WEBVTT - Monken, Orr, Horton, & Martin: Ravens Training Camp 7/30/24 Press Conferences 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.280 Welcome into the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Tuesday, July thirtieth. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.080 The Raves continued training camp today and after practice we 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.800 had a chance to hear from quarterbacks coach T Martin. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.880 To see Lamar back and healthy. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.040 I was good just having his presence in the meetings, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.599 in the meeting room and on the field. You know, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:29.320 he brings a certain energy, competitiveness and overall talent and 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:30.720 the things that we've been doing. You know, it was 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.520 good just get him back out. See the retention because 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.560 I knew once he came back we could start getting 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.800 some consistency in terms of his growth and reps and 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.440 things of that nature that we need in training camp. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:42.400 But it's been great. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.200 See there's been obviously a lot of offseason talk about 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.600 all the priest snap adjustments and more of that going 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.920 on Lamar's place this year. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:50.440 How have you seen him improve? 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.400 What have you seen on the field in that regard? 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.279 Well, it's just what we do at this point. You know. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.880 Last year it was the conversation about it in terms 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.520 of it being new, new system, new responsibility, these things 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.680 of that nature. It's just how we play the game. Now. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.160 It's kind of just a part of who he is 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.720 and how he talks and how he sees the game 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.000 from that perspective. And so, uh, second year in the system, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.480 we've added some things and we've trimmed the fat a 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.000 little bit and some things that we tried tinkered with 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.600 but then major in and so we're streamlinings for for 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.200 him and and for our offense in general. And so 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.240 second year in it, he's doing a heck of a 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.679 job of it. Picked off, picked up where he left off, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.760 and it's been looking good. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.640 He talked yesterday about how he likes the fact that 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.960 the defense is in there getting a little bit and 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.759 talking trash all over. And you you played the position, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.759 I mean, did you like that in the summer, that's 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.679 having that sense of competitiveness in the building, And do 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:44.520 you like seeing it now? 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:45.280 Yeah? 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.920 I was a little bit like Lamar. I like to 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.400 talk a little trash, you know, because you had a 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.560 ball in your hand and you can do something about it, right, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.000 And so he's like that, he's got he's been here, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.520 it's seven year seven and a lot of teammates he's 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.880 played with for a while. You know, sometimes you don't 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.800 know if they're serious or not, but they are all 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.640 teammates and they love each other at the end. So 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.680 I like that kind of get the juices flowing a 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:05.680 little bit doing practice. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.359 See as good as lamar as I know, he strives 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.240 to be even better. Is there something with his game 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.880 individually that you guys are focusing on in terms. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.520 Something in the Yeah, we like to address everything. You know, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.880 it's not it's not a rep that goes by that 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.720 there aren't teachable moments, and there aren't questions to be 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.720 asked and answers to to find and and and answer 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.959 the questions. And and that's how he sees the game, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.280 whether it's the run game, whether it's the passing game. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.840 We watch individual drills, we watch pretty much everything that 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.639 we put on tape. We watch it and we learn 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.239 from it. And Uh, that's just the humbleness in him 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.240 and him understanding that, Uh he's trying to get somewhere 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.400 as a talent. You know, you're trying to get somewhere 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.440 as a teammate. You're trying to get somewhere as a quarterback. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.200 And so I respect that. And every day we go 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.079 to work team. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.920 The Todds and say and talked about, you know, trying 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.840 to get more explosures plays and all from a quarterback perspectives, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.080 like what can you do with jamar? 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.160 The kind of that part, Yeah, a lot of that 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.840 is uh by game planning and play design. You know, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.880 where you're trying to create and manufacture uh exposed to plays. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.960 The other parts of it in terms of a Lamar 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.920 extending plays or UH receivers making plays on the ball 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.400 when his man the man getting open him making accurate throws. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.320 All that stuff is comes together in terms of the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.720 end result in terms of making exposed to plays. But 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.640 you don't, you don't. It's it's like a hitter in baseball. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.679 You don't step into the plate and step into the 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.440 box saying I'm gonna hit the horme run every time. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.799 You know, you just wanna put the battle on the ball, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.760 and sometimes it is a home run. And so uh 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.440 we we we get the ball in our hands and 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.320 we're gonna play the system. We're gonna play the play 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.840 out and if the end result isn't exposed to play, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.600 that's what we're gonna achieve. And then there are times 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.560 two minute clock running, you're down by seven, blah blah blah, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.120 where you may be a little bit more aggressive in 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.200 your approach. But uh, that's kind of how we see it. Uh, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.680 for all you baseball fans here see. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.680 Often oftentimes can have seen deep shots taken. It seems 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.040 like when they miss, it's often too deep. You know 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.560 that Lamar over there's a little bit as a coach, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.839 how do you coach him on that? Is that him 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.360 trying to be a little too perfect and put it 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:11.920 in a bucket? 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.640 Or what do you say to him move. