Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: March eleventh, and the Ravens kicked off free agency in
Speaker 1: a big way by reaching a new contract extension with
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Justin Medabiqu. Medibik was in the building on
Speaker 1: Monday to sign that new deal and hold a press
Speaker 1: conference with the local media. So let's kick things off
Speaker 1: with Medabik, GM Eric Tacasa and defensive coordinator Zach orr.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Just first of all, I want to thank everybody for
Speaker 3: coming out here today. We are thrilled to announce that
Speaker 3: we've extended Justin Medabik to a four year contract. Very
Speaker 3: special for us to be able to get that done.
Speaker 3: We've always strived to keep our best young players here
Speaker 3: in Baltimore, and I'm thrilled that there is another example
Speaker 3: of that. And I want to thank Justin his family.
Speaker 3: I want to thank Nick Mattio, who was instrumental in
Speaker 3: this deal taking place. I want to thank Steve Bishati,
Speaker 3: and also want to thank Ben Renzen, Justin's agent, who
Speaker 3: did a great job. So we're excited. We hope our
Speaker 3: fan base is excited. We know Justin's excited, and we
Speaker 3: can't just can't wait to see what the next four
Speaker 3: years look like.
Speaker 4: Man, it's an exciting time.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Credit to Eric and all the people involved. Credit to
Speaker 4: Matty Beaks, man, everybody involved getting this deal done. Justin
Speaker 4: he's not only one of the best defensive tackles in
Speaker 4: the National Football League, but he's one of the best
Speaker 4: football players overall. And man, just a quick story about him.
Speaker 4: Back in twenty twenty when he came in during COVID.
Speaker 4: I remember training camp. It was the first pad of
Speaker 4: practice and you know, we're all amped up, want to see,
Speaker 4: you know, what our team's gonna look like, ones versus ones,
Speaker 4: and Beaks is out there and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 4: got a rookie out there, Okay, about to see what's
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: He striked the lineman TfL. It was explosive play, and
Speaker 4: I remember just that moment we looked like, man, this
Speaker 4: dude got a chance to be a great player. And
Speaker 4: ever since that day, he's come with the same mindset,
Speaker 4: practice meetings, worked his butt off, and it's no shot
Speaker 4: that he's a player that he's become today. And the
Speaker 4: great thing about it is he's only gonna get better.
Speaker 4: So it's exciting time. Happy that we got this done.
Speaker 4: He's earned this and the future is bright with Justin
Speaker 4: Matty Beka. We just getting started.
Speaker 5: First of all, at the thank God for sure, just
Speaker 5: without him, I wouldn't be here. I like to think
Speaker 5: Steve a Shotty Eric Cltrball giving me this opportunity to
Speaker 5: be here and to believe in me. I like to
Speaker 5: thank my dad, I'm my biggest supporter, my my uncle
Speaker 5: for making it just exciting time to think, Zach, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: We talked about this right after the Bengals game, after
Speaker 5: that long hundred yard touchdown and everybody was just feeling
Speaker 5: bad about themselves, mean exactly, gave each other a hug, like, man,
Speaker 5: you had a great year, and already know next year
Speaker 5: gonna turn off. You're gonna be all pro. You're gonna
Speaker 5: be pro white. I can see it, I can feel it.
Speaker 5: And at that moment, I knew, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 5: month off and I'm gonna, uh literally work my butt
Speaker 5: off to be one of the best in the league.
Speaker 5: And with hard work and faith and consistency and uh,
Speaker 5: your dreams can come true. And I'm living testimony of that.
Speaker 5: So like I think everybody who believed in me, think
Speaker 5: the whole organization, and I'm hungry, I'm I'm I'm ready
Speaker 5: to get back to work again. I've been working out,
Speaker 5: y'a can see a little bit. But uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm just very thankful for the opportunity, thankful to be
Speaker 5: here living my dreams. And I'm just gonna keep working
Speaker 5: and keep being better and just keep striving for greatness for.
