
Speaker 17: this spring. He's come in here, he's worked and all
Speaker 17: the drills, everything we have to do, and you can
Speaker 17: see steady progression of his play and he keeps keeps
Speaker 17: that up. It's gonna be good for him and for
Speaker 17: us both.
Speaker 10: I know Andrew before he said he talked to Ronnie
Speaker 10: a bit about, you know, dealing with injury. How much
Speaker 10: are you seeing him? And just other young guys look
Speaker 10: and emulate Ronnie as well.
Speaker 17: You know, I think I think you know, guys feed
Speaker 17: off of each other to ask how can I how
Speaker 17: can I bounce back?
Speaker 2: What's the process?
Speaker 17: But each one's individual, you know, their work ethic, their difrination,
Speaker 17: their goals that do what they want to have. And
Speaker 17: Andrew's a driven young man, so his injury, how he's
Speaker 17: come back, He's just done a heck.
Speaker 2: Of a job so far.
Speaker 17: I've just just from day one and where he is today,
Speaker 17: he'll continue to grow and with experience and confidence, which
Speaker 17: he's growing every day with it. So but those guys
Speaker 17: all mesh well and they all help each other out,
Speaker 17: which is fantastic.
Speaker 8: Where do you see the biggest strides in Daniel fought
Speaker 8: Le from last.
Speaker 16: Year to this year.
Speaker 17: Well, I think Daniel now is becoming more of a
Speaker 17: good football player in a sense. He's starting to feel
Speaker 17: comfortable in his body and what he can do. And
Speaker 17: and you know, we're working them at right tackle, we're
Speaker 17: working somewhat right guard.
Speaker 2: And he's played left tackle before us went up to
Speaker 2: New England and beat New England.
Speaker 17: When he's playing left tackle right, So and that's a
Speaker 17: big confidence.
Speaker 2: Uh where he where he achieved.
Speaker 17: But I just see him getting more familiar what he
Speaker 17: has to do, how he's got to communicate and uh,
Speaker 17: I think it's just work in progress with him, and
Speaker 17: I think the more he does it, the better he's
Speaker 17: gonna become.
Speaker 5: You've lost three starters from left Joan out his life right.
Speaker 9: What have you seen out of the competition so far.
Speaker 5: For those spots?
Speaker 2: You know what, I've seen a good competition.
Speaker 17: I've seen each guy working, you know, and I move
Speaker 17: him around quite a bit for their for their benefit
Speaker 17: and also for our benefit because the more they can do,
Speaker 17: guess what, get to stay in the sleegue going right,
Speaker 17: because you can play multiple positions, and they all have
Speaker 17: accepted that role and opportunity. And you know, Andrew's doing
Speaker 17: a great job. Salah's doing a good job, Josh Jones
Speaker 17: doing a good job. You know Ben's doing a good
Speaker 17: job inside there. So you just keep seeing all these
Speaker 17: young men doing and the good news is this is
Speaker 17: the time of year where you're learning assignment communication, playing fast.
Speaker 17: The contact is not there. That's gonna come training camp.
Speaker 17: That's what that's built for, along with games, and then
Speaker 17: we'll see how that plays out from there.
Speaker 13: Would you prefer to have Patrick McCarey and remain in
Speaker 13: that sixth man kind of role as the primary backup
Speaker 13: or do you see him being involved in the starting
Speaker 13: competitions for any of the spons.
Speaker 2: You know what, right now, we're just right now.
Speaker 17: Pat's situation is more of a good quality. I see
Speaker 17: him as I see him in my eyes as a starter. Okay,
Speaker 17: he in my eyes, he's a starter, but he's in
Speaker 17: a position where he could play multiple positions, and that's
Speaker 17: the role that we like to see him in right now,
Speaker 17: does that mean if you have an injury, guess what
Speaker 17: you're starting? Pat But it's not that he can't start,
Speaker 17: It's just that we see the versatility and the benefit
Speaker 17: of that opportunity for him being there's not many guys
Speaker 17: in an NFL to play what center guard, both guards
Speaker 17: and tackle, and the last time we had a guy
Speaker 17: here could do both was James Hurst, and he played
Speaker 17: both tackles and both guard positions. He just retired with
Speaker 17: a fantastic career. So uh pass having a nice career, Jill.
Speaker 7: Great tackle offly being none of those jobs coming up
Speaker 7: the grapp What have you seen from Roger raising Garden
Speaker 7: in that in that regard and what.
Speaker 2: He Yeah, you know, Roger's doing a great job.
Speaker 17: He's eager, he hustles, he gives good effort, he plays
Speaker 17: to succeed, and just continued growth understanding the offense. And
Speaker 17: just let's see, now when you put we put you
Speaker 17: in a game, how are you going to produce in games?