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.000 Regards that, I don't say anything. You got you gotta 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.839 let it rip. I mean, you can't get into the 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.599 head of the thrower. You just can't. You know, it's 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.159 you know, you just can't. You know, you just keep 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.320 getting reps with those people. And so many things are 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.880 variables there. Did he get moved off his spot in 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:30.400 the pocket? 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:31.080 You know? 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:32.359 Was it a clean release? 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:33.200 Uh? 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.919 The position of the dB, so on and so forth. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.839 So you don't make any excuses. You just go at 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.680 it again. Just keep trying until you get perfection. And 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.120 that's what we're all trying to reach his perfection here 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.680 and that's what we're doing. That's what training camps is about, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.280 That's what the whole season. You never you never peak, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.719 you know, until your last rep of that season. So 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:53.280 but we're always chasing that. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.440 Specifically, like with regard to Batement on some of those 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.600 long throws, because if he. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.680 Was overthrown in at certain times, whereas if compared them 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.520 to say Obj, you seem like Lamar almost had a 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.159 respect for Obj and expectation that OBJ. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.040 Would go up and get them all. And that's the situation. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.719 Do you feel like that's anything you can have a 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.279 discussion abound or that that Lamartine. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:14.919 Fent through if it's a trust. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.680 But we looked at all of them. We looked at 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.560 how were we missing until your point in terms of 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.919 missing long what was it? You know, there's a lot 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.400 of different things that caused that. So we addressed that, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.440 We worked on it doing off season, Gonna continue to 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.000 work on the here, uh, but not in specific to 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.440 the person, you know, because it's just it doesn't always 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.560 in our minds come down to you're missing a certain guy. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.120 You know, you're just trying to address to throw itself. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.719 You know, everybody's different. You know, every receiver gets a 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.560 certain amount of separation different They all have different skill 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.640 sets in terms of making players on the ball, jumping ability, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.400 hand streight, so on and so forth, and you gotta 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.839 know who you're throwing to and who can make certain 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.000 type players on the ball, and that affects how you 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.920 throw the ball, how you place the ball, how much 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.640 air you put on the ball, so on and so forth. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.680 So there's a lot involved in that. But no, we 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.880 don't just say, hey, when you throw to this guy 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.960 is different than that guy. You don't have time to 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.760 do that, you know, when you're getting rush by d 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.279 line and it's trying to get the ball out those lines, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:14.839 you know, yep. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.440 I'm sorry along those lines with the deep shots, I 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.400 don't know, just to think of a quarterback like Russell Wilson. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.400 You know, do you think of Russell Wilson deep shot? 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.160 It's it's kind of a moon ball, thinks. How much 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.920 does trajectory matter of whom when you're talking about like 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.039 those thirty forty fifty yards passes through the air, And 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.400 then it's what is the kind of conversation with them? 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.280 More about maybe how you tinker your actual emotion trajectory 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.120 to be accurate and also not compromise who you are 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:44.800 as a pastor. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.200 It's all based on separation and safety location. You know, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.000 you have a safety that's very close to playing, making 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.840 them player on the past, you don't have much air 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.240 on it, you know, if it's if it's a clean release, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.600 safety is on the other half, so he's not on 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.559 that side of the field. You may have more time 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.880 to put more air on the ball. But at the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.760 end of the day, it's just about ball placement, timing, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.680 separation from the receiver. It's a lot combined in that, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.320 and that's just always chasing. It's it's no one thing 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.880 that you can say. It's no one way to throw 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:17.520 a deep ball. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:17.800 You know. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.240 I through a lot of them myself, and all of 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.720 them were different. All of them, you know, are based 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.560 on the things I just mentioned, and you just want 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.200 to keep working to where you can get as many 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.040 of those variables out of the way as you can 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.400 to where you can diagnose it, all right, And that's 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.360 what training camp in the preseason is all about. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.880 Talked about how the vision for the best quarterback effort. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.560 I know that's not something you probably talk about every game, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.520 but okay, all right, okay, what are what are the 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.760 conversations like in the in the quarterback groove into that regard. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.320 Man from day one? Since I ever saw him play 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.280 on TV and college. You know, I thought that about 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.840 him and have an opportunity to coach him, you know, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.120 you know, I'm a father. And it's like, when you 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.680 see something there young people, you tell them and when 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.120 you see greatness, you tell them you own it. You 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.240 want them to believe in themselves. You believe in them. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.920 You want them to know that you believe in them. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.160 And and that's that's what we're working for. And so no, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.440 we don't shy away from from that statement. We don't 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.120 shy away from those type of expectations because if you're 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.840 not trying to be the best, and what are you 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:23.400 trying to be? 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:24.320 You know? 