Speaker 6: Sure, Essostin. Uh you know, was there a time over
Speaker 6: the past week where there was a playing like, Okay,
Speaker 6: something wal term could get done pretty.
Speaker 2: Soon the year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: Eric has always been in communication with me that he
Speaker 5: wanted to get a long term deal done. It was
Speaker 5: just about, you know, getting the right time and the
Speaker 5: right moment to get it done. And my agent took
Speaker 5: care of that. And now I'm here and I plan
Speaker 5: on being here for whole hopefully my whole career, because
Speaker 5: I just love this organization.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Not only have I grown as a player, but I've
Speaker 5: grown as a person. And I just love my teammates
Speaker 5: and love staff and from the cafeteria to nutrition to everybody.
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's it's top tier. It's the best
Speaker 5: in the league. And I want to definitely be a
Speaker 5: leader and set that example and just just be the
Speaker 5: best justin I remember going into the twenty two season,
Speaker 5: Coleas Campbell was effusive talking about how you were going
Speaker 5: to bust out.
Speaker 2: Did it just take an extra year or what do
Speaker 2: you think it was?
Speaker 5: It came together twenty three, that didn't come together at
Speaker 5: twenty two. Uh, I mean Klass was taking all my reps. Man,
Speaker 5: But no, I'm just kidding. I just having a guy
Speaker 5: like that class a great leader or Walter Payton Man
Speaker 5: of the Year definitely says the example of how to
Speaker 5: be a true professional. And definitely having him as a
Speaker 5: as a vet, asking him questions and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Obviously we're competing for playing time, but also he's a
Speaker 5: he's a solid, stand up guy, always checks on me,
Speaker 5: and that's a great person to have in front of
Speaker 5: you to learn from.
Speaker 6: Now that you've signed your second contract, do you feel
Speaker 6: like you've become one of those guys? I mean, are
Speaker 6: the young guys are coming the door, gonna start coming
Speaker 6: to you and you know you're gonna be a a
Speaker 6: toe center for the whole deal? Do you do you
Speaker 6: feel that and do you afford to that responsibility?
Speaker 5: I guess I feel like I've always been that guy
Speaker 5: that you know, I've always opened to give information to
Speaker 5: help people out. I feel it's gonna be more now
Speaker 5: with just the success of Hat on the field and
Speaker 5: just the type of person I am, So I'm always
Speaker 5: open to help people out and be that guy definitely
Speaker 5: for young guys to ask questions, to look forward to
Speaker 5: or or to to count upon for information. So yeah,
Speaker 5: for sure, with Justin signing, a robots up behind him
Speaker 5: and call Hamilton so some despiding defense to say, how
Speaker 5: big is that for you?
Speaker 8: As far as putting out the rest of the defensive.
Speaker 3: Offseason, Well, I think it's it's big anytime you keep
Speaker 3: your your best young talent. And uh, you know, we
Speaker 3: feel really good about those guys. We feel really good
Speaker 3: about where the defense stands overall, and we're just kind
Speaker 3: of on the come. We're excited to see Zach orchestrate
Speaker 3: this whole thing. And you know, certainly, I think the
Speaker 3: thing that stands about Justin is just his ability as
Speaker 3: a three down player. He can play the run, and
Speaker 3: he's an exceptional pass rusher too, and he's a guy
Speaker 3: that's gotten better every single year. He's a great example
Speaker 3: for the younger players. You know, they can see him
Speaker 3: and see his progression from twenty twenty to now. That's
Speaker 3: exciting for those guys to see. And we're thrilled that
Speaker 3: we have him up front and we've got, you know, Roquan.
Speaker 3: We've got some good young players with Roquan at the
Speaker 3: linebacker position and also in the secondary. We feel like
Speaker 3: we're very strong.
Speaker 8: You know, you've done.
Speaker 6: Some work with Tubs Smith and all things in the past.
