Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: August nineteenth. After practice today, we have a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: When you hear.
Speaker 3: About Mark Andrews, what comes out that he was involved
Speaker 3: in the carts and what kind of goods to your
Speaker 3: head would.
Speaker 2: Hear about that? Is she all right? You know?
Speaker 4: All type of things go through my head, like that's
Speaker 4: Mirk Andrews and just anybody you know, just being involved
Speaker 4: in an accident, especially if I know him.
Speaker 2: But he's good and that's all that matters.
Speaker 4: You know, God was with him, God always with him,
Speaker 4: and he's one hundred and that's all that matters.
Speaker 5: Hey, La, Mark, we saw your excitement and Marie Jones
Speaker 5: has on the touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how confident?
Speaker 5: Makes you feel too cold? With this good about quarterbacks
Speaker 5: and big talented for us.
Speaker 4: Actually, man, it's great to see you man, especially not
Speaker 4: knowing but what could happen on any given Sunday, any
Speaker 4: giving play, just to see a young guy just do
Speaker 4: what he did.
Speaker 2: It was amazing to see.
Speaker 6: Tom Brady and Dane Manning over the week and named
Speaker 6: you as one of their top five quarterbacks that are
Speaker 6: active in the.
Speaker 2: League right now. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: But just what's your reaction to that?
Speaker 2: That's crazy?
Speaker 4: Uh, that's dope, man, especially coming from those guys, the
Speaker 4: guys who's on top of the mount mountain rushmore right
Speaker 4: now for me at least, Uh, that's that's great. That's
Speaker 4: great to hit that from the goats man.
Speaker 7: Do you have any relationship with Jordan Love and are
Speaker 7: you looking forward to see him in Green Bay this week?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't really have a relationship with I never met
Speaker 4: Jordan Love, but I'm looking forward to meet him.
Speaker 2: How important practice with Bay? The situation where a lot of.
Speaker 8: Your starters don't play at all in the preseason.
Speaker 2: What do you hope to get out of the Uh?
Speaker 4: Some competitiveness of just not going against my guys each
Speaker 4: and every day. Finally get to go against someone else.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: And especially that I'm not playing preseason. Just great to
Speaker 4: see how we how we are against other opponents.
Speaker 2: After the Houston Week.
Speaker 10: One game last year, you kind of came out and
Speaker 10: said you had knock off some of the rust.
Speaker 5: What are you.
Speaker 10: Doing this year that you think might make you maybe
Speaker 10: more ready to go or less rusty than that week?
Speaker 2: One game Kansas City.
Speaker 4: Uh, I think I wasn't a hurt too when I
Speaker 4: came up. When I came back, Like when I came back,
Speaker 4: I was like coming off of injury and everything right,
Speaker 4: I'm actually because I don't really remember what.
Speaker 2: Uh. I believe that's why I was rusty.
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't play so long and then I
Speaker 4: had to miss I miss preseason and stuff. But I
Speaker 4: think I'll be good good this going around.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 4: I've been on my guys, you know, day one, since
Speaker 4: day one, and we've been better at chemistry and I
Speaker 4: feel like we've been looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: So I think I'll be ready. What do you think?
Speaker 6: What do you kind of address the progress of the
Speaker 6: offensive line? You know, there's a lot of new pieces
Speaker 6: in and out, Like how's it coming along from your
Speaker 6: vantage point? What do you see from how your offensive
Speaker 6: line is shaping on you?
Speaker 4: But my guys coming along very well, young guys, very
Speaker 4: young group. I think this is probably the youngest group
Speaker 4: I've been a part of since I've been in the league.
Speaker 4: And God are coming along well. You know, we got
Speaker 4: running at the tackle, We got Tyler. Those guys are
Speaker 4: the leaders of the line right now. And we just
Speaker 4: gonna keep stacking and keep getting better sort of camp.
Speaker 1: Uh, you got a lot of questions about you know,
Speaker 1: losing weight coming in and training camp and all that.
Speaker 1: As you've made your way through camp, is there a
Speaker 1: difference that you feel like, what, what is the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that stands out?
Speaker 2: I guess I got a lot more energy. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not fatigued as much.
Speaker 4: If I'm running like thirty yards down the field, I
Speaker 4: can come back and just be like me like a robot,
Speaker 4: even though I'm not a robot.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm feeling good. I just feel better a
Speaker 2: lot a lot better point in camp?
Speaker 10: Or are you kind of ready for the regular season
Speaker 10: or do you stuff the worst got in the works?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, it's always things to rick on, but I'm
Speaker 4: definitely ready for the season. You know, it's been a
Speaker 4: great off season for us and tired of going against
Speaker 4: my guys.