Speaker 17: And you're gonna have some ups, You're gonna have some downs.
Speaker 17: How you could bounce back of some of those opportunities,
Speaker 17: you know, But I'm glad we have him.
Speaker 2: He's a heck of a young man.
Speaker 8: Another guy Andrew, He's what's standing out to you about
Speaker 8: how he's practicing.
Speaker 17: You know what Andrew's doing great. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 17: and here's what I'm gonna tell you. First of all
Speaker 17: that group of young men, the young men I have
Speaker 17: in there, we have sixteen of them. They're fantastic young men.
Speaker 17: They work hard, they come out on the mission every
Speaker 17: day to get better. They work at their craft, they
Speaker 17: work at their skill, and you see improvement by all
Speaker 17: of them. But with Andrew, we have him working at
Speaker 17: a left guard and center, and he's never played center
Speaker 17: before and he's growing in that area and the confidence
Speaker 17: so good.
Speaker 13: Progress when it comes to that positional flexibility. Plus, that's
Speaker 13: something that's becoming less common you think, across the league,
Speaker 13: or more common as this guy's developed.
Speaker 2: Like you see, you know, I think you have to
Speaker 2: have just just me.
Speaker 17: I was fortunate enough to come up under a head
Speaker 17: coach many many years ago when I start off my career,
Speaker 17: and the philosophy was the number two right tackle may
Speaker 17: not be as good as that number two right guard.
Speaker 2: Let's find a way to get the five best on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 17: So that's how I grew up as a coach to
Speaker 17: put your best five as often as you can on
Speaker 17: the field. So position flexibility is important for us here
Speaker 17: at the Ravens, and I know for myself as a coach,
Speaker 17: because you go into a game you have seven, sometimes
Speaker 17: you know you have eight, but sometimes the roster has
Speaker 17: to change a little bit.
Speaker 2: Those guys got to be able.
Speaker 17: To play multiple positions because you don't know what the
Speaker 17: injury factor could be for that game.
Speaker 6: You guys have a spot open at left guard, spot
Speaker 6: open at right guard. That how smart and capable of
Speaker 6: Tyler is at center? I mean, are you kind of
Speaker 6: comfortable with putting even more of a hurt on him?
Speaker 6: That is like, you know you can help us get Yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Tyler's or a great leader.
Speaker 17: First of all, he's a great fine, fantastic young man,
Speaker 17: great leader, heck of a football player. I just found out.
Speaker 17: How about this, and you know about your players. But
Speaker 17: we're just talking and Andrew and I were just talking
Speaker 17: to me, and he said, coach, you know that, Andrew, I.
Speaker 2: Mean that Tyler won the Remington Award. I didn't know that.
Speaker 17: I mean, I knew he had accolades, but I didn't
Speaker 17: know he won the Remington Award. So then I said,
Speaker 17: how about that? I said, you didn't tell me you
Speaker 17: won that Remington Award. So he was a heck of
Speaker 17: a college football player right at the center. Guess what,
Speaker 17: he's a heck of a pro. He's a great communicator,
Speaker 17: he's a great leader. He works with the guys, and
Speaker 17: it's collaboration between all of.
Speaker 2: Them up front with their communication. Those guards got to
Speaker 2: be able to help Tyler too. So it's twofold.
Speaker 13: There's been a lot of it's a expectation on d
Speaker 13: Cleveland because we were around here. Just what do you
Speaker 13: see from him in his development as his team and
Speaker 13: as he.
Speaker 2: Works for you? Yeah, you know what, here's what I
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 17: We played last year, we played Pittsburgh and we played
Speaker 17: the Rams I think towards the end and or yeah,
Speaker 17: I think it was and and Ben played very well.
Speaker 17: When Ben's had his opportunities to start, he's produced and
Speaker 17: done well. He's out here right now working in his
Speaker 17: craft and working his skill. You see nice progression and improvement.
Speaker 17: And I'm anxious to see now when you start training camp.
Speaker 17: You put the pads on and we're going to see
Speaker 17: if he'll continue it's got to be earned, right, and
Speaker 17: it's earned belief based on play production all a.
Speaker 12: Set of roll of the second week of training camp
Speaker 12: to kind of solidify the offensive line starters based on
Speaker 12: what you've seen so far this spring.
Speaker 13: Do you think that's a realistic time frame.
Speaker 17: Well, you know, he's the head coach, so we'll see
Speaker 17: how it goes from there. I'm not gonna bulk coach
Speaker 17: all harball. We all work together, so we'll see and
Speaker 17: if coach says, hey, Joe Staring unibye checond week, hey
Speaker 17: we'll deliver.
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