Speaker 8: Who was it like to be able to what type
Speaker 8: of m points wasn't on.
Speaker 6: The remains to be able to work with him now to.
Speaker 5: Need Now it's free teaching. You know, I had to
Speaker 5: go to Atlanta and pay, you know, so for him
Speaker 5: to be on the staff now is like free teaching
Speaker 5: every day. But just the person Chuck is, you know,
Speaker 5: very open, very honest in terms of just technique and
Speaker 5: just pass rushing and stuff. He just helped not only me,
Speaker 5: but I know a bunch of my teammate just get
Speaker 5: just more crisp and more trim in terms of past rush.
Speaker 5: And he's really good at what he does. I've worked
Speaker 5: with him for the past two years, and I feel
Speaker 5: like my game has evolved as soon as that starts happening.
Speaker 5: I'm with him in training, So yeah, great, very big
Speaker 5: influence for sure.
Speaker 6: That's typically when you guys have used the tag in
Speaker 6: the past, you've eventually gotten a deal done, but it's
Speaker 6: usually taken some more time.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised that this.
Speaker 6: Came together as quickly as it did considering the deadline
Speaker 6: last Tuesday? And you know what about this negotiating negotiation
Speaker 6: made it that you were able to come to a
Speaker 6: bog term deal as quickly.
Speaker 2: As you as you did.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we were coming from a place of respect,
Speaker 3: you know, and Justin knows what we're all about, and
Speaker 3: we know what Justin's all about, and he's got an agent,
Speaker 3: and I think he and I have had a good
Speaker 3: relationship over the years, so you know, we weren't that
Speaker 3: far away. You know, there was a chance we could
Speaker 3: have gotten a deal done before we had the franchise them.
Speaker 3: We were close, and we've had good discussions along the way.
Speaker 3: We met at the Combine and we've had along the
Speaker 3: way a lot of opportunities, So, you know, I think
Speaker 3: just it's keeping a lot of communication open, being honest
Speaker 3: with each other. We've we've done a lot of deals
Speaker 3: some take two years, some take two weeks, and and
Speaker 3: this was a very easy deal to get done in
Speaker 3: most cases.
Speaker 2: Did you guys come close to a deal before last
Speaker 2: off season?
Speaker 9: I know, you know Justin was a big on him self,
Speaker 9: but just kind of getting back how Boord, what was
Speaker 9: there any pressure on your end to get a deal
Speaker 9: done before the temperate period started and maybe to start
Speaker 9: to see some deals competitive for ropper guys at the
Speaker 9: top of that defensive white market.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We you know, we've never really had any kind of
Speaker 3: long term discussions with with Justin prior to this this year.
Speaker 3: You know, we had a couple of discussions during the season.
Speaker 3: Those are tricky at times. You know, obviously you want
Speaker 3: the player to be as focused as he can be
Speaker 3: on the season, and Justin did a great job of that,
Speaker 3: and we decided that as pipeas to really kind of
Speaker 3: get going on the whole thing. You certainly do look
Speaker 3: at the market. You kind of weigh that in the end.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's always a value to the
Speaker 3: player to get this deal done if you can't early
Speaker 3: before the market, and sometimes there's a value for the
Speaker 3: team as well. It's not an exact science, certainly, but
Speaker 3: we felt like there was a deal to be made.
Speaker 3: We were that close that we could get the deal done,
Speaker 3: and I thought that it was in our best interests
Speaker 3: as a club to get that done, deal done before
Speaker 3: free agency started.
Speaker 11: Like to share them old your family and when you
Speaker 11: got to use everything you've been.
Speaker 5: Agreed to, it was huge.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: The first thing I did was, you know, I park
Speaker 5: ride a little bit Angoa Lia, prayed, call my dad
Speaker 5: immediately he was stoked. He was like, what really, you know,
Speaker 5: but uh, it's very thankful, glad to have a great
Speaker 5: support system. I'm just I'm ready to get to work. Really,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm hungry now.