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.320 And so last year about once a week we talk 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.920 about championship quarterbacks. It's the thing that we kind of 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.280 do once a week, and we talked about the characteristics 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.280 of 'em and we talk about what is important that 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.480 week going into that game. And every week there's an 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.280 element of it about him being the greatest and about 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.760 him showing up and showing out like we like to 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.440 say in the quarterback room. And so but no, I 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.040 see that in him. I believe that truly as his 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.360 coach and before I was his coach as a fan 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.959 of his and after I'm not his coach again, back 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.839 of fan again. So uh, that's how I think about Lamar. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:01.520 We Els. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:12.360 Heard from offensive coordinator Todd Munkett year, have from. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:13.719 Them, and are you comfortable this year? 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.400 Sure? I mean it's. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.400 Every year, everybody, every year that we're together as a 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.640 staff and the players, you're going to be more comfortable. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:23.040 You just are. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:28.200 The terminology is the same, systems, the same improved like 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.240 every year, you're going to work on it. So there 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.800 ought to be a comfort level of that. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:33.480 And we're not. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.240 I don't want to say this, you're not building a 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.960 house like we built it last year. Now, it's like 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.680 you've moved in and you're just fixing a few rooms, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.480 if that makes sense. Like it's a lot easier when 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.720 you're fixing a few rooms and you're building the whole house. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.920 Easy to build on that way. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.920 Your best tight ends. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.839 Andrew's likely how peys are trying to do their work 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.720 of guys we feel at the same time, so would 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.640 love to. I mean, obviously trying to get your best 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.400 playmakers on the field. And there are two of them. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.520 You know, those two guys are unique weapons. So we 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.319 got to do a great job being creative getting them 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.520 on the field and finding a way to utilize because 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.440 their skill sets are similar, but they're different. You know, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.040 they're still built a little bit different. But we love 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.760 both of them and that showed last year, you know, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.080 when Mark went down, they came on, and having them 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:28.920 both together will be great aggressively. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.400 The defense is played during the camp. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.280 Do you find it useful for you guys to get 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.199 reps against style? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.800 Oh yeah, sure, No, it's it was great last year 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.600 and it is this year. One, we do a great 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.360 job defensively schematically. Two is they do a great job 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.800 of challenging all of your rules and then they do 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.199 it with tremendous personnel. That makes it very very difficult, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.200 but good for us in terms of development, right especially 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.000 upfront where you're trying to see, you know, who's going 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.600 to merge in certain spots for us. So it's been great, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.440 you know, at times it's been difficult, been frustrating, but 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.319 it's great. I mean, it's it's something you want to 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.400 be able to go against of every day. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.560 Last year, one. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.240 Hundred and ten organs as I can win up for 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.719 the tight ends one ninety. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:12.959 Five year or why you weren't here for that. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.560 But can you convince this titan who easily the less 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:17.040 is more? 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.400 And how do you account for the enormous uptake and 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.400 per target productive or in any. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:27.079 That some of that is because of the uptick we 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.319 had at receiver. I think that's going to be a 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.000 part of it. When you're better at receiver, right, the 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:38.000 targets go somewhere. That's one part of it. The other 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.120 part is late in games, when you're winning, you're running 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.720 the football right and you're not throwing it nearly as much, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.560 so some of those come into play. But I and 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.080 at times I really don't control where the ball goes. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.079 Times I do, but a lot of times the defense 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.840 controls that. Are personnel control it and who we're playing. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.000 But to say that I'm throwing the tight ends, that's 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.240 not what you're insinuating. We're gonna want to throw it 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.880 to them. But there's reasons why that occurs. The other 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.800 was there was a certain time of the year where 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.120 we didn't have both right where now you're only there's 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.040 one of them. So that's a part of it. We 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.520 love those guys, want them every opportunity. You know, Mark, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.720 last year probably didn't have as many targets as he wanted, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.760 but he had touchdowns. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.439 Right, we got them the ball in the red zone, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:24.880 which help. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.720 So obviously finding the way to get him the ball 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.000 and Zay the ball more is a huge part of 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.360 what we'll obviously that we need to moving forward. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.120 Ah John talked about this offense is involved in the 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.560 year two here with you. Is there an element of 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.360 this offense that you are you know, emphasizing more this 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.800 year or that you'd like to see them really build 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.000 upon from last year. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.520 Well, there's a lot to build on and there's a 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.840 lot to get better at a lot of things that 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.160 we worked on the off season, Like any off season 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.960 is like how do we stream like the streamline this, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.440 how do we make this to where we feel like 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.160 we have the answers you know, moving forward collectively and 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.520 that the players know that. That's probably as much as 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.800 anything is. All right, you're in a meeting, Okay, we're 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.560 doing X y Z Y, and that they can say 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.320 it back right, say that's exactly why we're doing X 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:22.480 Y Z. That's critically important to anticipate calls, anticipate what 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.560 we're gonna do against a certain defense in those things. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.480 But it's been great. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.600 The off season was great, and our guys being here 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.080 in this offseason, it's been a great start. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.880 Maybe specifically, you know, you guys dominant personal grouping last 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.560 year was eleven. It wasn't as efficient as you guys 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.560 were on the group reach. Maybe what did you kind 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.679 of learn from how you guys did with eleven last year? 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.200 And you know, maybe what are kind of something to takeaways. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:45.319 For this year? 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.280 Yeah, it's you look back and you see, okay, in 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.199 our bigger personnel groups, what what does that allow us 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.240 to do? Sometimes run the ball more efficiently, not always, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.880 but also lends itself to explosive plays. You're gonna get 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.320 some of that, especially if you put pad them field 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.600 or if you get bigger that way. And we've got 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.040 tremendous receiving targets at tight end, which does add to 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:07.520 that group. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:09.760 But we certainly do have to. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.640 Become more proficient throwing the football out of zebra or 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:14.440 eleven personnel. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:15.400 Gotcha? 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.120 This is that competition for their starting jobs and offensive 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:24.520 line because anybody starts separating themselves. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:23.880 I wouldn't say yet. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.960 I think some guys have stepped forward still too early 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.760 in camp to say that, but I like our group. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.160 That's why you draft. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.840 I said that, that's why you draft, and that's why 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.520 you develop, you know, I mean there is a salary cap, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.440 there is issues you're going to have in terms of 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.840 your players. So it's like, that's why you do a 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.600 great job as an organization does of drafting players and 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.680 developing them. So when this time comes when you have 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.240 to make tough decisions, you've got guys ready to go 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:57.160 and able to. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.720 Compete for those spots, which we do. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.600 We've got a good number of guys excited about it. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.280 Kind Of along those lines, We've talked to John of 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.360 Goot kind of when is the ideal time to have 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.160 your offensive line you're starting that's set. Do you feel 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.960 like you need a certain number of weeks to have 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.440 that sort of chemistry building between those five. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:14.120 Guys or is it? 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:15.480 Is it fluid? 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.160 How do you okay? First off, would you prefer to 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.480 already have it set? Of course? 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.920 Would you prefer to have every position set? Yes, there 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.800 is no no assigned data when we have to have it, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.920 If that makes sense, I mean, we prefer that it's 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.760 the same eleven every position we're going to play. These 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.960 guys right, that way we build that connuity. But it's 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.920 our job as coaches to utilize the personnel were we 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.640 have and keep finding who that may who may emerge, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.000 and when that happens, then we will end up in 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.040 a position to where we can say, all right, here's 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.880 our left guard. Okay, here's our right guard, here's our 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:49.480 right tackle. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.440 All of that Derick. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.480 Henry in your offense? 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.080 How much does that give you the creative time of 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.200 the whiteboard to think, Okay, what can we do now 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.000 that we haven't that we didn't maybe do it the past. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:05.000 Yeah, Well, first of all, we're excited to's hack to 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:05.440 have Derek. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:10.400 Okay, there are things that he does and his skill 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.680 set that allows you to not maybe from a creative standpoint, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.920 but maybe a little bit differently maybe certain ways that 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.240 you want to run the football, utilize his skill set, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.520 utilize his speed and maybe getting him on the perimeter, 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.720 you know, where he can really get that speed and 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:28.760 get running downhill. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:35.480 So that's exciting, that really is so those lines. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.720 Derrick Henry, He's primarily used as a running back that 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.960 runs out of under center formations. You use a versatility 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.400 of multiple options in shotgun. How much have you discovered 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.280 from his abilities to be able to run out of 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.120 that formation and what's kind of been the creative ideas there, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.400 how's that flowing? 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:54.840 Well? 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.400 Early on, we've been doing we have been doing what 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.560 we do in installing and rotating the running backs so 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:04.359 we can see it. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.639 What we saw on tape, what he's. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.600 Done in the past is a reflection of what we anticipate, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.480 but we'd like to see it right. Let's see it 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.000 play out from a receiving end, from a running end 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.040 type of run schemes. So we're just in the process 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.960 of seeing it all develop and talking to him what 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.200 he likes, you know, and where we go as an offense. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.160 A sense yet with Derek how good he is in 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.840 the mesh, I know probably did not run nearly as 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.720 much as you would here in Tennessee. But for late 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.600 polls from Lamar that've been very efective obviously or his 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:39.800 career have gad a sense for. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.520 That yet do not have not seen that enough? It 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.639 hasn't hasn't come up nearly enough. I don't anticipate it 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.840 being a problem with reps usually isn't a problem as 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.280 long as you have put in the time to make 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.080 sure that it can still be a weapon for you. Obviously, 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.800 Lamar is always a weapon for us. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.800