Speaker 2: Uh, looking forward to ship fifth?
Speaker 3: Are you going to have you mentioned about, you know,
Speaker 3: getting off to a fast guard just the second year
Speaker 3: and the Kosmogan is offen you feel like the difference
Speaker 3: and just how much do you feel like that's gonna
Speaker 3: make a different.
Speaker 2: The last year after ye? Uh, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Like you said, it's just me being a part
Speaker 4: of this system, run into my second season, having a
Speaker 4: whole off season, uh, and just building with the with
Speaker 4: our guys chemistry and uh listening to coach and seeing
Speaker 4: what his vision is for the offense.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: I feel like this year it'll be different. It's going
Speaker 2: around or pre season. You're not to take us a snap.
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with that or is that still something
Speaker 2: you might want to Like I might have.
Speaker 4: Want to have had a snapper to You know, I'm
Speaker 4: very competitive, so sometimes I do be like, man, I
Speaker 4: want to go play, But at the same time, Uh,
Speaker 4: I know our coach is keeping us off the field,
Speaker 4: and I'd rather just play regular season than just going
Speaker 4: out there and things happen.
Speaker 8: You know, I mentioned chemistry and if you build that
Speaker 8: is it? Do you want not to look forward to
Speaker 8: testing that chemistry against another team, because again, they know
Speaker 8: your routes every year every day. Is that is that
Speaker 8: really key to figure out really where you are? Chemistry?
Speaker 8: Was going against the Packers?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: Not necessarily just seeing how my guys are against other
Speaker 4: opponents and not just going against the same guys over
Speaker 4: and over, because I believe our difference, learn our tendencies
Speaker 4: and learn our moods, you know, just going repetition every
Speaker 4: each and every day, you know, so just going against
Speaker 4: these guys.
Speaker 2: We'll see how guys are.
Speaker 8: How much intosivision do you have for seeing Derek debut?
Speaker 10: I mean, obviously you don't know what you can do,
Speaker 10: but just seeing him go full contact.
Speaker 4: I believe you guys looking forward to seeing Derek instead
Speaker 4: of me, you know, cause y'all asks me about him
Speaker 4: every time I'm up here. But I'm definitely pumped up too, man,
Speaker 4: you know, just to see this guy do what he's been.
Speaker 2: Doing, you know, uh, since forever.
Speaker 4: I'm just ready to I'm I'm just glad he's on
Speaker 4: our side this time, like I always tell y'all, you know,
Speaker 4: and we not going against him, but I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm hype. I'm definitely hype.
Speaker 3: We saw your naking for about ten minutes ago and
Speaker 3: come back or are you doing okay?
Speaker 2: So I'm good, I'm wonderful. I'm great. I'm good.
Speaker 3: How like the time in the hostel, I'm working together,
Speaker 3: so you constantly to community, what do you think you
Speaker 3: last year?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 2: Man, we were gonna be better than last year.
Speaker 4: You know, I felt like our chemistry last year was
Speaker 4: pretty good as well, But that's just all my receivers.
Speaker 4: I'm always trying to get our chemistry down. Pap tight ends,
Speaker 4: running backs. It don't matter cause those guys who are
Speaker 4: that Withn't you know, so don't really matter. But Nelly
Speaker 4: he big bro, so you know, just trying to get
Speaker 4: a little knowledge from him and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: You talk about going up against the defense, what's the
Speaker 7: number one thing that you've seen from this defense that
Speaker 7: you think will scare of posing offenses this year?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because like all eleven just just great players,
Speaker 4: you know, all around. Our defense is just so so
Speaker 4: different dynamic. I'm just glad I'm not going against him
Speaker 4: in in real time. Just practice, be.
Speaker 10: Faster, being more elusive, now a lower ways. Do you
Speaker 10: feel that now? Have you felt that every course?
Speaker 2: I guess that's the answer. I guess that's the answer.
Speaker 4: Hey yeah, uh last week one of the guys, I
Speaker 4: was running the ball through the window, through the hole
Speaker 4: or whatever, and the guy tried to pull me and
Speaker 4: I was just kept running. But I'm just gonna say
Speaker 4: a bear trap to fight men, I won how about that.
Speaker 2: Is it noticeable?
Speaker 10: Did you like increase like if you're if you're running fast,
Speaker 10: just like did you pick up on that?
Speaker 2: No, not really.