Speaker 12: So Justin, you talk about that hunger and wanting to
Speaker 12: continue to get better. What what does that look like
Speaker 12: for you in the future, as as you continue to
Speaker 12: just progress in your career and get better.
Speaker 2: How do you envision that?
Speaker 12: And then, Zach, what is it about Justin that makes
Speaker 12: him you know, there's so much more even to come
Speaker 12: besides what he's already done.
Speaker 2: So the bar.
Speaker 5: Just when I see in the future is just continued greatness,
Speaker 5: continued just impact on the game, just being a forced
Speaker 5: being a cornerstone to his defense. Just hold myself at
Speaker 5: that high standard that I did this past season and
Speaker 5: staying consistent. That's what I see. I feel like when
Speaker 5: you do those things, taking one day at a time,
Speaker 5: good things gonna flourish, Good good things gonna happen, and
Speaker 5: it's gonna radiate to the other like uh, to the
Speaker 5: other teammates for sure, and motivate them as for them,
Speaker 5: so we can just be the best because we have
Speaker 5: a goal in mine that we definitely felt short this
Speaker 5: year and we're longer to get back where we belong.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean Eric said it like Justin's great
Speaker 4: against the run, He's great against the past, and this
Speaker 4: year what I felt like helped take his game to
Speaker 4: the next level. If you really just watch him and
Speaker 4: watch our film and pay attention to it. He played
Speaker 4: all across the defensive line, so I mean he played
Speaker 4: the shade, the head up zero, played the three, played
Speaker 4: the four, played a six, sometimes played the five, He
Speaker 4: played the run and rushed out of all those positions,
Speaker 4: and like I said, this year was his first time
Speaker 4: really getting those opportunity to do that. So now it's
Speaker 4: just another year being comfortable with the technique that we
Speaker 4: want at all those different positions. That way, teams can't
Speaker 4: just focus in on one spot where he's at, and
Speaker 4: he's gonna continue to get better at that. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be great for us. So that's that's how I see
Speaker 4: him getting better.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: Just continue to work on the technique just like he
Speaker 4: said he's gonna do, and it allows to move 'em
Speaker 4: around different spots, so offenses just can't key in on 'em.
Speaker 13: Just in, what sort of advice did you seek or
Speaker 13: or get maybe to you know, kind to reach this
Speaker 13: decision about signing the deal and stay there long term
Speaker 13: versus you know, playing out time.
Speaker 2: And so forth.
Speaker 5: Any advice? Uh, I don't really get much advice. He
Speaker 5: just said just just stay cool, stay calm, chill, It'll
Speaker 5: get done. They want you there, you wanna be there,
Speaker 5: just give it patience. So really, patience was my advice.
Speaker 11: I would say, just in a lot of times, contract years,
Speaker 11: when there's pressure on it brings pressure on a player.
Speaker 2: Some players struggled to deal with it.
Speaker 11: Why were you so comfortable this year with knowing that
Speaker 11: you know you could be playing for your next contract?
Speaker 5: I would say my faith for sure, My my my
Speaker 5: faith and my belief in myself kept me calm. I
Speaker 5: just knew that if I just do the right things,
Speaker 5: go to bed on time, stay consistent, stay focused, just
Speaker 5: do the right thing. I know at the end of
Speaker 5: the uh of the of the tunnel, there's gonna be
Speaker 5: some light and everything's gonna take care of itself. And
Speaker 5: and it did. So I'm gonna continue that formula, keep
Speaker 5: it going and just try to continue to be an
Speaker 5: impactful player.
Speaker 2: Trust any you.
Speaker 6: Know what Jack said value versatility play along that some
Speaker 6: guys aren't able to do that, whether it's is their
Speaker 6: body type or their technique. Right, what what makes you
Speaker 6: able to do that be so versatile?
Speaker 10: Play along that?
Speaker 5: Oh, like you said, I'd say, like like the body
Speaker 5: types and stuff like that. I feel think I have
Speaker 5: a very unique uh body type and in which I
Speaker 5: can I'm strong enough to hold myself in terms of
Speaker 5: UH being a nose. I'm quick enough and argia enough
Speaker 5: to rush as a three, and then I'm I'm also
Speaker 5: fast enough to burn the edge. They's just the hard work, UH,
Speaker 5: consistency and the standard I put myself to and knowing
Speaker 5: my abilities and just showcasing them and uh just believing
Speaker 5: in myself.
Speaker 10: Just any talks earlier about the end of the twenty
Speaker 10: twenty two season and the goals that you had going
Speaker 10: into last year, and now when do you sort of
Speaker 10: set that mindset? You talk about how many sacks you
Speaker 10: wanna have in a season.
Speaker 8: Sometimes you won't tell us your goals, but.
Speaker 10: When does that when do you set those in your mind?
Speaker 7: Now, Jefin, you mentioned sharing's moment with your family, but
Speaker 7: your teammates showed a lot of love when and and
Speaker 7: reacted very positively.
Speaker 10: To the contract.
Speaker 7: I mean, what was your reaction to that to just
Speaker 7: see how much support it at to you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: It it means work to me. You know, those are
Speaker 5: the guys that uh literally we go into war with
Speaker 5: each other, you know on Sundays, Mondays and now sometimes Saturdays,
Speaker 5: I guess. So, you know, it's just a blessing just
Speaker 5: to have a brotherhood, like it's a real brotherhood. You know,
Speaker 5: we say it in the media, a lot of people
Speaker 5: say that, but it's really true. We go up playing
Speaker 5: with each other like on the football field, and we
Speaker 5: just got each other back, which with each other in
Speaker 5: the offseason as well. You know, it was just awesome
Speaker 5: to have my uh teammate support and just be genuine love,
Speaker 5: and just a lot of guys text me like, man,
Speaker 5: this is really motivated for me, Like you really like
Speaker 5: did that?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 5: We talked about it and now like I believe in myself,
Speaker 5: So I feel like it just creates everybody to just
Speaker 5: inspire to keep getting better.
Speaker 2: Was it important for you to get this deal done
Speaker 2: prior a free agency because you knew that it could
Speaker 2: benefit the team to you know, navigate through free agency
Speaker 2: and so was that something that was at all on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 5: Not really in my mind. I was just like, hopefully
Speaker 5: we can get this deal done. So when it's done,
Speaker 5: I can just focus on just grinding and getting right
Speaker 5: and getting ready for this upcoming season. And that's what happens.
Speaker 5: So now I can focus on just you know, enjoying
Speaker 5: this with my family but then getting.
Speaker 2: Back to work.
Speaker 11: Are touching on that, how much does not have security
Speaker 11: of the franchise tag?
Speaker 6: How much does that help the team entry?
Speaker 10: For you?
Speaker 3: Well, it helps, you know, we need all the help
Speaker 3: we can get, you know, so yeah, it helps. Every
Speaker 3: little bit helps. You know, these are things that you know,
Speaker 3: we just don't look at in a vacuum. We're trying
Speaker 3: to consider all the different consequences of these types of things,
Speaker 3: and something that I've been looking at really since last August,
Speaker 3: you know, in meetings with Nick and Pat and Aussie
Speaker 3: and Steve and Sashi and everybody, just looking at, like
Speaker 3: financially projecting out what we're gonna look like in twenty four,
Speaker 3: twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, obviously with a franchise quarterback,
Speaker 3: and what those contracts look like. I have said this before.
Speaker 3: The landscape changes, so every deal you do is critically
Speaker 3: important in the grand scheme of things. And that's why
Speaker 3: I think you all can get a sense for the
Speaker 3: feeling we have towards justin that we were willing to
Speaker 3: commit to a contract like this, I think speaks the
Speaker 3: world for how we feel about him as a player
Speaker 3: and as a person.