Speaker 4: I just got a outround my opponent and I'm just
Speaker 4: cruising after that. I'm not really trying to do a
Speaker 4: hundred meter dash. I just beat whoever chased me.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 10: Josh Johnson completed every past he threw last weekend.
Speaker 2: That's expected from Josh. O G. That's definitely great.
Speaker 4: Actually, the first time Josh was here with us a
Speaker 4: couple of years back, I was so hyped to have him,
Speaker 4: you know, just from just learning and knowing the uh
Speaker 4: type of offenses he's been in, and just hearing him
Speaker 4: speak and how he learned ball and how he know ball.
Speaker 4: It's incredible for me to uh be in a room
Speaker 4: with a god like him.
Speaker 1: In addition to Lamar, we also heard from head coach John.
Speaker 9: Hartball, Okay, appreciate you guys coming out. Good work day
Speaker 9: for us, And we're getting pointed toward two things. We're
Speaker 9: pointing towards Green Bay, but we're also pointed toward the
Speaker 9: opener in Kansas City. What questions you have.
Speaker 3: How do you try to get I mean practice, practice.
Speaker 9: Get ready for season. Well, you know we want to
Speaker 9: start the season off well, I mean we want to
Speaker 9: we want to put our best foot forward right out
Speaker 9: of the right out of the gates as much as
Speaker 9: we can. There's it's hard to do. There's no guarantee
Speaker 9: you're going to do that, and there's a lot of
Speaker 9: question marks to that. Every year we have done well
Speaker 9: over the years doing that because I think we practice well.
Speaker 9: It comes down to practice. I mean, practice is what
Speaker 9: makes it. Preseason games don't make break you that way.
Speaker 9: It's the practices that make you because that's what you stack.
Speaker 9: There's advantages to practicing. You see teams do it like
Speaker 9: the Chiefs, for instance, They've always done it all the
Speaker 9: way back, all the way back to Andy in ninety nine.
Speaker 9: They've always done it. And then you know, we'd done
Speaker 9: it for a while and we haven't done it the
Speaker 9: last few years. So you can do it either way.
Speaker 9: And that's the way we're doing it this year. Going
Speaker 9: back to Saturday night right and lant it in that
Speaker 9: first half ran as many boots as I've ever seen.
Speaker 8: Can you give us a little bit of insight into
Speaker 8: the relationship.
Speaker 9: Can you and Zach and what you're talking about in
Speaker 9: terms of trying to get that stopped as you see
Speaker 9: it play after play that yeah, I mean, the boots
Speaker 9: really want a problem. It was his own play actions
Speaker 9: with the deep over routes that gave us the trouble
Speaker 9: off the play action mostly I think mostly in the
Speaker 9: second half really, but those deep over routes, those what
Speaker 9: we call burner routes with a pope with a top
Speaker 9: off or clear out run on top of it. That's
Speaker 9: just execution in terms of getting our linebackers popped out
Speaker 9: underneath there or nickel. We were in zone on a
Speaker 9: few of those and that stuff on zone plus get
Speaker 9: into the quarterback. But it's it's just more about right now,
Speaker 9: it's less about scheme and more about you know, calling
Speaker 9: our basic defense and having our guys execute them and
Speaker 9: be physical and see who who can play and where
Speaker 9: we need to work. That's really what it's more about.
Speaker 9: In the preseason. Then, trying to stop something with some
Speaker 9: kind of a scheme doesn't mean you don't get mad,
Speaker 9: you do, you get upset. I mean, we want everything stopped.
Speaker 9: We don't want the ball to be run on us. Ever,
Speaker 9: that's probably our biggest thing and but right now we're
Speaker 9: also trying to get guys ready to play and see
Speaker 9: who can play.
Speaker 10: John, you said, you know ideal you like had the
Speaker 10: offensive line of your grounds, the open spots after the
Speaker 10: first few weeks kind of close.
Speaker 9: Are you to make him a decision?
Speaker 2: Craft?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we're close. I think we have a
Speaker 9: pretty good idea what what way it's trending in different areas.
Speaker 9: It's not altogether solidified, but we'ren't a good place right now.
Speaker 5: Training cam to for preseason games probably is difficult for
Speaker 5: you to make a decision with running you know, running
Speaker 5: backs and blackfield and wide receivers is a good problem
Speaker 5: to have to make this final.
Speaker 9: Decision you're talking about like the last few roster spots. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean you want to have guys competing for those
Speaker 9: last few spots. You certainly don't want to be scouring
Speaker 9: the waiver wire. You want to have guys here that
Speaker 9: you want to keep on the team, and you want
Speaker 9: to have a few more than you might be able
Speaker 9: to keep on the team. That's that'd definitely be the idea.