Speaker 6: Karin, the windows what's about to open? I mean, the
Speaker 6: reports are about to start flying. I mean, is there
Speaker 6: on the peace of mind also in knowing that you've
Speaker 6: probably gotten done your biggest piece of business on the
Speaker 6: off season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, and looking at it,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you just can't keep every single
Speaker 3: player on your team us A. That's a frustrating aspect
Speaker 3: of this job that I have so you have to
Speaker 3: keep your very best if you can, the guys you
Speaker 3: feel most strongly about as players, but also as people,
Speaker 3: the guys who impact your roster and your fan base
Speaker 3: in different ways, and and Justin's one of those types
Speaker 3: of guys. We won't be able to do this in
Speaker 3: every single instance, unfortunately, but we feel very very good
Speaker 3: about what we did this weekend, and we're a better
Speaker 3: football team. We're gonna win a lot of games this
Speaker 3: year with Justin manning the defensive line, and hopefully we've
Speaker 3: got some other young players who see the opportunity to
Speaker 3: stick to stand up and help us as well.
Speaker 13: You mentioned the importance kind of getting the steal done
Speaker 13: ahead of free agency and so forth. I'm just curious
Speaker 13: having a few that running back market versus what you
Speaker 13: might do say in the draft versus free and say
Speaker 13: do you expect to be aggressive patient? I know patients
Speaker 13: is kind of something you guys have always displayed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really don't. I mean, I understand the question,
Speaker 3: but talking about a market on the eve of free
Speaker 3: agency doesn't seem like a smart thing, So I probably
Speaker 3: passing that question.
Speaker 10: I'm wondering.
Speaker 5: Eric mentioned that it was important to him to sign
Speaker 5: his own guys and you're one of them, Zach.
Speaker 2: He came up through the system.
Speaker 12: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: By the way, I haven't seen sincere.
Speaker 6: Does this reverbal rate through the league. Do guys talk
Speaker 6: and say like, look, the Ravens said they were going
Speaker 6: to sign their guys and Zach came up through the system.
Speaker 2: The defensive coordinator justin.
Speaker 6: Just got a big deal.
Speaker 2: Do you guys talk about that? Is that's something that
Speaker 2: is is mentioned.
Speaker 5: It hasn't been mentioned with the talks that I had
Speaker 5: with people. You know, I already know how to answer that, really,
Speaker 5: but now I haven't had those talks. Really, I'll just
Speaker 5: be kind of them my own in my own lane
Speaker 5: and my own candle, my responsibilities handling my business. And
Speaker 5: you know, definitely, uh, you don't see a bunch of people,
Speaker 5: you know s staying their whole career w in one place,
Speaker 5: but definitely this is a place that I can see
Speaker 5: myself doing that for sure.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 8: So that with you know, Mike McDonald going on to
Speaker 8: the Seattle to be able to have Zach or a
Speaker 8: person that you you know have already have a pool
Speaker 8: where guys in the locker room already know what does
Speaker 8: that do for you guys to have that familiarity with.
Speaker 5: The new y as a coordinated I feel like it
Speaker 5: it makes Uh the guys in the locker room, Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, tilt their hat off to Zach and respect
Speaker 5: him in the sense of he's been there, he's done that.
Speaker 5: He knows what it takes to win this league. You know,
Speaker 5: he's been on He been on championship teams. So you know,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, you know, it gives
Speaker 5: Hi his voice more of an impact in terms of
Speaker 5: my teammates and just more ears to listen to him,
Speaker 5: for sure, so we can all be on the same
Speaker 5: page and just attack as a wolf pack. Arn it.
Speaker 12: Just he's just got every single season, what is it
Speaker 12: you know about Justin as a player as a person
Speaker 12: that you think has allowed him to just improve very
Speaker 12: single season.
Speaker 3: You know, he's gotten stronger. I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: gotten faster, because he was pretty fast coming out, but
Speaker 3: he's just his his instincts for the game have improved
Speaker 3: every year. He's a very very coachable player.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: He's just got a great combination of explosiveness, quickness. Uh,
Speaker 3: and he's a worker. He's highly disciplined, he's highly motivated,
Speaker 3: his great teammate. He does everything the right way really
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I think the big thing is
Speaker 3: he's responded to coaching for four years and he's been
Speaker 3: out some good players too. He's had some great mentors.
Speaker 3: He pays attention to those mentors, which I think is
Speaker 3: really really important for a younger player. And uh, he
Speaker 3: just he's gotten it done. We're proud of him.
Speaker 2: I believe at the time of your sign it was
Speaker 2: the most in total guarantee money for an interior defensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Was that something that was important to you? It was
Speaker 2: getting there a tease in your contract.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, we want to get paid, but now
Speaker 5: but uh, I definitely felt that, you know, all the
Speaker 5: hard work that I put in the year in and
Speaker 5: year out and just staying focused, not getting into any
Speaker 5: trouble or tennanigant and stuff like that, to staying locked
Speaker 5: in making sacrifices, I felt like, definitely, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: I wanted to, you know, get compensated, but just obviously
Speaker 5: putting the work on the field and letting the show.
Speaker 5: I felt like it was you know, it was right.
Speaker 9: You mentioned kind of projecting this roster forward. The future years.
Speaker 9: I know, you guys have had the privilege of resigning
Speaker 9: a lot of these you know young up and commerce
Speaker 9: including momarm to you know, big money deals. You've also
Speaker 9: seen you kind of do some things you haven't capital
Speaker 9: wise with you know, your structures more years that kind
Speaker 9: of thing. Does the calculus change for like being financially
Speaker 9: responsible down the run if you know, the opportunity to
Speaker 9: sign these guys, but also maybe the responsibility of kind
Speaker 9: of paying them as.
Speaker 2: Much as you have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a good question, and it's it's
Speaker 3: it's definitely not a static environment and it's going to
Speaker 3: be changing rapidly. You know. It depends on lots of
Speaker 3: different things, the salary cap for instance, being one. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we will have to be financially responsible in most cases
Speaker 3: because we do have a lot of money going to
Speaker 3: very good players. You know, I would it's not a
Speaker 3: scientific study, but we probably have four or five or
Speaker 3: six players on our team right now that are being
Speaker 3: paid top of the market money. That's a good problem
Speaker 3: to have in a lot of ways because it means
Speaker 3: you're going to have a good team. But it also
Speaker 3: means that there are going to be some situations where
Speaker 3: you just have to let players test the market and
Speaker 3: see what they can get elsewhere, and that can be
Speaker 3: a frustrating thing, especially for a team you know that
Speaker 3: likes the draft. I mean, first and foremost, I started
Speaker 3: out as a scout, and so the idea that you
Speaker 3: could draft a really good player, keep them for four
Speaker 3: years and wants them go play elsewhere is frustrating. But
Speaker 3: this is the business we have chosen, and we'll abide
Speaker 3: by those salary cap roles and hopefully make good decisions
Speaker 3: moving forward.
Speaker 1: So it's just a great day for Atabik. Certainly excited
Speaker 1: for him as he gets a life changing contract and
Speaker 1: he is a key player for this defense. He is
Speaker 1: a cornerstone defensive lineman and the Ravens are really going
Speaker 1: to build around him over the next four years. This
Speaker 1: is exciting for Adabik, for the Ravens, and of course
Speaker 1: Ravens fans. Now. We actually sat down with Justin for
Speaker 1: extended conversation on an episode of the Lounge podcast, so
Speaker 1: if you want to hear more from him, head over
Speaker 1: to the Lounge podcast feed. Shared some really interesting insight
Speaker 1: during that conversation, particularly when it comes to the motivation
Speaker 1: that he has moving forward, so head over to the
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