Speaker 9: So we're probably in that situation. But still there's guys
Speaker 9: who have something to prove. Still and this last week
Speaker 9: Green Bay practice, green Bay game is gonna matter.
Speaker 8: John, What have you learned over the years and the
Speaker 8: joint practices to get the best the most out of them.
Speaker 9: Mat Yeah, I mean it's just the mindset of the
Speaker 9: two teams is the most important thing. If both teams
Speaker 9: come in with the same idea that they're they're two
Speaker 9: good football teams. Are trying to take advantage of the
Speaker 9: of the opportunity to practice against another good football team
Speaker 9: and get a good football practice in. That's what you want.
Speaker 9: If a team's coming in like they're trying to prove something,
Speaker 9: you know, some some junior high thing, then you know
Speaker 9: it's usually not good. So we're we're excited to go
Speaker 9: against Green Bay. We think they're that kind of a group,
Speaker 9: you know, the good football team right there, you know,
Speaker 9: almost in the AFC Championship game. Proven team. So we're
Speaker 9: looking forward to the opportunity to go practice against those guys.
Speaker 3: Asked about Tyler lind obaum in a bit.
Speaker 10: Is he resting?
Speaker 6: Well, how's that going on?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's right on schedule, just kind of where we
Speaker 9: were planning. He will won't be any kind of contact
Speaker 9: work this week, but he's Uh, he's in all the
Speaker 9: uh the act practices that we do. He's been doing
Speaker 9: all that, so he's in a good place. John.
Speaker 7: We know you've designed new returns and covered skins and kickoffs.
Speaker 7: How much, if at all, have you incorporated defensive gapping
Speaker 7: principles and offensive blocking principles into that?
Speaker 9: And it's more than yeah, uh no, more than the past.
Speaker 9: I mean that's always been what you try to do.
Speaker 9: You just don't have to. The thing it's eliminated is
Speaker 9: the deep long drop, you know, so you're teaching basically
Speaker 9: where to get set up a lot more in the
Speaker 9: past on the run. Now it's now you basically stand
Speaker 9: there and you see the ball in the air. So
Speaker 9: it kind of gives you an idea what your what
Speaker 9: your geometry needs to be on the play. But it's
Speaker 9: always defensive gap principles and offensive scheme principles and scheme fits.
Speaker 9: So uh, it's just it's not exactly like the offensive defense,
Speaker 9: but the principles are the same. To your point, Coach
Speaker 9: chapter an.
Speaker 8: Injury again his frame just through two preseason games, what
Speaker 8: have you seen for.
Speaker 9: Them so far? In yeah, you know, I'll tell you
Speaker 9: bo Is he has he has he has dealt with
Speaker 9: a few injuries, but quiet until we got him in
Speaker 9: a rookie skit. Then he wasn't quiet anymore. He's funny,
Speaker 9: so that was fun to see his personality even more.
Speaker 9: But yeah, he's he's he's stepped up, he's made he's
Speaker 9: covered well, but he's also made some hits. That's what
Speaker 9: I've enjoyed seeing both in defense and special.
Speaker 8: Teams snaps today. Have you seen this development season? The
Speaker 8: development guys kiss.
Speaker 9: You know, he made a big move this last week.
Speaker 9: He finally I think his ankle's feeling better, finally had
Speaker 9: the ankle injury there, and uh, he probably did hamper
Speaker 9: him up until now. And he really he played well
Speaker 9: in the game. He was he was he was stout
Speaker 9: at the point of attack, and I had an opportunity
Speaker 9: because of Tyler not practicing and we wanted to get
Speaker 9: Ben some reps of guard. He had an opportunity to
Speaker 9: get in there and and do some stuff. So I
Speaker 9: thought he did a good job today, and he did
Speaker 9: a good job in the game.
Speaker 8: Mark Andrews progression, Okay.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a very minor thing, very mind with I'm
Speaker 9: just not we were just not messing with him. Right now.
Speaker 9: Don't worry about Mark. He's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Is he going for the.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I like it. I just said, don't
Speaker 9: worry about him. It's like, oh, no, they can't travel
Speaker 9: to Green Bay. That would be a problem. It's like
Speaker 9: a follow up question. You know, she'd have been a prosecutor.
Speaker 9: I want to tell you gotta go to law school though,
Speaker 9: that's a problem.
Speaker 2: From what.
Speaker 9: Uh No, the guys though, you could ask the guys, Yeah,
Speaker 9: they could do better than I could add it.
Speaker 2: They were funny.
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